After eating, Qiu Yan proposed to go to the other side of the canyon to have a look, she said that everyone had climbed the mountain for a day, so they would rest for the time being, and when they had accumulated enough energy, they would start looking for a sacrificial site tomorrow.

I agreed to Qiu Yan's proposal, and ordered two men to stay in charge of the camp while the others followed me and Qiu Yan to the other side of the canyon.

This time, everyone unloaded their luggage, and it was naturally much easier to walk on the road, so there was laughter and laughter along the way.

At this time, the water mist above the canyon may also have dissipated a lot because the temperature has risen a little at noon, and when you look up, you can even faintly see the blue sky above the fog.

Everyone present, except for Erwa, had never seen this kind of first-line sky, so for a while, we were all attracted by the scenery overhead.

Suddenly, I saw a few square stones protruding from the cliff wall on the other side of the canyon, originally, it was not strange for such stones to appear in such a place, but I found that all the way overhead, the cliff wall above my head seemed to be covered with such square stones.

I'm a little curious, could it be that the people who mined the stone in the first place still need to climb the cliff to collect raw materials?

I saw the people around me pointing at the top of their heads, and it seemed that they had also noticed this strangeness, and then I walked up to Qiu Yan and asked:

"These square stones are obviously hewn out by hand, could it be that someone has climbed on the cliff face?"

Qiu Yan stood there and muttered for a moment, then said:

"Don't worry about these for now, we have time, and when everyone rests tomorrow, we will find a way to go up and have a look."

I nodded, and then followed Qiu Yan and continued forward.

On the way, I asked Erwa next to me if he had seen this thing before, Erwa shook his head, saying that he just slept with Old Man Peng at the exit of the canyon for a night, and left early the next morning without paying attention to the stones.

After listening to Erwa's words, I stopped talking, there are too many strange things in this place, I thought to myself, even if this is not a place of sacrifice, we will definitely be able to find relevant clues.

After walking about four or five kilometers, we came to the end of the other end of the canyon, at the end of the canyon was a rocky beach full of pebbles, and a few dozen meters further along the rocky beach was a cliff five or six stories high, from which two or three streams flowed down, and these streams turned into several small waterfalls, forming a pool of about thirty or forty square meters at the bottom of the cliff.

Strangely, the water in this pool did not run away, as if it had seeped directly into the ground from the rocky beach.

"I understand," Qiu Yan looked at the waterhole and said suddenly, "The water here originally flowed from the canyon, but for some reason, the underground here has changed, so the water seeps into the underground river from here, and then seeps out from the other side of the canyon, in fact, the water of this tributary flows down from here." ”

I nodded, agreeing with Qiu Yan's idea, in fact, even if Qiu Yan didn't say it, I'm sure other people could think of this.

I asked Qiu Yan if she wanted to look any further, Qiu Yan shook her head and said:

"No, it's just a small river from the next step, our destination is here, I think we'd better go back to the camp first, and when everyone rests tomorrow, we'll start moving."

So, under the leadership of Qiu Yan, we began to walk back.

We had barely been walking back for less than five minutes when I saw billowing mist coming from both ends of the canyon, and it was like smoke, and it enveloped us in one fell swoop.

Before I could react, I heard the people around me talking, they all said that Erwa was not lying, it seems that there are really ghosts here, and that these fogs are all miasma, and they are deliberately released by ghosts to confuse us.

As soon as I heard that it was just a little fog, these people said that there was no edge, and if they knew that the watch would not turn and the compass would not work, then these people would not be bold!

So I hurried to stop them:

"Hey, the more you talk about it, the more boundless it becomes, have you forgotten that this is in the mountains? There is water at both ends, and the fog at the beginning of the fog will not drill into the canyon? What's all the fuss, you're still a bunch of old men! ”

Maybe it was my agitation that worked, or maybe they were afraid of my status as the leader, and the crowd immediately fell silent.

"Alright, let's move on!" Qiu Yan commanded.

To be honest, this kind of smoke from both ends into the hole is indeed rare, under normal circumstances, smoke will only drill from one end to the other, but this is not absolute, like the canyon we are in, it is not a complete cave, there is a crack above our heads, so that the fog will first fill the bottom of the more spacious canyon, and then start to spread upwards, once the fog begins to flow from the bottom to the top, it will form a chimney effect, so as to continuously suck the fog into the bottom of the canyon.

Of course, I don't need to explain this to these people, and even if I do, they won't necessarily understand, I just want to get everyone together before they get scared, as long as people are together, no matter how scared they are, as long as they don't run around, my duty as a team leader will be fulfilled.

Who knew that as I walked, I found that the fog at the bottom of the valley was getting thicker and thicker, and in the end, the visibility was only a few meters away.

Suddenly, a scream came from the front: "Ghost! ”

Originally, everyone was nervous by this fog, but suddenly heard someone shouting like this, and the crowd suddenly panicked.

I quickened my pace and followed the direction of the sound, only to find that there was no one there.

I asked the people around me who was shouting, and they said that the person who shouted had run away, and I asked them if they saw the "ghost", and they shook their heads at the same time, and they all said they didn't see it.

I thought to myself that maybe the person was confused by the fog and his vision was blurry for a while, so I looked away.

So I beckoned the crowd to go back, probably because everyone was a little scared, but I noticed that they were much faster.

Just as I turned around and continued to walk back, Qiu Yan, who was walking behind me, suddenly shouted:

"Ah~~ He Zimu! What is that? ”

I don't know why, so I looked back, but I didn't see anything except Qiu Yan and Erwa.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Qiu Yan pointed to the position behind me and said:

"Two figures flashed behind you just now!"

Erwa also took Qiu Yan's hand and explained:

"Yes, I saw it too, they carried a stone, ran behind you and disappeared."

I spun around in place, but I didn't notice anything but the fog around me.

"Are you dazzled?" I asked.

"One person is dazzled, and two people are dazzled?" Qiu Yan asked angrily.

"Okay, let me ask you, what do those two people look like?" I continued.

"I didn't see it clearly, they were like lightning bolts hitting the fog, flashing and flashing." Qiu Yan replied.

Qiu Yan's words immediately caught my attention, and she said the word lightning, which reminded me of the failure of electronic watches and compass that I had discovered before, and I thought to myself, this weirdness here must have something to do with electricity, right?

At this time, I noticed that the others had already walked away, looking at the thick mist at both ends of the canyon, I was worried that there would be an accident, so I beckoned Qiu Yan and Erwa to continue on their way, saying that there was something to discuss after returning to the camp.

When we got back to the camp, we saw other people gathered around a boulder in the middle of the camp, pointing and not knowing what they were talking about.

The stone was very flat, and when I saw that it was more open next to the stone, I used it as a table for us to put our luggage.

"What the hell are you doing!" I walked over and asked.

One of them looked back at me and said:

"Mr. He, come and take a look, there is a ghost in this stone!"

I'm shocked, I've heard the word "ghost" too many times today, why is it that the stone is haunted now?

I pushed aside the crowd and saw the two men who had stayed behind to guard the camp crouching on the stones, holding pots and pans in their hands, staring at the edge of the stones with interest.

"Mr. He, look, this stone can absorb iron!" One of them said.

I climbed up the stone and took a look, and I saw that there were several spoons attached to the flat edge of the stone.

When the two men saw me leaning over, they put the things in their hands on the edge of the stone and gave me a demonstration, and I saw that some of the spoons and pots really stuck to the stone and did not move, and some of the heavier ones also slid down slowly against the edge, this scene reminded me of the magnet I used to play with when I was a child.

Qiu Yan also walked into the crowd at this time, obviously she also saw this scene, and when I looked at her, she also looked at me in a daze.

"Okay, it may be a magnetic stone, no fuss, everyone pack up and prepare for dinner, have a good rest tonight, and have work to do tomorrow!" I dispersed them to prevent them from guessing any longer.

After the crowd dispersed, I pulled Qiu Yan aside and told her what I had discovered.

"What? Is the watch and compass out of order? Why didn't you say it earlier! Qiu Yan questioned me after hearing this.

"Oh, I didn't know what the reason was at the time, what if I told you, could it be that you still went home?"

Qiu Yan glanced me up and down suspiciously, and asked:

"So, you know the reason now?"

I nodded and replied:

"Probably, but I'm just guessing, you see, in the canyon before, didn't you mean that the people you saw were lightning on the mist? Then the gang discovered that the stone can absorb iron, and I suspected that there may be a large number of such magnetic stones in this canyon, so it affected the magnetic field here, and these strange things happened. ”

Qiu Yan touched her chin and thought for a while, then nodded and said:

"Well, you have a point, but what about the figure? Magnetic fields and electric fields can affect watches and compasses, but they don't make us a human figure! ”

After listening to Qiu Yan's words, I also thought about it for a long time, but I didn't understand the reason after thinking about it, so I called the person who saw the "ghost" in the canyon before.

I asked the man what the "ghost" he saw was, and the man smiled and said:

"Hehe, Mr. He, I'm just idle, I've made a joke on everyone!"