(October 13) countdown day 78

Nothing was said all night.

As soon as it was dawn, the old man got up and came out of the tent.

Heavy rain all night washed away the slopes below the flat land, with weeds and shrubs lying on the ground, and occasional turf being washed away by the roots, exposing reddish-brown rocks like unsightly patches. On the hillside, there were trenches washed out by the flood, and the rain ran down several trenches, hitting the flat land where they had slept overnight, and flowing down the drainage channel that had been temporarily dug last night to the hillside below.

"This is a flood that has not been seen in decades." The old man looked at Mizuki Town in the distance, which was hidden in a thin layer of morning mist, which was not very real.

"It's okay, it's clean." Yao Xiaoyi also got out of the tent and stood behind the old man to take over, "At least, we don't have to worry about the traces left by going up the mountain yesterday." ”

"Do you think that guy will chase him here?" The old man turned his head and saw that Yao Xiaoyi was full of energy, and his face swept away the haze of yesterday.

"I'm not sure, but I have a hunch that something is going to happen in the mountains. Let's get on our way early. ”

The snack was mineral water for breakfast, and the two hurriedly used it up, and then packed their luggage.

Yao Xiaoyi checked the terrain, set up a miniature camera on a pine tree, and adjusted the mobile phone, the device can clearly capture most of the area below this flat land, and enter the mountain from the direction of Shuimu Town, there is a high probability that it will lead to this flat land.

Seeing this, the old man understood Yao Xiaoyi's intentions, so he took out a machete as a hoe and changed the flow direction of the several trenches above, so that more rainwater flowed to this flat land, so as to wash away the traces left by their rough sleeping.

Filling in the trench dug yesterday and cleaning up the garbage left behind, the two of them rushed to the top of the mountain.

Towards noon, they came to the top of a hill.

"According to the suicide note, the col mentioned by Mr. Tang should be in this direction." The old man pointed to the left front.

Yao Xiaoyi nodded, looking back at the uphill road she had just walked, as if she had seen that night more than 40 years ago, an old man with great grief and indignation, stimulated his whole body potential, carried the remains of his wife and children, and crawled on the mountain road step by step.

Yao Xiaoyi repeated the old trick, installed another camera on the tree, and after some adjustment, covered up the traces just left, and hurried to the left front.

This section of the mountain is relatively gentle, and they have significantly increased their speed.

I don't know how long it took, but the old man gradually showed fatigue, and his breathing became a little short, and the two had to slow down.

Yao Xiaoyi once suspected that the old man was cold on the top of the mountain, and helped him add a piece of clothing, but it didn't seem to be useful, and persuaded the old man to take a rest, but the old man insisted no.

Yao Xiaoyi had to help the old man move forward slowly, and it didn't take long for the old man to be even more wrong, his steps staggered, and his demeanor became trance.

Fortunately, not far ahead, there seems to be a flat land. Without saying a word, Yao Xiaoyi wrapped one of the old man's arms around the back of his neck, almost carrying the old man to rush to the flat ground quickly.

As soon as I hit a gentle slope, I saw that this was some kind of flat land, but a naturally formed lake. The lake, about the size of a football field, was filled with rainwater that had just fallen, and a kind of wild fungus that Yao Xiaoyi could not name grew densely around the lake, brightly colored, and nourished by the abundant rainwater.

Looking at the fresh wild mushrooms, Yao Xiaoyi's heart couldn't help but become in a trance. She forced herself to settle down, and then she helped the old man to sit on the ground.

The old man's state was even more unbearable, his eyes were misty, half-open and half-open.

"The trespasser is either crazy or unconscious", Yao Xiaoyi remembers reading similar words when she checked the information in the back mountain, which is highly consistent with the symptoms of the old man.

An ominous mountain, a dangerous place, is it true?!

"Hit, hit, hit you little red guy!" The old man, who was in a semi-comatose state, suddenly spoke, waving his arms wildly, as if trying to drive something away.

"Lilliputian Illusion!"

Yao Xiaoyi's heart moved, and secretly scolded himself for being too stupid, the old man was obviously poisoned by hallucinogens, and the culprit was the wild mushrooms in front of him.

Mr. Tang Ji mentioned in his suicide note that the hallucinogenic prescription he left behind, commonly known as the Lilliputian Phantom Prescription, is extracted from a unique boletus mushroom in the back mountain of Shuimu Town, which can not only cure diseases but also cause diseases, and can act on the central nervous system, and disrupt the normal function of the brain in the human brain, causing people to hallucinate. The poisoned person can hallucinate in only more than 10 minutes, just like entering the Lilliputian country, where there are villains less than a foot tall everywhere, with various faces, wearing red and green, constantly provoking, besieging, and pestering the patient, the patient sees this situation, is very annoyed, and shows accusations and drives away the villain, and in severe cases, it mostly shows schizophrenia, dementia and stupor. As for the effects of hallucinogens, she had experimented with online writer Yang Yang and the man who crashed into the apartment of the moon bend.

Without thinking about it, Yao Xiaoyi hurriedly took out the antidote and fed it to the old man, and ate a little bit herself.

Half an hour passed, and the old man finally opened his eyes and gradually regained his clarity.

"What am I?"

"You should have been poisoned. Now, it's this wild mushroom. Yao Xiaoyi helped the old man sit up and pointed around the lake.

"The so-called ominous mountain, is this because of this?" Looking at the dense wild mushrooms, the old man looked puzzled.

"Are the so-called evil people in the town delirious, showing their teeth and claws, and talking nonsense like "beat you up a little red man"? ”

"This ...... You know that too? ”

"Serious, directly unconscious."

"yes, that's it."

"That's right. You've just been hit by a poison that comes from these fungi. ”

"That'...... How is my poison cured? ”

"You have forgotten what Mr. Donald did when he was alive."

“…… I get it. Mr. Tang had long known the secret of this evil mountain and left the antidote. The old man stood up and walked a few steps, no big problem, "By the way, how long have I been delayed?" We've got to hurry. ”

"It didn't take long, an hour before and after. We're out ......."

Before the word "hair" could be exported, there was a "bang" sound from the mobile phone, and it was the monitoring equipment of the wooden building that reminded her that there was a new movement.

Yao Xiaoyi clicked on the mobile phone video and was shocked.

In the picture, the courtyard door of the wooden building was pushed open, and the newly installed induction device was automatically triggered, but Xiao Feng and Gao Fei stepped into the courtyard one after the other!

Yao Xiaoyi had imagined that Xiao Feng or Gao Fei might succeed in cracking the death code left by her sister so as to find Mizuki Town accurately. It's just that I never expected them to come so quickly.

"Let's go."

Yao Xiaoyi quietly turned off her mobile phone, carefully checked the surrounding terrain, determined the general location of the lake, and walked around the lake with the old man, heading towards the right front, that is, the opposite direction of the destination, deliberately leaving clear footprints along the way.

After passing through a meadow and making sure that they couldn't leave footprints, they made a 100-80 turn and headed ahead to the left.