In the crevice of the rock where the fat man had just picked the safflower, there was actually a piece of red soil, which also smelled of blood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fat man took out a shovel from the bag behind him, carefully took out a small piece of red soil from the rock crevice, handed it to his nose and sniffed: "Fresh." The fat man said this, and poured the damp red clay from the shovel on the ground.

After looking around, the fat man screamed badly, and hurriedly took two steps back.

"What's wrong?" Seeing the fat man retreat behind him, he still had a look of fear.

The fat man lowered his head and pondered, and only replied to Lin Tao for a long time: "At first, I was still paying attention, but I didn't expect to meet here, and we don't need to look for the destination on the map, I guess it's here." ”

Lin Tao was confused by the fat man's words, and looked at the fat man with a sad face: "No, what the hell is going on, I didn't understand." ”

The fat man looked up at Lin Tao and sighed: "Then you tell me first, let's go find out what treasures are in that place." ”

"I'm going there to help Xiangxin find a Gu worm called the ghost mouse, only if Xiangxin gets the Gu worm, our safety can be guaranteed, because she is a member of the Hundred Poison Gate." Lin Tao also talked as he spoke.

The fat man looked quietly in the direction of Xiangxin behind him, and turned his head to make sure that she was not nearby: "Actually, I have long seen that that woman is not a good person, I guess it is very likely that it is the person from the Hundred Poisons Sect you said, who wants to coerce you to help her do things, and I plan to find an opportunity to help you settle her." ”

When Lin Tao heard this, he realized that the fat man had been pretending to be lustful all along, but it turned out that he was still thinking about his own safety and spying on Xiangxin's reality. Brothers are brothers, Lin Tao gratefully punched the fat man in the chest, and the two looked at each other and smiled without saying a word. After years of tacit understanding, needless to say, both of them understood what each other meant.

Lin Tao also sat next to the fat man: "By the way, what do you mean when you just said that we don't have to go to the destination marked on the map." ”

The fat man looked at the rift where the wind blew out in front of him, took out the map from his arms, and spread it in front of Lin Tao: "Look, our current location is at the rift on the map, and the little red dot that goes a little above is the destination?" The fat man asked Lin Tao rhetorically.

Lin Tao didn't understand what the fat man meant: "Isn't the red dot the destination of our trip?" ”

After listening to Lin Tao's words, the fat man smiled and said nothing, took out a pen from his arms and said to Lin Tao: "If we compare this pen to this map, where we are now is the refill, that is, the rift on the map, and the red dot on the land, let's compare it to the pen cover, that is, the destination we are going to, but between the two, do you think that is really useful." ”

After listening to the fat man's lame metaphor, Lin Taofang suddenly realized: "Could it be that the ghost mouse we are looking for is in this rift in front of us?" ”

The fat man nodded and smiled: "You can figure it out, it's also possible for ghost rats to be here, in fact, it's not your fault, I also found out about this problem when I saw the red soil in the rock crevices, so it was under my guidance that you learned that the red dot drawn on the map is not a place where treasures are hidden, and the real treasure is buried in this rift on the map, which is also where we are now." ”

Seeing Lin Tao's blank face, the fat man explained to him: "If the person holding the map just looks at the map, he can't find this problem at all, in the thinking of ordinary people, when you get a map and see the red dot on it, what will you think?" ”

"Of course, the place marked with the red dot is the ultimate goal." Lin Tao replied without thinking.

"That's right, you're right, this is our normal thinking, so when we got this map, we all thought that the red dot marked on it was the final destination, but when I saw the red soil, I realized that the red dot on the map was actually a trap, and the real destination was in front of us." The fat man stood up and pointed to the rift in front of him.

Lin Tao was dazed by the fat man's round-and-forth statement, and he didn't understand it until now, the fat man smiled awkwardly and continued to explain: "Wait a minute, you may understand after I finish talking to you." ”

"I heard about this from my dad, and you know, he likes to pull me to tell me strange things he knows, but once he told me a legend of the Blood Lake, and I didn't expect it to happen this time." The fat man said with a hint of fear in his eyes.

"This matter is also something that my father heard from a colleague when he went to northern Shaanxi to buy local goods. That was in 1959, when all parts of the country were doing big things, raising grain harvests, smashing pots and making iron, and so on. At that time, there was a family surnamed Zhao in northern Shaanxi. Before the people were very famous in that area, they made a lot of big tombs, but the little Japan came in, and the whole family was pulled to serve as soldiers, until the founding of New China, basically the dead and wounded, and finally the old Zhao family Zhao Sitian was very well protected by his brothers because of his young age, but then they all died, and he also broke his arm in a battle, and was honorably discharged home. did his family's old business, so everyone called him the one-armed fourth. The fat man said, looked at Lin Tao, who was listening with relish, and continued.

At that time, he was demobilized and returned home, and saw that his family was already in a dilapidated state, and he made a lot of special efforts, and finally even the only iron pot left in the family was gone, so he had to return to his old business and did the old business of fighting backwards, but fortunately, the ancestral craft was still there, although he broke an arm, it did not have much impact on him, and he quickly developed his own power. Then one day, I don't know who gave him a map, according to which he led a group of people to search for it, but the tomb was extremely dangerous, so that all the people he brought with him were wiped out in the tomb, and only he escaped by luck.

The one-armed fourth was very annoyed and hid at home and studied the map for a whole year, and when the people on the road thought that he had been wounded in the tomb and died soon, he reappeared in front of people's eyes, this time he looked even older, with deep sunken eye sockets, and his face was full of wrinkles.

In order to find out what was going on, the one-armed fourth and his son searched one by one according to the marks on the map, but found a small lake on the south side of the red dot marked on the map.

In northern Shaanxi, there are ravines everywhere, soil erosion is severe, where there is a lake, but this small lake shocked the father and son, although the whole lake is only the size of a few basketball courts, but the lake is crimson, and it is constantly bubbling under the scorching sun.

The father and son were at that time at the beginning of the retreat, but as soon as the one-armed fourth thought of those comrades who had died tragically, he became angry, and risked the danger to investigate the matter, so he took his son to study how to cross the red lake and reach the stone island in the middle of the lake.