After thinking about it, I still plan to look at those sigils again.

At the moment, the only thing in the entire stockade that looks like a clue is those sigils.

I have to say that the family method newly created by the second master is not completely useless, at least he often walks blindfolded, and now I can roughly calculate the distance I walk in the dark.

Yes, I did keep my flashlight on, but I could only stare at the beam all the time, and in this case, the way people perceive the distance traveled is actually similar to when they were completely blind.

It was only when I was about to get back to the area where the sigil was that I turned my flashlight and shot a light around, and although the beam did not hit the door directly, it did illuminate a bamboo building on the left-hand side.

If I'm not mistaken, the bamboo building with the sigil on the door is a three-story structure, while most of the other bamboo buildings are two-storey.

At this time, the beam hit the windows on the third floor, and the windows of the other houses were closed, except for this one, the windows on the third floor were wide open, and then I took a picture of the outer wall of the second floor, and the windows were also open.

Li Huaishan asked with a lot of mouth: "No one lives in this house?" ”

I made a silencing gesture to him: "Don't speak." Then he went to the door to check the sigil.

During the period of confinement in the West Hall, I read a lot of classics on magic, and many of them were dedicated to explaining the sigils, and these snake sigils on the door gave me a sense of déjà vu.

I think I've seen it in some ancient book. But because the things I had seen in the past eight months were so miscellaneous that I couldn't remember its origin for a while, I could only carefully observe every detail on the sigil, hoping to recall something.

When my eyes fell near the doorknob, I could vaguely see a puff of smoke slowly rising along the door.

I immediately looked in the direction where the smoke was coming from, only to notice that there was a man sitting by the door.

The man sat silently on the ground, holding a dry tobacco in his hand, and there were no sparks in the smoke pot, but there were bursts of tasteless smoke gradually waving along the wind in the canyon.

When I first saw him, I had a very awkward feeling in my heart, obviously he was a living person, but he was stiff with a dead body all over his body.

The environment was gloomy, but the man was carrying a large hat, and the light shone on the edge of the hat, casting a black shadow on his face that could not be penetrated.

The point is that Li Huaishan and I have been in front of the door for so long, and he didn't say a word, even when I put the light on him, he didn't move, and kept holding a cigarette stick in his hand.

Is it a dead man?

As soon as I had this thought, the other person said, "You two, what are you doing?" ”

His voice was very dry, and when he spoke, it was as if all his breath was in his lungs and he couldn't get out.

Li Huaishan and I looked at each other.

Li Huaishan immediately understood what I meant, and responded to him: "Those who came to explore the mountain got lost." ”

The man slowly knocked the pot twice, shook out the old tobacco inside, and added some new ones, and after a long time, he asked in his dry voice, "Exploring the mountains?" ”

Li Huaishan said: "It's looking for minerals." It was also the first time we entered this kind of old forest, and we were separated from the large army halfway, and we walked along the mountain stream for half a day before we found here. ”

At this moment, the man sitting on the ground stood up, and the light of the flashlight finally illuminated his face.

Seriously, I don't even know if it's a human face or not, but I saw that the skin on his face was loose, and the corners of his eyes and mouth were also seriously drooping, which is the cortex that only old people have, but on that face, there were not a few wrinkles.

The whole face looks like a large mask on the head.

Although this person was facing Li Huaishan, his eyes were closed, and I saw him put his hand into his pocket, took out a pair of sunglasses from it, fumbled again, and put the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose.

Then he raised his head, and the mirror of his sunglasses was straight at Li Huaishan's face.

I had been thinking just now that this person might be blind, but now I vaguely felt that behind the pitch-black sunglasses, there was a pair of deep eyes staring at Li Huaishan.

He straightened the thick wire gloves on his hand a little and asked, "Which direction are you coming from?" ”

Li Huaishan said: "After getting lost in the forest, you can't tell the direction. Do you have a landline here, I want to contact the Mining Bureau, but the forest is too deep and the mobile phone can't receive a signal. ”

When speaking, Li Huaishan tried his best to make his rhetoric reasonable.

There is no way to let Li Huaishan answer his question, I can't make up a lie like this.

"There's no phone here." The man stretched out his hand and pushed open the wooden door engraved with sigils: "Is there a guide in your team?" ”

Li Huaishan said: "There seems to be one. ”

The other party nodded: "We've had some lost backpackers here before, and this is the first time we've seen someone like you." Don't worry, since there is a guide, your people should come here, do you have money with you? ”

Have backpackers ever found this place? This kind of thing will be believed.

If a backpacker has discovered this place, then the people in the industry must also know about its existence, and there will be relevant records of it in the contemporary classics of the old family.

But Sun Chuansheng wrote in detail the path to this place and the road signs along the road in his handwriting, which shows that even if the chrysalis village in front of him is not unknown, at least very few people in the industry know it, and there is no relevant record of it in the classics of the old family.

There must be something wrong with this strange-looking person in front of him.

"Don't take it lightly until you figure out the ins and outs of the matter."

Yan Yanan's words are still deeply engraved in my mind, so even if I know that he is abnormal, I still have to remind Li Huaishan with my eyes not to be impulsive.

The light was too dim, Li Huaishan didn't notice my eyes, but he had been with Yan Yanan for so long, and he had also said some things to him, and he understood some truths now.

The other party's eyes seemed to have been wandering on Li Huaishan's face, and Li Huaishan should have also felt the eyes behind the sunglasses, and his expression became a little unnatural.

I replied to him, "How much does it cost to stay with you for a night with cash?" ”

"Fifty for one person, and another one for eating. You don't have to rush to get the money, and settle it when the house money leaves. ”

He wasn't blind, or he wouldn't have known that I was sneaking my hand into my backpack.

But I'm not trying to take the money, I'm going to take out the yang thread and the fangs.

Since he could see the movement of my hand, I could only temporarily dismiss my thoughts and take my hand back.

At this time, Li Huaishan asked him again: "What do you call it?" ”

The man didn't respond, just stepped out of his feet and led me and Li Huaishan towards the house, when he walked past me, I vaguely saw the eyes hidden behind the sunglasses, pure black, as if there were no whites of the eyes, but just for an instant, he flashed past me, so I didn't see it very really.

Perhaps because the light was so dim, the whites of his eyes had merged with the darkness.

When Li Huaishan and I both entered the house, he slowly replied: "My surname is Song, just call me Old Song." ”

As he spoke, a flame lit up in his hand.

By the light, I realized that he had an extra oil lamp in his hand at some point, and the fire was dim, except for the thick wire gloves on his hand that were completely illuminated, and the surrounding area was full of shadows, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Lao Song shook the oil lamp in his hand, and the light of the fire became weaker, and now that I turned off the flashlight, I could only dimly see his outline.

"The guest room is on the second floor." Old Song said this briefly, then turned around and walked towards the depths of darkness.

Fortunately, he spoke mostly briefly, otherwise his dry voice would have been maddening.

Li Huaishan and I followed Lao Song to a room in the deepest part of the second floor, he put the oil lamp on the table, and then turned back to us and said, "I tell you, this place is not peaceful, the doors and windows must be closed, don't go out at night, stay well." ”

As he spoke, he was leaving.

I don't plan to have too much contact with this old Song for the time being, but Li Huaishan didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he asked, "What is there to eat?" ”

I glared at Li Huaishan at first, but I quickly understood his intentions.

There is no farmland, and the surrounding food resources are very scarce, so what do the locals eat on weekdays to survive to this day?

In the dim firelight, Lao Song slowly turned around: "There is only broth." ”

Li Huaishan asked again: "I see that the houses here are quite chic, you are from the Miao nationality, right?" ”

"Stone Clan."

Old Song answered this and left, and helped us close the door when we left.

He spoke very fast just now, and his speech was a little unclear, but judging from the pronunciation, he should be talking about the Shi clan, as for which "stone" it is, it is difficult to say.

From just now I found that Lao Song walked with very light steps, like a cat, and now that the door is closed, I am not sure if he has gone far.

Li Huaishan put his backpack on the bed and asked me, "Is there a Shi tribe among the fifty-six ethnic groups?" ”

I took out my teeth from my backpack and made the wick of the oil lamp longer, and the light immediately became much brighter, and the situation in the room became clearer.

Two simple wooden beds, a table, a window and a door, and beyond that, there were only dirty bamboo walls.

After a few brief glances around the room, I quickly opened the door and took a closer look at the outside by the light of the fire.

After confirming that the old Song was indeed not nearby, I closed the door again and said to Li Huaishan: "It seems that there is a She (pronounced the same as 'luxury') clan...... Yes, there is indeed a She, but I also think that what he just said should be 'stone'. ”

When the old Song held the oil lamp in his hand just now, I smelled a faint fragrance of smoked roasting, and now that I am very close to the oil lamp, the fragrance has become heavier.

I knew very well that this special fragrance was not a real smell that existed in reality, but a unique smell of old objects, so I put my nose in front of the oil lamp and sniffed it carefully.

There is no problem with the oil lamp itself, but the grease that can be used to support the fire is something from 50 years ago, in addition, when the lamp is shaking, the grease also emits a very special smell, which is sweet in the smell, and greasy in the sweet.

I've seen it in the old man's books, and it's the smell of rotting and melting of human fat.

The second master probably didn't tell Li Huaishan that everyone in the old family's family had the ability to recognize incense and distinguish the ancients, and when he saw that I had been sniffing on the oil lamp, he asked me, "What are you doing?" ”

I straightened up and pointed to the grease in the lamp pot: "It's corpse oil." ”