If my guess about the Chaos Beast is true, then we are dealing with a living creature, but the way this creature exists is too weird, but I have a little confidence that as long as it is a creature, it will definitely have weaknesses, and it will also have its habitual behavior, and if you find a pattern, you will have the possibility of avoiding danger, and if you find a weakness, you will have a chance to defeat it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When I was sitting next to the bonfire and paddling and thinking, Xiao Cai turned back from the towering trees next to me and asked me, "Lao Chang, the big trees on the side are probably fifty or sixty meters high, if I climb up to the trees, I should be able to see the bonfire between Team Cao and Lao Jiao, and if Lao Jiao's carrier pigeons can pass through the fog, then we can get in touch." ”

I raised my finger at Xiao Cai, his thoughts coincided with mine, just reminded him that it was dangerous to climb such a tall tree on a foggy day, Xiao Cai grinned at me, "I have loved to climb trees since I was a child, these trees are really not high, and the ability to fight small finally has a place to use." ”

I took out the porcelain bottle containing Tianmu water from my bag, poured out some, smeared Xiao Cai's eyelids, and took out the soul bell and handed it to him, "Don't climb too high, pay attention to safety, the soul bell is vibrating by itself, that is, the ghost market is coming, you can come down quickly." ”

Xiao Cai nodded, and began to climb the tree skillfully, and after a while, he disappeared into the thick fog, leaving only the occasional ringing of the soul bell.

Ten minutes later, Xiao Cai's shout came from the tree, "Lao Chang, it's almost at the top, the fog on it is much smaller, it seems to be a little fire." It's a long way to the north, about two miles, and it's not yet visible to the south. "I marked the picture, and then the sound of the pigeon's whistle came again, and it seemed to be flying in this direction, and the two little pigeons in the cage immediately cried excitedly, and kept flapping their wings.

A black shadow was as fast as lightning, rushing straight out of the dense fog, and when it landed quickly, I don't know if it was because the fog was so thick that I couldn't make out the path, or because I was injured, and my flight was unstable, so I scraped a tree branch, turned over in the air, and fell heavily more than ten meters away from me. I ran as fast as I could, and the pigeon, lying on the ground, as if one of its wings had been wounded, saw me coming, and tried to raise its head and cooed a few times. I picked it up, it was the Shanghai plum with blue eyes, and I could feel the fluttering of one of its wings, as if it were broken, and a small brass pipe hanging on its foot.

I took the brass off, stroked the pigeon's head, and put it back in the cage, and the other two pigeons immediately came over and whispered and pecked at its injured wings with their small beaks, as if to show comfort. I added some peanuts and water to their food and water bowls, and the two pigeons did not touch them, but arched the basins with their beaks in front of the blue eyes.

I opened the copper pipe, and there were two rolls of paper inside, unfolded, one was written by Jiao Er, and there was only one sentence: "Trapped at the first fork in the road, camped." And the Cao team almost filled a small note, "It's strange, I've found eight camping spots, all of which are left by college students, why?" But no one was found, the fog was too big to converge, camp on the spot, the fog dispersed and converged, did Xiao Cai find you?"

I was looking at the note when I heard Xiao Cai's voice coming from the tree, "Lao Chang, I saw the bonfire in the south, just lit it, more than a mile away from us, there is still a fire in our east, but it is not like a bonfire, about five or six miles away." ”

I hurriedly marked the coordinates that Xiao Cai said on the map, and then shouted to the tree, "Xiao Cai, pay attention to the light in the east, is it moving" and then began to choose a few straight branches, cut them with a knife, to form a nine-by-nine grid, take some spare thin wires from under the pigeon cage, fix the wooden frame, pick it up and compare, it is still useful, and a simple nine-palace ruler is completed.

In fact, the inheritance of ancient witchcraft is far from being as mysterious as later generations think, and for the same era, the scientific and technological content of witchcraft is relatively high. Like the Chang family's ghosts and gods, the so-called cultivation, the so-called mental method, and the so-called secret art are actually not many, and the real foundation is the living learning and application of knowledge, and the other is the production and use of some observation equipment. The nine-palace ruler is a grid locator with perspective function, so it is not a square, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. According to Xiao Cai's tree height, this grid represents about a quarter of a square kilometer, and according to it, a relatively accurate projection position can be determined, helping Cao Team or Jiao Er move in the right direction.

"The fire from the east is moving, slowly, but it should be to the northwest. Xiao Cai's voice came from the top of the tree, I asked him to go down the tree first, and at the same time took out a pen and paper, numbered each grid of the Jiugong ruler, and then drew two sketches, wrote a few instructions, and asked the Cao team to act according to the requirements of the note carried by the carrier pigeon. Xiao Cai got off the tree, I told him how to use the Jiugong ruler briefly, and he hurried up again.

After a while, Xiao Cai came to the top of the tree with the first message, the lights of the ghost market were in grid 46, moving to grid 38, the bonfire of the Cao team was in grid 65, and Jiao Er's bonfire was in grid 25. I marked the sketch on the ground, took out a pen and hurriedly wrote a paragraph on the slip of paper, attached the sketch, and told the Cao team how to use the nine-square grid. Roll it into a paper roll, take out the small sand hole from the pigeon cage, remember that Jiao Er told me that it is the most capable pigeon breed to distinguish the direction, and in Jiao Er's previous training, it will definitely fly to the cage carried by the Cao team first, and then fly back. And I firmly believe that after reading the sketch, Team Cao will judge the current position of Jiao Er and me, and according to the direction in which the pigeon flies or flies away, it should be able to judge the direction of its own movement. That's the only way I can think of a response.

Little Trachoma flapped its wings excitedly in my hands, and I patted its head and watched it quickly rush into the fog and fly north.

This time, Xiao Shayan did not fly back, and ten minutes later, I heard its pigeon whistle flying overhead, probably going to Jiao Er. Soon, Xiao Cai's voice sounded above his head, "The bonfire of the sixty-five grids of the Cao team has been extinguished, and the bonfire of the fifty-four squares has been lit." Jiao Er's bonfire has not changed, and the lights of the ghost market have reached thirty-eight squares, and it is estimated that they are moving to thirty-seven squares. ”

I took a look at the sketch, and the direction of movement of the ghost market lights would eventually be between Team Cao and our current position. It would be dangerous to let the Cao team move in our direction, and the lights of the ghost market were moving faster than I thought, and the Cao team would react after receiving the news from the flying pigeon, and the slightest mistake would encounter the ghost market, and the safest way should be to let him continue to the north, go around in a circle, avoid the ghost market, and then consider the problem of our convergence.

I hurriedly wrote the paper roll, took out the snow green from the pigeon cage, tied the paper roll to it, and released it.

About ten minutes later, Xiao Shachoma flew back from Jiao Er, and Jiao Er's note to me explained in detail how to appease the pigeon and how to let the pigeon choose the shed (for us now, the pigeon cage) and told me that he felt that the pigeon took a long time to fly, so it was estimated that in the process of flying over the lights of the ghost market, it must be the cause of the geomagnetic anomaly, and the pigeon circled around it a few times before he could identify the direction.

At this time, Xiao Cai on the tree sent me an extremely shocking and exciting news. Xiao Cai found that the Cao team had extinguished a bonfire of fifty-four squares and lit it at sixty-five squares, but in the southwest direction of the Cao team, about forty-two squares, a new bonfire was faintly lit.

Xiao Cai and I should have reacted to what this bonfire meant at the same time, those college students, they were four or five miles away from us in the northwest direction. But the lights of the ghost city are advancing in that direction, although the Cao team is the closest, but if they move to the southwest, after all, there are mountains and valleys within a square, and the moat of Wangshan running dead horses is not something that we can fill in with a stroke of a nine-palace ruler. And the fog of the ghost city seems to be completely unrestricted by the terrain, and the movement speed of the ghost city seems to be slow, but if we don't advance the amount, in the deep mountains with complex terrain, or in the fog at night, it is completely incomparable, and the final result is likely to be that even if the Cao team finds the missing student, it will be swallowed by the ghost city.

But my contemplation was only a few minutes, and after confirming that there was no better way to have both worlds, I shouted to Xiao Cai on the tree: "Xiao Cai, you shake the soul bell vigorously, quickly, confirm that the lights of the ghost market are coming in our direction, you can quickly get down the tree." After speaking, I took out a pen and paper, quickly drew a sketch of the nine-square grid, marked the location of the new bonfire found by Xiao Cai, and asked the Cao team to rush to the forty-two grids as soon as possible, rescue the college students, and then return the same way, detour according to the previous route, and join Jiao Er. He fed little sandhole some peanuts, put a roll of paper in the pigeon whistle on his feet, and let it out. Above me, the crash of the Soul Bells echoed through the silent valley.

Ten minutes later, Xiao Cai shouted from the tree, "Come here, there are still two squares" and quickly climbed down from the tree, panting, and asked me, "Lao Chang, what should I do now? Go in the direction of Jiao Er?" I shook my head, "The speed of the ghost market is far faster than ours, even if we converge Jiao Er, I'm afraid we will still be caught up by it, Xiao Cai, you take the pigeon cage and the bell to meet Jiao Er, let Jiao Er retreat out, while informing the Cao team of the direction, just hold on until dawn, I am waiting for the ghost market here." "It's better for me to stay, Team Cao, they need you more." Xiao Cai anxiously stuffed the soul bell into my hand. I patted him on the shoulder, "It's hard to come here, I won't meet it, it's a pity, I'm more experienced than you, don't worry, I have a way." After speaking, I handed the pigeon cage to Xiao Cai, "You should see the general direction clearly, you must find the signs on the road before walking, the fog is heavy, be careful." ”

Pushing Cai out of camp and watching him disappear in the fog, I sat down by the campfire again. Like Chang Zu, wipe the Tianmu water on your eyelids, and then take two Shen Xin Pills, and the one who should come will always come. All that remains is to hope that Lao Cao and Jiao Er will do well.

(Book friends asked me, Meicun clocks in at work, writes books after work, and what do you usually do, but in fact, I only write books recently.) There is an American drama "Stranger Things" that is very good, don't miss it if you like the tomb in the courtyard, and there is also a "Gate Valve Merry" by Mr. Jiangshan at the starting point, which is my favorite in the second half of the night, and there are only these recently) (to be continued.) )