Between mountains and seas

Chapter 155 Encounter

The mountain of ostentation, facing the West Sea, is rich in laurel, rich in gold and jade.

"So it's autumn in the world of mountains and seas now?" Shao Jingxing took a deep breath, feeling the refreshing sweetness, "If it's used to make osmanthus cake or osmanthus wine, it must be good."

If it had changed from the past, Zhang Sheng would definitely ridicule him that he "knows how to eat".However, after drinking the stewed ear mouse soup with poisonous mushrooms, he fell silent.

"Can you still make osmanthus cake?" Zhuang Juan asked curiously.

"Of course." Shao Jingxing was very proud, "Osmanthus cake, the rice is good, the flowers are good, the oil is good, and the sugar is good. Only when all four corners are complete, can a really delicious osmanthus cake be made. This rice, you need good white glutinous rice Soak it first and then fry it. Do not fry it yellow, otherwise it will have a burnt smell, and the cake will be uneatable. After that, it must be ground finely, and it will be qualified after a few times. It is cooked Flour is also made from good rice. This osmanthus flower is more particular, first of all, it is the flower selection, such as Sijigui, which cannot be used, and it is more serious to choose golden osmanthus..."

Shao Jingxing talked endlessly, all the way to using sugar: "Don't put too much sugar. If you put too much, it will cover up the sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus. If you put too little, it won't moisten your mouth. And this powdered sugar must be the same as cake powder. Mix well, if it is not evenly mixed, one mouthful is sweet and the other is light, then it will be the end of the story..."

"Stop talking..." Ji Yan rubbed his belly, "I'm hungry again." After walking for several hours, the mushrooms and mouse meat had been almost digested. Now that Shao Jingxing was talking about the delicious osmanthus cake, how could he not call it? People move their index fingers.

Shao Jingxing rubbed his stomach himself: "Don't tell me, I'm hungry too. Is there anything I can eat in Zhaoyao Mountain?"

"I wish you more." Bai Xin bent down and pulled out a piece of grass from the grass. It looked like a leek in bloom, but the flower was not white but green, the same color as the grass leaves, and it was almost indistinguishable. "Eat this and you won't be hungry."

As soon as Shao Jingxing approached, he smelled the choking smell of leeks, and immediately thanked him: "This smell is too strong!" The smell is stronger than ordinary leeks, as if he had walked into a leek warehouse.

"I must eat it." Huo Qing also found a Zhuyu plant, "When we enter Zhongshan, we don't have time to let us eat." He glanced at Shao Jingxing and said comfortingly, "It won't be harder than ear mouse meat food."

Su Zheng said angrily: "Let's get down to business, what are we doing here at Zhaoyao Mountain. If you want to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake, wait until you go out!"

Tang Jia secretly rolled her eyes and whispered, "I don't know if I can eat it..."

Shao Jingxing immediately yelled twice: "Bah, bah, bah, the bad luck is gone! We all have to go back if we can eat anything, and when we go back, I will make osmanthus cake for you to eat!"

Huo Qing patted him on the shoulder lightly to show his approval, then pointed to the front: "There seems to be light there."

In fact, the most important thing to come to the Mountain of Swagger, of course, is to find the mysteries.

There is a tree Yan, whose shape is like a grain and has a black texture, and its flowers are shining in four directions. It is called Mi Gu, and it is not fascinated to wear it.

That is to say, the Mizu tree is like a mulberry tree with black patterns, and its flowers can shine to illuminate the surroundings. If you wear it on your body, you will not get lost.

Speaking of which, the characteristics of this Misty Grass are very obvious and easy to identify, but the Mountain of Swaggering is so big that it is full of trees everywhere, but the number of Misty Grasses is very rare, unlike Zhu Yu, which grow everywhere. At that time, we can only start from the characteristic of "four photos of its beauty".

However, the flowers that are said to be mazes can emit light, and they are by no means as dazzling as searchlights. If they can be more obvious in the dark, they will not be conspicuous during the day.At least just now, Bai Xin has been paying attention all the way to see if there is any luminous point, but he still can't find it.

However, after walking another few tens of meters in the direction Huo Qing pointed, everyone saw a faint light. Behind a tall and somewhat exaggerated sweet-scented osmanthus tree, there really was a tree covered with black veins. , Between the branches and leaves, a few small pale flowers emit a shining precious light, which makes people very comfortable to look at.

"You're amazing!" Shao Jingxing praised Huo Qing unequivocally, "How did you find out? I didn't see any light here at all! It's so amazing!" The look in his eyes is amazing!

Huo Qing coughed lightly, signaling him to keep a low profile: "It was just discovered by chance. It's just good luck."

"What luck, it's because you have good eyesight!" Shao Jingxing didn't want to keep a low profile, this is his boyfriend, he is wise and martial, and he can fight back with good eyesight, he has the eyes of an eagle and the speed of a leopard... Cough cough, it's not.

Su Zheng's teeth ached for a while, but he had nothing to say.He has also been looking for the maze, but it is not yet dusk, how can the light from the flowers of the maze be so easy to distinguish?But Huo Qing was able to find...

"Wait!" Zhuang Juan suddenly stopped Shao Jingxing who was about to run over, "Something is wrong, this sweet-scented osmanthus tree..."

The branches and leaves of this sweet-scented osmanthus tree spread out, at least covering a small courtyard. Among the green branches and leaves, there are countless light yellow sweet-scented osmanthus, half-covered and half-shadowed, releasing a low-key sweet fragrance, refreshing...

Shao Jingxing took a deep breath involuntarily, and suddenly felt drowsy. The drowsiness surged up like a sea tide, and instantly surrounded him.But then, just like the waves would come up and recede, the sleepiness receded from his body and disappeared...

"This, this—" Shao Jingxing instantly thought of the raw ear rat meat he ate.No wonder this map has to go to Danxun Mountain first and then to Zhaoyao Mountain. I dare to say that these sweet-scented osmanthus are not ordinary sweet-scented osmanthus!If they hadn't eaten the ear rat meat, they might have fallen asleep under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree before they picked the osmanthus tree. Fertilizer, then I don't know...

"Let's leave as soon as you pick the osmanthus flowers." Huo Qing didn't expect these sweet-scented osmanthus trees to be hypnotized. Looking at the ground covered with dry leaves under the trees, many people must have been attracted by the light of the osmanthus flowers. All creatures are buried here.

The flowers of the miriam flower look like apricot flowers, and after the branches are picked off, they still have a slight white light.Shao Jingxing pinned a flower to his chest, and when he looked up again, he couldn't help but let out another cry of surprise—the forest in front of him seemed to have changed, and he couldn't tell what had changed, anyway, it felt different from before.

"This forest is not normal." Su Zheng frowned, "If we can't find the maze, will we be trapped in Zhaoyao Mountain?"

There is no way to answer this question, but everyone is thinking at the same time, the mountain of ostentation is already like this, what will that blank land look like?

With the rosebuds, the road suddenly seemed to be shortened a lot. When it was dark, they had already walked out of Zhaoyao Mountain and stood in front of another forest.

"Is this a blank space?" Shao Jingxing used his flashlight to illuminate the dark woods—the special flashlight is still working now, and the extremely bright white light can shine out for nearly a hundred meters on flat ground, but when facing the Only a few trees can be seen in this forest, as if all the light entering the forest has been swallowed up.

"This forest is weird." Bai Xin also carefully illuminated it with a flashlight, "It feels like there is a fog..."

"To be on the safe side, we'd better observe overnight and wait until dawn before entering." Du Weiping said matter-of-factly.Although there are corn and ear rat meat, the world of mountains and seas is really hard to guard against. It is not a good choice to enter such an unknown forest at night.

"I'll go in and explore the way. I can't waste the whole night." Su Zheng volunteered, "I can hang a safety rope and come back after walking tens of meters." The safety rope is made of the silk of mountain spiders It's light, thin and strong, and ordinary beasts can't stop biting at once.

"Wait." Huo Qing squatted on the ground, and suddenly said, "There are traces here."

There were traces of weeds being overwhelmed on the ground, as if something had been lying there, and in the softer soil next to it, Huo Qing found half a shallow footprint.

"It should be a man, maybe about 1.8 meters tall and weigh 75 kilograms..." Gu Rong compared the footprints, which were about the same size as his feet.

Du Weiping frowned: "Someone came to the blank place before us..."

It is not easy to come to the blank place. The entrance of Zhongshan is hidden here. People like the special affairs department, if they don't find the map made by Jiuding, they may not be able to find this place.Then those who can come here must not be innocent passers-by by mistake.

And...if Gu Rong's estimation is correct, then Qi Tongmin, who has already reported his disappearance, basically matches the owner of this footprint...

"We can't wait any longer." Su Zheng immediately became a little anxious, "Let's go in now, anyway, there are mites and ear mice." If the person who entered the blank space first is really Qi Tongmin, then who is he? What are you going to do?

If he was trying to do something stupid... Su Zheng secretly clenched his fists, he must be stopped, and he must not be allowed to make any more mistakes!If it is said that what Qi Tongmin did before was still for the idea of ​​the Nuwa faction and for the benefit of the special affairs department, then he entered Zhongshan privately, and there is no other explanation.

Did I really see the wrong person?Su Zheng couldn't help but ask himself again.The person he trusted so much, admired so much, and had always set up as his example and ideal, was he just wrong?

There are also some rumors he vaguely heard about his father's death... He didn't dare to ask the speaker, nor did he dare to ask Gu Sheng, he was afraid of hearing the answer he didn't want to hear , that would destroy his outlook on life.

There was some dampness in the palm, and a hand stretched out from the side, and opened his clenched fist. Su Zhengcai realized that it was not sweat, but the blood oozing from his fingernails embedded in the flesh at some point.

Bai Xin touched those deep pinch marks with her fingers, and the wounds formed pink scars. After wiping off the dried blood, it looked like a row of smiling mouths.

Su Zheng looked down at the row of smiles in his palm, and Bai Xin's slender fingers beside the row of smiles, and suddenly felt his heart calm down again—it's nothing, even if Qi Tongmin really did that thing, Even if he really can't bear to be his role model, what does that have to do with his ideals?His ideals are not wrong, and there are like-minded companions around him who are fighting for the ideals, so nothing can destroy his outlook on life, he will always walk on this road, and will never waver!

No one objected to Su Zheng's proposal—Tang Jia hummed twice in his throat, but no one heard—so after a little preparation, the group stepped into the woods.

It was getting dark, especially in the woods.However, it is very strange that the mist that cannot be penetrated by a powerful flashlight is illuminated by a few small migraine flowers—wherever the faint light of the migraine flowers reaches, the mist recedes like an ebbing tide. Into the darkness beyond.

"This is a formation..." Ji Yan walked in the middle of the team, turning his head to look around, but not at his feet.If Zhuang Juan hadn't stretched out two vines to wrap around his waist, he would have stumbled over the grass roots and dead branches on the ground several times.

"Formation?" Shao Jingxing also walked without looking at his feet, but anyway, with Huo Qing, he wouldn't let him fall, so what are you afraid of?

"Yes." Ji Yan was much more serious when it came to his profession, while looking around, he pinched his fingers and calculated, "But this formation is alive, I feel it is changing, and I can't feel the law of change. "

Shao Jingxing was at a loss when he heard it: "Can the formation still be alive?"

"Of course." Ji Yan simply took out a compass, and while he didn't know what to dial on the compass, he replied casually, "The simplest is like the ancient army's battle formation. You can form a long snake formation, or You can form a mandarin duck formation, because people are alive, so the formation can change with the battle situation."

Shao Jingxing murmured unconsciously: "Arranging in an S shape for a while, and a B shape for a while..."

"What?" Ji Yan didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing..." Shao Jingxing coughed dryly, "I mean, it's impossible for this forest to be alive? Could it be that trees can run with long legs?"

"No..." Ji Yan scratched his hair, "It's actually like a mechanism. The law of operation is the same, but the point at which it starts to operate varies. For example, in the general eight trigrams formation, you know there will be a birth gate." , You can come out from the gate of birth. But the birth gate of some Bagua formations will change, maybe it is in the east when it is ugly, and it moves to the west when it is ugly..."

"Understood, I understand!" Shao Jingxing patted his thigh, "You have to find out now, when will it move to where, right?"

"Yes." Ji Yan continued to fiddle with the compass, "This kind of change should also be regular, but this formation is a bit strange. This law is different from the general law of formation change... Ordinarily, it is based on the technological and cultural level of Nuwa's period. In other words, this kind of law is mostly formulated according to astronomical phenomena, hydrology or solar terms, but this..."

"You don't have to be so persistent, right?" Shao Jingxing felt his head hurt from hearing this, and felt that his brain cells were really arranged in an S shape and a B shape, "Anyway, we just need to be able to go out now, and you can slow down this formation in the future." Study slowly?"

Ji Yan argues: "Now there are migraines, it doesn't affect us much, but the migraines can't bloom all the time. When we come out of Zhongshan, if the migraines have withered, we may need our own We've found a way." His hands were too busy, and he only nodded forward with his chin, "And this forest may not be alive."

Shao Jingxing shrank his neck involuntarily: "Don't scare me..."

In fact, he felt it too.As soon as you enter this woods, the outside wind can't blow in at all, but you can always hear rustling sounds in your ears, and you can even see the leaves and grass shaking from the corner of your eyes, but if you look carefully, you can't see it. It didn't move again, and there was no trace of snakes or insects crawling over or touching the leaves.

No wonder Ji Yan said that this forest is alive, every tree, grass, and even vines here seem to have their own life.

"This is not open—" Before Ji Yan finished speaking, Huo Qing suddenly interrupted him: "There is a voice!"

It's not uncommon to have voices, but when Huo Qing spoke at this time, of course he wasn't referring to the sound of leaves shaking.Everyone pricked up their ears, and before Shao Jingxing heard anything, Zhuang Juan pointed to the side: "It's really not the sound from the plants, it should be over there!"

The mist and darkness receded under the twilight of the maize flowers. After walking not far, Shao Jingxing was still stretching his head when he heard Su Zheng yelling: "Section Chief!" and rushed out of the line.

There was a small open space in front of which the trees were fallen and the grass was scorched. There were several corpses strewn about in the open space, some were human and some were monsters. Shao Jingxing saw a thing with a long tail at a glance, but it shriveled as if it had been scorched, and he couldn't tell whether it was a corpse What.The face of the deceased next to it was unfamiliar, but he recognized the corpse a little further away: "He Maochuan!" He recognized it even when it turned into ashes!

But at this time, no one was going to look at He Maochuan, and everyone's eyes were on the last person - in the whole open space, he was the only one who could barely sit leaning against a tree, and when he heard Su Zheng's voice, he was already hanging down to his chest Lifting his head with difficulty, he made a weak voice: "You guys are here..."

"Section Chief!" Su Zheng supported the person, and shouted out of composure, "Bai Xin!"

In fact, without him shouting, Bai Xin had already rushed over, holding Qi Tongmin's hand with both hands, a layer of faint green light extended upwards along Qi Tongmin's arm from the intertwined place, and at the same time a scent of seed medicine radiated from her body.However, Qi Tongmin moved slightly, wanting to pull out his hand: "No need."

"This, this——" Shao Jingxing stuck out his head from behind Huo Qing, and retracted his head after just a glance. Tang Jia next to him turned pale with fright—Qi Tongmin didn't look like a living person anymore. up.

He is now like a skeleton that has been hollowed out, and he can even see the bark of the tree behind him from his chest!Under the light of the powerful flashlight, the ribs were frighteningly white, with traces of uncorroded flesh and blood on them.

"This is a curse!" Bai Xin's face changed suddenly, and she immediately turned her head to look for Shao Jingxing, "Xiao Shao, Xiao Shao! This is only for you!" The green light extending from her hand touched Qi Tongmin's huge wound, and immediately A layer of black air was stirred up.The black air seems to be dormant at the edge of the wound very quietly, but once it encounters the green light, it will suddenly churn. Not only is the green light unable to make an inch of progress, but the wound that has hollowed out half of the body is still expanding.

Shao Jingxing bit the bullet and ran over, but Qi Tongmin smiled: "No need, don't waste your energy." Bai Xin's method may be correct - first use Shao Jingxing's flame to burn the curse, and then use Luan Shu's ability to stimulate the growth of flesh and blood - However, Luan Shu could not regenerate the lost organs. His heart was gone. Even if the wound healed, how could a person live without a heart?

Qi Tongmin gently pushed Bai Xin's hand away, his eyes flicked from the faces of the people around him, and finally fell on Gu Rong's face: "As expected...Old Gu still let you come too..."