Chapter 74 Wangtianshu

Author: Feng Si Niang

Chapter 74 Wangtianshu

The sounds in the forest were also strange, eerie and terrifying. Instead of the cheerful chirping of birds, the sounds coming from the forest were the ghostly calls of eagle owls;

The snake breathed out, and from time to time it made a "hissing" sound in the wind, stirring up the air that was stagnant due to the fog.

Just after Xue Feibai cursed for the umpteenth time, Jinhua finally brought good news: "Sir, we are here!"

Xue Feibai stretched his neck hard and raised his head, only to see the end of the tall tree - the sky.

In the dense forest where the directions of east, west, south and north are unclear, there are more than ten towering trees reaching into the sky. People in Jinhua Village have set up wooden planks connecting the trees in the middle, like a sky corridor.

The diameter of the tree ranges from two to four feet. The short tree is about twelve feet, and the longest one is estimated to be eighteen feet. When climbing to the top of the tree, the stars seem to be within reach; Xue Feibai touched the gray-brown tree body.

Sigh: Darling, what a big tree~

Du Heng picked up a fruit that had fallen on the ground and twisted it:

"Du Shaoling's "The Journey of Ancient Cypresses" says: 'There are old cypresses in front of the Kongming Temple, with branches as thick as bronze and roots as stone; frost-covered cypresses rain down forty meters, and the dark color towers into the sky for two thousand feet.' Although two thousand feet is a bit exaggerated, but'

Towering to the sky, tall and graceful' is more than enough to describe this tree;

But this tree bears few fruits and frequently drops its fruit. I guess this is because God meant that ‘fullness will cause harm, modesty will benefit’.”

Xue Feibai:==Yes, yes, that’s what I mean!

The only audience paid no attention to him at all. Jinhua's eyes were filled with admiration for Du Heng, as if all the stars in the sky were in her eyes:

"Sir, we call this tree the 'Super Tree'. This tree has been around since I was here. I heard from my father that this tree is excellent for making furniture and boats, so it was soon cut down.

There are only a few dozen trees left; my father ordered that logging be strictly prohibited, and later he built this plank road in the dangerous forest, making it much easier to get in and out..."

Du Heng looked back at her with a smile and said: "'An ax weighs a pound in time, and the wood cannot be used.' Jinhua, your father not only believes in Taoism, but also has a Confucian heart of benevolence!"

Jinhua took a deep breath and resisted the tears in her eyes, but the whimpering sound from her throat still revealed her grief: her suffering mother, her sister, her father whose life and death are unknown,

Brother, how can you not feel sad!

Du Heng looked at her like this and felt very sympathetic:

"I remember seeing such a tall tree when I was a child. It was so tall that I could only see its crown when I lay down on the ground... When I was a child, I felt that nature is really wonderful. Human beings are so small in front of many things, so why are they so small?

What is the most arrogant thing? My brother taught me a poem at this time: 'God's will is always difficult to ask'..."

Xue Feibai was a little strange: Where did Du Heng get his brother? Didn't she only have three half-sisters? Could it be her cousin?

"Jinhua, although it is 'human feelings are easy to express, it is difficult to express them', but at least you are not alone! Your relatives are waiting for you to save them from the endless darkness, you know that!" Du

Heng held Jinhua's arm and said solemnly.

Xue Feibai was very excited when he saw it. He didn't expect that Du Heng had such a strong ability to empathize with others. Looking at her expression and expression, those who didn't know it thought she was the one who had a deep hatred and her family needed to be rescued urgently!

Seeing Jinhua shamelessly hugging Du Heng, Xue Feibai immediately pulled them apart: "We don't have time, let's go up the tree and check the truth!"

After saying that, Xue Feibai took the lead and lifted one of Jinhua's arms, signaled Du Heng to hold Jinhua's other arm, and used Qinggong to climb up the tree.

The three of them had just found a place to stand on the tall tree canopy when they were shocked and speechless by the scene in front of them.

Their position is extremely high, allowing them to have a panoramic view of everything nearby:

The direction of the stockade is in the east, which is also the direction when they first entered the forest. The closer it is to New Year's Eve, the less popular it becomes. There are only scattered houses with lights in the huge stockade, like will-o'-the-wisps in tombs;

If there really is a Nian beast in mythology, this is simply its best hiding place in Yunnan.

Looking to the north, the roots of a mountain range are bucking the trend of the Tibetan front. Looking further north, the entire mountain looks like a dragon about to transform into a dragon, soaring into the clouds and mist, soaring upwards.

Come to think of it, this is the Hengduan Mountains, which stretches for thousands of miles and is majestic.

The Nanmi Lanzhang River in the west is shrouded in mist, and the black water is surging. Sometimes it "passes away completely, and the abyss is silent", and the direction of the flow is unknown; sometimes the sea is boiling and the mountains are shaking, the waves are high and the water is rushing, and it flows to Annan, and finally converges

Enter the South China Sea.

Such a magnificent and intense beauty is not as dazzling as the drop of blood in the southwest corner of the dense forest here:

The large forest there was directly burned to the ground, and the charred dead trees were like the severed limbs of the human body, twisting and pointing to the sky, issuing the last silent accusation of blood and tears;

Black ash covered the ground, the wind blew, and the branches and leaves no longer swayed, leaving only black smoke and dust that looked like snowflakes, and the charred corpses of animals that had no time to escape all over the ground.

If it had not been blocked by a large swamp, the forest fire would probably have burned to the Nanmi Lanzhang River; even so, at least a hectare of land and good trees would have been licked by the flames.

Not only that, several clean areas were cleared out of the burnt black land, and several simple sheds were built next to several large pits that were inexplicably blown up; both people and equipment were stacked under the sheds.

Like a dense ant nest.

Many hands and feet were tied with chains and stacked under the shed. So many people crowded together to sleep without daring to complain. Only one or two torches were lit around them; they must be men from the village who were driven here to dig.

Mine.

There are also a few sheds filled with messy equipment, which are nothing more than gold pans, sand trays, camp lights, beams and other such things. The last two are waiting to be used in the mines, and the first two are for gold panning.

The place where it was burned was not far from the end of the rope bridge.

Xue Feibai and Du Heng watched from a distance and felt horrified. How could Jinhua not feel pain when she saw her people being enslaved and their home being burned?

Her bulging eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, her fingers clenched unconsciously, and the tiny branches pricked blood beads in her palms without her realizing it, which mixed with the green grass juice to form a strange color.

Du Heng took a deep look at her, as if he saw himself half a year ago.

"...Destroy my home and kill my people. This hatred is irreconcilable!" Xue Feibai looked at Jinhua. She seemed to be much calmer, but also terrifyingly calm.

Like gray embers with only a little bit of red, or like lava that flows slowly and seems stagnant, as long as she seizes the opportunity, it will form a prairie fire and burn everyone down.
Chapter completed!