It rained on the river, and the mountains were not spared.

Fortunately, Lin Shuo and Anne found a cave.

The cave, which appears to be a temporary dwelling for the lumberjacks here, is carved out of the cliff face and is about two meters high and deep.

The wooden ladder under the cave had long since rotted, but it didn't bother Lin Shuo and Anne.

Lin Shuo jumped up and grabbed the bottom of the cave, his fingers were strained, and his waist straightened up and went up.

Looking back at Anne, the girl was already standing behind her, and her climbing movements were no slower than Lin Shuo's.

Xiaoba jumped around the cave for a while and said, "Brother Shuo, it's good here, it's quite spacious." ”

"Hmm. Lin Shuo nodded, leaned the recurve bow and quiver behind him against the cave wall, and sat down himself.

"Brother Shuo. Before, we thought there was nothing else here, just one word, do!" Hachi said, "But now it seems that things are not so simple." ”

Lin Shuo glanced at his bird and asked, "Let's be straight, what do you want to do?"

"I want to go out for a walk. Hachi said, "You see that when we get here, we look like a group of blind people, which is not a problem." ”

"There is some truth to that. But ......" Lin Shuo agreed with Xiaoba's statement, and then asked with a suspicious expression, "Are you sure that you kid is going to find out the news, not to soak up the girl?"

Anne was happy when she heard this question, and she didn't interject, looking at Hachi with beautiful eyes.

"Brother Shuo, people have the communication of people, and birds have the number of birds. Hachi glanced at Anne and said, "Birds are not like people, they are stupid. I care about two things all my life, eating and sleeping. For me, sleeping with them is indeed less troublesome than finding food for them. Don't we have to pay attention to efficiency?"

After hearing this, Anne held back her smile and struggled, rubbing her face and saying, "Eighth Master, then you have worked hard." ”

"Who's to say it isn't. Xiao Ba lowered his head, but a pair of bird eyes secretly aimed at Lin Shuo, "Brother Shuo, you nod." ”

"Get out!" Lin Shuo looked disgusted and waved his hand impatiently.

"Great!" the starling bird flapped its wings and crashed into the rain outside, and then within a few seconds, it was back again.

"Brother Shuo, I vacated the land for you, buddy, I can only help you so much. I'll take care of the mother-bird, mother-in-law, and you'll have to come in person. ”

Throwing down this sentence, the starling bird crashed headlong into the rain curtain again.

Then it let out several screams, which grew farther and farther away, and a few black feathers floated at the entrance of the cave.

Lin Shuo withdrew the hand that threw the stone, looking depressed.

"The eighth master is really funny. Anne looked at Lin Shuo, who was sitting opposite, and a hint of blush flashed across her face.

"No matter how smart this bird is, his heart is still like a child, and he speaks without proportion, don't be surprised. ”

Lin Shuo whispered as he picked up the hay on the ground and pulled out a trace of fiber.

There is a pile of firewood left by the lumberjack in the cave, I don't know how many years, it has already dried out.

There was no shortage of velvet and firewood here, and soon, Lin Shuo made a fire.

Although the two of them quickly found the cave just now, their clothes were already soaked.

Seeing that the campfire was ready, Anne simply took off her coat, set it up with a branch, and roasted it around the fire.

After taking off her coat, she only wore a black bandeau top, revealing her white flowery body, without a trace of fat around her waist, and her chest was even more spectacular.

Lin Shuo turned sideways slightly and looked out of the cave.

Anne also seemed to feel a little embarrassed, and changed the subject:

"Mr. Lin, can you tell me about the Kunlun Mountain? Actually, I've always been very strange. It stands to reason that in the past few hundred years, the team on Kunlun was the strongest six years ago, how could it have suffered such a big loss?

Since I've confessed my identity to you, you should know that I'm not an outsider, and since we're dealing with this strange creature together this time, there are some things you should be able to reveal, right?"

Lin Shuo was stunned when he heard this, and then he lowered his head and said nothing.

Anne found that Lin Shuo's face was a little unpleasant.

She quickly opened her handbag and handed over the pack of Chinese cigarettes inside.

Lin Shuo took the cigarette, lit one, and smoked silently.

Looking at Lin Shuo's actions, Anne was not shocked by this on the surface, but in fact, there was a trace of sympathy in her heart.

The hunter team six years ago, judging from the few words Lin Shuo revealed before, was actually very powerful.

Among them are Lin Shuo and his son, who are respected as the heads of the six families of the Hunting Gate, and Zhang Lianhai, the head of the Zhang family of the six major families.

As far as she knew, in this team, there were also Su family hunters among the six families.

Jiangnan Forest, Saibei Chapter, Qiangdi Su. Six years ago in Kunlun Mountain, three of the six hunters were exhausted.

Such a team of hunters can almost save the world from extinction. But they went up to Kunlun Mountain, and only Lin Shuo came down in the end, and the whole army was almost wiped out.

One can imagine how tragic the battle was at that time!

Lin Shuo, although he is the current de facto leader of the Hunting Gate, his strength is also unfathomable.

But in the end, he was just a twenty-year-old at the time.

What exactly he faced six years ago, no one knows.

Whenever Anne mentions Kunlun Mountain six years ago, or Lin Shuo himself discovers the traces of the strange creatures on Kunlun Mountain, Lin Shuo's abnormality, others may not be aware of it, Anne sees it.

Anne herself lost her parents, but her parents died before she could remember, and the death of both parents brought her more loneliness and loss.

But if his father was killed by a powerful creature, all this happened in front of him, and Anne felt like her heart was being torn apart just by imagining it.

And Lin Shuo, who was sitting opposite at the moment, had undoubtedly suffered all this.

That night six years ago left a terrible wound in the depths of his soul, and six years later, the wound was still oozing blood.

Perhaps, this is the reason why he has not been able to live in the past six years.

Thinking of this, Anne's heart softened, and she said softly, "Mr. Lin, I'm sorry. If you don't want to say it, I can understand that. ”

"It's okay, I can say something to keep more people from dying at the hands of that beast. Lin Shuo coughed lightly a few times, and said in a low voice: "We hunt the door, and we have inherited a few books since ancient times, called "Kyushu Foreign Objects", each of our six families has a volume, you should have heard of it, right?"

"Hmm. Anne nodded, "There are nine volumes in this book, and they record strange creatures that have been discovered by hunters since ancient times. It was co-written and preserved by the nine families of Hunter Gate in ancient times.

However, three of the nine families have been passed down to this day. The three volumes in "Kyushu Foreign Objects" have gradually scattered among the people with no successors to these three families, and have now been lost.

Our International Biological Research Association believes that the strange creatures recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" were copied from these three volumes of "Kyushu Foreign Objects". ”

"You're not entirely right. Lin Shuo said, "These three volumes of "Foreign Objects" have not been lost, and the six of us have already left a facsimile. This beast on Kunlun Mountain was also famous in ancient times, and its name in "Kyushu Foreign Body" was called the hook snake. ”

"Hooked snake?" Anne said after a moment of thought and "it is also recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas." ”

"Yes. Lin Shuo said, "In ancient times, there were actually a lot of such things, and some were slaughtered by hunters one after another, and in the end, only this one on Kunlun Mountain remained." ”

"Then why don't you kill them all?"

"Because, this beast was not harmful at that time. Lin Shuo said, "And Kunlun is the ancestor of the Chinese dragon vein, when this hooked snake was discovered, the lifespan was more than a thousand years, at that time our ancestors thought it had the sign of turning into a dragon, so they did not touch it."

The Su family, one of the six families of the Hunting Gate, originally lived in Xiangyang, but moved north to the vicinity of Kunlun for this reason, staring at this hooked snake and waiting for the day when it crossed the catastrophe and turned into a dragon.

This stare is more than 600 years. The Su family has been guarding this snake in Qiang for dozens of generations, and it is also called Qiang Di Su in the hunting gate.

Ten years ago, within the six hunters, began to spread the matter of the hooked snake crossing the robbery, the more this thing was said, the more true it became, and six years ago, there was news that the hooked snake was about to cross the robbery and turn into a dragon. ”

"So, the elite hunters led by your father from the six major families of the Hunter Gate went to Kunlun Mountain just to keep an eye on this hooked snake to cross the tribulation?" asked Anne.

"Of course not. Lin Shuo shook his head, "What age is this, the Tribulation Transformation Dragon, other hunters may still believe it, but my father and I don't believe it." ”

"Why is that?"

"Because of the keel wrench. ”

Hearing these four words of keel wrench, Anne's heart tightened.

Anne learned from the information of the International Biological Research Society that the keel wrench is a token of the leader of the Hunter Gate.

The origin of the inheritance of the Hunting Gate, before the appearance of writing, was almost at the same time as the origin of human civilization, and it is one of the oldest inheritances of mankind.

Although the current six families are relatively closed and extremely conservative, the other families of the Hunting Gate have long since branched out at home and abroad. Today, these families are extremely powerful, and some even control the country in which they live.

Whoever has the keel wrench has a huge network of resources and financial resources. In the eyes of the world, this thing is naturally priceless.

It's just that the Lin family, who was pushed to be the head of the hunting door and in charge of the dragon bone wrench, didn't seem to care much about this, and never cashed in this value.

Anne mentioned the keel wrench earlier.

She originally wanted to remind Lin Shuo to use this thing to order the hunting door, so as to add some help to this trip to the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

Unexpectedly, Lin Shuo immediately turned his face at that time, as if Anne had said something taboo. Seeing this, Anne could only suppress the curiosity in her heart and stop mentioning it.

Now that Lin Shuo took the initiative to mention this thing, and it was brought up at this juncture, Anne was secretly surprised in her heart.

But she didn't show anything on her face, so she could only wait quietly for him to continue.