The next day, the midday sun shone across the Sierra Nevada, still cold at high altitudes but much warmer at lower altitudes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ran and Liu Meng looked at the small village in front of them, looked at each other and smiled, the suffering was finally over.

He had seen the village with a probe eye, and the population was not large, probably just over a hundred people.

Among them, the elderly account for the majority, and there are about a dozen children.

He thinks these people are the same as the left-behind elderly and left-behind children in his own country.

Both parents went out to look for jobs, and they could only stay in the mountains and live a hard life.

However, this village seems to be a little different, Zhao Ran found that the people living here seemed to be very happy when he was probing last night, and he didn't look lonely at all.

Could it be because Americans are more open? Can't figure it out.

Zhao Ran led the horse, Liu Meng held the cat, and the two walked into this small village.

"Hey, there's a guest coming."

An old man shouted with a wine bottle, and then many old grandfathers, grandmothers, and children came out.

"East... The Pawn? You guys... System? An old man with completely gray hair and three or four teeth fell out walked over, thinking that Zhao Ran and they couldn't listen to English, and they actually spoke broken Chinese.

"Eh, yes, I am Chinese, my surname is Zhao, this is my friend, we came here to play, but accidentally got lost, I didn't expect to meet a small village here, I have to say that I am so lucky."

Zhao Ran really didn't want to listen to him stumble and panpan speak Chinese, so he took the initiative to say hello in English.

"Oh, it's great that you can speak English, this is the ungoverned village of Reed, I'm Sammy Jerry, the head of the village here, you're safe here, oh my God, this young lady is beautiful......." Jerry, the village chief, chattered.

It's a lawless zone, it's an American territory, but no one has jurisdiction over it, it's so remote that there's no electricity.

As the head of the village, Jerry is also a teacher, and he is usually responsible for teaching the children in the village, and the children have grown up and gone out to the mountains, and none of the young people have stayed.

The people here are very enthusiastic, I heard Zhao Ran say that he was lost and found here, and prepared a lot of food for him without saying a word, and it was not the first time they did this, almost every year, people would get lost in the Nevada mountains, and finally found this place and survived.

Zhao Ran and Liu Meng are actually not hungry, they have a lot of food, but they can't live up to the kindness of others, and they don't eat a symbolic bit.

The old people were still persuading, so they had no choice but to eat more, and then Zhao Ran simply did it himself and moved the remaining food into the kitchen.

Originally, he thought that his mission would be over when he arrived here, but he didn't know that he couldn't find a phone here, and he heard that if he wanted to really go out, he would have to walk another hundred kilometers to find a modern town.

Zhao Ran asked, "Grandpa Jerry, how boring it is to live in this village, why don't you go out?" ”

"Get out? Why go out? It's so clean here, it's just right for us old guys to retire, and the outside world is too noisy. The village chief, Jerry, laughed and said, "I used to live outside, it's very exciting, if I can be thirty or forty years younger, maybe I won't come back." ”

"Come back? Did Grandpa Jerry come back on his own? Zhao Ran was a little surprised, it was a bit impossible to return to the mountains and forests after enjoying the benefits of modernization.

"Xiao Zhao, you don't understand, the old people who live here have basically lived outside, and they will come back to settle down when they are old, and they don't know how many years it has been." Jerry said with a sigh.

"Because I have experienced prosperity, I may know more about the value of the ordinary. The old man is kind-hearted, and Liu Meng admires it. ”

Liu Meng suddenly spoke, and picked up a cup of tea, saluting Jerry.

Jerry was stunned for a moment, then laughed even more happily, picked up his teacup, and touched it with Liu Meng.

Zhao Ran didn't understand very well, if he wanted to enjoy the convenience and benefits brought by modernization, let him live in seclusion in this kind of place, forgive him for not being able to do it.

Not to mention whether there is electricity or not, for modern people, no electricity is life, and no network is lost soul!

Let them live here, it is better to kill them.

It's about 12 o'clock now, and although there is no power here, the clock is still there.

Zhao Ran didn't plan to stay here, if he set off now, maybe he could get to that town before dark, he was a little concerned about the safety of the monkeys.

The old people didn't keep much, but just prepared enough food and water for him, and told him how to get to the town as soon as possible, what dangers were on the way, and so on.

"Little girl, what you just said is very appetizing to me, and this little gift is for you."

At the entrance of the village, Jerry held a small delicate box in his hand, about 20 centimeters in length and 5 or 6 centimeters in width, with many patterns carved on it.

"The old man is polite, we have already taken so many of your things, how can we be embarrassed to accept gifts." Liu Meng said refused.

"No, no, no, I just look at you pleasing to the eye, and there is a big secret hidden in it, I have been looking for it all my life and have not found it, and now I can't find it when I'm old, and it's useless to keep it, I hope you can help me solve this secret."

Jerry couldn't help but say, and carefully handed the box to Liu Meng's hand, with reluctance and relief in his eyes.

"This..."

"Let's go, little girl, if you drag it out any longer, be careful to spend the night in the mountains, there will be no bed and no quilt."

In the end, Liu Meng still accepted the box, although she didn't know what was inside, she always had a feeling that there was something very important inside.

Zhao Ran was also a little curious, but when he looked at the box with his clairvoyant eye, he found that his clairhand eye had failed again, just like the box containing the ghost eye, completely blocking his ability.

"What the hell is it? He was willing to use this kind of treasure to place it. ”

Although he was very curious, this thing was given to Liu Meng by Jerry, and he was embarrassed to ask her to open it, after all, it was not his own.

Speeding all the way, Liu Meng sat on horseback and looked at the box without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, she said, "Brother Zhao, do you know what this box is?" I couldn't see the reason for watching it for a long time. ”

"Wait, I'll find a place to rest first."

It just so happened that he was now curious, found a big tree, and dismounted.

Zhao Ran took the box in his hand and looked at it carefully, the material was exactly the same as the last time the ghost eye box was held, but the pattern on it was different.

"Or... Open it up and take a look? He asked Liu Meng.

"Is it safe? There won't be any danger, right? ”

"Probably not, I don't think that old man is a bad person."

“... Then open it, but be careful. ”

The box is very delicately designed, with a red rope knotted on one side.

He guessed that this was the key to opening the box.

Carefully untie the red rope and nothing happens.

Rubbing his palms, Zhao Ran lifted the rope, and the top cover was also easily opened, and the items inside were also exposed.

"Skin map! I sensed that it contained a human skin map that stored the Kyushu Ding! Suddenly, Xiaolong, who had not squeaked for a long time, made a sound, which frightened Zhao Ran's hand, and the lid was covered again.

"What's wrong?" Liu Meng saw that his face was a little wrong, and asked nervously.

"No... It's okay, I just seemed a little too nervous..."

suppressed his thumping heart, this is the third human skin map he found, is it really as Xiaolong said, in the end, nine human skin maps will fall into his hands?

But he didn't forget that there were at least three human skin maps in the hands of the three masters, and it was not easy to collect all nine of them.

What now? Liu Meng is still next to him, take it out, it is estimated that this map will not be his share, but it is unreasonable not to take it out, this is someone else's thing, you can't take it by force, right?

"The face is so ugly, what's inside?" Liu Meng was curious, so she simply did it herself, lifted the lid, and took out the map inside.

"Alas, forget it, you can't force it if it's not your own." Zhao Ran smiled bitterly and went with her, anyway, it was a question of whether he could collect all of them in the future, and he didn't care that this piece was taken by the Liu family.

Liu Meng spread out the map, looked at it and said, "This is a sheepskin map, but where is this map?" ”

Huh? Sheepskin? It should be that she admitted her mistake, but when he raised his eyes and looked at it, he was also dumbfounded, the material on it was not human skin at all, but pure sheepskin, as a disciple of Mu Lao, he still clearly distinguished these two kinds of leather.

"Xiaolong, this is obviously a sheepskin, where did the human skin come from? You're lying to me! ”

"Open the clair-through eye and look inside." Xiaolong only said one sentence.

"Damn, the city can play!"

Zhao Ran opened his perspective eyes, and his random face was on the other side, wasn't it the human skin map he had been looking for under the sheepskin?

The craftsmanship of the maker is so good, except for making the sheepskin thicker, the human skin map has not been destroyed at all, and it makes it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake!

Closing the perspective eye, Zhao Ran turned his gaze to the pattern on the upper parchment map, and the top was a nautical chart, with many places on it with small black crosses, one of which had a big red cross.

"Looks like a treasure map, doesn't Grandpa Jerry want you to be an explorer?" Zhao Ran said in a joking tone.

"Do you know where the location is on the map? What if it's really a treasure? ”

“... Do you still care about treasure? ”

Zhao Ran rolled her eyes, a person who could borrow tens of billions of dollars at will, is now interested in ethereal treasures?

"Why don't you care? My money has nothing to do with treasure hunting, I care more about having fun. Liu Meng said as a matter of course.

At this time, Xiaolong's voice sounded again: "Maybe she is right, this parchment map hides a huge secret. ”

“？”

"Open your Soul Eye."

"Kim... Golden aura? How is this possible! Isn't the human skin map devoid of inspiration? Could it be that this..."

Two circles of light appeared above the map, but there was a rich golden aura on them, and he was stunned to see him.

"The treasure map of the golden aura, 100% genuine, and has great value, I think you should be able to associate something with no problem in your brain." The little dragon's voice sounded faintly again. (To be continued.) )