Zhang Wangxiong arrived at Tiexu Cliff at noon because he had to take the high-speed rail to Beijing South Station first, and then rent a car to Zhangfang Town. While on the high-speed rail, Zhang Wangxiong used his mobile phone to surf the Internet and suddenly searched for an instant news about Tiexu Cliff. It was not a formal media report, but a spontaneous news uploaded by netizens.

The opposite bank of the river beach where Tiesuo Cliff is located has started real estate development in recent years. There are already a bunch of tall buildings, and many of them have been renovated and moved in. After 8:30 in the morning, someone was drying clothes in the closed balcony. When he looked up at the horizon, he suddenly realized something was wrong. A mirage appeared in the sky above Tiesuo Cliff.

It was originally a cloudless sunny day, but a streamer-shaped white cloud appeared in the sky. Looking closely, it did not look like clouds, but a snow field that floated in the sky. At the end of the snow field is a river, but there is no snow on the other side of the river. It is a mountain scene in winter, with yellow grass on the hillside and fallen leaves and trees dotted with a little evergreen color.

There are occasionally black spots moving over the rolling hills, so they should be flying birds, because the distance is too far and you can't see clearly...

Someone quickly picked up his phone and took a photo. There were images and videos, and they posted them on his Moments or uploaded them to the Internet. Zhang Wangxiong, who was sitting in the high-speed rail, happened to search for news about the Iron Lock Cliff and immediately discovered it. He was surprised that a mirage appeared above the Iron Lock Cliff at this time. Is it the scene of the outside world of Jinshanyuan?

In principle, the mirage phenomenon is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere. Many people claim that the scenes that appear in the mirage cannot find the corresponding place in the real world, so it should come from another world. This is actually a rumor or misrepresentation. Many scenes in the mirage can actually find the corresponding place in reality.

To give an example, at around 4:30 pm on May 20, 2014, a mirage appeared in Xinsha Port in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. The scene in the sky is the iconic landscape "Little Waist" tower of Guangzhou City. The distance from Guangzhou Xiaowaist to Dongguan Xinsha Port is about 20 kilometers. The mirage phenomenon occurs within such a distance, which is completely in line with the principle of light refraction in the atmosphere.

But there are some mirage phenomena that are difficult to explain. Some really cannot find the corresponding place in reality, at least there is no such place near the sighting site. If it is a very distant and unfamiliar place in the world, it cannot be explained by only light refraction, because the size of the scenery in the vision is completely wrong.

Although the mirage that appeared on the Iron Lock Cliff surprised those who saw it and was also amazed on the Internet, its scene was a snow field and mountains, and there were not many special things, so not many people thought of other places. Only those who were interested in Zhang Wangxiong felt something was wrong.

This mirage disappeared after less than half an hour. Calculate the time, Ding Qi and Xian Hao came out of the Beast Kingdom at around 8:30, and then hurried away with Tan Hanchuan. They did not see the scene of the mirage that appeared later. If Ding Qi had seen it at that time, he would have recognized that it was the Beast Kingdom!

"Cleaner" Xiao Jiang waited until 9:30 before he arrived under the iron cliff. At that time, the mirage had disappeared. Instead, Zhang Wangxiong on the high-speed rail immediately learned the news.

Many strange phenomena in this world are often not discovered by those who stay in the local area, and even those who have caused them to appear do not realize it at that time, such as this time.

Zhang Wangxiong came to the iron cliff. Xiao Jiang was waiting here. There was still the garbage basket at his feet, but there was no garbage in the basket. Zhang Wangxiong asked him if he had seen a mirage? Xiao Jiang was confused. He didn't know about it at all.

Even if Xiao Jiang arrived before nine o'clock, his position was on the river beach under the cliff, his vision was blocked by the high cliff, and he could not see the mirage in the sky above the cliff. The upper floor of the community on the other side of the river was the best view.

Zhang Wangxiong walked around the area around the Tiexuao Cliff again, and felt a little dumbfounded. He had been here for a long time and knew that it was impossible for one person to monitor such a large area on the cliff or under the cliff. However, in a hurry this time, he could not mobilize a large number of people. Fortunately, he came with equipment and quietly installed some things with Xiao Jiang at the top and bottom of the cliff.

Tian Zhongluo also visited the Iron Lock Cliff with the two magic weapons. Although he did not find the portal to enter the Jinshan Courtyard, he also pointed out the approximate location of the portal, which should be in the middle of the crevice that runs through the entire cliff from top to bottom. Zhang Wangxiong could not install monitoring equipment at all positions in the 120-meter crevices, but it is easy to deal with. Just monitor the bottom and top.

Last time, he was able to install a wiretaper in Zhu Shanxian's car. This time, the equipment that can be installed in the wild is more complete. Eavesdroppers and micro cameras are installed in the hidden rock cracks, both of which are inductive triggers. The receiving device is connected to a tablet computer, which can monitor and record audio and video signals at any time. He left the device to Xiao Jiang.

In many film and television works, the surveillance equipment used by spies seems to be omnipotent, and can monitor the hidden situation in a certain place at any time, thousands of miles apart, but the actual situation is far less exaggerated, and there are various restrictions.

For example, this kind of micro monitor installed in the field is an active device. It consumes power when recording and transmitting signals. It is impossible to connect to the power supply. It can only rely on the battery it carries. The working time and the distance that can receive signals are very limited. Therefore, someone has to stare at it, replace the battery at any time and receive the signal at any time, and then transmit it to Zhang Wangxiong through the network.

Zhu Shanxian and others have long disappeared, and Zhang Wangxiong could not stay in this wilderness indefinitely. He had to go back to work in the office. There were many things that were convenient for being in the public office, but there were many things that were inconvenient. He told Xiao Jiang again, and returned to Xiaojin City at night, and arrived at the station almost in the early morning.

As soon as Zhang Wangxiong walked out of the high-speed rail station, news came from Xiao Jiang. There was a movement on the iron-locked cliff. Someone triggered the surveillance equipment and took a video. Although it was not clear, it could be seen that a total of six people climbed down the rock crack from the top of the cliff. However, the equipment at the bottom of the cliff did not trigger, indicating that they arrived at the middle of the rock crack...

Zhang Wangxiong felt a fire rising up at that time. Why did Zhu Shanxian and his team appear again as soon as he left? It took about four and a half hours to take the high-speed rail from Xiaojin City to Beijing South Station. Then from Beijing South Station to Tiexu Cliff, it would take two and a half hours to get fast, and it would be at least six hours in total. This was still a situation where he did not delay the journey, and no other time was calculated.

One day and one night, Zhang Wangxiong had already run back and forth and didn't even sleep well. Do you have to rush over again? If you want to rush back, there are no flights or high-speed trains. It took too long to drive or take the ordinary train, more than a thousand kilometers! Even if you set off immediately now and wait for him to arrive at the Tie Suo Cliff, Zhu Shanxian and others would have left long ago, and he had something else at work in the morning.

Zhang Wangxiong finally sighed and had to instruct Xiao Jiang to continue to keep an eye on it, and he should not miss the movement. Xiao Jiang is now in a miserable state. In the middle of winter, he is wearing a down jacket and guarding the hidden place near the Iron Lock Cliff. Not only can he not sleep, but he also has to spend the night in the wild. What kind of evil has he committed?

But Xiao Jiang is not wronged at all. He has many handles to Zhang Wangxiong. If the evidence of crime is verified by the police, it will be enough to pull it out and shoot it several times. Xiao Jiang, who was trembling with cold night, still had a trace of expectation in his heart. He hoped that this time there would be substantial discoveries, and he hoped that Zhu Shanxian and others would not make trouble anymore, otherwise he would have to stay on the iron cliff for the New Year.

Zhu Shanxian and six others climbed down the Iron Lock Cliff after they entered the night. To be safe, they left several ropes at different positions and heights. Some ropes were very hidden and could not be discovered without climbing down with their bare hands. When they came to the small platform that was sunken inward in the rock gap, Xian Hao walked into the beast country with a dry bone knife in his hand.

If from the perspective of the bystander, her figure seemed to disappear out of thin air into the cliff under the moonlight, like a ghost. However, the haunting is not over yet. After a while, she seemed to have walked out of thin air out of thin air into the cliff, nodding at Ding Qi, "Your plan is feasible. After I go in, I still transform into an egret, but I still retain my self-awareness."

The platform space in the rock gap is limited, so three people can only stand. Zhuang Mengzhou also stood up, while Zhu Shanxian, Tan Hanchuan and Shang Ni were still climbing on the rock wall above. Zhuang Mengzhou said with great interest: "Oh, then I'll go in first!" As he said that, he walked into the beast country with the first holding Jing Wenshi.

Next was Ding Qi, Xian Hao, Shang Ni, and Zhu Shanxian entering one after another, and Tan Hanchuan was the last one to come in. Ding Qi came to the Beast Kingdom again, and what he saw was still the snow field under the moonlight. When he turned around, he saw that the egret was standing beside him, and there was another bird next to the egret. Ding Qi or the white horse had good eyesight. With the help of the moonlight on the snow field, he could recognize that this was a blue-feathered magpie.

Ding Qi once saw this bird in the mountainous area of ​​his hometown. The blue feathers are very beautiful, and the wing roots are dotted with black and white patterns. They usually appear in deep mountains with higher altitudes. The ordinary blue-feathered magpie is only the size of a rock pigeon and its beak is red, while the blue-feathered magpie is obviously much larger. If you lift your neck and stretch it straighten it, it is almost as tall as Shangni, and the bird's beak is beautiful and bright yellow.

This is still under the moonlight. If it were under the sunlight during the day, the magpie would look more conspicuous and beautiful. The magpie looked a little funny at this moment, twisting its neck and tilting its head downwards, trying to turn its eyes to look at itself, and at the same time making a chirping sound of birds.

The bird's song came to my ears, and the thought that appeared in my mind was: "Wow, I'm like this! What kind of bird is this? It's so beautiful!"

Needless to say, this is just a mountain magpie, it should be Shang Ni. If her body is a few sizes smaller, her feather color is not so bright, but it looks a bit like the hunting falcon unique to Xiaojing Lake, the kind of bird that Shang Ni often plays with her big net bag. At this moment, Ding Qi suddenly heard a howl again, the sound was very loud and vibrating, which could scare people.

The white horse seemed to be frightened, jumped forward and turned around and looked around. There was an elephant standing behind it, with a long nose and a pair of long white ivory. The breed should be Asian elephants. Next to the elephant, there was another big guy with gray-white skin as thick as armor, and two upright horns with long and short on the bridge of the nose. It turned out to be a rhino. The breed should be Suman rhinoceros or a Chinese rhinoceros that had long been extinct in the wild.

The frightened magpie flew up and landed on the rhino's back. She looked at the elephant and chirped, "Are you Senior Brother Zhu?"

The elephant's voice softened, she twisted her head and asked, "Why can't I be Lao Tan?"

Shan Magpie: "With the pig's nose, you finally become an elephant."

The rhino smiled and made a simple and dull voice. Shang Ni did not admit his mistake. It was Tan Hanchuan, and the elephant was Zhu Shanxian. Shang Ni flapped her wings and flew up and said, "Hey, where is Mr. Zhuang? I still want to see what he has become, why has he disappeared?"

The white horse, egret, elephant, and rhino all twisted their heads and looked around, but they didn't see another beast. The white horse wondered, "Mr. Zhuang was the first to come in, why did it disappear in a blink of an eye? Will he become a bird and fly away? No footprints left on the ground."

Zhu Shanxian: "Mr. Zhuang may have gone to the front, so we will go to the front to find it. I don't know if I can recognize it when I meet. There should be other beasts here, right?"

Ding Qi recalled: "I walked to the river at the end of the snowfield yesterday. There should be other animals on the hills on the other side of the river. At least I saw birds flying by the treetops."

Shang Ni: "Will Mr. Zhuang be in danger? He should stop encountering a big tiger, let's go find him!" As she said that, she flew up again, as if she wanted to search for it in the distance.

The elephant raised her nose and shouted, "Little girl, come back quickly! Don't fly around, just let Teacher Ding lead the way."

Rhino said, "Teacher Ding, let's take the road that day yesterday. The snow has not melted, and there are horse hoof prints on the ground. If Mr. Zhuang goes forward, he should follow this direction. He will not run around and let us not find it."

The white horse ran forward along the footprints left by yesterday. Elephants and rhinos followed behind it. Snow splashed on the withered grass leaves, and even the earth was trembling gently. The egret shouted: "Ding Qi, don't run so fast, don't let the two big guys slip. If you twist your legs, it will be not easy to help it up."

The white horse slowed down, and the egret landed on the horse's back again, but carefully avoided scratching the horse. The magpies were still hovering left and right in the air, looking very happy.

The egret let out a chirping sound, and the sound was very sharp and penetrating. It was conveyed by the beasts: "Little girl, come down quickly, don't fly randomly! Don't you think the faster you fly, the more blurred your consciousness?"

The magpie seemed to be awakened, and it closed its wings and landed on the elephant's back, chirping and saying, "Sister Xian, this is true. I just flew so hard that I almost forgot who I was, so I treated myself as a magpie. If you hadn't suddenly reminded me, I would have turned into a magpie."

Xian Hao: "I was not awake when I came in last time. This time I flew for a while and realized something was wrong. The will of this world can not only make us manifest different images of beasts, but also affect our minds and get lost if we are not careful."

Birds fly are instincts, and people cannot fly. Even if they suddenly become a bird, they lack flying skills and physical memory in their subconscious mind. However, the magpies and egrets fly up like this, entering a state of selflessness in this world, and inadvertently treating themselves as a bird, so that they can fly so freely.

The more you fall into this state, the more blurred the original consciousness will be. If you don’t react in time, even if you are awake when you come in, you will probably gradually get lost in this world.

Rhino screamed in a depressed voice: "Sister Sister Xian reminded not only the little girl, but also all of us."

The beasts continued to move forward. Although Shangni no longer flew in the sky, she still flapped her wings and jumped back and forth from the cow's back and forth on the elephant's back. Suddenly, she said: "I don't seem to know how to fly anymore. The more I reminded me who I am, the less I can't fly."

The direct communication of spirit, the information contained not only in language, but also in other thoughts, and everyone understood what she meant. Baima replied: "This is normal, because you can't fly at first, and retaining your sober will also limit the instinct of a mountain magpie."

The magpie is not completely unable to fly, and can still flap its wings and glide for a long distance, but its posture is obviously not as free as before. At this moment, it is more like a person than a magpie. Shang Ni muttered, "Can I fly freely like a magpie and keep my will clear, so that I feel more comfortable!"

The elephant smiled and said, "I understand why you became a magpie."

Rhino thought, "Maybe your cultivation level is not yet home, the rules of this world are very wonderful."

At this time, the egret twisted its neck on the horse's back and said, "Don't you think it's strange that two such animals appear in such a snow field?"

Shan Que: "What's strange? This is a beast country!"

Ding Qi explained: "Asian elephants and rhinos are tropical animals, how can they run in the snow? This world is really interesting!"

They walked forward but never noticed Zhuang Mengzhou. When the sky was bright, they finally arrived at the riverside again. A group of sparrows flew over from the mountains and forests on the other side, as if they were scared away by something, making noisy sounds while flying.

Ding Qi actually understood the sparrow's screams - a big monster came over there, it was so terrible. I didn't dare to get close, so I hurriedly avoided... Oh, a few big monsters came over here... Hum? It seemed not that scary.

Birds can't speak. Ding Qi just understood their thoughts, and then translated them into human-like language in his mind, roughly expressing this meaning. He made a horse's neighing and said, "This group of sparrows seemed to say that there was a big monster in the forest over there, maybe it was Mr. Zhuang. Let's go and take a look."

Shang Ni jumped up excitedly, flapped her wings and shook her feathers, "Oh, Mr. Zhuang has become a monster, let's go and see!"
Chapter completed!