The mountain ghost blows out the lights

"Where the two young masters have been, how would I know?" Venado glanced sideways at Yan Jinping, but couldn't hear any special emotions in the voice, "What is the place beyond the wilderness? My little girl has little knowledge. Really never heard of it.”

"Beyond the Eight Wilds." Yan Jinping said with a slight smile in his voice, "It's not a special place, it's just that some people's souls are taken there after death."

Vinado paused as she walked forward.

Her pause was only for a moment, and she quickly returned to her usual posture: "So that's how it is."

Yan Jinping looked at Venado's back, her red robe looked a little darker under the warm yellow light, almost like black.The material of the robe is not thick, and it is estimated to be very light in weight. It swayed lightly back and forth with the movements of the bones.This point is different from that of Grandma Lan Duo.

The temperature in Changqing City is extremely low, even for Changqing people who are used to the cold, it is a very harsh environment.Grandma Lan Duo's sacrificial robe should be sewn with fur inside. Although it keeps warm, it is not too soft, and it hangs down stiffly, so thick that it makes people feel very safe.

What Yan Jinping told Wei Naduo was what happened when they went to find Jianmu to get the seeds.

"The road to that place is a waterway." Yan Jinping walked along the edge of the cave wall.He was still looking down at his fingers, the overly long eyelashes were falling down, and there were still frost flowers hanging on them.

The frost flowers seemed to be heavy fruits on the branches, and he couldn't lift his eyelids under the pressure, so he could only lower his eyes slightly. The profile of his face was beautiful, like a beautiful statue.

He spoke slowly, his voice echoed in the empty cave, and there was no emotion in it, as if he just felt that the journey was too long and wanted to find some random topic to talk about.

However, Shen Lianxing seemed to hear something from his tone of voice, holding the lantern, and turned his head to look at him.

Yan Jinping smiled at him, and the voice was still directed at Venado, with a lazy voice: "I don't know if the girl has heard... what is the river leading to the beyond the wilderness?"

Venado stopped suddenly.

"Here we are," she said.

There was no sunlight in the cave, and the only source of light during the journey was the lanterns in the hands of Yan Jinping and Shen Lianxing.

Due to limited conditions, although it can be illuminated, it cannot be said how bright it is.

Venado doesn't need a lamp to illuminate it. She has been here countless times and is familiar with every detail here. She can find the place she wants to find with her eyes closed.

...83 years.Bone stepped on the ice and brushed the rough cave wall with one hand, thinking silently, she had waited too long.

Will the two strangers who broke into the snow mountain be a turning point?Venado was not sure.

It's just that no matter what the result will be, she has no second 83 years to waste.

Bone raised his head, looking forward with dark eye sockets.

"That's the Jinghuo you're looking for." Venado raised her chin to signal, the little flower stuck in the crack of the bone on top of her head was dangling, making her face flickering in the fire look gloomy Still a little lively, "It's okay to stand here and have a look, but it's best not to go any further."

Now that he has arrived at the place, Yan Jinping no longer talks about plausible things.He and Shen Lianxing turned their heads together and looked in the direction of the bones.

The ground under their feet was still covered with ice, but there was a bottomless crack lying abruptly on the ice not far in front of them.

The crack was about three feet long, not that wide, it was the width that an adult could walk across without too much effort in one step.

And although the original ice layer has cracked, it is covered with a thin layer of light blue ice.Thin ice covered the entire crack, and then spread from the crack, crawled across the ground, and climbed up the cave wall, as if it were some kind of living thing, covering the entire space in front of it.

The cave suddenly became wider after this crack, and more torch holders were embedded on the left and right walls of the cave. It is almost conceivable how bright this place used to be.

The shelves were still metal, wrapped in thin ice, and it was not clear whether there were any decorations on them.However, it is precisely because of the presence of these ices that they are not as rusty as those at the entrance of the cave, and more or less retain their exquisite form.

In the center of the cave is an ice platform.

The ice platform is not high, roughly only to the knees.The shape is an ordinary circle, with no other extra decorations on it, it just rises from the ground in a normal way.

A flame burns quietly on the ice platform.

Although it is fire, but a few people are standing not far from the ice platform, but they don't feel the slightest heat at all. The outer layer of the flame is as blue as the thin ice, and the inside...is a small group of thick and almost melted flames. Unopened gold.

When they arrived at this place, they no longer needed any lighting, so Yan Jinping and Shen Lianxing silently took back the lanterns.

There is no need to confirm anything. You can recognize it immediately after looking at it. This is the Jinghuo that Changqing has guarded for generations.

The net fire has no temperature—maybe it once existed, but it is also in this extremely cold snow-capped mountain range, and it has gradually turned into something rare and almost impossible to exist naturally in this world.

Extremely cold and extremely hot, in fact, it is half yin and half yang at the same time. The two diametrically opposed attributes of hot and cold intertwined and merged in this clump of flames, and at the same time swallowed and conquered each other. I don’t know how long it took to form Today's net fire.

If you go back 100 years, this place should be sacred and peaceful.

only……

Yan Jinping looked down at the crack again.

The gap is not far from several people. It was torn open by the earthquake 100 years ago, and the fracture is not neat.And even if it has been cracked, it is still impossible to see through the gap to see what is under the ice layer.

Even if they couldn't see it, Venado had already told them this story before.

What is sealed underneath is a ferocious monster that must never be allowed to see the light of day again.

As for the one sticking out of the gap...

Yan Jinping asked softly: "That, is the leader of the Wuchanuos?"

Although the tone was inquiring, but he and Shen Lianxing had just set fire to hundreds of them outside the cave, and now they are hot.Even if he could only see a small corner, it was enough for him to be sure of his guess.

The one in front of me, protruding from the depths of the crack, covered with sharp bristles like steel needles, is exactly an extremely long and large spider leg.

The spider's legs present a very strange bending posture. It struggles to protrude from the ground, folds itself at an angle that ordinary spiders can never do, and sends it out again. The very dangerous barb was trying his best to touch the quiet fire.

It looked like it was about to succeed, but it was unexpectedly frozen at the moment when it made this action.

The blue ice climbed up the spider's legs, wrapping it thickly, the flames jumped, and the mass in front of it looked like a piece of ice-blue amber.

...The ice shell is empty. If there is no accident, this person should maintain this awkward posture, hanging here for at least 100 years.

Although there is a layer of ice blocking it, and I can't go up and look carefully, I can't be sure what is connected under this leg, but it is obvious that this is the mother of all the little spiders, 'Uzano'. The leader who didn't escape.

"But why is it frozen?" Shen Lianxing asked.

What the three of them saw was clearly a real flame, but why was the spider frozen?

"Although Jinghuo is fire, it is different from ordinary fire." Venado was not surprised that he would ask this question.She glanced at the immobile spider leg, and explained, "I think you all know that it has both cold and hot attributes at the same time. They froze into ice, it all depends on how Jinghuo chose at that time."

"The situation was too urgent at that time, and you all saw it." She gestured to the crack again, "No one expected that there would be an earthquake, let alone that the seal that was thought to be unbreakable would be broken just like this... We Cozy up for too long and not ready for that to happen."

It's a pity that none of them understood at the time that accidents often come sooner than tomorrow.

At that time, the smaller spiders had all crawled out of the crack, leaving only the largest leader, who was stuck in the middle due to his size, and had not had time to widen the crack a little.

But at the bottom of the mountain, the angry and surprised roars of those ferocious monsters could already be heard in the abyss.

One step later, they will break through the seal that has trapped them for thousands of years, rush down the mountain, and do not know how many ordinary people will be harmed.

"Heron... Jinghuo made a balance, and before it was about to run out completely, it chose to freeze the entire crack."

That's why the cave looks like it is now.

The place where the Jinghuo is located is not the deepest part of the entire cave. Even if it is illuminated by the fire, the place that can be seen is still very limited.It was still pitch black behind the ice platform, and there was a faint echo in Venado's words, which almost brought the two of them back to the critical moment a hundred years ago.

"So that's how it is." Yan Jinping said, "Indeed... this is a safer choice."

"The leader is only responsible for procreation and does not participate in hunting activities." Venado looked at the shadow under the ice and said flatly, "She has no responsibility to seduce humans. Although she can't see it now, there is actually no human body on her body." In part, it's just a giant spider."

Looking down from here, all I could see was a large mass of thick shadows under the ice, but I couldn't see the spider's expression at this time.

Shen Lianxing was a little curious.

But he still remembered that Vinado had warned them that they could not go any further.

"It can only stop here." Venado saw what he was thinking, and explained gently, "This line—behind this crack is an absolutely safe place."

She looked up at the clump of burning blue flames on the ice platform, and her eyes were focused on the dancing bright gold in the middle of the flames. She spoke softly, as if she was afraid of waking up something: "Did you see it? Take another step forward , we will all be frozen on this mountain forever just like her."

"Will he die?" Shen Lianxing asked her.

"Maybe he won't die right away." Venado sighed.She stretched out her hand and stroked the flame with her bony fingers, "Maybe we will live forever, it's worse than death."

"What it feels like to be frozen by flames for 100 years, I'm afraid only this spider really knows."