Chapter 175: It was me?
"Calm down, be careful."
Jiang Xuan waved his hand and took the lead in taking a step forward, leading into the entrance of the valley. There were mountains on both sides of the entrance, like a narrow and dark canyon tunnel, with a thin "line" above his head, which was the sky.
This entrance is very strange.
The ancients said, "One man is the pass, but ten thousand men cannot open it." This valley is used to describe a very dangerous terrain. This valley has a bit of this meaning. The entrance is only more than one meter wide. If you stand here, you can roughly see that there is a valley opposite. The entrance can barely be two adults side by side, and one person can block it.
Since that monster is running away, why did it escape to such a dangerous place? Isn’t this seeking death?
Or is this a monster who is trapped in, is it that illusionist who wants to deliberately lead people like me here?
At this time, no matter what possibility it was, Jiang Xuan decided to find out.
The entrance is not very long. It is not so much a "canyon" as it is a thick "big stone door", four or five meters long in front, back and forth, and it passes through it in a few steps.
The door suddenly became clear.
A large grassland with flowers blooming, about half a football field, around it, there is no other outlet for the eyes, it is all mountain walls, and at the end a small waterfall hanging down from the cliff and falling into the valley.
The valley is full of extremely lush flowers and plants, and it looks like a cluster of flowers.
"My mom, what a big tree!" Chang Xiaotu rubbed her eyes and said in surprise.
There is indeed a big tree!
Following Chang's little rabbit's eyes, I saw a tree three or four stories tall in the middle of the valley.
In fact, if compared in the forest, this tree cannot be called a "towering tree". It is nothing more than an ordinary big tree. However, in this small valley where the overall area is not very large, with low shrubs, plants and flowers and plants everywhere, this tree standing in the middle gives people the feeling of the king of all things and the core of the world.
When anyone enters the valley and sees this tree, they will feel like Chang Xiaolu: What a big tree.
The big tree grows lush branches and leaves, and many branches are derived from the branches. Each branch has branches of all sizes. The leaves are lush, like a big umbrella, blocking the sky of most of the valley, as if all the creatures in the valley are thriving under the protection of the big trees.
"Director, Principal, I smell the demonic aura!" Gou Ritian sniffed and said confidently: "It was from that big tree!"
"I smelled it too!"
"Me too!"
Chang Xiaotu and Jiang Haru spoke at the same time.
"Hmm? Could it be a big tree monster?" Jiang Xuan was stunned.
What was the one who ran in front and attracted me to come here just now? The big tree would not move.
There is no prompt for discovering monsters in the space, and there is no information data such as Taoist practices.
"Be careful, that monster might be hidden in the tree!"
Jiang Xuan thought about it and took the lead in walking towards the big tree. Chang Xiaotu and Jiang Haru were behind him, showing a triangular formation. Gou Ritian opened the way in front and came to the big tree.
As I got closer, I saw it more clearly. The tree was actually much thicker than it was from a distance. I am afraid that the three of them could not hold it together. There were circles of spiral-like vines hovering on the tree, climbing upwards all the way.
"Climb up and take a look." Jiang Xuan looked up, and the layers of dense branches had completely blocked the sunlight, and he couldn't see clearly what was on it. However, the height of the trees was limited, so it was not dangerous for them. Even if they climbed to the highest level and jumped down at three or four floors, they might not be injured.
He lay down as soon as he said that the vines on the tree were like steps, which was very convenient to get up. Gou Ritian was still in a dog-like state, so Jiang Xuan asked him to stay under the tree, then took Chang Xiaotu and Jiang Haru, opened his hands and hugged the tree body, and slowly climbed up on the vines under his feet.
The nearest branch was only two or three meters away from the ground. After climbing along the vines for two or three circles, it entered the branches and leaves. Apart from the dead leaves, there was nothing unusual around it. There was a denser forest above my head. Jiang Xuan gestured to the Chang Xiaotu who was following behind, and then continued to climb upwards.
Strangely, Jiang Xuan felt a little tired when he was lying on his face. When he looked at his watch, he had been climbing for almost fifteen minutes.
"Why did it take so long?" Jiang Xuan was slightly stunned. The big tree looked three or four stories high from the outside. At their speed, they climbed to the top and stood for five minutes. But fifteen minutes passed. Not only did they not reach the top, but they looked up. The branches and leaves on their heads were still as dense as they were at the beginning, and they could not see the sunlight at all.
There was no sunshine around, and a large number of branches and leaves crossed together layer by layer, surrounding them.
"What's wrong, little rabbit, Jiang Jian, you guys go down first!" Jiang Xuan's heart skipped a beat and lowered his head and said to Chang Xiaotu.
It doesn’t matter, I was shocked when I saw it. It turned out that Jiang Jian and Chang Xiaotu who were following closely behind me were completely gone!
There were several barking sounds from below, as if Gou Ritian was calling.
"Little rabbit!"
"Ginger hard!"
Jiang Xuan shouted a few times, without any response, but a gust of wind came from the gap between the branches and leaves, and it was so cold that he felt that he was not on a tree that was only a few meters away from the ground, but on a cliff.
Well? Jiang Xuan was a little confused. Although Chang Xiaotu and Jiang Jian were both quite unique, they never lost their chains on big issues. How could they return without saying hello? Even if they returned, they should agree to it. Although there were branches and leaves around and they couldn't see the ground clearly, the height should be limited so that they would not be able to hear their shouts below.
Could it be that something strange?
Jiang Xuan shouted twice, but there was still no response from them under the tree. Only Gou Ritian's intermittent screams sounded far away.
I don’t know what happened, so I asked these two guys to go back without saying hello. Jiang Xuan looked up at the top and decided to go back to the ground for the time being, meet with Chang Xiaotu and the others, and then talk about it.
Holding the big tree, back down little by little.
But soon, Jiang Xuan truly realized that he had encountered a huge trouble that he had never had before!
Can't go back!
When I came up, I took a total of fifteen minutes to climb here, but after returning the same route, I didn’t return to the ground at all. Even the surrounding environment did not change, and it was still densely packed with branches and branches, and even the ground could not be seen.
A cold sweat broke out from his forehead. Could this be the legendary ghost hitting the wall?
But even if you hit a wall, you have to use the complex environment around you to create an illusion of direction. Simply put, you can't find the direction. However, the path of this big tree is only up and down. Although there are many branches around it, it cannot affect the direction. If you climb on the tree, you either face up or down, how can you get lost?
If they are lost, what about Chang Xiaotu and Jiang Jian? Are they also lost? If they are lost, the only possibility is that they are still under themselves.
But the tree is so tall that if they were below, they would have been to the ground long ago.
After calming down for a moment, he shouted at the tree again. This time, he didn't even have Gou Ritian's response.
"I still don't believe it!"
Jiang Xuan's face sank and continued to step on the vines and return downwards. This time he held the big tree and walked down for half an hour, but the situation did not change at all. He was still on the big tree, not reaching the sky or the ground.
Not only did the situation not change, Jiang Xuan himself also felt a burst of fatigue coming. Climbing trees was a bit exhausting, and his mind was always stimulating, and his physical energy consumption increased almost exponentially.
Holding the big tree, I stretched out my head and looked down, thinking that I would jump down, maybe I would land in the first place?
Through the dense branches under your feet, you can't see the ground and you can't tell how high it is. In other words, there are two other possibilities. If you jump, you may fall to death or be hung on the branches.
You can't act recklessly, it seems that you underestimated the enemy before.
There was a thick branch with two thighs together under his feet, which could barely sit on it. Jiang Xuan sat on it against the tree body, breathed a long breath, took out a loaf of bread and a bottle of water from his carry-on backpack, and started to eat it to replenish his energy.
Although he suddenly faced the big problem in front of him, Jiang Xuan did not feel too scared. The thick lines and nerves that had been tempered by dealing with various small monsters for a long time played a role at this time. He had become accustomed to unreasonable and strange things. Even if a big-headed ghost suddenly appeared in front of him, he would not be frightened and panicked.
The key is, what to do now!
I was caught, and I was sure of this. There are only two possibilities in the situation in front of me. First, the tree itself is strange, for example, it is a "magic weapon" with strange functions. The second situation is that I am waiting for others, and I am confused by the monster who knows illusion. Everything in front of me is actually illusion.
Illusion is not without lethality. On the contrary, if you are always in the illusion, there will be great danger. Not to mention anything else, time will not deceive people. If you are stuck here, you will have to starve to death after eating the food in your bag.
At this moment, a squirrel emerged from somewhere, stood in front of the branch where Jiang Xuan was, looked at him, then turned his head, stuck out his big butt, and ran towards the end of the branch.
Only then did Jiang Xuan notice that there seemed to be something at the end of the branch.
He crawled on the branches, crawled over little by little, and pulled away the branches and leaves in front of him. He saw a dry and dehydrated corpse hanging from the treetops, and an empty backpack hanging around his neck.
"So coincidental? I just thought I would starve to death, but I saw a guy who was starved to death? Huh? Why do you look so familiar?"
Jiang Xuan's scalp exploded.
He clearly saw that the body was wearing the same clothes as himself and carrying the same bag.
Chapter completed!