Between mountains and seas

Chapter 122 Where the sun and the moon enter, the wild mountain

The whistling of the wind, like howling wolves, was full of dust and dust, making it hard to keep one's eyes open.

This is completely different from the original space.If it wasn't for the Ao Zu Zhu still standing in front of his eyes, Shao Jingxing would have wondered if he was dreaming before - why did he suddenly become like this when he was standing still on his feet?

The four five-colored moths had disappeared, leaving only a pile of half-destroyed clay puppets lying on the ground in disorder.Huo Qing walked over, drew a knife and cut open the chest of a clay puppet, put his hand in for a long time, and took out a yellow object: "Is this what you saw in Fangfeng's bones?"

It was a chrysalis shell, and it felt like a stone to the touch. If one end hadn't been cracked and the inside could be seen to be empty, it would probably be regarded as a stone.

"That's it!" Shao Jingxing patted his thigh, "But that one is white." Fangfeng's ability is gold type, and the chrysalis bred are of course white. These four are all earth type dolls, so they use Earth energy, so it is yellow.

But why are the hatched moths five-colored?

"It should be all five elements..." Huo Qing couldn't figure it out either.Maybe if all the five elements are present, it can have the attribute of space?

When he said this, Shao Jingxing's mind began to run wild: "Actually, for insects like butterflies or moths that have completely metamorphosed, the process of transformation in the pupa is a process of complete disintegration and remodeling of the structure..."

Speaking of strange beasts, he still has a lot of homework to do, but when it comes to insect knowledge, he can't stop talking: "During this process, the original larvae structure disintegrated and turned into a mass of chaotic matter, and then re-formed from this mass to The body structure of the adult worm in matter-"

As he spoke, he became stunned: "Is it because of this reshaping process that the energy is returned to chaos again? In this way, the eggs born have no fixed attributes, and can absorb no matter what kind of abilities, avoiding the energy caused by absorption. Is it possible that it cannot be hatched without the corresponding ability?"

No matter if it is a strange beast, reproduction is also an instinct, and everything is for reproduction, so of course it is most convenient to have no attributes.

As for why the five-color moth that finally emerged had a space ability, no one can guess it. It can only be said that this strange beast is really talented, and it must be Pangu among the insects.

"Stop talking nonsense." Huo Qing heard Shao Jingxing say "Pangu among the worms", and knocked him on the head helplessly, "Let Pangu's descendants hear and beat you." That's too disrespectful.

Shao Jingxing stuck out his tongue and put away the four chrysalis shells that Huo Qing had taken out.This chrysalis looks about the size of his fist, but it can support such a big clay puppet for hundreds of thousands of years. How much energy does it contain?

Huo Qing pondered and said, "Maybe this chrysalis itself can also absorb energy?" Maybe after being influenced by Shao Jingxing for a long time, Huo Qing felt that his brain hole was becoming more and more active.

Shao Jingxing patted his thigh: "It's very possible! Don't you see that this five-color moth does not distinguish between attributes? Maybe it is because it has absorbed too much energy from mountains and seas in its pupae that it can change from a larva with attributes to a larva without attributes." Five-colored moth with different attributes.” If it is said that way, it is more reasonable that a pupa can support such a large clay puppet for such a long time.

Shao Jingxing immediately thought of a further place: "That—Nuwa used this kind of pupa to seal the world of mountains and seas, is it because it has this characteristic?"

The two looked at each other, and after a while, Huo Qing slowly said: "Maybe yes..."

The reason why Nuwa sacrificed so many supernatural beings to feed this five-color moth is that its pupae can automatically absorb energy from the outside world, which is equivalent to a solar battery, which can be automatically charged while being consumed, so It can last for a longer time-in theory, if the "charging" efficiency of this pupa is high enough, it can even be used forever.

"But in that case, how can we ensure that it doesn't emerge?" Once the big fluttering moth hatches, this "battery" is tantamount to being scrapped.

"Leng Chuan." Huo Qing instantly thought of what He Maochuan said, "Low temperature..." Low temperature can probably inhibit the activity of pupae.In addition, perhaps this kind of pupae emergence also needs to meet certain conditions—for example, energy storage to a certain extent—if the energy drawn by the sealing talisman is the same as the energy it absorbs, then it can be guaranteed that the energy in the pupae can be maintained. The chrysalis is alive, but does not meet the requirements for eclosion.

"I want to apologize to Empress Nuwa." Shao Jingxing said solemnly and convincingly.When he saw the bones of those Gonggong clan members just now, he still slandered Nuwa in his heart for being too cruel, and it was a bit unkind to engage in clan punishment.But now he only has admiration - Nu Wa must have thought that Pan Gushe could not separate the two worlds forever, and her own ability is not as good as Pan Gu, if she wants to maintain this talisman array as much as possible, she can only find another way .

But what a huge project it is.Careful calculations and arrangements are also required.No wonder Dayu traveled all over the world after flood control was completed, maybe doing field surveys to provide Nuwa with calculation data.

"That's right!" Shao Jingxing suddenly remembered, "Speaking of which the seal is loose, it must be because the ancestor of He Maochuan stole a five-color stone, right?" Steal a piece, and it starts a chain reaction or something.

"Next time I see He Maochuan again, I must beat him hard!" With Huo Qing by his side, Shao Jingxing immediately felt extremely proud, wishing that He Maochuan would stand in front of him now, so that he—no, let them beat him up meal!

"It shouldn't be..." Huo Qing was much calmer than him, "There should be a fault tolerance rate." If the talisman array is so detailed that even one five-color stone will trigger a chain reaction, then the fault tolerance rate is too low.After all, it needs to be maintained for hundreds of thousands of years. Of course, Nuwa will take into account various emergencies. Among other things, "backup power" always needs to be prepared.

"If you want to know the reason, you can only find the place where the talisman array is placed." Huo Qing looked up and looked into the distance, "We have found at least one talisman pillar, now let's find out where the talisman pillar is, and then find the corresponding one. The other three of them may finally be able to locate the formation."

"But where exactly is this place?" Shao Jingxing looked up at the sky, the sky was as gray as the ground, and the sun could not be seen, but it was bright, "It seems that it was almost as bright when we were in the Aozuzhu... ..." Although it was a separate space, the lighting seemed to be the same.

The two of them were looking around, when Shao Jingxing suddenly felt that the surroundings seemed to be a little brighter again.He looked up to the sky, and vaguely felt that there seemed to be a touch of pale white in the gray sky.

"What is that?" Shao Jingxing squinted his eyes and stared at it, feeling that the pale white seemed to be approaching, getting bigger and brighter, and gradually he could barely see the outline - it was a circle .

"It's the sun!" Huo Qing also squinted his eyes for a while, and suddenly his face changed, "It's too bad! Go, this is the mountain of the Great Desolation!"

Shao Jingxing was dragged away by him, and Monk Zhang Er was still puzzled: "The mountain of the wilderness?" It seemed a bit familiar...

Huo Qing pulled him and ran wildly, seeing the vacant look under his feet, he simply carried him on his back: "Among the great wilderness, there is a mountain called the Great Wilderness Mountain, into which the sun and the moon enter."

When he said this, Shao Jingxing immediately remembered: "The Great Wilderness West Classic!" Hey, doesn't this mean we know where they are?Although the series of Great Wilderness Classics is a bit on the edge, at least the location is confirmed, it is to the west.

But why run?He remembered that the Great Desolation Mountain was "entered by the sun and the moon" - that is, when the sun and the moon set, they seemed to be very close to here, as if the sun and the moon had just set into this mountain - there seemed to be nothing terrible Alien beast?

However, Huo Qing ran wildly all the way, until he was panting for breath: "Where the sun and the moon enter... that means here... the temperature will change!" Strange beast?If the sun sets, it will be much scarier than a strange beast!

Think about it, when the ten suns came out at the same time, how many people died on the earth-of course, it was not because ten sun-like stars actually appeared, but because there were nine fierce beasts, the Golden Crow, who were at work, otherwise, if Hou Yi really If he shoots down nine stars, let alone whether he can shoot down the stars, but if the nine stars are really going to fall, is the earth still there?

Ah, pulling away again.In short, if you think about the heat of the sun, the Great Desolation Mountain can be called "the entrance of the sun and the moon", not only because it "looks close", but also feels "very close"!

Shao Jingxing lay on Huo Qing's back, and it took him a long time to realize what "very close" meant: "You mean, will it be very hot?"

Huo Qing simply replied with two words: "It's very hot."

When he was speaking, Shao Jingxing had already felt the temperature rise.

In fact, he didn't pay much attention to the matter of "the entry of the sun and the moon" just now.In fact, even if he doesn't have much astronomical knowledge, he knows that the sun is far away from the earth, let alone fall into this mountain.But now, just at this moment, he already felt that the end of autumn had turned into the beginning of summer, and the sun in the sky was just a still pale shadow, but the outline seemed a little clearer than before.

If the shadow becomes clearer, and even the sun can be seen clearly, what will it look like here?

"No—" Shao Jingxing couldn't believe it, "This, this..." Doesn't it conform to common sense?What's the point?

Of course he didn't ask, now is not the time to ask why: "Put me down and run with me." Anyway, he is 1.8 meters tall, and Huo Qing is tired of carrying him like this.

Huo Qing didn't say much, just put the man down, dragged him and ran away, the expression on his face made Shao Jingxing figure it out - Huo Qing must have regretted that the two of them were like this in the Aozu Zhu , if he can't run out now, Huo Qing will definitely blame himself again.

Speaking of which, this run was indeed... The main reason is that Shao Jingxing didn't expect Huo Qing to do it a few times. He thought that in such a dangerous place, he would suffer it once at most - twice at most!Then next time you can change him hehehehe.

In the end... Forget it, it's useless to think about it now, let's run!

Although he was already running fast, the temperature behind him was still rising rapidly. He felt warm at first, and then quickly turned into scorching heat.

"The Great Desolate Mountain..." Shao Jingxing was out of breath, "How big is it!" They had been sprinting at high speed for more than ten minutes, and there was still a dusty desert in front of them.

This is not scientific!Why is the temperature in this place rising so high? Is it really stealing the sun's heat?

Without saying a word, Huo Qing picked up Shao Jingxing again.

This time it was really carried, Shao Jingxing lay on his shoulders, he just felt that yesterday - or this morning, anyway, it was several hours ago - the grilled seafood that he ate was about to be pushed out of his stomach.

Looking up and looking back, the scene of the desert began to distort, which was the refraction of light caused by the flow of air due to the increase in temperature.And in the farthest distance, the gray horizon began to glow with a faint red light, and the heat wave hit his face, almost scorching his face...

About a quarter of an hour later, Huo Qing lay on his back on the ground, his chest rising and falling rapidly.Shao Jingxing lay on top of him, looking into the distance with lingering fear.

The gray desert has turned into crimson, and the flowing air dances like flames, which at first glance looks like a sea of ​​fire.Although the sea of ​​flames was surrounded by an invisible wall tens of meters away, the roiling heat wave rushed out, making the place where they lay like a main road in midsummer, scalding people next to each other.

No wonder this large area is a gray-yellow desert. It is burned like this every day. Except for a few particularly tenacious weeds, I am afraid that nothing can survive.

But it's safe at last.Shao Jingxing touched his face, it was burning hot, as if he had been sunburned.If Huo Qing didn't run fast enough and they failed to break out of the fence, they would have been roasted to mummies by now, right?

"How are you?" Huo Qing rarely spoke weakly, and his voice was still a little hoarse.

"I'm fine." Shao Jingxing climbed off him, "Are you okay?" He was carried half the distance, so what could happen?On the contrary, Huo Qing ran so wildly, all he inhaled was scorching air, especially in the last few steps, his respiratory tract might be burned.

Huo Qing shook his head, obviously it was a bit difficult to say that sentence just now.Shao Jingxing helped him up: "Let's walk outside, it doesn't matter if we have already left here, go find some water. Shall I carry you?"

In the end, Huo Qing didn't let Shao Jingxing carry him on his back, but let him support him, and walked in the direction where the flames were burning.

"I don't know what happened to that Ao Zuzhu..." Shao Jingxing said worriedly.Before the Aozuzhu was in an independent space, no matter how hot it was outside, it would not affect the Aozuzhu.But not necessarily now.The most important thing is that they don't know what the scorpion pillar is for, and whether it will affect the enchantment if it is burned.If it really has an impact, then the two of them will cause a big problem this time!

Huo Qing pondered for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice: "Maybe it doesn't matter. Nuwa should be able to imagine the result after the five-colored moth emerges." She dared to put the Aozuzhu in the place where the sun and the moon come and go. It doesn't matter if the foot column burns.

According to Huo Qing, it should be the latter.After all, how can there be any design in this world that can not go wrong for thousands of years?With Pangu's great ability, Bu Zhoushan was knocked down by Gonggong.

Yin Jian is the first—well, Nuwa didn't have the word at that time, but anyway, with Pangu's example in front of her, if Nuwa still thinks her methods are perfect, then she can't be called a saint.That's why Huo Qing felt that the original intention of the Aozu pillar was to cultivate the five-color stones of the water system.As for where it is located—it is indeed a good idea to place the prison in a dangerous place, which can prevent prisoners from escaping and prevent outside rescue.

But the most important thing to consider now is not this Aozu pillar. After all, they already know the biggest secret in the Aozu pillar, and they have also traced all the patterns and texts on it. It can be said that they can find out from this pillar. Almost all the data has been collected.The question now is to consider, where are the remaining four pillars.

Yes, Huo Qing has now confirmed that there must be five pillars, corresponding to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.Or one of them is not such a scorpion pillar, but there must be such a place as a scorpion pillar.So where are the other pillars?

According to the positions of the bones of the Fangfeng clan members discovered by Shao Jingxing, the gold pillars may be in the north.This is a bit wrong, because gold should be in the west, and water should be in the north, but now the water column is in the mountains of the Great Wilderness, which belongs to the "Dahuangxijing", that is, it is in the west.

Gold produces water, so gold and water are interchangeable?Huo Qing leaned on Shao Jingxing, thinking while walking.So wood makes fire, will the two pillars of wood and fire also change their positions?

Maybe this is Nuwa's way to mess up the sense of direction and space in the world of mountains and seas, so that those who want to destroy the enchantment can't find the eye?

The eye of the formation may be on that unknown pillar—historical data only record that Nuwa cut off four feet to set up the four poles, but did not mention the fifth one. Maybe Nuwa deliberately concealed this one. The existence of the pillar is because the center of her talisman array is there.

While Huo Qing was thinking, Shao Jingxing had already walked a long way with him.

Leaving that hot land, plants appeared ahead, first grass, then sparse trees, and then there was the sound of gurgling water in the forest - there was a small stream as thin as a sheep's gut, and I don't know where it was gurgling. It flowed out, the stream was clear, and there were fishes the size of newborn willow leaves playing in the water.The distance between them is only a few hundred meters, but it is like two worlds.

Seeing water at this moment is like seeing a life-saving medicine, but I dare not just drink it like this. No matter how clear the water in the world of mountains and seas looks, it also contains the power of mountains and seas.

Shao Jingxing helped Huo Qing to sit down by the stream, but he wanted to sit down too.However, looking at Huo Qing's chapped lips, he had no choice but to get up and collect water and firewood with a sigh of relief.

The outer layer of their backpacks has a special coating, which can be used as a pot to boil water, but Huo Qing used to have metal utensils at all times, so he never used them.But now that he has exhausted his strength, of course he can't take out the pot, so he has to use his backpack.

Pity this backpack, the inner lining has already been written all over, and it was removed as a document, leaving only a tattered outer layer.Shao Jingxing chose the complete part, filled it with water, put it on the woodpile, and lit the fire.

"We still have some dried oysters." Shao Jingxing said happily after taking out everything from his backpack.During the crazy run just now, a lot of things fell out of the backpack, but this bag of dried oysters was still left behind, which is really lucky.

Huo Qing's thinking was interrupted by his words, he looked up to see the joy on Shao Jingxing's face, and couldn't help laughing - when something happened, he was frightened like a cowardly dog, and when the incident was over, he immediately turned into Xiaoqiang, which was his skill.In the past, he was used to acting alone, so he didn't think so, but now he realizes that it's a good thing to have such an optimistic person by his side.

"The water will boil immediately." Shao Jingxing handed over his wet T-shirt, "Wipe your face to cool off first."

Huo Qing gave a dry cough, and took the T-shirt over uncomfortably.Shao Jingxing's body was dotted with many marks, especially the finger prints on both sides of his waist, plus he was born white, so the green and red patch should not be too obvious.It used to be fine if there were clothes to cover it up, but now that the clothes are taken off, it's really... the stolen goods!

no!Huo Qing found out dumbfoundingly that he might have been infected by Shao Jingxing's habit of using idioms indiscriminately.