I still had a few dollars left over from buying yellow paper cinnabar before, and after eating, I remembered that I was going to hand it over to the waitress at the counter, but who knew that the chef's brother saw and stopped me, not only did he not let me go back, but he also spent another fifty yuan from the counter, and insisted that I accept it and buy two cigarettes to smoke.

How could I have collected the money, but in the end, I couldn't refuse, kept the few dollars, and forcibly stuffed the fifty dollars back into the chef's brother's hand.

At this time, it was close to two o'clock in the afternoon, and the time was not too early, and the four of them left the hotel and went straight to the Dongshan Stone Stream.

The so-called Dongshan Stone Stream, yesterday the chef brother has told us, in their town is a little south-east, about 20 miles away from their town, because it belongs to the deep mountains, few people go over, the chef brother also listened to those villagers who often come to the restaurant to sell wild animals, saying that there is a ditch between two mountains, the ditch flows all year round, there are a lot of wild animals, but it is also a strange place, you can't spend the night there, saying that something strange will happen overnight, what is the strange thing, The villagers didn't say it, and the chef didn't know.

The four of us walked about ten miles in the southeast direction, and then completely entered the deep mountains, at this time, there was no road under our feet, up and down the mountain, the trees were dense and overgrown, and there were really a lot of wild animals, especially hares and snakes, and the four of us had no choice but to pluck a thick branch from the tree as a stick, and knocked on the weeds under the feet in front of them.

After walking for a few miles, a mountain peak appeared in front of him. At this time, we were on the mountain, but the peak in front of us was much higher than the rest of the place, and it was enough to block our path.

When we walked to the mountain peak and saw that the slope of this mountain peak was very steep, and it was not easy to climb up, I discussed with Chen Hui that our destination was in the southeast direction, whether to bypass this mountain peak and go directly to our right-hand side.

But at this moment, the stupid cow raised his hand and pointed to our left, and muttered vaguely, "Niu Road, Niu Lu......" The "cow" mentioned by the stupid cow means "have".

The three of us all looked at him, and he pointed to a big tree under the peak, which was on our left. We looked at the big tree again, and no one knew what it was, but there was absolutely no road there.

I said to Silly Niu: "Brother Silly Niu, let's not go over there, it's the northeast, let's go to the southeast." ”

When the stupid cow heard this, he actually made a fuss, came over and grabbed my arm, but he pulled it to the side of the tree, I staggered to him, and was about to yell at him to stop, Chen Hui greeted me, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

A few people soon came to the bottom of the tree, and when they looked at it, it was an old tree that had grown for an unknown number of years, with a mottled body and a huge canopy.

I said in my heart, "Where is the way?" Immediately, the stupid cow pointed at the tree and shouted, "Niu Lu Niu Lu ......"

Is the road in the trees? I was with Chen Hui Qiangshun, and the three of them were suddenly confused by the second monk, and at this time, I heard Qiangshun muttering in a low voice, "It seems to have words." ”

Chen Hui and I hurriedly took a closer look at the tree, and immediately looked at each other, and saw that on this old tree, there were four inconspicuous big characters written vertically, and the color of the words was similar to the color of the tree.

Several people suddenly became suspicious, how could there be words on the trees in such a deserted deep mountain and old forest, who wrote it? This is not the end, but at the bottom of the four words, there is a big arrow drawn, and the arrow points to our left.

After reading it, I couldn't help but glance at Silly Niu, and asked suspiciously, "Brother Silly Niu, how do you know that there is a road here?" ”

Silly Niu smiled stupidly at me and shook his head, I was just about to ask again, Chen Hui waved his hand at me and said: "Silly Niu is talented, and it is normal to be able to see something that ordinary people can't see, don't ask again, I'm afraid he won't be able to say it himself." ”

Immediately, Chen Hui beckoned a few of us to walk around the mountain peak to the left, and I suddenly muttered in my heart, wouldn't it be wrong to go in the wrong direction if I walked like this.

After walking about two or three miles to the left, we went around the mountain to the right of our hand and came to the left side of the peak. At this time, the stupid cow pointed to a big stone on the peak not far away, and when we got closer, we looked at the big stone, and saw that there were words on the big stone, or the four words "Dongshan Stone Stream" before.

However, these four words are black, black as if they had just been written in coffin paint, and below the four words, there is an arrow, this time pointing to our right, as if it is guiding us around the mountain and then forward. If we hadn't seen the words on the tree before, we would have walked southeast by this time, and we wouldn't be here at all.

Going around the edge of the lower peak, we began to walk around the peak to the right, and after walking for about three or four miles, the peak gave us a circle behind us, and at this time, a clearing appeared in front of us, and there was not a single grass growing in the clearing.

Above the clearing, there are a lot of small pebbles, which form an arrow that points to our left, that is, the arrow takes us off the edge of the mountain and goes straight to the left.

Chen Hui looked at the stones with a puzzled expression, but he didn't say anything, and several people changed direction and walked to the left.

This time, I walked out of about five or six miles in one breath, and there were no hints around, at this time, Qiang Shun, who was walking beside me, gently pulled my arm and asked me in a low voice: "Yellow River, are you lost?" ”

I turned my head to look at him, and Qiang Shun said again, "Why do I seem to ...... Can't tell the difference between southeast and northwest? ”

Hearing him say this, I quickly looked around, and then I found that before and after us, we were almost identical, full of weeds, trees, mountains and rocks, and I really couldn't tell where the south was and where the north was, I quickly looked up to the sky again, and the sun in the sky was gone, and the whole was gray, as if covered with a layer of haze.

I hurriedly asked Chen Hui beside me, "Dao Chief, can you still distinguish between the southeast and the northwest?" Chen Hui frowned and shook his head.

At that moment, the silly cow raised his hand again and pointed ahead, and we looked in the direction of his finger, and there was nothing in front of us except the dense weeds.

After walking forward for more than ten meters, a few of us suddenly opened up under our feet, and a bare open space appeared, on which there was still no grass.

On top of this clearing, there are also countless small pebbles, which form an arrow with a turn, and the bend is towards our left, which seems to mean that when we have passed through this clearing, we will turn and go to the left.

At this time, Chen Hui couldn't help but wonder: "This is someone in front of us to guide the way." So saying, he walked to the stone in the clearing, picked one from the ground, and said, "This stone has just been laid down, and there is no dust on it, and there is no trace of wind or sun." ”

When I heard this, I hurriedly walked over and picked up one, and when I looked at it, it was not, the stone I picked up seemed to have just been dug out of the soil, and there was moisture on it.

Chen Hui frowned even tighter, "It seems that someone is trying to lure us over, it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe, so be careful." Qiang Shun and I nodded at the same time.

Passing through the clearing, we turned and walked to the left, and after walking for more than a mile, there was another mountain in front of us, which was so steep that it was impossible to climb at all, but at the bottom of the peak, we found a path.

The path runs down the mountain to our right, and it goes down the mountain. A few of us glanced at each other. According to the direction he said, we should now be in the southeast, at this time, we are obviously in the northeast, and the distance is not right, according to the distance that the chef said, we should have arrived a long time ago, but at this time, seeing that the sky is almost dark, we have not found a place, we have not seen the ditch, let alone the stream.

The four people walked down the mountain road, and they didn't know how long they walked, the mountains on both sides were getting higher and higher, and the sky was getting darker and darker, it was really like a ditch, and then went forward, there was a large black and oppressive forest in front of us, and when we walked to the woods, the path under our feet was gone, and at this time, the sky was also dark.

A few men watched, and just as we were about to burrow into the woods, the stupid cow ran ahead of us and stopped us, and then he pointed at a tree, and several of us looked at it.

I saw that this tree was faintly fluorescent, and it didn't seem to be there just now, these fluorescences made up a few words, "Only Liu Huanghe is allowed to enter the forest alone."

Chen Hui and I looked at each other immediately, and now it seems that we should have arrived at the place, but Chen Hui frowned, he was obviously not worried that I would go into the forest alone, and after stopping for a while, he said to me, be careful. Seemed to know that this was the experience I was supposed to have.

I smiled at him and slipped into the woods.

In this wood, it was much darker than outside, and it was not breathable, and I was a little panicked, and I walked forward while knocking on the weeds with the stick in my hand, and I felt that I had not gone far.

Suddenly, in front of me, two green and faint things appeared, I suddenly stopped, looked at these two things, very much like a pair of eyes of something, my heart suddenly jumped, this can't be a wolf, right? After stopping for a while, I saw that the two things did not move, and I felt a little relieved.

After thinking about it, I didn't seem to have heard the chef's brother say that there are wolves in the mountains, which is not good, could it be the eyes of that kind of sable.

I gave myself courage, did not retreat but advanced, and walked towards the pair of green and gloomy eyes, even if it is a wolf, I am not afraid, I have a wooden stick more than two meters long in my hand, as long as I have a guy in my hand, I am not afraid of anything. However, no matter how I walked, those eyes were only not far in front of me, and I was fast and fast, and I was slow and slow, as if they were guiding me.

I don't know how far I walked, and all of a sudden, the woods around me were gone, and I blinked my eyes twice, and looked into my hand, and the stick was gone.

I was stunned, what was going on, it seemed like I had changed places all of a sudden, especially the stick in my hand, I don't remember when I threw it away, and I quickly looked behind me, and the woods were behind me.

The green eyes were still not far in front of me, I steadied myself, and when I looked at it, it became a ravine in front of me, dark and deep, the mountains on both sides were extremely high, and the trees and weeds on the mountain were criss-crossed, and it seemed that the whole was a gloomy and strange place.

Now that you've come here, let's go over and have a look. The gods are mysterious, and they don't know what medicine is bought in the sable gourd.

Along the ditch, I soon came to the end, and my eyes were much brighter, and a circular col appeared, and in the middle of the col, there was a black thing, standing straight there.

I walked up to me and saw that it was the sable, and at this time, the sable was standing upright on its two hind legs, standing like a human, and its two front legs were upside down behind it, as if it were a person.

Sable looked me up and down, nodded at me, and said, "You're here......"