genius divination

Chapter 1416
"Scholar, it's not that we don't trust you. How much do you really know about this place?" Fan Jiannan said a little uneasy as he walked up the rocky road on the mountain.

"Let's put it this way, I've been here for two or three years. I usually live on the mountain, and I occasionally go down the mountain to find some food. Because Balta's place is relatively close, I often go to his place. He is a restaurant owner, and sometimes he has spare time. I will eat some of the food, and it will be cooked once I come and go." The scholar sighed, "If you want to ask me how familiar I am, I can only say that I have traveled almost all the places below the snow line in the past two or three years. The place."

"Hey, you are really good. So you can be regarded as half of the mountain people. Are you planning to live in this mountain for the rest of your life?" Fan Jiannan said with a smile.

"Actually, it doesn't count. It's just that I'm a little tired of going outside and want to be quiet here. Maybe after a while, I'll get tired of this place and go to another place. Who knows what will happen in the future?" The scholar's smile was a little lonely .

"I know." Fan Jiannan said with a smile, "I'm a fortune teller."

"If this is the case, do you still need me to lead the way? If you do some divination, don't you know where you are going?" The scholar smiled and shook his head.

"In theory, it is indeed possible, but even if you know where to go, you still need to know how to go. For example, I know that I want to go to the opposite side, but which way to go, I need a guide, don't I?" Fan Jiannan looked down. Looking at the map, he said, "Just now, I was patronizing and talking, where are we now?"

The scholar looked around, leaned on a trekking pole, and pointed on the map, "We are currently at this position. Our progress should be faster than now. But you asked me to follow the route on that map, so It seems a bit of a detour. If I go directly in that direction according to my walking method, I can save at least an hour's journey."

"No, you must strictly follow the directions on the map." Wu Nanming said immediately.

"That's up to you, but we certainly won't be able to walk much today. It would be nice to be able to reach the place on the blueprint when the sun goes down. Just right, I remember there is a forest there. We can camp there at night." The scholar said indifferently .

"Is the forest here safe?" Fan Jiannan frowned.

"There are roe deer and blue sheep, and there are also brown bears, but they are not common, and they can only be found in the depths of the dense forest. The only thing to be careful at night is the lynx. This kind of big cat not only likes to steal your food, but also when you are hungry. And aggressiveness." The scholar said, "I have been attacked by this kind of animal, once it stole my food reserves for three days."

Long Ge smiled and said, "It's okay, we don't have much food, because Fang Min will send it up from below."

"Then there's no problem." The scholar pointed to the forest on the opposite side and said, "It's over there. I don't know why you have to take a long detour."

"So close?" Fan Jiannan frowned.

"It's just close, but Wangshan is a dead horse. If you really want to get there, you have to go a long way." The scholar shook his head.

Fan Jiannan went to the back and said to Wu Nanming, "Mr. Wu, do we really have to make a detour?"

"What do you think? Why have other people never been there, and no one has ever seen the legendary five cities and twelve floors? Because it is hidden. If we don't follow the prescribed steps, we will I can’t find it at all.” Wu Nanming shook his head and said, “Of course I also know that going straight is the closest. But that’s useless.”

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "Actually, I also felt this way. It seems that walking along this prescribed route is really different from walking in other places."

"Oh? What do you feel?" Wu Nanming frowned.

"I don't know, it's just a feeling." Fan Jiannan shook his head and said, "This road is a bit unusual."

Long Ge stopped and looked around, and suddenly stood there dumbfounded as if he had been hit by something. "Professor Long, old dragon? You... what's wrong with you?" Fan Jiannan saw that his expression was a little strange, and asked him quickly, "Old dragon, what's wrong with you?"

"I know there is a problem." Long Ge suddenly whispered, "Not only is there a problem, but there is a serious problem."

"What's wrong?" Fan Jiannan couldn't help being surprised.

Long Ge took a deep breath and said, "Look at the sun in the sky."

"The sun?" Fan Jiannan turned his head, squinted his eyes and said, "Isn't the sun still the same sun? What's so strange, it doesn't come out from the west."

Long Ge smiled wryly, "Look carefully again. The position of the sun is not on the north side."

"North?" Fan Jiannan frowned, "It seems to be. What's wrong?"

"Because this is absolutely impossible to happen under normal circumstances." Long Ge said slowly.

"That's right, the sun's position cannot be northerly." Wu Nanming stared at the sun in the sky, frowning.

Fatty Zhang came up and said, "Why?"

Fan Jiannan suddenly came to his senses, "This is common sense of geography. We are in the northern hemisphere. Because there is a certain angle between the earth's rotation axis and the sun, and China is in the northern hemisphere, and it is north of the Tropic of Cancer. The Tropic of Cancer. So in China, the sun is always in the south at noon.”

"That's right, this problem is related to our latitude. Only when we are in the southern hemisphere can the sun be on the northerly side. So this is absolutely impossible." Long Ge said solemnly . "I don't know what happened, but maybe it has something to do with us going the route we planned."

"Could this be due to the refraction of light and the illusion of sight." Fan Jiannan frowned, "How is it possible? Of course we are in the northern hemisphere, and even elementary school students know this?"

Wu Nanming nodded, "You see, that's why I insist on going this way. The road map reflected in Tianchi must have an irreplaceable role. Forget it, let's continue walking instead of being in a daze here."

Fan Jiannan and Feng Yuan looked at each other in disbelief.The scholar stared at the sky strangely for a long time, and shouted evil.

However, although this road is farther away, the terrain seems to be very flat, and the walk is not tiring.After walking for a while, Wu Nanming and Fan Jiannan took advantage of the break to carefully inspect the road they had traveled, and found many ancient traces.The weathered stones on these roads seem to be the original mountain roads, and there are faint traces of artificial arrangement.

It is only because of the extremely long age that these rocks gradually weathered and shattered under natural conditions, and gradually revealed their current appearance.This discovery made both Wu Nanming and Fan Jiannan feel a little excited, which shows that the route they are currently taking is correct.This is an ancient road, a very old road.

In the evening, they came to the small woods.Several people started to set up the camping tent. At this time, Fang Min, who followed from behind, also arrived, bringing them food and drinking water.

What made Fatty Zhang happiest was that Fang Min brought his favorite mutton.It doesn't matter to the scholar, he has always eaten very rough, as long as he can control his fullness.

The night on the mountain is a bit cold. Although it is still far away from the snow line, the mountain wind is still a bit cold.

Fan Jiannan and others built a circle of stones not far from the tent, and lit a bonfire to drive out the cold.

Seeing that the scholar was not warming up, Fatty Zhang frowned and said, "Don't you feel cold?"

The scholar looked at them and said, "I'm used to it, but it will only get colder if we go up again. We will need warm clothes."

"There is no problem with this. I will try to transport it up the mountain tomorrow. There are also some other supplies that will be transported up first. By the way, I have a marine phone here, which is fully charged. You may bring it with you. You need to contact me. I have basically been at the foot of the mountain to guarantee your supplies these days. If you need anything, you can find me." Fang Min said with a smile.

"Thank you, it's really useful. If there is anything we need, we can contact you in time." Long Ge nodded.

After a long day of trekking, they were a little tired and rested at the campsite.The next morning, Fang Min separated from them, went down the mountain to prepare other necessary equipment and supplies, and then transported them to this temporary camp first.When Fan Jiannan and others continue to go to higher places, it will be more convenient and quicker to transport them up from this camp.

Now the ground is still full of green grass, like a brocade like a blanket, and all life is bursting with vitality. After climbing up for another day, it gradually feels cool, and the grass is not as green as before, but starts to turn yellow.Fan Jiannan and others, led by the scholar, had already climbed halfway up the mountain, and the scenery on the mountain began to become desolate.

It had been two days, and their journey was only halfway through.There were swampy depressions in the valley, but under the leadership of the scholar, they avoided them carefully. By the third day, they had already begun to approach the snow line.On this day, Fang Min brought a lot of things, such as down jackets, sweaters and wool trousers, jackets, waterproof gloves, woolen hats, and mountain goggles.

There are also some spare climbing equipment, hiking boots and crampons, knotted ropes, long ice axes and the like.Most of it he got from the mountaineering camps.

But the scholar thought it was unnecessary, because according to the route map, the place they were going to should be a little near the snow line, and they didn't need these things.But keep it for a rainy day.

On the fourth day, they encountered a big problem. The drawings showed that there was still a third of the distance, but in fact there was no road.

"Scholar, are you leading the way?" Fatty Zhang asked suspiciously, "There will be no way then?"

The scholar sighed and said, "Look at the drawing for yourself, we are here now, everything before is correct, I have carefully checked it. Even the GPS positioning shows that we are walking in the right direction .But there is indeed no road here, and I even wonder if there is something wrong with your original planned route.”

Wu Nanming shook his head and said, "The road map is absolutely correct."

"But there is really no road here, and I definitely did not lead the wrong way." The scholar said a little depressed.

Fan Jiannan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Fatty Zhang just has a temper and speaks out loud. We didn't say you were leading the wrong way. Come, sit down and rest." After speaking, he turned to Wu Nanming again , "Mr. Wu, the scholar and I have been walking in front. Basically, we have been looking at the map. I can be sure that he did not lead the wrong way. Even the satellite positioning is correct. We are now on the third of this route. The second part. But there is really no way now."

In front of them is a cliff, and it is a cliff that looks very dangerous.

"But this is impossible. Could it be that the Tianchi road map will be wrong?" Wu Nanming frowned.

At this time, Long Ge frowned after taking a few steps on the spot, "Do you think it's because of other unexpected reasons?"

"What are other accidental reasons?" Fatty Zhang asked in amazement.

Long Ge explained, "Look, no matter how you say it, the road map of Tianchi Reflection should be very old."

"Indeed." Fan Jiannan nodded.

"But over the years, has the landform on this mountain not changed at all? Avalanches, earthquakes, and even long-term weathering may destroy the original roads and form the cliffs we see now. It is not impossible. "Long Ge explained, "Take me as an example, it doesn't take so long at all, just take out a photo from more than [-] years ago, he used to be a handsome guy, look at me now."

Feng Yuan was laughed at by him, "Now you are also a handsome uncle."

Long Ge said with a wry smile, "I'm just giving you an example. Maybe after this picture, the landform has changed. So even if we took the right route, the blueprint and the current road conditions are already in line with each other." No more numbers."

"It should be like this." Wu Nanming sighed, "This is an unexpected problem. Jiannan, how do you think we can solve it?"

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "Then there is nothing to say, the only way now is to take a detour. Scholar, think again, is it possible to take a detour and go directly to the next location on the predetermined road?"

"It's a way to get there, but it's a bit risky." The scholar thought for a while, "Because in that case, we have to go south and turn over the Jiangjiang Ditch to get up to Daban before we can reach the opposite side, and this road is It is relatively steep. There is a section of the path that is even close to the mountain wall and is only less than three feet wide. One side is a mountain wall and the other side is a cliff. It is very dangerous."

"So, are you sure you can reach the other side of the cliff?" Wu Nanming thought for a while.

"I'm sure, I've walked that road too. That narrow path is famous in the legend, it's called the Half Trail. The slope there reaches an astonishing 70 degrees, and climbers have to traverse south. It's very difficult. If you don't pay attention, you will slip down and be crushed." The scholar said slowly, "

Even professional mountaineering teams rarely go there. "

"As long as we can reach the opposite side, we will try anyway." Wu Nanming said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)