Chapter 1684 Canyon Waterway

The light of dawn dispels the darkness, a round of rising sun rises from the eastern sky, and the sky is full of gorgeous morning glow.

Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu's breakfast is still cactus leaves, although it is unpalatable, but there is no other option.

After a night's rest, the wounds on Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu's feet were scarred, and walking was not so uncomfortable, so after starting again, the speed of the two was faster than yesterday.

The valley is long and narrow, and the deeper you go, the more plants appear.

At first, Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu only saw yellow weeds on the hillside, but then shrubs appeared, one here, one there, and some more than a dozen clustered together, forming a small shrub forest.

These trees gave Ning Tao hope. He longed to see a forest with small animals, rabbits, deer and so on. Then he and Bi Mingzhu could survive in the forest, and then plan the next step.

The forest did not appear, but a dense bush appeared, large and small, the big one was two or three meters high, and the small one was one meter high, covered with red fruits. In the morning light, it hangs on the branches like rubies.

"What kind of fruit is that?" Bi Mingzhu asked excitedly.

Ning Tao recognized it with just a glance: "It's wolfberry, a shrub in the nightshade family."

"Can I eat it?"

Ning Tao said: "This goji berry is a kind of medicinal material in my hometown. It nourishes yin and nourishes yang. It is good for men's kidneys. People in my hometown like to use it to make water."

"Then you should eat more." Bi Mingzhu said.

Ning Tao: "..."

When is it the turn of Tangtang Songzishen to eat wolfberry to invigorate the kidney?

However, he still ate a lot, not to nourish the kidneys, but to replenish his physical strength.

There were many weeds growing in the wolfberry forest, and he pulled some of them down.

"Old Song, what are you doing weeding?" Bi Mingzhu asked curiously.

Ning Tao came over with a handful of weeds: "Sit down."

Bi Mingzhu sat on the grass as she said, and looked at Ning Tao with eyes that seemed to guess whether Lao Song was going to tell a story, but she didn't say it.

Ning Tao squatted down,

Holding one of Bi Mingzhu's feet, he put wild grass on the bottom of the foot, twisted the wild grass into a simple rope to reinforce it, and made a simple straw sandal in a blink of an eye.

Bi Mingzhu now understood what Ning Tao was doing, and before Ning Tao could greet her, she lifted her other leg and handed a dirty jade foot in front of Ning Tao, waiting for him to give it to her. Make your own straw sandals.

Ning Tao was inexplicably moved by this one-legged posture.

Made a pair of straw sandals for Bi Mingzhu, Ning Tao also made a pair of straw sandals to wear on his feet, and then continued to walk along the river bed to the depths of the canyon.

I think back then, I didn’t even look down on lotus root silk and cloud shoes, but now I’m reduced to wearing straw sandals. The gap is nothing.

The afternoon sun was strong, and Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu came to the end of the canyon.

At the end of the canyon stands a large mountain, which is steep and has a height of five or six kilometers by visual inspection. Such a big mountain is placed on the sacred mountain, it is at most a small stone. But here, it is an insurmountable existence. Without the magic power to step on the god cloud, and without the flying sword to travel, if you want to turn over with just a pair of legs, the chance of falling to death and being disabled is more than 80%.

Ning Tao didn't find any water until he reached the end of the canyon, and the river bed of the canyon was interrupted at the foot of the mountain. Its source is on a cliff. Judging from the characteristics of the rock wall, it is not difficult to see that there used to be a waterfall on the rock wall, but now the flow has stopped, leaving only rocks that have been polished very smooth by water.

Ning Tao came here full of hope, but the scene in front of him disappointed him.

There is no forest, no water, and only some wolfberry and cactus, he can't last a few days with dissatisfaction.

Want to continue to move forward, but this mountain has become an insurmountable obstacle. He and Bi Mingzhu didn't even have a pair of shoes, no water, no food, how could they climb such a steep mountain?

Back then, the three realms could be crossed casually, up to the sacred mountain, down to the underworld, and wherever you go, all the people will bow down...

Think about the year when you fucked up.

Now it seems that most of those spells are also programs, right?

It's like special effects in a movie.

Iron Man can never fly, his armor is just a prop.

The Yitian Sword and Dragon Slaying Knives are actually made of plastic, so they can't kill people at all.

In the real world, a truth explains everything.

Bi Mingzhu sat slumped on the ground, and said dejectedly: "Old Song, don't tell me to climb this mountain, I can't climb it, and you don't want to climb it, you will fall to your death."

Ning Tao didn't speak to her, he walked towards the cliff under the waterfall.

"Old Song, are you really going to climb?" Bi Mingzhu got up and followed Ning Tao, "Don't go, you will really fall to your death."

"There's something there." Ning Tao said, and he raised his hand to point Bi Mingzhu in the direction.

In that place there are several rocks shed together with a triangular hole in the middle. It looks like rocks that fell from the mountain, and then held together, there is a gap between the rocks in the middle, and there is nothing special about it. But Ning Tao found that the sunlight did not refract after being drawn in, it was no ordinary small hole.

Song Zishen used to find holes with the soil-seeking inkstone, but now he looks for holes based on experience.

"What's in there?" Bi Mingzhu asked.

"I don't know, just go and have a look." Ning Tao said, a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.

The two came to the front of the shed, and looked past several half-height rocks piled up at the entrance of the cave, and saw a dark cave, but it was not a natural cave. The inner wall was inlaid with alloy, but it was painted black. No wonder there was no light refraction.

"Let's go in and have a look." Bi Mingzhu was a little anxious.

Ning Tao thought for a while: "Mingzhu, we have to make some preparations before we can go in. You go and pick some cactus leaves and goji berries, and I'll pick some firewood. We need torches and food before we can go in, otherwise it will be very dangerous."

The two split up.

Half an hour later, the two met at the entrance of the cave.

Bi Mingzhu picked more than 20 cactus leaves, but no wolfberry. There are a lot of goji berries in the canyon, but she has no pockets on her body, so she can't put them in. She can hold more than 20 cactus leaves, which is her limit.

Ning Tao not only broke a large bundle of firewood, but also lit a torch by drilling wood to make fire.

"Old Song, if you want to eat goji berries, I'll pick them for you when I get back. I can't take them now." Bi Mingzhu even explained to Ning Tao.

What do you mean I want to eat wolfberry?

Ning Tao was a little speechless, but he didn't say anything, and led the way into the cave.

After stepping over the large rocks that are shed together and entering the mountain, the cave becomes a man-made passage, about three meters high and three meters wide, and it is a circular passage. Such passages are definitely not used to run airplanes and cars, but rather like water pipes. Combined with the dried-up waterfall outside, this guess is very likely to be true, but there are no other possibilities, such as cable ducts or something.

A thick layer of dust had accumulated in the passage, and Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu left two rows of deep footprints where they walked, which saved the trouble of leaving marks. If there is nothing in it and it is not worth exploring, then they can follow their footprints back to the canyon and continue to be a pair of Adam and Eve eating cactus and wolfberry.

The passage was straight at first, and then extended downwards obliquely, but the slope was not very steep, only about 30 degrees. It was easy to go down, but it must be very laborious to go back.

After walking for more than a thousand meters, the torch went out, and Ning Tao picked up a new torch with the firewood on his back, held it in his hand and continued walking.

In this way, after lighting three torches, Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu walked out of the end of the circular passage. The light of the torches spread out, and there was a huge water tank with a height of hundreds of meters and a width of several hundred meters. There were also huge pumps and pipes for pumping water, as well as ladders for maintenance.

The sink and pipes are made of alloy, without rust, and are in good condition, but the water pump and pipes in the sink are not, and have long been decayed. There was a heap of rust beside the pump and under the pipes, and even that was weathered.

Fortunately, the ladder was also made of alloy, so it wasn't rusted, just a little bit of weathering. Otherwise, Ning Tao and Bi Mingzhu would not be able to climb up with bare hands.

"Old Song, this place is so strange." Bi Mingzhu sighed.

Ning Tao said: "There are water tanks and water pumps, which means that this place is inhabited. I guess it is probably an underground city. There are ladders there. Let's climb up and have a look."

"En." Bi Mingzhu replied.

Ning Tao came to the ladder with a torch and stretched out his hand to pull it. Some dust fell from the ladder, but it was still solid, and there were no signs of slag falling or shaking that made people afraid to climb.

Then Ning Tao made some preparations again. He opened the firewood on his back, sandwiched the cactus leaves in Bi Mingzhu's hand among the firewood, tied them up again with straw ropes, and finally carried the firewood on his back again. back.

These cactus leaves are not only food for him and Bi Mingzhu, but also his and Bi Mingzhu's life, they cannot be left behind.

"Mingzhu, you climb up with me, be careful." Ning Tao warned.

Bi Mingzhu simply leaned over and patted Ning Tao's cheeks: "Be careful too."

Ning Tao's heart felt a little warm, and he had a premonition that he would have to tell her a story the next time he rested after a full stomach.

Ning Tao bit the torch in his mouth, then grabbed the ladder and climbed up.

It may seem like a trivial thing to climb a ladder, but it is actually very dangerous. Ordinary people, how many people dare to climb a 100-meter-high ladder in the real world, going straight up and down? If you don't pay attention, you will fall down and die, and I don't know how long this ladder has been built, so there is no guarantee that nothing is loose or something.

This is the real situation after the freshman, without those dazzling special effects spells, and without those exaggerated magic weapons, all Ning Tao can use is his hands and feet. The dangers that can kill an ordinary man can kill him as well. So he crawled carefully, but not too slowly, for the torches would not stay burning.

The fucking real world.

The 100-meter ladder soon came to an end, and Ning Tao climbed up. He didn't care to look at the situation outside the tank, so he turned around and stretched out his hand to pull Bi Mingzhu.

Bi Mingzhu also climbed up.

Only then did Ning Tao hold the torch high and walked towards the edge of the sink platform.

When they reached the edge of the sink platform, the fire radiated out, and a part of the scene in the dark space came towards them, and the two people standing side by side were stunned on the spot.