The terrain of Xiangma Town is magnificent, the mountains are high enough, the valleys are low enough, and it is especially shocking to see up close.

The towering mountains are like a giant python hovering over the town, like protecting a fragile thin egg, some people jokingly call this a one-eyed python, because a deep pool is like a pearl embedded in the two mountains, because the terrain is extremely high, it can reveal a corner of the sky that reflects the sky, just like a snake eye that flashes with a dangerous light.

This secluded pool has the source of living water that emerges from the ground, it is steaming hot, it can be used as a hot spring bubble in the cold season, and in the hot summer season, the hot water coming out of the ground will be reduced, and the pool will be temporarily dried up in midsummer, all replenished by rainwater, and the surrounding mountains almost resist all the scorching sun, and create a cool and bone-deep pool.

The secluded pool is not deep, people with good water can explore the bottom, but it is not shallow, standing on the edge of the pool, you can never see the scenery at the bottom of the pool.

The water is dark green, as if it is trying to suck the eyes of a person into it.

Murong Cao threw a pebble into the pool, and found that the ripples caused by it were very small, and the speed at which it was swallowed by the pool water was also slightly slow, and it seemed that the buoyancy of the water in this deep pool was quite amazing.

"This is the Black Jiaotan mentioned in your letter?"

Murong Cao stood four or five meters away from the edge of the pool, standing behind Yang Muqing silently.

Yang Muqing noticed that she was pulling her sleeves hard, and her fingertips were still trembling slightly, so she simply held her hand, and Murong Cao didn't struggle, just clenched her palm, so that he wouldn't find the cold sweat in his palm again.

In addition to being secretive about transportation such as buses, Murong Cao is actually very afraid of water, especially this kind of water surface that makes people feel very insecure.

"Yes, this is it."

The tears in the corners of Little Apple's eyes have been wiped away, and when he sees that the "rescuer" he is looking for has arrived, although he is much younger and more beautiful than he expected, he is still a little bold.

Finally, I am no longer alone.

His brother's life should be saved.

"By the way, haven't asked you how you knew you came to us? Who told you that? ”

Murong Cao smiled kindly and casually, trying not to make Little Apple feel unnecessary hostility.

This little girl is actually very sensitive, like a wounded young beast, she is always on the highest alert, except for the surprise gaffe when they first meet, she speaks with great measure.

"Last month I picked up a small piece of paper dropped by a tourist and ...... Then I saw Qingzhu, but Qingzhu was already dead. ”

Murong Cao knew in her heart that the small piece of paper should be her business card, and it happened to be one taken out of the box of the three idiots.

If she remembered correctly, she only used one stack of business cards in the three-idiot box, and it was given to Xie Hua.

Xie Hua has been here? When did it come? What are you here for?

Or was he giving the business card to someone else?

Murong Cao remembered the man who looked like a playboy but was actually very infatuated, and countless mysteries were mixed together, but there was no clue that he could sort out.

"So you wrote a letter with the mindset of giving it a try? Why not call? ”

"I don't have a phone at home, and I don't dare to use the phone in the village for fear of being known by others."

Murong Cao looked at the sensible little girl and nodded, she was so cautious in doing things, she was a thoughtful person.

"How can you be afraid that others will know?"

Yang Muqing also read the content of the letter, judging from the words and phrases, the accident that happened here should be known to everyone.

"I don't think the same way as others, but I'm right!"

Little Apple said a little eagerly, for fear that the two people in front of him would not believe him, and he finally had a trace of childish stubbornness.

"No hurry, we all believe you."

Murong Cao smiled, revealing a cute tiger tooth, and touched her head soothingly.

Little Apple's shoulders gradually relaxed, and after this seemingly superfluous questioning, she really believed the two people standing in front of her.

"You wrote quite simply in the letter, could you tell us more about what happened?"

Murong Cao inadvertently turned sideways, letting his gaze drift away from the water that made people want to sink.

Little Apple sat down generously first, and motioned for Murong Cao and Yang Muqing to sit down as well, it seems that it is not a short story.

Xiangma Town in a few years ago, is a veritable "Xiangma" town, in the era of inconvenient transportation, here can be called "the mountain is poor and the water is evil", in order to beg for a bite to eat, many villagers have become bandits, specifically robbing pedestrians passing by, this is the name of such an unfriendly town. Many years have passed, there is no shadow of bandits here, most of the bandits in the early years have entered the loess Long, or most of them are buried in the soil, but the older generation still likes to tell some of the "glorious deeds" when the bandits were rampant, as a novel pillow story.

As a result, the children in Xiangma Town especially like to form gangs, which can be seen a little bit of the shadow of people from all walks of life who occupied the mountain as the king back then.

In recent years, there have been two people in the town who can be called the "child king", one is Li Qingzhu mentioned by Little Apple, and the other is Jiang Quan, Little Apple's own brother.

Li Qingzhu is an orphan, his father died of illness a long time ago, his mother ran away from home when he couldn't stand the hard life, and his grandmother who had long been widowed depended on him, it sounds like a character who is easy to be bullied, but no one in the village dares to look down on him, let alone sneer, because he has been faster than his peers since he was a child, he is almost 1.7 meters tall at the age of thirteen, he looks dignified, his body is strong, he has never lost a fight, and once he went to a neighboring town to give the bullied cattle herder in the village a head, and a few junior high school students on the other side did not dare to fight with himSince then, most of the little boys in the village have recognized him as the boss, and he is the only one.

It wasn't until Jiang Quan was ten years old that he learned a few tricks from a passing Jianghu veteran by chance, and after winning Li Qingzhu in the mountain, climbing trees, and running, his "Jianghu status" was shared by Jiang Quan, and several younger brothers changed their ways and became Jiang Quan's followers.

Fortunately, Li Qingzhu and Jiang Quan are not ruthless and aggressive people, except for agreeing to find a project to compete every month, Li Qingzhu is busy helping his grandmother with farm work, and Jiang Quan is busy taking the key high school exam.

As for the monthly competition project, it is called a variety, from the most ordinary competition to beat the pepper more, only the unexpected, there is nothing that can't be done, each of their competitions is also a grand event for the children in the town, shouting, cheering, watching the excitement, and even learning to gamble and bet on adults, of course, they have no money to bet, they can only press their own snacks or breakfast.

Until the competition two months ago, Li Qingzhu died in the pool.

After that, the other five people who participated in the competition, except for Jiang Quan, died in the pool one after another.

Everyone in the town said that their competition disturbed the black dragon at the bottom of the pool, and the pool began to eat people.