When An Xiaoyu arrived at the airport, Jing Santing was already waiting for her. The gray-haired old man wore a very spiritual field outfit today, carrying a large bag behind him.

An Xiaoyu was also carrying a large bag containing some necessities and a change of clothes. Although these clothes are also relatively sturdy, An Xiaoyu, who grew up in the Eastern Wilderness, does not have a high vigilance for going to the wild, so it is only relatively sturdy.

Jing Santing was a little surprised: "You just dressed up?" It's all to blame that I didn't remind you, in that place on the border, there are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and you have to go over the mountains to enter the mountains... Forget it, I'll find you a dress on the spot when the time comes. ”

An Xiaoyu didn't care too much, felt the trembling sound of the two little things in the satchel, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll just do it, it's okay." ”

Jing Santing was noncommittal, walked into the airport with An Xiaoyu, and got on the special plane prepared for them by the Three Thousand Academy.

Yes, Jing Santing applied for a cooperation project, and jointly developed the ruins of the Heavenly Spirit Domain with his old friends, and after the establishment of the project of the Three Thousand Academy, he even got a large amount of funds, and also enjoyed the special plane service of the Three Thousand Academy.

For places that are difficult to go to in remote areas such as the border, 3000 Academy's support for the project generally includes pick-up and drop-off services, including many types, such as the special plane transfer to the jungle this time. If it is the Eastern Wilderness, it is a special train like Ni Yu who picked up An Xiaoyu at the beginning.

An Xiaoyu began to think carefully, if she wants to go home in the future, can she apply for a project in the East Wilderness, and then go back by the way without spending money?

Jing Santing sat on the soft seat of the plane, seemed to see An Xiaoyu's thoughts, and said: "It is true that some people use the convenience of the project to go to some other places, but there are not many projects in the Eastern Wilderness, to be honest. ”

"Oh." It seems that the plan has fallen through.

"In the past week, Lao Xing has made a few trips into the mountains, and there has been new progress."

Lao Xing in Jing Santing's mouth is his old friend, a scholar with a little cultivation, specializing in the study of foreign ancient history, who has been mixed in multi-ethnic areas and all parties on the border of the empire for many years, can speak seventeen foreign languages, and can understand more than a dozen ancient languages.

Lao Xing's big name is Xing Nan, yes, a very sassy name. Therefore, Lao Xing never let people call him by his name, his friends call him Lao Xing, and those who are younger than him are all called Teacher Xing.

As for why he didn't call Professor Xing, it was probably because of the homophonic relationship.

This time, the first person to discover the Tianling Stone Tablet was this old Xing.

Lao Xing originally planned to pass through that forest and go to an alien settlement outside the empire, because the distance was really lonely, so he chose to slow down and stay in the forest for a few nights, and enjoy the camping life with his team.

Hunting and barbecuing every day is simply not fun.

An Xiaoyu is full of black lines, are you sure this is a professor who is going to do research? How do you feel that Lao Xing is simply traveling, eating, drinking and having fun at public expense? To be honest, I'm still a little envious...

One night, Lao Xing gathered in front of the campfire with the team's guards and students as usual to enjoy the elk that had been having unusually fat thighs, and when he was eating, drinking, and farting, suddenly a student came back from the toilet and shouted to them excitedly: "Teacher Xing!" Teacher Xing! Look! Aurora! ”

Lao Xing stood up and looked at the sky in the distance, and when he went up, he gave the student a look on the back of the head: "Aurora!" That's a vision! Hurry up and pack your things, we're making a fortune this time... No, we made a big discovery this time! ”

hurriedly packed up their things and rushed towards the direction where Wu Caixia came out, but halfway through, they were blocked by several continuous mountain ranges.

The guards they hired were all soldiers who had been stationed on the border or mountain people who had rich experience in the nearby mountains and forests and often communicated with other races, so they were still a little familiar with this area. When a mountain man saw these mountains, the whole person was square, and quickly stopped Lao Xing.

"Can't get in, can't go in here!"

"Why can't you go in?" Lao Xing's face was very curious, but in fact, he couldn't help himself with curiosity in his heart.

The mountain people told him that this mountain range was a forbidden area that they had never known how many thousand years ago, and their ancestors had passed it down from generation to generation. In this forbidden area, there are not only insidious poisonous snakes, man-eating beasts, but also ghosts, as long as someone enters, they either can't get out at all, or they become another person after they come out.

The mountain man also said that when he was a child, he once saw a man who entered the mountain range and came out again after a week, and was the strongest warrior in their village at that time. When he entered the mountain, he was still the strong man who could kill the cow with one punch, but after the results came out, he actually became skinny.

"It's not because I've lost weight after a week of hunger, it's that my whole body is shriveled, like... It's like being sucked dry by something, even the muscles are gone, and only a few hairs are left! ”

But after the sucked man came out of the mountain, he did not die, but survived well, and did not have any mental abnormalities, and came out of the forest normally. If it weren't for the fact that the people in the village recognized the clothes and clothes on his body and the scars left by the injuries he had been injured, they would probably have thought that he was a ghost who ran out of the mountains.

When they asked him what had happened to him in the mountains, he was curious and asked, "In the mountains?" What mountains? I've never been to the mountains! ”

People wonder, "You haven't been to the mountains, how did you get to be the way you are?" ”

The man was even stranger than they were: "What does this look like? Haven't I always been like this? ”

The mountain man still remembered the look in the eyes of the man when he spoke, he was only five or six years old at the time, and he felt that when this gaze swept over him, it was as if he was being stared at by a dead man, and a cool air rose from his back and directly froze his whole body.

When he returned home, he fell ill and fell ill for a month. Due to the limited medical facilities in the village, his parents took him to the nearest city for treatment, but the result was excessive shock and general weakness and shortness of breath due to body weakness.

After half a month of recuperation, he finally recovered, and when the family of three returned to the village, they were shocked to find that there were a lot of blood marks on the walls of some houses, and there were suddenly several families with white silk hanging in the village.

His parents thought that it was the mountain beast that ran out to harm the world, but when they inquired, they found out that it was actually the person who came out of the mountain.

In the beginning, the people of the village often heard some strange roars coming from them at night. After all, it's all in the mountains, and it's normal to have some strange sounds, and no one will take it seriously. But on the day after the family of three left the village, a person suddenly died in the village.

In the morning, people found dead in their own homes, as if they had been scratched by wild beasts, and their throats were cut in one bite, and their limbs were torn apart and thrown into all corners of the house.

The entire wooden house was covered in coagulated blood, most of which was spurted out, and there were some scratches on five fingers. Looking at the miserable situation in the house, the villagers, like them, thought at first that some fierce mountain beast had come here.

So under the organization of the village chief, the young men of the village formed a search and arrest team, patrolling day and night, trying to find the murderous beast. But it seems that after killing a man, the beast has already left the village and never reappeared. After a week of patrolling, the search team, which thought it was nothing, gave up.

However, the tragedy happened again, and another person died in the village, the same tragedy, the same silence, not even a chance to struggle and shout, only when the villagers found his body, did they know that there was one less person in the village.

Infinite terror gradually enveloped the entire village, and it was even proposed to relocate everyone and leave the place to settle in a place closer to the city. But this idea was opposed by almost everyone.

This is the land left to us by our ancestors, and even if only one of us is left, we will guard our home! The will of the mountain people is unusually firm. The move was abandoned, and the search party restarted, vowing to catch the beast.

On the night of that day, a terrible scream suddenly sounded over the village, and everyone was awakened, grabbed the weapon placed next to the pillow and ran out of the door, and saw a figure covered in blood running in the distance. The man lost one of his arms, covered in blood, screaming as he ran, and finally fell in front of everyone.

The village chief helped him up, helped him stop the bleeding, and asked him what was going on.

The man seemed to be so frightened that he couldn't say anything clearly, and kept shouting: "It's him!" It's him! The mountain ghosts have come to take revenge! ”

"Mountain ghosts?" When An Xiaoyu heard this, she suddenly felt as if she had heard this name somewhere.

Jing Santing said with a smile: "Mountain ghosts are one of the images in mythological stories. According to research, the prototype of the mountain ghost is likely to be a kind of alien race that lives in the depths of the mountains, and their survival form is a matriarchal clan, with enchanting and beautiful women, and good at resisting beasts; Men are low and burly, with ugly faces and are good at carrying weights. ”

"Mountain ghosts have always been legends as the image of mountain gods or mountain spirits, and in human stories, there are good and evil, different personalities, or the races that are the prototypes in local legends are also different."

"But one of the most widespread and acknowledged legends is that mountain ghosts often appear in the human eye as women, and they like to be in harmony with the human race, as if in this way they can obtain better offspring. And the man who was taken away by the mountain ghost will be injected into the soul of the beast and then put back. ”

"So when these mountain people find out that the murderer is the man who has returned from the mountains, they will say in a panic that it is the mountain ghost who has come to take revenge."

It is indeed very reasonable for a female mountain ghost to take away a man, suck it dry and inject it into the soul of the beast and put it back, but this kind of thing is just a blind worship of human beings who don't know about the world at the beginning, with the strength of the three thousand empires, how can there be a foreign race still blatantly doing this kind of thing?

"So what the hell is going on with that man?" Ann asked quietly.

"Later, in order to protect themselves, the whole village stabbed him to death in the same place, and after learning about the situation, the empire also sent people to see it, recovered the body, and conducted research, but did not find the reason why he became like this."

Jing Santing pinched his eyebrows and continued: "After the people of the Oracle Academy saw it, they felt that there were two possibilities, one was that it was indeed a mountain ghost, and the other was that he was parasitized by some strange creature. ”

"So how did Lao Xing get in and come back safely?" An Xiaoyu was surprised.