Chen Tao thought about it carefully, with his grandfather's character, it is not impossible to set up some tricks at home to prevent thieves, after all, now that the house is deserted, and no one cares about it, it is easy to kill people under the mechanism, relatively speaking, phantom poison grass is the best choice.

However, after thinking about it, a strangeness permeated Chen Tao's whole body.

When grandpa left the key to himself, he must have known that he would go, could it be that grandpa deliberately poisoned himself?

Could it be that the old man wants his precious grandson to feel the warmth and coldness of the world?

After swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, Chen Tao rubbed the goosebumps on his arm and asked, "Uncle, what was under the car just now?" ”

"Alas......" Uncle Long glanced at Chen Tao with a complicated expression, shook his head again, and looked into the distance thoughtfully, "That's something that shouldn't exist......"

"Something that shouldn't exist?" Chen Tao felt that he was a little incomprehensible, "Why did it attack us?" ”

"There are some things that don't do you any good to know about them......"

"But ......" Chen Tao wanted to ask something, but Uncle Long waved his hand and refused.

Depend on!

Chen Tao vomited three liters of old blood in his heart, and his three views were refreshed again.

What shouldn't exist in this world?

What the hell, ghost? Monster? Zhang Qiling?

What's going on with that weird murmur just now?

Chen Tao leaned on the back seat a little weakly, and after the fright, exhaustion and weakness surged up uncontrollably. Watching the wasteland in the rearview mirror get farther and farther away, soon, nothing was known.

......

"Taozi, get up and eat!"

Chen Tao opened his eyes in a daze, when did he fall asleep? I got out of the car and rubbed my sore neck and looked around.

This is an ordinary high-speed service station, next to which large and small vehicles are parked, the place is not big, and there are many people.

Chen Tao looked at his watch, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Haozi smoked a cigarette for Uncle Long, but Chen Tao didn't smoke, so he didn't give it to him. The three of them were bathed in the afternoon sun, moving their somewhat tired bodies. After a while, the mountain ghost bought a few bottles of water and came over, and several people discussed whether to go and eat something.

After a long journey, everyone didn't have much appetite. Looking at the time and distance, it will take more than two hours to reach the destination.

Uncle Long spit out a smoke ring: "Let's go, it's all here, how many cushions." It will take some time to get to Blackwater. Then he turned to the mountain ghost next to him and said, "I'll open it in a while, and you will sit behind you and rest." ”

"Yes!" The mountain ghost nodded in response.

"Let's go, let's rest."

Uncle Long took the lead and walked forward, Haozi snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground and flicked it far away at the trash can on the side, and the cigarette butt flew straight into the trash can, and Chen Tao was stunned when he saw it.

"Awesome!"

Haozi raised an eyebrow at him and chuckled:

"How's that, handsome or not!"

"Well, handsome! It's a little worse than me, though. ”

"Pull you down!"

The three of them simply ate some ravioli and rested for a while, and several of them hit the road again.

After eating a full stomach, people also have some spirits, a few people chatted happily in the car, looking at the scenery flying upside down outside the window, and it was no longer boring along the way.

The afternoon sun is warm but not dazzling, and in the blue sky, the wind chases and tears the clouds wantonly, and the sky pours down beams of soft light, gilding the earth with a gorgeous layer of gold.

The breeze blows, the branches of the trees sway, the grass dances lightly, like a beautiful girl's face shining brightly.

Chen Tao couldn't help but roll down the window, and a refreshing cool breeze came to his face, as if all his worries and fatigue had been put aside, and every nerve in his body was gradually soothed.

A large river appeared in the distance, which was supposed to be some tributary of the Yellow River. The wind wrinkled the surface of the river, causing layers of ripples, refracting the golden holy light, like scattering a river of shining broken gold, and those who watched it shook their eyes.

Chen Tao felt as if he was in a paradise, and such moments were his favorite.

Under the sun, you will feel endless strength and comfort, and maintain an agile mind, so that you can clearly feel the magic and magnificence of nature.

Everyone in the car seemed to be infected by all this, no one spoke, everyone quietly enjoyed this rare comfort, even the radio on the car seemed to sense, playing soothing and moving pure music.

This situation and this scene are intoxicating.

Out of the highway, the sun was about to set. The car walked all the way along the county road, through the mountain tunnel, and turned onto a country dirt road.

"Fortunately, we came at the right time, it didn't rain, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to cross the road." Uncle Long said.

The speed of the car is not fast, and there are some bumps on the road.

Chen Tao held his backpack in his arms, and pressed something on his stomach, which could reduce the symptoms of motion sickness and want to vomit, at least he felt a little more comfortable.

As I walked, the car suddenly stopped.

Chen Tao turned his head to look out, only to see a black jeep blocking the side of the road in front of him.

"Mountain ghost, go see what's going on." Uncle Long said.

The mountain ghost got out of the car, went over there to take a look, and came back and said, "Master Long, the tire of that car has burst and is changing the tire." ”

"Oh?" Uncle Long looked at the mountain ghost.

"They have two cars, this one has a flat tire, a few people are working on it, and the one in front is blocked."

"Who are they?" Uncle Long asked.

"It looks like a self-driving tour to take pictures, and the people in the car in front of me didn't get down, so I don't want to go over and see it."

"It's kind of fun to travel by car in this kind of place...... Uncle Long looked at the black jeep in front of him and muttered.

"Can we still get there, then?" Chen Tao asked.

"Well, it doesn't feel very good, the slope of the dirt ditch on both sides of the road is too steep, and the wheels can barely walk on it, and if it slips, it will knock the chassis." Haozi said.

Uncle Long looked at them and smiled, "Mountain ghost, you come and drive." ”

The mountain ghost answered, got out of the car and changed places with Uncle Long.

The car was re-ignited, and when they walked to the side of the car, the people who had been changing the tires stopped what they were doing and looked at Chen Tao and them.

The people outside were all men, of different ages, the youngest looked to be in his twenties, carrying a camera and taking pictures, and the others were about thirty or forty years old.

Uncle Long rolled down the window and pulled the reversing mirror back on the right side so as not to rub the black jeep.

Hiroko was looking out the window at the ditch and tires. The tires just rubbed the edge of the groove and moved forward. On both sides of the ditch were piles of earth, and when the wheels were crushed, large clods of earth rolled down the slope.

The car slowly moved forward, and Chen Tao finally saw the second car that the mountain ghost said. Unexpectedly, the black jeep drove forward a little and moved a few centimeters to the right.

"Huh? Make way for us. Haozi said.

When Chen Tao and their car passed by the second car, Chen Tao saw a woman sitting in the back seat of the car, looking very young, with long curly hair draped behind her, and layers of faint luster under the oblique light of the setting sun. The woman leaned lightly on the back seat, dressed in a punk style, adding a bit of a different temperament to this woman.

Chen Tao once saw those so-called punk girls, painted with thick smoky makeup, with rebellious short hair, who looked like ghosts in the middle of the night. But the woman in front of her is different, and she has a kind of beauty that they don't have.

When Chen Tao looked at her, she was also looking at Chen Tao. The two looked at each other, and Chen Tao shouted in his heart,

"Bought that Buddha! Goddess, this is! ”

"Haozi, look, there's a mixed-race beauty in the car!"

"What, where?"

Hearing Chen Tao tell him to look at the beauty, Haozi was very strange at first, and then came over to take a look, only to see that in the driver's seat of the opposite car, a long-faced man with curly hair on his head was digging his nostrils.

The man rubbed his nose, glanced at Li Hao with a pair of oblique single eyelid eyes, and stretched out his hand out of the window to make a nose boogie movement.

"Damn, your sister! Chen Tao, are you a pervert! ”

Haozi was startled, feeling that her eyes were polluted.

This is also strange, to say that the person is not ugly, but how can the whole body give people an urge to rush up and squash him?

"Oops, it's not that, in the back, in the back!" Chen Tao was also so excited that he forgot that the car kept moving forward. When Haozi looked at it, the two cars had already missed the rear window.

Haozi hurriedly looked back, and the car at this time had already surpassed the black jeep, and he could only see the nose-picking man shaking his head and talking in the driver's seat. He stared back at Chen Tao with an expression of hatred that iron is not made of steel.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Chen Tao said.

"Say, you didn't mean it! Find a lewd man to disgust me. Haozi was ready to strangle Chen Tao.

"Really, why did I lie to you!" After speaking, Chen Tao shook his head and said, "Alas, I can only say that you don't have this blessing!" ”

Haozi gave Chen Tao a fierce look.

Uncle Long smiled on the side: "Okay, okay, isn't it just a girl, what's there to fight about." It's almost time to get to Blackwater, so let's find a place to live when we get there. ”

A few people didn't speak again, Chen Tao leaned on the back seat, as if he remembered something, and muttered in his heart: "Strange, how can you look a little familiar with that thing that picks your nose?"

After a bumpy ride on a potholed dirt road, the car was back on a flat winding road. Chen Tao felt that his ass was about to be turned upside down.

On the highway, Chen Tao exhaled lightly and said, "It's okay to get out." ”

The sun slowly sets, and the night covers the land. They went into the town and found a hotel to stay in. The four of them opened two standard rooms, one for Chen Tao and Haozi, and Uncle Long and the mountain ghost lived next door.

After tidying up, everyone fried a few dishes in the small restaurant downstairs. Everyone was a little tired, so they ate something and went back to bed early.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, Uncle Long called several people to his room. The mountain ghost bought breakfast, and everyone ate it while discussing their next plans. There was no table in the hotel, Uncle Long spread out a map on the bed, and several people stood and ate steamed buns and fritters while listening to Uncle Long's arrangement.

"This is a map of the county that someone got from me. You see, this is where we are now. Uncle Long pointed to a small red dot on the map, and the words Blackwater Town were written next to it.

"This town is subordinate to six villages within a radius of 15 kilometers." Uncle Long drew a circle on the map with his finger, pointed out the range he was talking about, and then said:

"Here, this is the old farmer's Heizigou, if we want to go over, we have to go around these mountains. There are no tunnels on the mountain, there are several wild mountains. I inquired and there was no hotel accommodation over there, so we had to stay here and drive there. ”

"Wild Mountain?" Chen Tao wondered.

"Yes, Noyama." Uncle Long replied, "If such a wild mountain really has a hole, it will be more beneficial to us. There is no one on the wild mountain, as long as we hide it in hiding, no one will find out. ”

"yes, I see." Chen Tao nodded.

"The place we are in is a little closer to these four villages, so we can start here and go from village to village." Uncle Long pointed to several locations on the map.

"These villages, on this side of the mountain, we can sweep them down as soon as possible, and then concentrate on going over there to investigate"

"Why don't you just go to Kurokogou?" Chen Tao couldn't understand it again, his idea was that since the old farmer was from Heizigou, then go directly to Heizigou to find it, why do you have to go to these villages.

"One reason is that the old farmer said that he was from Heizigou, but he did not say where he found the bronze man. And within a radius of 30 kilometers, there is a greater possibility that there are caves in these mountains, so our investigation center is not around the sunspots, but these mountains. Uncle Long pointed to the mountain road on the map:

"The second reason is that Heizigou and the other village are on the other side of the mountain, and these four are on this side. Let's go to these four first, we can quickly check this area, and then focus on this one. This saves time and narrows the scope. Uncle Long pointed to the map.

"From here to there, you have to go around the mountain road, and it is inconvenient to go back and forth. After we're done checking this area, we can set up camp in the wild mountains, which will save a lot of trouble. ”

Chen Tao nodded, Uncle Long is still very purposeful and organized. But he vaguely felt in his heart that if he went to Heizigou, he would definitely find something, although he himself couldn't figure out why he felt this way.

"Maybe it's some kind of delusion of my own...... Chen Tao thought to himself, "After all, it's my first time, and I don't have much experience." And Uncle Long is already an old man, and there will be no mistake in listening to him. ”

"There's one more thing we need to do before we do that."

"What's the matter?" Chen Tao asked.

"Look at the dragon."

"Look at the dragon?"

"Well, let's go, find a high place."

The hotel has five floors, with a shop restaurant on the bottom floor, and a hotel from the second floor.

Several people climbed up the stairs to the top floor of the hotel, there is a small independent door on the top floor, and after going out, it is the roof of the hotel, but the door is locked.

Seeing that there was no one around, and there was no camera, Uncle Long glanced at Haozi. Li Hao walked to the small door and looked down at the door lock.

"Mean, look at me."

After that, he took out a thin wire, straightened it in half, folded it in half, and fiddled with it a few times, and then heard a crisp "click", and the lock was opened.

Chen Tao was stunned as he watched from the sidelines.

"Haozi, have you been a thief for the past few years?"