The hotel that Xiao Mao contacted made me feel dizzy, not to mention whether it was dirty or not, through the wooden fence, I saw that there were several crumbling small dilapidated houses inside, and I had to be prepared to sleep until midnight if I would be buried alive.

"Can there be people here?"

"There's no way." Xiao Mao explained to us that as soon as he arrived here, he quickly contacted the hotel, but there were very few hotels, and they were all rebuilt from the same kind of houses, and they were already full of people. I really couldn't find this dilapidated hotel: "Everyone, let's just stay for one night, make do, it doesn't matter." ”

"The key is that you can't get off your feet, how to make do."

"How do you say that?" Xiao Mao grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "This is not Wuzhen or Hainan Island, to put it mildly, I have a house to live in now, and in a few days, I will sleep in the open air." ”

I don't want to worry about this, Xiaomao is actually right, we came out to do business, not to enjoy. So a few people pushed open the fence gate and walked in.

Xiao Mao shouted at the door, the kitchen door opened, it is estimated that the chimney on the roof did not work, as soon as the kitchen door opened, a stream of firewood burning smoke rolled out, in the smoke, an old man coughed, rubbed his eyes.

The owner of the store is also a Han Chinese, surnamed Shi, about sixty years old, his hotel location is biased, and the conditions are too poor, so if the outsiders who come here have a little way, they will not live in Lao Shi's shop. Lao Shi is very tranquil, never forced, greeting guests when there are guests, and busy with their own work if there are no guests. Xiao Mao asked Lao Shi if the house had been cleaned, Lao Shi didn't speak, nodded, took out a few keys, and took us into the room.

"Lao Shi is a mute." Xiao Mao whispered next to me, "I can't speak." ”

There were only five or six rooms, and Lao Shi gave us the key and told us to open the door by ourselves. Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten have a room, Lao Wang likes to be quiet, and wants to sleep in a room by himself, but I stopped him. Our two actions, there were accidents, although in the end Lao Wang and they all "came back to life", but I really don't want to have any more trouble, so be careful if you can, it's better not to separate.

"There are only two beds in one room, how can three people sleep?" Lao Wang walked over helplessly, a little dissatisfied.

"I'll lay on the floor, and you two will sleep on the bed." I took the key given by Lao Shi to open the door, and the door was still a very old-fashioned open lock, and the keyhole seemed to be embroidered, and it took a lot of effort to open it.

Squeak......

When the small broken door of the house was pushed open, there was a very palpitating sound, like a fierce haunted house in the park.

As soon as the door was pushed open, I saw two cobwebs, and several flying insects flew out of my face, I quickly waved my hand to drive the insects away, and when my arm touched the door frame, I felt that the whole hut was shaking gently.

"Is this an inn, or is this a Pansi Cave." A piece of dust fell on Lao Wang's head, and while patting it, he muttered at the old stone behind him: "Can you live in someone, I'll say it first, if this house really collapses, don't lie to us." ”

"Come in, come in." Xiao Mao hurriedly played a round: "The boss is not that kind of person." ”

We went into the house, put our luggage away, and cleaned up the two creaky beds. Living in this kind of place, there is nothing to pick, just like Xiao Mao said, cheap, just make up for one night.

I made a bunk between the two beds, and Xiao Mao spread out a map and discussed the route with me. I've never been here, I'm blind when I look at the map, and I can't say anything constructive. Xiao Mao pointed to the map and pointed out a route to me, and he said that this route was relatively close, but motor vehicles could not pass.

"Have you ever been to the other side of the Poplar River?"

"I have definitely been there, but not exclusively, passing by." Xiao Mao said: "It happened two or three years ago, but don't worry, I will definitely not lead the wrong way." ”

I chatted with Xiaomao, mainly to understand the basic situation over there. The former road of the Huyang River is a no-man's land in the literal sense of the word, and once you get there, you have to rely on yourself for everything.

We chatted for a while, and Lao Shi knocked on the door outside, motioning for us to go to dinner. I have to say that the conditions here are poor, but Lao Shi is still very particular, the price of the hotel is cheap, and the food is managed.

The five of us ran out to eat, Lao Shi made three dishes, there was a pot of mutton stewed radish that I could barely recognize, and the other two dishes were so confused that I couldn't tell what they were. Seeing such a meal, I really had no appetite, so I ate a few bites in a hurry, and ran back to the house to get canned food and eat it secretly.

In such a place, there are no recreational activities to spend on, and you have to sleep as soon as it gets dark. But the time was too early, I couldn't sleep, Lao Wang called us to fight the landlord, originally to kill time, the game was very small, but Lao Wang lost dozens of dollars, and his face changed. Played until ten o'clock, and suffered another bomb and a spring, and did not settle the bill, and lost the cards and stopped playing.

Xiao Mao and I smiled, saw that the time was almost up, and got ready to sleep. I have already laid the floor, but Xiao Mao refused to let me sleep on the ground, I couldn't resist him, so I changed with him.

The night was quiet, it was the kind of silence, as if there was no sound at all. In this tranquility, people can also maintain a relatively good sleeping environment. But for so long, my biological clock has been unstable, and I slept relatively lightly, and after about an hour or two of sleep, I saw Xiao Mao get up from the floor in a daze.

"Are you going to wake up at night...... "I rolled over and looked at my watch, it was eleven fifty.

"No, I'm used to going to bed late, and I'm used to eating supper, and if I don't eat something at night, I feel uncomfortable." Xiao Mao sat on the floor bunk and put on his shoes, and whispered to me, "I'll go to the kitchen and get something to eat." ”

"Don't toss, there's canned food, let's make do with it."

"If you can save one canned food, there is nowhere to replenish supplies when you get there."

Xiao Mao gently pushed open the door and ran to the kitchen to find leftovers. I felt so sleepy that I fell asleep again after a while.

This time, I don't know how long I slept, I was woken up by the creak of the door, and I didn't open my eyes to know that it must be Xiaomao coming back, so I didn't care.

But then I heard someone flipping the backpack in the corner of the house. There are actually nothing valuable in the backpack, they are all some necessary equipment that we have prepared in advance, but it is not normal to rummage in the backpack in the middle of the night.

I turned my head slightly, and there was no light in the room, but the moonlight shone through the small door, and I could still see some movement dimly. I saw that it was Xiao Mao flipping through the backpack.

The backpack was opened, and Xiao Mao didn't know what to look for in it. I was completely awake and stared at him silently.

Because Xiao Mao was contacted by Zhang Momo in advance, the other party said that he was very reliable, so I subconsciously felt that he was reliable and very friendly to him. But I didn't expect that this thing has a habit of stealing chickens and touching dogs. If there is really such a problem, then I think the matter of letting him lead the way needs to be reconsidered. We need to act in a safe way, and carelessness and poor quality of personnel can have serious consequences.

I watched for two or three minutes, and Xiao Mao turned over a piece of rope from his backpack. Because we have suffered losses on the rope when we went to Danmeng twice before, this time no matter what the situation is on the side of the wheel, the rope is very well prepared, and a few spare ropes of different lengths are prepared in case of emergency. What Xiao Mao turned out was a ten-meter rope.

Xiao Mao took the rope, turned around and walked outside. His actions completely confused me, and I secretly rummaged through my backpack in the middle of the night just to turn over a piece of rope?

In this case, I'm sure I'll have to take a look.

But I didn't get out of bed right away, for fear of alarming Xiaomao, so I just looked at him for the time being, and waited for him to go out and walk a little farther. However, when I saw Xiao Mao turn around and walk out, I felt indescribably strange.

The way he walks now makes people feel very awkward, and there is a faint unspeakable weirdness. Since I saw Xiao Mao during the day today, I have also secretly observed that there is nothing wrong with this person, and his body is quite healthy. But at this moment, Xiao Mao stood on tiptoe, just like a ballet, and stepped out of the hut crookedly.

What the hell is this guy doing?

I felt that something was wrong, so I quietly climbed out of bed and called Lao Wang. Lao Wang is estimated to be dreaming of fighting the landlord, where he is talking in a dream with three bombs, and I quickly woke him up.

"It's dawn?" Lao Wang wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and looked out of the window in a daze.

I whispered to Lao Wang what I had just seen, and Lao Wang looked back, through the open door of the house, and with the help of the reflection of the moonlight, I could see that Xiao Mao was still in a ballet posture and was slowly walking towards the wooden fence gate.

Lao Wang and I immediately came to the door of the hut, Xiao Mao walked alone, never looked back, and when he was about to reach the wooden fence, the two of us crawled out of the hut with cats on our waists.

"Don't alarm him, don't let him find out." I whispered to Lao Wang: "Let's see what he wants to do." ”

"The guide introduced by the Momoto people should be fine." Lao Wang muttered, he was infatuated with Zhang Momo, loved the house and Wu, and felt that everything that Zhang Momo got was good.

"Are you blind? Can't you see him walking? ”

While I was talking to Lao Wang, Xiao Mao had already walked to the fence gate. I think the old stone is very bad, and the fence gate is crooked, like nothing. Xiao Mao squeezed out of a gap in the fence gate, and then continued to walk towards the west.

The two of us trotted all the way to the fence gate in one go, and under the moonlight, Xiao Mao still kept moving along the potholed road to the west.

"That's not right." Lao Wang finally came back to his senses, frowned and said to me, "Don't you think, he seems to be ...... Seems to be following something? ”

When Lao Wang told me this, I leaned forward again, completely walked out of the fence gate, and at a glance, I suddenly found that about five or six meters in front of Xiao Mao, there was a small shadow that kept wriggling on the ground.

The shadow was not big, too far away to be seen clearly. But this shadow immediately confirmed Lao Wang's words, Xiao Mao was obviously following this little shadow.