Chapter 157 Differences
"Take this and we'll continue on our journey." Lin Zhiqing took out a pill.
"Qing'er, how much stuff did you bring?" Jiang Liuyun scratched his head and took the pill.
"This is a pill made of scutellaria, forsythia, licorice and other ingredients. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, I will eat it to give me peace of mind." Lin Zhiqing was very well prepared.
She had asked the people from Jianxintang to prepare this pill a long time ago.
It is to deal with special circumstances.
There is a secret pocket sewn into her nightgown, which can hold a lot of things.
Judging from the situation tonight, the earplugs, masks, pills, etc. she prepared were all used, which was still necessary.
After seeing Jiang Liuyun swallow the pill with their own eyes, the three of them continued to move forward.
As the terrain became steeper, the wasteland on their right gradually turned into a small hill.
It turned from a small hill into a big hill.
Lin Zhiqing didn't say much along the way, and kept looking around at the environment, fearing that any more accidents would happen.
The ones who focused on the route were Jiang Liuyun and Lu Huai, or to be more precise, Lu Huai.
"We should be in a ravine now, with mountains on both sides. If we follow the mountain road to the right, we will be able to return to the street market we came from."
After walking for a while, Lu Huai thought for a while and then spoke.
It seemed that he already had their exact location in his mind.
Some people are like this. When others can't tell the difference between east, south, west, north, or size, these people have already formed complete three-dimensional geometric figures in their minds.
Just like a drawn model, it can be observed and explored from different positions.
Lin Zhiqing was not good at math before. When the teacher asked her to imagine a cube or a cuboid in class, she couldn't do it.
But she knew there were people in the class who could picture it in their minds instantly.
However, half an hour later they still encountered a problem.
Jiang Liuyun pointed to the two roads in front of him and said, "Brother Lu, which right side are you talking about?"
"Fork in the road?" Lu Huai frowned, then walked to the side and observed carefully.
The three of them had indeed walked to the right just now, but now there were two roads in front of them.
One road goes straight, the other turns right.
This is a fork in the road.
"How could there be such a fork in the road?" Lin Zhiqing also frowned.
From the moment she stepped into the Liu Mansion, she has been focusing on psychology.
This is indeed the case. The Liu family is a huge hypnotic array.
She was highly alert to this, and had been observing and looking for signs of psychological traps since she entered the mountains.
But now, Lin Zhiqing found that there was indeed no trace of Liu Mang's arrangements on this mountain.
So the question before them now becomes, which path to take?
You know, they are not safe now.
If Liu Mang discovered that the warehouse had been robbed and his evidence had been stolen, he would definitely not give up.
It is possible that they were trapped and died in the mountains.
At this moment, Lu Huai pointed to the path that led straight ahead and said firmly, "Go this way."
"Brother Lu, are you sure?" Jiang Liuyun rubbed his eyes. "This road is steep and narrow. How can we go here?"
“If there wasn’t a small path, who would have known this was a road?”
"If you ask me, the road on the right is flat, which means many people use it regularly. We should go this way."
He pointed to the road to the right.
Lin Zhiqing observed carefully and found that, as Jiang Liuyun said, the road on the right was wide and flat, and many people must have walked on it.
Moreover, the terrain is not very rugged. Although there are some large rocks on the left and right, they look quite old and solid.
Moreover, this is a downhill road, so it is not difficult to walk on.
On the other hand, the straight road on the left is not only steep, but also has a lot of gravel, which looks unsafe.
Moreover, the straight mountain road is not a road in the strict sense. The road only exists in the gaps between the rocks and looks like it is barely wide enough for one person to walk.
Looking up and forward, the end of the mountain road quickly disappeared in the clouds and mist, with a mysterious and uncertain color that made people feel daunting.
"No, go left." Lu Huai pointed at the rocky road in front of him and looked at Lin Zhiqing:
"Trust me here." He pointed to his head.
"Trust your brain?" Jiang Liuyun saw this and also looked at Lin Zhiqing, raising his eyebrows: "Qing'er?"
Well, which way to go... Lin Zhiqing naturally didn't know which way to go.
She was concentrating on observing whether there were any psychological traps along the way, and remembering directions and routes was not her strong point.
"Qing'er, what are you hesitating about? Who would leave such a broad road untaken?" Jiang Liuyun said as he was about to walk down the road on the right.
"Wait!" Lu Huai suddenly said, "This road is not safe!"
Jiang Liuyun frowned: "Unsafe? How can it be unsafe?"
"Did you discover anything?" Lin Zhiqing looked at Lu Huai with curiosity.
Lu Huai squatted down, grabbed a handful of dirt from the roadside, and let it blow away with the wind from his palm.
"This is sandy soil. This is the kind of soil I've seen on the right side as I've walked along."
"We were walking uphill all the time, and there were no rocks below, so there was basically no chance of this kind of sand."
"Unless the sand is blown from above."
Lu Huai narrowed his eyes, a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes:
"Sand... considering the triangle shape, this road is impassable."
"Sand? What kind of sand? Where does it come from?" Jiang Liuyun looked puzzled. "What does the triangle shape have to do with this?"
You mean triangle? Friction?
Lin Zhiqing glanced thoughtfully at the rocks on the hilltop to the right, then answered:
"If the rocks on both sides of the mountain road are affected by factors such as wind or rain for a long time, their texture will become loose and prone to collapse and rolling down."
"These stones were broken down by wind and rain, gradually turning into soft silty soil, which is sandy soil."
"That's right." Lu Huai looked at Lin Zhiqing with approval:
"Using this line of thinking, where there is silty soil or sandy soil, it first indicates that the rock is very prone to collapse."
"Secondly, this is a downhill road with gravel and silty soil. The soil is soft, but it makes it more difficult for us to go down the mountain. If we miss a step, we can easily roll from the top to the bottom of the mountain."
Lu Huai's organization is very clear.
"In that case..." Lin Zhiqing could understand what he meant.
But Jiang Liuyun still couldn't understand: "Brother Lu, how can you be sure that this rock will collapse?"
"Besides, even if the sandy soil theory is true, how do you explain the smoothness of the road?"
What he meant was that the road on the right was so flat that many people must have walked here.
More people means safety, at least that's what Jiang Liuyun thinks.
"No." Lin Zhiqing shook his head: "The road with more people is not necessarily the right road."
After hearing this, Jiang Liuyun smiled innocently: "Qing'er, look at this road, it's so wide and flat. If it wasn't made by many people, how can you explain it?"
"If you ask me, fortune and honor are achieved through risk. Even if the rocks on this road are at risk of collapsing, it's still more reliable than the road less traveled."
"Of course it's flat, but we're not sure whether this platform was created naturally or by someone with ulterior motives." Lin Zhiqing pinched his chin.
"Besides, there are quite a few people taking the road on the left."
"Ah?" Jiang Liuyun was completely confused.
Lu Huai's eyes fell on the small and narrow road.
What Lin Zhiqing wanted to say was exactly what he wanted to say.
"There wasn't a road here originally." Lin Zhiqing took a step forward and stepped on the narrow path. "This path was created because more people walked on it."
In addition, Lin Zhiqing also knew that someone as powerful as Lu Huai, who could remember the route map of Liu Mang's mansion with just one glance...
My head is probably full of solid geometry.
In comparison, Jiang Liuyun only knows martial arts and cannot compare with Lu Huai in terms of brainpower.
"Let's go, trust Lu Huai."
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