Xiong Maomao's car drove steadily and fast, even the twists and turns of the mountain road did not affect her performance.

Under her escort, Tian Mimi, who was just pretending to sleep, suddenly fell asleep.

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Here, Tian Mimi can't see the sun when she looks up, she can't see her five fingers when she stretches out her hand, and she can't even see herself clearly when she looks down.

In addition to the white expanse in front of him, it is a white expanse.

It seems that in heaven and earth, there is only her and these dense white mist that are about to liquefy.

It's cold!

was blown to her neck by a sudden cool breeze, and Tian Mimi's body involuntarily shook.

She subconsciously wrapped the clothes she was wearing.

Although there was only a thick white mist in front of her, she could feel that she was wearing a thick layer of clothing, definitely more than one garment.

She was just a little tighter, and her body was not so cold.

It's not as cold, but it's not warm enough.

Therefore, Tian Mimi's hands were crossed under her armpits, her neck was trying to retract into her clothes, and she trotted on the spot.

After exercising for a while, her feet began to heat up, and her body sweated slightly, but when she finally warmed up, she stopped exercising.

At that moment, a rooster crowed through the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the white fog in front of him dissipated without a trace.

A sparse forest appeared in front of her eyes.

Tall pine trees jug into the sky, and thick layers of pine needles fall on the ground.

In the woods stood many mountain people wearing straw masks, men and women, young and old.

Their clothes are mostly blue-black cotton and linen, embroidered with colorful flowers on the hem, and they wear beautiful and exaggerated silver ornaments. The face was covered with a straw mask, which blocked the lower half of everyone's face.

Tian Mimi couldn't tell which nationality they belonged to, and she could only identify them as an ethnic minority in the south from their clothes.

As for the straw masks they wear on their faces, they are somewhat unique.

It's not that this mask uses any complicated craftsmanship, what strange patterns fall on it, and what kind of rare handicrafts.

The mask is woven using the most common method of picking and pressing, and there is no pattern of the stars. said that it was a mask, but it was more like a mask made of straw, saying that it was unique, but Tian Mimi had never seen someone dressed up like this, and she felt unique.

These people were scattered in the sparse woods in front of them, gathered and scattered.

Everyone is very close to the people around them, but they don't talk to each other.

And they are all facing different directions, as if they don't have a fixed target direction, and they don't know where they are going.

"Fellow, what kind of place is this?"

Tian Mimi waved to the people standing in front of her, and no one responded to her, as if she couldn't see her.

Tian Mimi wanted to go up and find someone to ask alone.

But as if everyone was afraid of her, no matter who she wanted to ask, the people around her would keep a very safe distance from her.

She walks and he goes, she runs and he runs, and he stops when she stops.

I changed several targets in a row, but I couldn't get close to anyone.

Suddenly, a dense drum beat was heard from a distance.

Low and deep, shocking.

Hearing the sound of the drum, the scattered crowd suddenly formed a procession of men, women, and children, and the long four teams marched side by side towards the place where the drum was heard.

Tian Mimi didn't know where this was, why she was here, why this person was so strange, and why they moved forward.

But her instinct told her that by following the army and reaching the front, everything here would end and she would find the answers she wanted.

So she followed the crowd and followed them through the woods to the mountains.

I don't know how long I left, but it was getting dark, and the team was holding up blazing torches, and they were still walking.

Although I don't know how far there is ahead, Tian Mimi thinks it shouldn't be far away.

Because the drum beat was getting louder and louder, it was so loud that it seemed to explode directly in her ears.

After turning a corner, she finally reached the top of the mountain.

The top of the hill was empty, and the people who arrived first had formed a large, loose circle of people.

The people in the circle of people danced at a very slow pace and sang old songs that they didn't know what to mean.

In the center of the circle, a low wooden platform was set up, and a large copper drum about two meters high was hung on the platform, and in the middle of the drum surface was the sun pattern, the cloud and thunder pattern of the continuous whirlwind structure, and the three-dimensional and unique animal and insect relief, and the drum body was decorated with patterns around, which looked simple and mysterious.

There were three people standing on the stage, two of whom were dressed similarly to the rest of the audience, with black turbans, straw masks, dark blue cloth clothes, and exaggerated silver rings the size of a child's fist hanging from their left ear.

One of them struck the drum with a drumstick, and the other held a wooden barrel to aim at the bottom of the drum to increase the resonance of the copper drum and make the drum sound more rich and deep. Complement each other seamlessly.

The last man on the stage was dressed differently than anyone present.

His mask was probably the only wooden one present, and it was decorated with brightly colored feathers, making it look very different.

But in fact, the mask was very rudimentary, tattered, like a piece of bark that had just been peeled from a tree. However, with the surrounding environment, it also brings a sense of national sedimentation and the vicissitudes of history.

In addition to the mask, he also looks and dresses differently from others.

He wore no clothes, his upper body was covered with symbols and patterns of unknown meaning, and the lower half of his body was a skirt sewn with rags, of different lengths and layers, and no matter how he moved, he would not go away.

Although he wears a black mask with colored tail feathers on his face, his face is not visible. But it can be seen from his tattooed upper body with no fat

He was a man, never more than forty years old.

As the drums grew faster, the unusual man picked up two machetes from the ground.

To the beat of the drum, the man danced wildly, chopping or chopping, and his gestures were full of primitive wildness and power.

As a rush of drumming ended, the drummer stopped hitting the drum head.

The mad dancer also stopped.

He looked up at the dark sky, and everyone in the audience also looked up at the sky, and Tian Mimi also raised her head.

The sky is pitch black, there is no moon and stars, just a pitch black patch, there is really nothing to see.

Tian Mimi withdrew her gaze, and she secretly approached the circle of people while everyone was watching the sky.

But it's like she has eyes on her body, and as long as she gets close, people spread out to both sides.

Tian Mimi easily approached the middle.

But she still couldn't talk to anyone.

She looked up at the wooden platform that was at least two stories high, and felt a wave of frustration.

You don't have to climb up and talk to the most different-looking head, do you?

He has a knife in his hand, what if he cuts me?

Tian Mimi was hesitating whether to climb up.

Suddenly, the dancer with the twin swords, who was looking at the sky and not moving, suddenly raised his hands and swung his knife from top to bottom.

A cauldron fell from the sky, right in front of the wooden platform.

The crowd erupted in deafening cheers.

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