On this morning, Yang Tuo was rarely freed from the continuous scientific research work and gave himself a day off.

He took a shower, had a good meal, and then took out a brand new tunic from the bottom of the large suitcase he had brought with him.

This is the new clothes that Yang Tuo made when he was the director of the Lanzhou Institute of Biology. His girlfriend made handmade clothes made by a big tailor in Tolan, and he never wore them since.

Now that it has been pressed under the box for a long time, the cotton and linen blended fabric will inevitably be a little wrinkled.

Asking Suheba to borrow an ironing board and iron, Yang Tuo spent more than half an hour carefully ironing every fold of this suit to smooth out.

After putting on this tunics in front of the mirror, Yang Tuo took off the electronic watch on his wrist and threw it into the suitcase, and took out a mechanical watch from the mezzanine of the suitcase.

This watch was a gift from his doctoral supervisor He Zihong when he graduated from his doctorate, and he regarded it as a treasure, but he usually didn't wear it.

Because mechanical watches, after all, are not as accurate as electronic watches, and they are not so reliable when working.

This watch has a pure metal chain, and it feels cold to the touch after wearing it.

Yang Tuo held the cuffs of the brand-new tunic with his hand, covered it for a while, and warmed the chain with his body temperature, and then put down his hand.

After tidying up his neckline in front of the mirror again, Yang Tuo took off his glasses, soaked them in the solution he had concocted, and then wiped them carefully with mirror polishing paper.

Putting his glasses back on, he returned to his desk, sat down, and picked up the phone on the desk.

After pulling out a few numbers and waiting for a while, Yang Tuo said into the microphone:

"Director Arjuna, starting this afternoon, all the personnel in the police station will go home for vacation. No one is allowed in the police station except me. When the holiday ends, I will wait until further notice. ”

After saying this, Yang Tuo hung up the phone, then looked at Xiao Ba on the table, and smiled: "My treatment for you has ended, now whether it is physical or mental, you have no problem, don't stay with me, go find Lin Shuo." ”

"Yang Tuo, what kind of medicine are you selling in this gourd?" Xiao Ba tilted his head, and seemed to be a little puzzled by Yang Tuo's behavior.

"Don't ask. Yang Tuo stretched out his hand and touched Xiaoba's head, "Go ahead." ”

"No, I can't. Hachi shook his head, "You have to make it clear, otherwise I won't be at ease leaving." ”

"It's fine. Yang Tuo said, "I want to wait for someone to come over and have a long conversation without being disturbed." Don't get in the way here. ”

"Yang Tuo, although my eighth master is a bird, he has also watched TV series. Before some characters die, they often have to come to such a play, dress neatly, set up a model first, and then die heroically. Xiaoba said, "You Yang Tuo is a scientist, so you can't be so cliché, right?"

"Little eight, eighth master. Yang Tuo said helplessly, "I, Yang Tuo, have been handsome for so long in my life, can you not say it?"

"There's no way, I just love to watch the excitement. Hachi said, "Since you want to die, how can I miss such a big bustle." No, I'll have to watch you die. ”

"It's really a bird's beak that can't spit out ivory. ”

"You're waiting for Dilan, aren't you?"

"Hmm. ”

"I heard Brother Shuo on the phone say that she is actually a man-made King of Mountain Yama, right?"

"Pretty much. ”

"And how do you know she's coming to you?"

"Since she knew that I had guessed her situation, she would definitely come. Yang Tuo said, "She understands me, since I, Yang Tuo, have set my sights on her, then if I don't settle here, she will never have peace in the future." ”

"Then you're just waiting to be killed by her, without struggling?"

"Since Lin Shuo didn't keep her, it's useless to fill in the lives of many people on my side, it's just a senseless sacrifice. Yang Tuo pointed to his head, "At this time, the only thing I can count on is here." ”

"Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Can't help. Yang Tuo shook his head, "Unless Lin Shuo himself is here, no one can help." ”

"Well, I'll be watching from a short distance. Xiaoba said, "Your life and death, I want to tell Brother Shuo to know." ”

"Yes. ”

......

The northern region of the Altai Mountains, deep in geothermal forests.

The smell information around him kept hitting Lin Shuo's nose, and he knew that if he went further north, the forest was almost over.

Lin Shuo and his party have almost crossed this forest.

Everyone knows that this forest is abnormal, but along the way, it is difficult to detect anything abnormal with the naked eye.

Because none of the anomalies that Xiaohachi said before can be seen at a glance in a short period of time, this requires long-term observation.

And the King of Mountain Yama himself is also a mysterious existence.

For a while, it seemed to be everywhere, and now, it seems to be in a cage.

Di Lan's sudden departure confused Lin Shuo.

In fact, for a long time, everyone's perception of the King of Mountain Hades was almost established by this woman.

This woman is strange.

Recalling what she had said, she exaggerated the King of Mountain Yama and undermined the morale of the team at that time, and at the same time used biological sampling, which slowed down the team's journey to a certain extent.

This kind of slowdown seems to be unfavorable to the situation, but objectively, it is beneficial.

It happened to be stuck in the critical period of the Mountain Hell King's self-growth, and at the same time, it also gave Lin Shuo enough time to sort out his thoughts and speculate the information that the barge beast was parasitized.

So until now, Lin Shuo didn't know what this woman's motive was.

She seemed to know the King of Mountain Yama very well, and always kept track of the progress of this hunting team, and when everything was ready, she just owed the east wind, she drifted away, leaving the last fruit to Lin Shuo and them to pick.

But from another point of view, she seems to worship the King of Mountain Hades very much, and she doesn't want the hunting team to successfully complete the hunt, so she does everything possible to obstruct it. When the Mountain Yama King parasitized the beast and became the strongest form, and at the same time, she herself was suspected by Yang Tuo and could not continue to hide, so she left.

Both scenarios are possible, so this woman is still a mystery to Lin Shuo.

With Lin Shuo's mind, he could naturally think that when Di Lan left at this time, he should have gone to Yang Tuo for a showdown.

Because here, only Yang Tuo can contact the outside world at present.

On Yang Tuo's side, there is no one who can have the strength to fight with Dilan, Liu Qing and Suheba Beast are not enough, and there is only one Arjuna.

It's really hard to say whether Yang Tuo can survive or not.

However, Lin Shuo couldn't worry about this matter for the time being, because everyone had already entered the territory of the barge beast.

The breath of the barge beast is already very obvious here, and there are residues everywhere.

At this time, the smell information is extremely precious.

Because if you go any further, you will almost get out of the forest.

It is the active period of the northwest monsoon, and a gust of wind blows on the prairie, and there is no smell left, and it will be very difficult to lock the barge beast with the smell when the time comes.

And judging from the freshness of the smell of the beasts in the forest at the moment, this thing should be not far away.

At this time, under the feet of everyone, there was an uphill road of a mountain peak, and it was almost to the ridge.

At this time, no matter the line of sight or the direction of the wind, it was blocked by the ridge, and everyone's eyes and Lin Shuo's nose were not so easy to use.

A

E suddenly stopped and gave a stop gesture.

Then she quickly lay on the ground, quietly listening to the movement of the rocky formations of the mountain.

After a while, A

E raised his head and said, "Mr. Lin, it should be in front, the footsteps are muffled, it's a big guy." ”

"Can you confirm it?" asked Lin Shuo.

"No, you can't. ”A

E shook his head, "It's too far away, it's a little hard to hear." And the footsteps of the barge beast, I have no experience before. ”

Lin Shuo nodded and commanded softly, "Get down, crawl forward, and go to the ridge to observe." ”

Everyone hurriedly acted according to their words, but after the big white wolf Lao Bai lay down, he rolled to the side, revealing his belly to Lin Shuo.

Wolves, canines, are born to recognize wolves, and they will only show their belly to show weakness to the head wolf in their own wolf pack.

Lin Shuo knew that this big guy was coquettish to himself, he touched Lao Bai's belly with his hand, and ordered: "Lao Bai, your head is too big, don't go to the ridge to show your head, it's easy to be discovered." You just don't move here, and if it ends up running here, you just stop it, don't try it, you know?"

Although Lao Bai can't speak like Xiaoba, he can understand people's words.

After instructing Lao Bai, Lin Shuo followed A

E and Zhang Jin both lay down together, crawled lightly for five or six meters, and there was a ridge in front of them.

The ridge is so narrow that it looks like a blade when it stands up like a knife edge, three or four meters wide.

Each of them found an observation spot and looked down the hill through the grass and rocks.

In the past few days, I have been accustomed to seeing trees and rocks, and the only man-made building is the stone pillar, which looks like a tree.

So the scene under the mountain at this time is eye-catching.

Although it has been eroded by time, the three of them can still recognize that this is an ancient city that has been abandoned for a long time.

The surrounding stone walls have long since collapsed, but the foundation of the wall is still there, and the general outline of the city can be seen.

The buildings in the city were apparently made of stones, and most of them had collapsed into a mess.

The most eye-catching is the stone pillar in the middle.

This kind of stone pillar has been seen by everyone before, but it is not as big as this pillar.

Moreover, this stone pillar in the center of the city, with the head of an animal carved on the top, is now covered with a thick layer of moss, blurring the edges and corners, and it is impossible to see what it is.

Around the stone pillar, a square piece is squarely raised, which is estimated to be an altar.

By today's standards, the city is not big, and the radius is just over a mile, more like a village.

But if combined with history, there is such a large city in the northern mountains of the Altai Mountains, and the significance is not trivial.

Because the Altai Mountains are one of the birthplaces of human nomadic civilization.

This conclusion is based on the historical data of other surrounding agricultural civilizations. Real archaeological evidence, to date is scarce.

And the ruins of this city, hidden among the mountains, seem to be a favorable proof of this conclusion.

Of course, the specific excavation work has nothing to do with Lin Shuo's group, they are not in this business.

However, seeing such a monument, Lin Shuo was still very emotional.

Because although the archaeological results announced so far do not include this place, there is a record of it in the "Kyushu Foreign Body" of the Hunting Gate.

This place should be the blue wolf monument.

For the third time, mankind has gone out of Africa, first in the fertile crescent of the two river basins, and has produced a brilliant flower of civilization. Sumerian civilization, more than 7,000 years ago.

Then humanity continued eastward, and the Altai Mountains were one of the transit points.

Here, humanity is divided into two groups, one to the east and one to the south.

The people to the east, who entered the Mongolian plateau, gradually evolved into various nomadic tribes active throughout history.

The group of people who went south walked to Kunlun Mountain and gradually evolved into the ancient Qiang people. The ancient Qiang people are the common ancestors of the Han, Qiang, and Tibetan peoples today.

Tracing back to the origin, this blue wolf monument is one of the places where these two groups of people separated.

According to the records in "Kyushu Foreign Objects", when the ancestors in the blue wolf monuments were separated due to natural disasters, the totems they believed in were also divided into two types.

To the east, the totem is a wolf.

The branch that goes south, the totem is a barge.

Because here, the wolf is their main enemy, and by believing in the enemy, they can sharpen themselves.

At the same time, they are their guardian beasts, and if they believe in them, the beasts will continue to protect them.

It's a pity that at that time, they didn't follow the people eastward or southward.

They survived the scourge and became scarcer.

Thousands of years have passed, and now there is only one refutation left in this world.

This barge, at this moment, is standing on the hill opposite Lin Shuo and the others.

It held its head high, watched warily at the three heads peeking out from the opposite peak, and let out a muffled thunderous roar.

"You two, start outflanking from the wings. Lin Shuo also stared at this barge, and said in a deep voice, "Remember, you have to live!"