Chapter 22: Disappearance

Once again, it was as if the baby's cry scared us all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The sound is close!" Fat Bao said as he took out the fighting saber from his waist.

"It seems to be right behind the half of the Buddha statues that haven't fallen!" I immediately grabbed the fighting saber in my backhand and pulled Hotaru behind me.

"One person outflanked the past!" Fei Bao said and walked around to the left side of the Buddha statue.

Hotaru and I went around to the right cautiously.

I don't know if it's better to wish for something behind the Buddha statue or nothing at all. If there is something, what kind of beast in the old forest of Moriyama will make a baby-like cry, it is terrifying to think about! If there is nothing, what is the baby's cry? Do you really want me to believe that there are dead infants in broad daylight?

But I didn't have to think about it anymore, and another voice gave the answer. As I slowly approached the statue, I apparently heard a sparse movement behind the statue. There should be something behind the Buddha statue. I tensed my nerves and motioned for Hotaru behind me to be careful, and she nodded.

"Wow!" Another baby's cry made me feel a chill from my chest to my toes during the day. My forehead started sweating, and I don't know if it was because it was too hot or because I was too scared!

I only heard the fat treasure on the other side of the Buddha statue shouting: "Ke Shao, I'll rush over first, you follow!" Yes! He shouted to embolden himself and rushed behind the Buddha statue.

"Hotaru-chan, follow me closely!" I also swung my saber and rushed behind the Buddha statue.

I saw Fat Bao standing in place, his face full of horror. I followed Fat Bao's gaze. I was amazed.

"Ahh Hotaru turned around in panic and didn't dare to look.

The scene in front of me was chilling. I saw that there was a fish more than one meter long behind the Buddha statue, this fish had limbs, no scales, and its body was like a huge snake. Its tail was missing, as if it had been bitten off by something. Blood was constantly flowing from the fish's body, and it was very bloody. The fish was beating dying.

"It's a baby fish!" I say.

"Baby fish?" Fat Bao was surprised and said, "Is it a baby fish that screams like a baby?" Why is there such a thing at the top of the mountain? ”

The baby fish soon stopped moving, and it should have died due to excessive blood loss.

"The old man doesn't seem to have baby fish there, right?" Fei Bao said.

"The old man's pond is full of big carp! Haven't we seen each other before? Hotaru said.

"There are two big fish ponds there, and we've only seen one of them!" Fei Bao said, "Maybe there is another fish pond with baby fish!" ”

"Impossible!" I said, "Baby fish need very clear and clean water to grow, and that kind of fish pond can't support baby fish, let alone raise baby fish that big!" It's quite strange that this kind of fish, which is quite picky about the environment, appears here! Because the old man said that there was an industry developed here, and the water was polluted! ”

"Didn't you say that the water quality gradually improved after the factory was closed? And it is impossible for the factory to be built on the top of a mountain, and the water on the top of the mountain should not be polluted! Maybe there's a clear water source nearby. ”

"Fat Bao, you can say it easily! We walked for so long and didn't find a water source nearby! "And the question isn't whether there's a clear water nearby that can feed that big salamander, but why it's here." ”

"Isn't that simple?" "Just like we did yesterday, maybe someone put it here!" ”

"Maybe it's artificial!" I stared at the dead salamander and said, "Maybe it'......" and I stopped talking.

"What is it?" Fei Bao said impatiently, "How can you say half and not say half of it, I'm in a hurry!" ”

"Brother Jinke also thinks that it may be the mountain ghost?" Hotaru had already turned around, she looked at the dead baby fish, but her expression was painful, probably because she was forced to endure the nausea brought to her by the bloody scene, "Its tail was bitten off by something, and the wound obviously left bite marks." ”

I didn't expect Hotaru to be able to observe such a bloody scene so carefully. I also found out about this problem, but I was worried that it would scare her by saying it, so I stopped halfway through what I said.

"Even if it's not a mountain ghost, it's a medium-sized or large beast that eats meat!" I said, "Because the salamander is more than a meter long, the body of the giant salamander will definitely not be small." And just before we arrived, it was eating baby fish here! "My eyes quickly scanned my surroundings for fear of a sneak attack. Fat Bao was also vigilant, and he also looked around. But nothing was found.

"I didn't expect you all to say that." Fei Bao said, "Is there really a mountain ghost?" ”

"I wouldn't believe these goofies without seeing the real thing!" I said, "But one thing is for sure, there are some unknown dangers here!" Let's go down the mountain first and talk about it later! ”

"Alright! I'll get my backpack back over there first! Fei Bao said, "Just now, in order to travel lightly, I put my backpack on the collapsed half of the Buddha statue." So saying, he walked that way

"Brother Jinke, this baby fish died a pitiful death! Let's bury it! Hotaru said.

If someone else had said that, I would have slapped him to death. Isn't the fish, pork, and beef we eat every day slaughtered and eaten like this? It's just that we don't see the slaughtering process. I don't see that we will be pitied. But it was Hotaru who said this, a pure girl who has not been polluted by society, so she didn't expect that I wouldn't blame her in this regard! I pretended to be a good person and agreed to her.

Since the salamander was full of blood and disgusting, I didn't want to move it, so I had to find some broken tiles and grass nearby to bury it. After we got it, we went around the Buddha statue to find the fat treasure. I'm ready to be squirted by him, and his impatience must say that I have nothing to do, go and bury the baby fish, and make him wait so long.

When we went back to the collapsed half of the Buddha statue, we didn't see the fat treasure.

"What about people?" I was looking around, "Fat Baby, where are you?" Did you go pee?"

No one responded.

"Brother Jiabao, where are you?" Hotaru shouted.

"Fat Bao, stop playing, you're leaving. If you don't come out, we'll go! ”

Still no response. I immediately became vigilant and said, "Fat Bao may have an accident!" ”

"Something's wrong?" Hotaru said in surprise.

I picked up my saber again and said to Hotaru, "You follow me closely!" Let's take a look around the neighborhood! ”

"Did the accident you said Brother Jiabao was captured by a mountain ghost or something?" Hotaru asked.

"It's possible! But with Fat Bao's skills, it shouldn't be so easy to be subdued! I looked around as I walked, and "Fat Bao's luggage is gone." It should have been an accident after getting the luggage! It should have only taken us a minute or two to bury the baby fish just now, and it shouldn't have gone far in such a short time! We chase! ”

We walked out of the main temple chamber and back along the courtyard. After walking out of the Dragon Ancient Temple, I stopped for a while.

"That's not right!" I said, "All that's left here is the traces of the weeds we left when we came!" No new traces were left at all! ”

"Do you mean that Brother Jiabao didn't take this path?"

"Hmmm! Let's go in other directions! ”

Hotaru and I searched around the perimeter of the Dragon Ancient Temple. It took us more than an hour to look at the grass nearby, and there was no sign of anything that had ever walked on. Let's not talk about how to subdue Fat Bao, if you want to take away a muscular man of more than 100 kilograms, it is impossible not to leave an indentation on the grass. Then we searched inside the Longgu Temple, but we still didn't find it.

Hotaru and I were disappointed to come to the collapsed Buddha statue.

At this time, Hotaru's eyes began to moisten and redden, "It's all my fault, it's not that I want to bury the baby fish, we won't leave Brother Jiabao behind, and Brother Jiabao won't be missing!" ”

"Or we'll all go missing!" I gently touched Hotaru's head and said, "It's not your fault, don't blame yourself!" ”

"Let's disappear together! We're at least in this together! Now Brother Jiabao will definitely be scared alone! ”

"Fat Bao will not be afraid! He's the kind of person who eats the heart of a bear and a leopard, and is not afraid of death! Even the female doll from Baiyun Mountain didn't scare him, it's okay! "I just wanted to comfort Hotaru, I remembered that night I saw the girl doll in Qixing's costume hanging from the Flying Corner Tower, and she would smile. At that time, me, Ah Ming, and Fat Bao were all scared half to death.

"Really?"

"Hmmm! Take a break and we'll keep looking! ”。

"There is no trace of Brother Jiabao's walking outside the Longgu Temple. We also looked for it in the Longgu Temple, but there was nothing. Brother Jiabao seems to have disappeared out of thin air! Where else can we find it?"

"Sherlock Holmes said that after the impossible is ruled out, the rest is unbelievable and the final answer to the problem!"

"What do you mean?"

"It means that Feibao is very likely to be still in the Dragon Ancient Temple!"

"Didn't we just look for it? All that is left here is ruins, and it is clear at a glance that he is not seen at all. ”

"Let's take a break and look for it. Rest assured, you'll find it! "Actually, there are two possibilities that come to mind, and the inference just now is only based on the scope of science. Another possibility is that Fat Bao was taken away by a force beyond the scope of cognition, such as a mountain ghost. On the issue of mountain ghosts, I have always maintained a neutral attitude, not believing that it exists, nor that it does not exist. As long as it appears to me, I believe it exists. Yesterday I used behavioral psychology to analyze the old man's expression when he spoke, and his words were very true, not like he was lying. However, it is not excluded that the old man's feudal superstitious ideas and lack of scientific knowledge mistakenly regard any beast as a mountain ghost.

At this time, I suddenly had an idea, I wanted to get an answer from Hotaru now.