Chapter 12: Ranch Encounters

Ye Zhenzhen walked to the information desk and asked: "Yesterday morning, a friend of mine left the bag here, and he called yesterday afternoon to confirm, saying that the bag was placed in the tourist reception center, and I will help him pick it up today." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

"What's your friend's name?"

"Zhang Zhongsheng. ”

The female clerk bent down and searched under the table, and finally found a brown and yellow canvas bag, put it on the table, and asked, "Look, is this your friend's bag?"

Ye Zhenzhen opened the zipper of the canvas bag, and a hardcover book with a blue cover appeared in front of her, which was the "Response and Disposal of Bioterror" lent to Zhongsheng, and then flipped through the bottom of the book, a black wallet, opened the wallet, and there was Zhang Zhongsheng's ID card, and the owner of the bag was determined.

Ye Zhenzhen nodded and said with a smile: "This is my friend's bag, thank you." ”

"You're welcome, it's good that you didn't lose anything. ”

After getting Zhang Zhongsheng's bag, Ye Zhenzhen walked out of the tourist reception center and was about to take the car back to school, but suddenly remembered that she had just walked to the sheepfold but didn't have time to look at it, as well as the sack carried by two strange men, and Zhongsheng's symptoms of a severe cold, a series of questions lingered in her mind, blocked in her heart.

Ye Zhenzhen stopped, turned her head to look at the sheep on the hillside beside her, the sun was rising, the sheep were driven out of the sheepfold, scattered grazing on the hillside grass, from a distance, like white mushrooms growing on the grass.

Holding the book in her canvas bag, Ye Zhenzhen remembered her experience in Paris and her desire to work in the disease control system, and her intuition told her that there must be some ulterior secret in this sheep ranch in the northern suburbs, and maybe there were clues related to Zhongsheng's illness.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhenzhen turned her head firmly and walked towards the hillside sheepfold just now, but this time she learned wisely, didn't the staff of the ranch just now not let tourists in, this time she changed to the road that tourists often walked, and bypassed.

Ye Zhenzhen looked at the reminder sign outside the tourist reception center again, there was a tourist route and the self-operated area division line of the contracted ranch, the boundary between the two was not obvious, there was a large hillside meadow in the middle, a wild rose bush in the meadow, through the rose bush, you can reach the opposite sheepfold slope from the tourist hillside, Zhen Zhen's mind turned, and thought of a way.

Ye Zhenzhen walks along the path to the tourist hillside with the group of tourists, the north side of the tourist hillside is a canyon, the canyon has mountain streams and waterfalls, the scenery is charming, the other side of the canyon is connected to the continuous mountains, the mountains are pine forests, the pine needles that fall down every year in the pine forest accumulate together, forming a thick layer, the pine forest is the primeval forest, here is the transition zone of the forest and grassland, although the scenery is breathtaking, but it is full of danger everywhere, not only there are large beasts, even the local hunters are easy to get lost in the primitive pine forest if they go too deep into the mountain, there have been tourists who are interested in the primitive pine forest here, regardless of the persuasion of the tour guide, they have to enter the pine forest, and they never come out againThe locals said that the tourist must have been dragged into the tree hole by the blind bear in the pine forest and eaten, so he did not see the dead and the corpse, so now the scenic spot management office has set up a lot of warning signs at the junction of the primitive pine forest and the canyon, "the primeval forest, undeveloped, tourists do not enter!" Therefore, tourists rarely go in, most of the tourists are on the hillside to see the herds, to the canyon to see the mountain stream waterfall, and then to the top of the mountain to see the distant mountains, then go back.

Halfway up the mountain, the tourists gradually began to disperse, Ye Zhenzhen looked at the wild rose bush not far away, but there was a warning sign on the side of the road, which said, "Wild rose forest, there are wild animals inside, please do not enter!"

Ye Zhenzhen thought to herself, isn't it just a wild flower, what wild animals can be, she is not allowed to enter, she can only watch from the periphery, Zhen Zhen is not in the mood to look at the flowers at this time, she only thinks about the sheepfold on the opposite hillside, and the things that two strange men carried out of the sheepfold, where are they going to move the brown sack?

Walking through the wild rose forest next to you, you can reach the slope of the sheepfold on the opposite side, which is the only shortcut.

Ye Zhenzhen took advantage of the inattention of the surrounding tourists, turned around, and flashed into the wild rose forest.

The roses that are usually seen in the city are planted in the green belt of the community, the branches are slender, there are climbing and growing characteristics, they belong to herbs or shrubs, but the wild rose forest here has grown for hundreds of years, and they have grown into the shape of a tree, the branches are as thick as an adult's arm, and the rose tree is more than two people high.

The roses in this rose forest belong to small trees, the flower branches are thorny, because it is late autumn, most of the roses are withered, occasionally a few white, red or yellow small roses are still hanging on the branches, although the petals fall, but the branches are ripe achenes, red and red clusters, like ripe seeds. The fallen leaves and petals under the rose tree have accumulated a thick layer, and the lower layer is rotten, and the surface layer is the flower and leaf that has just fallen in recent days, and there are faint traces of people stepping on the flower leaves.

Zhen Zhen thought to herself, "Has anyone been to this wild rose forest, and is there anyone else like me?"

Ye Zhenzhen walked through the rose forest, walked towards the opposite sheepfold, the footprints on the ground also kept moving forward, walked for about ten minutes, the footprints on the ground turned in a different direction, the road in the wild rose forest was twisted and turned, and it was impossible to see where the footprints went in the end, Ye Zhenzhen didn't care about the footprints, and continued to walk forward, at this time there were no footprints on the ground in front of her, the whole wild rose forest was cold and damp, the mountain wind blew, and the petals fell, which made people feel nervous.

Ye Zhenzhen walked forward hard, didn't take two steps, and suddenly froze in place.

I saw that less than five steps ahead, there was a long blue and yellow snake coiled on the trunk of a rose tree, and the long snake seemed to hear the footsteps and raised its head in the direction of Zhen Zhen.

Ye Zhenzhen was most afraid of slender and soft animals such as snakes and earthworms since she was a child, and now that a live long snake was in front of her, she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and unconsciously took a step back.

Seeing an object moving in front of him, the green snake seemed to be enraged by this change, spitting out a red letter and slowly swimming towards Ye Zhenzhen.

Ye Zhenzhen was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, if she turned around and ran back, the speed of the snake was very fast, and this wild rose forest was full of obstacles, she couldn't run fast, as soon as she turned around, maybe she would be chased by the snake, but stay in place, the snake will still come, what should I do?

When he was in a dilemma, suddenly, a stone fell from the sky and smashed into the green snake seven inches, the green snake twisted twice and then did not react, Ye Zhenzhen turned around, but a white-clothed figure stood behind him.

After seeing the appearance of the person behind her, Zhen Zhen was even more surprised, and said in a lost voice: "Nan Zhiqiao?!"