Torrential rain poured down.

A silver lightning bolt pierced the night sky, followed by a "click" thunderbolt that fell into the sky, and a large area of the hillside collapsed, washed into a large mudslide by the torrential rain, containing a terrifying power that destroyed everything, and swept down towards the large town below the mountain.

In the face of the mudslide, the houses of the civil structure were as fragile as paper paste, and they collapsed one by one.

Before the sleeping people had time to scream, they were already pressed down by the brick beams, and the mudslides rushed in, sealing the mouths and noses of the people struggling to survive.

This tragic scene in the world happened in a remote mountain town in country T.

There were six or seven hundred people living in this town, but because it was too remote, it was not until five days later that the higher-level management unit to which the town belonged could not be contacted, so it sent a special person to this town to check what was going on, and it was found that the entire town had become a hell on earth.

The mudslide collapsed and buried most of the houses in the town, leaving only twenty or thirty houses intact in the easternmost part of the town, where the town's wealthier groups live.

These twenty or thirty houses should have lived in hundreds of people, but strangely enough, not only were these twenty or thirty houses empty, but there was not a single living figure in the whole town.

Receiving the report, the government of country T sent a large number of people to the town to carry out a large-scale search while excavating the collapsed houses under the mudslide.

In the end, hundreds of corpses were exhumed, but the owners of the twenty or thirty houses were never able to find any traces.

And it didn't end there.

Because the town is close to a scenic spot that is not well-known in country T, nearly a month after the mudslide, a tour group disappeared from the town on the way back from that scenic area.

The reason why it is known that the tour group disappeared into that town is because the search and rescue personnel found the tour group's tour minibus in the town.

No one knows why the minibus made a detour to the town, but it is suspected that some members of the tour group asked for a detour to visit the town after hearing from the tour guide about the tragic events that happened in the town.

As long as the tour guide is willing to add money, the tour guide will naturally comply.

Half of the members of this tour group are citizens of Japan and half are from Japan.

These two countries are the two most influential countries in the whole of Asia, and the government of country T did not dare to slack off, and once again sent a large number of personnel to conduct a large-scale search.

However, the result was still the same, there were more than 20 people in this tour group, as if they had evaporated out of thin air, and no trace could be found.

And I, like everyone else in China, have been following the news reports since the disappearance of this tour group and praying for the blessings of my compatriots in the tour group.

It was also during that time that I learned that the town had experienced a massive mudslide a month earlier, and not only did most of the town's population be buried under the mudslide, but the remaining 100 or so people also disappeared out of thin air.

Therefore, after the large-scale search and rescue operation organized by the government of country T ended, but no living members of the tour group were found, I immediately set off with Gao Lingkai to investigate the matter and see if there was some kind of "supernatural" power hidden behind it.

Gao Lingkai had quit his job as a police officer and officially became an assistant to me.

But after all, he was only an assistant, and the equipment assigned to him by the alliance headquarters was only a stun stick and a sapphire ring.

In addition, Gao Lingkai asked his cousin, a senior technician, to help him modify an imitation pistol.

This replica pistol is just a few high-strength plastic building blocks when disassembled, but once assembled, its lethality is not much worse than that of the real gun.

But not everyone can assemble this replica pistol at will, and it requires very specialized mechanical skills. Therefore, as long as Gao Lingkai disassembles this imitation pistol, there is no problem in passing through customs by plane.

When we arrived in country T, we found a tour guide and paid a high price to take us to the town that had been buried by a mudslide.

As our country becomes more and more powerful and wealthy, all these neighboring countries have risen to the Chinese language craze. In particular, as one of the countries with the most abundant tourism resources in Southeast Asia, almost half of its tourism income comes from Chinese tourists.

Therefore, there are many people in country T who are actively learning Chinese, such as the tour guide we found, who speaks Chinese fluently.

The town we were going to was transliterated as Montola, and the guide told us that the government had blocked the road to Montura since the tour group disappeared in Montola.

"And I heard that among the members of that tour group, one of them is the first heir of the Japanese Omo Foundation, so the Damao Foundation privately organized a professional search and rescue team to enter Montola Town for search and rescue, but it has been almost a week now, and this professional search and rescue team has not withdrawn from Montola Town!"

The tour guide told us this, looking to the left and right, and lowered his voice to add a few more words.

"So now not to mention that the military and police have blocked the road into Montola Town, even if the road is clear, I'm afraid no tour guide will dare to take the two to Montura Town!"

"If that's the case, then could you please take us around the military police blockade, just to the vicinity of the town of Montura!" I say.

The tour guide shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You rich foreigners are really strange, you know that it is a very dangerous place, but you still want to go to that place!" ”

"Does anyone else want to go to that place too?" I asked with a smile.

"yes, yes! As far as I know, there is a European couple who say that they are naturalists, and they are also looking for guides to take them to the town of Montura, and I don't know if they have found a guide now! ”

"Then do you want to take us there? Again, all you have to do is take us around the military police and find the road to the town! Well, I can add another 1,000 yuan to the price I negotiated before! ”

1,000 yuan is a lot of money in country T, the tour guide thought about it again and again, and finally nodded stubbornly and said: "Let's talk about it, I will only take you around the military police and find the road leading to Montola Town, and you have to walk the rest of the way by yourself, I will never follow you on!" ”

"Don't worry, this is in your T country, can I still force you to do it?" I say.

"But if you want to show us the way, when we come back, we won't spare you!" Gao Lingkai half-jokingly added.

"How dare I! Your China is so powerful now, and our country's government departments take special care of your country's tourists, if I dare to deceive you, when you come back and sue me, my tour guide card will probably be revoked! The tour guide said, "But I have one condition, you have to pay half of the fare before you go, and when you get to the road leading to the town of Montura, you will give me the rest." ”

"No problem!" I nodded in agreement.

It was late in the day, and we agreed to leave early the next morning.

Gao Lingkai and I first found a hotel to stay in, and the next morning, the tour guide drove a small van over.

He was accompanied by a woman and a young man, who he described as his wife and brother.

"We're going to go around the checkpoint halfway uphill, so we're going to have to take my brother to see the car!" The tour guide explained it to me.

When I paid him half of the fee, he gave that half to his wife. After that, he drove the car, his brother sat in the passenger seat, and Gao Lingkai and I sat in the back seat and set off together.

I walked along a road in the mountains that was not very wide for more than three hours, and the road was full of potholes and could not go too fast, so in more than three hours, I only walked about 1670 kilometers.

Seeing an off-road vehicle parked in front of him, the tour guide said: "Not long further is the checkpoint set up by the military and police. ”

He said as he pulled over behind the SUV.

Then he got out of the car, went to say a few words to a young man in the car in front of him, and came back to tell us: "Two Japanese have just gone up the mountain with a guide, and the destination is also the town of Montola. Let's hurry up and maybe catch up with them. ”

"Why catch up with them? Were you scared when you came back alone? Gao Lingkai asked with a smile.

"I'm not afraid, I'm thinking of helping you two find two companions, so that it will definitely be safer!" The tour guide said.

We didn't talk any more nonsense, and the guide told his brother to watch the car carefully, and led us up a narrow mountain road.

The guide was brisk at first, but slowed down noticeably after rounding a mountain.

Gao Lingkai and I are younger and stronger than him, but it is easier than him to walk.

As a result, not only did he fail to catch up with the two Japanese in front of him, but when he climbed a mountain beam, he was confronted by a very strong man.

The guide spoke to the man for a while, then turned back to us and said that the stout man was indeed the guide of the two Japanese, and had sent the two Japanese to the road to Montura.

So the tour guide wanted to just take us here so that we could turn around and go back with the strong man.

"Look, the road down there is the road to Montola, and I don't need to send it any further, you two just need to go down from here! Look at it, those two figures should be those two Japanese! ”

I looked in the direction of the guide's finger, and sure enough, I saw a winding road under the mountain beam. There were two unclear-looking figures walking southwest along the road.

(See Chapter 405 of "The Explorer")