When Sun Chuansheng mentioned this fog in his handbook, he specially used the word "miasma".

The classics of the old family said that miasma, is a kind of toxic gas volatilized by the rapid decay of wood and corpses at high temperatures, the ancients thought that this special gas would cause malignant diseases, in fact, such a statement is not accurate, although miasma is indeed harmful to the human body, but it is the mosquitoes in the miasma that cause malignant diseases.

My blood is highly poisonous, I am not afraid of mosquito bites, let alone worry about miasma, Li Huaishan has glass eggs on his body, and mosquitoes do not dare to approach him.

Now I feel more and more that the decision to take Li Huaishan with me is correct.

At this moment, Li Huaishan put his left hand on his eyebrows, shielded from the sun, and looked at the fog between the two cliffs.

I asked him, "Tired, aren't you?" ”

"I'm tired, I've walked for so long, and my knees are weak." Li Huaishan's tone was a little complaining: "I've always wanted to ask you before, what are you doing in this kind of deep mountain and old forest?" Treasure hunting? ”

I folded Sun Chuansheng's handwritten book and carefully put it in my pocket: "I really want to find something." After this fog, it is a cottage, the letter said, the situation in the village is more strange, we go in this time, I am afraid we will encounter danger. Ergou, if you want to quit now, it's still too late. ”

Usually I usually call him Ergou, for this somewhat dejoratory nickname, Li Huaishan likes it very much, for unknown reasons.

Li Huaishan stared at me with wide eyes: "If it weren't for you, what would it be?" It's all here and you're talking to me like this, have you ever treated me as a brother? ”

To be honest, I'm really hesitant now, when I came out with Li Huaishan, I only thought that the two of them took turns to drive and could go faster, but I didn't care about anything else at all.

But now, Chrysalis is almost in front of him, his cultivation is very low, and he has no experience, once he encounters danger, it is difficult to get out of the whole body, I am afraid that I can bring him here, but I can't bring him back safely.

I also knew that it would be too late to say something like that by this point, after all, it was impossible for him to go back on his own for eight days.

"We're brothers." I smiled at Li Huaishan.

Li Huaishan also showed a mouthful of white teeth: "That's right, don't be afraid of being a brother, don't be afraid of me, I may do something that will affect you in the future, in short, don't be afraid." ”

I nodded, put away my compass, and walked towards the fog in the distance.

From the outside, the fog between the cliffs looks very thick, but when you walk inside, you will find that the visibility is not low, but the sunlight does not shine in properly, causing the environment to become a little gray.

As we went deeper, the road gradually became less difficult to walk, and I could clearly feel that the weeds around my feet were much thinner, and the ground became more and more flat.

Since entering the miasma, Li Huaishan has been frowning, and his face is a little more puzzled, at this time there has been a sound of wind in front of him, I estimate that I have almost reached the edge of the fog, so I stopped, turned my head and asked Li Huaishan: "What do you think, you have been frowning just now?" ”

Li Huaishan clasped his hands and asked me, "You say, what kind of people would live in such a place?" ”

I shook my head: "I can't tell, but Sun Chuansheng's handwritten letter said that most of the people living in the chrysalis village behave strangely, and they specially told me to be careful." I stopped halfway, just to tell you, don't venture after entering the chrysalis village, and be more vigilant in everything. ”

Li Huaishan rolled his eyes at me: "How did you become like a man in your voice now?" Okay, I know, after you go in, everything will be based on you, and I will do whatever you say. Let's go. ”

Actually, I didn't mean that, it doesn't make sense to focus on anyone, I just remind him to be careful.

But since he said that, I didn't talk any more, so I could only shake my head helplessly and continue to move forward.

My guess was right, after walking about twenty or thirty meters, the fog disappeared, but the light still did not change, and the scene in front of me looked very gray.

What appeared in front of me at this time was the last landmark on the handwriting, an ancient tree.

As Sun Chuansheng described, the tree was very straight, the trunk was only as thick as a thigh, but the height of the tree was close to the height of a building with more than 30 floors, and there were not many branches on the tree, which made it look like an inverted needle, stuck in the heart of the mountains.

Behind this tree is a very dense forest, and the handwritten book says that through this forest, you will see a cracked valley, and the chrysalis village is inside.

I took Li Huaishan towards the forest, and the more I walked, the more I felt that something was wrong.

At the end of Sun Chuansheng's handwritten letter, he first said that the chrysalis village was located in the depths of the fog, and then said that after passing through the fog, he could see the chrysalis village in the canyon only after passing through the ancient trees and forests. Inconsistencies.

Maybe it was because Sun Chuansheng was too hasty in writing that handwritten letter that he made such a low-level mistake, or maybe he didn't make a mistake at all.

The entire handwritten book is sprinkled with thousands of words, although the handwriting is sloppy, but there is not a single typo, including the description of some landmarks is very accurate.

This made me feel that perhaps, Sun Chuansheng deliberately left such a contradiction in his handwriting, in order to hint at me something.

But what exactly is he implying about?

Passing through the forest, the canyon mentioned in the handbook appeared in our sight, and the black bamboo buildings were located at the bottom of the valley irregularly, which was the so-called Chrysalis Village.

Although there is indeed wind flowing in the canyon, the Qi field is so silted up that it still gives people a dull feeling of impermeability.

Li Huaishan still had a heroic face when he spoke just now, but at this time, when he saw the black bamboo building in the canyon, he looked a little nervous: "Do you really want to go in?" ”

In this kind of place where the Qi field is condensed, nervousness is a normal reaction that almost everyone will have, if it weren't for the fact that I have a different kind of true nature from ordinary people, my current state of mind is probably similar to Li Huaishan.

I nodded at Li Huaishan: "I want to go in." Are you afraid? ”

Li Huaishan gave me a big white eye: "When have I ever been afraid!" ”

After saying that, he went down the steep slope and walked towards the depths of the canyon, and deliberately shook his arms as he took the step, making a very relaxed appearance.

I asked him if he was afraid, but I didn't mean to provoke him at all, I just mentioned it casually, I didn't expect him to be so strong.

It seems that I still don't know enough about Li Huaishan.

I followed him in three steps and two steps, his face was very bad, but he still deliberately took a big step, looking at his appearance, I felt helpless.

The light was already dim, and the two walls of the canyon cast large shadows in the stockade, making most of the stockade look as if it had been immersed in black water, and only a small area near the mouth of the valley still had a small amount of sunlight remaining.

What's even more bizarre is that those bamboo buildings immersed in dark shadows have no light.

At first, I thought that Sun Chuansheng's information was wrong, maybe there was no one living in this old village.

Squeak-squeak!

When Li Huaishan and I walked to the entrance of the village, there was a sudden muffled noise overhead, and when I looked up, I saw that the wooden window on the second floor had been closed, and a lot of dust had been raised around the cracks.

After that, there was a series of noises on both sides of the road, and the doors and windows of each bamboo building along the road were closed.

That's when I learned that there were people living in every house, and the arrival of Li Huaishan and I seemed to make these residents very uncomfortable.

Li Huaishan rubbed his arm: "There are really people living in this place." ”

His tone was obviously a little flustered, and I patted him on the shoulder: "What techniques did the second master teach you?" ”

Li Huaishan rubbed his arms again: "Why do you suddenly ask this?" ”

I said, "Did the second master teach you a mantra for meditation or something?" ”

Li Huaishan nodded, and I raised my chin towards him: "Recite those mantras silently in your heart." ”

Seeing that I had walked a little further and entered the shadowed area, I took out my flashlight and lit it forward.

I'm not nervous at all, I'm very calm, but I don't know what I'm going to do next, so I can only walk forward with my head down, trying to see if I can find some clues.

Sun Chuansheng is too, he only said that he found the Netherworld Tongbao in this chrysalis village, but he didn't say where the specific location of the Netherworld Passage was, Li Huaishan and I spent a full ten days to find here, and in the end it was still a blind catch.

Fortunately, I still remember what Yan Yanan once told me, no matter what kind of place you go to, no matter what kind of thing you want to do, don't take it lightly until you figure out your situation.

There is only one big road in the village, Li Huaishan and I walked aimlessly, once I hit the flashlight at the door of a bamboo building, and found that the door panel was engraved with some lines similar to runes, those lines looked very strange, from a distance it looked like a bunch of small snakes twisted together, but I couldn't tell which end was the head of the snake and which end was the tail of the snake.

Li Huaishan glanced at the beam of the flashlight, turned his head and asked me, "What kind of sigil is this?" ”

I shook my head and kept walking.

In the meantime, I shone on a few more nearby doors, and the panels were all bare, with nothing on them.

An hour later, Li Huaishan and I had reached the end of the stockade, but there was nothing more to be found.

I touched my chin and silently thought back to the scene I had seen along the way, and I always felt that something was wrong, not because there were people living in the bamboo building but the lights were not on, nor because of the strange sigils I had just seen, but something else was wrong.

At this time, Li Huaishan suddenly asked me: "There seems to be no farmland around here, and there are not thousands but hundreds of people living in the village, how do you say they usually survive?" Is it just hunting? ”

He's quiet now, and he's less nervous when he speaks.

For Li Huaishan's words, I still kept shaking my head.

By the time we walked through the last mountain stream near the mist, there were no wild animals in the woods, and there were no fish in the mountain streams. With so many people in the village and tight food resources, it is impossible for them to rely on fishing and hunting to make a living.