The two were in a valley surrounded by mountains, with a relatively flat plain in the middle. A river flowed down from the highest mountain and passed along the edge of the plain.

Jiang Shuyin followed the river upstream, climbing all the way to the highest mountain. She didn't encounter any wild animals along the way, but there were illogical things happening everywhere.

With this sense of doubt, she climbed to the top of the mountain and looked down from there.

Standing atop the mountain, one can see as far as the eye can see, with nothing but verdant mountains, not just green trees, but also yellow and red... but no flowers.

Without flowers, there would be no fruit; no wonder I didn't see a single sapling.

Jiang Shuyin stood there for a long time: "Why isn't there any wind?"

Then a gust of wind blew in, extremely strong, like a demonic wind, almost making her fall. Xie Yin pulled her back to her feet.

"This wind is really strange; it comes out of nowhere."

Xie Yinqing smiled and said, "Mm."

After looking at the scenery for a long time, I didn't find anything special.

It's like being deep in the mountains and forests, with not a single household in sight.

"Let's find out where the river originates."

Xie Yin followed behind her; he wasn't looking for her, he was just there to keep her company.

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The uo element is just a name; nothing else is known. The person who discovered it simply said that when you get close to the uo element, your ears briefly stop working, and then your mind goes completely blank.

It's that mysterious.

Jiang Shuyin had no choice but to measure the land with her feet, walking around the mountain until she finally found the sound of water. She followed the water upwards and found the source of the water, a shallow pool of water that seemed to be seeping continuously from the ground.

Jiang Shu drank it down in one gulp, and all the fatigue of the day disappeared. It was just as effective as the space magic liquid of the female protagonist in the novel.

"Check if those two bottles you stored have gone bad."

Jiang Shuyin said that Xie Yin took it out to look, and the water was still the same, with no change in color, taste, or effect, so she was happy: "I'll take it home and share it."

Finding a water source wasn't anything special. Jiang Shuyin remembered her mission and stood up with a renewed spirit.

With Xie Yin around, the two of them wouldn't get lost and could walk forty kilometers a day.

There was nothing but woods. When she was on the mountain, she saw that there were mountains for at least a hundred miles around. She knew what to do and just kept her head down and walked.

Time flies by. If it weren't for the bracelet, Jiang Shuyin wouldn't have known that a year had passed in the blink of an eye.

That year, other people who came in also moved around. They moved very slowly, and some stayed in one place all year, thinking that the things were underground. They took homemade digging tools and dug holes, digging hundreds of meters in a year, refusing to give up.

There is no day or night here, the sky is always bright. Xie Yin never gets tired, so he just waits for Jiang Shuyin to want to rest, and then the two of them sit down and eat fruit.

Jiang Shuyin muttered to herself that she was hungry, and then she saw fruit hidden in the tree. There were fruits to eat along the way, with different colors and strange tastes.

The good thing is that it's there every day; the tree is evergreen, and the fruit is always hanging on it—it's quite a rare sight.

But Jiang Shuyin is a meat lover, and such a life as a nun is too hard: "Why haven't we seen a single rabbit along the way? I was worried about snakes or leeches, but there really wasn't anything."

Xie Yin had the meat but couldn't produce it, so he changed the subject to distract her: "After finding the uo element, will you just give it to her directly?"

Jiang Shu was stumped by the question: "After we find it, we can get out? We don't even know what it is. Will our current approach lead anywhere?"

Honestly, if Xie Yin hadn't been there with her, she would have gone crazy.

Xie Yin said, "If we can get out, there will be results."

Jiang Shuyin doesn't get angry easily, but when she's a little upset, Xie Yin comforts her and soothes her.

Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. It's true. Reading books may not change your temperament, but traveling ten thousand miles will smooth out any bad temper.

After six months of following the river, the two came to a plain that stretched as far as the eye could see, with grass swaying in the wind and surging like waves.

With the change in terrain, Jiang Shuyin's monotonous days were infused with new vitality.

She lay flat on the grassland with her arms outstretched, closed her eyes, and fell asleep. In her dream, she saw her mother who had sent her away from home, her father who had told her to get out with a dark face, and Qingwu, whom she hadn't seen for a very long time, with a small ball of black mist lying on her stomach...

When she woke up, Xie Yin was sitting beside her. His gaze, unusually, did not linger on her, which gave Jiang Shu a different feeling. She reached out and touched his hand.

Xie Yin turned around and smiled, the wind blowing his hair and making it sway in front of his forehead.

What were you looking at just now?

Xie Yin wouldn't lie to her: "I miss you."

Jiang Shuyin smiled and said, "Then why aren't you looking at me?"

Xie Yin said, "You don't look like yourself when you're asleep. Your eyes, face, movements, and speech are all different."

Jiang Shu laughed out loud: "You mean I'm like a corpse when I'm asleep?"

Xie Yin chuckled softly, his chest heaving.

He wouldn't answer that question, and Jiang Shuyin didn't press him. It was just a joke anyway. In this mundane life, you have to find your own fun.

Looking up at her wrist, she realized she had slept for nearly seven hours. She got up, brushed the grass clippings off her clothes, and said, "Let's keep going. I miss home."

Time can make deep things deeper and shallow things shallower. Five years have passed, and Jiang Shuyin has traveled through mountains, plains, volcanoes, sand dunes, and glaciers, but never the ocean.

As her longing for home deepened, some negative emotions also faded. Her long-term vegetarian diet and consumption of spiritual elixirs, which could be described as the life of a fairy or, to put it bluntly, the life of a savage, had caused her physical appearance to deteriorate over the years. Sometimes, Jiang Shuyin would gaze at herself for a long time while looking at herself in the water.

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