When I woke up from my dream, I suddenly remembered the express I got back from the newspaper, and my heart was suddenly shocked.

"Yes, there is indeed a problem here, if you calculate according to time, this so-called third letter should be the second one, and the express we received before is the real third letter."

The doctor and I glanced at each other, nodded solemnly, Lin Qiao'er didn't know why, and asked with a confused face: "What is the third letter is the second letter, and the second letter is the third letter, what are you talking about?" It's all confusing me. ”

I took a deep breath and explained to her: "The letter we see now was sent on the day we went to Luogang, but the real delivery time of him was more than half a month ago, that is to say, this letter was actually delivered a month ago, but I don't know why it was delayed, so that we only received it today." Although the express mail we received before going to Luogang was earlier than this letter, it was delivered after this letter, so the express we received before should be the third letter sent by Zhang Lingjin. ”

After listening to my explanation, Lin Qiao'er suddenly realized and patted her head: "Yes, but how can this be?" It's strange that all the letters sent later have arrived, but the letters sent first have not yet been sent. ”

I also frowned, indeed, this is the crux of the problem, when the package was opened, Lin Qiaoer and the doctor were present, the time on the express delivery list was very clear, and the time when the express was sent was exactly the time when Luo Yi and I left Chengdu for the ancient town of Xiangnan.

At that point in time, the warning letter had indeed already been delivered.

The doctor pondered for a moment, and suddenly seemed to think of something, picked up the letter on the table, and after reading it carefully, his face suddenly showed a look of enlightenment.

Looking at his expression, I knew that this guy must have figured out something, and hurriedly asked, "How is it, did you find anything?" ”

The doctor smiled faintly, handed me the letter, and said something that puzzled me: "We just overlooked a problem, you take a closer look at the contents of this letter." ”

I took the letter, looked at him suspiciously, and read it again word by word, but I still didn't find anything, and I was a little anxious, so I asked him not to sell it, and to say it quickly.

Lin Qiao'er also urged on the side, and the doctor spread his hands helplessly, pointing out a word mentioned in the letter with his hand, and said: "This is the key." ”

I saw that the word pointed out by the doctor was clearly the destination of our trip, and it was also the purpose of the Heavenly Witch Sect: Guazhou Toast, the "lake" of the ultimate place.

The word "lake" woke me up in an instant, and I immediately understood what the doctor meant.

Lin Qiao'er still didn't seem to be able to figure it out, seeing that I also showed a clear expression, she couldn't help pursing her lips, and complained a little unhappily: "How can you two big men be like this, mother-in-law and mother-in-law, what is it, can you say it happily?" ”

After saying that, she glared at the two of us angrily, looking unhappy.

The doctor and I looked at each other, and we both smiled wryly, and the doctor explained to her, "Okay, okay, don't be angry, do you remember what the reporter said when he opened the envelope last time?" ”

"Words? He said so many things at the time, how do people know what you mean? Lin Qiao'er rolled her eyes and said.

The doctor looked helpless, but he had no choice but to continue: "The picture in the last letter, the reporter said that it was very similar to the strange lake in his nightmare, and then compared with the relationship between the two letters and the lake that the Heavenly Witch Sect mentioned in the second letter will go, it is not difficult for us to find out the purpose of Zhang Lingjin sending these letters. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Qiao'er also seemed to understand a little, covered her mouth and exclaimed: "Ah, could it be, the strange picture before is the picture of the lake we are about to go to, right?" ”

The doctor nodded solemnly and continued: "We don't know how Zhang Lingjin learned about the Heavenly Witch Sect's plan, but one thing is for sure, after she got the Heavenly Witch Sect's plan to target reporters, she immediately issued a warning letter, but for unknown reasons, this warning letter was delayed for more than half a month, and at this time, the Heavenly Witch Sect's plan had already been implemented. ”

"In this whole matter, the target of the Heavenly Witch Sect has always been a reporter, but due to Luo Yi's interference, their original plan has deviated, and by mistake, the reporter's father has become their second target."

After all this happened, Zhang Lingjin should have gotten the news as soon as possible, knowing that his warning letter did not work. Of course, perhaps she didn't know that her warning letter didn't reach the reporter in time. At the time of the incident, although it was only the reporter's uncle who was tricked, I judged that Zhang Lingjin had anticipated the subsequent development of the matter, so she immediately sent the third letter. ”

I took the doctor's words and said, "Because in the second letter, Zhang Lingjin has already written down the way I should deal with it if an accident happens, so there is no extra text in the third letter, but only the picture, and the map should be a map." ”

The doctor nodded, looked at the letter on the table, and sighed with a strange expression: "What a powerful woman, she has never shown up, but she seems to know your situation well, and even the plans of the Heavenly Witch Sect are completely under her control, what is the purpose of this mysterious woman?" ”

I also took a deep breath and thought of a question.

"If things are really as we suspected, the things sent by Zhang Lingjin have their own meaning, the warning letter is to remind me and convey the response plan at the same time, and the map is to help me, then, what is the purpose of that strange box of dirt?"

The doctor also frowned, this is a question that there is no way to figure out, unless Zhang Lingjin appears in front of us and asks her directly.

The beginning and end of everything are kind of vague outlines, and although I don't know the details yet, I don't get left in the dark.

On this trip, we have only one purpose, that is, to go to Toast Tai and find a way to save my father and uncle, as for Zhang Lingjin's letter to stop the Heavenly Witch Sect, I think I don't have that ability, just rely on the three of us, it is already good to be able to save my father and uncle.

Everything was ready, and the time was not early, and since I needed to rush the next day, the doctor went straight to my house.

When I went to bed at night, my mind was full of the contents of Zhang Lingjin's letter, what was the plan of the Heavenly Witch Cult to target me? And the strange map that the doctor and I have studied for a long time and have not been able to see the slightest name, is it really a map as we thought?

The demon lake has appeared countless times in the nightmare, and I have searched for a mysterious place that I have not found for many years, so will I be in the scene this time?

But it's not right, in the depths of Yeling, Sister Bailing also saw a lake, according to the description, that is the demon lake in my nightmare, and in the memory of the prehistoric god king, the demon lake does exist in the depths of Yeling, how did it run to Guangxi Toastai?

A series of questions accompanied by anxiety kept me awake for a long time, and I was full of anticipation for the journey that would begin tomorrow.

Slowly, I fell asleep and had a dream, not the nightmare of the demon lake that I was familiar with, but it was also a very strange nightmare.

I dreamed that I was trapped with the doctor and the Taoist priest in a cold, damp cave with no exit around the cave, only the dark ice water beneath the surrounding rock walls. Unable to find a way out, the three of them were already dying after being trapped for half a month, and suddenly the Taoist priest seemed to be a different person, turned over and raised his sword to kill the doctor, and began to gnaw at his body. In a panic, I tried to stop it but failed, and I saw the Taoist priest lying on the doctor's body slowly turn his head, his face was covered with blood, and he smiled at me, his hateful face was a little distorted, his face began to elongate and sharpen, forming a triangular shape, and finally turned into a huge snake face.

The snake's face had an ugly beard, and its cyan scale armor emitted a cold light, and the next moment it suddenly grew into a huge mouth and bit at me. I couldn't dodge, one arm was amputated, and in severe pain, I struggled and rolled into the dark pool, and my body was instantly enveloped in cold, and I lost consciousness in an instant.

The cold chill stimulated my body, and I woke up suddenly, already soaking wet.

It turned out to be just a nightmare, I breathed a long sigh of relief, my consciousness was still a little hazy, recalling the chilling scene in the dream just now, I always had an indescribable weird feeling in my heart, the picture was too real, so real that I wondered if it would be some kind of omen in the future.

Shaking my head and shaking off the terrible thought in my head, I wiped my face and woke myself up from my daze, but before I could fully recover, I was startled by the surroundings.

Below me were all dry deciduous branches, and it was pitch black, and the dappled moonlight slanted down through the dense clouds, and by the time it reached the ground, it had become extremely faint. By the faint light of the moon, I saw that there were trees all around, and I felt as if I had come to a mountain forest.

I was taken aback, hurriedly got up, looked around for a moment, and made sure that I was really in the forest, and I was completely confused.

Haven't you woken up from the dream just now? I'm still dreaming?

It was the first thought that came to my mind, but when I spotted another figure lying on the ground not far away, I immediately dismissed it.

From the way it was dressed, it seemed to be a doctor.

I hurriedly rushed forward, and after a closer look, it was really a doctor, and at this time, I didn't care what was going on, and shook the doctor awake.

The doctor woke up in a similar state to me, first in a daze, and then after I slapped him twice, he came to his senses.

"Where is this?"

This is the question that the doctor subconsciously asked after he woke up, but when he saw the wry smile on my face, he immediately noticed that something was wrong, Huo Ran stood up, and his brows were all wrinkled.

I remember that before going to bed last night, my coat was taken off, and now not only was I all dressed neatly, but even the duffel bags I had made last night were scattered aside, as if in my sleep, someone had moved the two of us out of the rental room with our luggage, but no matter how I recalled, I didn't remember it at all.

I'm, what's going on? What's going on?

The two of them picked up their luggage in confusion and looked around, but they didn't encounter any danger, but the environment they were in at this time was a little confusing, this place seemed to be a deep mountain far away from the city.

The strange situation makes people's backs run cold, and in the middle of the night, in the unknown deep mountains and old forests, I am a little panicked.

In contrast, the doctor was much calmer than me, and after sorting out the current situation, he rummaged through his body, touched his mobile phone, and found that there was a signal here, so he immediately called Lin Qiaoer.

Disappointingly, however, the phone went through, but no one answered on the other end.

This situation makes me a little worried, the three of us are together, but now the doctor and I mysteriously appeared in the mountains and forests, but there is no trace of Lin Qiao'er, and I don't know what happened to her.

Hung up the phone, the doctor's brows furrowed tighter, this thing is really weird, you can imagine, you honestly stay at home and sleep, and when you wake up, you find that you have been thrown in the barren mountains and mountains where birds don't, and it is the middle of the night, but you have no impression of all this, I believe that no matter who experiences this strange experience, you can't be calm.

It is possible to say that I was carried from my home to the mountains in my sleep without noticing, because when I was in a nightmare, my perception of the outside world was almost zero, but the doctor was different, and his keen perception was not much better than that of a Taoist priest.

The only possibility is that we have been drugged!

The doctor and I had this thought almost at the same time, and I shook my head again and again, how is this possible, how can this kind of martial arts happen to us, and who can drug us?

You must know that there are dozens of experts from the Special Incident Investigation Bureau arranged by the third uncle outside the rented house, just the kind old man Dao Ziqiu last night, his aura is stronger than that of a Taoist priest, he is definitely a powerful person, there is such a person, who can drug us?

The doctor also thought that it was impossible to give the drug, his tongue and sense of smell were extremely sensitive, and if someone took the drug while we were asleep, he would be awakened immediately.

But if it wasn't drugged, what would be all about it?

I couldn't think clearly, so we had to put down the doubts in our hearts for the time being. At this time, we were most worried about Lin Qiao'er, but after searching the vicinity, there was no trace at all, so we could only judge that she was not brought to this place with us.

The doctor tried to locate with a mobile phone, but failed, the black light blinded, we could only go to the high place of the mountain, after climbing a steep rock, the doctor saw the faint lights of the village under the mountain, so as to judge the direction, after the time, the two people went down the mountain in the dark, and finally left the mountain forest at dawn.