The damp and gloomy night rain didn't seem to have stopped, still beating outside the hut.

It wasn't until the next morning that the weather gradually turned around, but the white mist that permeated the depths of the mountains in Xiangxi was much stronger than before.

This time, I decided to travel a little further along the depths of the mountain forest to continue my search for the mysterious mountain, after all, I didn't have much time left for myself.

In addition to the large bronze spots on my skin for a few days, I also felt a little drowsy and even coughed up blood occasionally.

The black-and-white photo in my hand became more wrinkled due to the return of moisture, and even the outline of the mountain in the photo was blurred a little.

I knew that I couldn't hesitate any longer, and on this day I simply said goodbye to Suchak armed and heading straight to the mountains of Xiangxi.

If I don't find that strange mountain before dark, I'd rather not live on the earth anymore and feed the wolves at night.

After all, it is more convenient to die early than to die in agony, and everything is providential.

Suchak was afraid that it would be dangerous for me to go into the mountains alone, so he decided to give me a ride on his motorcycle.

In this way, the two of them rode his old motorcycle little by little through the complicated Xiangxi, which he said should be a wild area in a deserted area.

In the depths of the mountains, he may encounter a mysterious Miao tribe living in stilted buildings, although he has been here for so long and has never seen a Miao people in an ancient village.

Looking at the remote mountains in front of me, I couldn't help but gasp.

It was already noon, the sunniest time in the forest, but the whole mountain was still covered with a layer of gray gloom, and people couldn't help but want to stop.

As I traveled far on Suchak's motorcycle, I seemed to see something bright and glaring in the mountains in the distance.

At this time, he had already entered the edge of the deep mountain, and even Suchak, who had been looking for his daughter here, had never driven such a distance alone.

He looked in the direction of my finger, and he didn't know what that shimmering thing in the jungle was.

I thought it was a little strange, so the two of them threw their motorcycles in place and hiked up the hill a little bit, the green trees above their heads were emerald green, blocking out a large area of sunlight.

The jungle is even darker and more eerie.

I couldn't help but walk into the wet jungle, only to see an extremely strange scene in front of me.

It turned out that the bright thing was actually a mirror.

To be precise, it is a bronze mirror polished by modern technology, and the direction of the mirror is facing a low hill in the northwest.

I couldn't help but be intrigued by the round mirror hanging from the trunk of the tree in front of me, but when I took it off, I saw a clear Japanese text on the back.

Decades ago, when I was a member of the Soul Eradication Team, I had already mastered translating Japanese, but I didn't expect that the string of ancient words in front of me didn't look like a language no matter how you look at it.

Instead, it looked like some kind of strange symbol, and the ground next to it was also found half-buried in the soil of rotting bones, which could be seen through the rotten steel helmet on it.

These people should also be the little devils of the year, which is enough to show that the mirror was placed on the tree by them.

Decades of wind and rain have made the bronze mirror extremely rotten, and even many cracks have appeared.

Suchak spotted the hill in the direction of the mirror's reflection, and the two of us decided to reach the narrow low hill before it got dark to see what was going on on the mountain.

At this time, it was already about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the mountains of Xiangxi, which should have been clear during this time period, suddenly became cloudy.

Dark clouds condensed in the air, as if brewing an unprecedented rainstorm.

The low mountain seems to be close at hand, but I didn't expect the mountain road to be extremely rugged and difficult to walk.

Suchak pulled me up the hill on his motorbike and had to stop again to continue walking.

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling in the sky, and the raindrops the size of beans crackled and slapped on the body, accompanied by the flashing thunder and lightning in the sky, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

It was already nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, but the jungle in front of me seemed to be about to enter the night, revealing a complete weirdness and gloom.

I gradually felt that my body was a little exhausted, and Suchak, who was wearing a gray jacket, became more and more courageous, and he pulled me back and finally let me support the rest of the journey.

The jungle at your feet is the low mountain you saw in the mirror, but I didn't expect there to be an extremely strange ancient building on the mountain.

When Suzak and I discovered the small temple, our eyes were almost wide.

It was like an extremely old and dilapidated mountain temple with a statue of a god we didn't recognize.

The statue sat on the stone platform in the temple, dressed as a Taoist, holding the dust in his hand, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Due to its age, the statue is missing an arm, and the original paint color on the body has fallen off in large parts.

It suddenly dawned on me that the small temple in front of me did not seem to be a mountain temple, but an extremely narrow Taoist temple.

In ancient times, many masters outside the world had hidden in the mountains and forests to meditate on the way of seeking immortals, and there were also many hidden Taoist temples built in the depths of the mountains of Xiangxi.

The expression on the face of the statue in front of me was a little too weird, and the gloomy weather outside the temple was mixed with dark clouds and torrential rain, which made both of them silent.

Eventually, I broke the ice, and it looked like I was going to spend the night here tonight anyway.

The two searched for some dry wood in the temple and eventually lit a faint bonfire in front of the statue.

Under the dim light, the scene outside the Taoist temple became more and more gloomy, and only the faint fire emanated from the Taoist temple, which could be regarded as a little psychological comfort for the two of us.

It's just that I don't know why, but I looked at the strange statue in front of me and felt a chill in my heart, especially the facial expression of the statue.

In this extremely dark environment, people can't help but think of strange things.

In order to prevent the two of them from being attacked by wild beasts in the middle of the night, Suchak and I decided to keep watch alone for half the night, and he would be in charge of the first half of the night.

Then I'll be in charge of the second half of the night.

Leaning against the cold stone statue, I couldn't sleep well, and I was awakened by a strange nightmare as soon as I fell asleep, and finally I asked Suchak for a cigarette and squatted in the doorway and couldn't help but smoke.

Why did the little devil hang a bronze mirror on the tree, and the direction of the sunlight refracted by the mirror is this Taoist temple that is full of weirdness.

At this time, I couldn't help but look back at the only statue in this Taoist temple, the torrential rain outside the Taoist temple still did not stop, and a thunderclap suddenly broke out from the night sky.

Following the thunder light, I seemed to notice that the face of this statue had been altered, and it should not have been a strange expression that seemed to be smiling before.

I couldn't help but snuff out the cigarette butt and step up to the high platform with vigilant steps, because this Taoist temple is extremely narrow.

Even the statues in the temple are only a little taller than ordinary people.

I stood with him, and in an instant I noticed that the statue had a strange vertical eye carved into the back of its head.

In the dim light, I could even see the eye move on the back of the head of the statue in front of me.

This scene instantly shocked me into a cold sweat, and I almost didn't fall off the high platform.