The moon hangs on the branches, and the night is as cool as water.
The tired birds have already returned to their nests, the mountains are silent, and they seem to have fallen into a deep sleep, only the wind spring is flowing, knocking on the clear sound of jingling.
On the back of a low hill, two bonfires were lit on the ground. On one pile were two lunch boxes, gurgling wild vegetables and beans, and on the other pile was a tree branch, with a fat hare strung across it.
The rabbit was already half-cooked, dripping fat from time to time, making the flames sizzling. Gu Yu picked up salt and chili, sprinkled several layers of it thinly, and saw that the color of the flesh turned golden, then tore off a piece and tasted it.
"It's ready to eat."
"I'm fine here too."
Xiao Zhai handed over the lunch box, each tasted the other's handicraft, and nodded at the same time.
They had brought compressed biscuits, but they tasted so bad that they threw them aside after a meal. Xiao Zhai knew all kinds of plants, so he was in charge of collecting them, while Gu Yu was in charge of hunting. They were too precious to bear to hunt, so they took aim at rabbits and pheasants.
Just these two people, as long as they are given enough fresh water and spices, they can stay in the mountains for a lifetime.
Gu Yu took a hind leg and casually chatted about Zhao Jiu's murder case, saying, "What do you think, is it man-made?"
"It's hard to say. There are tens of thousands of Taoist secret techniques, such as raising Gu worms in Xiamao Mountain, raising little ghosts, and refining corpses, all of which can be done. But it doesn't matter, anyway, we are going to Shuzhou, just inquire about it."
Xiao Zhai picked up the lunch box and wanted to drink some wild vegetable soup, but he put it back and said, "No more."
"Anything else?" He laughed.
"Um."
Gu Yu took his own lunch box and folded it in half for her. She has a mild taste and loves vegetarian food, but he doesn't care about meat and vegetables, and can eat anything.
After a while, the two finished dinner.
Gu Yu went to wash by the stream, while Xiao Zhai moved the fire away, spread a layer of flat branches on the original place, and covered it with a thin blanket. The ground is extremely hot, and the warm air is blowing up, making you feel as if you were on a kang head in the northeast.
She lay down with all her clothes on, giving up half of her body.
When he came back, he didn't go up there, but sat a few meters away and began to practice.
"squeak!"
"Snapped!"
Gu Yu sat upright, concentrating, and let out his consciousness, and he was in control of this small camp. The flame licked the dry wood and made a crisp crackling sound. Xiao Zhai closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping peacefully.
Not long, until midnight.
He swallowed and breathed out the air of complicity, and the green snake leaned beside him, spitting out the letter hissingly, obviously cultivating.
That colluding gas turned into strands of white threads, wrapped in the power of the moon, and were sucked into the body together. Run the whole body, nourish the acupoints, and finally blend yin and yang in the Dantian.
"Hoo..."
"Hoo..."
Um
Suddenly, Gu Yu stopped swallowing, and he seemed to hear a slight sound in his ears, like the sound of a meat pad stepping on the ground.
He opened his eyes, patted Xiaoqing, signaled to look after his master, and went there alone. Sure enough, a pair of feline-specific luminous eyes shone green not far away.
This is still a big cat, a beast on the upper food chain of Tianzhu Mountain, the clouded leopard.
It stared at the human, intending to pounce on it, but the instinct of the animal told itself that this person was not easy to mess with. While hesitating, Gu Yu picked up a branch and stroked it on the ground.
"choke!"
The branch hooked the soil, and it screamed like a golden dagger, with a sharp air.
"Play by yourself, don't get close." He waved his hand.
"..."
Clouded Leopard looked at him, then at the prohibition line on the ground, meowed, turned around and ran away. That's right, that's what the leopard is called.
Gu Yu sent the big cat away, wiped himself and returned to the campfire, and sat down again.
Xiao Zhai asked vaguely, "What's the matter?"
"It's okay... go to sleep."
"Um."
She turned around lazily.
…
Before they knew it, they had been in the mountains for four days.
The area on the map is getting smaller and smaller, and their emotions are getting more and more irritable. For four whole days, facing the mountains, searching step by step, it was very, very patient.
In the afternoon of this day, the two searched hard and found nothing, so they rested first and prepared lunch.
The camp is near a small river and is spacious and open. Gu Yu hunted a pheasant, Xiao Zhai picked some wild fruits and was cleaning them by the river.
After washing the fruits, Xiao Zhai took one for himself and fed him another, then sighed suddenly: "Before we come in, the next step-counting app will be ready."
"Yeah, let's stay for a few more days, even the down payment is enough." Gu Yu also sighed.
"But the good news is that there are fewer and fewer places we can look."
"Well, it means that we are getting closer to the goal."
"..."
The two looked at each other, there was no other way but to comfort them like this.
Gu Yu squatted by the river, cut open the chicken belly, and washed it with some water. The sticky internal organs and intestines floated away along the river, exuding a faint smell of blood.
Xiao Zhai looked around boredly, and looked at the river from time to time. Suddenly, her eyes froze and she reminded: "Be careful!"
"Wow!"
As soon as the words fell, a strange fish jumped out of the river, biting Gu Yu's finger with its big mouth full of sharp teeth. He frowned slightly, and slapped down with his left hand, actually directly clasped the fish fin.
When I mentioned it again and flicked it, the fish was already twitching on the shore.
"This is… "
Gu Yu picked it up, identified it for a long time, and wondered: "This is a black fish, right? Why is the head so big?"
He would never admit that it was a black fish, but with a huge head and sharp and protruding teeth, it looked quite terrifying.
"This tooth has caught up with piranhas. Could it be that it has mutated... Eh?"
He paused suddenly, and looked at Xiao Zhai, the two of them instantly connected with each other, and their eyes lit up.
When looking for the old tree before, I passed a nest of alienated poisonous mosquitoes, and there are big-headed black fish in this river, if they are not kept together, it is the clue.
So, after eating in a hurry, they searched up the river.
After walking for nearly 30 minutes, I finally found a natural cave under a cliff, and the river flowed out of the cave.
"The aura has become very strong, that's right, it's here!"
Gu Yu felt it and was very sure.
After a little preparation, they lifted their feet and entered the cave. The cave has a huge opening, and it doesn't seem to be deep. Although the light inside is dim, it doesn't look dark. On both sides of the gravel into the shore, barely walkable.
The two of them were extra cautious, always paying attention to the smoothness of their breathing, and if they felt a little uncomfortable, they would withdraw immediately.
"Tick tock!"
Drops of water fell from the top of the head from time to time, and various strange fish jumped out of the river, all of them were terrified, their mouths opened wide as if threatening, and then fell back with a plop.
The cave was really not deep, and it came to an end after a few tens of meters. The two of them supported the stone wall and stood carefully, they couldn't help but secretly marveled.
The inside is dead, and the space is becoming more and more open. The most special thing is that a small lake has formed here, and the center of the lake is gurgling, like an underground spring.
"Finally found it!"
As soon as the two of them saw each other, the energy they had been holding back all this time finally let go.
"How is it?" Xiao Zhai asked.
"Hoo..."
Gu Yu took a deep breath, and let it out again, with the expected excitement. He didn't answer, but stretched out his hand and made a big six.