The plane slowly took off with the deafening sound of its engine, but Wang Ran and others were not on the plane.
At the last minute before takeoff, Wang Ran suddenly thought that he could buy a better aircraft from the world hub to shorten the eight-hour flight.
"Tie up the family!"
“It’s so sci-fi!”
Bai Fan stared at the aircraft in front of him in amazement.
This aircraft is called a water drop, but unlike the water drop in "The Three-Body Problem", this water drop has almost no combat capability. Its only feature is that it flies extremely fast.
It cruises in the Earth's atmosphere at ten times the speed of sound.
This means it can complete an eight-hour flight on a commercial aircraft in just half an hour.
"Don't look at it, come up."
Wang Ran opened the passenger cabin of the aircraft.
This aircraft is point-and-shoot operation.
Load the map before use, and then just click where you want to go. The small laser transmitter on the aircraft can also eliminate flying birds encountered along the way.
At Wang Ran's call, everyone sat in the water drops.
This is a flying vehicle designed specifically for extraordinary people. Its terrifying acceleration is enough to kill any ordinary person in an instant, but for them it is like a breeze.
Half an hour later, they arrived at Kunlun Mountains.
“Is the fog in Kunlun Mountain always this thick?”
Yiya lay by the window in confusion.
Looking down from a high place, the gloomy fog covered the entire Kunlun Mountains, even obscuring other places near the mountains.
They couldn't see Kunlun Mountain at all.
"No."
The Second Sect Leader took out a tablet and showed Yiya a photo of Kunlun Mountain. He explained, "Although Kunlun Mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, visibility under normal circumstances is very good."
The Kunlun Mountains in the photo have clear skies and the brown mountain is clearly visible, forming a sharp contrast with the Kunlun Mountains which are now shrouded in fog.
The Second Sect Leader said: "This summer is hotter than in previous years. The snow on Kunlun Mountain has melted, and the flow of several rivers downstream has increased greatly, causing floods and waterlogging disasters, which once blocked traffic near Kunlun Mountain."
Yiya nodded ignorantly.
“When did the fog appear?”
Wang Ran asked.
When he was simulating, he had seen thick fog in the Kunlun Mountains, and there was spiritual energy in the fog.
He thought it was the clay sculpture's fault, but the fog appeared at this time, so it had nothing to do with the clay sculpture.
The Second Sect Leader replied respectfully, "Two days ago, that's when the tour group had an accident."
Wang Ran looked thoughtful.
When the tour group got into trouble, he was exploring the mysteries, so the fog in Kunlun Mountain had nothing to do with the clay sculptures, but was most likely related to him.
At the end of the exploration, the God of Wealth broke the stone statue and released green smoke. He still doesn't know what the green smoke was.
But if it was the green smoke that caused the spiritual energy to revive,
Totally understandable.
After all, the God of Wealth is the only god who has "returned". He discovered that the earth has entered the Dharma-Ending Age, so it is reasonable for him to do something to remedy the situation.
"These are no ordinary mists."
Taoist Ji An said in surprise: "This is spiritual energy, that's right, it must be spiritual energy!"
The water drop aircraft has a good ventilation system. At this moment, it is hovering above Kunlun Mountain and automatically inhales some mist, which is sensed by Taoist Ji'an.
"What is Reiki?"
Eeyore asked doubtfully.
Taoist Ji'an said excitedly: "Spiritual energy is the foundation of cultivation! It can strengthen the body, strengthen the spirit, help those with strong bloodlines awaken extraordinary talents, and can also be stored in the body as energy to drive spells!"
"The ancient supernatural beings all used spiritual energy to fight!"
"But after the mythological era, the spiritual energy gradually weakened, and by the Qin Dynasty it was almost gone!"
“Incredible!”
He lay by the window and muttered to himself: "Where does the spiritual energy of Kunlun Mountain come from?"
Wang Ran remained silent.
He maneuvered the water drop aircraft to hover over the Kunlun Mountains and used the mapping instruments on the aircraft to explore the terrain of the Kunlun Mountains.
"Sir!" The Second Sect Leader said respectfully, "We have found some news about the ancient temple in Kunlun Mountain that you asked me to investigate."
Wang Ran asked without even looking up: "Where?"
The Second Master replied, "It is halfway up the Kongur Peak, 4,247 meters above sea level. It was discovered in the 1980s. The date of its construction and the identity of the builder are unknown."
Kongur Peak is the highest peak in the Kunlun Mountains, with an altitude of 7,719 meters, 800 meters higher than the second highest peak in the Kunlun Mountains.
Wang Ran piloted the aircraft to the sky above Kongur Peak.
He glanced out the window.
He found that the fog near Kongur Peak was particularly thick, seeming to be two to three times thicker than other places.
“Such a rich spiritual energy!”
Taoist Ji'an's words confirmed his view.
He murmured, "This should be it."
Resentment, spiritual energy, incense and wish power...
Three forces gave birth to the monster of clay sculpture.
If it is not stopped in time,
All human beings on the earth will become clay sculptures to refine the fuel of the ancestral veins.
Wang Ran looked at the Kongur Peak below.
He looked at the rolling mist.
I suddenly had a bad feeling in my heart.
His spiritual attribute has reached ten thousand, and ominous premonitions often manifest into bad luck in reality, some of which may even threaten his life.
Wang Ran activated the instant simulation function without hesitation.
[Start real-time simulation]
[You landed your aircraft on Gongger Peak. Thick fog obscured your vision and the aircraft's simulated map was also disrupted. You were unable to find the ancient temple.]
You are lost in the fog
You came to an ancient village
[This village has been abandoned for a long time. You hesitated at the entrance of the village for a while, and finally decided to take a look]
[You entered an abandoned village]
You found many footprints on the ground.
[You shout loudly]
You feel someone is following you
[You look back and search]
[You found nothing]
[Simulation ends]
Wang Ranmei locked her eyes tightly.
Kunlun Mountains is over 4,000 meters above sea level. Who would think that their life is too comfortable and run to live in such a cold place
Do you want to eat fried cakes
This doesn't make sense, unless this village is a ghost village that the tour group accidentally entered.
But the tour group mistakenly entered the ghost village as soon as they entered the Kunlun Mountains. Why did he also mistakenly enter a ghost village halfway up Kongur Peak
Could it be that the fog has the effect of spatial displacement
Wang Ran was full of questions, so he conducted another simulation.
[Start real-time simulation]
[You copied the map in advance, and then controlled the aircraft to land on Gongger Peak]
[You look for the ancient temple according to the map]
You are lost in the fog
Wang Ran's face suddenly turned ugly.
The last time he got lost was because the aircraft’s map was interfered with. This time he copied the map in advance, but still got lost.
What is this? A natural maze
You came to an ancient village
[You walked in cautiously]
You feel someone is following you
If this ancient village is the ghost village that the tour group mistakenly entered, then there must be many evil ghosts hiding in the dark and watching for him.
[You took out an ancient relic]
[This is the folding fan you repaired with "Pad the Sky"]
[You wave your folding fan at the ancient village]
[A raging river gushed out of the folding fan, washing away the buildings in the ancient village and overturning many of them]
Not coming out, right
Then don't blame me for digging up your graves!
[The sky becomes gloomy]
[Many ghosts in red appeared in the corner]
They look at you silently
[Simulation ends]
Thirty minutes of simulation time was still too short, but it helped Wang Ran confirm two things.
First of all, getting lost is not an accident.
Secondly, the ancient village he mistakenly entered was the ghost village that the tour group had visited.
"Why did we get lost twice, and ended up in a ghost village each time?"
Wang Ran felt very confused.
He wondered, "Is the ghost village targeting me?"
It shouldn't be like this!
When he was exploring the mysteries, he was controlling the God of Wealth. If the ghost village wants to take revenge, they should go to the God of Wealth!
etc!
Could it be that because he looks exactly like the God of Wealth, the ghost village recognized the wrong person
Try again…
[Start real-time simulation]
[You control the aircraft to land on Gongger Peak]
[You explore carefully according to the map]
[You suddenly feel dizzy]
You are lost
You came to an ancient village
"You're really targeting me, aren't you?"
Wang Ran was a little annoyed.
Although he was indeed the one who did it, he couldn't accept that the ghost village found him by accident!
Isn't this an injustice to a good person
He can't stand this injustice!
[You took out your folding fan outside the village]
[You waved vigorously at the ancient village]
[A large river gushed out of the fan, and the river water washed away several dilapidated houses, and then flowed into the village, with a tendency to submerge the entire village.]
[Suddenly, the sky changed drastically]
[You hear the creepy cry of ghosts, and then see ghosts in red clothes emerging from the turbid river water]
[You can see that they hate you]
[You don’t go in]
They don't come out
[You stared at each other across the river at the entrance of the village]
[The atmosphere gradually becomes weird]
"Can't these ghosts leave the village?"
Wang Ran was curious.
[“Come here!”]
[You yelled loudly at the ghosts in the village]
[Ghosts rushed out of the village]
They tear you apart
[Simulation ends]
The corner of Wang Ran's mouth twitched.
It seems that the ghosts are not unable to leave the village, but are afraid of the God of Wealth and dare not act rashly.
"Even if they can't leave the village, it won't do me any good." Wang Ran thought, "I need to find that temple. I can't keep getting lost in the ghost village!"
what to do
How about asking someone else to find the ancient temple for him
[Start real-time simulation]
[The object of this simulation is Yiya]
[Yiya follows you to Gongger Peak]
She leaves the aircraft
[She follows your instructions to find the ancient temple that gave birth to the clay sculptures]
She found the ancient temple
[She discovered that the ancient temple was surrounded by a strong sense of resentment]
She entered the ancient temple
[She found a damaged clay sculpture]
[Simulation ends]
Sure enough, Guicun was only targeting him.
Yiya will not be affected.
"Surrounded by resentment..."
Now it is certain that the ancient temple he is looking for is here. The only problem is that as soon as he walks into the fog, he will be pulled away by the ghost village and there is no way for him to go to the ancient temple in person.
But if he couldn't go to the ancient temple in person, he wouldn't be able to convert the clay sculptures.
“Why do I keep getting lost?”
Wang Ran murmured.
Can't we fly the aircraft directly outside the ancient temple
This saves him from groping in the fog. As long as he doesn't run around in the fog, he shouldn't be taken away by the ghost village.
[Start real-time simulation]
[You try to land the aircraft near the ancient temple, but the aircraft's instruments malfunction as soon as it enters the fog, and it can only land near the vague coordinates]
[…]
[Simulation ends]
"This fog is not just a fog that contains spiritual energy!"
Wang Ran pondered, "After the spiritual energy revived, a natural formation that interfered with the operation of the instrument might have formed nearby."
"Array?"
Taoist Ji'an asked in confusion: "Are you talking about the formation?"
Wang Ran was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly realized that Taoist Ji'an might know something about this situation.
He asked, "There is a natural formation below. If the aircraft enters the fog, it will malfunction. What should we do in this situation?"
Taoist Ji'an was stunned for a moment.
Under Wang Ran's expectant gaze, he hesitated and said, "I'm not too sure. The spiritual energy has disappeared for too long, and I haven't studied this aspect."
Wang Ran was suddenly a little disappointed.
But Taoist Ji'an paused for a moment and then said, "If you want to avoid instrument failure, you don't need to break the formation. You can clear the fog around here..."
Wang Ran was stunned.
Empty the mist - will this work
Taoist Ji'an continued, "I have a palm leaf fan, the same one that Princess Iron Fan had in Journey to the West. You can try it."
Wang Ran's eyes lit up: "Is it the banana fan that can extinguish the Flame Mountain?"
Taoist Ji'an nodded.
He pulled out a two-meter-high broken fan from the brocade bag on his waist and whispered, "If that doesn't work, let's go back and get a few more ancient relics that have a suppressive effect."
"It shouldn't be difficult to just blow away the fog without breaking the formation."
He handed the palm-leaf fan to Wang Ran.
Wang Ran took the palm-leaf fan and looked at it carefully.
He found that the palm-leaf fan was so broken that it could hardly be called a fan. The area of the hole was larger than that of the fan blades, and its power must have been greatly reduced.
But it doesn't matter, he can fix it.
He rubbed his temples, enduring the headache left over from repairing the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, and used the [Heaven Repairing] skill on the banana fan.
The perfect artistic conception spreads.
The palm leaf fan emitted a bright white light, with a layer of light green spreading out with the fan ribs as the axis.
Two seconds later, Wang Ran had an unbearable headache.
He finished [Repairing the Sky].
Looking closely, all the small holes on the banana fan were repaired, leaving only a few palm-sized holes.
The holes still retained the force that had damaged the banana fan, and this force hindered [Repairing the Sky]. Otherwise, Wang Ran would have been able to completely repair the entire fan in just this one time.
Taoist Ji'an exclaimed: "You are indeed a saint!"
The reason why he took out the banana fan was because he had seen Wang Ran repairing the Immortal-Slaying Gourd on the plane before.
Although the banana fan was badly damaged, with a little repair, it could easily dispel the fog on Kongur Peak by exerting one tenth of its power as the fan in mythology that extinguished the Flaming Mountain.
Wang Ran started the simulation while holding a fan.
[Start real-time simulation]
[You control the aircraft to hover over Gongger Peak]
[You open the hatch]
You stepped out of the aircraft.
[You stand on the aircraft and raise the palm leaf fan]
[You swing hard]
[A turbulent wave of air gusts out from the banana fan]
[The fog has cleared]
You saw the ancient temple