The cold wind swept over the pine forest at the top of the mountain, startling a flock of night birds, screaming and flapping their wings, and flying into the night sky.

"Damn, I'm freezing to death! Which bastard said that the earth is warming now, let him come here and drink the northwest wind. Liu Cheng shrunk his neck, pulled the zipper of his coat to his chin, and looked forward, only to see that under the moonlight, the slopes on both sides were black and full of pine trees, and a sheep intestine path in the middle was winding forward, with no end in sight.

"In recent years, the central government has returned farmland to forests and restored the ecology so well, the forests on the mountains are so dense that you can't even see a light." Liu Cheng took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and sure enough, there was still a desperate zero grid on the signal column. He is a typical Chinese-style "knows everything, knows everything" construction industry project manager, commonly known as the brick moving dog, and spends his days moving between the unreasonable demands of Party A and the construction team that always makes all kinds of mistakes. A few hours ago, he drove to Luoyang from the construction site near Lintong, he didn't want the car to break down halfway, and there was no signal on his mobile phone, so he wanted to find a place to live for a night, and he walked on the highway for a while and vaguely saw a village, so he got down from the highway and wanted to go over, but he didn't want the road to get narrower and narrower, the forests on both sides were getting denser and denser, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger, but the village was gone.

Just as Liu Cheng hesitated, there was a distant ringing not far away, Liu Cheng listened carefully, and found that the bell was quite rhythmic, implying rhythm, two long and one short, and it sounded quite ghostly at night. Liu Cheng is not small in courage on weekdays, but at this time, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back in an unfamiliar environment, and his right hand subconsciously went deep into the coat pocket and tightly held the handle of the electric shock device for self-defense.

The copper bell is getting closer and closer, and with the help of the moonlight, Liu Cheng can already vaguely see that it is a man wearing a hat, and this man is holding a long staff in his hand. Although the other party was dressed a little strangely, Liu Cheng was still very happy to see a living person at this time, he stepped forward and asked loudly: "Fellow, I'm lost, where is the nearest village nearby?" ”

The man on the other side did not answer immediately, and only replied in a somewhat strange accent after a while: "This is Tongguan County, and the nearest Nanyuan Village will be four or five miles along this road." ”

The man walked closer while speaking, and with the help of the bright moonlight, Liu Cheng saw the appearance of the other party clearly, only to see that the other party was holding a Zen staff in his hand, and several copper bells were hanging from the head of the lotus-shaped staff. Suddenly, Liu Cheng was surprised to find that the other party was not wearing socks on his feet, and was wearing a pair of straw sandals barefoot.

"Straw sandals, how can anyone still wear these things, not even socks on such a cold day?" Liu Cheng couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and was in doubt, but he heard the person opposite clasp his hands together and salute, and asked, "Dare to ask where the Zen master is going?" The little monk is also good to take a closer look. ”

"Zen master?" Liu Cheng was stunned, at this time, the person opposite had already taken off the hat, and saw that the other party was about thirty years old, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and a square mouth, a thick beard under the chin, and he looked quite mighty, with nine ring scars on his head, but he was a monk. Only then did Liu Cheng realize that the "Zen master" in the other party's mouth was calling himself, but what did he look like a monk?

The monk saw Liu Cheng standing there in a daze, and asked a few more questions. The two stood closer, and Liu Cheng found more and more strange things about the person in front of him, and the suspicion in his heart became heavier and heavier. Suddenly, Liu Cheng stretched out his hand and grabbed the other party's sleeve and rubbed it a few times, and asked, "What kind of cloth is this dress on your body?" ”

"The monks are coarse and vegetarian, so it is naturally Mai!"

"Mai? Does anyone still wear this stuff these days? Liu Cheng asked with the hope of just in case: "Then what year is this year?" ”

The monk seemed to have a good temper, and he was very impatient when Liu Cheng asked him: "It's already the end of the third year of Daming Chongzhen, and it will be four years in two months!" ”

"It's over!" Liu Cheng seemed to have been hit on the head, and sat down on the ground, so he couldn't die how he crossed over, his parents, girlfriend, work, and a stable and comfortable life will always say goodbye to himself.

"No, I'm going back!" Liu Cheng jumped up violently, turned around and ran away along the way back. Liu Cheng's abrupt action startled the monk, he saw a black thing on the ground, it should have been thrown to the ground by Liu Chengfang, he hurriedly picked it up, chased after it, and shouted loudly while running: "Zen master, don't run, you left something!" “

After all, Liu Cheng is a modern person who is used to driving a car, although he is much stronger than the white-collar workers in the office, but he feels out of breath after running a mountain road, his legs are sore and heavy as if he has been injected with lead, and he slowly stopped, and when he was panting, he heard someone behind him laughing: "Stop, you pull down something!" Liu Cheng looked back, only to see that the monk was looking at himself with a smile, holding an object in his hand, which was his own electric shocker, which must have been accidentally thrown away by himself, and his heart couldn't help but warm, he reached out to take the electric shocker, and awkwardly hugged his fist and saluted according to what he saw on TV: "Thank you, Zen Master!" “

"I can't afford it, I can't afford it!" The monk smiled and waved his hand: "I'm just a wild monk who doesn't accept it in a big temple and doesn't want it in a small temple, how can I be worthy of the word Zen master!" If the Zen master can afford to look down on me, just call me Huineng. The two exchanged a few words, the atmosphere gradually became lively, the two talked while walking along the road when Liu Cheng came, Liu Cheng thought that even if he couldn't return to the modern world, at least find the car, which could also be used as a little capital after crossing.

The two were talking and walking, when suddenly Huineng stopped and pulled Liu Cheng behind him, he used great force and almost stumbled Liu Cheng. Before Liu Cheng could react to what was going on, he heard Huineng lower his voice and say, "Be careful, there is an ambush ahead, and it may be a strongman to rob the road!" “

Liu Cheng looked in the direction of Huineng's finger, and could only see a black grass jungle, and when he heard it, there was only the sound of the whirring wind, and there was half a figure there. Just half-convinced, I saw Huineng pick up a stone from the ground, and said with a sneer: "The night is dark and the wind is high, and there must be an unpredictable heart, so don't blame the poor monk for being disrespectful!" Before the words fell, Huineng heard a scream in the grass not far away with a flick of his wrist, and then three people walked out.

At this time, the clouds in the sky opened, and the moonlight shone down like water, Liu Cheng couldn't help but gasp when he saw the appearance of the person, and saw that the three people were all holding weapons, and the person in the head reached out and pressed his forehead, the muscles on his face were twisted, and the blood was flowing down between his fingers, dyeing half of his face red, looking like a ghost.

"Damn, cut off the bald scoops of these two thieves and monks to a certain family and use them as urinals!" The injured man couldn't help but break up and pointed at Liu Cheng and shouted, and the two people behind suddenly pounced, where had Liu Cheng seen such a battle, his legs were weak and he almost sat on the ground, fortunately, Huineng shouted, and danced his Zen staff to stop the two from fighting.

Liu Cheng moved a few steps back, wanting to turn around and escape, but he felt that it was too unrighteous to leave Huineng alone like this, after all, if he hadn't gone this way, Huineng might not have met these three strongmen. It can be said that he was implicated because of himself. But he didn't dare to come forward to fight, so he had to stand aside and give moral support. I saw that Hui Neng danced a Zen staff like a wheel, and there was a basis for advancing and retreating, although one enemy and two still entered more hands and blocked less, forcing the two strongmen to retreat step by step, although Liu Cheng was a layman for cold weapon fighting, he also felt that this Hui Neng martial arts was quite good, and he couldn't help but feel relieved and cheered loudly.

Liu Cheng's applause was not tight, but it annoyed the injured strongman leader, he untied the horn bow on his back, and scolded while winding it: "Damn, I really rushed to the door, and I can encounter such a hard hand when I explore the road." Your martial arts are high, and no matter how high you are, you can block Lao Tzu's 'raise an arrow' a few arrows! “

Liu Cheng saw that the strongman leader had three strikes and five divisions of two on the bowstring, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart, although Na Huineng also had the upper hand with one enemy and two, but it was still far from winning, and if he added this bandit leader who put a secret arrow, he would definitely die. He wanted to turn around and escape, but he couldn't bear to abandon Huineng, and if he didn't have Huineng's protection in this deep mountain, he probably wouldn't be able to run far. Thinking of this, Liu Chengyi gritted his teeth, picked up a few stones and threw them at the bandit leader, and scolded while throwing them: "A dog robber who kills thousands of knives with a thousand knives, what kind of ability is it to hurt people with hidden arrows, I have the ability to fight with your grandfather and me!" “

The bandit leader had just been wound, and was about to send an arrow to understand the stinky monk who had injured himself, when a cool breeze blew in his ears, and he instinctively shrank his neck, and when he looked back, he saw that the timid guy who had just been hiding on the side was throwing stones at himself, and he was shouting and scolding, and he couldn't help but be angry, and was about to bend his bow to shoot the bastard ball through, but the guy was very clever, and he got into the forest by the roadside with a cat's waist. The bandit leader knew that his skills were very limited when he saw Liu Cheng's movements, so he snorted coldly and pulled out his waist knife and chased after him.

The bandit leader entered the forest and walked more than a dozen steps inside, only to see the shadow of the tree, Liu Cheng didn't know where to run. The bandit leader shouted and scolded a few times, but no one responded, he slashed a few times in annoyance, turned around and was about to go back, when he suddenly heard the sound of the wind behind his head, and hurriedly pounced to the right, he felt that the right side of his face was hot, but he was swept and scraped by Liu Cheng who didn't know when he was hiding behind a tree, and the blood immediately flowed down, and one eye was confused. The bandit leader was furious, and rushed forward and slashed down with a knife.