The car did not leave the city, but instead, guided by the compass, came to the vicinity of Fanghua Women's University.
There is a park to the west of Fanghua Women's University and a mountain to the east called "Haizi Mountain".
After learning about the situation here with Aunt Song Siqin, we parked the car at the foot of Haizi Mountain.
The direction indicated by the compass needle is Haizi Mountain.
Haizi Mountain has many trees and lush vegetation. The lush trees have turned this place into a green ocean. There is a small lake in the northwest of Haizi Mountain.
When we were climbing the mountain, we happened to pass by the small lake. The breeze blew the lake, causing ripples. Although there were many dark clouds in the sky, the lake was still clean and clear, making people feel relaxed and happy.
There are some people who come to play on the mountain, but most of them are young people. However, these people do not go deep into Haizi Mountain because there are too many trees and thorns in the depths of the mountain, which makes it easy for people to lose their way.
I even heard a legend from a young woman.
It is said that thousands of years ago, there was no Haizi Mountain here, only Haizi Lake. Haizi Lake refers to the lake under Haizi Mountain. And thousands of years ago, there was a huge monster hidden in Haizi Lake. The monster was covered with eyes, with a mouth as big as a basin and eyes as big as basketballs... ...
After practicing for several years, the monster began to wreak havoc on the world, slaughtering people wantonly. Later, the gods learned of the monster's evil deeds and sent immortals to subdue the monster. The monster was no match for the immortals and was strangled by the immortals with their swords, and then his soul flew away. The monster's body was transformed into Haizi Mountain by the immortals' magic.
As for the immortal, he later fell in love with humans and stayed in the human world, guarding Haizi Mountain and Haizi Lake forever.
I think this story is mostly fictional and can only be regarded as a legend. But the woman described it vividly, as if she had seen the immortal or the monster.
Without staying too long at the foot of the mountain, I headed up the mountain with Yuquan and Aunt Song.
The needle on the compass kept shaking, and the direction it pointed to was exactly the depths of Haizi Mountain.
We walked for a while! At the beginning, the path was relatively easy to walk on. There were traces of human activities. But the deeper we went into Haizi Mountain, the more complicated and varied the path became. Even the thighs of the three of us were pierced by thorns to varying degrees.
After walking for more than thirty minutes, the three of us finally had a short break.
Yuquan took a breath, looked at me, and said, "Brother Yang, look at this mountain. Although there are many trees, there are no strange things at all. I don't think that Ma Ying can come here. Maybe your compass is wrong and pointed us in the wrong direction."
Aunt Song also looked at me.
I shook my head and said, "It can't be wrong. This compass was left to me by a master. I have used this compass to help ghosts find their families before. This time, it is combined with Ma Ying's birth date, so it can't be wrong." The master I was referring to was naturally the deceased Jiang Jiuzhen.
Seeing that I was confident in my words, Yuquan and Song Siqin didn't say anything else.
Maybe she was too worried about her daughter. After a few minutes of rest, Aunt Song urged us to hurry up. Although I wanted to rest for a while, seeing Aunt Song's eagerness, I took them to continue into the forest.
Because there are many trees on Haizi Mountain, the light is not very good. In addition, the sky changes quickly. It was sunny in the morning, but it was cloudy in the afternoon.
It was already cloudy at noon, so the three of us moved very fast.
Naturally, we hope to return to the bottom of the mountain before the sun sets.
But our hopes seemed to be dashed. After walking for more than an hour, the compass needle was still trembling. This meant that we had not yet reached the location of the horse's shadow.
At this time, the sky had begun to turn dark.
"What should we do? Brother Yang, it's starting to get dark!" Yuquan said worriedly.
I thought about it and thought, it's all our fault for being too hasty. If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have rushed into the mountains in such a hurry.
But now that we're already here, it's too late to say anything.
I said in a deep voice: "Let's go, let's keep going... It seems that we can only spend the night in the mountains!"
Yuquan looked a little dusty, but he didn't say anything.
Aunt Song looked guilty and said, "I'm sorry, both masters, you blame me for being too impatient. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to enter the mountain at this time."
I looked at Aunt Song and consoled her, "Aunt Song, don't say that. You are trying to find your daughter. How can we blame you? Besides, compared to you, our health is pretty good. If you can persevere, why can't we?"
After that, we continued to move forward according to the guidance of the compass.
However, after just over ten minutes, we stopped because there was a large patch of fog ahead of us. The fog was very thick and carried the smell of dead leaves.
It is normal for fog to appear in the mountains and forests.
The three of us didn't take it seriously.
And the direction indicated by the compass needle was in the thick fog. So after a brief rest, the three of us continued to move forward into the thick fog.
At this time, the sky had completely darkened.
What we didn't expect was that we actually lost our way in the thick fog. Even the needle of the compass in my hand stopped pointing, but kept spinning in circles, and the direction was confused.
Seeing that I had stopped, Yuquan asked suspiciously, "Brother Yang, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
Aunt Song also looked at me with some worry.
I nodded and said in a deep voice, "We may have lost our way! The needle on the compass is broken, and the signal on my phone has disappeared."
"No way? This fog is just ordinary fog. Even if the cell phone has no signal, a magical instrument like a compass should still have a signal."
Yuquan still didn't quite believe it.
I directly handed the compass to Yuquan.
"Take a look and see if the compass is in the wrong direction!"
Yuquan looked at the compass I handed over and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
After thinking for a while, as if he had thought of something, Yuquan said hurriedly: "Brother Yang, if it is ordinary fog, there is no reason why the compass would not point out the direction. But now the compass is not working. So, I suspect that there is something strange about the fog here!"
Aunt Song's face turned grim. She didn't quite understand what we were saying.
But I didn't have time to explain it to her.
I glanced at Aunt Song and Yuquan and said to them, "You stay here first. I'll go check it out by myself to see if there's anything strange here."
Then I turned a talisman used for communication into a musical note and handed it to Yuquan.
This kind of "transformation note" can communicate with each other through sound within a thousand meters. However, it can only communicate three times. Once the Yin De Qi on the transformation note is exhausted, the note will be gone.
The talisman is no different from ordinary yellow paper.
"Okay! Brother Yang, you can go ahead. Donor Song, you can rest assured that you are with me."
"Um!"
I nodded, found a direction and walked over.
In order not to get separated from Yuquan and the others, I found a tree along the path I had walked along and carved a triangular symbol on the tree with a knife.
The fog is too thick!
The rotten smell was like the smell of a corpse, and it was a bit pungent.
I opened my third eye, hoping that it could see through the thick fog. But to my disappointment, it could only see a dozen meters away, and couldn't see any further.
Damn, this fog is really weird.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary fog can hardly block the perspective of the Sky Eye.
After walking around in the woods for a few times, I felt a little tired. So I leaned against a tree and planned to take a rest. After I leaned against the tree, I accidentally saw the triangle symbol on the tree.
Suddenly, I stood up from under the tree.
I stared at the triangle in amazement, and my brows furrowed. The triangle was carved on the tree, and the marks on the bark were clearly visible. It was clearly carved on the tree when I passed by here just now.
In an instant, a layer of cold sweat broke out on my back!
Damn, this is not just a matter of getting lost. I walked for such a long time and ended up back home. This is a bit like the legendary "ghost wall".
But there is no ghost here. If there is a ghost, my divine eye will be able to detect it immediately.
I quickly shouted, "Yuquan, can you hear me?"
My voice echoed in the woods and the mist.
But no one answered my question at all.
There were even echoes of my own voice all around.
For a moment, I became anxious.
No, this is not right! There must be something wrong.
So I followed the triangle mark and started to look back, hoping to find Yuquan and Aunt Song, but to no avail.
I searched for half an hour, but the tree was still the same tree, unchanged, except for an "X" shaped symbol next to the triangle symbol. I had deliberately carved it there when I left.
I turned back again.
Feeling anxious, I quickly took out the musical note.
After simply reciting a few incantations, he began to contact the young monk Yuquan.
"Yuquan, Yuquan... I am Yang Tianyi, can you hear me? Please reply..."
I shouted the same words several times to the musical note.
But my voice seemed to fall on deaf ears and I never received any response at all.
I gritted my teeth and put away the musical note.
I was wondering if Yuquan and I had been separated by some force.
The notes can transmit sound within a short distance. I didn't walk very far just now. The tree with a triangle symbol carved on it behind me is proof of this. But the notes still didn't transmit any sound!
Then there is a problem.
What I thought of was that Yuquan and I were no longer in the same space. If we were in the same space, the sound would have spread out long ago. Only when we were not in the same space, or in other words, I was in a separate, enclosed space, would the sound not be able to spread out.
Yes, that's it!
But the space is different now, how can I leave here? Also, what's with the fog
(to be continued)
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