"What you're saying is different from what Asuke said!"

"I only saw this in the newspapers at the beginning, of course, there will be some discrepancies with what actually happened, and you have seen several newspapers now tell the truth." The second uncle is colorful.

"That's just as well!" I turned to look at Asuke and asked him why the Japanese army had come in that year, but halfway through the question, I remembered that 1945 was the year when the Japanese army stole the secret of the sacred tree in Heizhugou and then carried out the "Earth Axis" project.

I realized that the original group of Japanese soldiers had come to carry out the plan.

"What do you want to say?" Asuke wasn't very close to me, and he didn't hear me clearly.

I waved my hand, didn't speak, and looked around.

After some time, the number of stone figurines came out, and there were 24 in total.

The second uncle looked at the stone figurines at this time, and suddenly attached to my ear and lowered his voice and said, "Look." ”

"See what?"

"The arrangement of those stone figurines doesn't look like a road."

When I turned my head, sure enough, the stone figurines were lined up on both sides, and an empty passage was revealed in the middle, which really looked like a road.

I remembered what Ribu had said to me before, what night of ignorance, the road to the temple will be revealed, could it be this?

"Hey!" Another shout came from the front, interrupting my thoughts.

Jizier ran over: "The body has been found in front!" ”

My heart tightened and I followed, and in the grass not far away, a corpse of a Yi man fell there, his face was unrecognizable, and many parts of his body were torn and bitten bones were exposed.

"Ni did it!" Gizier said.

"So what do we do? You have to find Lu Xing quickly, otherwise he will really die. "The second uncle is obviously more anxious than me, and I think a large part of this is due to the fact that he is investigating Grandpa's case!

At this time, Asuke walked up to my side, and he said, "Go separately and go into the mountains to search." ”

The whole primeval forest is too big, too big to imagine it, and the ancient mountains and giant trees seem to completely separate this world, and the dense branches and leaves of the head block the light of the moon, and if you continue to find it like this, it will be impossible to find it for several days.

"That's all there is to it!" I nodded.

"Split up!" The Yi people gathered together naturally divided into several groups and began to walk from this clearing to different forest directions.

In the darkness, countless torches marched forward like a winding dragon.

At first, Jizier and Shamashyi were going to let me and my second uncle go back, but they said that if we went inside, it would be a deep mountain, which would be very dangerous for those of us who had not been in the mountain.

The second uncle shook his head and said forget it, when we get to this place, it's not good for the two of us to go back alone, now that someone has an accident on the mountain, it is when we need manpower, we can do our best!

Shamashyi said that it is also delicious, but the mountain road is not easy to walk, you must follow us, otherwise there are caves and cracks here, and it is easy to have an accident, I nodded to show that I understood, so the four of them walked for a while, and something appeared in front of them.

"There's a no-go zone ahead." Shamashyi said, pointing to the road that was symbolically blocked not far away.

I listened to Shamashyi's words and looked around with a torch, and sure enough, I saw a winged birdman in the trees here, and these tree paintings seemed to be painted with a kind of paint, I know that in the mountains, these people's mythological concepts and beliefs are particularly strong, before I even heard the news that some tourists ran to the temple of a certain ethnic group and scribbled and were finally caught and beaten to death.

"Looks like we can't go through this, right?"

"It's okay to pass, these things are just a warning sign for you outsiders." "But it's not just a matter of faith, it's also a matter of belief that the authorities asked us to protect tourists, because it's too dangerous," Jizier said. But the danger here is not about monsters and demons, but in Zhongshan District of Liupanshui, where most of the landforms are composed of mountains and hills, and the landforms are highly related to the stratigraphic rock structure. That is to say, there are a large number of karst basins, clusters of peaks and troughs here. ”

"Afraid we'll fall in?" I understand.

After a short rest, we walked forward in a group, this time there was no so-called vanguard, because if someone left behind and got lost, it would undoubtedly be a very troublesome thing.

Avoiding the regular route, with the slippery moss, we seemed to make our way all the way to the depths of the mountains.

As far as the eye can see, the surroundings are full of pine, cedar, and green hills. I had to instinctively avoid these tall trees while running, and at the same time beware of the fern moss and bamboo shoots under my feet, after the rain these rattan vines and wood ginger began to frantically get out of the dirt, I stepped on them and I could slip and fall, and Jizier also told me before, if you slip in the mountains after the rain, if you can't get up right away, then you may fall into the cave.

My second uncle and I walked at the end, and neither of us paid attention to anyone, because the long walk made me a little weak in my limbs. I gasped for breath, looking at the sporadic firelight in front of me, I felt my lungs start to hurt, Lu Xing told me before that this place is in the transition from the Eastern Yunnan Plateau to the Central Guizhou Plateau, like the first time we came, we would definitely feel uncomfortable.

Sure enough, I had only been walking for a few hours, and I felt unwell in such a place with a large altitude difference.

"Do you want to rest?" As this idea deepened, I finally gave up chasing them and began to rest on the rocks, which were no longer covered by vegetation, perhaps because of the rising terrain, and the rocky walls in the mountains began to come out bare. I looked up, and the light of the torch shone out of an upside-down rock in front of me. No....... In fact, it was a stone wall that cracked in the middle and made a huge opening.

But the people in front of me ignored me, maybe I was walking too slowly, and soon the second uncle and they had already passed through that opening and walked away.

"Fuck, I need to rest." I can't bear it, I'm an otaku myself, this time into the mountain is a weight into the mountain, if it weren't for the desperate fight in the ancient tomb before, maybe my physical strength is not as good as before, as far as the big night can walk for hours in front of it is already a miracle.

It's not good, what I'm curious about is the second uncle, he should be the first time to come to this kind of mountainous area, how to walk is still full of energy.

The opening of the rock wall was oval, and at first glance with the crack on it, the hollow of the rock wall in the dense woods looked like a huge hanging gourd, and finally the old man told me that the place I had arrived at was the mouth of the gourd, the junction of the forest and the wetland, and that if I were a local, I would not have chosen to rest there. Because it is a later story, I know very well what kind of place the old man said about the junction of forests and wetlands.

"Forget it, I can't walk anymore." I was trying to find a place to rest, but before I had reached two steps, suddenly I fell under my feet and fell into a pit.

"Damn it!" In the middle of the night, I didn't know what was going on, and I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, desperately waving my hands in the pit to grab something and climb up by myself.

But it didn't work, I slid down too fast to be slowed down by holding my fingers on the dirt, and it wasn't until I felt the temperature under my feet that I realized I had fallen into the water.

"Swamp." A worst thought came to mind, and the icy temperature of the water was especially bitter at night.

"What should I do?" I started to get scared, but I didn't dare to shout, and the instinctive distress signal in my head was telling me not to move, to try to keep my balance, and then look around me for a place to catch on.

I began to steady my breathing, and shone in all directions with the light of the torches, but the brightness of the flames only allowed me to see the pools of water on all sides, the old roots and shrubs growing several places away from me, and the nearest to me was a slope of earth and heather and holly. Obviously, there's no place I can start. At this time, my body was still slowly sinking.

In the evening, the mountain wind whistled like a knife, and the cold breath began to move around me after I stopped moving, and I tried to swim forward, for there were many shrubs standing in the water, and I wondered if I could climb them, at least to keep myself alive. But after swimming for a while, I found that my body was completely immobile because of my legs stuck in the mud, and the water level was over my shoulders.

I cried out as hard as I could, but just as I was desperate, I saw a pair of red lanterns emerge from the grass.