Uncle Niu picked up the stone tablet, touched the man's neck, and then carried him to the tent.

"Uncle Niu, could he come out of the Seven Tribulations?" I looked at the man and asked.

This person has a national face, elephant eyes and a bull's nose, thick lips, not good-looking, just look at the facial features, the fortune is okay, but now his face is blue, which is called the green of the wood-shaped person in physiognomy, and people with such a complexion are more calamitous.

However, compared to the rest of his face, the green qi of his life palace, that is, the Yin Hall, is lighter, saying that although this person has many calamities, he will not die now.

"Wait until he wakes up and ask." Uncle Niu put him on the flat ground outside the tent and threw the stone tablet to me.

I took it, flipped through it and looked at it for a long time, but there was nothing on it except those few words.

Seven difficult rivers, difficult to enter and difficult to exit.

Is this the Seven Tribulations River, which is not easy to enter or exit?

I was thinking about it when I saw Uncle Niu take out a thumb-thick cylindrical iron box from his bag, and when he opened the lid, it turned out to be a box of needles inside.

Uncle Niu took one out of it, pinched the man's upper lip, and plunged it directly into his person.

I couldn't help but grin, it hurt to look at it.

The man hissed, slowly opened his eyes, and looked at me and Uncle Niu in confusion.

Uncle Niu took out another piece of rune paper and slapped it on his head with a snap, the man snorted, and his eyes gradually cleared.

He grabbed Uncle Niu's sleeve and said in a trembling voice: "Hurry up, don't go up, there is a ghost above." ”

Uncle Niu put away the needle, raised the talisman in his hand, and said, "What the hell is there?" ”

The man asked, "Are you a Taoist priest?" ”

Uncle Niu nodded.

The man hurriedly approached Uncle Niu and was about to cry excitedly: "Dao Chief, help." ”

I said impatiently, "Didn't we already save you?" What the hell is going on above? ”

The man rubbed his face on Uncle Niu's sleeve, and successfully made Uncle Niu's face black, and then said: "My name is Du Lei, I am a freelance photographer, this time I went to the Seven Troubles River with my friend to shoot the ancient boat coffin site, we have been walking for two days, last night in the upper reaches of the river to rest, when eating, my friend suddenly rolled his eyes, two hands pinched his neck, we couldn't break it, and finally strangled himself to death." “

Speaking of this, his face turned pale, "I was scared stupid, and when I was at a loss, the team leader suddenly said that there were four shadows under our feet, but at that time we were three living people, and the team leader also began to pinch his neck after shouting." ”

I got goosebumps when I heard it, and I couldn't help but look around, and quietly squeezed Uncle Niu's side.

Du Lei continued: "After the team leader shouted this sentence, it was chaotic, and my first reaction was to run down the mountain, and I turned around halfway through, and clearly saw a black shadow on the leader's body, pinching his neck. ”

"How far is it from here?" Uncle Niu asked.

Du Lei frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I remember that it was eight o'clock when we had dinner. ”

I looked at my watch, "It's nine o'clock, which means you've been running for more than an hour, so it shouldn't be too far." ”

Uncle Niu pondered: "From Cong, let's go over and take a look." ”

I thought so too, nodded, and got up straight to pack my things.

Du Lei was busy saying, "I'll go too." ”

I glanced at him, "You almost died in that place, are you sure you want to go back?" ”

He didn't hesitate at all, and said: "Go back, I was too scared just now, I didn't care about them, I ran away by myself, now I think about it, it's really not presentable, I have to go back." ”

"It's better to have you lead the way." Uncle Niu said.

Du Lei got up from the ground with a stick and followed us up the river.

"Where did you get the stone tablet in your hand?" I asked him.

"Stone?" He was a little confused, and when I handed over the stone tablet, he said, "This is from the team leader." ”

I was surprised, "What are you doing with this?" ”

He explained: "This was originally worn by the team leader around his neck, but later he saw that he liked it and gave it to me. ”

I see.

"Then how did you know about the Seven Rivers of Tribulation?" I asked.

Du Lei was real, and said everything: "I also listened to what my friend said, he said that the Seven Troubles River is an ancient boat coffin burial site, and the boat burial scale is very large, which is worth shooting, and I also love to photograph these places, so I followed." ”

I hummed and didn't ask Du Lei again.

I can already hear it, although this Du Lei said everything, what he said was useless.

I just don't know if he really doesn't know or if he deliberately didn't say it.

After walking for more than an hour, we came to the camp where Du Lei and his rest were, the ground was a mess, there were clear traces of hand grip and foot pedaling, and the tent collapsed on one side.

"What about the person you're talking about?" I looked at Du Lei.

There was not a man on the earth.

Du Lei was also stunned, "I don't know." “

Uncle Niu suddenly strode towards the tent, and when he opened it, I gasped.

There were two corpses neatly placed in the tent, one tall and one short, both of them with blue faces, their hands pinching their necks, the green tendons on their hands were up, their eyes were staring, and they couldn't see it.

"Why are there only two?" I wondered.

Du Lei looked for two laps and said anxiously: "What about the team leader?" The tour leader is gone. ”

Uncle Niu said, "Are you sure he was dead when you fled?" “

Du Lei frowned, thought about it carefully for a long time, and said affirmatively: "I'm sure that the team leader was already pinched out of breath at that time." ”

"Could it be that the corpses were taken away by the ghost who strangled them?" I say.

"Possibly." Uncle Niu crouched next to the two men and broke their hands apart.

I leaned in and saw that the two men had two obvious pinch marks on their necks, one deep and one shallow, the deep one was close to the Adam's apple, and the shallow one was just under the chin, as if it was imprinted on the skin.

Uncle Niu said: "It was indeed strangled by the Yin people." ”

Du Lei walked to Gao Ren's side, his eyes were red, and asked Uncle Niu, "Can you find the ghost who strangled them?" ”

After speaking, he added: "When you were packing your things, I secretly glanced at your bag, and I knew that you were a Taoist priest." ”

Uncle Niu not only didn't get angry, but also asked him about the situation very carefully.

I looked at the two corpses next to them who had not closed their eyes so far, and silently took two steps back, admiring the calm conversation between the two of them in such a situation.

I sat on the stone outside the tent, listened to them, looked around boredly, and when my eyes swept behind Du Lei, my scalp instantly tingled.

There were two shadows under his feet, one of which was pinching the neck of the other shadow, and Du Lei's lips were purple, although he was talking to Uncle Niu, his eyes gradually diverged, and under his chin, a blackened bruise slowly appeared, and the color was gradually deepening.

I was just about to call Uncle Niu, when I saw Uncle Niu's right hand move and motioned me not to move.

I swallowed and sat on the rock, my nervous hand shaking.

Uncle Niu talked to Du Lei quietly, put his hands behind his back, cut the index finger of his right hand, and began to draw talismans in the palm of his hand.

I pretended to look around, and I kept paying attention to the progress of Uncle Niu's drawing, so anxious that I pinched my palms.

When Du Lei's body began to shake and he was about to faint, Uncle Niu's blood talisman was finally drawn.

He jerked forward, pressed Du Lei's eyebrows with his still bleeding fingers, and slapped the blood talisman in the palm of his left hand on Du Lei's neck with a snap.

There was no sound, but I smelled the smell of burnt flesh.

The shadow under Du Lei's feet stopped for a moment, and then jumped out of the tent violently, and I subconsciously ran over to block him.

He went straight through my body and disappeared into the darkness.

"Come and help me." Uncle Niu said.

I hurriedly ran over and held Du Lei's body, and Uncle Niu took away the hand that was pressing on his neck.

The skin on Du Lei's neck was scorched.

Uncle Niu coughed lightly, took out a needle from his bag, and pricked it in Du Lei's middle.

I don't open my eyes, I don't feel sorry for Du Lei, but I feel a little distressed on my upper lip.

Du Lei woke up faintly, and the whole person looked very weak, "What's wrong with me?" ”

I took out a small mirror and pointed it at his neck, "You almost strangled to death just now." ”

Seeing the wound on his neck, his eyes widened, and he almost couldn't breathe.

Uncle Niu said, "That shadow has been with you for a long time. ”

Du Lei's frightened face turned even paler, "Follow me all the time?" Then why didn't he kill me? ”

"Because of the stone plaque." Uncle Niu said: "That's not an ordinary stone tablet, it's a life-saving talisman, just now after you woke up, I gave the stone tablet to the slave, and he dared to do it." ”

I pulled the stone tablet out of my pocket, "This is a life amulet?" ”

Uncle Niu took it, put the stone tablet in the palm of his hand and rubbed it, after a while, only to hear a click, the stone tablet actually cracked, and a small golden disc fell out of it, engraved with the Bodhisattva on the front, and a scripture on the back.

And you can still do this!

"I guess the team leader you said didn't know that there was a life talisman in the stone plaque, so I gave it to you." Uncle Niu said.

Du Lei was stunned for a long time before saying: "It's true, he said at the time that this was an ordinary pendant." ”

"I suspect that this stone tablet came from the Seven Tribulations River, and now that the leader of the team is missing, maybe he is not dead at all." Uncle Niu looked solemn, and said later: "Forget it, it's useless to think so much, sleep here tonight, and then go up tomorrow." ”

It was indeed sleepy, none of the three of us spoke, and we packed up our things and set up the tent in silence, and Uncle Niu and Du Lei found another piece of land to bury the two people in the tent.

I yawned and shrunk into the tent, thinking I would fall asleep with my eyes closed, but who knew my shoulder hurt.

The shoulders were hot, like two fires burning.

I tossed and turned, and I broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, and tears were about to fall out.

"Don't cry." With the voice, I felt a chill around me, and Yu Hao hugged me in his arms, and put his hands on my shoulders.

As soon as his hand was put up, the pain in his shoulder eased a lot.

I breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at him, my nose rubbing against his chin, and I realized that the two of us were so close.

I subconsciously moved back, and he grabbed me and chuckled, "The sleeping bag is so big, where do you want to move it?" ”

I turned red and tried my best to move out, but he was right, the sleeping bag was so big that no matter how I moved, I could touch him.

"Why does my shoulder hurt?" I tried to straighten my face and tell him the truth, trying to hide my shyness.

He looked at me deeply, as if he had seen through my trick, "The dummy is resentful, leaving marks on your body at the same time, but also leaving resentment, but it can expel the resentment in your body, but the process hurts your body, according to your physique, you will be sick for ten days and a half months." ”

That Uncle Niu should have been afraid of delaying the matter of coming to the Seven Tribulations, so he didn't expel my resentment.

My shoulders were comfortable, I was so sleepy that I couldn't open my eyes, and Yu Hao's voice was gentle, adding a layer of hypnotic effect.

After listening, I nodded nonchalantly and fell asleep.

This night, I slept very comfortably, and the next morning Uncle Niu shouted several times before waking me up.

It was another day of walking during the day, and when the sun was about to set, Uncle Niu suddenly said, "It's here." ”

As he spoke, he trotted to the southwest, and Du Lei and I hurriedly followed.

There was a pit in the clearing over there, and in the pit was a thick piece of wood that was wrapped by two people, hollowed out in the middle, like a canoe, and in which were placed pottery.

"Uncle, is this what you said about the ship coffin?" I asked.

I can't help but be a little disappointed, this coffin is too rough, that is, the wood is hollowed out, and it can't be compared with the coffin made directly.

Uncle Niu saw my thoughts and explained, "This coffin is very old, so the workmanship is rough. ”

"Yes, nine times out of ten, this coffin is the coffin of the locals who lived around here in ancient times, and my friend said that the coffin of the Seven Troubles River is exquisitely made, and any one of them is priceless." Du Lei continued: "According to my friend, the owners of those coffins were Han Chinese, and they went into the deep forest to avoid the scourge of war. ”

It turns out that there is so much more to this.

I couldn't help sighing, I felt that Uncle Niu was right, I was really in a hurry, and I hurried over without checking anything.

"Is this the Seven Tribulations we're looking for?" I asked Uncle Niu.

Uncle Niu shook his head, "There is still some way to go." ”

As he spoke, he turned and walked southwest, "This is a hillside, but there is a coffin buried, it is definitely not for burial, but for directions." ”

The two ends of the coffin are facing east and west, and I don't see anything to do with the northwest.

Du Lei didn't understand either, so he chased after him and asked, "Dao Chief, how did you see that the coffin of the ship pointed to the southwest?" ”

Uncle Niu glanced at him, "Look at the coffin, you look at the footprints on the ground, this coffin was originally well buried, no one can dig it out by itself?" ”

Du Lei and I glanced at each other, both of them looked suddenly enlightened, and they all looked down at the ground.

Sure enough, there were a few mud footprints in the southwest direction.

"I can't see the direction of the coffin, but eighty percent of the people who arrived before us can see it, and we can't just follow it." Uncle Niu said.

After leaving, I suddenly remembered something and looked at Du Lei, "Is the person who rushed over in front of us your team leader?" Perhaps, it was he who wanted to kill you and prevent you from following, but he was not dead at all, and when he saw you fleeing, he got up and walked on. ”

But when he thought about it this way, things were a little wrong, if the team leader didn't want people to follow him, he shouldn't have brought them with him in the first place, and he would have to come secretly by himself.

Du Lei sighed and said, "I don't know, my brain is very messy now." ”

After walking forward for another half an hour, Uncle Niu suddenly stopped on the hillside, down the mountain with a shocked face.

I followed his line of sight, saw the scene down the hill, and ran down the hill.

Down the hill was a dry ditch with two rows of coffins across the ditch, and if my dad were standing on the shore, it would be exactly the same as in the picture Uncle Niu showed me.

My dad was here!

I ran to the coffins and found that both rows of coffins were empty and there was nothing in them.

And if you look closely, these two rows of coffins are very new.

"Uncle, this isn't the Seven Tribulations, is it?" I asked back.

Uncle Niu nodded, "Indeed." ”

I'm a little discouraged in my heart, this river of seven difficulties is really hard to find.

Uncle Niu walked to the middle of the two rows of coffins, took out the compass, looked at it as he walked, and finally frowned and stopped in front of the last coffin in the second row.

Could it be that something was discovered?

I hurried over, but there was a big pit on the ground, and I couldn't see the bottom of it with a flashlight.

"Uncle Niu, this is ...... Ah......h

His arm was also scratched by the stones at the bottom of the pit, and the bones all over his body hurt.

I lay at the bottom of the pit, looking at the mouth of the pit in a daze, and it took me a long time to react, who pushed me?

"Uncle Niu?" I shouted as hard as I could, but there was silence on the pit, no response.

Could it be Uncle Niu?

I knew that Uncle Niu had brought me here for his purpose, but I never thought that he would attack me before we even touched the edge of the Seven Tribulations.

After a long time, I struggled to get up, the flashlight flickered over the pit wall on the right, and a pair of small eyes with a yellow light appeared in my field of vision.

It was a long, thumb-thick worm coiled around a jar as high as my calf, exactly the same shape as the dummy had brought to the store.

my head!

My heart instantly rose to my throat, and my body froze, wanting to move but not daring to move.

It's not that I'm afraid of the long worm, but I'm really afraid of opening the jar and seeing my mother's head.

I confronted the worm for about ten minutes, and finally it shook its head and climbed down the altar on its own.

I grabbed my flashlight, took a deep breath, and limped to the altar, and when I saw the contents of the jar, my head went blank for a moment, and my ears were buzzing.

It's really my mother's head.

I trembled and hugged the jar, "Mom......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he burst into tears.

I carefully took my head out and wept so much that I cried until the end, my eyes ached dry, and my voice was hoarse.

"Condolences." Yu Hao squatted beside me and comforted me.

I took out a clean coat from my bag, wrapped my head, looked at Yu Hao, gritted my teeth and said, "You said that what I saw at that time was a vision. ”

He looked apologetic and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't think about it last time." ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, he reached out and picked up my face, leaned over and said, "Look at this face, are you in a better mood?" ”

I turned my face away and pushed him away, "I didn't see that I was uncomfortable, don't tease me, besides, why are you in a good mood when you look at your face?" ”

He wondered, "Won't you be happy?" Then why did you smile at my picture before? ”

I didn't know what to say, and I did look at his picture a lot before I invited him back to the store, because that face was very pleasing to the eye.

"I didn't laugh." I retorted.

He tapped me twice on the back and said, "Okay, you're not smiling, do you want to go up now?" ”

"Go up." I say without hesitation.

I was going to confront Uncle Niu, and there were only two people on the edge of the pit at that time, and he pushed me down nine times out of ten.

Yu Hao said yes, and disappeared, and after five or six minutes, his voice came down from the pit: "Grab the rope and climb up." ”

As the words fell, a rope full of sludge was thrown down.

I carefully put my mother's head in my bag, grabbed the rope and climbed up, my right leg hit the stone, the whole leg was unconscious, I couldn't exert any strength at all, I could only rely on my hands, and when I climbed up, my palms were ground out with a layer of blood.

"Uncle Niu." I screamed angrily, looked around, and found that Du Lei and Uncle Niu were gone.

"They went to the woods to the north." Yu Hao said.

I turned around to chase after me, but I didn't take two steps before he stopped me, "The further you go, the harder it becomes, it's better for you to leave your mother here, so as not to damage it." ”

I thought about it, what if I got into a fight or something, and hurt my mother.

I wrapped myself in two more layers of clothes, found a quiet coffin and put my mother in it, "Mom, you wait for me, I will definitely take you home." ”

I found a stick to hold onto, and walked forward with difficulty.

The trees are tall and shade the sky, and the moonlight can't shine in at all, so you can only rely on the light of the flashlight.

I thought to myself, thanks to the good quality of the flashlight sent by the sixth master, I fell back to the hole without breaking it.

"There's something fifty paces ahead of you." Yu Hao said.

I hurriedly followed what he said, and saw a large black bag in the grass, stained with grass clippings, with the same style and brand as I was carrying.

It can't be Uncle Niu's, right?

I poured out the contents of my bag and looked at it, and there was only a wallet and a camera.

The wallet was empty, but there were a lot of pictures in the camera, all of which were landscape photos, and I patiently looked at them one by one.

After flipping through fifty or sixty photos, I finally found a photo of someone, but it was a back, and the photo was quite blurry, and I couldn't tell who it was.

I flipped down again, and hurriedly got closer, this is a group photo, four people standing in a row.

The face was a little dark because of the backlight, but I still saw my dad at first sight.

To his right is Uncle Niu, and there is another person next to Uncle Niu, but I haven't seen it.

To the left of my dad turned out to be Du Lei.

He and Uncle Niu have known each other for a long time!

My heart is galloping, damn, they are all lying to me all the way.

"What are you looking at?" Du Lei's voice sounded behind me.

I turned my head and saw a cold knife stabbing at me, I directly smashed the camera in my hand, and rolled on the ground, before he could get up and was choked by the neck.

He put his right knee on my stomach, grabbed my neck with his left hand, held a knife in his right hand, and sneered, "You actually crawled out of the pit." ”

As he spoke, he kept looking around, "Someone is helping you, right?" Let him out. ”

I snorted, "No one helped me, I climbed out by myself, who are you and Uncle Niu?" You've known each other for a long time? Where is my dad? ”

He put the knife to my neck, ignored me, and said in all directions, "If you don't come out, I'll kill her." ”