By the time we got to where we needed to stay, it was already twilight. After we found a place to stay, we went back to our rooms to rest. At dinner, we discussed the next route. At ten o'clock in the evening, everyone returned to their respective places of residence, asked the boss for a pair of poker and cannons, and was late for a while, and fell asleep unconsciously.

In the middle of the night, I faintly heard the sound of a child crying next to the lawn outside the window, and the sound was intermittent. I was woken up many times in my sleep. I opened the window and said, "Kid, let's wash and sleep so late." I said that the sound stopped, and after a while the sound came back to staccato again.

I wanted to go out and see it by myself, but if I think about it carefully, it's not right, who has nothing to do in the middle of the night and runs outside the house to cry. Unless it's that thing. Thinking of this, my scalp tingled for a while, and I was glad that I didn't go down alone. I really wanted to wake up the cannon, but when I saw the grandson's snoring sound, I thought about it.

The next morning, I asked Professor Li if they heard the crying outside the window, and they all said that they vaguely heard it. I asked the boss, and the boss spoke intermittently, as if he could hide something. Said that it may be that a child in the neighborhood went out to pee in the middle of the night, and was scared to cry because he was afraid of the dark. Seeing that I couldn't ask anything from the boss, I just forgot it.

At this time, a tenant next to him said: "Actually, there are no children in this mountain at all." Some may be taking things. The tenant continued, "I've heard from people in the neighborhood that they often see a monster with hair all over its body in the mountains. At night, learn the cry of a child to attract the past. "We didn't expect anything like this to be in this place.

Professor Li pulled us aside and said, "This could be the legendary wild man, or it could be something called a "mandrill." But there is no way to verify it at the moment, so it is impossible to determine what it is. Professor Li continued, "Legend has it that mandrills are animal souls attached to ownerless corpses, and to cultivate mandrills, they must be filled with yin energy. ”

Cannon said on the side: "I can't imagine that a professor like Professor Li still believes in this thing." Professor Li continued: "It is difficult to determine the matter of ghosts and gods at present. "Come to think of it, there are still so many unsolved mysteries, like the Bermuda Delta or something. The use of ghosts and spirits as an explanation is also a means of explanation.

I also saw an explanation of mandrills in the first part of "Mountains and Seas Kanyulu", which roughly means that mandrills are born in places full of yin qi, and mandrills are born in more places than tombs. So I said, "Professor Li, last night I heard the sound of that thing coming from the upper reaches of the river, and if I want to use the mandrill as a clue to find the tomb, I will go up the river." Isn't that good? Everyone said that there was no objection, after all, this is the only clue at present.

After breakfast, as we didn't know how long we needed to be in the wilderness, the five of us brought enough dry food and water from the boss. When I came out of my residence, I saw four cliffs. As we were unfamiliar with the local terrain, we found a local guide. We pretended to be university students who went to the mountains to look for plant specimens, so that the guide would not know the purpose of our trip.

Along the river all the way up, due to the scorching hot weather, the roadside forest was full of mosquitoes, and after a while, everyone was stung in red envelopes on their hands and faces. There was no way, so everyone had to take out the toilet water prepared in advance. After the guide had dropped us off for a distance and gave us a rough idea of the route, we let the guide go back.

At noon, they rested on a stone with a large tree. While eating the dry food they brought, everyone discussed the route for the afternoon. Suddenly, Li Tong screamed and pointed at the top of the cannon's head. Together, we looked over the cannon's head. I don't know if I don't know it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

I saw that there was a colored python wrapped around the kudzu vine on the top of the cannon's head, and it spit letters at the cannon from time to time. We didn't pay attention to it at the time, we didn't expect this thing to be so well hidden. The cannon was also blinded by this sudden event, and his hands and feet trembled with fright. We hurriedly pulled the cannon over.

At this time, Xiao Yin said: "This wild python is not too aggressive against people. As long as you don't provoke it, nothing will happen. The cannon said: "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you can try it if you change it." ”

Li Tong stopped doing it at this time, and said: "Some people, don't be unforgiving." Whoever dragged you over just now will take revenge, white-eyed wolf. "What else did the cannon want to say, I immediately motioned for him to stop talking.

After a while, the python saw that there were many people here, so he left the kudzu vine and crawled to other places. After our rest, we continued our journey up the river valley. At six o'clock in the afternoon, our group walked to a steeper place, with dense trees on both sides and a rugged mountain road.

They found a place with relatively few trees nearby, set up tents, and prepared to spend the night here. We built a bonfire around the area to keep the insects from attacking. In the middle of the night, the cannon was up and it was convenient, and suddenly he pointed out to me in a panic. I followed him out and saw a green ghost fire burning there from where we were stationed.

It's still weird to see this thing at night, and the originally dark valley adds some weirdness, as if there are a pair of eyes staring at our words and deeds. In fact, this ghost fire is caused by the spontaneous combustion of phosphorus in the human body. Since the ignition point of phosphorus is very low, there is a phenomenon of spontaneous combustion, but it is not visible during the day due to the light. Generally speaking, ghost fires may appear sporadically in the wild, but in this valley, ghost fires of this scale are rare. But it's inaccessible, and it's impossible for the animals in the valley to die so much at once. So, I speculate that there must be a large tomb here.

Inadvertently, I glanced up at the night sky, and when I looked at it, I realized something strange. I hurriedly grabbed the cannon and said, "Cannon, look at the mountain shape in this area, is it similar to two dragons?" The cannon took a closer look and said, "Seventh brother, don't say it's really like here." ”

I took a few steps forward and continued, "Ancient tombs are meant to echo the heavens, the earth and the stars. You see where the ghost fire appeared in front of you, the mountains on both sides are undulating, like two sleeping dragons. I said excitedly, "Look at the place where the ghost fire rises at the intersection of two dragon heads, and the terrain at the intersection of the dragon heads is slightly convex, like a dragon ball." If I'm not mistaken, the place where the ghost fire appears should be the key to the Double Dragon Pearl. And the dragon ball of Double Dragon Play Bead is a gathering of the aura of two dragons. Therefore there will be a great tomb there. "At this time, thinking about the legend of the mandrill I encountered before, coupled with what I saw and heard tonight, I am even more sure of my judgment.

The next morning, I told the professor my reasoning. After hearing this, the professor excitedly shook my hand and said, "Xiao Ling, I think your idea is very well-founded. So let's take a look around the neighborhood and look for some clues. Then Professor Li said to the cannon, "Xiao Chen, you are here to take care of the others." ”