Half an hour has passed since Qi Yang and Linger set off on the road. It was broad daylight by then.
They retrieved their luggage and the white cloak from the hidden place outside Longshan Nunnery.
While tying the cloak for Brother Yang, Ling'er asked him: "Shall we go directly to that cave to find someone?"
"Girl is worried that there is a trap deliberately concocted by the government? "Qi Yang asked instead without answering. He took out his small white porcelain bottle from his bag, then poured out a pill and took it.
Ling'er secretly held back her heartache when she saw this, and expressed her worries: "No. It's just that we only heard everything about that cave from the officers and soldiers, and we always felt uneasy. "
"The girl is right. Why don't we try to find the mark left by Liu Shaoxia?" Qi Yang said.
"Yes! Senior Brother Liu doesn't know that we will encounter those officers and soldiers, and there is no guarantee that we can know their whereabouts from the officers and soldiers, so he will definitely try his best to point us in the direction. It's just... "Ling'er frowned and looked at the vast white surroundings. It snowed so heavily last night that probably all the marks were covered. How to find this?
"The situation was already very urgent when they left Longshan Nunnery, and Liu Shaoxia probably didn't have the extra time to think about the more concealed contact methods. The pursuers were behind him, and he would definitely use the fastest and most effective means of contact. Leave a mark in a direct way," Qi Yang speculated.
"The fastest and most direct way?" Ling'er repeated and couldn't help but look at the big trees around her. Yes, she thought of the stupid way to leave a mark on the tree again.
Qi Yang checked that there was no one else around, so he let Ling'er walk to the big trees to look for clues. He turned towards the cave according to the topographic map in his memory, which was their northwest direction at this time.
He thought for a moment, then flew up and landed directly in front of a corner wall. He leaned over and gently pushed aside the snow on the ground, and saw that the foot of the wall was close to the top of the old ice layer on the ground. He used a stone to draw a few strokes. The upper part was three sharp corners and the lower part was a horizontal line. This shape is clearly the word "mountain" carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by ancient people for the purpose of divination and fortune telling.
"Found it!" Qi Yang and Ling'er said at the same time, and then they both turned to look at each other.
It turned out that Ling'er also found a mark on the trunk of a relatively thick tree on the side of the road.
With his excellent eyesight, Qi Yang could still see that it was an arrow pointing from such a distance, and the direction it pointed happened to be the cave.
Ling'er's eyesight is obviously not as good as Qi Yang's, and the mark Qi Yang found is located low and cannot be seen from her at all. So, she imitated Brother Yang's Qing Kung Fu and jumped to the base of the wall.
“Is this the word ‘mountain’?” Ling’er asked, pointing to the mark Qi Yang found.
"Yes, and no." Qi Yang gave it up first, and then explained to Ling'er, "On the topographic map we looked at, it was the cave marked with this pattern. ”
"Huh? This shape represents a cave? Doesn't it look like a cave?" Ling'er began to think about it.
"Yes. When we were studying the topographic map at the inn, Pan Shaoxia also raised this question. The innkeeper happened to be passing by at that time, and he solved our confusion. It turned out that a passing hunter discovered the cave. The internal structure is very strange and resembles this figure. After learning about it, the painter used this figure as the mark of the cave." Qi Yang explained.
"So that's it." Ling'er suddenly realized and was suddenly very interested in that unique cave.
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