In the photo Zhang Qian showed me, the figure standing under the tree gradually coincided with Jia Mo's appearance, I took a deep breath and looked up at Zhang Qian, the other party also had a solemn face, I asked, "Where did this photo come from?" When was it photographed? ”

"Yesterday."

The word Zhang Qian was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for me, and I felt that my nerves were already tense, and I asked in a deep voice: "Are you sure?" He was with us yesterday, and even if he had wings, he wouldn't have been there yesterday. ”

"This is the last message I sent from the guy I sent." Zhang Qian's face was very ugly, he took his mobile phone from my hand and flipped through it and said: "When I decided to come here to find you, I had already arranged for another team of people to go over there to help us explore the way, and they would send me messages three times on time at around 12 noon, 6 pm and 11 pm in the past few days, most of these messages are some pictures and what they have seen and heard." ”

He put his phone in front of me, the screen is an old house during the day, the camera is facing the dilapidated door, the light is good to see some of the furnishings in the house, the most conspicuous is a pair of paper figures in the house, and then he slid the screen, a photo taken at night, the location is the same place, but there are some changes, the paper man who was originally in the house has stood at the door.

"You told me about paper people before, I didn't believe it at first, how can paper people move around on their own? As a result, I believed this photo, and the other party guaranteed the payment, and absolutely no one touched these paper figures, they walked from the house to the door by themselves. Zhang Qian's voice trembled.

I stretched out my hand and swiped the screen left and right to look at it twice, then looked up and said to him: "This is the characteristic of Liujia Village, the paper figures can move by themselves, and there are such paper figures in almost every room there, and the information I got before is that these paper figures were left by the people of Liujia Village when they migrated out of Liujia Village, in order to bear the curse for them." ”

"It doesn't seem to have succeeded, but it has brought those paper figures back to life." Zhang Qian smiled bitterly, he took a deep breath and quickly slid on the screen, and then the photo of the crooked neck tree appeared, in which Jia Mo had not yet appeared, he said to me: "This was taken by my buddies yesterday, they may want to take this as a reference so that I can quickly identify the place."

As a result, they just sent this photo over, but in a minute, they took three photos in succession and sent them over, I looked at it yesterday and overnight, and I also looked for a professional to see it, and I was basically sure that this was a set of continuous shots. ”

Zhang Qian continued to swipe the screen, and a blurry figure suddenly appeared in front of the crooked neck tree in the second photo, like a white mist appeared in the flat ground, and the third one was the one I had just recognized Jia Mo.

"A burst shot? Do you mean that this person appeared out of nowhere, like some kind of teleportation device in a science fiction movie that teleports people to another dimension? My explanation was clear and clear, and Zhang Qian nodded almost without thinking about it, "I'm afraid so, and after these three photos were sent, my group had no news, and the locator and mobile phone all failed." ”

He took out a digital display screen from the bedside table, there was nothing on it, Zhang Qian said in a low voice: "The group of three disappeared like this, and the means of communication prepared for them at the beginning didn't even give a little feedback, which is incredible." ”

"That place." I opened my mouth to say that it was not unusual for anything to happen in that damn place, but in the end I dismissed this thought, and thought for a while before I said to him: "I called Jamer before I came, and the phone was turned off, when was the last time you saw Jammer?" ”

"An hour ago."

Zhang Qian's words gave me a head start again, I felt a little confused and a little unable to react, yesterday Jia Mo appeared thousands of miles away is already very incredible, but now it is even more incredible that it appeared in our city again, this interval is only ten hours, is it possible?

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Qian continued to lower his voice and said: "Just before I called you, I had quietly contacted my friend to hack the surveillance of the hotel and get the surveillance video of the floor where he lived, I watched it for a long time and didn't see him come out of the room." ”

"Jia Mo who stayed in the room and Jia Mo who lived in Liujia Village thousands of miles away are not the same person." I came to this conclusion, and Zhang Qian nodded, "Eighty percent is like this, if it's the same person, then he's a ghost." ”

Whether it's a person or a ghost, I definitely can't determine, everything is only after meeting with Lao Luo and letting him make a judgment, before this we should pretend that we don't know anything, after I gave Zhang Qian an order, he also understood what I meant, in order to avoid startling the snake, I decided to try to have as little contact with the other party as possible before leaving, so as to avoid showing the horse's feet and making the other party suspicious.

The appointed time came soon, and Zhang Qian, who was equipped or something, had already sent someone to the hotel he had set up in Xinyang, and I felt in my heart that it was really good to have money.

After the three of them stepped on the plane, there was almost no communication, mainly because Zhang Qian and I were wary of Jia Mo, and the latter didn't seem to care too much, frowning and thinking about something all the way.

It was already more than 8 o'clock in the evening when I arrived at the hotel, and after making a call to Lao Luo, I learned that the other party's train might not arrive until early in the morning, I told him to call me when I arrived, and I waited for many nights, and he probably knew that I had something to say to him alone, and hung up the phone on the other end of the phone.

At two o'clock in the morning, I took a shower and went out to the train station to pick up Lao Luo, who looked a little tired with a dusty face, I took him to find a place to eat supper, and after two cans of beer, he was in a slightly better state.

"How? Is there anything new to discover? Lao Luo asked with a smile, I nodded and looked left and right, "There is a great discovery, but before that, I want to ask about this." ”

I opened my phone and showed him the picture full of symbols, "I sent it to you before, do you know what this thing means?" ”

"Map." Lao Luo blurted out, and I was stunned: "There are no crooked lines here, how can it look like hieroglyphs or oracle bone inscriptions, how can it be a map?" ”

"Although I don't have a deep study in this area, but I can also read it, this is a special symbol in the Daomen, just like what you usually see Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, and the same as the gossip, they are all the directions of expression, and they are different directions after being combined, your symbols and these eight words are all symbols used to express the direction, but these symbols are obscure, I know but can't read them."