Li Renfeng and I looked at each other, not understanding what was going on at all.

Xiao Wu, dog, could it be that the few Jiufeng Shanmen people we met before also recognized us as these two people?

Li Renfeng looked at me and made a lip gesture at me: "Something is wrong." ”

I nodded and pulled Li Renfeng aside.

The people who sent off relatives walked past me and Li Renfeng one by one, and when they saw us, they either smiled or cast a blaming look.

In their eyes, it was as if we were really two acquaintances, not acquaintances, and would not have that kind of eye contact.

When the last person led the little girl past me, Li Renfeng couldn't help but ask: "Is such a young child going to get married?" ”

The man immediately laughed: "Today is a good day for the saint and the king of the mountain, and when the saint reaches the top of the mountain, the village will be in good weather in the coming year." ”

When he said the words "mountaintop", the little girl's expression twitched violently, as if that place was not a blessed place for her, but a very terrifying place.

Li Renfeng obviously noticed that there was something wrong with the little girl's expression, and he wanted to take a step forward, but I reached out to stop him.

I shook my head at Li Renfeng and motioned for him not to act rashly.

Just now, it was because of his self-righteous actions that Liu Shangang and them lost contact, and now, Li Renfeng finally knew that he had converged, and he took two steps back after being blocked by me, although his eyes were still staring at the team sending his relatives, but he didn't follow after all.

It wasn't until the team to send off relatives disappeared into the thick fog that I patted Li Renfeng on the shoulder: "Keep up, remember, don't be born, don't make a sound at all." ”

As I spoke, I felt in the direction where the gongs and drums were coming from.

In the thick fog, we and the family send-off team could not see each other, but their voices were loud, and to a certain extent, they provided us with favorable conditions for tracking.

The reason why we want to follow them is that I can't rest assured that the little girl in the family sending team will not be at ease, and second, they also said just now that they want to send the saint to the top of the mountain, and our destination happens to be the top of the mountain.

Since entering Jiufeng Mountain, I first felt the huge Qi field at the foot of the mountain, and after entering the mountain, at first I encountered a funeral, and now I encountered a send-off, and Li Renfeng and I were inexplicably mistaken for two other people.

These things come together, and I have a very awkward feeling, I can't say that there is any awkwardness, but it seems to be awkward everywhere, and there is no normal place on my body.

After walking for a while, the sound of gongs and drums gradually became quieter, and I hurriedly pulled Li Renfeng to run a few steps, until I vaguely saw the back of the little girl, and we slowed down and kept a distance of about three meters from her.

The procession made their way up the hillside, where the trees and weeds were so dense that it was extremely difficult to walk.

Li Renfeng obviously rarely moved in such a place, and his physical strength gradually couldn't keep up, so I had no choice but to carry him on my shoulders and walk towards the mountain while picking up the weeds.

Halfway up the mountain, the sound of gongs and drums in front of me suddenly disappeared, and the procession to send off relatives also stopped, and I could no longer hear their footsteps at this moment.

I put Li Renfeng down and silently stared at the situation in front of me, and at this time, I saw the little girl sigh, she seemed to be deliberately avoiding something in front of her, and slowly turned her head.

I didn't expect her to turn back before, so I forgot to dodge for a while, and she looked at her.

She stared at me for a moment, then opened her mouth and made a silent mouth.

My gaze cut through the fog and struggled to discern what she was saying.

She said, "Let's go!" ”

She stared at me with wide eyes, and I could feel the desperation in her eyes.

At this time, her body shook for a moment, and then she staggered forward, as if someone was dragging her and forcing her forward.

Li Renfeng seemed to be very nervous, I knew he wanted to follow, but now was not the time.

When the footsteps were a little farther away, I pulled Li Renfeng and touched it.

If the person next to me now was not Li Renfeng, but Liu Shangang or Liang Houzai, I would have leaned over to see what was going on, but Li Renfeng has no experience in stealth at all, and the footsteps and breathing are very loud, and if we get closer, the people in front will inevitably find us.

In the fog ahead, there was the shouting of the crowd, and they were speaking in a language I didn't understand, a bit like Cantonese, but if I listened closely, it wasn't, they seemed to be worshipping something, and their tone was full of reverence.

Through the steam-thick mist, I could already see a few people at the end of the line, prostrate on the ground, kneeling and bowing in front of them, but I didn't see the little girl just now.

I pulled Li Renfeng to hide behind a big tree and watched quietly.

There was a very heavy dead air about 100 meters ahead, that is, the breath emitted when the corpse had not yet decomposed after the person died.

"Please, let me go!"

There was an immature cry in front of her, and all the people in the whole procession except for the little girl were adults, and she should be shouting.

In addition to the sound of crying, there was a tugging sound ahead, as if someone had fallen to the ground, and someone was cursing in an incomprehensible language.

I felt that the little girl's cry was getting farther and farther away from us, and I was a little anxious in my heart, so I hurriedly pulled Li Renfeng, bypassed the crowd, and quietly moved in the direction where the cry came from.

Li Renfeng said to me in a very small voice: "These people speak ancient Chinese. ”

I didn't say anything, but looked at the road carefully, and tried to avoid the dry branches scattered on the ground as I walked.

Every time I took a step, I was extremely cautious, and I had to stare at Li Renfeng at the same time, the speed of action was very slow, and it took me five or six minutes to walk dozens of meters.

The little girl was still crying, and the voices of others appeared behind us.

It seems that the little girl should have been pulled to the front, and now Li Renfeng and I are between her and the family sending team.

In this position, the people in the family send-off team could no longer see us, and with the cry of the little girl in front, it was difficult for them to hear the movement of me and Li Renfeng.

I simply let go of my steps and walked quickly towards the little girl, Li Renfeng following closely behind me.

The crying became clearer and clearer, and I heard a very soft murmur in front of us, and it seemed that it was not just the little girl in front of us now, but a grown woman following her.

If I'm not mistaken, there should have been only one middle-aged woman in the procession who threw red paper money along the road.

At this time, the little girl's cry turned into a rapid sob, but the murmur became louder and louder, and I had a vague feeling that the murmur seemed to be chanting some kind of incantation.

When I got closer, I saw the middle-aged woman in a red jacket kneeling on the ground, holding three incense sticks in her hand, and the red light on the incense head pierced through the mist and met my vision.

Next to her, there was a black ladder, and the little girl sobbed as she slowly climbed to the top of the ladder, and I saw that she was still holding a long white cloth in her hand.

The little girl flung the white cloth into the air with a flick of her slender arm, and I noticed that there was a white shadow in the mist, for it was so similar in color to the mist that it was a little illegible even at such a close distance.

When the white cloth was hung on the branches, the little girl tied the cloth into a slipknot and put her head in it.

She seemed to have been preparing for this moment for a long time, and every movement was very skillful, but I could feel the hesitation in her heart.

Fools know that she is going to hang herself on a tree, I am afraid that Li Renfeng will be impulsive, so I quickly covered his mouth and dragged him into the mist.

In our position, we could still see the little girl trembling all over, and at this time, the woman who was still chanting the spell just now quickly pushed down the long ladder, and then hurriedly left.

The little girl hung motionless in mid-air for a while, and then began to twist and turn, which is a normal behavior when a person hangs herself, and she struggled for a few minutes before she died of extreme lack of oxygen.

I estimated that the woman should have gone far, so I pulled out the green steel sword, rushed to the tree with an arrow step, and quickly jumped up the tree trunk with eight steps, and slashed out the green steel sword with my backhand.

The green steel sword can even cut through the outer skin of the bronze armored corpse, let alone the two-foot white silk.

As soon as the white cloth was broken, the little girl's weak body also fell, if it was Liu Shangang or Liang Houzai who followed me, he would have already run under the tree to pick up people, but Li Renfeng was still standing stupidly in the distance, looking helpless, and he didn't know how to come to help.

I kicked the trunk of the tree and caught the little girl as I landed quickly.

Then I quickly untied the white cloth around her neck, and she slowed down a little and began to gasp for air.

At this time, she was actually still in a coma, and all her actions were unconscious. I dragged her back a distance, and then beckoned to Li Renfeng to follow.

At this time, I heard shouts from the distant send-off team, this time in Mandarin, and everyone repeatedly chanted "Send the mountain god, send the saint!" He shouted as he retreated down the mountain, his voice getting farther and farther away.

It wasn't until the shouts and footsteps were far away that Li Renfeng dared to ask me, "What are they doing?" ”

I shook my head: "I don't know. Then he asked, "Is this place the top of a mountain?" ”

Li Renfeng: "I just looked, there is no fog on the top of the mountain, but the fog here seems to be thicker than other places." ”

He's right, the fog here is indeed thicker than just now, and the white tree is less than two meters away from me, but I can barely see it.

When I went up the tree just now, I vaguely saw something hanging on the treetops, but the situation was more urgent, and I didn't look carefully, and now it is confirmed that the team to send off relatives has gone away, so I handed the little girl to Li Renfeng: "You take care of her, I'll go to the tree to have a look." ”

As I spoke, I took out a flare from my backpack, dismantled the shell, and poured out some of the phosphorus powder inside.

The special phosphor powder in the flare emits a red light when it hits fire, and this light is more penetrating, even in heavy fog, I can see it from a distance of ten meters.

I handed a lighter to Li Renfeng: "If there is a situation, ignite the powder on the ground." ”

After saying that, I jumped up to the trunk of the tree with an arrow step, and I didn't hear what Li Renfeng said behind me.

The tree was very thick, and there was a lot of friction on the trunk, and my shoes stepped on it, as if I were stepping on a layer of sandpaper, and with this friction, I climbed up to the treetops in only three steps, and the little girl just hung herself from the treetops.

I stood up and looked closely at the shadow I had seen when I first climbed the tree, and in the thick fog, the shadow not far away looked like a large insect cocoon with a thick dead air on it.