In a very ordinary office building in Yanjing City, a middle-aged man in a black suit is sitting at his desk writing something. At this time, a teenager walked in very anxiously and said, "Boss." Mr.'s phone. ”

The middle-aged man looked at the black honest telephone in front of him that had not been used for a long time in surprise, picked up the phone with a worried look and said, "Hello, sir." Can I help you? ”

The voice of a middle-aged man on the other end of the phone was the same: "He wants to enter Beidou Mountain." I need you to bring someone to meet him personally. ”

"Understood."

In a courtyard house in Yanjing City, four men are anxiously waiting for something? After a while, a middle-aged woman walked in and said, "The last piece of talisman jade is about to appear." Prepare for the Valley of Ghosts soon. The four men looked excited, stood up and left.

When they were about to go out, the middle-aged woman said again: "Everyone will send someone to inquire about Bai Yumei's news when they go back." ”

"Yes!"

Liangxi City, Yumantang.

Jin Wanli looked at the five magic runes and jade on the table and never had a clue, he guessed that it might really take six pieces to see the clue, he sat on the chair and sighed: "It's a pity." Yan Feitian died in the Ghost Valley. ”

At this time, Jin Heshui hurriedly walked into Jin Wanli's room and said, "Master! The young lady went to Lingtai Mountain. ”

Jin Wanli smiled slightly and said, "Let her go!" Her men are all masters, and they will be fine. ”

"But. Hokuto Mountain is not like the tombs of the past. Shall we send some people to meet them? Jin Heshui said.

Jin Wanli didn't seem to hear what Jin Heshui said, but asked rhetorically: "Heshui." Who do you say will help Shen Yifan pay the 3.6 billion fee? ”

Jin Heshui was a little dumbfounded by this question, thought for a while and said, "Could it be someone from the Eight Gates?" ”

"Possibly." Jin Wanli stood up and paced back and forth in the room and said, "If that's the case, what will the eight doors do?" ”

Jin Heshui said: "The question is why does this Shen Yifan Bamen want to help him? Could it be that Mr. sent to test our Jin family? ”

Jin Wanli immediately denied it and said, "It can't be Mr.'s person." There is no need for Sir, to tempt us. We have been working with Mr. for so long, and Mr. has always trusted our Jin family very much. ”

"If it weren't for Mr. Who else. The cold family? Jin Heshui said.

Jin Wanli also shook his head and said, "This is not the style of the Leng family. Back then, Leng Feifei's status in the Leng family was so important, and no Leng family came out to help when he lit the overlord lamp. I don't think it's a cold family. ”

Jin Heshui thought for a long time and seemed to have an idea, but he was not very sure and said: "Could the person who helped Shen Yifan be the person from the Thirteenth Taibao?" ”

Jin Wanli thought, "It's possible. Neither the Leng family nor Mr. is it, nor can it be the Five Elements family. The person who has such a power and can come up with 3.6 billion at once is estimated to be the old courtier. ”

Jin Heshui said: "That is, the old courtier can use so much money at once. Another possibility is the Dong brothers. ”

"No!" Jin Wanli seemed to think of something and said: "There is no need for the Dong brothers to go around such a big circle, he can directly tell me their intentions." I think it's the old courtiers, do they also peek into the wealth in the Ghost Valley? ”

Jin Heshui said: "I think Shen Yifan has value for them. ”

"What is worth three hundred and sixty billion?" Jin Wanli was a little puzzled and said to himself: "Could it be that the legend is true?" ”

Gusu City, Tiger Hill North Garden.

It is a very chic municipal-level guest house, full of Jiangnan flavor garden hotel. An old man with white hair was sitting leisurely in the courtyard reading the newspaper, with a large glass in front of him, which was thickly brewed with tea.

At this time, a young man walked over and bowed his head and whispered a few words in the old man's ear, and the old man nodded and said, "I know." Let them know that it was one of our scientific expeditions. Don't block. ”

"I see." After the young man left, the old man continued to read the newspaper, and after a while, he seemed to think of something, took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone and said, "Is there any news from Bai Yumei?" ”

"Nope. I checked that Xia Ying of the Mystery Snow Company in Liangxi City may have something to do with Bai Yumei. But she's missing now. ”

"Wanted."

"Understood."

The old man thought about it again, dialed a phone again, and this time his tone softened a lot and said, "He has entered the Big Dipper." What do I need to do? ”

The other end of the line said, "No. ”

"Okay."

"You can help me check the scientific research files of Cloud Town 15 years ago. I want to know about that Mei Yinghua. ”

"Understood."

Hokudou Mountain. The Beidou Mountain we know is in Songxi Town, Nanfu Province, a seven-peak arrangement, similar to the Big Dipper, so it is called Beidou Mountain, where has been developed into a tourist holy place in the local area, here we call it "Little Beidou", and Shen Yifan and others want to enter the Beidou Mountain, as early as the pre-Qin period is very famous, because there are seven significant peaks located in a similar position to the Star Beidou, so it is called Beidou Mountain, we call it the Big Beidou here.

The Great Beidou has been a place for Taoist cultivation of immortals in the past dynasties, rich in medicinal materials, but there are many fierce beasts during the period, so few people enter. In the Tang Dynasty, it was used by the King of Fujian at that time, and legend has it that he built a huge underground palace in the Great Beidou as his mausoleum, and put all the wealth of Fujian into the underground palace at that time. With such a big wealth, naturally some people peeped into the early years of the Republic of China, a warlord in Nanfu took a fancy to this place, and dispatched nearly 20,000 troops to open the mountain to dig graves, but no one from the 20,000 troops came out of the Great Beidou Mountain alive, so far the Great Beidou Mountain has become a forbidden place in the local area. The same is true for the Murong family, thirty years ago, the Murong family peeked at the wealth of the Great Beidou Mountain, and almost poured out, but no one could return it, and all of them were folded in the Great Beidou Mountain. Therefore, the Great Beidou has become a Jedi in the mouth of the inverted bucket line.

Several jeeps of Shen Yifan and the others bumped on the mountain road for a day, and finally arrived at the foot of Lingtai Mountain in their camp. Shen Yifan looked at the more than ten tents in front of him and sighed and said, "You guys are really bold." ”

Jin Zhuyu said disapprerovingly: "We have an approval." It is a regular scientific research work. ”

In front of Shen Yifan was a camp composed of more than ten tents, and at this time, the camp was full of people at dinner time, and it seemed that there were more than 100 people at a cursory glance, and what was even more exaggerated was that these people were carrying all kinds of firearms.

"Do you need a gun for a scientific expedition?" Shen Yifan said.

Jin Jianyu smiled: "Don't worry, it's just a gun for self-defense." ”

At this time, Kahler handed Shen Yifan a pistol, which looked no different from the real gun, Shen Yifan skillfully loaded the gun and then withdrew a bullet, and found that the bullet was somewhat different from the real bullet. The warhead of this bullet is plum-shaped, and there is a sunken hole in the middle, and Shen Yifan is a little puzzled when he sees it.

At this time, Jin Jiyu said: "This nod is to push the water beads placed in the groove. ”

Shen Yifan took a closer look, and sure enough, there was a white round water bead in the groove. It looked a little funny: "Can this be powerful?" ”

"It's a poisoned ice water bomb," Kahler said. No less powerful than a real bullet. Die at the touch of it. So seal it with a plum clasp. ”

Sanniu said on the side: "I have heard in the army before that some special forces abroad will use this kind of firearm, which is specially used for assassination. ”

When Shen Yifan heard this, he thought it was a good thing and wanted to take it with him, so he saw Kahler reach out and take it back into the holster on his thigh, and said, "Your equipment is in the camp." ”

Only then did Shen Yifan find that Jin Zhuyu and the others were wearing combat vests and carrying combat equipment, and at first glance they felt like a few mercenaries, so he sighed and entered the camp with them.

Jin Jianyu introduced as he walked: "There are infrared alarms around this camp. In the event of an intrusion by outsiders, the police will be called immediately. We have checkpoints here and the camp is very safe. As he spoke, he pointed to the tent on the left: "Communication is here, our communication support center for this operation." In front is the medical center and equipment depot. On the right-hand side is the dormitory tent. After speaking, he said, "Am I arranging a tent for you and Wan'er or a tent for your brothers?" It was obvious that there was an element of ridicule in this sentence, and a wicked smile appeared on Jin Jianyu's face.

Shen Yifan looked at it and said, "I have a tent with Fang Zi." ”

Later, after having dinner, everyone went back to the tent to rest, Murong Wan'er and Jin Zhuyu; Ah Bing lives in a tent, and nothing special happens overnight.

The next morning, after breakfast, everyone discussed the following plan of action in the tent of Jin Zhuyu, in addition to Shen Yifan, Jin Zhuyu and Murong Wan'er, there was also a tall and burly man. Jin Jianyu introduced that Jack was the captain of the advance team, and there was also a captain named Robin who was the captain of the support team, because he did not accompany him into the Great Big Dipper Mountain, so he did not attend this meeting and was busy entering the mountain outside.

Jack looked at it, the military was straight, and he spoke very crisply, and before everyone could speak, he was the first to say: "The Flying Eagle Squad of our advance team and the Bobcat team of the support team have gone 2 kilometers into the jungle in front of us, where to set up a wireless receiving device. As he spoke, he pointed to a place on the map.

Shen Yifan looked at it and asked, "How far is it from Jumagou here?" ”

Jack thought for a moment and said, "It's about four hours." ”

Murong Wan'er asked on the side, "What do you think?" ”

Shen Yifan looked at the map and said, "Let's go to the periphery of Juemagou today. Where to set up a support camp, and then enter the Jema ditch. ”

Jack said: "We have used the unmanned aircraft team to reconnoitre, and the communications camp we set up was a primeval jungle in the past, and it was a jungle from the sky, so the Flying Eagle Squad and the Lynx Squad did not go any further. ”

At this moment, it seemed that the pot was fried outside the tent, and after a while, a member of the team ran in and said, "The drone team seems to have found something, you better take a look." As soon as everyone heard this, they hurriedly walked out of the tent and saw a team member operating the drone pilot, and there was a monitor next to the door that transmitted the image transmitted by the drone when it came to the door.

Jack asked, "What did you find?" ”

The player next to the monitor said, "I don't know. Now there's no more time for a few seconds. Here's the footage. As he spoke, he opened the playback for everyone to see.

Shen Yifan looked at a thermal image and found that there was a huge amount of thermal energy moving quickly but quickly disappearing. The expert said, "What is an unknown creature?" ”

Shen Yifan shook his head and said: "There are only two possibilities for such a huge thermal energy image to be fast, one is the gathering of a large number of organisms, or it is magma. However, the color of the heat energy is not like magma, that is, a large number of organisms gather. After thinking about it again, he said, "Where is the place where the heat energy was found?" ”

The team member replied: "There is still a kilometer away from Jumagou. ”

"There is another possibility that this will happen," the expert said. ”

Everyone's eyes looked at him, and the expert said, "Hot springs." The underground hot spring suddenly appeared on the surface and went underground a few seconds later. ”

Shen Yifan nodded on the side and said, "There is already a hot spring here. The statement of the expert is the most logical. ”

The expert said to the team member who was operating the drone, "Can you zoom in on the image just now?" ”

"Yes"

On the display, a huge thermal image appeared, and as the picture slowly zoomed in, it was an extremely deep canyon crack.

Murong Wan'er said: "That's Juema Gou. ”

Shen Yifan looked at it and pointed to the screen and said, "The place where the heat energy disappears is enlarged." ”

Another spot appeared on the screen, a small hill connected to each other, and it didn't look like anything special. Shen Yifan thought for a while and said, "I think what the expert said is right. There should be underground hot springs in this place. He pointed to the small hill and said, "This kind of hill is the uplift of the earth's surface caused by the rise of a large amount of water vapor caused by the confluence of cold and hot water into the ground. There should be a natural hot spring pool underneath each of these small hills. The thermal energy we see is supposed to be the result of a large amount of water vapor rising. ”

Jin Zhuyu said: "According to your statement, there should be an underground hot spring belt between the hill and the Juma Valley?" ”

Shen Yifan thought for a long time and said, "We may need gas masks. ”

"Gas masks?" The gold inlaid jade was a little puzzled.

Shen Yifan said: "This Juema ditch was named by the locals. If so, Jekuma may have something to do with hot springs. ”

"You mean that there may be excessive sulfur or toxic gases in the hot springs, so there will be no living creatures?" ”

"Possibly." Shen Yifan nodded and said.

Then Shen Yifan said something he had heard of, he didn't remember who he heard it said, but he remembered it very clearly. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a great turmoil in the world, and there was a group of bandits in the middle of the river, extremely fierce and cruel, every time a village was ransacked, the village chickens and dogs would be slaughtered, and later the imperial court spent a lot of twists and turns in order to exterminate this tributary of the bandits. Later, the leader of the rogues fled into a forest with the remnants of the rogues and never came out, some people say that the forest was a ghost forest, and there were no creatures in it because there was a miasma in the forest. It was not until now that science developed, and a geological exploration team explored the forest, only to discover that there was a hot spring under the forest, and the sulfur gas emitted by this hot spring was enough to kill.

Shen Yifan discussed with everyone and decided to go to those hills tomorrow to have a look and then make the next step, so there was nothing to say for a day, and everyone went to bed early.

Shen Yifan couldn't sleep, he was thinking, "What danger is there on the road ahead that can make all the masters of the Murong family die?" That danger should be far from being as simple as the miasma of brimstone. ”