Of Mountains and Rivers

Without the threat of shadows, Chu Huan untied the rope tied around his wrist, and made a big circle around Shen Xing Island, feeling more and more that although this place was sunny, it was not very happy and peaceful.

First of all, there are no higher creatures on this sunny island, only some half-dead moss and grass, some weak flying insects grow in the grass, and there are almost no trees. Chu Huan turned around and saw only a few trees Rare vines, but without exception, they are all dead.

The second oddity is the "ground".

According to normal logic, Chu Huan took it for granted that the whole island was connected to the underwater mountain. However, after he inadvertently rubbed away a shallow layer of sand on the ground, he found that the material of the ground was not the rocks and rocks he had taken for granted. soil.

Chu Huan squatted down, knocked and groped for a long time, but finally failed to figure out what the geological environment was like - the ground was a kind of stone that he had never seen before, dark gray and almost black, and the color was very dim. No matter how you rub it, you can't get a little light, but it has a high hardness.

The strangest thing is that there is no gap in this gray stone.

Chu Huan broke off a dead vine and started to work as a cleaner. He swept away the sand on the ground, lay down on the ground, and carefully observed the strange geological conditions of the place. His hands and feet were fast and rough. I swept the ground for dozens of meters, but couldn't find a single trace.

But this island does not know whose handwriting it is, it is truly uncanny and flawless.

Even in the Forbidden City, seams can be seen between large pieces of white marble!

Furthermore, after years of weathering and the temperature difference between day and night, can the stones not even have a crack?

how is this possible……

Chu Huan couldn't figure it out, and he didn't know where his glasses were washed away. He couldn't use a magnifying glass to study it carefully.

Other than that, this Shen Xing Island is cleaner than his pocket, and the only mystery is probably that "water mountain".

Chu Huan came back from a walk full of doubts, seeing that the sun was setting and Yuan Ping was still sleeping, so he was very angry, kicked his ass, and shouted in a low voice: "get out of class is over, still sleeping!" !"

Yuan Ping and the snake on the ground jumped up at the same time like a corpse. One clutched the curly blade in his hand with a murderous look, and the other raised its neck and opened its fangs to look around.

Yuan Ping asked nervously: "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

Chu Huan whistled and put his hands behind his back, pretending that he hadn’t done anything, walked past him, walked back to Nanshan and sat down beside him: “Except for the mountain where the water flows backwards, I’ve been around other places, but I haven’t found anything similar to the legendary holy man for the time being. Regarding the book-related things, I haven’t seen the big rock you mentioned—if I have to say it, the ground we are stepping on is very complete, maybe it is a whole big rock.”

Yuan Ping came back to his senses, and shouted at Chu Huan's back in grief and indignation: "Bastard!"

Xiaolu stood her ground and quickly "hissed" to express her agreement.

The two of them were chasing and hiding before, but now they got mixed up at some point. Chu Huan glanced back, remembered something, suddenly laughed with a "puchi", put one hand on Nanshan's shoulder, and Pointing at Yuan Ping: "Teach you a Chinese idiom - a nest of snakes and rats."

Nanshan sighed, feeling that there was another cat-dog battle between the two of them, and he felt a little tired immediately.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Yuan Ping rubbing his fists, but halfway through, Yuan Ping put his hand down again as if disappointed.

Yuan Ping always felt that there should be a person who glanced coldly at this time, and called him "steady focus", but when he looked around, that person disappeared.

When Ruger was around, he had never been steady, and now that he was gone, his words were still ringing in his ears.

When Yuan Ping came to this world again, what Chu Huan carried in his arms was the past that had nothing to do with him, while Ruge and those gatekeepers who were swallowed into the darkness were his roots in this world.

A person, only in the past, without the root of the present, how can he be stable?

Only then did Yuan Ping remember what Chu Huan had said to him.

He finally admitted in his heart that he was indeed not as good as Chu Huan—Yuan Ping thought, if he had changed places with Chu Huan at that time, he might have made a mess of his errands, and he might have turned into a bear, anyway. He won't be able to talk and laugh like Chu Huan now, and he can go around annoying others.

Chu Huan originally wanted to tease Yuan Ping, but when he glanced at his face, he knew that the teasing was not successful. He sighed inwardly, stopped teasing, and waited for Yuan Ping to sit down before saying seriously: "I think at present, We have two paths, the first is to grasp the clue of the top of the holy water, and go to this "mountain of water" to have a look. Maybe the big stone that recorded the holy book you mentioned is on the top of the mountain, but if not, we will I can only go down, I can only go to the sea again to see the whole picture of the island."

Several people discussed it and agreed to explore the "Shuishan" first, and then go to the sea if there is nothing to do. After all, places with sunshine are much safer.

Maybe it was because of the sun and calcium supplementation, or maybe it was because of a little rest, Chu Huan's mood, which had been wildly ups and downs since Luge jumped off the ship, also calmed down a lot on the island.

On the same day, Nanshan made a final decision to rest for another night—he had already arrived here, sharpening his knife and chopping firewood by mistake, and he would not be too busy to leave when he had enough energy.

In the evening, Chu Huan held a rare grass stalk on the island and looked up at the night sky. Yuan Ping ran away feeling melancholy, while Nanshan calmly sharpened his knife beside him.

Amidst the regular sound of sharpening the knife, Chu Huan slowly began to sort out his memories along the way.

He first thought of the side of the mountain gate—that is, the side of the earth in the 21st century.

Why is it that when the mountain gate is turned to one side, the guardians of the mountain can roam around the world, but when it is turned to the other side, there is a boundary restricting them?

And the veterans who strayed into the village of the mountain guards back then, why did they look like people who were swallowed in the sinking ground, in a state of being neither dead nor alive?

This is a problem on the side of the mountain gate, and there are more problems on this side.

What is most closely related to Chu Huan is why the goat-faced old man said he has the blood of a mountain guard?

Chu Huan knew that he was not born to Chu Aiguo, and Chu Aiguo did not hide this from him, but Chu Aiguo always only said that he was picked up, and did not specifically mention his origin.

But at Chu Huan's age, if he was really the child of a certain mountain guard and an outsider, would the old men of the mountain guard know nothing about it?

Along the way, Chu Huan made a series of guesses about this "it". At this moment, he carefully recalled a series of experiences after they entered the trap from beginning to end, and finally endured. I can't help but recall the part of the mountain tour.

Unable to explain why, Chu Huan has doubts about those monsters that exterminate the five senses. The other types are okay, especially the combination of the little white flower and the bone at the end always makes him feel strange. The little white flower only appeared near the sinking place. Once, and then never again.

From the flat film person to the little white flower, Chu Huan turned over casually, as if there was some kind of mystery in it.

If memory serves me right, Chu Huan had heard Pian Pian speaking when Bian Pian led Mutai to surround the mountain. He had a slightly unique accent, but it was indeed similar to the language used by the mountain guards.

From this point of view, the setting of that little monster is infinitely close to that of a human being, so the little white flower...

Chu Huan sat up abruptly, the muscles in his back stretched to the extreme.

The stamens of the little white flower exude some kind of toxin. Creatures who accidentally drink the poisonous water will lose their minds, go on endlessly, and then turn into a phantom monkey, forming some kind of symbiosis with it.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the Devourer of the Fallen Land also devours humans and creatures into it through some method, and forms a symbiosis with them...

Is this similarity a coincidence?

At this moment, Chu Huan suddenly heard the vibration of his heartbeat coming from under his feet.

He was startled, almost thinking that he was hallucinating, and when he was about to bend down to confirm carefully, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on the back of his hand.

Chu Huan raised his hand in shock, only to see that the back of his hand was like the stone of that day, and the flesh and blood were cut open stroke by stroke by something, and the words were engraved: No...can...think...

Chu Huan didn't hide, he stared at his bruised hand, he didn't even care about the pain for a moment-why can't he think?This guide never had the intention of directly harming his body, why did he engrave words on his hand this time?

Could it be because he couldn't touch other things on Shen Xing Island?

Chu Huan's thoughts flowed out as if the flood had been released, but Nanshan next to him could smell blood.

Nanshan felt something was wrong, and pulled his wrist, and the blood on the back of Chu Huan's hand flowed down the wrist.

Nanshan became enraged on the spot, picked up the knife he was sharpening just now, swept around with murderous intent, and said coldly: "Who the hell? Get out!"

Chu Huan shook his head, withdrew his injured hand, shook off the blood on the wound, wiped it hastily, and said seriously: "Nanshan, don't you rest? Light up the scepter, and we will go up the mountain now."

Chu Huan has always known that he is a little nervous, but he is definitely not nervous, because there are not many things in the world that can scare him, but at the moment just now, Chu Huan suddenly felt creepy.

Yuan Ping was taken aback by his urgent tone: "Huo... Huo, where can I find fire? I'll go and see if there is any wood nearby."

Where can this grass-growing ghost find dry wood for him to drill for fire?

Nanshan's medicine bag was almost ruined by the sea water, and the bottles and cans of medicine in it could not be used anymore. He poured out all those things without hesitation, and then took out a bag from the inside. The small package wrapped in three outer layers of oil paper was torn apart in twos and twos, only to find a pair of small flints inside.

He ignited sparks twice, and re-ignited the scepter.

The three quickly tied the hemp rope again and walked towards the unattainable "Shuishan".

Regarding this "water mountain", Chu Huan suspected at first that there was a mountain here, and there was something on the mountain that could suck up all the water below, which made the mountain look like a water curtain.

However, they circled the "Shuishan" several times, but they couldn't find a place where the mountain protruded.

Inexplicably, Chu Huan felt that this water mountain seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while, so he had to give up.He immediately untied the rope tied at both ends of his wrist, and raised his leg to dive into the water.

Nan Shan grabbed him and said sharply, "What are you going to do?"

Chu Huan: "I suddenly have an idea, I don't know if it is right or wrong - but I have to go and verify it first."

Nanshan: "Do you want to get into the water?"

Chu Huan: "..."

Nanshan didn't know when he had become a roundworm in his stomach, which seemed to be a bad sign.

Nanshan: "No!"

"I'll go in and take a look." Chu Huan said, "Just take a look. If I can't touch the body of the mountain when I go in, I will go back immediately."

Chu Huan shrank his shoulders, and nimbly slipped out of Nanshan's hand: "Okay, it's such a happy decision."

After finishing speaking, he plunged headlong into the water on the mountain wall, Nanshan missed him, and the rope on his wrist was connected to Yuan Ping, but the two of them didn't have a tacit understanding, they dragged each other a little, and Chu Huan disappeared.

Nanshan: "Chu Huan!"

Yuan Ping said slowly, "Patriarch Nanshan, it's too unkind to show affection in front of a race like ours destined to be single forever."

Nanshan: "He..."

Yuan Ping smiled helplessly: "I think if you go on like this, just tie him to your belt and forget it."

Nan Shan froze for a moment, thought about that, and found that he could really do it.

Fortunately, Yuan Ping didn't notice his whimsy. He stared at the place where Chu Huan got in, and said with emotion: "Oh, to be honest, among the people I have met over the years, that bitch is basically the only one who is not the head of my family." The most reliable.

Nanshan didn't expect that Chu Huan's evaluation in Yuan Ping's heart would be so high, and he was stunned for a moment: "Bitch means...'best brother'."

"Haha," Yuan Ping remembered that Chu Huan had been fooled by others, and then lifted a rock to throw himself in the foot. He didn't expose it at the moment, but just smiled casually and fooled around, scratching his hair, "Actually, I admire him very much." Oh... Oh, yes, you must not tell him this, or he will be even more frightened—so don't worry, he said he would take a look, he will definitely do what he said, he won't take a second look, and he will immediately "Well, look, it's coming out, isn't it?"

The drowned Chu Huan rushed out of the water mountain, choking and coughing in a panic, almost crying.

That's right, the water in this magical water mountain flows upwards, isn't it pouring directly into people's noses?

Yuan Ping could imagine how miserable he was in the water, and was about to run on him in turn, when Chu Huan disregarded his appearance of being about to cough up his lungs, and made a gesture of retreating at them with an ugly expression .

Nan Shan caught him, and heard Chu Huan say as if he was about to die: "The scepter must be protected well, cough...it must not be destroyed...cough cough cough cough..."

"What's in the 'Water Curtain Cave'? What did you see?" Yuan Ping chattered behind him.

Just as Chu Huan was about to answer, his throat was not cleared, and suddenly he had another heart-piercing cough.

"What water curtain cave? There is no mountain in it, it's all water. It's a mountain completely composed of water, with several human bones soaked in it." Chu Huan said in a hoarse voice with some difficulty, "But it may not be real bones, so It has been many years, the human bones inside should have been washed away long ago, how could it be so complete..."

His voice fell, and the mutation rose sharply.

The whole ground suddenly trembled violently, with the water mountain as the center, the surroundings of the island lifted up like a big octopus, the water splashed like a tsunami, the dead vines were submerged in it, and there was a roar like thunder.

Then, the originally seamless ground suddenly split into countless vines that were harder than stones, and they swept towards the three tiny ants with lightning speed.

Yuan Ping stood there in a daze: "This island... this island is..."

Even the holy mountain is swallowed up, the only place in the world where the sun can be seen, where else?

The worst scenario has come true, and this island is "it" itself.

Chu Huan raised his elbow to hook Yuan Ping's neck, and ruthlessly pushed him back. The big vine whizzed past the place where they were standing just now.

"Why are you in a daze, go up the mountain! Hurry up!"

Yuan Ping was in Sparta: "Going up the mountain? Water, a mountain made of water...Where do you step?"

Chu Huan suddenly became angry: "Are you fucking solid, wouldn't you float up if you jumped into the sea!"

"Stop making noise," Nanshan said suddenly, "It might be a bit difficult to go up the mountain."

Chu Huan and Yuan Ping looked at him at the same time.

Nanshan looked calm: "I can't control the airflow here."

Meaning he couldn't protect the firelight on the scepter in the water.

Yuan Ping: "Damn!"

Chu Huan smiled wryly.

And as the true face of the entire Shen Xing Island was exposed, the familiar, scalp-numbing shadow spread from the sea in the gaps of the rampaging vines.

Another big vine fell down in the air. For the people on the island, it was like a catastrophe. The three fled in a hurry. At this time, they had no other way out except for the strange water and mountains.

Nanshan suddenly stuffed the patriarch's scepter into Chu Huan's hand: "Take it."

Chu Huan was taken aback for a moment before taking it. Nanshan suddenly bent down, grabbed his waist and hugged him, and then submerged himself into the water mountain without hesitation.

The buoyancy of the water quickly pushed Nanshan up to the surface of the water. During the whole process, it was as if Chu Huan was lifted up by him. His chest was always exposed on the water. Amidst countless splashes of water, he managed to protect the scepter in a thrilling manner. flames.

Seeing this, Yuan Ping quickly went around to the other side of Chu Huan, and the two lifted Chu Huan up and stepped on the water.

Suddenly, he stepped on a hard object at the foot of Nanshan. He was stunned, and immediately remembered the bones Chu Huan had mentioned, his heart froze, and he instinctively raised his foot to kick.

Before he had time to exert his strength, his ankle was already grabbed by a cold hand bone.

Then a strong force came from the water, Nanshan let go of Chu Huan decisively, and the next moment, he was suddenly dragged into the water.

The underwater scene was horrifying, they were already surrounded by large and small human bones, and the human bones were covered with tentacles of unknown objects, manipulating these bones, like a group of weird marionettes.

Yuan Ping only felt that the rope tied to Nanshan in his hand was pulled violently, and before he had time to ask, his own feet were also grabbed by something.

Little Green wraps her tail around his waist, plunges into the water, and uses her boa constrictor body to hit those bones recklessly, but its size is far from Luge's original big snake after all, and it looks more and more underwater under the water. In vain.

Yuan Ping opened his eyes wide, and he saw a scalp-numbing shadow slowly enveloping the water, but the light of the scepter in Chu Huan's hand was still on, creating an extremely weak safe zone in the water.

And this broken light will soon be on the verge of collapse——Yuan Ping saw three or four bones swimming towards Chu Huan.

Of course Chu Huan will not be hurt by a few skeletons, but once he is pulled into the water, the light on the scepter will...

Yuan Ping broke free from the snake on his body and pushed it towards Nanshan.

Nanshan had just struggled to get rid of the entanglement of a few puppet human bones. Seeing that there were more, he felt anxious for a while. At this moment, he felt that the rope in his hand was broken.