The provincial capital of the train is located in a province in southwest China, which is known for its laid-back lifestyle and abundant beautiful women. Qin Ge and his party came out of the exit and went straight to the ticket hall. On the train, everyone has reached an agreement not to stop in the provincial capital, and directly take the nearest train to the minority autonomous prefecture.

The car was at four o'clock in the afternoon, and there were still more than five hours, so everyone walked around the station, and at half past three in the afternoon, they entered the waiting room.

Tan Dong and Tang Wan sat together as usual, and they didn't say much, only their eyes wandered around. Yang Xing ate some grapes just now, but he still looked weak, leaning on Xiaofei's shoulder and closing his eyes to recuperate. Sha Bo talked to Qin Ge for a while, and when he saw that Qin Ge was a little absent-minded, he stopped his mouth and bought a newspaper to read.

There are mostly boring news in the newspaper, and Shabo didn't read it for a long time, and suddenly felt a little in a trance.

There was a foul smell in the waiting hall as usual, expressionless passengers were scattered everywhere, and some people were hurrying with large bags and small bags. An old woman in ragged clothes slowly walked towards her side hunched over, and when she met someone, she stretched out her black and thin hands, and some scattered coins were thrown into her palms. The old woman's gray hair was unkempt on her head, the deep ravines of her face were covered with stains, and she was slightly lame on one leg, and she always walked with one foot first, and the other foot slowly dragged through.

There are such beggars in the waiting room of every city, and Shabo stared at her, and suddenly the old woman in front of her slowly became blurred. Shabo was startled, and subconsciously leaned on his seat, staring at the old woman who had turned into a ghost.

The old woman didn't get up to Sabo, and a station attendant in a blue uniform pushed her from behind, as if she was saying something. Shabo could no longer hear the sound, and there was a thin but continuous scream in his ears. All the scenery began to shake in the eyes. Several coins fell out of the old woman's hand, and one of them swirled and rolled at Sabo's feet, and Sabo only glanced at the coin, and the whole world began to shake.

Vertigo recurs in a waiting room in a strange city.

Countless pairs of feet walk down the street.

Many buildings rose from the ground in an instant, and then collapsed in an instant.

The footsteps moved faster and faster, and countless pairs of feet overlapped.

All the scenery is like an old-fashioned black and white film, with some mottled marks painted by the passage of time.

The clouds in the sky suddenly gathered and dispersed, changing shapes like a kaleidoscope. Footsteps, buildings, and clouds appear in each other, and gradually merge into one place.

As a result, the view became more and more disorganized. Suddenly, a bright light appeared, and after the bright light, everything returned to silence.

The starry sky in July is very quiet, and the stars twinkle silently. The gaze moved slowly across the starry sky, and the stars seemed to be stationary, and they seemed to change every moment. Vision becomes unreliable here.

Endless starry sky, let your eyes wander.

A meteor fell out of sight, and then the stars began to bloom like fireworks, and after the brilliance, they also fell like fireworks.

Countless stars fell, sending smoke and dust up everywhere. When the smoke cleared, what appeared was a steep rock, one part of which was as smooth as a knife, and a pattern as large as a giant wheel appeared. It was like a cross, but it was much thicker than the cross.

Everything disappeared in an instant, and only the pattern stood majestically.

Shabo opened his eyes and saw a pair of thin, dark hands taking the place. The old woman with unkempt hair was already standing in front of him at some point, staring at him like an old monk with a smile hidden in her eyes.

Sabo stared at the old woman fixedly, as if he wanted to find something out of her.

He didn't move, and neither did the old woman. There were a number of people staring at them strangely.

"Lao Sha, you're stupid." Xiao Fei jumped over and threw a dollar coin in the palm of the old woman's hand, the old woman was expressionless, glared back at Xiao Fei, and actually left very arrogantly.

Shabo's gaze was still fixed on the place under his feet, and the pattern he saw when he was dizzy was clearly reflected in front of him. He thought that the intricacies of the pictures seemed to be just to reflect the pattern, so the pattern must have some kind of meaning, or some kind of sign.

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- Is it somehow connected to the Sleepy Hollow where Sabo is going?

Sha Bo suddenly had a flash of inspiration, stood up, ignored Xiao Fei dangling in front of him, and ran straight towards the waiting room. Xiao Fei shouted behind him: "Lao Sha is crazy, Lao Sha is crazy." Seeing this, Qin Ge anxiously looked at his watch, there were less than twenty minutes left. So he distributed the tickets to everyone and asked everyone to get on the bus by themselves, leaving only two tickets and chasing after Sabo.

Sabo went to an internet café across the street from the station square.

Sitting in front of the computer, Shabo opened his free mailbox in the tom.com, and among the pile of spam emails, there was an email from Forget Worry Grass.

When I opened the email, there was not a word in it, but it showed that there was a picture in the attachment.

The image was only a few simple black lines, but it was exactly the same pattern that Shabo had seen in his vertigo.

Shabo stared blankly at the picture, his heart enveloped in a huge cloud of doubt. He was sure he had some kind of opportunity, but he couldn't explain it. Perhaps, only when you reach the Sleeping Valley and see the Forget-You-Forget Grass will all your questions be answered. But why doesn't Forget-me-Grass leave any statements? Moreover, she has not appeared on QQ for more than a week.

The last time Shabo checked his mail was two days ago, the day he stepped on the train.

Shabo's brows furrowed, he wondered if this was a coincidence?

Qin Ge appeared at the door of the Internet café at this time, and when he saw Sha Bo, he hurried over: "Hurry back, it's time, the train won't wait for anyone." Shabo suddenly came to his senses and closed the mail window.

He and Qin Ge rushed back to the waiting room, the ticket gate of the train to the minority autonomous prefecture they were going to was no longer empty, and the staff was about to lock the ticket gate, they arrived in time and rushed there.

The car has stopped on the platform and the whistle has sounded.

The ten-hour journey, because of the comparison of the previous thirty-six hours, seemed to pass in a flash. Late at night, Qin Ge and his entourage of six people had already appeared on the streets of the ethnic minority autonomous prefecture. According to the conjecture of Sha Bo and others, since it is an autonomous prefecture of ethnic minorities, the streets are naturally full of people dressed in foreign costumes, and the buildings should be bamboo buildings and wooden houses, but in fact, the city is no different from other cities, wide streets, flashing neon, not very tall buildings, street stalls late at night, shirtless men and women dressed in bewitching clothes, which makes Shabo Xiaofei and them very disappointed.

Find a hotel to live in, everyone decided to take the car to Sleepy Valley early the next morning, and this time even Xiaofei had no objection. After a night of silence, Shabo woke up the first morning with the sound of rushing water in his ears. When I opened the curtains in front of the window, I saw that in the gloomy sky, it was raining heavily, and the city was already covered in a curtain of rain.

Everyone sat in front of the large glass window facing the street in the hotel restaurant, waiting for Qin Ge to come back. Because Qin Ge is the initiator of this self-help tour group, he has the responsibility to consciously take on the daily affairs of the tour group. Outside the glass window, there was a wide road, and a few pedestrians were hurrying in the rain, and the speeding cars splashed on the ground. Seeing that being blocked by the rain in this small town has become a reality, everyone is a little depressed.

Tan Dong and Tang Wan didn't say much as usual, and Sha Bo and Yang Xingxiaofei also didn't say a word, so as not to make the scene too cold. On the sidewalk in front of the hotel, two women wearing Yi costumes walked by with flower umbrellas, attracting everyone's attention. The Yi woman wears a black short-sleeved blouse with red trim on the chest, cuffs and hem, and a spiral pattern embroidered with yellow lines. Xiaofei's face was pressed against the glass window, looking at the back of the Yi woman, sighing. The costumes of the Yi nationality are brightly colored, with only three colors: red, yellow and black, which look colorful.

At this moment, Tang Wan, who was sitting on the side, suddenly let out a low exclamation, her eyes staring at the glass window, as if she had seen something that frightened her extremely much. Everyone hurriedly followed her line of sight, and through the clean glass and the rain curtain of the sky, a person standing with an umbrella could be faintly seen on the sidewalk across the street. I couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, but when I saw it, I immediately felt that the person was surprisingly thin, and he looked even thinner when he was wearing black clothes.

Before everyone could speak, Tan Dong beside Tang Wan had already stood tall and rushed out.

When Tan Dong rushed out, his fists were already clenched, and some scorching power was surging in his body. Although he had never seen the figure standing in the rain, from Tang Wan's frightened look, he expected that there must be something strange about that person, perhaps, he was the one who had been following them these days.

Running out of the hotel gate, he looked up and could see the black figure across the street.

He rushed straight into the rain.

As he crossed the street, his view was blocked by a truck, and when he crossed the roadway, the figure on the other side had disappeared. He stopped in the rain and looked left and right. At this moment, there are no more people on the opposite sidewalk, and the line of sight is particularly open in the rain. The man in black disappeared in an instant, his movements so fast that he was like a ghost.

Tan Dong had the feeling of punching in the air, and the surging power in his body had nowhere to vent. The power rushed left and right in his body, scorching his body. He let out a roar that shook his head to the sky, his face twisted and distorted in the roar. In addition, he never sleeps at night now, and his eyes are red, which makes him look even more hideous.

He turned abruptly, and slowly walked through the street again, step by step. He walked slowly, and every step seemed to be heavy. When a car came coming, he didn't even avoid it, but just looked sideways and stared at the position of the cab with a provocative gaze. The drivers also slowed down and let him pass.

As he entered the hotel lobby, he took long breaths, trying to calm his mind.

In front of the glass window of the restaurant, everyone was surrounding Tang Wan and asking her who that person was, Tang Wan's face was full of horror, and she couldn't say a word. Seeing Tan Dong coming, Tang Wan quickly stood up to greet him, and said in a low voice, "Let's go back to the room." Tan Dong nodded, didn't look at everyone, and hugged Tang Wan and left.

Xiao Fei grimaced at their backs and snorted out of her nostrils to show her dissatisfaction. Yang Xing drooped his head and pretended to say in a deep voice: "The good show is still to come." Xiaofei snorted at him again: "Don't worry about talking about others, think about yourself." Yang Xing was suddenly hit by her, and when he thought of his situation, he had a miserable expression on his face. Xiao Fei looked at it in her eyes, and couldn't bear it, so she went over to sit next to him and patted him on the shoulder to show comfort.

Not long after, Qin Ge came back in the rain, although he was wearing a poncho, his two trouser legs were all soaked.

The news that Qin Ge brought back was that an hour later there was a car to the Sleeping Valley.

"And, as I asked, there are very few trains to Sleepy Hollow, only twice a week." Qin Ge added.

Sha Bo and Yang Xing Xiaofei looked at each other, they understood what Qin Ge meant, he was asking them for advice.

To go or not to go, there is only one hour to choose from.

- Go!

When Tan Dong and Tang Wan's opinions came out, they had a meaning that no one could change. Everyone looked at each other, and no one could say anything to refute them.

Everyone went back to their rooms to pack their things.

Tang Wan sat motionless on the bed, and after Tan Dong was busy, he put his travel bag at the door and came over to sit beside her. Tang Wan raised her eyes, looked at him, and suddenly said, "Will you leave me?" "I won't." There was some pain in Tan Dong's eyes, "I will never." A smile bloomed on Tang Wan's face, but it was extremely sad.

"If you leave me behind, then you kill me." "I'd rather kill myself." Tan Dong said heavily.

Tang Wan leaned into his arms with satisfaction and muttered, "Do you know, there are so many people in this world, I only feel safe when I am with you, and so many demons in this world dare not hurt me." So, you are all I have, and if one day you get tired and want to leave me, please kill me before leaving. Tan Dong hugged her tightly: "Why do you keep saying such things, I will never leave you again." We are about to go to a paradise where no one knows us and we will live a peaceful and happy life from now on. I also hope that you can be my bride in a wedding dress, I never thought in my life that I could get such a beautiful bride as you, how could I leave you? Tang Wan smiled happily, but two tears crossed her cheeks: "I have to tell you every day, so that you won't forget me, and you will always remember me." Tan Dong didn't speak again, only hugged her tighter, so hard, as if he wanted to merge her body with his own.

There was a knock on the door outside, and Qin Ge and Sha Bo were already urging them to get on the road.

A group of six people took two taxis to the station. It's a small city, but the station is spectacularly built. Everyone entered the ticket hall together, and it was deserted, with only a few passengers. Qin Ge went to the ticket window to buy tickets and came back to distribute them to everyone. Yang Xing took it and looked at it, and said "huh" strangely, and Xiaofei leaned over to look at the ticket in his hand. Xiao Fei's face immediately showed a puzzled look, and she was still a little nervous.

"You see, our tickets are from one to six, which means that there are only six of us on this train." Sha Bo and Tan Dong Tang Wan looked at the tickets carefully, and sure enough, it was so. But the three of them didn't care, Tan Dong and Tang Wan looked at each other, and there was even a hint of relaxation.

There are still ten minutes left in the departure time, and everyone goes to the waiting room to wait for the bus.

Check-in and boarding the train is completed in a very short time. The car was a dilapidated minibus, the seats on the bus were even dirtier, and the artificial leather on the cushions was also badly damaged, revealing the yellow sponge inside. The driver of the car was a large middle-aged man in his thirties, with a dark face and rough skin, which looked like the result of years of wind and sun. When everyone got into the car, the driver was still sleeping on the seat behind the car, the glass of the rear window of the car was missing, and the rain was blown in by the wind and fell directly on his chest.

Qin Ge stepped forward to wake him up, and when he woke up, he first wiped the saliva off his mouth, and then smiled humbly at everyone, without speaking, and sat directly in the driver's seat in front.

When the time came, the car started, and there were really only six people in the car.

Xiaofei walked around the empty carriage twice, paced behind the driver's seat, and patted the driver's shoulder: "This car will pull a few of us, aren't you at a loss?" The driver turned around, laughed twice, and didn't say a word.

"Isn't there usually a lot of people who go to Sleepy Valley? In this case, your family is not going to drink the northwest wind. Xiaofei deliberately wanted to tease the driver.

The driver turned his head this time, "babbling" in his mouth, pointing one finger at his mouth, and then swinging continuously.

"No, you're dumb!" No matter how stupid Xiaofei is, she can see it, she spread out her hands, made a helpless expression, and when she turned around, she saw that everyone was staring at her.

Shabo laughed: "I think you really played the piano to the cow this time." Xiao Fei went back and sat next to Yang Xing with a cold face, feeling strange in her heart. Yang Xing next to her reached out to hug her and whispered in her ear: "Strange things have just begun, you have to be a little prepared." Yang Xing said easily, but Xiaofei felt that her heart was furious, and she really had an ominous premonition.

The car was parked in the compound of the station, and at this moment, it bypassed the many vehicles parked and drove towards the courtyard gate. The rain was pouring in, and everything in the rain curtain was hazy and unreal. It's a bad feeling to be in a dilapidated minibus driven by a mute driver to a strange and remote valley on a rainy day. At this time, even Yang Xing regretted coming to this ghost place a little in his heart.

The courtyard gate is in sight, there are no other vehicles in front, and the minibus is about to gallop out of the courtyard gate, suddenly, there is an extra figure in the rain curtain. The figure stood in the middle of the courtyard gate, and stretched out his hand to the minibus, signaling to stop.

The dumb driver was caught off guard and slammed on the brakes. The car stopped, and everyone in the car rushed forward, and at this moment they all saw the person standing in front of the car. At this moment, Tang Wan's body suddenly tightened, and her arms were subconsciously hugged to her chest. Tan Dong turned his head to see that there was a look of horror on her face, and then stared at the person who stopped the car carefully.

The person who stopped the car was holding a black umbrella and wearing black clothes. Narrow shoulders, thin waist, the whole body adds up to less than 100 pounds. This man has a split head, a pair of black-framed glasses, and the corners of his eyes are a little drooping, and he looks full of bitterness. His face was unusually pale in the shadows under the umbrella.

Tan Dong had already remembered that this person was the man he saw through the glass window in the hotel restaurant.

- Why did he reappear when he was gone?

- If he is the one who has been following Tan Dong and Tang Wan these days, why has he turned from the dark to the light at this time? But because he knew that he was going to the Sleepy Valley, he had nothing to hide?

Tan Dong's blood slammed upward, and in an instant, some power rose in his body.

The car stopped, and the thin man in black turned to the door. The dumb driver opened the door, and the thin man was just about to get into the car, but before he could lift his steps, he found a sturdy young man standing by the door. The young man, with red eyes and a somewhat hideous face, was glaring at him with an unusually sharp gaze.

He paused for a moment, still taking his umbrella and stepping out the door.

His whole body then flew upside down and fell into the rain.

He was kicked out by Tan Dong.

The people in the car were stunned by this change, and Xiaofei instantly let out a scream. At this moment, Tan Dong was standing by the door, his whole body muscles tightened, he didn't move, his fist-clenched arms and tendons burst out, and his whole body was filled with a murderous aura.

Everyone was so shocked by this murderous aura that they couldn't say a word.

The thin man in black fell on the ground five or six steps away from the car, his whole body drenched in the rain. He held his stomach and twisted slightly, obviously Tan Dong's kick had injured him a lot, and he didn't even seem to have the strength to stand.

The car was unusually quiet, and everyone's breathing was a little short.

When the mute driver saw this change, he was even more stunned, his mouth slightly open, and he was a little overwhelmed.

Tan Dong stared at the thin man who was not moving on the ground, and for a long time, he turned his head and said in a low voice to the dumb driver: "Close the door." Drive. The mute driver came to his senses, and with a "babbling" sound, he was about to close the door. At this time, he suddenly saw Tan Dong suddenly wave his hand, hurriedly stopped, poked his head to look under the car, and the thin man had actually stood up at this time.

The thin man stood in the rain, wiped the rain from his face, and looked at Tan Dong in the car, but he didn't give in.

Anger boiled in Tan Dong's heart, and he still had an impulse to step forward and grab the thin man and tear him apart. But he couldn't bear it, because there was a very small voice in his heart that was admonishing him and calming him down.

The thin man's soaked black clothes were attached to his body, and his lean body was already visible, and his face was even paler in the rain—a little pale. Under the gaze of everyone, he actually walked towards the door step by step.

Tan Dong's body stood still, and his strength had accumulated in one place again.

When the thin man arrived at the car door, he did not hesitate to step into the car again.

This time, he fell farther and heavier.

His whole body was on the ground, and some crimson dissipated from his body. This time he didn't move, as if he didn't even have the strength to writhe.

Everyone in the car showed a miserable look that they couldn't bear to witness, everyone could foresee the power of Tan Dong's attack, and they didn't know how that person's lean body could withstand such an attack. Everyone thought about what would happen if such an attack happened to them. For a while, everyone was silent, just staring at the thin man who fell to the ground in the rain, hoping that he would get up again, but vaguely worried that he would be attacked again when he stood up.

The thin man stood up for the second time, and he was already unsteady. He leaned forward, one hand resting on his lower abdomen, his pale face twitching, and the corners of his mouth were stained with blood that had not been drenched by the rain.

But he didn't hesitate to walk in the direction of the car door again.

His steps were slow, and he seemed to have to think about it with every step. But his legs were long, and he took almost one and a half steps to catch up with the others, so he was soon in front of the car again.

This time he stopped in front of the car door, and his eyes still looked at Tan Dong without giving in, but his eyes revealed such a deep sadness. Such a gaze was so soft that it didn't have the slightest strength, but it could withstand the fierce murderous intent in Tan Dong's gaze.

The rain fell straight down, and he stood still in the rain, and his lean body had another unshakable strength.

Then he began to move again, but very slowly.

His legs lifted and landed on the pedals in front of the car door.

Tan Dong's right shoulder shrugged slightly, seeing that this kick was about to kick out immediately. Suddenly, his body was hugged by someone, and he couldn't kick it out. Tan Dong struggled, but he couldn't break free. At this time, the thin man in black had already gotten into the car and walked gently past him.

Tan Dong let out a low roar and saw clearly that it was Sha Bo who was hugging him. Sha Bowen looks polite, and he actually has a lot of strength. Tan Dong roared angrily: "What are you going to do!" "If you kick him again, you'll kill him." Shabo said.

At this time, Sha Bo couldn't hold Tan Dong anymore, but Qin Ge and Yang Xing Xiaofei had already stepped forward to stop in front of Tan Dong and persuaded him to calm down.

The thin man sat down in the back seat by himself, his eyes drifting out of the window, as if what had happened had nothing to do with him.

Seeing this, Tan Dong was even more angry, he waved his arms and easily pushed Qin Ge and Yang Xing away.

"Tan Dong!" Tang Wan, who was in the seat, suddenly called out his name.

Tan Dong's gaze fell on Tang Wan's face, and when he saw her lonely look, he immediately calmed down. Tan Dong slowly walked back to Tang Wan's side and sat down slowly.

"Maybe he really doesn't have anything to do with us. I didn't know him at all, except that I had seen him once in the company's elevator. Tang Wan whispered.

"It has to be him, and it has to be him who has followed us." Tan Dong said expressionlessly, "If it weren't for him, what would you be afraid of now?" Tang Wan was stunned for a moment, and then found that she was really still shivering.

Tan Dong suddenly said loudly: "You don't have to be afraid, if anyone dares to hurt you, I guarantee that he will definitely die a miserable death." His voice was full of firmness and strength, and some echoes wafted in the carriage, which made everyone suddenly have a spasm, and their skin was cold, and they all felt a chill. Only the thin man in black who sat in the back seat, his eyes still drifted out of the window, as if he was not affected by the sound in the slightest.

His cheeks were still trembling slightly from the pain, and his hand was still covering his lower abdomen where he had been kicked, but his demeanor was unusually peaceful, and even a smile appeared when his gaze inadvertently swept over Tan Dong and Tang Wan in the front seat. Sad smile.

- His smile is because he is still victorious even though he is defeated?

- What about his sorrows? But is it because of Tan Dong and Tang Wan?