Section 2 Space-time Tunnel

The next day, we boarded the plane and headed towards the dream in our hearts. Everyone was extremely excited, and this excitement then spread throughout their bodies, so that the next six-hour flight journey did not make us feel tired at all. However, the cumbersome transfer procedures made each of us feel excited. "Hurry up, hurry up!" We urged in our hearts.

After getting off the plane, the people who sent us to greet us were waiting for a long time. I ignored the urging of their few people and spent an hour checking my luggage. Just kidding, if I had not checked their luggage one by one before departure, I would not have found that Zhou Yi had lent his laptop to his nephew for privately, and his nephew actually carried his hand on his back to the school every day. After the teacher knew that this laptop worth more than 40,000 yuan was the most advanced portable at the time, he immediately borrowed it for "research and research". Sorry, Zhou Yi had to keep silent. At the same time, he hoped that I could forget about asking him to bring the computer.

After discovering this, I was furious. Yin Dong and Gao Shan also accused Zhou Yi. You should know that the "Flora" was installed on his laptop. Without it, we went to Shennongjia to see some flowers and plants. So, in the middle of the night, we grabbed his nephew and drove his nephew to the teacher's house, and gave all the reasons, and then we asked the teacher back from the unhappy teacher's hand.

What's even more annoying is that their teacher probably thought there were too many software installed in his hand, so he actually deleted the "Flora Records" we installed, and then installed a set of math, physics and chemistry question banks from elementary school to high school. Gao Shan, who was furious, immediately went to their teacher to argue. If I hadn't persuaded him for the reason of being quiet at night and paying attention to the influence, their teacher would have to be trained for this behavior. You must know that Gao Shan has been training for three years.

Depressed, I had to work overtime all night to reinstall "Flora". After Zhou Yi's repeated requests, considering his nephew's future and also in order for the flowers of the motherland to be harmed by our peers, I kept the question bank installed by their teacher. Of course, in order to ensure that our software can run well, I had to delete the GPS global positioning software.

After doing all this, it was dawn. I grabbed Zhou Yi and gave him a copper whistle, and said to him viciously: "You no longer have GPS. In the future, you will use sextant to position it. Rely on this copper whistle to let us know where you are. Please pray to you."

With this as a prelude, although they were dissatisfied, when I checked my luggage, they only dared to ask me in a concerned tone: "Are you tired after sleeping all night last night?" But there was no complaint at all.

After checking the luggage, the sky gradually became dark. In the sunset, we got on the car and headed towards the villages in the mountains. In the hazy night, I kept seeing newly built vacation houses on the roadside, which were built by the local government to develop tourism resources. From time to time, we also saw some big trees on the roadside, with green moss and fungi growing on the trees. At this moment, they are peaceful and quiet, and the noise and honor and disgrace in the world have left them.

Looking at these noisy lives and tragic deaths, I seemed to hear the fighting, strangling, and groaning of painfully caused by nature due to the survival of the fittest... I couldn't help but feel sad again: In a few centuries, hundreds of centuries, when the next ice age of the earth arrives, can Shennongjia still become a refuge for creatures?

I was sleepy, and as the car body swayed, I gradually fell asleep. In my dream, I heard the shouts of the mountains and forests, in my dream, I heard the call of the ancestor, and in my dream, I seemed to hear the sobs of flowers and birds...

After a few days of rest and preparation, we walked into the mountains under the guidance of the guide. Before we set out, I seriously announced several disciplines in front of the mountain people who came to see him off: "Never leave a piece of garbage, we will take nothing except the scenery."

In addition to making the mountain people feel at ease and not disturbing our inspection, this will also put the guys on the strings so that they will not do anything that makes the villagers uneasy.

We walked into the mountains and we walked into the forest. The firs in the Qinling Mountains penetrated into the sky. They were born on par with the unique local arrow bamboos without hesitation. The swaying branches were layered and crisscrossed about 10 meters above the ground, covering the sky and the sun without any leisure. All kinds of vines were twisted, entangled and climbed like snakes. Some of them soared up along the fir 20 meters and 30 meters high, and some embedded their bodies deeply into the fir bodies. The hanged firs will fall down on a certain day. This is the natural choice.

What I cannot forget for a long time is the Thoreau tree, which is raised to the sky and has lush branches and leaves. The Thoreau tree is known as the "Immortal Tree" and appears from time to time in many mythological novels. It is said that the tree in the Moon Palace is the Thoreau tree. Some people say that whenever I paint the Queen Mother's paintings, I must paint the Thoreau tree behind me, etc. The Thoreau leaves are like palms, flowers are like hammers, and fruits are like eggs. It actually contains the navel and has extraordinary vitality. It has been through thousands of years without dying. The ancient Shennongjia has become its home. Looking at it, I feel the greatness of life and I am full of awe.

I was also shocked by another wonder. Tens of thousands of caves are hidden in the towering mountains and vast forests of Shennongjia. These caves attract people with endless mysteries. It is these mysterious underground caves that after the first spring thunder sounds every year, a large number of fish are gushing like rivers and seas. When fishing out, I saw the rivers near the caves shining like silver streams. On the river, people watching and fishing are crowded with noises. Where do these fish come from? Where their daily habitat is still a mystery. The most famous of them is the official fish cave introduced to me by mountain people.

The official fish cave was hidden in the green trees and grass shrubs of Shennongjia and was not easy to be discovered by people. According to legend, in ancient times, in order to relieve the suffering of the people, Yan Emperor Shennong built a frame in Shennongjia to collect herbs and knotted ropes to make ladders to taste the herbs. He once cut a evil dragon transformed into a poisonous demon in the black dragon cave not far from the fish cave. Shennong crushed the dragon bones and flesh into fish roes, and placed them in the underground river to raise them in winter. In the spring, thousands of fish roe had grown into thousands of small fish, and the small fish swam out of the cave to relieve the wasteland for the people. As for the fish lice, it was transformed by the heart and liver fragments of the poison dragon. Shennong asked them to use poison to fight poison and cure the people's diseases.

As for the reason for the lack of scales and armor, the local people explained: In ancient times, there were constant incidents of fighting and injuries caused by fishing. In order to prevent this, the official ordered the stonemason to make a grinder with a excess of abbot, blocking the hole, leaving only a small round grinding hole like a round eye in the center of the grinder, so that water can flow from the inside and out of the hole. This is the origin of the name of the official sealed fish cave. Subsequently, when the fish school squeezes the grinding eye, the scales and armor are scraped off and blood is dripping. Over time, the fish school gradually turns from different sizes to individuals of the same size as the grinding eye...

When we came, the fish season was over. We couldn't see the scene of thousands of fish rushing out. We had to stand in the Guanfeng Fish Cave for a long time and listened to the local residents telling us about the magic of Guanfeng Fish Cave and to sell us the fish lice in Guanfeng Fish Cave. Of course, in order not to let their good intentions down, we bought some fish lice. After all, they explained it to us for a long time, and they were embarrassed to not pay any compensation.

Under the guidance of the guide, we kept traveling through the caves, wishing we could explore all the caves, but everyone knew that it was impossible. So we had to pick up the most famous and hidden caves to explore. What was disappointing was that we finally explored these caves, but nothing exciting happened. We did not find the nest of savages, nor did we find camps for rare animals, nor even snakes, monkeys, tigers, and only human footprints.

In desperation, we began to head towards Shennong, the main peak of Shennongjia. It’s a pity that the folded steel wire crossbow we brought was useless at all during our adventure. Be careful, we didn’t encounter a beast on the road, and occasionally one or two carnivores ran away quickly when we saw us. Perhaps, the most terrifying animal in the world is humans. If the mountain people had not agreed to give us some plant specimens, I think our expedition would be extremely boring.

The two guides walked in front with our food and the specimens we collected. Their surname was Chen. At first we called the older guide Da Chen, and the younger ones were called Xiao Chen. However, as soon as this name came out, the older guide said he dared not, while the younger ones looked unhappy. After asking, we learned that these two guides were related to each other, and the younger ones were from the uncles of another guide. No wonder this title made them dissatisfied. After knowing this situation, we adjusted the name, the older ones called Lao Chen, and the younger ones called Da Chen. As a result, everyone was very happy.

Shennongding is 3,105 meters above sea level, and the temperature here drops significantly. When a gust of wind blows, there is a bone-black cold and snowflakes float up and fallen in the sky. When we come to Fengjing Pai under Shennongding, we see thick fog lingering under the cliff, and the thousands of peaks and valleys under the cliff suddenly appear thrilling and ferocious. Da Chen is obviously an educated person. He told us that it is good luck to see fog. Because the fog in this cliff canyon is fleeting and is generally not easy to see.

I stood by the cliff and felt fear of falling into the sea of ​​fog. The fog rolled up from the bottom of the valley, slapped against the cliff like waves. You seemed to hear a whistle tsunami, as if the "savage" was "hehe" tearing the thick fog and floating in.

Da Chen said that in this area, the footprints, hair and feces of "savages" have been discovered many times, and golden monkeys are often found in groups. This is probably because the arrow bamboo on Shennong is the food of "savages" and golden monkeys! In the 1970s, the wild examination team members discovered a wonderful "nest" in the arrow bamboo forest twice. The "nest" was kneaded with 18 arrow bamboos. Each arrow bamboo was about 50 cm away. There were two piles of vaguely stools containing arrow bamboo and small animals' limbs. According to analysis, this is by no means what humans do, and stupid bears cannot do it, and the clever monkey is not as smart as this. Whose masterpiece is this?

So far, more than 300 people have found different traces of "savages" in different locations in Shennongjia and Fang County, northwestern Hubei, but no one has actually captured a "savages". Where are the "savages"? Did the sound of cannons in the 1960s shock their souls? Or did the sound of axes and halberds in the 1970s destroy their peace? Or did the transitional logging of the 1980s destroy their homes, or did the 1990s scare them away? Where do they live in the trepidation of the years? They once lived on this land for centuries and centuries, but how long can they survive here? Standing here and looking at the vast forest of arrows and bamboos, I felt sad...

Turning back from Fengjingya, you will see the boundless arrow bamboo shaking in the autumn wind. The arrow bamboo poles in August have begun to turn yellow. The arrow bamboo poles that are only 1 cm thick and thin, and the height of only 1.5 meters are all shiny and bright yellow-red. They are next to each other, with the momentum of iron walls that cannot be penetrated by needles and water cannot be poured into. Thousands of acres of arrow bamboo are arranged in a row into thousands of square formations, as majestic as the barracks!

It is said that this was the home of giant pandas a long time ago. But in some unknown era and why, all giant pandas disappeared from here...

It is said that arrow bamboo is a good material for papermaking, and many people suggest scientific development for papermaking. If it is really done, what disaster will happen to the golden monkeys, the "savages" and the giant pandas that migrate back in the future?

"At the beginning of the sky, it was just a mass of gas, a chaos, permeating the darkness. At first there was no water. After countless generations of divine people's efforts, a divine man named "Jianggu" appeared, and then he created the water.

At that time, the sky sprouted and a dew drop grew, but the dew drop was swallowed by a god named "Scamman". The "Scamman" died after swallowing the dew droplets in one bite, and his body was divided into five pieces. Then, there were the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the earth were found, and the earth had entities on the ground, and the ocean, and the Kunlun Mountains appeared.

The Kunlun Mountain spit out blood and Pangu was born. Pangu invited the sun and the moon to create the world. Finally, Pangu was dying and transformed into everything about the earth: the Five Mountains, the sun, moon, stars, rivers, lakes, seas, plants, forests, etc.

After Pangu's death, the gold, stone, plants, and beasts on the earth turned into various gods, and no humans really appeared at that time. The gods fought for each other, causing the sky to be dark until the flood was overwhelming and the sins were flooded.

In the flood, Huanglong and the Black Dragon fought again, and a god named Wu Tian came, helping Huanglong defeat the Black Dragon. Huanglong lay eggs and thanked him. Wu Tian’s Maiden swallowed the dragon egg and gave birth to three gods: one is the Lord of Heaven, one is the Lord of Earth, and the other is the Lord of Underworld.

Five dragons came in the flood, holding a large gourd and drifting in the East China Sea. The Holy Mother opened the gourd and saw a pair of brothers and sisters Fuxi and Nuwa inside. She advised them to get married. Then she gave birth to various gods who created the world. It was not until this time that humans with flesh and blood were produced."

I silently recited the summary of the content of the only creation epic of the Han people, "The Legend of Darkness", people, do you really need another flood to clear your sins?

At this moment, the green mountains on all sides of Shennongjia appear even more vast in the night, and are so dark that they are endless...

We set up camp at Shennongya, and we re-examined our previous adventures. We had explored the caves we had walked through before, so of course we would not find anything. This time we were going to explore the thousands of peaks and valleys under the cliff of Shennongya that no one had walked through. As for those two guides, we don’t have to worry, because they were all helpers invited by my business partners, so we would not stop us from going down to the cliff.

On the other hand, I had previously insisted that I would pay the wages they came from these days. Can they not listen to me after taking my money? Especially when they learned that I was the big boss who bought their mountain goods behind the scenes, they always called me "boss" and began to test the possibility of delivering goods directly to me in the future. When they heard that we were going to go down to the valley, they would only be inspired by how I could use them. In the eyes of their eyes, I had already seen countless RMB flying.

After several days of our continuous hiking ropes, we have opened up a road to the valley. Today we moved all the troops to camp in the valley. Somehow, a quiet voice began to whisper in my heart: "Time is up, are you ready?"

I turned around and said to my friends who were about to follow me down the cliff: 'Have you informed your family of this expedition?'

After receiving the affirmative answer, in order not to scare the two mountain villagers, I tried my best to say in a joking tone: "Have you made a will?"

The answer I got was their kick...

Going down the mountain, I turned around and walked down the cliff. When we placed the climbing rope, we went lightly, but this time we went down the cliff with our back equipment. In order to make the rope bear the weight of the six people we guided, we decided to try our best to keep the team away so that everyone would not be on the same rope. Only one person was allowed to move at a time, and the rest remained still and went down in turn.

Slowly we approached the valley, and fog started to appear. I looked at this. This may be the reason why we had an accident later. The fog was very large and gradually swallowed our figure. Even the two neighbors could not see each other. Maybe they were afraid of falling behind, so everyone got closer and closer, and finally something happened when I stepped on the air.

Afterwards, we recalled the scene countless times, but everyone talked about the scene at that time, but everyone had the same opinion: I stepped on a hole that had been buried for thousands of years, and six people tied to a rope fell into the cave. The last Da Chen, who came in, was stuck in the hole because the food bag on his back was too big, and was then buried by the collapsed earth and rocks. The five of us fell into a dark tunnel, which was very smooth and seemed to have been over thousands of years but remained dry. We couldn't control ourselves and finally fell into a hexagram-shaped clearing. After suffering the tear-like pain, we fainted.
Chapter completed!