Chapter 656 Shi Zhonghe
Since the big tree is the base of the Optimus Jade Pillar, there must be a lot of Optimus Stones nearby. This is the best news since entering southern Xinjiang.
But then I thought about it, if there were a lot of Optimus Stones nearby, why would the Sirius Sect go to the Central Plains?
It is said that this thing has probably been rumored to an absurd degree over a long period of time, and its credibility is still questionable.
No matter what, it is good news to see that we are about to arrive at Baofeng Village. At least there must be an explanation for this long journey.
Ran Xiaoyi obviously came here not once or twice. He told the legend to others and immediately added: "Going over the hill in front of the big tree, you can see Baofeng Village, but there are Baofeng Village everywhere. There are people in Fengzhai, so we have to wait until nightfall to enter easily. "
"Then how should we go in? Change into their clothes?"
Apart from anything else, the appearance of people from the Central Plains is quite different from that of people from southern Xinjiang. It’s hard to blend in just by changing clothes.
"Because the roots of the big trees go deep into the ground, there are many secret passages around here. I know a few of them that can lead directly to Baofeng Village. We can sneak in and investigate."
Aren't you from Qingzhu Village?
How do you know the secret passage of Baofeng Village?
"I used to take the secret passage to see my sister. I hope they didn't seal the secret passage."
Wu Zhu is very special in a southern Xinjiang village. Especially when he has not fully taken over Wu Zhu's responsibilities, he will not leave the village easily and will not meet outsiders, even if the outsider is his biological sister.
So when Baofengzhai invited Ran Xiaoyi's sister away, she and her sister could only communicate through letters. If they wanted to meet, they couldn't do it openly and had to go through secret passages.
The people in Baofengzhai also knew that they were the ones who actually told Ran Xiaoyi about the secret path. After all, rules are dead and people are alive, as long as they don't violate them on the surface.
Speaking of her sister, Ran Xiaoyi had a worried look on her face again. Her sister's recent abnormal behavior made her very uneasy. During this period, she had hoped to meet her several times, but she was rejected.
But don't be in a hurry, you have to wait until after dark to take the secret passage.
"Let's take a rest here and eat something."
Everyone dispersed and found a place to sit down and rest.
When it comes to eating, this is what makes these people in Zhongyuan most uncomfortable.
When people from the Central Plains go out, they always carry dry food with them, such as dry flour cakes, dry steamed buns, and occasionally dried meat and fruits.
Not tasty, but okay.
When people in southern Xinjiang go out, they either have rice cakes that they can't bite, or they just bring a bag of rice and find some bamboo to use as cooking utensils to cook rice in bamboo tubes.
I definitely can't light a fire now, so I can only bite the hard rice cakes.
As for dried meat and the like, there are indeed some.
They like to carry dried lizards that are pickled and air-dried from a kind of lizard. But for the Central Plains people to eat this stuff, you really need to be mentally prepared.
Most of the time, people don’t dare to eat it anyway.
The same goes for Yang Yiyi. She holds the rice cake and chews it. From time to time, she picks up the water bag and pours it into her mouth. At this time, she begins to miss the spicy hotpot base given by Li Chengqi...
The products of the modern food industry can beat all ancient craftsmanship. Energy density, nutritional content, and the most direct taste are not what Yang Yiyi's productivity can achieve.
Not to mention anything else, the spices alone are enough to make the spicy hot pot base a tribute.
But Li Chengqi couldn't take out a self-heating hot pot for her at this time, right?
After a simple lunch, Yang Yiyi had good teeth and ate the fastest. She got up and walked around to digest.
At this time, there was a loud bang from the distance. At first, everyone thought it was going to rain again, but when they looked up, there were no dark clouds in the sky. "Look at the top of the mountain! It's on the left!"
Everyone looked in the direction pointed by Wu Shaoyi and saw that the mountain peak on the left side of the field of vision was rolling down the slope, crushing all the trees blocking the road.
At this time, the rumbling explosion entered everyone's ears. The soil and rocks were like an avalanche, and most of the mountain was about to slide down.
But this side is safe and cannot be affected.
Everything was fine, and it wasn't raining. How could there be a landslide?
Everyone was a little surprised, but they didn’t pay too much attention until Qin Yan said:
"Look at the bottom of the mountain. Is there anyone there?"
Through the gaps in the shade of the trees, you can really see a group of human-like shadows. The shadows are refracted to the cliff on the other side through diffuse reflection, so you can see them.
The figure was panicking and seemed to be running around.
If you look carefully, you will find that the buns of those figures look like the style of the Central Plains people.
"Maybe it's Sister Ning and the others! Let's go and take a look!"
When she thought that Ning Xian'er might have investigated the area near Baofeng Village, Yang Yiyi became anxious at that moment. She ran out quickly and disappeared under the cover of vegetation.
The others were a step slower, but followed immediately.
Following the direction of the landslide, they quickly passed through the mountain forest. At this time, on the side of the mountain, everyone saw an oversized crab poking at the top of the landslide, and it was constantly throwing dirt and rocks down like lying on the sand.
It's a big crab!
This landslide is definitely not an accident!
Thinking of this, everyone became even more anxious. Could it be that they were really using mudslides to deal with the martial arts people near Baofeng Village?
Everyone quickened their pace and rushed out of the woods quickly.
At this time, they came to a natural stone bridge, which spanned a river valley created by water flow. However, one end of the river valley was a dead end, and the other end was being blocked by a mudslide.
The valley is hundreds of feet high, like a knife cutting an axe, going straight up and down. The shadow I saw before is reflected on the rock wall on one side of the valley.
The owner of the shadow, on the other side of the field of vision, was quickly escaping from the impact of the mudslide. Although his face could not be seen clearly, it was true that all of them were dressed as Central Plains people.
The good news is that, as of now, the mudslide cannot catch up with the Qinggong of this group of people. After all, the mudslide is caused by giant crabs, and the scale is not that big.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and planned to find a place to go and ask questions later.
But at this moment Ran Xiaoyi suddenly said: "It's broken, now is the flood season, and the Shizhong River will open at this time."
Ran Xiaoyi's words made the original Jianghu people in the surrounding circle wonder, what is Shizhonghe?
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard another explosion, coming from behind.
Everyone turned around following the sound and saw that at the end of the dead end of the river valley, the rock wall suddenly exploded, and a huge stream of water spurted out. Under the impact of the water flow, the cracks expanded rapidly, and more and more water poured in, like The dam breaks.
Now, they know what Shi Zhonghe is.
The terrain of southern Xinjiang is complex, with waterways crisscrossing it. This complexity is not just about the mountains and water it seems on the surface.
Year-round rainstorms have left caves and underground rivers everywhere in southern Xinjiang.
The Shizhong River that Ran Xiaoyi mentioned is a river that only appears whenever southern Xinjiang enters a period of abundant rain.
To put it simply, rainwater enters the ground. As a result, there is too much rainwater, and it will spurt out of the stone at this time.
It's roughly like it's raining so hard that the city's sewer system is flooding up with rainwater.
——It’s a bit disgusting to say that.
(End of chapter)