Looking at the faint marks on the snow under my feet.
Then I saw the black cloud lower its head and sniff the ground, then it raised its head and barked, shaking its tail twice.
Wei Yunlan became more and more certain that they had passed this place once before.
The perfume powder she had scattered was still on the ground, invisible to the naked eye, but could not be hidden from the nose of the black cloud.
"We are lost." Wei Yunlan frowned and stared at the dim setting sun on the left.
They had been moving in the northwest direction and had never deviated from it, so it was impossible for them to go back.
But now, they have indeed appeared on the road they once walked...
"What's going on?" Zou Yun also followed Wei Yunlan's gaze and looked at the setting sun on the horizon.
"Let's try walking again." Wei Yunlan pointed to the direction they were originally heading, leaned over and said to Heiyun, "Heiyun, take a smell. Is there any scent of incense powder left on the ground in this direction?"
As he spoke, Wei Yunlan took out a sachet from his sleeve and put it in front of Heiyun's nose.
Heiyun sniffed twice, then turned and trotted a dozen steps toward the northwest, lowering his head as he ran, and sniffing the ground with his nose.
Xuerong, who had just been given a new name, kept running after Heiyun. When Heiyun lowered his head to sniff, Xuerong would follow suit and lower his head with his nose close to the ground.
That playful look made the heavy atmosphere caused by being lost a little more relaxed.
After running for nearly a hundred steps, the two figures, one black and one white, turned around and went back.
"How?" Wei Yunlan asked in a low voice.
Heiyun turned his head to look in the direction he had just sniffed and shook his tail twice.
The meaning was clearly that there was no scent of perfumed powder on that road.
The naked eye can get lost, but by using smell to identify things, it is not easy to make mistakes.
"This is strange." Wei Yunlan couldn't figure out what the reason was. He pointed to the road to the northwest and suggested, "Let's go again. This time, be more alert along the way and remember the direction clearly."
Since the crowd had no better suggestions, they rested for a while and then set off again towards the northwest.
It was getting dark, and if we still couldn't figure out the direction this time, we would have to wait until tomorrow morning to make any plans.
In order to clearly identify the route they had taken at the beginning, the marks they made along the way this time were much more obvious than before.
Every ten steps, a snow pit with a five-star mark would be cleared out with a sword.
After walking for more than half an hour, the sky became darker.
Just when everyone thought that everything was finally going well, a five-star-shaped snow pit suddenly appeared before their eyes.
"It's clear that we have been walking in the same direction..." Chen Yan was surprised. He had dug this snow pit with his sword.
Each pit was only ten steps apart, and the pits he dug were basically on the same straight line, which means that they were always walking in a straight line.
How can we get back to the starting point?
Were they lost and went in a circle, or was there something else strange about this place?
Just as Chen Yan and Wang Lu were comparing several nearby snow pits and discussing the cause, Sui He pulled Wei Yunlan's sleeve with a pale face.
"Miss……"
"What's wrong?" Wei Yunlan turned her head and saw Sui He's face was pale and she looked terrified. "What did you find?"
"This..." Sui He shrank her shoulders, carefully looked around, lowered her voice and whispered into Wei Yunlan's ear: "This is a ghost wall."
Trapped in a maze?
Wei Yunlan was slightly stunned when he heard this.
It’s not that I haven’t heard of this word, but I’ve never thought about it in this way before.
In the eyes of outsiders, those who have a close relationship with the Tianshi Mansion must believe in ghosts and gods. However, only Wei Yunlan himself knows that people in his family rarely think about ghosts and gods when they encounter problems, because his great-grandfather once said that the human world is dominated by humans, and neither gods nor ghosts can change this world.
Wei Yunlan, who had once been a "ghost" for a while, deeply agreed with this statement.
Because that was how it was during the time she was a ghost. Apart from being a bystander and watching the world change, she could do nothing else and others could not sense her presence.
The idea of a ghost wall... is really nonsense.
"The food we brought is sufficient, but if we keep wandering around here... it's not a solution at all," Chen Yan said with some concern.
"It's dark now. Why don't we walk again without looking at the sun?" Zou Yun suggested.
"As the saying goes, things never happen more than three times. Maybe this third time, we can get out of this smoothly?" Wang Lu also said.
Wei Yunlan felt that there was little point in trying it aimlessly, as it would only continue to drain everyone's energy.
But at the moment, there was no better idea.
"Then let's choose a direction and try again, shall we?"
"Still heading northwest, or deviate a little and head straight west?"
There were many different opinions, and just when everyone was unable to make up their minds, a white figure beside Heiyun suddenly rushed out.
"Xue Rong?" Wei Yunlan called softly.
The little fox ran away without looking back.
"Is it going to leave?" Suihe said with some regret.
Sure enough, no matter how cute a beast looks, it is still a beast and can never be tamed.
"Just run away. It has only been following us for less than a day..."
As soon as Zou Yun finished speaking, a white figure flashed by again in the dim light.
It turned out that the little fox ran away for a distance and then turned back.
After calling out "嘤嘤" twice, Heiyun followed. After walking to the side of the little fox, he turned around and wagged his tail twice at Wei Yunlan.
Wei Yunlan suddenly had an idea and said, "Follow them."
"Huh?"
"Xue Rong lives in this place, so it must be more familiar with it than us." The little fox looked like it wanted to lead the way.
Wei Yunlan decided to believe it once.
The group set out on their journey again. It was already dark and it was difficult to tell the direction. If they wanted to know which direction they were heading, they could only rely on the marks left behind them along the way.
"It's going in a wrong direction. We were heading west just now, but now we're heading south again?" Wang Lu asked in confusion when he saw the little fox leading everyone to turn a corner again: "Aren't we going back the way we came?"
“Sometimes what you see isn’t always what you think.”
Wei Yunlan shook his head and whispered, "We were heading in the same direction before, but we ended up going back the same way."
Wang Lu: “…”
That's true.
No one questioned the route led by the little fox, and they traveled like this for two full hours.
From dusk to late night, Wei Yunlan suddenly discovered that the moon hanging high above his head seemed to have become brighter.
The road under my feet never showed any marks left before.
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