"Be careful, this bird is not ordinary." Xu Ran turned his head and glanced at Li Donghai, his face was a little weird.

What do you mean? This is just a little clever bird, and the three of them don't know what Xu Ran means by unusual.

"The bird is a genetically modified bird, understands human nature, and is smarter than the average child." Xu Ran voiced their doubts.

What the!

The three of them were stunned and then shocked at the same time, it stands to reason that this is indeed possible.

"Brother Xu! How do you know that this bird was not bred by someone? ”

Xu Ran shook his head, he was also guessing, so naturally he couldn't say why. Then he told the situation at the time of entering the cave, and Li Donghai and the three of them were shocked, and then they knew that the strange sound made at that time was from the mouth of the ghost owl in front of him.

Then they left here together and sat in Xu Ran's broken van to a nearby town.

"Brother Xu! You really don't plan to go with us? Xu Ran handed the car key to Li Donghai, and he looked at Xu Ran with a reluctant face.

"I won't be with you if I have anything else to do." Xu Ran waved his hand to the three of them: "That's it, I'll come to Beijing to get together with you when the time comes."

Sun Lili exchanged a phone call with Xu Ran before leaving, and at this moment she poked her head out and beckoned to Xu Ran.

"Brother Xu, when you come to Beijing, you must remember to call me."

Xu Ran also waved his hand to Sun Lili: "No problem, don't forget me when the time comes." ”

Sun Lili kept waving to Xu Ran until the figure of the van disappeared in front of her.

Xu Ran turned his head, and the smile on his face suddenly froze, replaced by a melancholy face. He found a hotel, checked the dirt all over his body, then changed into new clothes, took out his mobile phone and tried it, and sure enough, it could still be turned on, and the battery was 100 percent, completely full.

He tried to call Huang Jing, but after calling several times, there was still no answer, and then he made another call home, Lan Ying complained a few words on the phone, and then talked about Huang Jing's situation, it turned out that since Xu Ran left home, there was no news of Huang Jing, that is, now she, like Xu Ran, has not received any news from Huang Jing.

So where the hell did she go?

Hanging up the phone, Xu Ran came to the restaurant, and just wanted to order, he was recognized by the boss.

"Young people! Why haven't you left, are you really going to that place. The boss looked horrified, and saw Xu Ran as if he was a ghost.

Xu Ran neither nodded nor shook his head, but said something inconsequential.

"I picked some medicine from a nearby hill"

The boss obviously didn't believe Xu Ran's words, he glanced outside: "What about your car." ”

Xu Ran showed a faint smile, then paused and said, "Oh, I was driven away by my accomplices." Then he stared at his boss. Why are you so interested in Wushanzhai? ”

The boss hurriedly shook his head, his face was a little weird: "No, I met a drug dealer like you in the morning." ”

Seeing the boss's surprised expression, Xu Ran wondered in his heart what kind of expression the boss would show when he met.

"Drug dealers?" Xu Ran stared at the boss: "There are often drug dealers here. ”

The boss hurriedly waved his hand, obviously Xu Ran misunderstood what the boss meant.

"It's not! Apart from you, three people have been here? ”

"All drug dealers?" Xu Ran asked.

"It doesn't look like it." The boss stared at the booklet in Xu Ran's hand with a bright smile. The meaning is obvious, and Xu Ran is signaled to hurry up and write, don't chirp silently.

Xu Ran casually wrote a few signature dishes and handed them to the boss.

"That's okay."

The boss's smile was even brighter, and he suddenly stretched out two fingers and said, "Two young people, one middle-aged, and those two young people are beautiful women." The boss suddenly smiled like a thief.

Belle? Could it be Huang Jing and them?

"What do those two beauties look like?" Xu Ran asked curiously.

The boss tilted his head and thought about it, and after a while, he dictated the general appearance of the two beauties.

Xu Ran felt very similar to Huang Jing and Xu Mei after hearing this, so he couldn't help but guess who the middle-aged people with them would be?

After thinking for a while, Xu Ran suddenly asked, "In which direction did they leave?" ”

In fact, there is a road here at a glance, but Xu Ran is not sure if there are any other forks in the road besides this road.

So after the boss heard Xu Ran's words, he pointed in a direction in front of him: "Oh! This is the way. ”

Following the direction pointed by the boss, Xu Ran suddenly raised his eyebrows.

There is indeed a road there, but it is nothing more than a dirt road, and it is so narrow that it is easy to generalize at a glance if you don't pay attention.

"Where does that road lead?"

Seeing that Xu Ran still wanted to ask, the boss subconsciously glanced around, saw someone eating on the side, and suddenly made a silent gesture.

This boss is doing that again.

Xu Ran was asking, but the boss turned around and walked into the kitchen.

Xu Ran could only shake his head helplessly, waiting for the boss to bring out the food. After waiting for about ten minutes, the boss walked out of the kitchen with a tray.

The second time he came to this hotel, Xu Ran didn't see other guys except the boss, which couldn't help but make him a little puzzled, it stands to reason that the business of this hotel is okay, not so picky, and he can't even afford to hire a guy, but this is someone else's business, Xu Ran just needs to be able to get words out of the boss's mouth.

The boss's smile was still so welcoming to the spring breeze, and it seemed that he was so enthusiastic about every guest, he put the dishes on the table, and then went to serve a bowl of rice, but when he came back, he was stopped by Xu Ran.

Xu Ran placed two hundred-yuan bills on the table, he could see that the boss was a small money fan, but the boss seemed to know how to be measured, he would definitely say what he could say, and he would rather rot in his stomach than tell others if he couldn't say it.

"What do you mean, young man?" The boss put his greasy smile on his face and was very embarrassed to put the money away.

Xu Ran has never seen a thick-skinned person like him, who wants to be a bitch and set up an archway, you say take it, and pretend to be serious here, so Xu Ran put a contemptuous look and motioned for the boss to sit down and talk.

I don't know if it's Xu Ran's luck, the last time he came to this hotel, he was also the last table of guests, and most of the guests at the moment were full of food and drink, leaving only Xu Ran at this table.

The boss's smile is very kind, and he sat down, anyway, he is not busy, and he is idle, so he should pass the time.

Xu Ran didn't want to talk too much nonsense, so he immediately swallowed a bite of food and said, "Tell me, where does that road lead?" ”

The boss is not stupid, and naturally knows that the road Xu Ran said refers to that place.

"Well, this one!" The boss looked a little embarrassed, but after all, he had received money from others, and he couldn't help but say it.

Seeing the boss secretive, Xu Ran knew that the place where the road led must be extremely dangerous, and he pricked up his ears to listen to the boss's chatter.

"Young man, I'll tell you, you can just listen to the story, don't go to that place by all means."

Xu Ran suddenly frowned and asked, "What's wrong?" That place can't go. ”

When the boss saw someone next to him, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "It's not that you can't go, but ordinary people can't go." ”

This made Xu Ran curious, where can ordinary people not go, is it because the Heavenly Palace is not successful?

Xu Ran was thinking about it when he heard the boss continue to speak.

"I don't know if you haven't heard of it, little brother, Gu"

Xu Ran nodded, as a citizen of Huaxia, how could he not have heard of the origin of "Gu", this is not only in history, but even in current novels and movies, the plot of "Gu" often appears.

Seeing Xu Ran nodding, the boss suddenly swallowed his saliva and said mysteriously: "That is Miaojiang's stronghold." ”

"What! You mean that there is a road to reach the area of Miaojiang. The boss saw Xu Ran's face shocked, so he told a story about Miao Jiang.

As soon as the boss was halfway through speaking, he was gestured by Xu Ran with his palm.

"Wait! Are you sure you're not talking about myths. Xu Ran was puzzled, the story the boss told just now was very similar to what happened on the altar when he was a child.

"Little brother, you can believe it or not, but you can't deny its existence." The boss saw that Xu Ran was questioning, so he was a little unhappy.

Xu Ran also knew that he was indeed a little excited just now, so he laughed with him, lowered his voice and said, "Is there really someone Gu?" ”

The boss nodded solemnly: "It's true, a few years ago, I also saw a strange person who couldn't be killed with a gun, I guess it was the human Gu described in Miao Jiangli." ”

Xu Ran nodded thoughtfully, he has seen a lot of people who can't be killed with a gun, but he just doesn't know if it's the human Gu that the boss said.

"And then?"

"What?" The boss asked.

"I mean, what happened to the weirdo who couldn't be shot with a gun."

Only then did the boss know that Xu Ran was talking about the weirdo, not the previous story.

"Later." The boss tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Later, that strange man was captured by a group of men in black." At this, the boss suddenly paused, as if he had forgotten something important.

Suddenly, he slapped the table, the sound was very loud, startling the guests on the table, Xu Ran ate casually and pretended not to know anything, but then he swallowed a bite of food, and saw that the boss had realized his gaffe, so he coughed a few times and motioned for the boss to continue.

The boss smiled at the guests on the side, and then faced Xu Ran.

At this moment, Xu Ran saw suspicion in the boss's eyes, and he couldn't figure out what it meant.

"What's wrong? That group of men in black is powerful? ”

The boss nodded, and suddenly smiled: "Little brother is so powerful, you can guess it all!" ”

Xu Ran suddenly twitched the corner of his eye, and he wanted to give him a kick.

The boss seemed to signal that his ass was slapped on the buttocks, so he sorted out his smile and said righteously: "According to the men in black at the time, they were sent by the state, and they were responsible for arresting this stranger." ”

Xu Ran nodded thoughtfully, he had never heard of such a special army in the country, maybe those words were just the excuses of the man in black, the real purpose was to hide people's eyes, it was very possible.

Xu Ran suddenly raised his head and looked directly at the boss, as if his gaze was too sharp, and even a sleek person like the boss didn't dare to look directly.

Xu Ran stood up and broke the atmosphere that had been brewing just now.

"Boss checkout."

As if thinking that he had heard about it, the boss subconsciously glanced at Xu Ran, but then he heard Xu Ran say:

"I'll pack the rest."

Suddenly he had nothing more to say.

After paying the money and taking the meal that he hadn't eaten a few bites, Xu Ran finally returned to the hotel.