83 [Deep in the Forest](1/2)
Zhan Zhao and others survived the disaster. They got up from the ground and patted the snow on their bodies. They checked each other, but no one was injured.
Zhao Pu pulled Yunzhong's sword out of the rocks, and the cold light was gone, and the blade was not injured at all, but the horizontal lines on the wall continued from the top of the mountain, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "Good knife!"
Bai Yutang took the knife and put it in the scabbard, looking around.
"Someone should come down to save us soon?" Gongsun asked.
"It will probably take some time to get off the rope." Zhao Pu touched his body, and did not bring any contact arrows. Everyone also touched them, but did not bring any.
Gongsun picked up Xiao Sizi and touched her, and there was a bag of pine nut candy in her purse.
Everyone looked at each other.
"It's a bit difficult to go up the mountain." Zhan Zhao raised his face and looked up. He couldn't see the top at all. Moreover, there were cliffs outside, and there were many cold and frozen places. A string of icicles hung out half of the air, which looked a little scary.
"No one will come to save us." Zhao Pu said suddenly.
Everyone looked at each other...
"If that person really wants us to die." Zhan Zhao said coldly, "it may blow up the entire mountain..."
"The place where we were standing was a mountain that was bulging outside. If it was blown up, we couldn't tell the direction at all. Even if those yamen runners called people, the terrain in this circle was steep and not so easy to find."
"Actually, this is not the point."
Gongsun suddenly spoke, and everyone looked back at him.
Gongsun pointed to the dark sky and said, "It will snow heavily soon!"
Everyone raised their faces together. If it snows heavily like this, it would be strange if it was not covered or blocked and buried alive.
"Aowu..."
Just when everyone was at a loss, Xiao Wu suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked at it and saw that it was already standing by the woods, turning around and hooking their tails at everyone.
Xiao Sizi reached out and pointed, "Follow Xiao Wu, maybe it will recognize the way!"
"Are you sure?" Gongsun asked Xiaosizi.
The little Sizi looked around everyone, and that meant - do you recognize the way? Who knows the King of Beasts?
Everyone also felt that Xiao Wu had a better chance of knowing Lu than all of them.
So, stepping on the soft snow, he followed Xiao Wu into the forest.
After entering the forest, I saw Xiao Wu walking leisurely, sometimes turning east and then west.
"It seems to know the way." Zhao Pu asked.
Zhan Zhao also nodded, "It seems like he is walking with confidence."
Afterwards, Zhao Pu held Xiao Sizi and pulled Gongsun with one hand. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked behind, followed Xiao Wu, kept walking, kept walking...
I don’t know how long I walked, but there were large scattered snowflakes falling down.
Zhan Zhao and others followed Xiao Wu and walked into a vast forest of pine trees.
The pine sea is different from other forests. After the pine needles are frozen by the snow, they are like ice flowers blooming. I don’t know if it is a problem with the variety of pine trees. This large area of ice pine forest looks between blue and purple, and the fluttering snowflakes make the scene particularly beautiful.
The little Sizi was already dozing off, but now she woke up from sleep. She grew up and looked around and reached out to pick up the snowflakes that were falling down.
Zhan Xiaowu seemed to be in a good mood. He took a few steps, stretched out his claws and lifted the pine flowers. A large handful of snow fell, and it shook its head, leaving a large string of plum blossom marks on the ground.
Zhao Pu and Gongsun were behind him and saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang one red and one white, and a black tiger walking between the white snow and the cedar.
Gongsun glanced at Zhao Pu.
Zhao Pu smiled without saying a word, just like a painting...
After walking for a while, suddenly the road turned around... A rift appeared in front of me, and Xiao Wu stepped on the steps and went down... Yes, there were steps! There were railings on both sides of the steps.
Everyone looked at each other.
The little fourth son pointed ahead and said, "Look at it, Daddy, Ice Waterfall!"
Looking in the direction of Xiao Sizi's finger, I saw almost the entire waterfall on the cliff ahead. The water flow instantly solidified, and it was so ingenious.
Below the ice waterfall, there is a yard full of plum blossoms... The red plum blossoms are blooming brightly, with black branches and red flowers dotted with a snow-white patch. In the depths of the plum forest, there is a small house.
This is a stone house with a thatched roof, with a thick layer of snow. It is very simple, but it is covered very steadily.
Xiaowu jumped down briskly, walked through the plum forest, and walked towards the house.
Zhan Zhao was about to follow in, but was stopped by Bai Yutang, "You can't leave like this."
Everyone was stunned and looked at him.
"Meilin is an institution, and someone has set up a trap here." Bai Yutang reminded.
"That Xiaowu..." Before Zhan Zhao finished speaking, he saw Xiaowu running to the front of the hut and looking back.
Everyone looked at Bai Yutang with their eyes squinted - Is there a mechanism?
Bai Yutang raised his hand and flew into the forest with a black jade locust stone. Suddenly, he heard a "click" sound, and more than a dozen arrows shot out, inserting the black jade locust stone around it.
Everyone glanced at Bai Yutang again, and Xiao Sizi blinked, "Xiao Wu knows it and breaks the mechanism!"
Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked him, "Which little five do you mean?"
After a moment of silence, everyone let out another "pu" sound.
Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at Bai Yutang, which was considered to have avenged the "Fat Swallow" just now.
"How did you know it's a formation? Do you know me?" Gongsun asked Bai Yutang curiously.
"This is a very ordinary formation." Bai Yutang replied, "Anti-thief."
Zhao Pu looked at the circle of arrows, "This thief is a bit miserable... Let's talk about the deep mountains and forests, where did the thief come from?"
"Aowoo."
Xiao Wu shouted again, as if urging them to get faster.
Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "How do you go?"
"Just follow Xiao Wu's footprints." Bai Yutang said, taking the lead down the steps and entering the forest.
Zhan Zhao reached out to hug Zhao Pu's little son, and Zhao Pu pulled Gongsun. They took care of one of them, so that if something happened, Zhao Pu could not take care of two of them alone.
However, following Xiao Wu's footprints, everyone successfully passed through the plum blossom forest and came to the front of the hut.
"Is anyone?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang.
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Bai Yutang knocked on the door but no one agreed. In fact, there was no need to knock on the door. They all had a deep internal strength and could not feel the breath of others here.
Bai Yutang gently pushed open the door and looked inside.
Zhan Zhao also looked at it and was surprised, "Huh?"
"What did you see?" Zhao Pu and Gongsun hurried over.
The room was very neat, with many peach wood products hanging on the wall, many talismans on the table, and bookshelf were full of books.
Bai Yutang pushed open the door and walked in.
The room had accumulated thick dust. It seemed that no one had lived there for a long time, but there were a few footprints on the ground and the things on the table seemed to have been turned over.
"Look." Zhan Zhao picked up a peach wood token and showed it to Bai Yutang.
Everyone frowned - it was the thing that the dead little Taoist priest carried with him. When Tianmu appeared a few times before, the thing fell all over the floor.
Let’s take a look at Xiao Wu who entered the house again - could this be the place where the little Taoist priest and Xiao Wu lived before?
"It's not like it." Gongsun shook his head, "That little Taoist priest should be a southerner."
"Southern people..." Zhan Zhao touched his chin.
"By the way, there is something else." Gongsun seemed to remember something, "When I was experiencing the body of the Taoist priest, I found that the black tiger tattoo on his chest was painted."
Everyone was stunned, "Drawn?"
"Yes!" Gongsun nodded, "Also, he has a lot of silver notes, from different state-city money houses in various places."
"Will he be a Taoist priest who makes money by doing rituals everywhere? He exorcized demons everywhere, so the money comes from different money houses." Zhan Zhao asked, "If you paint a black tiger on your body, can you pretend to be the Maoshan school?"
Bai Yutang frowned and thought, "Then why is Xiaowu with him?"
"Everyone is dead, and there is no way to ask, but the one who lives here should be a paranormal person." Gongsun said, pulling out a few books from the bookshelf and opening them to everyone to see, "It's all Sanskrit, and most of them talk about the Five Elements Count and the Six Paths of Reincarnation."
Zhao Pu flipped through and asked Gongsun, "Can you understand?"
Gongsun nodded, "It's all broken scrolls that you can't see on weekdays."
"Maybe only Xiaowu knows what's going on... What about Xiaowu?" Zhan Zhao turned around and disappeared. He found him and saw that Xiaowu was digging a hole in the yard.
"Digging the pit again, there will be no thunder here, right?" Zhao Pu leaned over curiously and saw Xiao Wu digging out something.
Zhao Pu picked up a shovel beside the fence wall at the corner of the yard and helped Xiao Wu dig it up. After a while, he dug out a jar.
Zhao Pu brought the jar up and opened it, and saw several small jars inside.
To be continued...