Abyss Express

Foreword:

Life is the sound of nature, you need to listen attentively.

——Wang Xiaobo

Sanwanli Post is a transliteration. It was originally the name of a hunting sage in Saladin Town, called [Sanfansy·Sanfansi]. This Turkish name was difficult to translate into other languages. Later, the translators of the Secret Library simply used Thirty thousand miles refers to the distance between the outpost and the civilized world.

Like Xueming, Belloberg, who used to be introverted and quiet, but specialized in killing people, suddenly became cheerful and outgoing, which made the owner feel very strange.

This naughty sword spirit explained the cause and effect to Xueming——

[——Utensils are like cages. If you put me back in, of course I won’t be able to speak. ]

[Stone is the most motherly thing in the world. I am the flesh that fell from the Mimir giant. I am part of the original seed. I am the soul fire and elves that burst out from the corpse of the underground god. When I change from tool to runestone, I can speak. ]

At this time, Xueming had already started to pack up his mountaineering equipment. According to Teacher Luca’s instructions, he wanted to explore the mountain in the cold winter. The Belloberg soul in his hand was incomplete. According to Teacher Luca’s description, there were many places around the Elf Holy Land. There are many ruins of super ancient civilizations, and this kind of rune stone is not a rare thing.

[Gunsmith, gunsmith, gunsmith! ]

Xueming didn't reply and concentrated on arranging the ropes and ice picks. Discussing the route into the mountains with wolf brother Oscar.

This road is much more difficult than the winding mountain road. First, you have to go deep into the canyons and deep streams, and then find another way through the complex caves. This is the road carved out by the earliest pioneers in Saladin Town, and it is the route hundreds of years ago.

After Mr. Luca learned the whole story of the gunsmith's fake death, he did not tell Oscar the news. Just explain to Oscar why the priest went into the mountain during the hunting season. In the opinion of old Mr. Luca, the less people know about the spirit of Beloberg, the better. This sword spirit is a good partner of the gunsmith and the sharp blade used by the nameless to kill demons. If it works with the engineering team of the hunting group, When digging for cultural relics together, there will always be someone like Maguire who is possessed by spirits.

Oscar has stayed in Saladin for so many years, and has not had the sense of adventure for a long time. Every mission is done according to the script and the process. No matter how difficult the level is, there are engineering equipment to open the way - the adventure gene in this big wolf's bones has already begun. He screamed, and without waiting for Teacher Luka's request, he immediately agreed to the trip.

The two came to the southwest side of Saladin Town, which is also the spring of an abandoned geyser. It has a history of more than 400 years and has supported more than ten generations of Saladin people. If you go back further, the mayor's wife also After drinking the spring water here, and walking about 300 meters further, you can see the increasingly narrow and crowded rocks.

Between the cold mountain walls, there are round and hard stalactite caves. This is another path to the Elf Holy Land. The ancients discovered this path when they were exploring mountains and looking for water.

[Gunsmith! Gunsmith! Gunsmith! ! ! ah! ! ! ]

The sword spirit began to scream noisily, and without Xueming's response, it turned its master's mind upside down.

"I don't like to talk nonsense." Jiang Xueming leaned on the side of the path, observing the pattern of the dark path. He opened his thick cold mask and felt the wind direction. "You decide quickly. The wind here is too cold. I won't be able to drive it later." Mouth."

[Aren't you curious at all? Aren't you curious about my past? ]

"I'm not very curious about my wife's past, who do you think she is?" Xueming was very indifferent. It was like this damn weather. I really don't know how he could say such a thing with a body temperature of 36.5 degrees.

[I was shattered to pieces in Shinto City! You didn't protect me well! When I came back here, I was thinking about finding a good friend. Maguire is very good and he treats me like a treasure! They carefully take care of me every day, just in case I feel uncomfortable or unhappy. ]

[How could you do this? Didn't you even say an apology? ]

Jiang Xueming: "I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, I'm really embarrassed."

[Um.]

Oscar asked in confusion: "Who are you talking to?"

"The Spirit of Beloberg." Jiang Xueming didn't mean to avoid it. Brother Lang had long known about the existence of this sword spirit.

Oscar: "What happened to you?"

Jiang Xueming: "It's unhappy and wants to go back to Maguire."

[Um? Uh huh huh? ! uh-huh? ! ]

Jiang Xueming: "I wanted it to stop being so angry. I apologized to it and all I had to do was kneel down."

[Okay then! I forgive you! You walk first, and when you can speak and your chest no longer hurts, we can have a good chat. ]

"Thank God." Jiang Xueming got into the narrow path, while Brother Lang walked behind -

——Oscar is huge and cannot lead the way, otherwise the tragedy of the cave in the shelter will happen again, and he will get stuck between the caves again.

Walking more than four hundred meters toward the cave, the terrain became lower and lower, and the space above Xueming's head became narrow and cramped. The big wolf had to lie sideways on the wall of the cave and slowly wriggle. Fortunately, the cave has no intention of continuing to narrow. There are four forked roads in the middle, all of which have traces of artificial excavation. It seems that lapis lazuli was also used in ancient expedition teams. In order to allow reliable wolf-dog companions to pass through these caves, people specially widened them. The cave.

After exploring the remaining three forks one by one, there was a natural hot spring, which has now turned into a blackened quagmire. The volcanic activity made it look dirty and smelly, with the pungent smell of sulfur. The two rested here for a while. , walked around the hot springs, and found only a few depressions that were barely suitable for shelter and rest. These were the places where ancient expedition teams slept. These pits could have released geothermal heat very well, but now it burns your feet to step on them with hiking boots.

Going back to explore the other two forked roads, Xueming's luck was not very good and he chose almost all the wrong answers. One of the two forked roads was an artificially bred bat nest. The ancient expedition team was short of food, so they took this Hundreds of wind holes were dug out in the caves, mushrooms and vegetation were cultivated in the holes, and rats were raised to eat. Over time, the food chain has been updated, and now it has become a sixty cubic meter bat cave.

Another branch of the road leads to a branch of the geyser that draws water. There are dozens of cracks here. Under the cracks are pools built by masons, which are now useless as the geysers have dried up.

Going further in, Xueming has to crawl on the ground. This is the most difficult and narrowest road, which is a circular hole with no way to turn back. Teacher Luka did not provide this part of the map. It has been too long. Neither expeditions nor hunting parties have ever set foot on this old road.

Brother Lang followed Xueming, and halfway up the climb he couldn't even bend his arms and legs.

He cursed: "Are you sure it's this way? It's like fucking coming out of your mother's womb."

Jiang Xueming: "I'm sure, Teacher Luka said that all the information about the old road has been destroyed. There have been many brave explorers before who came to challenge this road after being full and full - abandoning the modern tools of mountain cable cars and transportation teams. , came to test his physical fitness. Of course, accidents occurred frequently, which caused a lot of trouble for the rescue team. In the following decades, Saladin's chief secretary destroyed part of the old road information year by year. As time went by, no one remembered this road. The way to go."

[The way to eliminate urban legends is to make people forget about them, so no one comes to seek death. ]

"It's almost the end." Xueming's clothes were stained with a lot of bird droppings, which meant that the exit was right in front of him.

The air outside was getting colder and colder, and the sound of the wind was getting louder and louder. This made Xueming alert. As soon as he poked his head out of the dark hole, he immediately asked Brother Lang to stop.

"Stop going forward! Oscar!"

The thick gloves suddenly pressed into the empty space. Jiang Xueming was shocked, and his body fell solidly against the rock wall.

There was actually no road outside the cave. Just now, I hung my right arm on the edge of the cliff and pushed out a few stones. It took six seconds to hear the sound of the stones falling to the ground. Looking down, I saw a dark mountain stream with no place to stand.

Xueming turned on his headlight and took a closer look. The cliff beside the mountain stream had a 70-degree slope. There was originally a road, but the cold weather caused thick ice to cover the road.

Xueming took out the ice ax from his backpack: "Wait a moment, Brother Lang, please wait a moment, don't be impatient."

This difficulty can't stop Xueming. He once hung on the rock for several hours during Kangqiao Johnny's ambush plan. Now his body is stronger and he should be able to continue moving forward.

"Grab one of my legs, Oscar, and crawl forward."

Oscar: "Okay!"

Slowly, Xueming pulled his body out of the chrysalis, and knocked the manuscript repeatedly in the frozen rock formations, first knocking off broken ice, and then knocking it into the stronger ice and rock. Little by little, he lifted his body from the upside down state. Return to normal, and finally lie down on the edge of the cliff.

Oscar was much more powerful. He stretched out his four claws and slid on the cliff for more than ten meters before stopping, and just clinging to the cliff.

Xueming was worried about Oscar's safety at first, until he heard the noise of frightened birds flapping their wings, and Oscar's call.

"Is it powerful? Is it powerful, Brother Wolf?"

"Wow." Jiang Xueming responded.

The process of conquering nature is simply a kind of enjoyment. Life is the sound of nature, and you need to listen attentively.

They did not place a safety rope, and the ice on the cliff was unreliable. Even in the stalactite cave, there was no stable anchor point to drill the nails into, so crawling back slowly was the most reliable option.

Jiang Xueming kept breathing evenly and lowered his body bit by bit with a pickaxe. After more than an hour, he reached the bottom of the valley safely.

This is the starting point of the Elf Holy Land. If you look behind you, the iron cable bridge swaying in the strong wind has become the only road connecting the civilized world. Then follow the winding mountain roads and various cableways, passing through caves and hills, all the way. More than 140 kilometers away is Spinach Highland.

You can see that the lighthouses in many settlements are still shining - during the hunting ban period, there are still skilled and bold hunters living in the settlements. These people like to stay in the wilderness, and Saladin is too much for them. noisy.

Walking towards the front of the mountain stream, there is an increasingly wider Yangguan Avenue.

Oscar stepped on the soft bird droppings, his headlight shining on the moss and weeds on both sides of the road, and he turned around from time to time to ask the priest to be careful. Brother Wolf is introducing the customs and customs of the Elf Holy Land.

"We call this place the feeding site."

"Large birds like the golden eagle griffon will throw hard-to-kill prey into the cliff, and then come down to find food."

As he spoke, he avoided the sharp bone remains, among which were those of wild beasts, and many unlucky pathfinders were buried in their mouths.

"Last time I saw Ako and Aki, they were fighting for food underground."

Xueming asked confused: "Ake and Aji?"

"I gave them names for the two human-faced eagles." Brother Lang said without looking back. "Last year, these two stupid birds ate fluorescent grass and were poisoned so much that they flew around in the sky. They asked the hunter to shoot them twice. Come down and prepare to send it to the kitchen."

"Oh, by the way, fluorescent grass is also the staple food of balloon scorpions. The leaves of this grass have an anesthetic effect. Balloon scorpions are either born with toxicity or rely on eating grass to arm themselves."

"I told the people in the kitchen at that time, you can't eat this, something will happen if you eat it."

"I named the two eagle birds and released them. When I went into the mountain the next day, I saw them fighting for a chimera - a species that has not yet been named, with a tiger head and a body, and antlers. Bull’s eyes, weird sutures, anything that’s hard to define are called chimeras.”

"This scourge must have been killed by a more powerful hunter and thrown from the cliff. At that time, Akko and Aki were tearing apart its internal organs. Their beaks could hardly peck out the fur, so they cut out the guts. The wounds in the broken belly began to peck.”

"Wait a minute."

Halfway through Brother Lang's story, he asked Xueming to stop.

There is a vacuum zone on one side of the mountain stream. Unlike the complex environment of flowers, grass, soil and food remains, this place is very clean.

"We've arrived at Kukuka's territory."

Xueming: "What is it?"

"It's like a mole, but much more ferocious." Brother Lang lowered his voice, hunched over and carefully pulled Xueming forward.

On both sides of this relatively clean valley road, there are dozens of dry and clean stone caves. There are many pink petals around the stone caves as decorations, and a layer of fine sand is drying next to the caves.

Brother Lang continued: "Kukuka is a kind of social rodent. They live in groups and love to be clean. They dare to hunt in groups when they see creatures larger than them. It is best not to provoke them."

"The sand in front of the door is the bathhouse they use to clean their bodies."

"They don't eat carrion, and they set their nests at the bottom of the valley because of them."

Before he finished speaking, a scream of "Kukuka" came from a cave.

Xueming immediately covered his ears. The sound could almost tear his eardrums——

——This kind of sound wave oscillates back and forth in the mountain stream, and the valley becomes the best mixing space.

A huge mole about 120 centimeters long climbed out of the cave. It had a red nose and two bright black eyes. When it saw humans, it stood upright and spread its claws. Demonstrations and persecution. The throat suddenly swelled, and a fierce wind blew out of the mouth.

"Kukuka!!!——"

The powerful sonic attack also made Oscar go into a trance. Seeing that the big rats in other caves were about to crawl out and roar a few times, if ordinary Homo sapiens suffered such a disaster, they might really be killed by these fifty or so moles. Roaring and fainting, he was finally dragged into the cave and eaten.

Before long, Brother Lang took out a purple-red pottery doll from his pocket. This doll looked fierce and looked very much like the Earth Dragon blood-giving unit of the Skull and Bones Society that Xueming had seen. She was the shrew of the big shopkeeper Bock. appearance.

Three or four little pottery dolls smashed into the door of a cave. The Mole King, with its shiny fur and fat body, widened its eyes and immediately got back into the cave in fright. The same goes for the other moles, who were too frightened by the strange clay pot to say anything.

Then look at the smelly bloody feces splashed out of the clay pot, and one or two sections of white tailbone.

Oscar explained: "This is the stench caused by earth dragons. Kukuka is most afraid of earth dragons. In order to resist the severe cold, they cannot climb into caves and can only build nests at the bottom of the valley - these dead moles are too big. There are not many creatures that can punish them. Everyone flying in the sky is afraid of this voice. The only ones who can climb here and defeat them are the two-meter-long earth dragons like Miss Anna."

Beyond this relatively clean area, another obstacle appeared.

It was a stupid bird, and it was also the golden eagle griffon that Alphonse and the geologists had met on the settlement platform when they were exploring the cave.

It was so starved and scrawny that it looked very strange——

——It screamed hoarsely, trapped in a huge skeleton.

Xueming: "What's going on?"

Brother Wolf couldn't understand either. This raptor was four meters long and surrounded by a bone cage. It was as if it was imprisoned by evil magic, which kept the big eagle locked in place.

"oh!"

Oscar thought for a long time and finally figured it out.

"It dropped a larger prey to death, and then started eating from its soft belly. It couldn't finish the meal, and it was worried that other hunters would come to snatch the food, so it stayed here."

"As a result, during the hunting season, a circle of dung and soil froze together, which happened to freeze the prey's sternum firmly to the ground, trapping the griffon."