Xiao Nan drove Han Zheng in a car, circled down the abandoned temporary road, and went straight to the uninhabited village at the foot of the mountain. The road condition of this section of the road is basically intact, and the road surface is very wide, which can accommodate two heavy trucks to drive side by side, and there is still room left.

The threshing floor outside the village was apparently once transformed into a part of the tunnel construction yard, and there are still some low walls and doorposts of the gatehouse, and there are abandoned dilapidated labor protection products and garbage everywhere, and the rest of the clearing is overgrown with wild grass and shrubs more than half a person high, and the whole village is also surrounded by dense vegetation, and the lush green covers the ruins of the walls.

Xiao Nan didn't dare to stop, and stepped on the gas pedal through the threshing floor and continued along the road that bypassed the outskirts of the village. All the way, you can see the dilapidated farmhouses of the forties and fifties of the last century, the doors of every house are closed, the door panels have become earth-colored rotten wood under the perennial wind and sun, and the locks are rusted into dead bumps. Almost all the walls that have not collapsed are covered with vines, most of the roofs have collapsed and are overgrown with wild grass, and even small trees with arm-thick trees have grown in the large holes in some roofs, and the long branches are swaying in the rain, a desolate scene that makes people sigh.

Judging from the time Xiao Nan drove through the outskirts of the village, in terms of the size of this village, there were four or five hundred people living in its heyday. Many of the villages in the depths of the Taihang Mountains were relocated from the plains below the mountains to escape the troubled times when the ancient times were in turmoil. Some villages have even been breeding in the mountains for thousands of years. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, it was the most prosperous time for this kind of mountain village, and the mountain people responded to the call of the great leader, fought the heavens and the earth, repaired water conservancy and opened terraces, and also did a vigorous career......

However, everything has its natural laws. Since the beginning of the new century, the process of urbanization has been greatly accelerated, and young mountain people have left their hometowns where their ancestors have lived for generations to seek better living conditions in the cities. And here, the ancient homeland that their ancestors once built with countless blood, sweat and even their lives has finally completed the mission of history, and returned to the embrace of nature with their untold stories.

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It didn't take long for the off-road motorcycle to go around to the back of the village, which is also a large wasteland, and the two remaining cement doorposts on the outermost part are still engraved with the vague handwriting of "Mountain Village Primary School", but there is not a single remaining classroom in sight. The playground was overgrown with weeds and uninhabited, and an abandoned old tractor was lying mottled in a corner for a good night's sleep. Judging by the debris abandoned on the ground, it is clear that this was also part of a stockyard.

Sure enough, just as Xiao Ran said, the highway disappeared when it reached here. Xiao Nan got out of the car and carefully identified the traces of vehicles passing in the grass, and found that there were messy ruts of off-road motorcycles in a large area, it seemed that Xiao Ran and the three of them had driven around here repeatedly, looking at the scene in front of him, Xiao Nan really couldn't understand, those three guys were not stupid, why did they continue to walk forward.

"Xiao Cheng, look there......" Han Zheng behind him shouted, Xiao Nan looked back, and saw Han Zheng stretching out his hand to point to the top of the mountain on the left, so he looked up in the direction of his finger, and saw that there seemed to be a road on the mountain, one end of the road came from nowhere, and the other end was connected to a tunnel mouth.

Xiao Nan was startled, and quickly flipped out the map to see, and she finally realized that the road she saw here was indeed the same road as the road they had to pass when they went down the mountain, but it was not the same section, and the tunnel mouth at the top of the mountain was not the tunnel they had seen when they explored the road, but a much shorter tunnel closer to the outside of the mountain.

It was the tunnel mouth at the top of the mountain that gave the pathfinder trio some kind of illusion, making them think that although they took the wrong path, they should be able to take a shortcut back if they went any further, but they fell deeper and deeper and finally couldn't extricate themselves......

I really regret that I should have come with them at that time...... With me, at least I won't let them take this unjust path...... Xiao Nan regretted his momentary comfort. But the matter has come to this point, and there is no point in dwelling on the affairs of men and women, "Let's hurry up and find someone......" Xiao Nan said depressedly.

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"Xiao Cheng, here!" Han Zheng pointed to the rut under his feet and shouted, he was unwilling to just be a "baoqi dart" that was almost useless to Xiao Nan, in order to show that he was "useful", he deliberately ran out and looked for clues to Xiao Ran's whereabouts separately with Xiao Nan, and sure enough, he made an important discovery.

Xiao Nan heard the sound of parting the weeds that were over his knees, ran to Han Zheng's side and looked in the direction of his finger, and the rut marks of the big-toothed mud tires of the off-road locomotive on the ground stretched to the poplar forest in the distance.

"Found it!" Xiao Nan was overjoyed, grabbed Han Zheng's hand, pulled him around, and turned around and sprinted towards the cross-country side. Han Zheng was caught off guard by Xiao Nan's sudden and active behavior, and staggered behind Xiao Nan, until he got into the car and squatted on the seat of the side bucket, he had time to slowly reminisce about the soft touch on his hand at that time, and couldn't help but raise his wrist and put it in front of his nose and sniffed, as if he could still smell Xiao Nan's residual faint body fragrance......

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The road to the village behind the abandoned school playground is gone, the road to the poplar forest is a machine ploughing road with three deep ruts, fortunately, the road surface is still dominated by gravel, the tires will not fall into the mud after the rain, the off-road side motorcycle runs on it although bumpy, but it can still maintain a certain speed, but the back is not good to say whether it will encounter muddy ground, if it really encounters, it is really a nightmare for all wheeled vehicles......