White Bone Monkey King

There is no rain on the mountain road, the sky is green and people's clothes are wet.

The poetic meaning is probably——

It had not rained on the mountain path, but the green mountain color was so thick that it seemed to wet people's clothes.

There is a lot of humidity in the mountains. Not long after the four people from Jin'an entered the mountains, their clothes were soaked by the humidity in the mountains.

Jin'an was okay, as the fire and poison in his body, the Black Mountain Gong, evaporated, and the moisture evaporated from his clothes, turning them dry again.

The old Taoist priest and Guard Li were quite exhausted.

One is an ordinary person.

One is a fat, greasy man.

The clothes were almost wet.

The two of them had a feeling of being trapped in the world, and they followed Jin An and Xiejian in sympathy. They were so tired that they were wet and a little embarrassed. They didn't know whether they were sweating from exhaustion or soaked by the moisture in the mountains.

Because the old Taoist priest, a veteran Taoist priest, was here, several people carried the old Taoist priest's secret repellent pills with them and shuttled through the dense forest, but they were not harassed by mosquitoes, leeches, or poisonous insects.

However, Jin An and the others now encountered a difficult problem.

The mountains were covered with shrubs and dense forests. Jin'an and the others were lost. They had been wandering around in the mountains for a long time and still couldn't find the hanging road.

Although there is guidance from brothers Sun Ping.

But Jin'an and the others are outsiders.

It was the first time to enter the Wushanling Mountains.

People's direction perception in the mountains is poor, and a small deviation may lead to the harder they work on the wrong road, the more mistakes they make. It is not uncommon to accidentally take a fork in the road.

"Old Taoist, you guys wait for me where you are. I'll find a high place and identify our current location in the mountains."

After Jin An finished speaking, the man quickly jumped up to the crown of the tallest ancient tree nearby like a monkey in the sky.

When Jin'an rushed up to the tree crown, a large number of birds started flying in the nearby quiet mountain forest, covering the sky and the sun.

I actually heard a few tiger roars.

The clock of creation is beautiful, and the yin and yang cut off the dawn. Zeng Yun is born in the chest, and the returning bird enters the canthus. You will be at the top of the mountain, and you will have a panoramic view of the mountains.

From a high position, you can overlook the boundless green forest below.

Jin An felt excited, thinking that the artistic conception in the poem could not be better than this.

Jin'an, who was agitated in his heart, jumped like a light dragon on the tree crown, his figure was elegant and free and easy, stepping on the mountain forest clouds and mist at his feet, like a Taoist master in the mountains soaring in the clouds and mist, rising and falling on the tree crown, leaping two or three miles away, then Hear the sound of rushing water.

After flying another mile, we finally saw the tributary of the Yinyi River flowing through the mountains.

This tributary flows from top to bottom, pouring down from the mountains and rivers, and finally merges into the main road of the Yinyi River. It is one of several important water sources of the Yinyi River.

After touching about half a stick of incense, Jin An turned back and continued on his way with the others.

According to the guidance of brothers Sun Ping, they said that after entering the mountain, they should first find this tributary of the Yinyi River, and then follow this river upstream.

When I saw a dead tree that was struck by lightning, I started walking towards the back of the sun. After a while, I could see the hanging road.

Because brothers Sun Ping and Zhao Youcai had followed Taoist Tiejuan and entered the mountains many times and were already familiar with the mountain environment, it might only take them half a day to get there.

But for Jin An and the others, who were visiting Jinshan Town for the first time, it took them most of a day to finally find the Hanging Road.

When he saw the cliff road standing on the mountain wall like a miraculous workmanship, the old Taoist priest's legs, which were already old, trembled.

"It is said that businessmen are only interested in profit. I don't know how those traveling businessmen in the past had the courage to discover this shortcut to Cangshan Mansion."

"Little brother, do you think such a cliff-like mountain road is really formed naturally by miraculous craftsmanship? Or was it dug out by traveling businessmen themselves?"

Jin An did not immediately accept the old Taoist priest's words.

He first looked up at the sky above him.

There are lush shrubs in the mountains, and the canopies of the trees are spread out, blocking out the sky and the sun. The sky in the mountains gets darker earlier than outside. It is groggy in the mountains, but the sun has not yet set outside.

Then, with Jin An taking the lead to explore the road, a group of four people began to walk on the suspended road.

The order of the teams is Jin An, Old Taoist, Li Huwei, and Chi Jian.

The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs was protected in the middle of the team.

After walking onto the cliff road, Jin An answered the old Taoist priest's question: "In my opinion, this suspended road should be half naturally formed and half dug by the villagers of Taoyuan Village themselves."

"I don't know how many years ago, before Taoyuan Village became a headless village, it should have been a village full of living people. The ancestors of these people fled into the mountains and forests to avoid the war."

"After hiding from the world for a long time, the descendants must be eager to get out of the mountains... So generations of people worked hard, like Foolish Old Man moving mountains, to gradually widen the steep cliff road on the steep mountain wall little by little, and later this hanging road was created."

The reason why Jin An said this was because he saw several traces of artificial excavation on this cliff road, which were not naturally formed after weathering of the mountain.

Examples of artificially carved mountain roads like the one mentioned by Jin An were common in ancient times when traffic was limited, and it was not unusual.

Jin An pointed to several artificial excavation marks on the cliff road and then continued to walk forward: "It's just that I don't know what happened later. Everyone in the village died. Maybe it was because the village was too closed. , intermarriage among relatives led to the extinction of the entire village; or perhaps other special events led to the extinction..."

"However, I prefer the latter."

As I walked, I realized that when I reached the middle section, the cliff road became more and more difficult to walk because the mountain became more complicated, and the slope became more and more steep.

The old Taoist priest was afraid of heights and did not dare to look down at his feet. He wished he could lie down on the sloping mountain wall like a gecko.

But as the cliff road becomes more and more difficult, it often takes a long time to move five steps or one foot. The old Taoist priest couldn't help but lower his head and glance at the cliff at his feet. His legs went weak and he almost lost his grip. The prison cliff fell, but fortunately Jin An had quick eyesight and quick hands to stabilize the old Taoist priest in time.

"Old Taoist, since you are afraid of heights, don't lower your head and look at your feet. The more you look at your feet, the more afraid of heights you will become." Jin An comforted him.

"My mother, little brother, you said that people who are afraid of heights always have the urge to jump down when standing on high places? I was scared to death just now. Thanks to you, little brother, for giving me a hand. Otherwise, Little brother, you have to wait another eighteen years before you can see me again."

The old Taoist priest said with lingering fear.

Jin An continued to walk ahead to explore the road and explained casually: "People have the subconscious mind to seek good luck and avoid disaster. When people are at high altitudes and look down at the ground below, their subconscious mind will tell us that it is dangerous to stand at high places and we should leave immediately. In dangerous heights, it is safest to put your feet on the ground immediately.”

"So when people stand on high places, they always have the urge to jump down."

After listening to Jin An's words, the old Taoist's face became even more bitter: "This is not down-to-earth. I think the old Taoist will fall to the ground and turn into a pulp."

"In the end, the tigers and beasts in the mountains turned into excrement."

Jin An nodded in agreement, but did not refute the old Taoist priest's words: "This seems to be called visual deviation?"

"So sometimes what you see is not necessarily what you believe. You have to learn to judge by yourself."

In order to distract the old Taoist priest from looking down at his feet, Jin An chatted with the old Taoist priest along the way to distract the latter.

The patter--

The slanting wind mixed with drizzle, and it actually started raining in the mountains.

The rain came and dissipated quickly, and soon it cleared up again.

The weather in the mountains is like this.

Sometimes it's sunny and sometimes it's rainy, it's unpredictable.

After the rain, the mountain road became more slippery and dangerous. Jin An shouted to watch your step. After being more careful, he led the way more cautiously.

Fortunately, there was only a short section of the cliff road with a steep slope. The four of them quickly bypassed this section, and the rest of the road became smooth again.

Of course.

The smooth road here is only compared to the most dangerous road before.

Even though the road is smooth, it is still narrow and difficult to walk, and rocks fall from time to time overhead.

"Taoist Master Jin'an, do you think the villagers in Taoyuan Village were walking on this mountain road and their heads were hit by rocks falling from the mountain above them, and their heads were opened and red, so they turned into headless corpses? "

Guard Li, who was walking second to last in the team, said on a whim.

"Don't tell me, I really think it's possible."

The more Li Huwei thought about it, the more he felt that he was getting smarter and smarter. This might be very possible.

Li Huwei is also a martial arts practitioner, so this cliff road is quite easy for Li Huwei, who has a steady foot.

It was his big belly that made him suffer. The cliff road was narrow and difficult to walk on. When he was lying on his belly and walking on that steep slope, a large piece of cloth was worn out, exposing his belly and being blown away by the mountain wind. chilly.

The old Taoist priest who was originally afraid of heights was amused by Li Huwei's words: "The villagers in Taoyuan Village must be out of their minds. They are lined up waiting to be hit by falling rocks, and the falling rocks hit them impartially. Hit someone in the head.”

Li Huwei actually thought seriously: "Maybe they really have something evil in their minds, and they are lined up waiting to be hit by falling rocks?"

The patter--

As soon as Li Huwei finished speaking, it started to rain rapidly in the mountains not long after it had cleared up.

Guard Li was shocked.

"As soon as you talk about being possessed by an evil spirit, it will rain immediately. Isn't this rain an evil rain?"

But the rain soon stopped again.

Finally, before dark, the group of four successfully walked out of the cliff road. They were safe and sound along the way.

Didn't encounter any accidents.

Didn't even come across Headless Village.

The cliff road is halfway up the mountain. Standing on the mountainside and looking at the vast mountain forest under the setting sun, you can see the lush forest sea as far as the eye can see, and there is no trace of a village at all.

If you can't find Taoyuan Village even if you stand at a high place, then you can find Taoyuan Village after going down the mountain. Once you lose the advantage of overlooking the high ground, you will have no way to find it.

Next, several people changed to several different positions, overlooking the vast forest sea below, but still found nothing.

On the contrary, after such a delay, the sky became darker and darker.

When darkness fell at night, it was no longer suitable to look for a village. There was no way to leave, so we had to find a place with leeward wind to spend the night.

Finally, they found a leeward place, where a large protrusion of rock formed a naturally formed concave wall. If it rained again in the mountains, they could just use the rocks above them to keep out the rain.

After finishing all this work, the sky and the earth had completely darkened, and the mountains and forests were quiet. It was pitch black in the distance, and only blurry black shadows could be seen.

In the mountain forest after dark, howling ape cries one after another in the darkness, as if a man-eating mandrill is looking for food in the world with its blue eyes.

Crackling.

Under the rock, a few people lit a bonfire with firewood collected by them.

A few people sat around the bonfire, baking dry food. In the silence of the night, Jin An asked Li Weiwei to tell the story about Wutou Village again, which was the story of the group of traveling businessmen who accidentally broke into Wutou Village.

This time he asked Guard Li to tell the story carefully and not to miss any details. Perhaps from the story of the traveling merchants, he could find clues on how to enter the Headless Village.

Anyway, the dry food was hard and not yet warmed up, so Li Wewei, who was bored, told the story he told last time.

Unexpectedly, when Li Huwei finished telling the story and was about to eat dry food, Jin An asked Li Huwei to tell it again.

"?"

Li Huwei looked at the dry food in his hand because he wanted to eat but couldn't. In the end, he failed to refute Jin An and repeated his story.

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Jin An: "Tell it again."

Guard Li: "?"

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Jin An: "Tell it again."

Guard Li: "!"

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Jin An: "Tell it again."

Guard Li was desperate.

He screamed, and this time he didn't care about anything. He was so hungry and anxious that he wolfed down the baked sesame seed cakes in his hands, and then told the story again in a vague voice.

At this time, even the old Taoist priest looked at Jin An suspiciously.

When Jin An tormented Li Weifei like this, he was certainly not just playing tricks on others out of boredom. He always had the illusion that he had an idea but couldn't catch it.

It always felt like there were some important details that he had overlooked.

That's why he repeated it over and over again.

And just now, he finally figured out what he had overlooked.

Jin An suddenly stood up.

Walk out of the leeward rock shelter from the rain.

He stood on the edge of the cliff, frowning and looking at the dark mountain forest where nothing could be seen at his feet.

Then he looked up at the sky.

The expression on his face was thoughtful.

"What's wrong little brother?"

"Have you made any key discoveries?"

At this time, the old Taoist priest, Li Huwei, and Xiejian all came over with concern.

Jin An pondered: "I have indeed made some discoveries, but it is just a conjecture at the moment and needs to be verified."

"I wonder if you still remember a detail? The headless village only appears during the rainy season; the day when the group of traveling merchants encountered the headless village happened to be a rainy day; and it had just rained the day before yesterday. Last night, the Tiejuan Roadmaster and the others entered Shan found the headless bodies of the Wang brothers..."

"rain."

"Rain is the key."

Jin An looked up at the sky, waiting for rain.

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Hua Hua——

Hua Hua Hua——

In the second half of the night, a rapid heavy rain came just as soon as it was said to come. Raindrops as big as soybeans pattered on the mountain wall. The wind blew quickly and the rain came quickly.

Fortunately, Jin'an and the others found a ledge in the lee to spend the night under a rock in advance, so the bonfire was not extinguished by the rain.

As soon as he saw the rain, Jin An's eyes narrowed. He did not fall asleep but kept vigilant all night. He walked out of the big stone that blocked the rain as soon as possible.

A magical scene happened. The rainwater falling on Jin An instantly evaporated into light smoke.

Jin'an's body is covered with a layer of protective gas that looks like a black shirt and contains high-temperature, fire-toxic internal gas.

The fire poison's inner energy was shaped like black fire and the cloth covered Jin An's body.

Once the outside rain comes within an inch of you, all the fire poisonous inner energy in the black clothes will evaporate into water mist. From a distance, Jin An, wearing a five-color Taoist robe, looks like an ethereal immortal who lives in seclusion in the mountains and forests and feeds on the five energies. .

At this time, Chi Jian also followed the master out of the shelter from the rain.

The whole body of Chi Jian is dry, and the rain from the outside can't get close to Chi Jian either.

However, Li Huwei and the old Taoist priest chased him out holding oilcloth umbrellas.

"Taoist Jin'an and Taoist Chen, come and see, there seems to be a village fire for cooking?"

Suddenly, Guard Li from the other direction shouted in surprise.

A few people came over to take a look, and sure enough, they saw a village at the foot of the mountain with sparks shining brightly and dimly, like the flames rising from a stove in a kitchen.

Is that Taoyuan Village?

"Little brother, now that Taoyuan Village has been found, should we go there now, or wait until daytime?"

The old Taoist priest's question immediately made everyone present look at Jin An.

Unknowingly, Jin An is the backbone of this team, and everyone is waiting for Jin An to make up his mind.

Snap!

A footsteps broke the rainy night. In this rainy night with cold wind and rain, the quilt was cold and the pillow was cold, it sounded very suddenly, and instantly interrupted the conversation of several people.

The footsteps came from the direction of the hanging road behind him.

"Hey, was I hallucinating just now? I seemed to hear footsteps behind us?"

Li Weiwei looked behind him in surprise.

But as Li Huowei looked behind him in surprise, the footsteps disappeared out of thin air, so Li Huowei wondered if he was hearing something.

At the same time, Li Huwei was surprised to find that the rain above his head had stopped at some point.

But not long after the mountains were silent, the footsteps came again, empty and far away in the dark, calm and invisible mountains.

Snap!

Snap!

Jin An's eyes were as bright as lightning, and he stared directly at the road behind him without flinching.

At this time, even the old Taoist priest nervously put his hand into the Tai Chi Bagua bag that he had put on his shoulder, holding a large number of yellow talismans in his hand.

On the other hand, Chi Jian still has that taciturn and dumb look. If you don't take the initiative to poke him, he will be too lazy to move.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, in the dark night, Jin An saw a small cluster of flames beating in the dark void in the dark depths in the distance.

Sometimes it comes on and sometimes it goes out.

Like rootless duckweed in the wind and rain.

It seemed like it was about to overturn at any moment.

The flames floating in the void are getting closer and closer, and the footsteps are getting closer and closer. In the mysterious and unknown darkness, something seems to be about to burst out.

A thin middle-aged man wearing a five-color Taoist robe, holding a torch, walked out of the darkness of the mountain.

"Hey, is there anyone else on Xuankong Road late at night?"

"I wonder what the donors call them? I am Yuyouzi, a Taoist priest from Wu Zang Taoist Temple. I heard that there is a village in the mountains called Taoyuan Village. I have been looking for Taoyuan Village in the mountains. I wonder if any of the donors have heard of where Taoyuan Village is. ?”

No one expected this scene. Looking at the Taoist priest in five-colored robes who appeared on the cliff road late at night, an electric current rushed up to the forehead along the tailbone, and the hair on the arms exploded. Jin An, the old Taoist priest, and Li Huwei were all stunned.

Taoist Yuyouzi was stunned when he looked at Jin An, who was also wearing a five-color Taoist robe.