Faced with the deal and gifts offered by Malik, we finally agreed to go to the Hanging Gardens with him.

Chinese New Year's Eve tossed half a night and was tired and I put the guillotine and hands. The guns were placed in the inner rose, and Malik was tied to my bed with the hemp rope left over from the swing, and I slept awkwardly through the rest of the night.

February 16, the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Malik and I went to the orchard at the back of the village to collect fruit, Malik had never done this kind of work before, looking at the empty environment, he asked me curiously where the villagers had gone, I touched the guillotine on my back, and asked him if he wanted to bring the fruit back or take the villagers back, he didn't dare to be more picky.

Due to the limited manpower, we could not pick all the fruits, so we had to get the right amount back to the house, and even then it took more than an hour.

The cloth bag that Malik brought with the fruit was extraordinarily large, and the outside even made him paint the same black paint as the outer layer of the breastplate, which became extremely strong and flexible, and when Malik filled the cloth pocket with fruit outside the room, Rose also packed her and Xiaole Baijing's supplies in the room.

Rose handed over the suitcase that originally belonged to Malik to Bai Jing, which had been disguised as Xiaole's urine ring, and Rose said to me, "That Indian D man wouldn't be just a food manager, otherwise how would he let him trade this kind of thing." ”

I looked at the suitcase, which contained a remote control-sized object in addition to a titanium breastplate, which Malik said was capable of destroying Qingyang New District, but he had lost it.

"Well, his position is not low." I affirmed Rose's thoughts, and made sure that there was no control device in the breastplate in my hand before replacing myself, and said, "At least the level of access to this dangerous item is either that as the ruling class there, he has hidden his identity from us; Either he is an executive who has direct contact, in which case he may have stolen it without permission. ”

Knock knock, when I got dressed, Malik knocked on the door and walked in, and said, "We can go at any time, there will be no night crow harassment during the day, and it will be relatively beneficial to us." ”

"Night Raven? Is it a crow? ”

Malik nodded and replied: "It is a close relative, they are almost blind during the day, so they are mutated birds that hunt at night, they are very ferocious, and they can shuttle quickly in the mountains and forests. ”

"You know so many idioms, how do you speak or go out of tune?"

Malik smiled shyly, "Accept and concede." ”

"Didn't I praise you!"

After everything was ready, Rose and I brought weapons and soft clothes, Bai Jing held Xiaole, plus Malik carried a large cloth bag of vegetables and fruits, and the group of five people left the barren mountain store and went north into the wild road, starting the journey of Beihuang Mountain.

Before leaving, Rose bowed three times to the mountain village where Xiaole was born.

"Mr. Shi Xiaoqi," Malik called my pseudonym as he walked in front of the way, and asked, "Can't you really help me carry another bag of fruit?" It's really hard to go back to this little thing! ”

I covered my guillotine and my hands. gun, helplessly said: "I am a bodyguard." ”

Malik sighed, no longer stubborn, and walked forward honestly.

The sun shines through the dry canopy of the trees in mid-air and falls above and under our feet, and the breeze sweeps through our faces with the unique freshness of the mountain forest.

"Wow~~~~~~~~~~~~!"

I was startled by the sudden shrill cry overhead, and when I looked up and looked left and right, I saw a huge coloured bird flying over the canopy, its beautiful wings spreading even longer than that of an eagle or other bird of prey, and in an instant it disappeared from our view.

"Auntie!" Bai Jing couldn't help but exclaim excitedly: "It's a phoenix!" ”

Malik didn't dampen the child's enthusiasm, but whispered in front of me, "It's a parrot." ”

"Macaw, why does it look bigger than an eagle?"

"Well," Malik replied, as he was accustomed to, "many of the creatures in this mountain are bigger than the outside. ”

When he said this, I was reminded of the giant stone eggs in the canyon at the entrance to the mountain, and my hand was subconsciously on the handle of the gun.

After walking for a short while, Bai Jing suddenly pointed in one direction and shouted, "There are rabbits!" ”

The child wanted to run over but was held down by Rose before he could reach his legs, and I turned my head to look and found the rabbit that Bai Jing said was nesting on a big rock, which seemed to be different from the kind of creature I knew.

The rabbit was covered in dirty ash, and its fur seemed to be stained with some purple, and it was about the same size as an ordinary rabbit, but two extra-long fangs protruded from the side of its mouth, and it looked like it could bite a child like Bai Jing to death with one bite.

Then we met a guy bigger than a basketball, Malik said they called it the meat ball squirrel, this creature has a very strong aggressiveness, originally Malik brought the cat-faced monster to eat the meat ball squirrel, but now without the blessing of the cat-faced monster, we have to stay away from it.

However, Malik told us that in the future, we will not have to worry about this creature in the future, because the meat ball squirrel likes to eat the feces of a creature called the ghost mother lizard in the mountains, and the feces are poisonous, so these squirrels are about to wipe out their own poison.

Then there are the one-horned scorpion with the size of a basin, the hedgehog with a pair of large pincers like a piglet, and the tide bugs that are larger than the turtle.

Listening to Malik give us a brief introduction to these strange ecosystems, Rose and I have long since seen many strange things over the years.

Soon after entering the mountain, Rose took Xiaole back from Bai Jing's hand, but Bai Jing gradually changed from energetic to physically exhausted, and she almost couldn't move her calves all the way up the mountain.

At this time, Malik suddenly stopped leading the team, pointed to a slightly flat forest in front of us, and said: "There is a cave there, and my things were left there, Mr. Shi Xiaoqi, I beg you and me to retrieve my lost property." ”

I squinted and saw that there was indeed a hole in the mountain a little farther away, "Do you have to get it back?" ”

Malik nodded heavily, "The powerful force that can destroy the Qingyang New Area, if I let it be left there, I am afraid that my position will not be guaranteed after returning to the Hanging Garden, and then my promise to you will not be fulfilled, and I always hope to be able to fulfill my promises and promises." ”

"Okay, I'll take a look with you." I turned back to Rose and said, "You are waiting for us here with your baby." ”

Rose was just right to give Bai Jing, who was complaining a little bit of pain, and she only told me to 'go and come back quickly'.

Malik put down the fruit cloth bag and led me forward with only his fanny pack, and the closer I got to the entrance of the cave the more I felt that something was wrong, and a large area of trees outside the cave had all been violently damaged from their position next to the surface. The force is broken, naked. Rough stumps are exposed. There were also many signs of heavy objects rubbing against the ground, and the blood-stained crust and soft hairs with slime were scattered everywhere as far as the eye could see.

When I saw a few paw prints the size of a football on the ground, I couldn't help but whisper to Malik, "How did you lose that thing?" ”