At dawn, the doctor and I finally left the forest and arrived at a small nearby mountain village. Although it was the middle of winter, the mountain people had already developed the habit of getting up early, and green smoke rose from the roofs of many houses.

After asking a villager who was chopping pigweed in the yard, we learned that we had already moved hundreds of kilometers away from Chengdu, and our current location was in a small mountain village near Anyue.

When we heard the news, both the doctor and I were shocked and couldn't believe the fact.

I'm sure I was very awake before eleven o'clock last night, that is, we were moved after eleven o'clock, and the time we woke up was about three o'clock in the morning, so the time to move us was only four hours, and there must have been some discrepancies in these four hours, for example, I couldn't have fallen asleep at eleven o'clock, and I couldn't have just been moved into the forest and woke up immediately.

In this way, the time to move us is only about three hours at most, and in such a short time, and it is at night, it is almost impossible to send us to last night's position, you must know that we just walked out of the mountains and forests, and it took a full four hours.

The most incredible thing is that the luggage we prepared last night was also moved out together, the person who moved us, no, this can no longer be described by manpower, it should be said that the mysterious force that moved us, what is it for?

The mountaineer we asked for directions glanced at the two of us, and his gaze fell on the bulging backpack behind us, and he immediately looked wary, as if he was poaching us in the mountains.

At this time, we didn't bother to pay attention to his gaze, and after thanking him, we hurried out of the village.

Fortunately, we met a car into the city halfway through the road, which took us for a ride, and when we arrived at the county seat, it was already noon. During this period, Lin Qiaoer called back, and what was surprising was that she did not encounter the strange things we experienced, and she was still in Chengdu at this time and did not leave the rent.

Lin Qiaoer didn't know what happened to us, she woke up early this morning and found that the two of us had disappeared with our luggage, and thought that we had left her on the road alone, so she was so angry that she was just about to call and question, and found a missed call from the doctor last night.

On the phone, we explained to her the strange things that happened last night, but Lin Qiaoer didn't believe it at all, and thought that we were deliberately making excuses not to let her go with us and fool her.

In order to prove our innocence, we had to agree with her that everything would go according to the plan agreed upon, that her itinerary would remain the same, and that we would meet halfway through.

Fortunately, we are now at the station where the train will pass, and our seats are all reserved, so we only need to board the train at the local station.

There was still a period of time before the train arrived at the station, we found a place to eat something, calculated that the time was almost up, so we entered the station in advance and waited, until we got on the train and met Lin Qiaoer, and finally eliminated her misunderstanding of us.

After listening to my detailed account of last night's experience, Lin Qiaoer was also taken aback, she said that she didn't hear any movement last night, and the doors and windows in the house were intact, and there were no traces of damage, how could the people inside be lost inexplicably?

This is a puzzling unsolved case, but what is certain is that the other party is not seeking money, nor is it for murder, otherwise the doctor who was thrown hundreds of kilometers away and I would not be alive now.

However, what is the purpose of the other party's strange behavior?

The three of them thought about it for a long time, but this fact was too weird, it was really clueless, and there were many people in the car, so it was not appropriate to talk about it, so we stopped the topic for the time being.

According to the route planned last night, we need to sit all the way to Nanning, then turn to Fangcheng District, and finally transfer to cars and other means of transportation to the destination of this trip.

It's a long journey, but the train has to sit for more than ten hours, and by the time I get to the station, I can't feel my buttocks.

It was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, and it was impossible to continue on the road, so we found a hotel to stay, and early the next morning, we boarded the bus to the final destination of the trip.

In the impression of many people, the so-called 100,000 mountains refer to a particularly desolate primeval forest full of mountains in Guangxi, but this is not the case.

The so-called 100,000 mountains, it is actually a very wide geographical concept, which is located in the west of Guangxi, belongs to the southwest of Guangxi Mountains, from Guitai Town, Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the east, to the border between China and Vietnam in the west, distributed in Qinzhou, Fangcheng, Shangsi and Ningming and other places, the geographical span is very wide.

From a theoretical point of view, at this point, it is actually within the range of 100,000 mountains.

The long-distance bus runs on the highway between the mountains, lined with lush primeval mountain forests, and even after the late autumn has just been experienced, it still shows a scene full of vitality.

The speed of the bus is very fast, between the speeds, the green peaks and ridges that continue to sweep backwards give people a sense of fascination, but the long-term color in front of them also makes people can't help but rise a kind of illusion that 100,000 mountains are the same, which is the origin of "I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain".

For people who have lived in the metropolis and the great plains for a long time, these strange mountains and rivers are undoubtedly breathtaking, magnificent, and unforgettable, but for me, who grew up in the plateau and mountains since I was a child, these really can't arouse my interest.

Looking at it, I slowly fell asleep, and before I knew it, I fell asleep against the car window.

When I woke up, the bus had arrived, but that didn't mean we had arrived at our destination, and after getting off the bus, it was time to change to a steamboat.

In fact, we can continue to take the bus to take the dry road, so it only takes two hours to reach the next station, but what hurts people is that the wooden sword apocalypse that can pass the bullet train security check can not live or die after arriving at the station here, so we have to not let it go, no way, and then we can only choose the waterway.

More than ten hours of trains, a morning bus, to be honest, my ass is already a little unbearable, and changing to a steamboat is also a way to adjust, that is, I have to take a big detour, which is a bit time-consuming.

Compared with bullet trains and buses, steamboats are much freer, less restrictive, and places with water are always pleasant, and the mood is much better.

It was too stuffy for us to stay in the cabin, so we snuck to the side of the boat and watched the scenery passing quickly on both sides of the river through the guardrail.

The river beneath my feet was so deep that there was no bottom in sight, it flowed very slowly, and it was wide enough to accommodate about three passenger ships at the same time, and I didn't know much about the geography of this area, nor did I know the name of the river, nor the system from which it came.

The three of them looked at the rippling water under their feet, each with their own thoughts.

I don't know what the doctor and Lin Qiao'er were thinking, but looking at the depth under my feet, I couldn't help but think of the quiet demon lake that appeared in the nightmare many times.

What kind of place is the ethereal mist that can't be dissolved, the cold black lake that is dark and deep and bottomless, the black peaks that loom around it, and the creepy unknown hidden in the mist?

The land of dreams, which has been entangled for more than ten years, is getting closer and closer to the moment when its mystery will be revealed.

Just when I was thinking about things in my mind and my thoughts didn't know where I had flown to, Lin Qiaoer, who had been watching the splash with her chin on her head, suddenly asked a question to herself:

"Eh, Xiaoyi, doctor, what do you say, what will this underwater scene look like? Will there be a world like us, and people like us? ”

Lin Qiao'er's unprovoked question made both of us stunned, and we seemed to be particularly interested in Lin Qiao'er's childish question, and the doctor chuckled and asked, "Why do you suddenly ask that?" ”

Lin Qiao'er pulled a few strands of hair scattered from the corners of her forehead, and smiled sweetly at us with some embarrassment: "Hehe, I just look at the deep water under the water, I can't see anything, it's full of unknowns, and I suddenly thought of these questions in my mind, don't laugh at me." ”

I also laughed, thinking of a very touching island anime I watched before, which described the scene of people living in the sea, not to mention people like us, even if it is a fire and cooking.

"Sister Qiao'er, have you watched too many anime recently, the underwater world, that is the bridge in the anime, this is reality, there is no Prince Charming in the water, there are no colorful auspicious clouds, there are only fish in the water, many, many fish."

Lin Qiao'er glared at me fiercely, as if blaming me for breaking the beautiful fantasy in her mind, and as soon as she reached out and twisted my ear, I suddenly gasped in pain and begged for mercy again and again.

The doctor looked at it and smiled, and did not come to help me, but seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "Don't you say, when I was a child, I saw a record of the mermaid in an ancient book, it is rumored that it lives in the water, and the person is the same, can live out of the water in a short time, its voice is charming, like a dream, seductive, often haunted in the East China Sea, in the pre-Qin period was used as a candle material, often fishermen hunted, killed to boil lamp oil, made into a long lamp, combustible for thousands of years. ”

I have also heard the legend that the doctor said, the legend of the emperor's mausoleum before the Tang Dynasty mostly has everlasting lamps, mermaid candles, thousands of years of inextinguishable, eternal shine, but after all, this is a legend, and there is no basis, I don't believe that there is really a world that can burn thousands of years of oil, if there is, I am afraid this will be the largest new energy discovery in the 21st century.

When Lin Qiao'er heard the doctor talk about the mermaid, her eyes were full of little stars and yearning, but when she heard that the ancients used mermaids to boil lamp oil, she suddenly showed a look of grief and indignation: "Oh my God, it's so cruel, how can those people be so cruel, after all, it's a life that looks exactly like us!" ”

The doctor shook his head and sighed: "In the era when there is no electricity, a constant light source is very precious, it is easy for normal people to do, you can light a candle, and you can continue it if it is extinguished, but for the deceased emperors who enter the mausoleum, what they need is a long-lasting illumination, and the importance of mermaid candles can be seen. ”

"In addition, there is a special substance in the breath produced by the burning of mermaid candles, which can kill many fine microorganisms and protect the mausoleum, with these two items, there is enough reason to hunt mermaids."

Lin Qiao'er still had a sad and sympathetic face, and I comforted: "These are just legends, the mermaid is illusory, and it can't be true!" ”

Just as my words fell, a retort with some dialect accents came out: "Which one said, we are a merman!" ”