"When~~When~~When~~"

I sat a little sleepy, and immediately woke up: "What is it?" The bells? Isn't it, the bell rings at three o'clock, so that no one can sleep? ”

With this deafening volume, no matter how good you sleep, you will be woken up 100%.

I looked at my brother and sister, and was surprised to find that my brother's face was stiff and my sister looked panicked, as if the bell was telling something.

"What's ......"?

I couldn't finish three words, and I watched in horror as the pan halberd suddenly closed his eyes, fell backwards, and lost consciousness.

What's wrong with "My brother ...... him"?

Still before I could finish asking, as if the unconscious pan halberd had moved, he opened his eyes, but the eyes that had always been bright and bright, and now he looked straight ahead like a fool, his face stiffened, and he stood up.

I stood up with it: "Brother? ”

He ignored me and walked slowly past me towards the gate.

I looked at my sister who was even more helpless, she was shrewd and capable, she looked like she was about to collapse at this time, she wanted to pull my brother, but she was afraid of something and didn't dare to touch him.

"What's wrong with my brother?" I can finally get that out of my mouth.

Ban Zhi shook his head with tears in his eyes, and then pulled me out of the gate, at this time, we couldn't care about any grievances between us, and followed my brother out of the villa together, walking on the night road: "Recently, Panji has been like this, every other day, the bell will ring at three o'clock in the morning, and then your brother will go out like sleepwalking, and come back after dawn." ”

"Where did he go? Why didn't you stop him? ”

"The sleepwalker must not shout at him, or he will be killed." Ban Zhi said bitterly about what she had tried during this time, "...... I once sealed all the doors and windows, and your brother went crazy and slammed the door and almost didn't kill himself. ”

To this day, she still trembles with fear when she thinks of that scene, her relatives are harming themselves in front of her eyes, but she can't do anything.

I hesitantly raised my hand and patted her on the back to comfort her.

"Then you know, where my brother goes?"

"Do you know what's up ahead?"

"I've been here once before, and it seems like it's our mine?"

Ban Zhi nodded: "There is also a mountain next to our mine, which is connected to our mine. ”

"Ah, I know that. When I was a child, my brother told me that there were monsters in that mountain, and we couldn't get into it, and I really believed it at the time. But then I heard that the mountain was sealed, and it was really forbidden for people to enter? ”

“…… That's the mountain where your brother went! ”

“……”

"But, but I heard that the reason why that mountain was sealed was because a lot of people died there?" Although it is only a legend, there is no mountain that has been sealed for no reason, and from a long, long time ago, everyone who lived in M City knew that that mountain could not be visited.

Even if this is my second time in M City, I know about it, and I think that the mountain must be abnormal.

"What is he going to do on that mountain?"

"I don't know," my sister was dejected, "I followed him a few times, and each time I turned out on my own halfway through." ”

Looking at my brother who was slowly and steadily moving forward in front of me, my heart sank more and more: "By the way, the bell just rang...... Who's the bell? ”

"I don't know, I didn't have it before, I only heard it recently, I observed it a few times, and the bell probably came down from that mountain."

From、Mountain?

There's a clock on the mountain?

The bell I just heard refers to the clock of time, the kind that was popular in the seventies and eighties, not the bell of a monk ringing the bell.

After discussing with Ban Zhi, we slowly walked through our own mine, and the mountain we talked about was next to my mine, but we drew a dividing line, and the workers were not allowed to cross that line.

We followed the pancake across the line and walked towards the weedy mountain road, passing a stone monument only knee-high, and the words "Mountain of Bones" were faintly visible in the night.

was already nervous, but when I saw these three words, I instantly made up a lot of pictures in my mind.

My brother was still walking up, and we continued to follow, and as far as we could see, there were dark shadows fluttering, I don't know if it was a branch, a weed, or a ...... Something else.

No matter how much you experience, such an environment still makes people tremble, and the occasional shadow of the trees makes you want to turn around and run home.

I focused all my attention on my brother, thinking that I should have known that I should have contacted the master who Xia You said would come to help me anyway, and I should bring the master with me.

I thought again, with my "big murder weapon" here, Ban Zhi will go around halfway through it, will it be broken by me.

Just thinking like this, a flower suddenly appeared in front of me, and when I looked at it again, my brother's person suddenly disappeared!

No, we went back and stood at the foot of the mountain, a little further past the border line with my mine!

So I don't use it sometimes, huh?

The sister next to her was very frustrated and wiped her face: "What do you say?" ”

I don't know.

"Will he really be back tomorrow morning?"

"I have done it before, and I think it will be able to do it this time." It can be heard that she is very afraid that her brother will never come back once after entering this mountain, "Even if he comes back, I don't know why, his health is getting worse and worse, he has no appetite for anything, and he can't find anything when he goes to the hospital for examination, and if it goes on like this, even if he can come back every time, his body can't hold it." ”

I was silent, feeling sorry for my brother, I couldn't comfort myself, where could I comfort my sister.

Then he turned around and continued on the same path he had just walked, leaving all my fears behind me.

I'm going to get my brother back!

Ban Zhi followed me silently, thinking that she had experienced this matter countless times today, and she still followed me to do it again, she and my brother have always had a good relationship, just like a real brother and sister of the same father.

This time there was no brother in front of me, so I could only try to remember which way we had just gone, and I was sure that I should have remembered correctly, but along the way, there was no trace of us walking at all.

The grass that should have been crushed had not been trampled on, and the stone that should have been kicked away by me was still in its original place, just as the previous one was fake and non-existent.

Not long after, my sister and I seemed to see a way out and ran over happily, but as soon as we got out, we returned to the foot of the mountain.

After that, we walked several times in a row, each time it was like a new beginning, I would sometimes make a few marks, and when I walked again, the marks were gone, like carving words on a stone, even if it was erased artificially, it would leave traces, but when we looked at it again, it was really smooth and original.

For a moment, I was cold to the soles of my heels!

It's October, at five o'clock in the morning, at the foot of the mountain, when the wind blows, the feeling is that it has suddenly entered the harsh winter, it is really cold, from the body and mind.

My sister and I went into the mountains countless times to no avail, so we chose to squat here and wait, knowing that it was useless, but we stubbornly didn't want to go back, and in front of the life and death of our dearest relatives, the terrible environment, and the frozen body didn't matter.

It's the first time since we had a secret falling out that we've done the same thing so tacitly.

"You said that this had been happening for a short time, so I didn't think to ask for some ...... The mage came to take a look? I asked, rubbing my hands.

Ban Zhi was silent, and when I looked at her suspiciously, she slowly spoke: "Please, please, please." ”

"And then?"

"None of them came back."

"......" I kept my eyes open.

Ban Zhi looked ahead expressionlessly: "They all followed Panji up the mountain, and they didn't come back." ”

"But we're all coming back."

"It should be that we don't have any skills, and we can't get in just on the edge."

And if you have some ability, you can follow it for a while, and then, you can never come back.

"Then when did my brother start doing this? Is there anyone else here who has the same symptoms as him? Or, did anything strange happen before he did this? When I asked this, I thought of an important thing, "By the way, you told my brother before that this matter has something to do with me?" What is it? ”

"Before, there was an accident in the mine."

"Yes, I remember...... I heard you're still hospitalized, are you okay? ”

Ban Zhi shook his head, his eyes blank, as if recalling: "At that time, the corpse ...... The mountain has shaken. "The three words of Corpse Mountain, in today's atmosphere, it is really difficult to say.

"Shock?"

"It affected our side of the mine, causing the workers to be injured, I don't know who it was, and there were rumors that our mine was one with the cursed mountain, and it was also cursed, and we were taking the lives of the workers to fill that curse...... You also know that M City is relatively chaotic, so it was planned by someone with a heart to launch a small riot......"

Panhalberd forcibly suppressed the riot, but this rumor was not dispelled, many workers went on strike, and the impact was still very great, so he personally brought a few bodyguards to the mountain of bones.

I went for a whole day and a night, and only the pan halberd came back.

Panhal said that he saw a tomb on the mountain, and was so surprised that he and his bodyguards dug up the tomb, and Panhal himself does not remember what happened after that, but when he was awake, he returned to the villa, and all the bodyguards were nowhere to be found.

Including those magicians, Taoist priests, feng shui masters and other abilities who were specially invited to feel evil later, none of them came back.

Later, even those who were rumored to be miraculous refused the commission when they heard that it was here.

"Wait," I was confused, "you say, my brother saw a grave on the hill and then ...... Dig that grave? My brother is not such a tasteless person, okay, why does he dig people's graves? ”

She lowered her head and crossed her hands in front of her, dodging my question.

"What the hell is going on, you say."

"Your brother...... I don't want you to know......"

"It's all this time, do you care about this?"

She took a deep breath, as if she had made a great determination, and then suddenly raised her head to look at me: "Because the tomb that your brother saw, with your name written on it!" ”

Me: "......"

After being stunned for a few seconds, I barely pulled the corners of my mouth: "There are more people with the same name and surname in this world, just because he has the same name as me, my brother will dig a grave?" What international jokes? ”

The owner of the grave must be angry, it's good that it's been dug up because of a name, who will you count if you don't find a pan halberd to settle accounts?

"It's not just your name, it's engraved on the tombstone, but it's also the same birth date as you, and the date of death is ......"

I stared at her intently, scared and desperate to know.

“…… It's July 14th, you, when you disappeared. ”

My smile froze: "Coincidentally, coincidentally, right?" ”

"No one has ever gone up that mountain, and for no reason there is a tomb from July this year, and it is still engraved with your name and birthday? That's too much of a coincidence, right? And, and......" her voice weakened, "there is also a picture of you posted on it, your brother will not, admit your mistake." ”

There was silence for a long time, and no one spoke.

I pinched my lips with trembling fingers, and said in a trembling voice: "Look at me, live well, that tomb must be fake, someone must have deliberately created it to fool my brother." ”

"I thought so too, but the problem is, your brother has to be on the corpse every two days...... This mountain, and the bodyguards and priests who are missing," she shook her head, "I really don't know what to do to find you, since it's your tombstone, I thought, maybe," she glanced sideways at me, "really has something to do with you." ”

I can't answer this question.

Because so much has happened to me.

He rested his hands on his knees, buried his face in them, and his heart went vib.

At this moment, I miss the family of the poet very much, including the black egg.

I don't know how long we waited here, but the sun was slowly rising on the horizon, and there was a faint light on me, and I began to feel uncomfortable, and I was thinking about whether to change to the shadows, when suddenly, a weight pressed on my back, and at the same time, a pair of hands hung down from my shoulders.

In other words, there is a person who does not know whether it is dead or alive, and it falls on my back?

When I realized this, my body jumped up and screamed until the person who was pressing me was thrown to the ground by me, and when I looked back and saw his appearance, I cried out again: "Brother! ”

I knelt down, and at the same time my sister knelt down to help up the panhalberd.

"Brother? Brother, brother! ”

"Panhald, Panhalberd?!"

No matter what we called, the pan halberd did not respond, I probed his snort, and after making sure that he was still breathing, the big stone on his chest was barely half lowered, and the other half was large, because I found that the blue shadow under his eyes was heavier, and his lips were a little black and purple, which was not a good phenomenon no matter how you looked at it.

"Send him back first."

……

After returning home, Ban Zhi invited the doctor home, the doctor estimated that he had been here many times, and he began to examine Pan Ji without asking anything, and after half an hour, he shouted to us: "He must rest well, stay in bed for a few days, if he stays up late, he is likely to die suddenly!" ”

But he ......" my sister wanted to explain but couldn't explain, so she could only bite her lower lip.

After the doctor left, she made a call: "The high-ranking people you said last time, no matter how much they charged, they must be invited back to me, do you hear?" I don't care, even if you tie them up, you have to tie them up for me! ”

My sister showed her domineering side in front of me, and after hanging up the phone, she almost threw her phone to the ground, although she controlled it, she threw herself into the single sofa, holding her forehead with her hands, angry and self-loathing.

She has always been strong and responsible, and she must be blaming herself for failing to take care of her brother.

I sat on the other side: "You invited the master over again?" ”

"What else can I do?" She said angrily, "Watching your brother die? ”

"But you said before that the ones you invited earlier have never come back after entering the mountain." So, do you want to continue to take people's lives here?

Ban Zhi's eyes lifted, and from my point of view, she almost raised the whites of her eyes, and looked at me coldly: "If you can save your brother, what are these things, if those people have no ability, don't call themselves superior, if they don't show how powerful they are, will I go to 'invite' them?" They are going to die because of this, and they liars deserve it! ”

I have nothing to say.

While my sister went upstairs to see my brother, I called Xia You and asked her if the person who came to help me came?

"It seems to have gone, what, is it urgent on your side? Click, click, click. ”

"It's in a hurry, my brother is going to go down again, I don't know if he will be able to go on next time. However, I want to ask you, how strong is the person who came to help me? My sister said that there were a few masters in your Yin and Yang Realm who were said to be a little famous before, but none of them came back. ”

"Most of the folklore are liars, don't worry, the one I sent, although a little unreliable, but she still has the ability, at least she has done so many tasks, and now she is still alive, click, click."

It's not very reliable when you hear it, right?

By two o'clock in the afternoon, my brother still showed no signs of waking up.

Ban Zhi said that at first, my brother came back and could wake up after five minutes of fainting, and it gradually became an hour, two hours, and a morning...... By now, it was afternoon, and he was still groggy and didn't move.

The two of us took turns taking turns to take care of her, and just as my sister replaced me, I returned to the living room on the first floor, and when I left a message for Qiu Shishi on WeChat, the doorbell rang.

I got up and was about to drive, my sister who had just gone upstairs had hurried downstairs, seeing this, I followed her out, passed the front yard, came to the iron gate, and parked a few cars outside.

My sister opened the iron gate, and a few men and women in normal clothes walked down from each car, and I thought I would see them wearing a uniform, and now people are also keeping pace with the times.

They were accompanied by one or two or three assistants or apprentices, and the elder sister, who had shown disdain for these masters who might be liars, in the morning, took out her social means and welcomed them through the door one by one.

Just as a total of three small groups of people came in and my sister was about to close the iron gate, a taxi that looked a little old drove by.

The original plan was that the taxi was supposed to drive in front of the iron gate, but before it arrived, it suddenly bulged and broke down.

A girl came out of the back seat, twenty-three or four-year-old, with half-curly hair casually draped over her shoulders, and a pair of oversized sunglasses, covering half of her face, her lips pursed, and she looked cold.

But when she was about to take out her luggage, because she couldn't see clearly through her sunglasses, she tripped her left foot and hit her right foot and hit her head on the roof of the car.

She bared her teeth, and then quickly picked them up, painfully maintaining her original coldness.

…… I can see that this is a pseudo-coldness.

The driver also got out of the car, and while checking the condition of the car, he scolded angrily: "I have been carrying you for eight lifetimes, half an hour away, I have been driving from nine o'clock in the morning to now, it is another car accident and an accident, and now the car is still broken, grass!" ”

The girl glanced at him, took out a hundred yuan from her bag and slapped it on the car cover: "No need, thank you." ”

"A hundred dollars isn't enough to repair a car."

"Just your broken car, I'm unlucky to sit on it, okay, you should thank me for not abandoning and not changing cars to sit here with me, and I want the old lady to pay, okay, when you daydream." The girl shook her long hair proudly, but she threw it too violently, and her body was crooked, and she hurriedly straightened it up, and walked towards us again.

Me: "......"

My sister looked at me and seemed to ask me if I wanted to close the door immediately.

I motioned for her to hear what the girl wanted to do.

The girl walked up to us, pushed her sunglasses, looked at me and my sister, and asked solemnly, "Excuse me, which of you is Banlan?" ”

Looking for me?

"I am, who are you?"

"My name is Zhang Xiaofang, and I am a demon suppressor!"

What is a Demon Suppressor?

But I shook her hand as I pleased: "Oh, hello, hello. ”

"Xia You, do you know, she asked me to come, understand?"

Me: "......"

I kind of understand what Xia You's mouth means by not being reliable.

"Banlan," my sister listened to our conversation and turned to me to ask, "who is this?" ”

"Ahem, this was introduced to me by a friend of mine." I lowered my voice and said to my sister, "It's really capable, it's very powerful." ”

My sister's wary expression immediately changed to a warm smile: "Master, please come in, please come in." ”

"Just call me by name, I'm not a master."

In the living room, Niu Ke, Ban Zhi's assistant who sent these masters over, was helping to greet them, there were no other servants in this villa, and after the brother's accident, the servants were all dismissed.

After Xiaofang and we came in, we sat Zhang Xiaofang, stood in the center of the living room facing their sister, and bowed deeply to them: "Thank you for coming, my Ban Zhi, thank you in advance here." ”

She straightened up and solemnly promised: "Everyone should know my Ban family, Panji is the future heir of my Ban family, as long as you can save him, whatever you want, the Ban family can give it!" ”

It's a big pie.

However, although I am not very familiar with my own industry, I know more or less that the Ban family has a certain influence in the country, and the eldest sister is not boasting about Haikou indiscriminately.

I glanced at everyone present, except for Zhang Xiaofang, who was still wearing sunglasses, the rest of them were more or less excited.

After that, it was time to introduce each other.

plus Zhang Xiaofang, who arrived later, a total of four waves of people.

One is a middle-aged man surnamed Mao, who claims to be a descendant of the Mao family.

One is named Jiang Yahui, who looks no more than thirty years old, but she brought a female apprentice who is about the same age as her, called her master, and her dressing style is a bit like that of an ethnic minority, I don't know what kind of "sect" it is, she didn't introduce it.

There was also an old man, who claimed to be an unknown layman, wearing a modified version of his tunic and also bringing two apprentices.

Invite them to the pancake room and ask them to check the panji's physical condition.