I have my own plan in my heart, and the most urgent thing to do is to go to the top of Mount Mashan as soon as possible to confirm the authenticity of this ancient book and this legend. If Ma Shan is really the legendary evil mountain as recorded in the book, and the forbidden place suppresses the ghost sound of ten thousand faces, I don't know if there will be any clues about the Zhenling Talisman.

In the rest of the time, I discussed some ancient books with Lao Xiao, and we even had like-minded opinions on some ancient books, and became book friends, Lao Xiao He welcomed me as a guest at any time, and when Lao Xiao and I left the study, Lao Xiao suddenly picked up this ancient book: "Give it to you." ”

I couldn't believe it: "Old Xiao, you cherish it so much, why do you want to give it to me?" ”

"Maybe I think it's more suitable and safer to put it on you than me, you can read it, you must have a fate with it, but I also have conditions, your two friends are more capable than me, as long as they are willing to find a way, they will definitely be able to find the missing part, if you can piece together a complete book, you must bring it to me to see, tell me the story in this ancient book and what kind of secret it contains."

I nodded and promised Lao Xiao, and I didn't refuse, at least it may be safer on me if it makes sense as he said, and when I figure out the truth of the matter, I will return it to its original owner.

Lao Xiao and I came down from the attic and returned to the living room, I glanced at Zhou Xuran, he was calm, just glanced at me, didn't say anything, and showed indifference.

Ji Ran was already waiting a little impatiently: "Sister, are you holding an academic seminar or are you engaged in scientific and technological research, from dawn to dark, what are the results, what is it, tell me quickly"

I looked at Ji Ran and said loudly in the direction of Zhou Xuran, "Do you want to know?" ”

"Of course I want to, it's been half a day since I went in, and I have to gain something." Ji Ran answered for him.

"You want to know, I won't tell you, it's my secret."

Ji Ran jumped up after hearing this: "What do you mean, Yang Yinglin, what's going on with you, you have also learned to play with your heart and keep a hand, and you still have a hand, what is it that you don't want us to know, Zhou Xuran, you quickly take out your obscenity and talk about him, you are really calm today." "Every time Ji Ran called my full name, I knew that he must be angry, but looking at him with a helpless look, I suddenly felt a little funny, Zhou Xuran was not only silent, but also expressionless.

"Everyone has secrets, and they all want to hide things that they don't want others to know, right, Mr. Zhou." I looked straight at Zhou Xuran and said meaningfully, the more Zhou Xuran held his breath like this, the more I wanted to stimulate him.

"Maybe something is just uncertain." Zhou Xuran finally came up with a few words, like an explanation.

"What's wrong with you today, I really don't understand, okay, you can do it, Lao Tzu is leaving, I won't play with you, Miss Yang, President Zhou, goodbye." Ji Ran was really a little angry, his son-in-law was angry, turned around and prepared to leave directly.

I stepped forward and grabbed him, "Don't be angry, wait for me, let's go together." Ji Ran looked at my begging eyes a little helplessly and sighed: "That's you, I really can't do anything about you." ”

We said goodbye politely to Lao Xiao, who looked at me with a smile and saw us off.

"Where are we going now?" Ji Ran asked while standing between me and Zhou Xuran.

"Mashan." Zhou Xuran and I said at the same time.

"There is a tacit understanding at this time, why do you two have something to hide from me, which makes me unhappy, am I isolated?" Ji Ran was a little unhappy.

"Ji Gongzi, you can choose to stand on my side."

"Don't", Ji Ran directly rejected me, "We have a total of three people and a small team, please everyone is a team, we have to unite well, and I am not a vegetarian, you think you can hide it from me, I was not interested in it originally, now I have to dig out the truth when I dig three feet into the ground, don't underestimate me, I am Ji Gongzi."

"Ji Gongzi, let's hurry up and go to Mashan, the mountain is so high there, you can dig 3,000 feet."

"We're leaving at this late hour?" Ji Ran looked at Zhou Xuran on the side.

"Leave now, and don't lose time. The secrets of the summit of Mount Mashan must be clarified as soon as possible. Zhou Xuran said solemnly.

"It's evening now, it's night when we get to Mashan, if you want to go up the mountain at night, do you have to prepare equipment, I have sorted out some things, just go to my place to get them."

"Stuff I have in the trunk." I opened the trunk, it was complete and well-equipped, much better than what I prepared, I had to marvel at Zhou Xuran's patience and meticulousness, not to mention that he was reliable in terms of doing things.

We set out immediately, silent all the way. Arrive at Mashan, pack the supplies and tools, and start the journey.

On the way to the Mashan Ling Temple, I didn't expect to meet people kneeling in the mountains and making wishes on the road so late.

We arrived near the Spiritual Temple, and although I grew up near Mashan, I had never been to this spiritual temple because of my grandfather.

We carefully looked around the spiritual temple, it is not big, there are tablets dedicated to the spirit gods, there are incense and some offerings. There are no special people to take care of this spiritual temple, but there are many people in the nearby villages who have been blessed by the spiritual gods who will spontaneously and voluntarily help clean and tidy up, and the incense is vigorous.

We walked to the temple, Ji Ran stepped forward and muttered: "If you are not a god, you dare to eat incense, and you are not afraid of damaging yin virtue." As soon as I finished speaking, I turned around and saw a pair of green round eyes in the dark place that were particularly bright, and those eyes seemed familiar, I remembered that yes, when I was a child, I accidentally saw it once when I was a child when I invited the great god at Aunt Zhuang's house, and it was particularly dazzling in this darkness.

"Ah, you see" I was so frightened that I couldn't help but hold on to Zhou Xuran beside me. "What's wrong?" Zhou Xuran looked at me with fear on his face, and looked in the direction of my trembling point.

"This thing has some spiritual power, but it can't help us." He took out a dagger and carried a charm with him: "I don't want to hurt you, as long as you guard the mountain with peace of mind and don't harm people, our well water will not interfere with the river water." The thing let out a shrill laugh, but didn't confront us for long before disappearing.

"This can't be that kind of spirit god," I still looked at Zhou Xuran with some fear.

Zhou Xuran looked down at me and said softly, "Maybe, don't be afraid, it'll be fine." ”

"What are you doing Miss Yang, haven't you always been bold, reckless, and sometimes afraid, you are afraid of this thing with a little mana, what about the ghost sound on the top of the mountain?"

"I, I don't have a shadow of childhood."

"Everything is gone, why are you so close?" Ji Ran pouted and looked at us with some displeasure.

I realized that I was scared just now and leaned on Zhou Xuran's body, I grabbed his sleeve, he half-hugged me to show a protective posture, I was a little embarrassed to push him away, feeling the heat on my face.

"Didn't I just be scared," I explained. I remembered that Zhou Xuran actually didn't like people getting too close to him, and I looked up to see that he didn't show anything unusual or unhappy, but he was always expressionless.

"Next time you can lean on me when you're scared, my arms must be much warmer than his."

"Ji Ran, don't make such boring jokes."

"You're joking with me, but I'm serious, why don't you feel it" After speaking, Ji Ran leaned towards me.

"Okay, don't make trouble, this mountain is indeed a little spiritual, otherwise there will be no spiritual objects, there should be no evil here, because the spiritual object just now has a pure spirituality and is not mixed with a little evil thing."

"Whether there is spirituality or evil, whether this place is demonic or not, we have to believe in science."

"It's still scientific, Ji Gongzi seems to be very knowledgeable."

"It's okay to believe in the artifact, you don't believe me, you have to believe in this compass, this compass is more reliable than me." After Ji Ran finished speaking, he picked up the compass and recited the incantation silently.

Seeing that the compass was suspended in the air for a long time, Ji Ran rarely took it so seriously, he took back the compass and exclaimed, "The wind fruit of this Mashan Temple is really good, this feng shui treasure is second only to the place with dragon veins, it is not very common, this is even better than my uncle's house halfway up the mountain, no wonder it can transform spiritual objects with spirituality." ”

"In that case, there shouldn't be any problems here."

As soon as I finished speaking, Ji Ran's expression was serious: "Everything is divided into two levels, the ability is conserved, and the square is balanced, where there are treasures, there must be fierce divine objects to guard, then this place with excellent feng shui must also imply the other pole, the place of extreme yin and evil." ”

Ji Ran pointed to the continuous mountains in the distance and the highest point of the mountain top, which was a little far away from here: "It is so far away, this compass can even sense the abnormality of the commanding heights there, and there is a situation of magnetic polarity, presumably the top of Nama Mountain is more evil than the previous ancient building of the Republic of China, and it is even better." ”

I looked at the top of Mount Mashan in the distance, "Let's go up the mountain now, how long will it take to get there?" ”

"That mountain is completely undeveloped, there will definitely be no ropeway and other means of transportation, maybe even the mountain road is not easy to walk, we can't climb to the top of the mountain all night, now set off immediately, except for the midnight rest time, it may be at noon tomorrow," Ji Ran sighed lightly.

"Ah so far away, don't be tired to death, I'm a little tired now, this big night." I started to feel a little negative and wanted to complain.

"Tomorrow at noon is enough, if we travel quickly, we will have to arrive in the evening at the earliest, you see that starting from the Ling Temple to go up, the mountain road is steep, it should be more and more difficult to walk, and there are cliffs and steep cliffs if you can't get it, so we must be mentally prepared." Zhou Xuran's words not only did not comfort me, but made me feel a little worse.

"Yinglin, your face stinks enough, pouting, if you are afraid of hardship and don't want to go up, just say it early, it's okay to wait for us at the bottom of the mountain." Ji Ran looked at me with a sad expression.

I wanted to do that, but I knew my responsibility, so I had to bite the bullet: "Forget it, there's no other way, let's hurry up." Zhou Xuran silently walked to my side, picked up my backpack and led the way in front, I remembered that he was different from me and Ji Ran, he had an interest in mountaineering and rock climbing.

We walked up the mountain road, which was fine at first, but the road became more and more difficult, and we had been walking for almost five hours from the bottom of the mountain, and it seemed vaguely less than halfway up the mountain.

"I really can't walk, can we take a break, I'm exhausted." I sat down on a boulder on the mountain road, not complaining, but really tired.