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I smiled awkwardly and said:

"You can't say that, I'm not bragging!"

The fourth grandfather squinted at me for a long time before he slowly spoke:

"I can see that you do have some ability, but you know your own situation best, you and Ben can't control that kind of power, in case it fails at a critical time, what should you do? Waiting to die? ”

I really didn't know what to say for a while, so I just kept my head down and didn't speak, smoking one cigarette after another.

The old man smiled:

"Young man, you can stop sleeping with me tonight, and tomorrow morning at dawn, you will go where you come from, everything in this world has its own reason, if you interfere, it will be called nosy."

I looked up at him, not knowing how to refute.

The old man got me a meal, and although I didn't even have a little meat star, it was still hot.

During the meal, I asked him:

"Fourth grandfather, is there a girl in the village who is not normal? Looks like you've just given birth? ”

The old man was obviously stunned, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes.

I struck while the iron was hot, and continued:

"You said that that girl is really pitiful, she is only so young, she is still at school age, not to mention having a child, she still looks crazy, how can she raise a child?"

The old man closed his eyes and sighed softly:

"No need to raise it, her child is dead."

The old man choked on all the words I was going to say next, and I couldn't say a word.

After dinner, the old man pushed me into another room, turned around and went back to sleep.

The next day, just after dawn, I woke up. But I didn't plan to leave, but I was going to go up the mountain to find it myself, and I don't know why, I always felt that this time I would definitely have something to gain.

I opened the door lightly, and was just about to go out, when the old man's voice suddenly sounded behind me:

"That place, young man, is so strange that you won't find it until I tell you."

I turned around and looked at him.

He sighed, gestured to the chair next to him, and asked me to sit down.

I hurriedly handed over a cigarette, and the old man took it, pinned it to his ear, and didn't smoke it.

"After going up the mountain, there was a river below, and the water was very deep, almost five or six meters. But every 10 days and a half, when the upstream reservoir gates are closed, the water level drops by two to three meters. At this time, there is a hole in the riverbed, and inside there are steps leading to the belly of the mountain. There were people in the village who went in together, but some went crazy, and some didn't come back at all. After that, no one dared to go.

And if you can't get out within an hour of entering, the river will flood the hole again, and people won't be able to get out. The river is so fast that it's impossible to swim out. As for when the gate will close next time, it's up to your luck. ”

I nodded and asked casually:

"What's in the cave?"

The fourth grandfather shook his head:

"I don't know, no one knows, those who came back alive are crazy, no one has been in for more than ten years, until about a year ago, the old Zhang family girl who made tofu in the village lost a bet with her classmates, went in once, and came out in less than ten minutes. I heard that it still came out naked, and I've been crazy ever since. Her father had no choice, so he promised him to Jiang Erlong, a bachelor in the village. Alas, the girl was blind in vain... ”

After a moment of silence, I asked the old man:

"When was the last time the upstream reservoir gates were closed?"

The old man thought for a moment:

"I've been thinking about it for more than a week, and I guess the gates will be closed in a few days."

After three days, I finally saw the water level of the river start to drop. The old man has been staying with me by the river for the past few days, waiting for the water level to drop. He asked for my home address and Shen Mo's contact information, meaning that in case I couldn't come back or went crazy, he would help me inform my family.

Little by little, the entrance of the cave is presented in front of you, not large, round, about two meters in diameter.

I grabbed my backpack, said hello to the old man, and slid straight down the embankment.

The entrance to the cave was crisscrossed with stones, and it was very slippery due to the long immersion of the river, and it took me a lot of effort to climb up with both hands and feet.

Diagonally upward, about six or seven meters away, there was a gentle clearing, clean, nothing, and in front of it were three one-man high holes, each leading in three different directions.

I hesitated and chose the one in the middle.

The cave was obviously not natural, and there were traces of artificial excavation on the stone walls, which meant that someone must have been here, which piqued my curiosity even more.

The cave is only one meter wide, and the stone walls on both sides are covered with green moss. As I kept walking, it became harder to breathe.

After walking for almost half an hour, there seemed to be no end at all ahead, the air was getting thinner, and the feeling of lack of oxygen made me a little dizzy.

I stopped, sat on the ground, and regretted that I didn't bring an oxygen cylinder with me, and I guess those who didn't go back before died because they didn't have oxygen.

After sitting for a while, I felt that the feeling of suffocation seemed to be a little better, and I stood up and continued to walk forward, not knowing why I was so curious at that time, just like looking at what was in front of me.

After walking for a while, I really couldn't hold it anymore, my brain was starved of oxygen, and my feet were like stepping on cotton, and I stumbled and almost fell, and I reached out to support the stone wall on one side, and I barely stood firm.

Suddenly, the stone wall moved. I thought it was my hallucination, but then my body went down involuntarily.

"Plop"

I fell to the ground, and something was pressing down on me, it didn't feel like a stone, it was a little soft, and it wasn't particularly heavy. I tried to get up, but as soon as I turned my head, my urine almost squirted out.

A distorted green face was impressively attached to my shoulder!

"I'm grass!"

At the time, I didn't know where the strength came from, so I lifted her down at once. I wanted to stand up, but I didn't have any strength in my legs. Not because of fear, but because of lack of oxygen.

I was scared the moment I saw that face, but I quickly calmed down. It was a corpse, judging by the length of its hair and its stature, it was supposed to be a woman. I don't know how long I've been dead, and my face has a layer of green moss.

Judging from her expression, she died in pain, with a hideous face, as if she had endured great pain. The whole corpse seemed to have been soaked in water for a long time, the whole body was swollen, and some places had cracked, and the open wound was constantly bleeding out oil-like liquid.

Looking up at the stone wall, it turned out that there was a man-sized depression there, and the body should have been there, and I should have pressed it on her just now, and I pulled her down as I fell.