shouted twice before a hoarse and old voice came from the room: "The door is not closed, come in!" ”

The door of the house was hidden, Hao Minyuan pushed it gently, and with a "squeak", it opened.

I followed behind Hao Minyuan, but I didn't expect that as soon as he walked into the house, Leng Buding suddenly stopped, and I was caught off guard and hit him directly on the back.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as I started speaking, I smelled a pungent stench in the room, and when I turned sideways, I saw an old man in shabby clothes sitting on a chair facing the door, and even more conspicuously, a pair of stainless steel crutches were placed beside him.

Aren't you an old tour guide? How...... Why are you still a cripple?

The tour guide is not related to the lame mad cow horse!

I couldn't help but wonder.

"You ...... Do you have any trouble? ”

When he saw the two of us, the old man seemed to be surprised, and looked at us with squinted eyes.

"Excuse me...... May I ask you are the tour guide master known as "Lao Sinan", right? ”

"Straight to the point" may be Hao Minyuan's professional habit! Don't bend, don't wipe your feet, sometimes this saves a lot of things.

The old man frowned and smiled bitterly: "What an old tour guide, it has been abolished for many years!" Right now...... Now it's a lonely old man - who told you to come to me? ”

I looked around, and the small living room was cluttered, with a few dishes on the table and leftovers from the meal, a mess on the floor, and a pile of garbage on the side of the door.

The smell of sweat, musty, mixed with mixture, not to mention how bad it smells.

On one side is a small kang with messy bedding and a few dirty clothes at random.

This house is dirty and messy like this, how can people live there!

"We are criminal police from Shandong, and we want to ask for a place, and the uncle who poured water in the hotel where we live recommended you!" Hao Minyuan still didn't say a word of nonsense.

"Oh—where?"

"Worm Dish Gu Village!"

Lao Sinan trembled violently: "Ah! You guys...... What are you looking for this place for? ”

"Find a friend of ours, he's missing, and only left us this address - it should be one!"

Lao Sinan nodded: "Not bad!" It's a stockade, it's just ...... It's just that you know it's useless, and you can't go at all! After saying that, he smiled wryly and motioned for us to sit casually.

Hao Minyuan took a deep breath, turned to look at me, and asked curiously, "Why can't you go?" ”

"Because this is a legendary Miao village, outsiders can't find it at all, and even if they find it, they can't go - even if they arrive, they can't come back alive, so ...... So I advise you two to give up! Your friend probably didn't come to this stockade either. ”

I couldn't help but ask, "What kind of village is so mysterious?" ”

"Shengmiao Ancient Village, a place where outsiders are never welcome to visit!"

Lao Sinan also replied very simply.

"Uncle, you should know how to get to this village, right?"

The old man shook his head violently: "No! No! I don't know, I guess no one knows about it now...... How do you get to this village......"

From the old man's panicked look for a moment, I can conclude that he lied!

Even I can hear it, as an experienced old criminal policeman, how can Hao Minyuan not see it?

"Brother, since we know each other, it's fate, let's help the uncle clean up first!"

"Good come!" I rolled up my sleeves, picked up the "bald head" broom on the side of the door and dried it, and Hao Minyuan also took off his coat and became a cleaner. Fat cat bar

"What are you doing here? Other...... Don't! Lao Sinan trembled and held on to the crutches with both hands, and wanted to come over to stop the two of us, but he couldn't move his legs at all, and he almost fell, but fortunately I reacted quickly and grabbed him.

"Uncle, you're welcome! You...... Just sit back and wait! ”

"How embarrassing is this, my house is too dirty, you ...... You're all clean people! ”

Hao Minyuan and I had a tacit understanding this time, neither of us spoke anymore, but bent down to clean up, and it took about half an hour to clean up the floor and tabletop.

Lao Sinan seemed to be a little moved, and old tears flowed from his eyes.

"Uncle, I'll buy some garbage bags later, it's so convenient, and this chopstick should have been changed a long time ago......"

Lao Sinan waved his hand: "You two don't have to say anything, please...... Please help me get a beard knife box out of the back of the frame. After speaking, he was stunned and took a long breath.

I couldn't help but curse secretly, I was so embarrassed, and I shaved!

Hao Minyuan nodded and walked over, stretched out his hand and touched it a few times, and sure enough, he took out a small blue-brown box, blew it gently, and suddenly it was dusty, and it could be seen that no one had touched the box for a long, long time.

Open ......

Lao Sinan trembled and stretched out his hand to point to the box in Hao Minyuan's hand.

Isn't there a razor in the box?

I slapped the back of the head, and I was stupid, it was obvious that he had something hidden in the box, and something important.

The box was opened by Hao Minyuan, I quickly beat it, and saw that the razor box was a neatly folded yellowed paper, Hao Minyuan quickly took it out, and also blew the dust on it.

Map?

When I opened it, I saw that there were horizontal and vertical lines drawn on it, and there were many markings, such as "about five miles along the river" and "about six kilometers south around the peak." ”

Apparently the map is hand-drawn.

"Aren't you looking for the Worm Dish Gu Village? Just now...... What I told you just now is true, I really haven't been to this village, and in those years, I was a tour guide, and the closest one should be ...... It was supposed to be less than five kilometers away from the stockade, but there was an accident at that time, and the expedition team I led was all ...... All died in that terrible primeval jungle. ”

Expedition? Primeval jungle?

I shuddered violently and exchanged glances with Hao Minyuan.

"Uncle, when did you talk about the expedition?"

Lao Sinan lowered his head and was silent for more than ten seconds, as if he was pondering.

"Forty years! I was in my twenties at the time......"

I shuddered again.

Forty years?

What a coincidence!

"It seems that it is also an expedition team from Shandong or Shanxi, and the dozen or so people in the team are all young experts or scholars, if it weren't for that accident, those people should be professor-level figures by now!"

Listening to Lao Sinan's tone, there was self-blame and guilt.

Is there such a coincidence?

Hao Minyuan should be the same as I thought, he asked Lao Sinan in a low voice: "What did you encounter back then?" ”

A trace of panic flashed on Lao Sinan's face, and he wanted to hide it, but he couldn't control it.

"A monster! A monster from our local legend called ...... It's called a cat! A kind of cat monster with a human face. ”

It seems that there is such a coincidence!

It turned out that Lao Sinan was the guide of the expedition team of Mr. Feng's friend, but he didn't know that anyone had left the forest alive at that time.