The car was moving rapidly in the blizzard, and except for Yan Gang, who was driving, everyone else in the car was extremely nervous.

Xingshu, who was sitting next to Yan Gang, looked sideways at Yan Gang from time to time, because Yan Gang didn't turn on the air conditioner and blow the window, his eyes kept staring at the road that he couldn't see at all in front of him, and the car also maintained its speed and did not slow down. Yan Gang's reason for not turning on the air conditioner is very simple, under this kind of snowstorm, if you open the air conditioner and blow the window, once the large snowflakes melt, under the premise that the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the car is too large, the front windshield that is constantly slapped by the cold wind will freeze, and soon the front windshield will be blurred.

After continuing to move forward for about half an hour, Yan Gang slowed down, parked the car on the side of the road, and then stared at the GPS in the car and said, "I can't go any further, the snow in front is too deep, and now the GPS can't show where we are." ”

Tian Lianfeng in the rear looked at it, and the torture technique reduced the GPS screen, looking at the fact that they were at least ten kilometers away from the reception place of Xiaobeihu Forest Farm, and according to the earliest idea, they could not enter the forest area from the reception place, because it was too eye-catching, in this kind of snowy day, could it be said that they came to ski?

"Let's wait for the snow to stop before leaving." Tian Lianfeng hugged his blanket and said, subconsciously glanced at He Chenxue, who was still sitting next to him, looking out of the car window, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xingshu looked at Yan Gang and asked, "'Hades', what do you think?" ”

Yan Gang looked ahead: "Two choices, first, when the wind and snow are a little lighter, we will go inside when it has not completely stopped, and then camp and rest at the right time, the advantage is that our footprints will be covered by the wind and snow that has not stopped; The downside is that the temperature drops sharply when we enter the wooded area, which is dangerous, and even in a tent, we are prone to getting sick without hot drinks and food. Second, we wait for the wind and snow to stop, stay in the car overnight, and set off again tomorrow during the day, the advantage is that we travel during the day, we are not so easy to freeze to death, and the temperature is relatively suitable for walking; The disadvantage is that our footprints are obvious, and they will be left to the people who follow them, and they will also be discovered by the people who patrol the forest. ”

Xingshu turned his head to look at He Chenxue behind the car: "Miss He, what do you think?" You are the guide and person in charge of this time. ”

He Chenxue slowly turned her head to look at the torture technique: "The most important thing for us is to keep it secret, if we can't keep it secret, what's the point of doing other things?" So, I think it's better to choose the first one. ”

"You're going to freeze to death." Tian Lianfeng said that he shivered.

"If we are discovered by the forest patrol and trespass in accordance with the relevant regulations, and then we are found to have any bad intentions, it is inevitable that we will be detained for 15 days, and then we will be delayed for 15 days." After the torture technique was finished, he didn't say any more, just looked at Tian Lianfeng, after all, he was also the master, and he had to be convinced.

"Okay, let's talk about ...... wind and snow" Tian Lianfeng took a deep breath after speaking, closed his eyes and began to rest.

Maybe it's providence, in the evening, the wind and snow are a little lighter, and it becomes medium snow, and the middle snow falling in the city is also terrifying, but in the forest area, it is really nothing, after everyone packed up, they carried their things and began to move towards the forest area, first of all, they must find the col that He Chenxue said, as long as they pass through that col, you can see the first line outside the col.

Of course, all of this is just an ideal assumption, and we all know that the actual situation may be much more complex than imagined.

Before entering the forest area, the snow under everyone's feet has reached the knee level, and they walk very slowly, and they have to be careful not to fall into the snow pit or snow cave, once they fall in, they will either die or be injured.

Everyone is covered tightly from head to toe, and the high-top boots are still wrapped around the leggings, and the leggings are all made by Yan Gang for everyone, although the army has canceled the leggings decades ago, but some reconnaissance units are still using them in private, for many reasons, the main reason is to play a protective role, for example, walking in the snow can play a certain role, so as not to penetrate the pants, and the leggings can also be quickly removed and replaced or dried when resting.

At night, the wooded area is quiet, and nothing can be heard in the snowy night, except for the sound of people walking.

After walking for a full hour, Tian Lianfeng couldn't bear it anymore, and grabbed the torture technique in front of him and said, "Shu, let's rest for a while, shall we?" ”

"No way!" Yan Gang in front shook his head, "I can't rest now, this is at the edge of the forest area, and the forest patrols are very likely to turn here, didn't you see that when we came here before, there was a path outside the barbed wire!" That's the way to patrol the forest! And the people who follow us will catch up with us very quickly. ”

Xingshu nodded, He Chenxue didn't have any opinions, Tian Lianfeng said with a sad face: "I'm really tired, we've all walked for more than a while, even if we rest for five minutes, okay?" ”

"Okay, just five minutes." Yan Gang nodded, "Don't lean or sit, that will leave a lot of marks, stand and rest, and pay attention to your surroundings." ”

"'Hades', do you say you're as far as you are? It's not a war. Tian Lianfeng stood there panting and said, "Look around here, there are not half a person, and it's winter, and there can't be any bears or anything like that, they are all asleep in the nest, and the people who follow them will not rush to catch up, and the wind and snow have not stopped, and under the premise that there is no major incident, the forest patrol will not come out." ”

As soon as Tian Lianfeng finished speaking, there was a flashlight light shaking in the distance, and there was more than one, at that moment, Tian Lianfeng subconsciously gave himself a mouth, and scolded in a low voice: "Crow's mouth!" ”

Yan Gang shook his head and led everyone to immediately walk quickly towards the depths of the forest area.

In the following hour, Tian Lianfeng never said the word rest again, he knew that once he was caught, he would be detained for fifteen days, and after fifteen days, his father Tian Ke estimated that he would never be found.

But after two hours of hard work, just as Yan Gang was looking around for a place to camp, he saw a herringbone roof on the edge of the jungle on the opposite side of an unfrozen small river in front of him, a hut made of logs.

The four of them stood across the river, looking at the hut by the moonlight, and then looked at each other, and they all felt that it was too strange that such a room appeared in front of them at this moment.

"Stay here and don't move, I'll take a look." Yan Gang stepped on the rocks and solid ice on the river, and after crossing the river, he looked around the wooden house.

Because the river is flowing too fast, the river is not frozen, only the banks of the river are frozen, some places flow a little slower, and only a few centimeters thick on the surface of the river water is frozen.

Yan Gang walked around the hut, then walked to the river, pointed to the torture technique on the opposite side, and said, "Boss Punishment, you come over and have a look first." ”

Xingshu nodded, and crossed the river according to Yan Gang's instructions, while letting Tian Lianfeng and He Chenxue stand by at the same time.

After crossing the river, Yan Gang walked around with the torture technique and asked, "How long do you think this house has been built?" ”

"It's a long time, at least ten years up." Torture touched the wood, "Judging from the texture of the wood, it is less than twenty years, and it is fir, this kind of fir should be rare in this forest area, when I used to help people identify furniture, I learned from a master, he said that the same fir because of the climate and other relations, the density and texture are not the same, the house is built, it should not be in the Xiaobeihu forest area, and the ancient method of embalming is used, and the current antiseptic means, the fir wood can not smell the smell, but the appearance of this house still smells like a pesticide, It has been there for so many years, which shows that this kind of anti-corrosion method should have been used before the founding of New China, and it was done by Tuluban. ”

"What is Tuluban?" Tian Lianfeng had already come over to ask at this time, and he also helped He Chenxue over, and the two of them couldn't stay on the other side of the river.

"Before the liberation, some people went into the mountains to escape the war, but this kind of people have craftsmanship, they will use wood to make a lot of things, such as bows and arrows, and they can also set up other organs, most of these people have become bandits, or they are to eat and drink to the bandits, they are called Tuluban, these people must not be underestimated, the craft can be said to be first-class, on the eve of liberation, but also formed a so-called sect of their own, teaching are lost some carpenter skills and essentials." Torture pointed to the log, "This is made with Tuluban's antiseptic technology, although I don't know exactly, but I know that the smell of pesticides actually has no harm to the human body, and it is also a strange place." ”

Yan Gang looked at the door of the house: "Then let's rest here tonight, but I can only use the stove to make some simple hot food after covering the window, even if there is a charcoal pit, don't use it, because the snow has stopped, the sky at night is very thorough, and the smoke floating up can be seen for several kilometers." ”

"Okay. It was good to have a place to stay. Tian Lianfeng felt that he was about to freeze, and planned to change a pair of socks after entering.

Yan Gang walked to the door and found that there was an old lock hanging at the door, the style of the lock was also only available before liberation, and it was all copper, and there was a thick patina on the surface of the copper, which meant that this copper lock was rusty.

Yan Gang was about to open the door, and after he drew the position of the copper lock, he let Yan Gang open the door, and after opening the door, he let Tian Lianfeng and He Chenxue go in first, and he walked around the room with the copper lock with a patina.

Yan Gang was puzzled and followed him and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"'Hades', most of you are familiar with the topography of the Northeast, do you know whether there have been any floods in the Xiaobeihu Forest Area in the past ten or twenty years?" Torturer asked, holding the copper lock, and then leaned in to smell the wood, and sniffed it up and down carefully.

Yan Gang quickly recalled: "There were two flash floods, and I still saw them in the county records, but the floods could not have existed, and it was impossible for them to spread to this place. ”

"No, definitely." Torture pointed to the copper lock and said, "The copper lock produces a patina, that is, it is rusty, and the condition for copper rust is only under the action of air and water at the same time, although this is a forest area, and there is a lot of rain in summer, and the copper lock is also easy to rust, which is normal, but the antiseptic wood of this house tells me about the flood, you come." ”

Xingshu squatted down, counted the wood, and then pointed to the wood above his waist and said: "You come close and smell it, the smell of the wood above this position is much lighter than the smell below, and the smell below is much stronger, which means that there was a flood that once flooded the position below my waist, at least here." This kind of antiseptic technology is like this, as long as it is in the water for a long time, it will emit this medicinal smell, and it will not dissipate for at least many years. ”

Yan Gang nodded: "Did you find out at the beginning, or did you see the copper lock?" ”

"After seeing the copper lock, it's a bit weird because of the patina distribution on it." "Only the bottom of the copper lock has the most patina, but this situation is very rare, you know, if the copper has been in fresh water, as long as it is not taken out and exposed to the air, it is not easy to rust, but once it is taken out and touches the air, it will produce patina, but in salt water, it will basically produce patina the next day." The fact that the bottom of the copper lock has so much patina indicates that the bottom is in contact with water, but it is not in the water all the time, so I speculate that there has been a flood here. ”

Yan Gang looked at the surrounding trees: "Yes, if the flood is too long, the surrounding trees will not be visible, because they are alive, but the wood cut down is different, and the metal is not the same." ”

As soon as the two of them were talking, they heard Tian Lianfeng inside shouting: "What a thing!" ”

The two immediately rushed into the house, and saw Tian Lianfeng looking up and shining a flashlight on the beams of the room, while He Chenxue stood calmly to the side and looked up, without the slightest fear.

When Yan Gang saw that the flashlight was turned on, he immediately closed the door, and blocked the window with his blanket and rainproof cloth, and then he looked back at the beam, and saw an unknown thing hanging on the beam, which looked like some animal, but all limbs were tied to the four corners of the beam with ropes.

"What's that?" Tian Lianfeng looked at the thing, constantly moving his position, and observing it carefully.

On the beams of the house hung a strange animal, four like, with a body like a deer, but a head like a wolf.

After a long time, Tian Lianfeng saw the two white hairs behind the so-called deer buttocks, and then said, "This is a roe deer, right?" ”

"The body of the roe deer, the head of the wolf, the first two feet with bear claws, and the back two legs with tiger claws, were deliberately sewn into this shape." Torture looked up, "Looks like there's a hunter living in this house......"

"Perverted hunter, huh?" Tian Lianfeng shook his head and said, "Where is there such a thing?" ”

Yan Gang looked around the room and found that there was a lot of dried meat in the house, as well as grain, rice, millet, bud rice, sorghum rice, etc., all of which were packed in small jars, and they had long been moldy.

There were two cabinets around the house, in which there were simple dishes and chopsticks, no tables, chairs and benches, and in the middle of the room there was a charcoal pit with charcoal ash in it, and a rusty iron pot on the side, but there was nothing else in the house.

"It's like a kitchen and a storage room, not like a place to live." After observing the torture technique, he affirmed, "There is grain and dried meat, but there are no beds, no tables, chairs and benches, it seems that there should be people living not far from here." ”

Yan Gang nodded: "It's a little weird, but I haven't found any danger for the time being, and I don't know what this thing means when it's hanging." ”

"It's called a heavenly monster, it's a kind of town house thing, and it can be stored for many years after being embalmed." He Chenxue, who had been standing next to her, finally spoke, and then the other three looked at her.

"Celestial monsters?" Yan Gang asked, and Tian Lianfeng also felt very strange.

"I've heard of it." The torture technique continued He Chenxue's words, "Isn't there a shamanism in the northeast? Some shamans in shamanism will make such things, because shamanism believes that all things are animist, and people must rely on animals to survive, so animals are also gods that protect human beings, wolves, bears, and roe deer are all common non-domestic wild animals in the Northeast in the past, so they will make this kind of guardian saint of four dislikes, but if Miss He doesn't say it, I can't even think of it. ”

He Chenxue nodded: "However, you may not know that in the mythology of the Khanate, there is a story of similar monsters, saying that this mixed animal fell from the sky and decomposed itself on the ground, and then formed all the animals of the earth, which sounds like the story of Kuafu, right?" ”

He Chenxue suddenly mentioned the Khan Khanate again at this time, which made Xingshu and Yan Gang look at each other, but no one said anything, knowing that under the premise that He Chenxue was not active, they couldn't ask what the result was.

"I see." Tian Lianfeng nodded, sat down against the wall and said, "Anyway, I finally found a place to spend the night, I changed my socks first, and then got some food to sleep, it's so late." ”

"I'll keep vigil tonight." Torture Shu sat down at the door, "Then change Yan Gang." ”

Yan Gang nodded, changed his socks, ate some dry food, and didn't eat hot food, so he fell asleep directly.

He Chenxue ate some instant noodles cooked by Tian Lianfeng, drank some hot milk, got into the sleeping bag and fell asleep, of course Tian Lianfeng couldn't wait to sleep, because he was the guy who went to bed on time.

Xingshu sat at the door, looking at this room, thinking of He Chenxue's words before, he felt that things were getting more and more weird, and he always felt that He Chenxue knew too many things, because the fields she was originally good at should not be these. And, most importantly, why did such a room pop up in their path? It was as if they were deliberately reminding them that a flood that had occurred here many years ago had something to do with the Khan they were looking for.

Maybe it was because he was too tired, he didn't think about it for long, he couldn't open his eyes, he originally wanted to call Yan Gang, but because he was too sleepy, he fell asleep directly as soon as he closed his eyes......

After the torture fell asleep, the whole room was surprisingly quiet, the sound of his clothes rubbing caused by moving from time to time when he was awake disappeared, and the strange atmosphere in the jungle at night drifted into the room like smoke, at the same time, a white shadow appeared at the door, and then the shadow carefully pushed the door open, and at the same time pushed the torture technique leaning against the door directly forward, but the white shadow subconsciously grabbed the shoulder of the torture technique, stabilizing his body.

White Shadow then struggled to remove the torture technique from the doorway, and after carefully entering the house, White Shadow took out the copper hand warmer in his arms, opened it, and put the red-hot charcoal in the hand warmer into the charcoal pit, and then carefully poured the small charcoal in the small pocket on it, and then turned and walked out.

Just as Bai Ying walked out and closed the door, a black shadow flashed out from behind the big tree next to him, looking at Bai Ying and said in a hoarse voice that was deliberately squeezed out: "It's quite clever to kill people with carbon monoxide, even if the people in the forest area find their corpses, they will think that the tourists themselves were accidentally poisoned and died, but do you think it is necessary?" Do you think people in wooded areas will discover this place? If the people in the forest area had discovered this room earlier, maybe this room would have long ceased to exist, and you could walk into this area, it means that someone has taught you the same method as He Chenxue, right? ”

The White Shadow stood motionless, then suddenly turned around and rushed towards the jungle, the Black Shadow kicked open the door and let the night wind blow towards the house, and then turned and chased after the White Shadow.