"The light is so dark in the afternoon, why do you want to enter the mountain at this point?" Leng Xiaotai tested the mountain stone with his toes, and only after stepping on it steady, did he move his center of gravity a little bit.

The sound of Director Wu eating noodle soup came from the walkie-talkie, "It's not the master who said it, he said that he must step into the mountain at 3:65 in the afternoon, not early but late." ”

The sun is shining in the west, shaking so cold that Xiaotai can't open his eyes, and there are shadows on this mountain and rock, and every step must be carefully weighed. The crew was not unprepared, all the guests and staff who went down the mountain were tied with safety ropes, but the mountain was really steep, and looking down was a terrifying abyss, even the fearless Leng Xiaotai felt anxious and unbearable when he climbed halfway.

"You really listen to him, what about the master and the others?" Leng Xiaotai wiped the fine sweat on his head.

"I don't know, I won't see anyone this morning, Li Fei said that he may have entered the mountain alone." After Director Wu finished speaking, he hiccuped.

"Alone in the mountains?" Leng Xiaotai said, "Li Fei didn't follow? ”

Wu Dao swallowed the soup, "This trip down the mountain is not good for the heart, I saw that his face was too bad this morning, so I kept him." ”

"Remains..."Leng Xiaotai muttered quietly, secretly relieved.

The recording of the fifth episode is divided into two parts, the first part is the daily part of the group descending the mountain, and the formal part will not start recording until the guests have set up camp at the bottom of the mountain.

In addition to the nine guests who went down the mountain this time, there were also staff such as the makeup team, the props group, and even the security team to follow them into the mountain. Li Ou, who was originally disabled, also had a grand intention to enter the mountain, but several ministers of the Eastern Tang Dynasty detained him on the grounds that "this trip is very dangerous, please take the Li family's social affairs first, and don't go through several dangers in order to provoke some red faces, not to mention that Your Majesty's salary has not been paid last month".

In this regard, the feeling of cold disaster water is excellent. On the one hand, he didn't have to stay under Li Yuan's nose, which made him very uncomfortable; On the other hand... Leng Xiaotai looked at the old mansion with palpitations-this trip could really kill Li Yuan.

"Take a break." Leng Xiaotai found a stable boulder and stood down, "I'm a little dizzy." ”

"Are you sure?" Yin Tao Xiaohua jumped down lightly and tugged on the rope on his body, "In case our group is the last place, we will be punished for wearing women's clothes in the second link." ”

Nine guests, in groups of three, were divided into different routes to descend the mountain. There was also Shi Ming in a group with Leng Xiaotai and Yin Tao, and I saw Shi Ming tiredly looking for a stone to lean on, waving his hand, "No, there is me, we can't be the last one." ”

"Why?" Leng Xiaotai and Yin Tao spoke in unison.

Shi Ming suddenly changed his breath a few times, and seemed to be tired enough, "Yes, it's me, it's me who is afraid of heights." ”

Leng Xiaotai: "......"

- Isn't he an emperor god?

Moreover, Leng Xiaotai secretly paid attention to the group drawn by Lanche before leaving, and Lanche and I were in a group. "Those two people...," Leng Xiaotai looked at the sky, and a weird smile slowly crept up the corners of his mouth, "It's lost." ’

Just as Leng Xiaotai was making up for the scene of Lan Che being punished for wearing women's clothes, Shi Ming's voice interrupted him, "I think, I should know why Min Lun let us enter the mountain after four o'clock." ”

"Huh?" Yin Tao Xiaohua came to the spirit, "Why? ”

"We're halfway up the mountain now, and we need to see more clearly than we did when we first started. I thought it was strange from the beginning, and it was exactly what I thought. As he spoke, Shi Ming raised his chin and motioned for the two of them to look down the mountain, "This is a clock that is accurate to milliseconds." ”

"Clock?!" Yin Tao stretched his neck and looked at it for a while, still puzzled, "How do you see it?" ”

At this time, Leng Xiaotai, who was squatting on the ground, poured a sip of mineral water into his mouth, and said two words in a deep voice, "Shadow." ”

As Shi Ming said, they had climbed halfway up the mountain to see the appearance of the old mansion more clearly than before. At first glance, this old house with blue tiles and white walls is well-behaved, except for the many houses and the wide courtyard, there is nothing unusual. But if you look closely, you'll find...

"Kissing the beast." Shi Ming said, "There is a custom of carving kissing beasts on the roofs of ancient buildings in our country to ward off evil spirits, but if you look at this house, there are too many kissing beasts. Although the old house is surrounded by mountains, the area under the mountain is much wider than we expected, so at noon, this old house can be completely exposed to the sun. As long as there is a shadow in the old house, the kissing beasts carved on the roof will cast a shadow on the ground. The shadows shift with the sun rising and setting in the west, a bit like a sundial, but much more sophisticated. ”

Leng Xiaotai blinked, the sky was getting dark at this time, not to mention the shadows, he couldn't even see the stone carvings on the roof clearly, "How did you find out?" Your eyes are so good! ”

Shi Ming rubbed his temples and continued, "I'm naturally sensitive to data, so even if the light is subtle, I can still sense it. "For example, if I calculate the angle of the light shift, I can conclude that five hours and forty-two minutes ago, the shadow of the kissing beast would collide with the roof of the bell tower in the upper right corner, which would be the reset of time. I'm just a little concerned, one second is equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between the two ultrafine energy orders of the caesium atom in the atomic ground state in a zero magnetic field. This suggests that the architect who built this ancient mansion may have been a physics enthusiast, and you can see that the shadow of the carved dragon on the stone pillar at 42° southeast takes about 19302847193728 period for every centimeter moved..."

"Stop!" Leng Xiaotai hurriedly interrupted, "No, it's okay, don't point it, I can't see it." ”

Leng Xiaotai still remembers that Shi Ming's identity as a popular runner was a well-known math blogger on the Internet, and he had nothing to do to study math problems. Later, I also heard Lanche say that although Shi Ming only has the spiritual quality of ordinary people, it is known as a cosmic database that even emperors and gods are afraid of. It's better to hear than to see, Leng Xiaotai couldn't help but flatter, "Crack crack crack (great), Brother Ming is too cracked." Discerning, microscopic eyes, and their own complementary light! ”

"Where, where, it's just macro." Shi Ming responded calmly and turned around, "I can also do it in the microcosm, for example, your soul superchord frequency today is a little messy, are you out of love?" ”

Leng Xiaotai: "......"

Three people and a security staff member sat on a boulder halfway up the mountain to rest, and Yin Tao Xiaohua also took out a bag of grape bread from his bag. While distributing bread to everyone, he said thoughtfully to Shi Ming, "But Brother Ming, I still don't understand." According to your meaning, Min Lun let us go into the mountain after dark, is it because we are afraid that we will discover the secret of the shadow of the old mansion? ”

"I'm thinking about that, too." Shi Ming took the bread, "If he were his own person, there was no reason why he would deliberately let everyone risk going down the mountain when the light was bad." And even if this old mansion is a cleverly designed sundial, there is nothing to hide, so why not let everyone see it? ”

At this moment, the staff who had been silent and was responsible for protecting everyone's safety suddenly spoke, "What, I don't know if I can interject a few words." ”

The speaker is a sturdy young man who is not very old, he came out to drift north before graduating from junior high school, and he usually chats with Dalang Leng Xiaotai and others, because there is a 'strange' word in his name, Leng Xiaotai always calls him Dake. It can be said that speaking of shadows, it reminds him of a joke he has heard of before, and it also has something to do with shadows.

"What's the joke?" Shi Ming asked.

Dake wiped the breadcrumbs from the corners of his mouth, "What I heard in my hometown before, I suddenly remembered it." ”

Dake's hometown is in the mountainous area of Guizhou, and there are often some strange anecdotes around it. One of them was heard from my grandmother next door. - "Have you ever heard of refining babies?" ”

"Grandma said that there used to be a family that was a famous family. This family has existed for a long time, and has survived through generations, and has become a fairly large family. The family is all over the place, and only those who can wear five clothes can be regarded as their own family. This family has a characteristic, that is, it is extremely long-lived, nine generations in the same house, and the patriarchs of the past generations are passed from the ancestor of the clan to the great-great-grandson, and the story comes from this great-great-grandson. ”

"Although the world is impermanent, the clan of this family has never cut off the incense. Until one generation went wrong. The great-grandson's parents were old and had children, and the father hung up not long after the child was born, so this great-grandson became the only seedling, and the family raised the child with trepidation. But it didn't take long for them to realize that something was wrong with the child. ”

"They found this child, there are two shadows."

"It is said that when I was two years old, I could only faintly see the second shadow, and as I grew older, the second shadow became heavier and heavier. By the time the great-grandson was five years old, the child would even talk to himself. In the words of the old man, it seems to be possessed by something, but in modern terms, this great-grandson is a dual personality. The second personality woke up when the great-great-grandson was five years old. ”

"The people of this family are said to have another strange trait, that is, they are good at divination through shadows. The people in the clan knew in their hearts that another soul had woken up in the great-grandson's body, and they knew even better that since the second child woke up, the great-grandson's mental state had deteriorated, and he often had a high fever and could not wake up, and he would definitely not be able to live for a long time. So they figured out a method, which is to refine the baby. ”

"Refining babies is as simple as finding a fresh dead baby, stripping the soul of the second personality alive and stuffing it into the dead baby. Moreover, in order to prevent the soul from scattering on the new host, the refiner must be sealed in a sack with a charm painted on it for a long time. In other words, the refining baby grew up in a sack since childhood. ”

"Sack?" Shi Ming twisted his eyebrows, "Can that child live long?" Even if you can live, will you be able to walk? ”

"Then I don't know." Dake shook his head, "I only heard from my grandmother, because the refining baby is not considered to come out of the mother's womb, and the body is a dead baby, and what is peeled out is also the dirt on the great-grandson's body, so the clansmen regard him as an evil thing." Fortunately, his brother, uh, is not an elder brother, it is the great-grandson, the great-grandson is the elder brother who is five years older than the dead baby, only the great-grandson treats him as a human being. ”

"I also heard that when that great-grandson grows up, he is a ruthless character, but he only treats his younger brother alone, how can he say it in the words of the city people?"

"Brother control." Shi Ming continued.

"Yes, yes, that's the word." It's ridiculous, showing a mouthful of white teeth, "Of course, I've heard it all, this thing is so evil, maybe grandma made it up to coax us to play." ”

After listening, Leng Xiaotai folded the bread bag neatly, stuffed it into the garbage bag in the schoolbag, and asked casually, "Dake, did that grandma mention to you what the family's surname is?" ”

"What's the last name?" Da Ke frowned in contemplation and shook his head, "It doesn't seem to have been said." ”

"Oh." Leng Xiaotai got up, "Have you rested enough?" If we don't leave, we're really going to wear skirts! ”