Her mind went blank, and she hurried out of the floor and down the stone steps, only to see that the mountainside was full of cupola stakes, and at the top of them stood sharp blades, blocking the way down the mountain.

"Wow!"

The big black dog bit her trouser leg and went in the other direction, turned most of the mountain, and walked out of the thorn bushes and steep slopes, and it took most of the day to reach the bottom of the mountain.

Xi Huanyan stumbled to the new house on the edge of the village with her body out of force, and when she saw the lock on the door, her heart sank to the valley, she carefully wiped the dust off the lock, inserted the key into the rusty keyhole, and turned.

Click.

With a long creaking sound, she entered the house.

The obscured light enveloped her, and she stood still for a moment, calming her tiredness, and then silently washed the pot, brought half a bucket of water from the outside jar, poured it inside, and put it on the steaming rack.

The big black dog followed her step by step, just like when her father died, he followed his mother.

Xi Huanyan looked annoyed, moved a stool to remove the bacon hanging on the beam, cut off the hairy part, threw it to it, and took off the hanging meat again, washed and cut it, and put it on the steaming rack.

She lit the dry firewood and stuffed it into the stove, and the gradually hot fire reflected on her body, soothing the cold hands and feet.

The big black dog curled up at her feet, and a man and a dog were roasting a fire in the house covered with a thin layer of ash.

Time was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, unable to make the slightest waves, she calmly added firewood, and then sat there, watching all the firewood burn away little by little.

The footsteps outside the door broke the dead silence, and one person gently touched the edge of the kitchen, and was relieved when he saw that it was Xi Huanyan, and the sound of vitality and complaints completely crushed the space to pieces.

"Huan Yan, you're back, I'm still thinking about how the smoke is coming out of here!"

This is an uncle in the same village, Xi Huanyan is not very familiar with him, but this does not hinder him.

"When did you die, why didn't you tell me. ”

"Hey......" he scratched his head, as if trying to figure out how to speak.

"It's been a month and a half, that time the village organized people to go into the mountain to eliminate demons, most of them died, your mother and second uncle are the heroes of the village, and the patriarch also asked people to go up the mountain to find you, but I heard that the mountainside is fenced, and they can't get in. ”

"What about corpses. ”

"They were all burned under the cliff when the wind passed, and it was dark, there were wild beasts, and it was going to rain, and how could the few people who were alive bring out so many corpses and burn them together with the aliens. ”

Xi Huanyan stared at the ashes in the stove in silence, and the uncle from the same village stood helplessly for a while and quietly left.

She got up and lifted the lid of the pot, took out the bacon, put it on the table, ate it one bite at a time, then took a hot bath, sharpened the wood knife in the corner of the kitchen, and went out.

The wind in the mountains and forests whistled in her ears, and she ran faster and faster, plunging headlong into the redwood forest, and then rushing to the bottom of the cliff where the wind passed.

It rained for a long time after that day, and the water in the cold pool overflowed, and the grass seemed to be more fertile than ever, and it grew to the calves, and even the long grass around the waist swayed in the breeze, and it was dizzying.

At the bottom of this empty cliff, her soul seemed to be empty.

How so?

Xi Huanyan felt unprepared for the loss of her parents in a year, and she wandered by the cold pool over and over again, with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

Click.

She removed her foot, and there was a bone under her feet.

Xi Huanyan slowly squatted down, pushed aside the grass next to her, and gradually her speed became faster and faster, and the long thatch with soil was thrown aside by her, she tried her best to find the original corpse, and this search, the whole world became clear.

The method of disposing of corpses in the village has always been to burn or bury them.

When burning, a layer of black phosphorus powder will be sprinkled, so that it will be burned cleanly and directly turned into ash.

When buried, a layer of tobacco powder will be sprinkled, which is also known as animal repellent powder, which can prevent wild beasts from picking up soil.

At that time, it was too late, so they chose to burn, and because of the rain, the burning was not thorough, leaving some corpses.

Xi Huanyan cleaned up the grass, and traces of two incineration piles, one large and one small, appeared in front of him.

The big one, don't think about it, must be the alien demon burning pile, the giant alien demon charred and broken skeleton is still left on the ground, the small one is the villager burning pile, and there are still some bones left to burn clean.

Xi Huanyan is not a fake, and she does not have the ability to restore her death through the scorched black appearance, but she remembers that there is a pendant hanging around her mother's neck, and the pendant cannot be burned.

She cleaned the incineration heap, but she didn't see the shadow of the pendant, and she searched around again and again, but still found nothing.

Taken away?

Or didn't die here?

There are three ways to go out of the cliff, climb the cliff, go to the north and go around the mountain road back to the village, and go out of the mountain through the redwood forest from the south.

The first two can be ruled out, one is to climb, the other is to detour, it is too troublesome, they can only return the same way.

Xi Huanyan imagined the situation at that time, predicted their path, and slowly walked back, she found a charred tree, under which were some bones and charred rags, and around it were cracked beast droppings.

The bones were scattered and there were no scorch marks, and she remembered that the uncle in the same village said that the demon extermination team encountered heavy rain after coming out of the bottom of the cliff, so if this corpse belonged to the team at that time, it must have died on the way back, and the fire only burned a little clothes and was extinguished by the heavy rain, cheapening the nearby beasts.

It's an hour and a half away from the village, and those people have just fought a big battle with the alien demons, and they are still injured, will they brave the rain to go out of the mountain?

A word popped up in Xi Huanyan's mind, hunter house.

She was young, and her parents didn't let her go far away, so she didn't know the distribution of hunter houses, but she remembered that her father had said that as long as you got to the mountains, there must be a hunter house within a kilometer radius.

Xi Huanyan suppressed her heavy emotions and looked at the big black dog, the black dog seemed to have gotten some information, lowered her head and followed the road to take her back to the redwood forest, and came to a hunter's house, but when it arrived here, it whimpered and came and went, like a headless fly.

At first glance, she felt strange.

The twenty or so redwood trees around the hunter's house are sleazed, feather-like and slender leaves, dry and yellow, in contrast to the bright rings of redwoods outside.

Xi Huanyan became suspicious, hugged both sides of the trunk with both hands, and pushed it hard, but felt it loose.

The roots of this tree are not deep, and it has been replanted!

She didn't need any tools to deal with this replanted tree, and she pulled it up with all her strength.

There was nothing in the pit and no smell, and she dug deeper, but she found nothing.

Xi Huanyan stubbornly came up, uprooted all twenty-one trees, and tossed for an evening and half a night, but found nothing.

Exhausted, she pushed the hunter's house open, lit the candle, the orange light of the fire lit up the hut and gave her a little comfort, she curled up on the plank bed with her eyes open, unable to sleep.

After a long time, she rolled over, closed her eyes and thought about all the things from the day she met the demon to today, but before she could finish recalling, the eyelids seemed to be glued, she couldn't open them, and her thoughts fell into darkness like a slippery slope.

She fell asleep.

The big black dog also lay on the ground.