Chapter 38 Danxia and Jinsha
On his way back, he first picked a piece of grass and then ate something called "Danxia pulp". This detail really caught my attention.
The "pulp" must be something crushed into a thick juice. Since the grass was picked first, could this "Danxia" be the fruit of that grass?
One of the purposes of our trip is the immortal grass on Penglai Island. Guiguzi calls the immortal grass yangshenzhi, and also says that its leaves are like wild rice, and wild rice is similar to wild rice.
My dad used to have a specialty dish called Wild Rice Stir-fried Pork. Now that I think about it, the wild rice fruits are wrapped in layers in the center of the leaves. You really have to cut down the entire grass before you can peel out the contents!
So following Dongfang Shuo's route, from Zinihai to Yuyuan, and then from Yuyuan to a place where wild rice grows, can we find the fairy grass and "Danxia"?
I got excited and couldn't help but start running. Wang Bo in the early Tang Dynasty once wrote a little-known poem called "Huaixian":
There are strange paths in Hecen, the home of rich immortals in Linzhou, the purple spring rinsing liquid, and the basalt Danxia.
I feel that my current state is like a humanoid computer. As soon as a few keywords come out, I can immediately match my ideas one by one!
I have already seen the Ziquan Pearl Wash, and Danxia in the Black Rock, doesn’t it mean that the Danxia is on the Black Rock?
I'm not a geologist, but I do know what basalt is!
In the geography book in the first semester of high school, there was a whole chapter on the formation and classification of granite, volcanic rock, and limestone. I remember that among the classification of volcanic rocks, there was something called basalt.
It is formed by the cooling of magma ejected from a volcano. There is also a large color picture in the book. From the surface, it looks like a solid foam, densely covered with many small pores.
My deskmate has trypophobia. When I have nothing to do, I often open that page of color pictures and make him sick, so he is very impressed!
That means that Penglai jelly grass grows on volcanic rocks, and the place where Penglai Island produces this stone must be on the Full Moon Volcano that the mouse mentioned!
I couldn't help but get excited and jumped up and down on the purple mud beach! I accidentally slipped to the ground, and I still grinned with joy.
This clue about the fairy grass was unexpectedly discovered by me through various chances and coincidences!
There are too many clues and mysteries in Penglai Island. I am a curious baby, and my heart has been suppressed all the way. It is very comfortable to finally figure out one of them now!
I was full of energy and wanted to get up and keep walking, but when I lowered my head, I found a few small bright lights mixed with stars on the ground.
The moonlight was quite bright at the moment. I glanced around. The scenery was beautiful and strange: the coast and the sea here were both purple. Near the water source, there were many small shiny dots scattered all over. They were only like grains of sand.
It is small in size, but it reflects the light of the moon very beautifully.
I lay on the ground and dug for a long time before I separated a particle of luminous substance from a handful of purple soil. It was smaller than I imagined and could not be seen if I pinched it between my fingers. But I don’t know why, but it gave off a glow.
Particularly attractive to me!
I pinched it in the white cloth on my body, and I could barely tell that it was actually golden.
Damn it! My mind suddenly became hot, this couldn’t be gold!
I know that there are two main sources of gold on the market: the first is mining gold ore, and the second is sifting underwater gold sand.
It seems that there have been several gold rushes in the United States. People who dreamed of getting rich have devoted themselves to the work of fishing for river mud, with the purpose of sifting out these precious golden particles!
Legend has it that the immortals in Penglai all live in the Golden and Jade Palace. The weirdo and I did see a group of golden buildings on the cliff. Such a small island hidden in a turtle shell should not have gold deposits, but Guixu is said to be the source of water in the world.
Wherever they gather, it is not impossible to find gold sand.
If I could find a handful of gold sand and bring it back, wouldn’t it be a fortune?!
I felt like my eyes had turned into the shape of money! In human nature, gold has been an absolutely attractive thing since ancient times. At this moment, I didn’t care about meeting earlier or later, and just lay down on the ground.
Like a piggy on the ground, it started flipping over like a pig!
Gold! Gold!
I was a little out of control, and the entire flat coast was dug into thousands of gorges by me. I was so tired that my back ached, and I got four or five gold sands, but not only was I not satisfied, but I was even more greedy! Looking at the distance
The long shimmering coast made me so anxious that I could not wait to pack up all this purple sand and take it home!
I climbed farther and farther, just messing around with the earth. I didn't know if I had reached the bottom of the cliff. My ten fingers were in terrible pain, but I couldn't stop for a while!
"Ding-ding-"
There was a sound of metal colliding from the front.
I couldn't think about who was in front of me. My whole head was filled with tiny grains of golden sand. My body had completely started to pan for gold automatically and uncontrollably. I didn't want to stop this action, so I listened to the increasing volume of the metal sound.
, while continuing to move forward and slowly approach.
In the hazy mist, I vaguely saw a white figure. His back was turned to me. He had a white beard and a white robe. He was kneeling on the ground in the same posture as me, and he was also carefully searching for the gold sand on the ground.
Is it the immortal whose skull was cut open to lay eggs?
But his movements are almost as agile as mine, and he doesn't look like a corpse controlled by black wasp larvae.
Could it be a living Penglai person?
No, it’s two!
Not far from his side, another one crawled over!
The operation in my hand was sluggish for a moment. What kind of reaction would they have if they saw me?
"Ding——ding——"
The sound of metal sounded again, and I actually saw the old track on the Shark!
His position on the ship is chief engineer, and his status seems to be very high, but at this moment, his hands and feet are tied with iron chains, like a slave, and he is groping for the land not far away from the two white-haired old men.
!
The old man was facing me, he obviously saw me!
He didn't have the fanatical expression on my face. Instead, he looked like he was about to cry. He held his head high and opened his mouth, but he didn't make any sound.
I saw a large dark red scab on his throat, which was in the same position as the old man killed by the black bee.
I opened my mouth to respond to him, but my mouth was suddenly covered by a big hand behind me. Then I was lifted up and evacuated from the Zini Coast without making any sound, moving towards a jungle in the distance!
I was completely stunned! My mind had not yet moved away from the temptation of gold sand, and it was even more impossible for me to know who the person who took me away was!
I was like a bag of rice being carried on my shoulders, and I couldn't see the person underneath me at all. When I came back to my senses and started thinking, my heart suddenly went cold: It was probably the God of the Sea!
It's over, it's over, I'm going to have a baby. If I had known this, I might as well have crashed to death in front of the hive!
I grinned and was about to cry, but suddenly I realized that crying would be useless. I also promised myself not to be so squeamish anymore. Now that I am not at the end of my rope, I will have someone to support me until I die!
With this in mind, I quickly adjusted my position, stretched my hand back, and prepared to gouge out Poseidon's eyes!
Guessing that the timing was about right, I opened my hand and actually touched something thorny and hairy!
It seems like hair?
Poseidon has no hair on his head!
"Little sister, if you continue to cause trouble, I won't care about you." A deep male voice came over.
"Human? You are a human!" When I heard this, I felt warm in my heart. It was like I had found a person of the same race! I was not familiar with his voice, so I quickly asked, "Which group of people are you from?"
From the Shark?”
"no."
"Are you a resident of Penglai Island?"
"No."
"Are you a resident of Penglai Island?" The yes-man in my stomach seemed to have woken up, and he began to chat with me unwillingly.
"You drank purple water, right?"
"Drink..." I replied with great regret.
"You drank purple water, right?" he repeated again.
"Drink..." The yes-man in my stomach answered for me.
"You drank purple water, right?"
I suddenly realized that the person carrying me also had a bug in his belly!
He didn't seem to have any ill intentions, so I kept my mouth shut and listened silently to the questions and answers that the two of them had in mind.
The endless purple has been out of my sight for a long time, replaced by a lush green forest.
He stepped on the friendly aqua blue ripples and put me on a small boat. Then he climbed up and started rowing the oars facing me.
I was in a trance and returned to the water forest where I first landed on the island. The difference was that one was on the cliff and the other was under the cliff; one was hiking and the other was boating; one was with weirdos and the other met strange insect friends.
"In which year did you go to sea?" He opened his mouth and got straight to the point.
"December 2008, what about you?"
"08! 2008?" His eyes widened in surprise.
"Yes, in Olympic year, you...you are a soldier! When did you come in?"
I saw that he was wearing a shirt with many holes in it, and his trousers were tied into black boots. He was dressed like the old army.
His hair style looks a little bit like a dog's gnaw, and this face is completely unfamiliar to me.
He is definitely not the one who came down with the Shark. Judging from his grasp of the route, he has been on the island for a long time. I guess he should be like a mouse and fell into the island through a shipwreck many years ago.
Penglai Abyss.
The man took a few long breaths and then said faintly: "I was in an accident in 19 (years)."
"19(?!"
Although I was prepared that he was a recent person rather than a modern person, I didn't expect that this person was so old. Wu Jincheng, the Shark, first went to sea in 1964. The person in front of me was even older than him. He went to sea
Chapter completed!