Chapter 14: The Fourth Copper Coin Appears
His words made me think of Lao Hao's naked death for the first time, and my heart was furious.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Actually, since the year before last, I have felt that something is wrong with your father, and in the past few years, the way he has turned things has become more and more unknown, and most of them are dark weapons dug in the soil."
I don't know the word, the mortal vessel is the burial goods. Now it is expressly forbidden to resell the artifact, although this thing is valuable, but few people dare to touch it.
"This thing has been in the ground with dead people for thousands of years, and you said that it is impossible to have a little evil spirit after taking it. I also tried to persuade your dad a few times, but he didn't listen, as if he was fascinated. Just like this time, I received such a thing for no reason, and then this person evaporated from the world......" Uncle Teng shook his head, his face full of helplessness.
When he said that, I really didn't think it was that simple about my dad's disappearance.
I hesitated, but I still didn't hand over the coin. It's useless to hand it over, and he doesn't know what this thing is when he listens to the meaning of his words.
And it's hard for me to judge how much of what he said is true or how much is false.
I excused myself that the family had gone back beforehand, and only told him that if there was any news of my father, he would be troublesome to let me know as soon as possible.
After saying that, I went downstairs, and as soon as I turned on my phone, I found that Lao Meng had made four calls to me.
I hurriedly dialed back, and Lao Meng's surprised voice came, "Come here quickly!" There is a windfall! ”
I didn't know what kind of windfall he was talking about, so I hurriedly took a taxi to the address he sent me.
After getting off the bus, I found that it was a snack street, and Lao Meng stood in front of a butter cake stall and waved to me.
I hurriedly ran over and panted and asked, "What's wrong?" Any news on this? ”
Lao Meng handed me a butter cake wrapped in brown paper, "It's still hot, hurry up and taste it, it's delicious." ”
My right eyelid jumped, "This is the windfall?" ”
"Yes, we don't have this snack in the Northeast, it's a pity not to taste it."
I was really in no mood, so I picked up the shortbread and threw it to Lao Meng.
When I returned to the hotel, it was already late in the evening, and I went out for a day and got nothing.
In addition to exhaustion, I was disappointed.
Numbly, I took out my mobile phone and dialed my dad, but the other side still prompted that he was not in the service area.
Lao Meng seemed to have gone downstairs to buy something, and the door was not closed when he left. I opened the door just in time to see Liao Kao and Sui He on the other side hurriedly going upstairs, Sui He seemed to be crying.
I went out to inquire, only to find out that Teng Chongchong had been separated from these two people.
I didn't go for an afternoon, and my phone kept telling me that I wasn't in the service area.
I comforted, "It shouldn't be fine, there are taxis all over the street now, if you really can't find your way back, you can find a taxi, it's fine." ”
Liao Kao's expression was a little hesitant, and he said, "Let's go to the suburbs in the afternoon, it's all woods over there, and she won't be able to get out by herself." Suihe's mobile phone didn't bring it in the morning, and mine ran out of battery again. I thought about coming back to see if she came back by herself, but the boss also said that she didn't see her at all in the afternoon. ”
Suihe cried anxiously, and there was no way to call the police in this situation. The disappearance time has only been one afternoon, but if it is really like what Liao Kao said, it is about to get dark in the wilderness, and it is indeed dangerous for a little girl to be outside.
I turned around and went into the house and grabbed my backpack, "You two take me there, I'll help find it." ”
Suihe looked at me happily, "Really? Thank you so much, but you're still hurt......"
I touched my head with the gauze attached to it, "It's okay, it's all small injuries." My brother and I are both soldiers and have received professional training in search and rescue, so we should be able to help, and besides, there is power in numbers. ”
Saying that, Liao Kao and Sui He hurriedly took me downstairs as if they had seen a life-saving benefactor.
Lao Meng just went to the front desk to ask for a humidifier and was dragged into a taxi by me, until the car drove away, he still looked confused, holding the humidifier and asking me, "What's the matter?" Do you want to go for a late-night snack? ”
I explained, and Lao Meng was angry, "Damn, I'm still wearing slippers, you at least let me change my shoes." ”
"Time is tight, the task is heavy, and the safety of the people is above all else."
Lao Meng squinted at me: "You stand on the moral high ground, aren't you cold?" ”
I looked ahead without squinting, "It's not cold, it's glorious." ”
The car drove quickly to the suburbs, and the woods on both sides became denser and denser, and as the sky slowly darkened, the temperature felt much lower than before.
Lao Meng asked, "You said you have nothing to do with this place, what are you going to explore?" ”
Liao Kao hesitated and didn't say why, it seemed that there was something to hide from the two of us.
Finally, when he drove to a mountain gap, the taxi master stopped, saying that he would not drive into it anymore, saying that there was a high incidence of accidents in the previous section, and it was not easy to provoke the head.
We got out of the car and followed Liao Kao into the mountains.
Lao Meng looked at the surrounding scenery all the way and sighed, "I didn't expect that there was such a place here, just like the big ravine." ”
After about half an hour of walking, the road began to be no longer smooth. Lao Meng was wearing slippers and was screamed by the scolding.
Fortunately, it was not dark yet, and we walked smoothly into the col.
Liao Kao pointed to a tree at the foot of the mountain and said, "It was here at the time, Chong Chong said that he wanted to go for convenience, I and Suihe were waiting for her here, who knew that after more than ten minutes, no one came, and then I heard her shout, and when Suihe and I passed, people disappeared." ”
I walked over and took a look, and there was a slope underneath the field, and I suddenly screamed that I might have broken my foot or stepped on the air.
But there were no signs of the plants on either side being stepped on, and the stones were not slipping, which means that she may have seen something and was startled, and then ran away on her own.
I stood there and felt the location, judging from the slope and environment, she should have been facing the creek and her back to Liao Kao them.
Could it be that something came out of the river?
I thought about it for a moment and told Liao Kao to them, "I guess she may have run down the slope at that time, and you two couldn't see from it. In this way, Liao Kao took Suihe to look downstream, Lao Meng and I went upstream, and we followed this creek to find it separately. ”
I found the laser pointer that I had prepared before in my bag and handed it to Liao Kao, "Whoever finds someone first or encounters any unexpected situation, press this, the light is very strong, remember not to look at the eyes." ”
Lao Meng was surprised: "You also carry this thing with you." ”
Originally, it was all for my dad, but I didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.
After a brief explanation, Lao Meng and I walked all the way to the right, walking for less than ten minutes, only to feel that the terrain was getting more and more complicated.
The upper reaches of the creek unexpectedly tightened in an eerie way, and at the end there were only large exposed rocks and a well of water bubbling out.
"So this stream is water from this well."
But this phenomenon is very strange from a geographical point of view, the water in the well is groundwater, generally speaking, it is lower than the ground, there is no pressure in the well, how can there be such a thing.
Lao Meng and I were staring at the well, when suddenly there was a sound of rustling in the grass behind us.
Lao Meng's ears were tilted for a moment, and his face changed suddenly and reminded me, "Xiao Ding, I listen to this sound, it seems to be a snake......"
It was quiet in the valley, but there was no wind at this time, so the sound of hissing and spitting out letters was very obvious.
"Stop talking nonsense, let's find a place to hide." I stiffened my neck and counted down, "Three, two, one, run!" ”
As soon as I gave the order, Lao Meng and the snake launched together.
Lao Meng scurried to the tree in twos and twos, don't look at the slippers, but it didn't affect the speed of climbing the tree at all.
I didn't have that trick, so I could only step up and run across the stream.
I didn't expect to step on the mud on my feet as soon as I jumped up, and the soil on the ground looked real, and it turned out that the ground was empty.
I stepped on it and collapsed all at once, and I didn't even have time to react, so I fell into the ravine wrapped in mud.
He grunted several times, and finally hit a tree root.
This fall made me a lot of meat and eight vegetarians, and my eyes were full of stars.
Struggling to look up, he saw that he had rolled a hundred meters high.
Just as I was patting the dirt on my body and preparing to stand up, I suddenly noticed a small concave corner in the hillside, and a person was curled up.
It is not difficult to see from the clothes that this is Tengchong Chong.
I hurriedly ran over and found her unconscious. Then he dragged the man out with both hands and laid him flat on the ground.
As soon as she let it go, her hand fell lightly to the ground, and a copper coin fell out of it.
The thing I never wanted to see reappeared, and I suddenly got goosebumps.
It was as if there was a huge net pressing down on me.
After I received this copper coin, I was poisoned by the corpse, Lao Hao was hanged on a tree, my father evaporated from the world, and Teng Chongchong disappeared for no reason.
I probed Teng Chong's snort and found that the person was fine.
Breathe evenly, the face is ruddy, probably asleep.
I breathed a sigh of relief and patted Teng Chong's face. She seemed to be a frightened rabbit and sat up at once.
After seeing that it was me, I still didn't believe my eyes, and I rubbed it two or three times before I confirmed that it was me.
He hugged my neck and cried.
The sound shook the heavens and the earth, as if Meng Jiangnu was crying on the Great Wall.
I struggled several times to pull her away, but she hugged me like someone who had finally grasped a life-saving straw in the water.
It wasn't until ten minutes later, when she was tired from crying, that she got off me.
He asked me, "Why are you here?" What about Liao Kao and Suihe? ”
I patiently explained, "Both of them are fine, they are looking for you." ”
"That's good, that's good, it's good that they're both okay."
"What the hell are you doing, and why are you here?"
Teng Chongchong heard me ask, the expression on his face quickly froze, and he pulled my sleeve with one hand, and said, "I see, I see a woman crawling out of the river." Her face was white and her skin seemed to melt, and she kept chasing me. ”
I listened to Teng Chongchong's description, why did she look so much like the woman I saw in my dream yesterday?