"Shall we go up?" I asked, panting.

Actually, I didn't want to go up at all, because the mountain on the other side looked higher and steeper than the one on this side, and it would take a lot of trouble to go up even when I had nothing to do, and now I might not be able to climb to that place in two hours.

It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and I had drunk all the water I had brought with me, and I thought I would faint from the sun on the slopes of the hill that had no shade.

"If you don't go up and have a look, can you rest assured?" Master Cao asked.

"You take your time, I'll go up first." He said to me.

Seeing his figure gradually moving away, I was a little angry, but I couldn't find a reason.

I don't know how much money Boss Xie gave them to do this, but I know that the reason they did it wasn't exactly money.

What really came for the money should be the "master" who came on the first day and turned around and left when he saw that the momentum was not good, Master Lu and Master Cao, they have different reasons for doing so.

"Shemales don't stand apart." This reason sounds a little weird, and it's ridiculous, but it's like the one Master Cao asked just now, "Can you feel at ease?" It's too bland, but it's so heavy that it's impossible to refute.

"Die or die!" I gritted my teeth, lost my hand, and followed him up the hill with the bushes and weeds.

The net worth of each of them should be much higher than mine, an ignorant boy who has nothing and nothing to grow, since they are not afraid of death or hardship, then what else can I say?

This kind of mountain climbing is not the kind of climbing along the forest trail or the stone steps in the mountains on weekends, and there is no road at all in this place we walk. In slower places, you can barely walk, but in many places you can only go around in a large circle, or grit your teeth and clutch the bushes to climb the mountain.

Thorns, insects, heat, tiredness, and thirst, these things made me gradually lose the energy to think about the monsters or whether they were worth it, and my mind went blank, just mechanically looking at Master Cao's back, walking up the place where he walked.

In the more difficult places, he would stop and wait for me, and then pull me up with a nylon rope, but most of the time, he walked more than ten meters in front of me, and only his head could be seen in the grass.

I don't know how long it took for us to finally climb to the position of the pine tree.

It's hard to describe, I'm so tired that I don't want to move anymore, but looking back at the roads I've walked, I suddenly feel a sense of pride in my heart.

Maybe that's what those mountaineers are after?

The house in Lot 2 was on the opposite hillside, and although I didn't see the three workers, I couldn't help but wave my hand over there.

Master Cao looked at me with a smile, he took out a bottle of water and took a few sips, and when he saw me looking at him with a wistful expression, he took out another bottle from his bag.

"Save some drink, and there will be no more when you finish drinking."

I was a little embarrassed, it was supposed that a young man like me should have carried more weight and took care of him along the way, but it turned out that he carried more things than I did, and gave me water.

"Don't swallow it in one gulp, take a small sip, hold it in your mouth for a while, and then swallow it slowly." He continued to point at me.

Of course, it didn't have a big gulp, but after a few sips, I found that the thirst-quenching effect was much better than the previous way I drank it.

"There's still a lot to learn!" Master Cao smiled and shook his head.

We began to look for signs of people staying in the neighborhood, and it didn't take long for Master Cao to find a path nearby that had been covered by weeds.

We can only make out the path by the faint marks of being trampled on it and the signs of some broken branches.

"Zhang Laogen, does he smoke dry tobacco?" Master Cao asked.

Near a stone on the side of the road, there was a small cloud of soot, which looked like it had been shaken off not long ago.

"It should be smoked." I remembered the tobacco I had seen in his cabin.

"Then let's go!" Master Cao said.

After walking about three or four miles along the hillside, we came to a slightly gentler recess, which was already in the upper reaches of the Cha River, far from our construction area, and even farther away from Hewei Village.

The wind seemed to freeze here, and it was irritatingly hot, and in the tributary of a fork of the river at the foot of the mountain, the water rattled, but there was an unsettling silence around it.

The sound of insects suddenly disappeared here.

"Master Cao......" I whispered.

There was a faint gray-black aura around me, and I couldn't tell when they were, but judging by the intensity, it shouldn't have been more than a day ago.

"Don't panic." Master Cao took his bronze coin sword in his hand and handed me a gossip mirror. "Follow me, don't get separated."

We slowly walked along the barely visible path, and the unsettling feeling became stronger and stronger, and I felt the gauze on my hand bandaging the wound a little wet, and the stuffy feeling was like roasting you on the fire.

"He's stayed here." Master Cao's footsteps stopped.

On a flat ground next to it, there were a few pillars of incense that had been burned, and some paper ashes, and a little further forward from the place where the incense was inserted, there were some very suspicious stains, Master Cao lightly dipped it with his hand, and carefully put it in front of his nose and smelled it.

"It should be chicken blood." He told me as he watched cautiously around.

There were some chicken feathers scattered by the wind around, and there was a faint fishy smell in the air, and I suddenly felt creepy, as if something was peeking at me in the dark.

The footprints were heading forward, and I could tell that Master Cao was hesitant, as if he was considering whether to survey here or continue to catch up.

"Niu Wu once saw him set up an altar in the mountains to kill chickens." I told Master Cao.

"Let's keep walking." So he made up his mind.

Now the key to solving the problem is in this mysterious Zhang Laogen, finding him, at least means solving most of the problems.

I'm not very worried about him, if he really is the kind of wizard who does evil people, he should have done it a long time ago when his fields were forcibly taken from the construction site. When the evil thing used Zhang Minxiang to lure me and Lu Xiaoling away, it should have been him who escorted us all the way back to the project department safely.

Not to mention, if he hadn't appeared in time, Master Lu and I, and Lu Xiaoling would have already become the mouths of those corpse worms.

I don't know what other people think, but now it suddenly dawns on me that he's not necessarily the owner of these things, but more like a guardian who keeps them from harming people at will.

"Maybe." Master Cao nodded and said. "But only when he is found can all the mysteries be truly solved."

As we walked on, the evil aura faded away, and I couldn't help but look back at the place where the evil aura was at its strongest.

"Master Cao......" I was stunned for a moment and called softly.

From this angle, we saw that there was a semi-circular hill in the hollow, but the direction near us was buried by the mud that had slid down from the mountain, and less than a quarter was still exposed.

If each of these mountain packs is a problematic tomb, then this is already the third.