Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Mojiang County, Tomb Village.

After Zhan Bai and his wife inquired about the location of Yanbei cliff, they rushed there at night. When they reached the cliff, they felt the wind howling, cold and damp, and the smelly wind made people very uncomfortable.

Zhan Zhao rode his horse and walked around the cliff, but found nothing special. He got off his horse and went to the cliff to look down, but found nothing, so he returned to Bai Yutang, and saw Bai Yutang looking at it thoughtfully. Around, he asked: "What's the matter, mouse, is there something wrong?"

Bai Yutang frowned, and pointed to some rocks not far away: "The rocks and trees here have been arranged into a formation."

Zhan Zhao heard the words and looked at those stones, but he didn't find anything wrong when he looked left and right: "I can't tell, it feels like some ordinary stones beside the road."

Bai Yutang nodded and said: "It's not wrong. There is a Miying Formation here. It is formed by taking advantage of the topography here, supplemented by the positions of mountains, rocks and trees. This technique...is a bit like the formation in the sea on Wei Island back then. resemblance."

Zhan Zhao thought to himself that this rat is indeed an expert in Qimen Dunjia, he can tell the weirdness at a glance, but ordinary people really can't feel anything, just feel that the wind here hurts his ears, such as himself .

"Then what is the use of this array?"

"To put it simply, this array serves as a blindfold." Bai Yutang walked aside as he spoke, picked up a few stones and knocked on them, then observed the surrounding trees, muttered a few directions, and counted Steps arranged the stones, and after working for a while, he greeted Zhan Zhao, "Cat, come and see."

Zhan Zhao walked up to Bai Yutang and looked at him in bewilderment, only to see Bai Yutang thrust his knife into the ground, Zhan Zhao was about to ask what he was doing, when suddenly the knife disappeared out of thin air!

"Where's your knife?" Zhan Zhao's eyes widened, "It's obvious just now..."

Bai Yutang smiled, and suddenly kicked over a few stones around him, and a miraculous thing happened, half of the blade of the treasured sword that disappeared just now was exposed, right at its original position.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang in surprise, and Bai Yutang pulled out his knife and explained, "I used the formation here to make a smaller version. In fact, the things in the formation didn't disappear, they just made people invisible. As long as the formation is destroyed, this thing will be revealed."

"I see. What you mean is that there is something hidden in the formation here. It may be right in front of us, but we cannot see it when we are in the formation. I think this is just an ordinary cliff, and I want to know what is hidden here, unless this formation is destroyed, this thing will have nowhere to hide."

"Well, that's right. And the range of the shadow formation here is extremely wide. If my judgment is correct, what he hides should be a place similar to an entrance."

"Then as long as the rock structure here is destroyed, can we know what it is?"

Bai Yutang shook his head: "His formation is very large. I just made a simple and crude one just for your convenience. No matter how much we move the stone here, it will not be exposed unless you I want to use the spirit of Yugong Yishan, so I directly cut off the mountain range here."

"What should I do?"

"There is a way, cat, do you know the iron cloth shirt covered with golden bell?"

"I know but I haven't learned it before. It takes this kind of kung fu to break the formation? Boy, is there still time for me to learn it?" Zhan Zhao rolled up his sleeves a few times.

Bai Yutang smiled and said: "Of course not, it's just that this formation is equivalent to having a golden bell cover. No matter how hard the external force hits, it can't break his defense, but the golden bell cover is not immortal after all. As long as it continues continuously A blow will one day penetrate him, just like a drop of water pierces a stone."

Zhan Zhao supported the sword and sighed: "It sounds like a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. Is there any other way? Doesn't every golden bell cover say that there is a cover door or something? Doesn't this formation also have a cover?" ah?"

"No."

"Is there really no other way?"

"If it were someone else, it should be gone, but..."

Zhan Zhao's eyes brightened: "But?"

"I have a method. Although the hidden thing cannot be revealed immediately, as long as it is a living thing inside this 'golden bell cover', it will suffer a certain degree of backlash damage. The degree of this damage depends on their own aptitude. , Those with stronger aptitude may not feel anything, but those with weaker aptitude will run away, and then they will be able to follow the vine."

Zhan Zhao seemed to understand but nodded his head: "Shooting cows across the mountains? It sounds very powerful."

Bai Yutang said: "I'll set up the formation later, you follow me closely, don't get hurt by mistake."

Zhan Zhao took a step closer to Bai Yutang: "Is this so?"

Bai Yutang paused, looked at Zhan Zhao and shook his head: "Closer."

Zhan Zhao took another step towards him: "Is this okay?"

Bai Yutang observed it for a while, and then said, "It has to be closer."

"How close?" Zhan Zhao took another step forward in doubt, holding Bai Yutang's waist with his hands, "It's all on your body."

"That's enough." Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao's hand, turned around with a very satisfied look, then held someone's hand and started to form an all-round formation.

Zhan Zhao, who was dragged by Bai Yutang to the east and then to the west, couldn't help asking: "Yutang, although no one here needs to care, but our posture is too weird, right? Also, I I remember you said just now that you can only receive backlash damage when you are inside the 'golden bell jar', but aren't we outside? Logically, there shouldn't be any threat to me, right?"

Bai Yutang coughed twice, without turning his head but said solemnly, "If you're not afraid of ten thousand, you're afraid of something bad."

Zhan Zhao choked for a moment, and after a while he couldn't explain it: "You said just now that the degree of injury depends on aptitude, and those with weak aptitude escape from the battle, while those with strong aptitude don't feel anything, you are so nervous, something will happen to me , Do you think I'm weak?"

Bai Yutang turned his head, trying to maintain a straight face and said, "If you're not afraid of ten thousand, you're afraid of the unexpected."

It was only then that Zhan Zhao came to his senses: "Damn rat, are you lying to me?!"

……

In the end, Zhan Zhao chose a place with less wind to squat, looked at the busy figure of Bai Yutang in front and behind, and thought that one day he would have time to repair the foundation of this Qimen Dunjia. Not to mention being played by mice.

Besides, you can't learn from Baimozi, it's easy to cause accidents... But you can ask Mr. Gongsun for advice. Thinking of Mr. Gongsun, who has been away for so long, I don't know how Kaifeng Mansion is now. Counting the time, the Xixia Mission will be here soon. I'm going to Beijing now.

Zhan Zhao's thoughts flew far away, and I don't know how long it took. When Zhan Zhao felt that he was about to fall asleep, someone suddenly sat down beside him, and said with a sigh of relief, "Okay."

Hearing this, Zhan Zhao got up, looked around again and again, but didn't feel any difference, so he asked in puzzlement, "There seems to be no change?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden noise from the bottom of the cliff. Zhan Zhao was startled, and hurried to the edge of the cliff to look down, only to hear the noise getting louder and louder, as if there were hundreds of something Things are fluttering.

The river waves at the bottom of the cliff rolled up, and the next moment, there were bursts of sharp screams, followed by something black and dense, flying up from the bottom of the cliff, at an extremely fast speed, Zhan Zhaozheng was startled, Someone behind him pulled his body back.

Countless black birds soared into the sky, whistling over his head like ghost claws, Zhan Zhao came back to his senses, and saw that Bai Yutang was standing in front of him, those birds were still screaming and circling on the top of the cliff, as if Afraid of something and not wanting to leave, Zhan Zhao looked up, and saw those birds were pitch black, their eyes and beaks were blood red, their tails were long and narrow, and their tails were forked, a bit like swallows, but much longer than swallows' tails .

"What kind of bird is this?"

"This is a corpse swallow, a type of chaffinch, but it feeds on animal corpses all year round and does not hurt people. However, it is not an auspicious bird. It usually appears on the seaside or by the river...where there are more corpses , the more dead swallows there will be.”

"Then there are so many corpse swallows here, it's impossible, below..."

"I once saw a whale carcass in a cave by the sea, it was very huge, and then that cave became a nest of dead swallows."

"That's right, but this is Luojiang, there can't be a whale carcass. Could it be some kind of animal grave?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, thought for a while and said, "Speaking of which, the bird's nest of this corpse swallow is very expensive because of its rarity. Even though the body of corpse swallow is pitch black, his bird's nest is indeed extremely white, and the glue is three times that of ordinary bird's nest. times."

"Hey, then would someone raise these corpse swallows on purpose here to make money from bird's nests?"

"No, this corpse swallow has extremely strict requirements on the environment. If the temperature and humidity are not ideal, it will not be able to survive. What's more, it must provide meat to it continuously, otherwise it will leave or die. The cost is too high. There is no People will raise them."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and suddenly asked curiously: "That mouse, have you ever eaten the bird's nest of this dead swallow?"

Bai Yutang said without hesitation: "No, I also have a cleanliness addiction to things with bad names."

"..."

Seeing that the corpse swallows were almost flying, Zhan Zhao looked towards the bottom of the cliff again, and saw a dark hole suddenly appeared at the bottom of the cliff, and occasionally a few laggard corpse swallows flew out. He hurriedly patted Bai Yutang, and then dragged him Looking down: "Yutang, look, was there a hole at the bottom of the cliff just now?"

Bai Yutang laughed and said, "It's true that there wasn't one just now. The cave at the bottom of the cliff is what the Miying Formation wants to hide."

"What a skill, rat!" Zhan Zhao slapped Bai Yutang, "Then shall we go down and have a look?"

"Well, but this cave is at the bottom of the cliff, and it is connected to the Luojiang River, so there will inevitably be waterways. You must be careful, cat."

"Okay, you have to be careful." After saying that, Zhan Zhao began to plan the route down the cliff, thinking about where to make a suitable foothold, Bai Yutang pulled him over, pointed to the other side and said, "The shadow formation is broken, There is also a road down the cliff exposed here."

Zhan Zhao took a closer look and found that there is indeed a winding road down the cliff. Although it is narrow and not obvious, it does exist.

The two went down the cliff one after the other, and after walking for a while, Bai Yutang in front suddenly stopped, Zhan Zhao asked, "What's wrong, Yutang?"

"I suddenly remembered something."

"What's the matter?"

"The little Shanzi from Grandma Deng's family seems to be eating the bird's nest of this dead swallow."