"You're the heir of that loser?" The young man asked.

"Huh? What? The heir of the public loser? Chen Tao looked confused and completely confused. What is this? ”

I wanted to turn my head and ask Haozi, but I heard Haozi's voice coming from behind me: "It's me who is good."

He straightened his chest and stepped out, looking up at the person in front of him: "You are the person that grandpa said?" My name is Li Hao, you can call me Haozi. ”

"Yang Lixuan." The young man nodded at Haozi and said lightly, "Is his old man okay?" ”

"I'm tired and worried, grandpa he's fine." Haozi said.

"That's good, I'll visit if I have the chance." Yang Lixuan nodded.

"It turns out that his name is Yang Lixuan." Chen Tao said in his heart, looking up at Yang Lixuan and Li Hao.

Yang Lixuan didn't change much, as always, he was silent and unfazed, but looking at Haozi, he saw that he was clenching his fists with both hands, looking at Yang Lixuan with a serious face.

"Huh? Strange, what's going on? Feeling that the atmosphere between the two was a little strange, Chen Tao couldn't help but be a little surprised, and poked Haozi with his elbow and said in a low voice: "This person owes you money?"

"It's nothing, it's not clear in a sentence or two, I'll explain it to you later when I have time."

Haozi didn't even look at Chen Tao, and looked at Yang Lixuan, the two of them just looked at each other and didn't speak. But Chen Tao could feel that compared to Yang Lixuan's unfazed waves, Li Hao was very nervous at this time.

Seeing the two of them like this, Uncle Long coughed and smiled at Boss Zhang: "This little brother is ......"

"Oh, this little brother was invited by me to serve the pot together, don't look at his young age, he has the ability!" Boss Zhang smiled proudly at everyone.

"Yan." The red-haired young man raised his chin and looked cool.

"These two, Ah Cheng, the soldier, my right-hand man, Master Long has dealt with before. Look at this head and body board, how is it, isn't it great? Boss Zhang pointed to the two strong men like mountains behind him.

Uncle Long smiled and said, "The two brothers, the famous mercenary Titans in the industry, were pulled away by you."

"Talents can not be found, I can meet the two brothers of the soldier A Cheng, it can be regarded as a kind of fate!" Boss Zhang smiled, and the fat on his belly trembled.

"Cut, poor man!" , Chen Tao said with contempt in his heart.

"It's not too early, let's take stock of the countermeasures and then go!" Uncle Long said.

"Hey, yes, yes, let's discuss." Boss Zhang rubbed his hands and beckoned the three people behind him to come over. Uncle Wang on the side took out a few cigarettes and handed them to everyone, but when he gave them to Chen Tao, Chen Tao shook his head and said, "I don't smoke."

"Well, it's a good habit, but you'll need it later." Uncle Wang withdrew his hand.

Uncle Long took out the map, and everyone squatted in a circle on the spot, and after briefly introducing everything they had learned before, Uncle Long pointed to the map and said:

"The situation is almost touched, this place, here, and here, we all stepped on it a few days ago, and we can be sure that the hole is in this area."

"Now, only this place is left, and all the clues point here!" Uncle Long pointed to the sunspot ditch on the map.

"Has this place been trampled on?" Yang Lixuan asked.

"Not yet, no matter what, Heizigou must go and take a look." Uncle Long packed up the map and stood up.

"If the legend is true, that mine is a good entrance. After all these years, I don't know if that kind of thing is still there. Uncle Wang said.

His voice was a little low, and through his glasses, Chen Tao couldn't see his expression, but he felt that this person had an indescribable coldness on him.

"Oh, there's nothing to worry about, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." Boss Zhang waved his hand. "Ah Cheng, soldier, you two are going." He glanced at the red-haired young man beside him and said, "Yan, you can go too."

On the way, Uncle Long drove the lane: "This trip to Heizigou has only one purpose, to find out what is going on with the kind of illness that makes people crazy and itches all over the body." ”

"This ...... How to check? Chen Tao asked.

"In the morning, those people said that it was the son of the commissary at the head of the village who went crazy, so we should pass by and go in and have a look." Uncle Long said.

Haozi glanced at the rearview mirror as if he was nervous, and his eyes didn't blink.

"What's wrong with these two people? Just met with this virtue...... However, it seems that Yang Lixuan has no impact, but Haozi, who has overreacted a little. Chen Tao quietly glanced at Li Hao and couldn't help but feel funny.

"This kid, is he nervous? Haha, interesting, I can't imagine that there is anyone who can make this product look like this, where is this Yang Lixuan! Chen Tao thought to himself.

There was no word all the way, and after half an hour, the group finally arrived at the gathering place of all the clues, Heizigou.

"Is this the sunspot ditch?" Chen Tao rolled down the window and looked at a winding path ahead, on one side of the hillside was overgrown with lush willows and weeds, and on the other side was a few small farmlands with some local vegetables and fruits, and a small patch of corn. If you look along the trail, you can see that there are many dilapidated earthen walls and old tiled houses at the end of the road.

"The front is Heizigou, the commissary they are talking about, it's on the other side of this road, it's over in a while, don't keep quiet, I'll take the words of the proprietress." Uncle Long looked at everyone.

Everyone nodded, and Uncle Long stepped on the accelerator and drove towards a commissary not far ahead.

This is a common farmhouse bungalow in the north, with red brick and wooden windows, the paint on the windows has almost peeled, and there are still a few cracks on a few pieces of glass.

Uncle Long got out of the car, took an outdoor round-brimmed hat from the trunk, and pulled out a small box from underneath, which contained Uncle Long's SLR camera.

Chen Tao didn't know why, Uncle Long always threw a camera and a round-brimmed hat in his car. Chen Tao once looked at the camera, but there was nothing in it, and the photos were all taken away by Uncle Long.

After putting on his hat and carrying the camera, Uncle Long beckoned a few people: "Put the bag on your back." ”

"Huh? Knapsack? Chen Tao was puzzled.

"We pretend to be a geological survey team, I'm a teacher, and you're all my students, so pretend to be like a little bit and take out your bags."

"Oh!" Chen Tao responded, I see, so he also went to the trunk to pull out his backpack, and helped the mountain ghost and Haozi to take it out.

The mountain ghost didn't have anything, it was estimated that there was some food and flashlights in the bag, and there was no weight, but when Chen Tao grabbed Haozi's backpack from the innermost part of the trunk, it sank suddenly, as if it was filled with iron.

"Haozi, what are you putting in it, it's so heavy!"

"Nothing, just some daily necessities." Haozi reached out and grabbed his backpack and stepped it over his shoulder.

On the other side, Boss Zhang, Uncle Wang and the others seemed to know Uncle Long's plan, and they all prepared things and walked over. Uncle Long saw that everyone was almost there, and the bento went to the door of the store first.

This is a very small shop, the house is not big, there are two large display cabinets in front of the door, through the glass you can see that there are seven seven eight eight goods and snacks and small commodities, and there are several cardboard boxes on the cabinet on the ground, which are some wilted vegetables, and some put mustard peanuts and other things.

When I entered the door, there was a large freezer on the right, and the white counter was covered with leaflets and color pages from unknown places.

"Huh? What about people? The mountain ghost shouted, "Anyone?" ”

"What do you want?" A woman's voice came from behind, and immediately everyone heard the sound of slippers clattering on the ground.

The curtain was lifted, and a chubby woman walked out, wearing a dark red thick thread coat, with a dark complexion, and some unkempt hair, mixed with a lot of white hair. I look like I'm only in my thirties and forties, but I don't know why my hair is so white.

"Hello hostess, buy some food." Uncle Long took off his hat and said.

"What do you want?" The woman asked.

"Is there instant noodles, the barreled kind?"

The woman walked behind the counter and took out a few buckets of instant noodles from a box,

"How many?"

"There are ten of us, take ten buckets, and some ham sausage and that braised egg." Chen Tao said

"Oh, there's a lot of stuff in this little place, what are they?" Boss Zhang squeezed over and pulled a few cardboard boxes on the cabinet with his hands.

"Boss, let's have some shredded mustard too." Uncle Long said.

"Do you want to soak the noodles for you?" The woman asked.

"Well, yes, yes, thank you so much hostess!"

"Then you wait a minute, the water hasn't boiled yet."

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry, thank you!" Uncle Long said with a smile.

The woman took food for the people, went into the back room to boil water, and then came out again and asked, "You don't look like locals, do you?"

"Yes, I'm a teacher at XX University, and we came out this time to cooperate with a magazine to do some geological surveys. These are my students, the one over there is the editor of the magazine, and the two big ones are our drivers. ”

"Ouch, what a strong offspring! People in big cities are just different, they look really porcelain! ”

"This is out of the house, and it's running around in the mountains, there are a lot of things, and it's not safe, so I hired two stronger ones, who can be drivers and bodyguards."

"It's a good deal."

Everyone laughed, and the woman asked:

"What are you doing?" Her Mandarin is not very standard, with a slight local accent, but it doesn't affect anything.

"We're doing geological surveys and publishing them in magazines."

"What is a geological survey? It sounds like a very powerful mile, I don't have a high level of education, and I don't understand what big city people do. ”

"It's to see what kind of earth the earth is, what kind of earth the earth is, what the stone is the stone!" Hiroko explained.

Listen to him. Chen Tao was speechless for a while...... What kind of geological survey is this? But then again, there seems to be some truth, at least the woman in front of her understands what they are going to do.

"Hey, college is different, you're doing research! I went to elementary school in the town, so I didn't know any of that. The woman smiled, "The water behind me is estimated to be almost boiling, I'll go and take a look." ”

After saying that, the woman went to the back, and after a while came out with a large aluminum kettle. This kind of pot is very large, and a pot of water is enough to soak five or six buckets of noodles. Chen Tao and the others were too crowded, and there was no place to sit, so they had to put the instant noodles on the lid of the freezer and soak them first.

"Where are you going to see Tuli?" The woman put the kettle back and boiled it again, then came out again and asked.

"We've been here for a few days, and we've just come from Liangzikou, mainly to measure these mountains, and we can go back after the measurement."

"Oh, then you have to be careful, there is a grain in this mountain called the Man-Eating Valley, which will eat people!"

"When I came, I also heard from the villagers over there, this millet is really that powerful?"

"I also heard from the people in the village, that Gu Evil Sect is very good! And our village, alas, I don't know what evil has been created! ”

The woman sighed heavily,

"Alas, they are all poor people, why should they suffer these crimes, I don't understand these things. You come from a big city, and you are college students and university teachers, you know more than us, let's see what the hell is going on! ”

"Yes, then please trouble the proprietress to tell me, what's wrong with this village?"

"That's a long story," said ...... woman, who told the story of the madman in the village, and said much the same thing as the men had discussed in the morning.

Everyone pretended not to understand and listened to it again, but after all, this kind of thing happened to the woman's own son, and she couldn't cry anymore when she was talking.

"Alas, I don't know what kind of sin I have created in this life, the man left early, and now my son has also caused that madness, you say that this makes me live!"

Seeing the woman wiping her tears, Chen Tao felt very uncomfortable in his heart, so he said: "Auntie, there must be a reason for this kind of thing, let's pay attention to science and not be superstitious." This disease is not found anywhere else, only Heizigou has, this time we have done an investigation, maybe we can find the cause of this disease, when the time comes, maybe your child will be better! ”

Listening to Chen Tao's words, the woman seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw all of a sudden, and knelt down with a pop.

"Thank you, you must save my son!"

"Hey, boss, don't be like this!" Seeing this, Uncle Long hurriedly helped her up,

"Alas, we will do our best, if we can really find out the reason, we will definitely find a way to save your son!"

Chen Tao looked at Boss Zhang quietly, and saw a trace of irritability and disgust in his eyes, but then he looked at the woman with an anxious face and said:

"Oh, boss, your business, that's our business, we will definitely do our best!"

"Alas, people......" Chen Tao sighed in his heart.

Just as everyone was talking, suddenly there was a crackling sound of things breaking in the inner room, accompanied by a burst of shrill roars of boys.

The woman was taken aback and hurriedly rushed to the back of the house.

The crowd did not understand what was happening, only heard a commotion behind them, and then heard the woman's cry:

"Son! Oh my son! What's wrong with you! ”