Ah Le took the two of them, the progress was extremely slow, the mountain road was not easy to walk, and there was no ladder or anything, so they could only follow the dry branch path stepped on by the predecessors, Jiang Qiao and Jiang Li had no experience in mountaineering, and after a while, they walked out of breath, Jiang Qiao suddenly screamed, and the three of them stopped together.

Ah Le looked at it and led the two to a small stream in the mountains, where the three of them sat on the big rocks next to the stream to rest. Jiang Qiao drank a few sips of mountain spring water in the water stream to quench his thirst, it was extremely cold, sweet and delicious, and a few small fish and a few unknown aquatic plants could be seen at the bottom of the water. She looked up and saw that the water in the stream was flowing down from a small waterfall on the mountain, and the column of water was the size of a bowl, and it was splashing high from the highest point of the mountain.

"This is the shortest road, as I found out later, we used to go from the west end of the mountain. The place where the water fell was not far from the church. Ah Le pointed to the small mouth waterfall and said.

Jiang Qiao said in his heart, it is better to take a long detour, this mountain road is simply fatal.

"What happened just now?" Jiang Li was already out of breath, and he was just screamed by Jiang Qiao like this, and he almost didn't fight.

He sat on a large boulder panting, his forehead covered with sweat, and the dripping of sweat slid down his thin cheeks, then onto his beautiful collarbones, and finally into his white shirt. His face grew paler, and even his lips were bloodless. Looks like he's really tired out.

Jiang Qiao found a palm-sized leaf and rolled a cup to fill him with some water, Jiang Li drank it in one gulp, and asked her for another cup pitifully, just like that, he drank three cups in a row before he gradually came to his senses.

Seeing that he was relieved, Jiang Qiao told in detail about the fact that he found out that his cousin was the mountain ghost he had seen when he was sleepwalking, and that she and Ah Le had not seen the same mountain ghost.

Jiang Li pondered for a while and asked, "What about the photo?" ”

Jiang Qiao hurriedly took out the photo from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Li, Jiang Li touched it with his hand and said, "This is not a mountain ghost, your cousin is still a living person." ”

Living? Jiang Li also said that night that he saw a living person, was it really his cousin? Is the mountain ghost that Ah Le saw before still alive? Why did my cousin and the girl who didn't know who it was become a mountain ghost?

Clueless for a while, the two sat wordlessly and rested for a while, then saw Ah Le coming out of nowhere, holding a bouquet of wild flowers in his hand, and handed it to Jiang Qiao as if offering treasure.

"Sister, is this flower pretty?"

"Beautiful."

Jiang Qiao took the flower rarely, this wildflower was a variety she had never seen before. There are only six double petals, and the snow-white petals are also inlaid with a gold edge, and a trace of blood-red veins grows from the black stamens, the shape is particularly similar to the blood vessels, constantly branching, the caliber is tapering, and it spreads in the petals, which is bewitching and weird.

Jiang Qiao was happily smelling the flowers, Jiang Li snatched the bouquet and looked at it carefully, Jiang Qiao was taken aback by his move, could this be a poisonous flower, and hurriedly asked Ah Le nervously: "What kind of flower is this?" ”

"I haven't seen it before, I don't know, but when I went to pick wild fruits for you, I accidentally noticed a few bushes growing on the edge of the cave at the other end of the stream. I thought that Sister Ah would like it, so I picked it up for you. Ah Le also looked at Jiang Li blankly: "Brother, is there a problem with this flower?" ”

"This flower smells of blood." Jiang Li said after carefully looking at the bouquet in his hand.

"The smell of blood? Why didn't I smell it? Jiang Qiao leaned over and sniffed again, but still only smelled a strong fragrance of flowers.

Jiang Li handed the bouquet to Jiang Qiao and asked, "What do you think this stamen looks like?" ”

Jiang Qiao couldn't understand what Jiang Li wanted to say, so he didn't take the bouquet, but just took Jiang Li's hand and looked carefully at the black stamen, like what... Like a... Face?! Jiang Qiao was taken aback by this thought, and was about to see it clearly, but she didn't expect that the stamen seemed to be alive, and she squeezed her eyebrows.

"Ah, it's moving? What kind of flower is this? Jiang Qiao screamed in fright, and subconsciously pushed Jiang Li's hand far away.

"What about you, Ah Le, take a look?" Jiang Li handed the flower to Ah Le again.

Ah Le hesitated, took the bouquet, looked at the old man for a long time, and didn't see anything strange, looked at them hesitantly, and asked, "This... Isn't this just an ordinary stamen, why do you two react like this? ”

"Can't you see that it looks like a human face, and it moves?" Jiang Qiao pointed to the bouquet suspiciously, and his voice was an octave higher after being frightened, causing the birds in the nearby trees to make a babbling sound and fly into the sky.

"Face?" Ah Le was so frightened by Jiang Qiao that he threw the bouquet of flowers far away, looking afraid.

"Ah Le, where did you pick this flower? Is there anything under the flowers? Jiang Li asked.

"It's in the crack of the rock on the other side of the stream, and this flower grows against that little bit of soil in the crack of the rock, what's there?" Ah Le hid next to Jiang Qiao and whispered.

"Oh, that's nothing, you don't have to make such a fuss, there shouldn't be any other big problems with this flower, this mountain is covered by black gas all year round, and some plants may also be affected. It's okay, let's continue up the mountain. Jiang Li comforted.

Jiang Qiao and Ah Le breathed a sigh of relief, and the two of them stopped paying attention to the flowers, and turned their attention to other plants.

Jiang Li walked in front of the scattered flowers, took a few photos with his mobile phone, and then twisted the petals with his hand, and a few small blood beads oozed from the blood-red veins in the snow-white petals, Jiang Li frowned, and looked at his fingers that were stained red by blood beads.

He raised his head and looked at Jiang Qiao and Ah Le, who were observing other animals and plants in the distance, and just now he deliberately said those words in order to appease their emotions. In fact, this flower is indeed weird, Ah Le is an ordinary person, naturally he can't see the weird, in his eyes, this is an ordinary flower. Jiang Qiao was about to die, and some of his organs became extremely sensitive, so although he couldn't smell blood, he could also see the strangeness in this flower. But in his golden pupils, in this snow-white flower, a very small amount of but very resentful black qi was gathered, and these black qi seemed to be the essence of the flower, and it was born with the same root as this flower.

The most important thing is that although this black gas is similar to the black qi that entangles the mountain and the village, it is not the same black qi.

This is just a wildflower in the mountains, how can it carry all this black gas? Just now Ah Le said that the flowers grow in the cracks of the rocks, which means that there are no unclean things buried in the mud under the roots, is it the flowers that produce black gas or the black gas that affects the flowers?

Jiang Li stood up and looked at the small mountain village with black tiles and white walls at the foot of the mountain, what kind of secrets did this village hide?