Rum's eyes bared his teeth as he stared at the hill of fallen leaves, and it was clear that something threatening was hiding inside.

I frowned slightly, and became vigilant, wondering in my heart. Because the pile of fallen leaves was piled up little by little by me yesterday, and there was nothing in it except thick fallen leaves, and after only a few hours, how could it become dangerous?

Gently touching Rum's head, I asked softly, "What do you feel, the smell under this sinkhole is relatively strong, did it burn your nose?" ”

Rum ignored me, still staring at the pair of fallen leaves and prostrate himself on the ground, ready to pounce on them at any moment.

Having walked through so many places with Rum, it had never made a mistake in judgment, and I knew that there must be something hidden in the pile of fallen leaves, so I picked up the trunk of the tree that had been used as a crutch with my backhand and leaned towards the pile of fallen leaves.

As I got closer, I spotted my bearings and slammed the trunk into the pile of fallen leaves. Passing in and out from the left side, the process is very smooth and light, and nothing is touched. I pulled out and changed directions, poked in again, and tried several times in quick succession but found nothing.

At that time, the bald head also grabbed the rope and slipped down from it, looked at me high and grinned: "Lao Zhang, your physique is okay, the bald master is about to collapse after walking all day and night, you are good, you can use the time for a while." What's the matter, practice fighting bayonets? You have to find a bald master for this thing, we are people who have been soldiers, and we didn't practice this thing in the first place! ”

I glared at him and whispered, "Practice a fart, Rum always barks at this pile of fallen leaves, I'll try to see if there's something hidden in there." ”

The bald head smiled even more happily: "How can there be a temptation like you, maybe a hare got into it at night to keep warm, what can you find when you poke back and forth like this." Don't move and let me come yet, in case we can catch some game, we can also add some energy to our meal! ”

As he spoke, he took off the sapper shovel from his waist, approached and looked left and right, and then picked up the shovel and swept it flat, directly scattering the fallen leaves and spreading them around, and suddenly a palm-sized thing was also carried into the air, and it turned half a circle and landed at the foot of the bone that had just slipped down from above.

The thing was the size of an adult's palm, and it reflected golden light in all directions, and it was clearly a dead thing. The bone stood firm on the ground, picked it up, and frowned before he could take a closer look at it: "Mom, what kind of thing is this, why does it smell so fishy!" It's the same as the smell of the ghost man......"

The bald head and I also leaned over one after another, and the three of us gathered around to take a closer look, only to find that it was a small square metal box, the lid on the top could be opened, and the inside was empty. The box seems to be made of gold, and the workmanship is very exquisite, but the surface is stained with a lot of mud and black hair, and at first glance it looks like a huge horse manure egg. And the fishy smell it emits is extremely strong, and the head of the smoked person hurts.

The smell was the same as that of the ghost man, which is why Rum whined just now, thinking that there was a ghost man hidden in the haystack.

If you see this kind of gold-like object in normal times, the bald head will definitely put it in your mouth and take a bite to see if it is real gold. But this time he changed this habit, took it in his hand and gently removed the mud with the tip of a shovel, and fiddled left and right: "This should be an antiquity, and it is an object only in the ancient palace, similar to a dressing box." In terms of size, most of them are used to hold lip grease. It's just that this kind of thing, how can it appear in a sinkhole? ”

The bones stretched out their necks: "What is lip grease?" Can you eat it? ”

The bald head waved his hand: "Look at you are not educated, lipstick knows no, lipstick is ancient lipstick, a piece of red paper, a woman puts it on her lips, and then her mouth is dyed red." ”

I'm not curious about the origin of this little golden box, but I'm surprised by the hair stained on the box, which is the hair of a ghost man and also carries the smell of a ghost man. It is enough to show that this thing was once held in the hands of ghosts, and in the hands of these beasts, how could such a beautiful thing appear?

After pondering for a long time, the bald eyes suddenly lit up: "There is a fight!" There's definitely a fight in this place! Otherwise, there is no way to explain the appearance of this object! These ghosts, eating men and catching women, and they will fight upside down, what kind of creature is this? ”

Speaking of 'catching women', I immediately thought of Leng Qi again, patted the two of them on the shoulder and told them not to delay time, everyone took their own equipment, and then I gently touched Rum's back and motioned for it to help find clues.

At this moment, the sinkhole was filled with fog, not pure white fog, but a gray-white smoke, as if an ancient beast was hiding somewhere.

Looking ahead, the visibility was less than ten meters, and we were almost blind, relying on Rum's nose.

Rum was also very difficult, because the inside of the sinkhole was full of the smell of ghosts, and the smell of fish was in the air. If you want to find any traces in this environment, even if it is a Tibetan mastiff, the difficulty factor is ridiculously high.

In this way, the three of them followed Rum in a row, slowly navigating the sinkhole while dodging the swamp hidden beneath the fallen leaves.

Rum walked and stopped, and every distance he had to stick his nose deep into the fallen leaves to sniff carefully, and after more than forty minutes of wandering, we were in a fog and could not distinguish between east and west, north and south. The bald head whispered to Rum in front of him as he walked: "I said old man, is your nose okay or not, the bald man didn't make a mark all the way." If you get lost, we'll be completely blind......"

As soon as the words ended, Rum in front of him stopped, turned to look at us, and screamed twice.

Bones glared: "Dead bald, don't stand behind and talk about the wind, don't you see that Rum is also trying to find it!" After saying that, he walked over and touched Rum's head: "Don't be like that dead bald man, I know you did your best." ”

As he spoke, he squinted his eyes and realized that Rum had stopped not because he was angry with his bald head, but because he had found something. picked it up in his hand and took a closer look, and the bones suddenly waved his hand excitedly: "Lao Zhang, come and see, is this thing Leng Qi's!?" ”

I ran over quickly, only to see that Bones was holding a black gold dagger in his hand, which was the one that Leng Qi had been tucking into the side of his boots. I took out the black gold dagger on my body, and put the two together, and it was exactly the same!

Since Leng Qi's dagger appeared in the sinkhole, it proved that my previous analysis was not wrong, and the ghost man grabbed her and left the village, and went directly down to the sinkhole. Maybe their nest is somewhere in the sinkhole, and Leng Qi is trapped in that nest......

The black gold dagger gave me a lot of hope, and I hugged Rum and kissed it the head, and then motioned for it to hurry up and continue looking for the smell of Leng Qi.

Rum also understands the anxiety in our hearts, and without wasting any time, he sticks his nose and walks all the way, and the speed is also very fast. Starting from the position of the black gold dagger, Rum seemed to lock on to a certain scent, and the rest of the journey was not only fast, but after it, we did not encounter any hidden swamps, and trotted forward for several hundred meters, finally stopping at the bottom of the cliff on the side of the sinkhole.

When I saw the towering cliff, my heart sank, but I didn't expect to go around and back again. The bald head also wiped the fine sweat on his head, and said: "Why did you run back again, could it be that the ghost man really knew how to use climbing tools, and finally climbed out of the cliff?" ”

Bones shook his head: "No, this is not where we just came down. Over here...... It's the lair of the ghosts......"

Following his gaze, he looked up, and as he got closer, he saw a hole appear in the cliff at the end.

The entrance to the cave was three meters wide and high, and the interior was pitch black, and the walls around the cave were uneven, not like a natural formation. Standing in front of me, a stronger and even disgusting fishy smell came to my face, and the people who watched the darkness in the cave were terrified......