Lei Jin and Ming Ya groped around for a long time, broken and collapsed buildings were everywhere in the undergrowth, but the extremely tall city wall that was close at hand was hard to see but couldn't be touched. After walking for a long time, Leng didn't get close at all, as if he had been spinning in circles.
"This place is really evil." Lei Jin leaned on Mingya with a grass in his mouth, swaying his feet, unable to figure out what was going on.
"Lei Jin, what are we going to do now?" Mingya turned over and lay on her back, and put Lei Jin on her belly. The two of them had been on this path among the weeds for a long time, and the ground was so cold.
"Don't make noise, let me think about it again." Lei Jin changed to a comfortable position and lay on Mingya's body. It didn't make sense. Could it be that there was some weird battle going on? If there is, it will be troublesome. He doesn't know anything about these things.
Remembering that Roger's map was useless, Lei Jin took out the carefully wrapped map and black jade from his arms, but to his disappointment was that Roger's map was obviously full of secret passages, and the ones on the ground were only There are very few buildings, which should also be inside that city wall.
"Eh?" Lei Jin noticed something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Mingya pricked up her ears, and Saul looked around alertly.
"There are two strange signs here, what are they?" Roger seemed to have mentioned it at the time, but he only paid attention to the things inside the city wall, and automatically ignored the things outside. He thought it was unimportant, but unexpectedly, it happened to be blocked outside , there is a note next to it, but he doesn't know Roger's text either.
"Mingya can't understand." They were all strange shapes, which he had never seen before.
"I knew you wouldn't understand." So just now I was just talking to myself, never thinking that Mingya would know.
"But a word, Mingya knows it." Mingya's big hairy paw covered it, covering the whole map, and Lei Jin couldn't see what Mingya was talking about.
"Don't make trouble, let me take another look." Lei Jin raised his hand to push him away.
"That word is tree, Mingya knows it, it's what Ah Mo taught us." Seeing that Lei Jin didn't believe him, Mingya said anxiously.
"Trees?" Lei Jin seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly got up from Mingya's body, climbed onto a relatively high rock and looked around. The rest of the place was covered with grass, only the southwest direction was covered by trees. Fixed entrance to enter? It's useless to guess here, it's better to actually go and see.
"Ming Ya, let's go over there and have a look." The more Lei Jin thought about it, the more likely it was.
Mingya agreed, and lay down at Lei Jin's feet, beckoning him to come up.
"This place..." Lei Jin frowned slightly, how could it be here
Mingya chose an open space to stop.
"Huh? Didn't Mingya meet Lei Jin here?" Mingya looked at the familiar scenery around him. At that time, he didn't know what was wrong, but there was an idea in his mind urging him to come this way. As soon as he stopped on a tree, he saw a beautiful female climbing up neatly wearing very little clothes. At that time, my heart was beating so fast, and I suddenly realized that it should be the feeling of liking someone that Ah Mo said.
With Ming Ya's words, Lei Jin became more certain. Although there are seasonal differences in the scenery, the place where he came from is the right one. Going around, it turns out that he will return from where he came from. That day, he only felt that there was something in the depths of the jungle that made him uncomfortable. Now that he thought about it, the place he looked back at that time turned out to be the so-called forbidden area.
The sky is getting late, and the forbidden area in the twilight is looming in the thick fog, which always gives people an ominous premonition.
"Gulu..." "Gulu..."
"What sound?" Lei Jin turned around and asked.
Mingya hugged her belly, smiled silly at Lei Jin, and said, "Mingya is hungry."
"You've ruined all the atmosphere." Lei Jin patted his head, remembering that he had eaten since arriving here in the middle of the morning, and he was a little hungry, so it's no wonder Mingya is so big.
"Come on, let's go find something to eat."
"Should we still go there?" It's best not to go, it has a weird smell, Mingya doesn't like it.
"Let's go tomorrow." Now that the entrance has been found, it won't be a night, and the sun in that ghost place may not be so gloomy during the day.
"Oh." Lei Jin's words shattered his final fantasy, although Mingya really didn't like that place, but Lei Jin must go, and Mingya will accompany him.
I don't know if it was because of the cold weather or the vicinity of the forbidden area. The two of them walked in the snow for a long time before finding any traces of animals. However, Lei Jin thought it was worth it, because they actually caught a dragon pig.
"Life is complete." Lei Jin was full of affection for the dragon pig. He was attacked by this thing on the first day he came here. He didn't expect that before he left, he could take revenge again. Although it may not be the original one, but As long as the appearance is similar, he will not care about the subtle difference.
There are neither too many nor too few caves in the jungle, as long as you have the time and patience to search, you can always find one that will last you a night. Right now, Mingya is outside the cave, ripping open the intestines of that dragon pig, skinning and cramping.
Lei Jin leisurely picked up a lot of firewood in the nearby snow, but it was a bit damp, not good, and finally burned up, and the smoke was heavy.
Lei Jin skewered the meat that Mingya had torn up with twigs, cut the opening with a knife, rubbed it with salt, and roasted it on the fire. Because of the heavy fireworks, it finally tasted like smoky meat. Charcoal black, the meat inside is very tender. The dragon pig's meat is finer than that of wild boar, but it tastes more delicious than that of captive pigs. The two ate a small part and wrapped the rest in a basket for tomorrow's meal.
Lei Jin fell asleep, woke up in the middle of the night, and found that he was hugged by Mingya again at some point, and there was a suppressed sobbing sound in his ears, and the warm liquid slipped into his collar and flowed all the way to his chest , hot hot.
"Ming Ya..." Lei Jin sighed in his heart, this clean and transparent young man has been going around for so long, and from the beginning to the end, he was the only one by his side.
Mingya twisted her neck to avoid Lei Jin's hand touching his face, and asked in a trembling voice, "Lei Jin, are you really leaving tomorrow?"
Lei Jin gave a faint "Yes".
"Then will you remember Mingya?"
"I don't know." Lei Jin looked at the white snow field outside the cave. He hoped that if he went back, he could forget everything here and start over, but could he really forget? He doesn't know either.
"Mingya will always remember you, and so will the eldest brother and the second brother. You have to remember the way home when you are gone. We will always wait for you to come back. Mingya will plant many vines in the yard, waiting for you to come back , there are a lot of grapes to eat..." He still remembered that Lei Jin liked to go to the mountains to pick wild grapes to eat in summer.
"I won't come back again." Lei Jin interrupted him cruelly and said.
"Ming Ya will wait, wait until you come back." Ming Ya grabbed Lei Jin's clothes corner, her shoulders trembled, and she cried hard.
"Don't cry, Mingya." Lei Jin raised his head, and through the dim firelight in the cave, he saw that Mingya's blue eyes were covered with a layer of water, and tears kept rolling down.
"How do you let me go with peace of mind?" Lei Jin hugged him tightly, just like when he first came, this little guy liked to nest in his arms, but now Mingya has grown up and can hold him , but he also left.
"Then Mingya won't cry, Mingya won't be sad." Mingya bit her mouth and sucked her nose vigorously.
Lei Jin felt sore in his heart, but tried his best to smile on his face, raised his chin, and said, "Let me see if Mingya glanced at Little Rabbit, her eyes are red."
"Ming Ya really doesn't cry anymore." With a strong nasal voice, Ming Ya stubbornly lay on Lei Jin's shoulder and couldn't get up.
So what is this growing dampness on my shoulders? Mingya, I'm not worth it, Mingya, do you understand? Those who deserve it will never look at you so sad and remain indifferent, you are, Xi Ya is, Mo Ya... also.
Mingya didn't know how long she cried until she was exhausted and fell asleep, but Lei Jin couldn't calm down anymore. It was getting closer to dawn and the cold was getting worse. He thought of adding some firewood, and Mingya woke up as soon as he moved.
"Where are you going, Lei Jin? Is it still dark?" Ming Ya asked anxiously.
"If I don't leave, let's add more firewood." Lei Jin pointed to the fire that was about to go out.
"Oh." Mingya also got up from the ground and followed step by step.
Lei Jin smiled wryly, are you afraid that he will run away in the middle of the night? He turned over the ashes, splashed sparks, added new firewood, and blew it with a bamboo tube, and the flames quickly rushed up, crackling and burning.
"Lei Jin, you see there are shooting stars." Mingya suddenly dragged Lei Jin to the entrance of the cave, pointed to the sky and said to him.
At first, there were only a few stars, but soon countless stars arced towards the southwest, and even saw a meteor shower.
Under the same starry sky, Xi Ya and Mo Ya were also on their way day and night.
"Lei Jin, do you have stars there?"
"Yes." It's just that I don't seem to have read it seriously.
"Will it snow too
"Yes." It seems that I haven't seen such a heavy snow in many years.
"..."
"..."
Since they couldn't sleep anymore, the two hugged and sat on the side of the cave to watch the stars together, chatting with each other, and before they knew it, the sky was dawning, and the moment of parting was approaching.
According to Luo Jie's map, outside the city wall, there is a tunnel between two trees that leads directly to the gate of reincarnation. However, after searching for a long time, Lei Jin and Mingya only found a collapsed entrance. Walking along the badly damaged road in the hidden forest, and approaching, I found that the city wall was actually made of huge stone bricks. Seriously, but the city wall still stands resolutely.
The city gates are two huge black stones standing opposite each other. Lei Jin estimated that each gate must weigh a few tons. He doesn't know how the people who used to live here got it up.
The stone gate has been in disrepair for a long time, and it has not been opened for many years. Lei Jin pushed it twice, then shook it twice. With Ming Ya, the stone gate creaked and revealed a gap that two people could barely pass through.
Mingya wrinkled her nose uncomfortably, and the unpleasant smell became stronger and stronger.
I haven't seen the world behind the door yet, but just the creaking sound of the door opening makes Lei Jin's scalp tingle, and he has the urge to turn around and run away. Fortunately, he has a strong will to hold back.
Mingya motioned Lei Jin to climb on his back.
The first thing that catches the eye is a fairly wide road. Most of the houses on both sides of the street are still intact.
But now the surrounding area is dead silent. Even though the sun is shining outside, the place is still foggy and full of shadows. When people walk in it, it feels like they are sliding into some unknown abyss. Lei Jin felt chills in his heart. The lights in the next house flickered from far to near, and were about to burst out of the window.
"Run, Mingya." Lei Jin shouted.
Mingya also sensed the abnormality. She had been prepared for a long time. Hearing this, she immediately spread her wings and flew up with Lei Jin. Behind them, a large group of strange things appeared. Their faces looked like human beings, but they couldn't walk upright. Covered with gray hair, their hind limbs are thick, their forelimbs are unusually long, their backs have wings, and their fingers are bent like hooks. He thought the lights he saw just now were their dim yellow eyes.
Although Ming Ya's speed was very fast, those things were not slow, and there were a lot of them, so they quickly caught up.
"No, Mingya, we have to hide." If you don't know what these things are, you can't rush to confront them head-on. It is estimated that there will always be orcs missing inexplicably around here, and these things cannot be separated from them.
"There is only a house here, where can we hide, Lei Jin?"
"We absolutely can't hide in these houses." Those things just came out of the house, God knows, what's going on in the house, maybe it's their lair, going in is tantamount to death, even if it's not, the space in the house is small, Once the activity does not start, it can only wait for death.
While speaking, the front claws were almost hooked to Mingya's legs.
Lei Jin pulled out the torch behind his back and smashed it heavily.
The thing was in pain, and its speed was slightly slow, but it quickly chased after it.
Mingya found a thick tree with branches and leaves nearby and hid Lei Jin in it.
"Lei Jin, don't move here." Mingya quickly rubbed Lei Jin's face with her moist little nose, as if to calm his nervousness.
"Be careful yourself." Lei Jin reminded, at this moment, he can't procrastinate and hesitate, he and Ming Ya can only hold back.
Ming Ya nodded, turned around to meet him, Lei Jin couldn't see the situation of the battle clearly in the thick fog, he could only know from the continuous roars and beating sounds that the battle was quite fierce.
Lei Jin was anxious, knowing that no matter how brave Ming Ya was, it would be impossible to deal with so many opponents at the same time, but what to do, what to do.
Just as Lei Jin was wailing in his heart, a window under the tree was pushed open from the inside, a pair of cloudy eyes stared at Lei Jin with a sly light, and with a whistling sound, many people appeared around him.
This time, Lei Jin's scalp really exploded. I don't care what you are. I don't believe that fire can't kill you. He pulled out all the torches soaked in grease from behind, lit them one by one, and threw them towards the roof. , because he saw that the roof was not made of stone, and tried to see if it could be burned.
Unexpectedly, I don't know what material the roof is made of, it turned out to be ignited at one point, and the flames ignited immediately. In addition, today's north wind is strong, fueling the fire, and it can't be suppressed. Lei Jin sees it like this, little Don't worry a little, the jungle won't even be burned down, but there's no way to care about it at this time.
There was a baby-like cry from the house, which made Lei Jin hesitate, but when he saw Mingya's blood-stained fur all over his body because of the thick fog dispersed by the fire, the last bit of softness disappeared, one after another. Root's torch was thrown in.
There seemed to be something very important to them in the house, and those strange things howled and rushed in one after another, but they couldn't come out again, and the few remaining ones surrounded Mingya and attacked desperately.
"Mingya, come here." Lei Jin shouted, got down from the tree, set fire to all the clothes in the back basket, and threw them at the remaining pockets.
Although they were not burned to death, their pursuit was temporarily stopped, and the two quickly ran deep into the street, because the temple was at the end. But the gate was locked tightly, and Lei Jin couldn't open it even with kicks and bumps, and the pursuers came again.
Calm down, calm down, Lei Jin told himself over and over again, holding up the last torch in his hand, there are some patterns on the door, but there is nothing similar to the tribe, one to nine, nine numbers are represented by nine groups of holes, There is a hole the size of a fist under each group. Lei Jin used the other end of the torch to test it lightly a couple of times, and it was blocked. The movement behind it became louder and louder. The first time I went to the temple with Xi Ya, many things in the temple were combined in threes, sixes and fives. Whatever, try it, go in and tinker with it one by one, and the door opens automatically with a click. Lei Jin beckoned Mingya to come in, and closed the door forcefully, the two claws protruding in were abruptly broken by him.
I don't know which gods are enshrined in the temple. Who is in the mood to watch, but Lei Jin still clasped his fists twice meaningfully, and led Mingya to the back. Roger's map is clearly marked. In the third room after that, there is a tunnel extending down the right corner.
After entering the tunnel, Lei Jin was dumbfounded, what is this? The stone wall of the tunnel is transparent, glowing with a faint white light, is it a crystal vein? He thought of Chunji very inappropriately, because Chunji said that there were many crystal mines in his hometown, so he had a lot of crystal bottles, but this time, in order to keep the secret of leaving, he didn't even say hello to Chunji at the end.
"Ming Ya, let me see your wound, let's apply some medicine." Lei Jin lay tired on the ground, finally safe for the time being.
"Ming Ya is fine." Ming Ya didn't know why she kept avoiding Lei Jin's approach.
"After bleeding so much, how could it be okay?" Lei Jin stared at him, ready to check himself with a tough attitude.
"It's their blood." There is no time, Lei Jin, there is no time, as the buildings on the ground continue to catch fire and collapse, Mingya feels that this authentic crystal also begins to tremble.
"It's really all right?" Lei Jin stared at him with hanging eyes, why didn't he believe it.
"En." Mingya stood up, shaking the hair on her body, the undried blood beads were shaken off by him, and the silver fur was immediately clean.
Lei Jin was relieved now, and turned his head to lead the way with a torch.
But the crystal tunnel twists and turns, and finally opened to the collapsed exit outside the city wall.
"Mingya, you go out from here. I have to go the rest of the way by myself, so don't follow me." After finding this exit, Lei Jin didn't look disappointed. On the contrary, he was very lucky, so he didn't have to worry about Mingya encountering those weird things again. something.
"Ming Ya wants to watch you leave." The sun outside the tunnel was very sunny, but Ming Ya shrank and hid in the corner, refusing to come out.
"Forget it, follow if you want, but remember to go home from here." If he followed secretly, he would be even more worried.
However, Lei Jin never saw Ming Ya's left rear paw unnaturally dragging on the ground, bloodstained along the way.
This time there is a translucent door at the end of the tunnel, engraved with the same starry sky pattern as in the tribal temple, Lei Jin skillfully followed the method Roger said to form a ring of three stones, embedded in the On the third gap, the door turned from west to east, and the door was slowly raised. Lei Jin heard the sound of Roger's never-moving pocket watch starting to move in this quiet space, and he was overjoyed. It's here, but I was waiting helplessly, but the door stood still after rising a thumb-width height. Unless Lei Jin can turn into a mosquito, it is impossible to pass.
"What's going on here?" Lei Jin checked the door again. There was indeed no mechanism. He searched the tunnel anxiously. What's wrong.
Even though he knew it was impossible, Mingya was still afraid that Lei Jin would accidentally see his wound, so he moved quietly to the corner. Inadvertently, he seemed to have bumped into a protruding object, and he accidentally pressed it. It was found that the door actually started to rise.
"Lei Jin, the door is ready." Ming Ya said with widened eyes in surprise.
"Huh? Really, it's strange. Why didn't you do anything, and the door was closed again. Could it be that it has been useless for a long time, and it was stuck just now." Lei Jin was puzzled.
Behind the door is a vast white and chaotic world, and the sight is blurred.
"Ming Ya, I'm leaving." Lei Jin tried to wave his hand gracefully. It turned out that at the moment when he was really about to leave, he didn't feel completely relieved as he imagined. Instead, there were too many heavy things in his heart.
Ming Ya had already cried into tears, her lips were trembling and she couldn't speak, she just lay there quietly and didn't move.
"I'm leaving, don't cry so much in the future." After Lei Jin said the last sentence, he turned around resolutely without letting himself hesitate.
"Lei Jin, you have to remember Mingya, you have to remember to come back." Mingya finally cried out at the last moment.
Lei Jin clenched his fists, and finally couldn't help turning his head back, but his eyes widened in horror, because he saw that with the rise of this stone door, another door in the tunnel was falling rapidly, blocking Mingya behind.
"Ming Ya, run out quickly." Lei Jin's eyes darkened and he passed out.
"Mingya..."
"Brother Jin, who are you calling?" Liu Si muttered, lifted the quilt and got up, lighting up the bedside lamp.
"Liu Si?" Lei Jin avoided the slender fingers she stretched out, rubbed his throbbing forehead, and asked, "Where am I?"
"Brother Jin, are you sleepy? This is your own home. I was looking forward to having a good night, but you fell asleep in the bathtub. I dragged you to the bed after a lot of effort. In the end, Why are you calling Mingya? Male, female?" Liu Si combed her long hair, and poked Lei Jin angrily with her beautifully manicured nails.
"Did I just sleep? Had a dream?" It was just too real.