That night, Aza and I chatted for a long time, but it had nothing to do with the whole mystery. What we talked about the most was the wizard Meng Chang. In Aza's sky, what I heard was not a wizard, let alone the leader of a ghost. He was
A simple patriarch, he has been entangled with the so-called secrets and the villagers his whole life. But he is more inclined to let the villagers be free.
Therefore, in fact, strictly speaking, Aza and I can be regarded as brothers. The choice at this time is that he stays like Meng Chang did back then. It can even be said that he stays in exchange for
I felt bad after hearing about the normal life of the villagers. I asked myself, if I was left alone in the mountains of Bashu, I would definitely not be able to complete this task.
A lonely and monotonous life will make me go crazy.
Moreover, I can see Aza's desire for life outside. He is still a person who has experienced life outside. Now when others want to be free, he has to bear what he wants most.
I will come back to see you. I said to Aza. After saying that, I smiled at him and said: When I come back, I will help you introduce a daughter-in-law.
Aza blushed and said nothing. After a while, he said: If you don't reveal my secret tomorrow, ghost paths cannot be seen in the light, so I just said it was the route I followed those people.
I nodded.
The next day, everything settled and the villagers were getting ready to go. I promised them that I would take them away when I came back. After that, Aza and others started to hit the road. It was really getting late.
I am a gambler, and the opposite of gambling has gone before me.
And the purpose of our departure this time, according to Aza, is that between two places deeper in the famous mountain, between Lion Camel Peak and Human Face Peak, there is a place called Gouziling. This place is considered to belong to this tribe.
The forbidden area does not mean that Meng Chang did not allow people to go here before, but it means that the place itself is extremely dangerous. Not only are wild animals infested, but also evil spirits are rampant.
Do you still believe this? I asked Aza.
I have to believe that the most heroic warriors of our clan left together and never came back. Aza said.
The dead fat man also came up and asked.
It should be a bad day. Aza said, looking at the road deep in the mountain. After a while, he said: Gouziling is still a day's walk from here. I think you are in a hurry, so there is a small road.
A previous hunter walked here, but that hunter can't remember it clearly. I just remember a vague route. How about I take you there?
When I heard him say this, the first thing I thought in my mind was that if I could take a small road, I would definitely take a small road. Now time is more precious than anything else, but I wanted to be safe in my heart. I looked at my second uncle unnaturally. His expression
He is still a little pale, but I know without asking that his injury is definitely not as minor as he said.
He just happened to look at me. There were some things that I didn’t need to say at all. He understood my inquiry with just one look and said: Aza, which way did the group of people in front take?
They split into two groups, one group took this place, and the other group took the shortcut, Aza said.
Since someone has been caught in a thunderstorm, let's go this way. The second uncle said.
Since the second uncle has spoken, everyone has no objection. Under the leadership of Aza, we set off as a team. The one-day journey, according to Aza, takes only half a day if we take a shortcut.
Needless to say, the road ahead is difficult. Tashi is okay. Although he is thin, he was a qualified hunter in the past. But let’s not mention my tears. The feeling of walking on a mountain road is no better than walking in the desert.
Where did I go? I took off my shoes, and my feet were covered in blisters that were connected to my socks. But seeing that they were all fine, even a ghost leader was too embarrassed to say anything.
Waiting until sunset, Aza's face became solemn. He pointed to a mountain peak in front of him and said: The top of the mountain that looks like a lion is Shituoling. This is what I translated based on the words of the tribe.
In the words of our tribe, it is Mukuchi. When you climb over it, you will see a hilltop that looks like a human face, with Gouziling in the middle.
Otherwise, you should go back first. If we just go like this, we can get there by ourselves. I looked at Azha and said, fate seems to be quite unfair to this young man. Not to mention ghosts, they are the group from Song Zhai.
Human beings are already quite dangerous, and I really don’t want to drag Aza with us to put ourselves in danger again.
He didn't refuse and said goodbye to us. Five or six of us were left and headed towards Lion Camel Peak. But I finally realized the meaning of the saying "Looking up the mountain and running to death". I just saw the mountain peak so close.
When we arrived, it was already getting late, but we didn't even dare to turn on the lights, because people from Songzhai had already arrived before us. This was a group of people who couldn't be treated with common sense. We are now
The most advanced weapon is the dagger and machete. If we fight over long distances, we can only use the giant ox-horn bow that the leader gave to Lin Erdan when we left the village. If we turn on the lights and go on the road now, once Song Zhai's
If a person is lying in ambush on the lion's hump, he is a living target.
And without even thinking about it, they had guns in their hands, and if they were swept down by a shuttle, we would all have to go to sleep. Because of this, we walked extra carefully, entering the mountain silently, not guarding against ghosts.
, we must also first be prepared for people who may make a surprise attack on us.
In fact, what I meant was that it was better for us to take a rest where we were. They had been here for a long time, but we had traveled a long distance. It was tantamount to waiting for work, which is a taboo in the art of war. I said to some of them,
The most important thing is that the soles of my feet are numb now, but after a day on the mountain road, my legs feel like they are filled with lead.
You don't understand this. Even if we rest, we can't rest here because we haven't encountered the so-called danger Aza said so far. The fat man said.
I was not happy when I heard it and said: Do you still expect us to encounter any danger?
The fat man rolled his eyes at me and said: You know what the heck, there will definitely be danger. You see, Aza seems to be joking and the person is really here. He can show off his tactics, but there is something wrong with being so calm along the way. Before the storm comes,
That's the scariest thing.
I thought so. We have not experienced the danger Aza mentioned so far. When will it come and in what form will it appear? This kind of speculation makes people uncomfortable.
I had nothing to say, so I could only continue on my way until I was halfway up the mountain at Mount Lion Hump. From a long distance away, I seemed to see a person sitting on a rock. The rest of us fell down all of a sudden.
It is not surprising that something else appears in a place with no village in front or any shop behind. If a person appears, it is most likely the guard of Song Zhai.
But for a long time after we lay down, the man remained motionless. I said: Fatty, judging from your experience, will this be a human-shaped stone or a person?
The fat man frowned and said: How can I understand what he said clearly?
Would it be so unreliable all of a sudden? Do you think this person can be killed by just one stone?
The fat man said: "Fat Master, this is called throwing stones to ask for directions, just look at it."
The stone fell not far away from the person. We all heard the sound, but the person on the stone still didn't make the slightest move. Now I breathed a sigh of relief. I bet this damn person was not the same person.
We crawled on our knees and rushed in that direction. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder can't afford to be hurt, and we can't tolerate the feeling of not being sure what this thing is.
As we walked closer, it became clearer and clearer that this was a person, but a dead person. Until we walked up to him and saw the clothes this person was wearing, we were sure that this person had just died not long ago.
He was covered in black and blue, and there was a pistol on him. Hei San immediately unloaded the magazine and said to us: Not a single bullet is missing.
At this time, the fat man had already put the man down from the stone. The body was already slightly decomposed. I was not worried about the corpse being fake, because once the corpse started to rot, there was basically no possibility of it being fake. The body had already and
Together, the souls began the six paths of reincarnation.
The fat man and his second uncle examined him for a long time. The more they examined him, the uglier his face became. Finally, he asked my second uncle: Lin Baqian, tell me, this guy didn’t have any external injuries on his body. How did he die?
The second uncle shook his head.
I also came up to him at this time and asked: What's going on, Fatty? Did you see something strange about this corpse?
Yes, this guy has something on his body, and the equipment looks very professional, but there is no external injury on his body, and it is definitely not caused by ghosts. Ghosts are powerless to hurt people. However, how did he die and suddenly turned white on the spot?
The fat man said with a frown.
I felt a little incomprehensible and said: This person is not one of ours. The more they die, the better. You are not a detective policeman. Why do you care about these things?
Just say that you are short-sighted. They are walking in front just to protect us from thunder, right? If you don’t understand how he died, what if this happens to a few of us? The fat man stared at me and said
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Actually, that’s not what I thought. The second uncle said at this time.