At this time, there were more than three hours left before the agreed delivery time. At the dawn of dawn, our group once again embarked on a journey to find the truth.
From the air, the entire Dagushan Mountain looks like a cone, but if you connect it with another smaller mountaintop not far away, the two hills look like a gourd, so the Dagushan Mountain is also called Calabash Mountain. Legend has it that it is also inextricably related to the gourd used by Taishang Laojun to subdue demons.
The old man was half asleep and half awake along the way, and kept talking nonsense. I held a shotgun in one hand and a compass in the other. Qiangba held up a map to me next to me, "Keep an eye on the front. This forest is very strange. Everything is strange." If some wild beast jumps out of it, it will be enough for us to drink a pot."
Jianbabi made a stern look and said, "Don't worry, as long as my little Jianba is here, I won't be afraid of any wild beasts."
At present, the few of us have been wandering in the mountains for almost half an hour, relying on the map, barely identifying the route, and approaching the destination crookedly.
"It is rumored that there have been white-haired zombies in this crazy village. Uncle Ciwang has seen the monsters in the forbidden area with his own eyes. Don't take it lightly!" Deyang Ram reminded from behind.
"I know, sister." Jianba said nonchalantly.
Later, Jianba asked me again, since the thing is in our hands now, why don't we take it apart and take a look, so as to solve the long-standing confusion. I said that in my heart, I am like a cat scratching a dog and scratching a sparrow. Don't be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the worst. Otherwise, you will be like a zombie in a coffin. Aren't you asking for trouble? Besides, there are only a few hours left before delivery. If we delay the time, won't we become a disaster? Kill his accomplice?
"Anyway, the thing has fallen into our hands. It's no longer a matter of time to look at it. Why bother to do it now! When we carry it to a light and breathable place, we can look at it however we want, even the coffin board. Take it apart and look at it!" Jamba said.
"You are not talking seriously!" Deyang Ram interrupted Qianba's imagination and asked him, "How long will our water and food be enough?"
"Well, why are you asking? Why don't we just go up and investigate the Madman Village? How much time can it take?" As he said that, Qiangba counted the supplies and said: "There are two barrels of fresh water and food. I haven't prepared much. It’s still the same two bites of brown bread when I came here.”
I took out my pocket, turned to Deyang Ram and said, "I have a piece of chocolate here, are you hungry?"
Deyang Ram shook his head and said a perfunctory question, just asking a casual question.
In fact, I have always had a bad feeling in my heart. I feel that this trip is not as simple as I imagined. I always feel that there is something in the mountains waiting for us to fall into its trap. Maybe Deyang Lamu is following me. The same intuition, so she will prepare for the worst.
But now that we are here, there are some things that we cannot say casually and can only be kept in our hearts.
I was thinking about what to do when Yu'er suddenly shouted.
"This beast has been very well-behaved all the way. I don't know why it is barking now?" Ciwang also felt that something was wrong.
At this time, there was an open field in front of us, with no cover, and its roaring gong voice sounded extremely desolate in the night.
I saw that Yu'er looked strange and kept baring her teeth at the front of the ship, so I guessed that something had happened ahead.
Animals are always better at predicting danger than humans, and Ren Yonghai seemed to have seen some clues. He picked up the gun, raised the binoculars, and looked into the distance for a while, then turned back and said to me: "The fire ahead is coming.
It’s foggy, and it’s heavy.”
I tried my best to calm Yu'er down, frowned and asked, "It's not uncommon for fog to occur in the mountains in the morning, but this fog feels wrong."
"What's wrong?" Xu Yaxian said nervously.
"Too fast!" Caiyun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said firmly.
"Caiyun, did you notice something?"
Caiyun shook his head and stopped talking.
"We can either rush out now before the fog arrives.
; Either wait here and wait for the fog to pass." Ren Yonghai said.
I decisively rejected the latter proposal and said: "We have limited time, and if we stop, we will die. We can't stop, we can only walk, speed up and rush out."
"See for yourself. The fog is as thick as paste. What should I use to rush out?" Ren Yonghai handed me the telescope.
"There's not much we can do now. This fog has come so fast, and we don't know when it will dissipate. Tenzin's time is running out. Every minute he delays, he will be one step closer to death."
However, before I finished speaking, Deyang Ram said: "It's too late, we have already gone around."
Only then did I realize that at some point, we were already in the mist. The surroundings were smoky, and the thick mist soon enveloped the entire ship. We almost had to stand face to face to see each other clearly.
s face.
"The visibility is too low. It is dangerous to advance rashly!"
“I don’t know what I’m going to encounter in this heavy fog!”
Yu'er was not used to the thick foggy weather, so she kept running, sticking out her tongue, and was very excited.
I didn't want to sit back and wait for death, so I said to Ciwang: "Uncle Ciwang, ask your brothers to take out all the objects that can illuminate. We can't stop!"
"good!"
After that, searchlights, flashlights, and even old-fashioned kerosene lamps were all lit, but the visibility did not improve at all.
"I think there is going to be something strange here in this fog," Uncle Ciwang said.
"We can't see the road clearly now. If we go the wrong way, it will waste more time. It's better to wait a little longer! I hope this fog will dissipate quickly as it comes," Tenzin said.
"This is tying your head to your belt and gambling with everyone's lives. If something goes wrong, everyone will suffer." Deyang Ram objected.
Just as we were talking, the ground under our feet suddenly shook violently. We did not expect that danger would occur on the ground. Without paying attention, we all fell forward and backward, with our feet in the air.
The ground was still shaking violently, and gravel began to roll down the mountain. I was thrown onto a protruding rock just now, and my whole back was knocked up, not to mention the pain.
Fortunately, Yu'er was clever and rolled to my side with a huff. How dare I miss this last life-saving straw? Without saying a word, I exerted all my strength on my waist, threw forward with both hands, and hugged her tightly.
it.
After finally stabilizing his body, he felt a sharp pain in his thigh. When he lowered his head, he saw that his thigh had been cut by a piece of gravel and blood was flowing out.
"Let's rush out."
"Lin Kun, something is wrong. Listen to the sound outside. It doesn't sound like an earthquake. It sounds like... like a war!"
I was stunned for a moment, then calmed down and listened. Sure enough, I heard a "rumbling" noise coming up from the ground. The formation was like thousands of armies fighting against each other underground.
Thinking of this, I leaned over to listen to the movement. For some reason, when I listened carefully, there was no movement at all.
"Why is there no sound again?"
"This is not a place to stay for a long time. The rolling stones from the mountain are coming here, so hurry up!" Deyang Ram shouted.
I saw rubble rolling and jumping on the mountain constantly, and it felt like we had walked into an ancient battlefield. The sound of the march of the armed and iron horses came near and far away, and then disappeared after listening carefully.
Just when I was about to withdraw, a piece of ground nearby began to roll violently, and something seemed to be about to break out of the ground.
"Old Ren, what do you think that is!?"
I suddenly recalled the two escaping monsters I met outside the ancient tomb, and I couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
With that said, I prepared to go up and fight the monster underground. Before I could go up to the monster, I was pulled back from behind.
"Looking for death!" A huge pulling force came from my neck. I looked back and saw that the old man woke up at some point, panting and pointed at the ground and yelled, "Run away now."
, you are seeking death!"
Following his roar, explosion-like sounds continued to be heard from the ground. At this moment, one of Ciwang's men suddenly sunk one foot into the ground and started yelling like crazy.
"Lin Kun, this..." Xu Yaxian's face turned pale when she saw the familiar scene in front of her.
Although the old man was blind, he was very decisive in his actions. After he stopped me, he directed us to go to a small trail in the southwest, while he knelt on the ground and muttered something that he couldn't listen to.
If you understand the local dialect, you can almost sing when you read it so fast.
When Yu'er saw her master, she didn't show any expression of joy. Instead, she squatted aside obediently without making any sound.
Oddly enough, the moment he knelt down, the movement in the ground subsided significantly. As his nervous mumbling sounded, the shaking of gravel on the mountain gradually subsided.
"What the old man is talking about is not because he is eating bugs and making him stupid, right?" Ren Yonghai said.
"I don't think it looks like it." I looked around, and the fog had indeed dispersed a lot since the old man came out. The strange rumbling noise in my ears was also slowly receding.
"The old man is the only living person in this crazy village. He can come and go freely in the forbidden area. He must have a unique secret."
Thick fog had just begun to form, and everything was in chaos. Apart from feeling a large amount of hot air surging into the air, almost nothing could be seen.
"What is he doing?"
"Who knows?" I shook my head and said, "But he is indeed very strange. You don't know. The way he dragged me just now was as if he had taken a powerful diamond pill."
"You mean he's pretending to be crazy?"
At this point, we all looked at the old man in unison, and saw that he had changed his posture at some point. This time, he was lying on the ground, with his hands facing down and constantly tapping the ground.
As the fog gradually dissipated, our vision slowly became clearer.
"Okay, help me up." The old man stopped singing strangely and shouted to me, "The one from the south."
I was shocked. Although the term "from the south" is very common, if you over-interpret it, the hidden meaning is very serious. Usually, we descendants of Yuling travel everywhere and call ourselves "from the south" because of the great Yuling Mausoleum.
Sitting south and facing north, looking at the Central Plains in the north, only knowledgeable people know that this is a unique and humble name for us contracted by gods and ghosts.
"Is this guy's white eyes fake and he is not blind?" I thought as I walked towards him. He sat up from the ground with difficulty, turned to me and smiled: "Don't make any guesses, old man.
He is indeed a flying mouse who cannot see anything, but hey..."
When I saw that he was deliberately showing off, I knelt down to listen more carefully. The old man smiled and twitched his beard, then lowered his voice and said, "When I first pulled you, I touched your hand, the joint of the ring finger of your left hand."
You are deformed and wear the Dragon Bone Forbidden Ring. Most people don’t know your identity, but I do.”
I listened to his sentences and hit the nail on the head. He was not at all confused like when we first met. I immediately helped him down respectfully and said, "You are really well-informed. I won't hide it. I really
He is the one who made the contract between gods and ghosts."
"Young man, given your identity, the old man should have saluted you. However, I see that you don't want to reveal your identity, so I will forgive my rudeness."
"No need to be formal, I hate this set of red tape."
"It's a good thing that you are a person of pure blood, otherwise, Yu'er's steel teeth would not be a vegetarian."
I have no doubts about Yu'er's ability to distinguish blood. God knows that I just led it for a walk, and this guy completely rebelled. I let him do whatever he wants. Even Qiangba said it was in vain.
The appearance, the airs are big, the temper is small.
"What, according to the direction of the wind, are you planning to go to the top of the mountain?"
I didn't know what the purpose of his asking was, so I tentatively replied: "We were entrusted by our friends to send something up."
Chapter completed!