Lin Shuo carried the bloody rooster and pushed open the red lacquered wooden door of the main house.

In the six years since moving here, Lin Shuo would push open the wooden door on the fifteenth day of every new year.

Cut off the head of a rooster, and even the blood of the rooster that is just to the sun, and sacrifice the things that are offered on the incense table in the house.

And today, it is not the fifteenth day of the first month, but the twentieth day of June in the year of Jiashen.

In the Gregorian calendar, it is August 5, 2004.

In front of the incense case, blood was spilled all the way.

Lin Shuo raised it with one hand, dripped the rooster's blood into the white porcelain cup on the incense case, threw the chicken corpse, and took out three sticks of incense from the side of the incense case, and lit them with a match.

After waiting for a while, Lin Shuo raised his glass above his eyebrows, and then sprinkled the uncoagulated chicken blood in front of the incense table.

After doing all this, Lin Shuo lit another cigarette, took a few puffs, and spoke in the smoke:

"Master Chai, thanks to your protection, I survived in Kunlun Mountain six years ago.

Today, the news came that the beast in Kunlun Mountain not only did not die, but also ran to Heilongjiang.

Let's ask Master Chaser to come with me.

This brute should not be alive. ”

The volume of these words was not loud, as if muttering to himself.

After finishing speaking, Lin Shuo knelt down and kowtowed three times, then got up, groped behind the incense case for a while, and touched a black cloth belt one slap wide.

Tied to a black cloth strap, was an ebony box.

This box is just behind the incense case, three meters long, more than one meter high, and the size is amazing, like a coffin.

Lin Shuo bent down slightly, put the black cloth bag around his head and on his shoulders, carried the "coffin" cross-legged, and turned around and walked out of the room.

Anne, who was outside the house, saw the ebony box behind Lin Shuo, looked respectful, folded her hands and bowed, and hurriedly pulled Wei Xingshan out of the door of the outhouse, so that Lin Shuo and the ebony box could pass through.

"Pretending to be a ghost. Wei Xingshan muttered softly, his face full of disdain.

The starling bird flew to the ebony box and pecked at the box with its beak, making a "knock" sound:

"Chase master, hello. ”

After the starling bird finished greeting the contents of the ebony box, he said to Lin Shuo:

"Brother Shuo, I'll go back to the forest. I went out this time, and I don't know when I will be able to come back. Some of my female birds have fierce temperaments, and I am afraid that they will not wait for me and die on the cliff. I persuaded them to remarry. ”

"Go ahead. Lin Shuo waved his hand, his face a little helpless.

Anne snorted out loud, then straightened her face and stretched out her thumb to the starling bird: "Eighth master, good mind." ”

"Mother-in-law, it's trouble. After saying this, the starling bird fluttered its wings and flew away.

When the starling flew away, Lin Shuo asked, "Which car will I take in a while?"

"Follow me. Anne said.

Lin Shuo nodded and said, "Then please take the trouble to remove the back seat of that car." ”

"Huh?" Wei Xingshan's eyes widened, "Tear down the back seat, what are you doing?"

"Put the box behind me. ”

"You have this thing packed and strapped to the roof rack. Wei Xingshan frowned and said, "The vehicles we have approved for entry this time are tight, and they are all full. Tear down the seats, where do you let my people sit?"

Lin Shuo didn't raise his eyelids, and shook his head slightly, "I want to take care of this thing." ”

"I disagree. Wei Xingshan insisted.

"Captain Wei. "We are at the mercy of Mr. Lin. As mentioned above, as long as Mr. Lin can be invited, our team will be headed by Mr. Lin and listen to him for everything. ”

Wei Xingshan was silent for a while, and finally said to Anne with a cold face: "You are a superior, what you say is what you say." ”

After saying that, Wei Xingshan made a gesture, and the doors of the other off-road vehicles opened in unison, and more than a dozen soldiers with quick movements came down.

These soldiers quickly stood in a row in front of Wei Xingshan, as neat as a knife cut.

This made Lin Shuo a little surprised.

He had also been in contact with mercenaries before, and most of them were veterans with poor discipline. But this mercenary army does not seem to be an ordinary commodity.

"Everybody helped to remove the back seat of this car. Wei Xingshan ordered, "Originally, the brothers in this car went to other cars to squeeze in." ”

In front of this team of mercenaries, Wei Xingshan seemed to have the absolute authority to order and prohibit. Without the slightest objection, everyone quickly took out the toolbox and began to dismantle the back seat.

Surprisingly, it was the only female soldier who commanded the other mercenaries to tear down the back seat and give professional guidance.

This female soldier is 1.7 meters tall, with short ear-length hair, and is very handsome.

Finding that Lin Shuo was observing this female soldier, Miss Anne immediately introduced: "Her name is Liu Qing, and she is the deputy leader of our Asian regional team. She's our tech expert. ”

By this time, it was slowly getting dark.

There is a big locust tree not far from the door of Lin Shuo's house, in the center of the village, growing luxuriantly.

Around six o'clock in the evening, it is the time when the villagers start to cool off after dinner.

Adults sit on bamboo chairs and shake fans, and children run around the locust trees.

Seeing Lin Shuo come out, the adults stopped gossiping in their mouths and greeted Lin Shuo in their local dialect:

"Teacher Lin is good. ”

"Teacher Lin, who are these?"

"Teacher Lin, are you going to go far away?"

"Teacher Lin, how long will it take to leave this time, will you delay my child's class?"

Lin Shuo was stunned, turned around slightly, unloaded the ebony box on his body, and parked next to the off-road vehicle standingly.

With a smile on his face, he walked to the locust tree, lifted the leg of his trousers, sat down on a horse let out by a villager, and began to talk to the villagers about family life.

He spoke with the villagers in a local dialect with a thick accent that Anne and Wei Xingshan could not understand a word.

Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and it was completely dark.

The mercenaries had already finished dismantling the back seat and were waiting for Lin Shuo to set off.

Anne stood beside the off-road vehicle and waited patiently, but Wei Xingshan couldn't bear the anger anymore: "When will the babbling be finished? It will take more than seven hours to get out of the mountain." ”

Anne ignored him, and Vice Captain Liu Qing said, "Team Wei, human nature, be patient." ”

Wei Xingshan was silent for a while, then pointed to the two mercenaries beside him, and then pointed to the ebony box standing next to the car: "You two, hurry up and carry his box into the car." It's pitch black, and the coffin next to him is oozing panic. ”

The two mercenaries grinned and immediately set to action.

These two soldiers are both 1.8 meters tall, strong and strong, and they don't take this box seriously at all. One on each side of the two, they planned to push it to the box and lift it directly to the car.

As a result, one of the mercenaries pushed and said "huh" in his mouth, and the ebony box didn't move at all.

After another push, the box still didn't move, and the mercenary took a step back.

"You haven't eaten?" said the mercenary on the other side laughed at his comrade-in-arms, holding the box with both hands and taking it into his arms.

As soon as his hands were struggling, the man's face also changed, and he turned around and stopped talking at Wei Xingshan.

"You two get out of the way!" Wei Xingshan had already looked impatient, "Shame thing, I'll come!"

After Wei Xingshan finished saying this, he took two steps forward and picked up the black cloth belt hanging on the side and carried it on his shoulder.

"Huh?"

The ebony box doesn't shake without shaking.

The other dozen or so mercenaries all gathered around, and one of them said, "Team Wei, do you want to help?"

"No, I don't. Wei Xingshan's expression became serious.

He took a steady stride, his hands gripping the black cloth strap tightly, his toes grasping the ground steadily, and his waist gradually exerting force.

"Click-click-click. ”

This giant man, who is more than 1.9 meters tall, has a crisp sound on the joints of his whole body, and the green tendons on his neck are exposed.

"Give it to me!" Wei Xingshan shouted, the wooden box shook slightly, and finally began to leave the ground.

Half an inch, one inch, one and a half inches, two inches.

Two inches off the ground, Wei Xingshan's whole body began to swing, and his face turned purple.

Just as he was about to exhaust himself, he suddenly felt the weight on his shoulders lighten by half, and the wooden box was carried by him.

When he turned his head, he found that Lin Shuo had returned from the old locust tree, bending down to support the bottom of the wooden box.

Lin Shuo tugged at the corners of his mouth: "I have good intentions, let's do it with me." ”

As he spoke, Lin Shuo stretched out his other hand and grabbed the black cloth belt, and with an easy flick of it, the ebony box was firmly slung behind him.

Around the two, the mercenaries looked at Lin Shuo's expression, as if they had seen a ghost.

What level of Wei Xingshan's strength is, others don't know, they know best.

Three years ago, he was also the deadlift champion of the military region's martial arts competition, and he won the whole army with a hard qigong.

Wei Xingshan looked at Lin Shuo with a complicated expression, and muttered, "You are thin and thin, why do you have so much strength? Also, what is in this box?"

"You'll find out later. After speaking, Lin Shuo crossed the box and opened the liftback door of the off-road vehicle.

As if putting a schoolbag, Lin Shuo unloaded the box, half-put it on the back of the carriage, and then pushed it steadily, and the entire ebony box was loaded into the car.

With Lin Shuo's action, the off-road vehicle shook violently, and the tires visibly sank a little.

The people around witnessed all this, and there was silence.

......

The engine of the SUV roared as it slowly drove away from the village on the southwestern border of China.

When he was about to turn out of the village road, Lin Shuo opened the car window, and the starling bird flew in and stopped on Lin Shuo's shoulder.

The bird seemed to be a little sluggish, silent and motionless.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shuo turned his head to look at it.

"Brother Shuo. The starling said in a deep voice, "I'm ...... to the end I lied to them and said I would come back. ”

Lin Shuo looked at the lights of Wanjia in the rearview mirror of the car, slightly distracted.

"Are we coming back?" asked the starling bird.

"I hope so. ”