Chapter 6 See you again

When everything was restored to its original state, more than a dozen clay figurines rose up from the muddy ground.These people suddenly became very earthy, each of them stood in a daze, as if they were really molded from clay.This harassing attack using hornets as weapons caused them to lose most of their people at once, which is hard to imagine.The more serious problem was that Zhang Jin'ao found that all the marks he left on the way were gone. "It seems that the people on the island don't want us to go back." Zhang Jin'ao's words were a little helpless and sad.

"Not only are they not allowed to go back, but they also want to drive us away, into the point they want. This is like the wolves in the north catching sheep together." Zhao Kuangyin clenched his molars, facing the situation in front of him. In such a situation, his anger began to be uncontrollable, and a burst of pride gushed out of his chest: "But they were wrong! We are not sheep waiting to die, but a group of tigers and leopards that can kill a pack of wolves." Facing the immediate predicament and the intrusion of others, Zhao Kuangyin decided to suspend his progress, first confirm some situations and discuss the countermeasures before taking action.

"We can't retreat or go in now, or we can just lurk on the spot, waste our temper with our opponents, and force them to show up to find us." What Zhang Jin'ao said is also a solution. "This is a trick only used when there is no other way. It is not possible to do it now. The purpose of the wasp attack just now is to drive us there. You should first check the terrain features in that direction." After listening to Zhao Kuangyin's order, Zhang Jindai hurriedly led two people towards that direction.Not long after, the three of them ran back quickly. "My lord, the terrain over there is no different from the place we just walked through, it is still a vast expanse of reeds and wormwood."

"No, there is a difference!" Zhao Kuangyin said after looking down at the hard-soled rattan fast boots of the three people, "Look, our feet are covered with wet mud, but there are lumps on the uppers of the three of you. Clay, which means that the terrain over there is drier than here. There are endless reed marshes everywhere, and there is no reference point to see the changes in the terrain. But in nature, even the flat ground has ups and downs, And this kind of ups and downs can be artificially covered. For example, planting short reeds and short grasses in high places and tall reeds and tall grasses in low places. Then, if there is no reference to cover the bottom, the real ground level difference will actually be Bigger."

"By the way, I just took a look at the reeds here. There should be no fewer than four or five varieties. According to the growth characteristics of each variety, the difference in their normal height can be as high as a horse's back. But we set up a watch building several times to check The reeds we have seen are all about the same height, and there is no unevenness at all. It seems that there must be undulations on the ground that are difficult to detect, and the reeds are not completely wild, and some positions have been adjusted artificially." Zhang Jin'ao The discovery confirmed Zhao Kuangyin's statement.

"No, it's more than that. If the tall reeds grow near the shallow water and reach half the water depth, then the gap between the maximum water depth and the high place will be even greater." Zhao Kuangyin thought of going deeper. "Wait! Let me think about it, let me think about it!" Zhang Jindai suddenly captured something in his mind. "The height of the horse's back and the depth of the water, if this position is a channel, it is enough to pass twenty boats. Sir, we may not have gone the right way at the beginning. There may be something hidden in the cover of reeds and wormwood on the island. A living waterway connected to the big river. People from one river, three lakes and eighteen mountains enter and leave Jiangzhongzhou without walking, but by boat."

"That's right, we should have thought of this when we were muddy and struggling just now. That kind of road doesn't look like a human being at all. So there must be a boating waterway connecting the Yangtze River on the island, and the total of one river, three lakes and eighteen mountains The rudder should be right next to the waterway. In this way, they can rely on the water, escape when they enter the grass, and move forward and retreat freely." Zhao Kuangyin's thinking became clearer and clearer. Zhang Jin'ao: "The wasp just now was forcing us away from the waterway."

Zhao Kuangyin: "It is also driving to the depths of the reeds and wormwood. Their intention is still to make us exhaust our physical and mental strength." Zhang Jin'ao: "If this is the case, then our next step is also simple. We only need to go in the opposite direction to find the hidden waterway, and then follow the waterway to find the main rudder of the One River, Three Lakes and Eighteen Mountains." Zhao Kuangyin was worried: "The reasoning is good, the problem is whether others will let you go in the right direction." Although these dozen or so people are all painted like clay sculptures, they can only be used to deal with the attacks of wasps, and it is absolutely impossible to use them as cover.What's more, against the background of the green reeds and green wormwood in spring, such a group of gray and yellow people is more conspicuous, and others can monitor their existence without too much effort.

Zhao Kuangyin's worry soon became a reality, but this time the opponent did not burn smoke to drive the hornets, nor did they use other methods to drive them away, only letting them walk in the direction he thought was right.Because there is a kind of war called playing hard to get, and there is a kind of blunder called throwing oneself into a trap.There is a specific area in front of Zhao Kuangyin and the dozen or so people, and this is exactly the area that others want them to enter. When they first walked into this area, Zhao Kuangyin and the others breathed a sigh of relief, because the reeds and wormwood here had obviously become sparse, from the endless dense grass felt to a combination of many small pieces.These blocks are like fields specially used to plant reeds, but they are of different sizes and irregular shapes.The blocks are separated by not-so-narrow gaps.These gaps are like field ridges, but they are not high but low, and the sand and mud without reeds are covered with half-finger-deep water.Compared with the previous ground, although the accumulated water here has become more and deeper, it is not so muddy and slippery.

If you want to give a more accurate name to these gaps covered with water, you can call them both ditches and waterways.Because there are too many blocky reed fields divided in this area, this waterway also appears to be criss-crossed and stretches far and wide, giving people the illusion that they can lead to another world. Facing such an environment, Zhao Kuangyin and the others saw hope.Because they just need to escape from the current world and find another world.It has just been deduced that another world is going to pass through the waterway, and the gradually deepening water may indicate that they are heading in the right direction.

Suddenly, a black-feathered water bird was startled and flew straight up, flying very high.But at this time and this place, only by flying straight into the sky like this water bird, and then looking back, can you see everything on the ground clearly, and you can spy on the dangers in the blocks below. The ground is indeed an area with sparse reeds, and the reeds here are indeed divided into many small pieces.But from a high-level view, we can know that the division here is either a work of nature, or man-made evil. Those divided blocks are basically circular, but these circles are big and small, there are perfect circles and ellipses, hollow circles, solid circles, semicircles, open circles, and circles within circles.And the real wonder and weirdness is not these round blocks, but the dividing line between them, that is, the water-logged trails.Because in addition to the curved circles formed between various circular blocks, they are also connected with the void paths inside the hollow circle, the circle surrounded by the circle, and the broken circle.As a result, a multi-line circling layout was formed as a whole, just like many vortices intersecting and overlapping. This is a wonderful and dangerous situation, it does not belong to the world, nor does it belong to the way of the immortal family, but belongs to the way of evil spirits.Originally obtained by the Yellow Emperor and translated by Feng Hou, the pattern of Qimen Dunjia is one thousand and eighty rounds, which includes this round.Later, when Jiang Ziya reorganized it into seventy-two rounds, he deleted this formation, so this formation has been circulated among the evil sects.The current name of this formation is "Qushui Fantian", but it was originally called "Red Water Formation". "Red Water Formation" was one of the ten most powerful formations Wen Zhong used to crusade against Xiqi during Zhou Dynasty of Shang Dynasty, and the leader of the formation was Wang Bian.This array was originally laid out in a combination of three gourd-shaped blocks, and then assisted by poisonous water to kill those who entered the array.Later generations carried it forward, replacing the gourd shape with a circle, so that the changes are more diverse and unpredictable, and the area covered can be infinitely enlarged. The person who set up "Curved Water Turning the Sky" here actually had a deeper idea. He also took advantage of the sudden change of the terrain to make the people who entered it sink inertially.It is completely different from the previous method of deliberately planting reeds of equal height to hide people's sight. This layout uses a seemingly feasible path to make people who have just come out of the reeds suddenly feel that they have a way out and hope.In fact, if you follow these paths, you will lose your direction and lose yourself more seriously, and will eventually be easily destroyed by the killing methods arranged in the formation. The same is true for Zhao Kuangyin and his subordinates. They just trudged through the Miza wandering village. After arriving here, they naturally focused on the small pieces of reeds and didn't care about the ditches that could be walked. It is easier to fall into the trap of the situation. But people like Zhao Kuangyin couldn't see what the waterfowl soared into the sky, so it was natural for them to follow the path.But the result of going on like this is something they cannot bear, but it is what others expect. The water under my feet was getting deeper and deeper, and it had already flooded my ankles.Judging from this phenomenon, the route they took was correct and they were heading in the direction of water.Regardless of whether it is a secret waterway or a riverside, as long as it can be reached smoothly, it means getting out of the predicament. Another black-feathered water bird was startled flying, which caught Zhang Jindai's attention: "The water birds here are of a single species, and the number seems to be small. They are all black crows that like to catch fish in shallow water. Could this be domesticated? Then arrange it according to the position, and use the startled flight as a warning signal. This way, we can report the specific location we have traveled to to its owner." "Probably not. Look at the bird's nest made of red millet leaves in the reeds. Domesticated birds can't make their own nests in the wild." Zhao Kuangyin also learned about this when he was walking in the rivers and lakes. "Oh, there is really a bird's nest. This bird's nest is quite delicately built. It is made of gathering up many reeds to support the nest body, and then covering it with reed leaves. You can't find it unless you look closely." Zhang Jin'ao has never seen such a bird's nest before. child's nest. At this time, a tiger guard from the forbidden army also said casually: "I have seen such a bird's nest before." These words made Zhao Kuangyin suddenly excited: "Have you seen it? Where is it?" "It's the place where the flying birds were startled for the first time." The tiger guard replied. Zhang Jindai: "We have walked here for half an hour from the place where the water birds were first frightened away. With such a long distance, it is not surprising to see a similar bird's nest again." "No, there seems to be something strange here. General Zhang, you should leave a mark around here. Remember to make a mark for damage."

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