Chapter 21: The Pig's Head Is Missing
Because there were more people, the back was just a flash, I frowned and was stunned for a moment, and immediately recognized that this was the back of Mr. Angelica!
How did this person come here again? Did you come with us? Before in the antique shop, this Mr. Angelica said to the second uncle that he came for Hanjia, at this time Hanjia has disappeared, and the news about our Gu family getting Hanjia has also been suppressed, and he is not sure where Hanjia is now.
Mr. Angelica and Han Yushan, the dead music teacher in Huimin County, should really be the twin brothers mentioned by the Seventh Master. Xie Ruyi has been dead for so long, and these two have only appeared once with Sun Dianying, and they have disappeared since then, why did they appear again at this time? What forces are behind them?
"Let's go." Liang Ruoyi found a parking space and paid for it, and walked over to greet him.
I answered, stared and searched again, but I didn't see the figure again, so I had to grin and follow everyone towards Jinsu Mountain.
Jinsu Mountain is called "Xiaohua Mountain", but the highest peak seems to be only about 1,500 meters, there are not a few peaks that are too high, we went around a big circle, from the Jinsu Mountain Forest Park, from the northeast corner of Jinsu Mountain, into the mountainous area.
At the end of June, it is already summer, shuttling in the mountains and forests, from time to time you can hear the cry of knowing, although the sun is shining overhead, but because the trees are lined up, and there is a river passing through Jinsu Mountain, the temperature in the mountains and forests is not high, sometimes a small wind blows, and I feel a little shivering.
It reminds me of last year today. By this time last year, I had already obtained my diploma and degree certificate, and I was waiting to leave the school. At that time, I couldn't have imagined that so many unbelievable things would happen in the next year.
When I graduated, I said to my brothers in the dormitory, "Two years, after two years, our lives are basically frozen, let's work together!" β
Half of the two years have passed quietly, and now I have no formal job, and even my beloved has been lost, so I must be the worst one to mix!
A group of five people walked west around a mountain peak in the mountain forest, and it was almost half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, when we bypassed the mountain at our feet, stood on the halfway of the mountain at a height of several hundred meters and looked at it, and saw that there was a mountain depression under the mountain, which was the position where the three peaks were surrounded.
It's just that, as we thought before, the fourth peak, which was supposed to appear in the depression, did not exist.
"Huh......" The seventh master bowed slightly and took a few breaths: "Let's rest for a while!" After climbing the mountain all morning, we were tired, and we had lunch before making plans. β
The pig's head had already sat down on the ground, panting as he took out a pig's foot and gnawed it - the thing still carried two huge backpacks as usual, one for equipment and one for food!
We all sat on the floor, took out our food, and ate it. I looked around, expecting to find the figure of Mr. Angelica, but I looked through the trees and saw nothing.
"Seventh Master, in your opinion, is it right for us to come to Jinsu Mountain?" Liang Ruoyi asked, biting the ham.
The seventh master turned his head to look at the landform below the mountain, and nodded slightly: "At least, now I feel that everything around me is the same as drawn in the picture, the only difference is that there is no such peak." β
The crowd stopped talking, ate with their heads bored, rested for more than an hour, and then slowly got up and continued to walk down the mountain.
It's easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and besides, there are still uninhabited peaks here, unlike the park over there that has mountain roads, so we can only hold the tree trunks and slowly slide down, and after a while, we will be tired and sweaty.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, we finally climbed down from it.
The crowd gasped and stood in the depression, looking at the three peaks around them.
The whole area of the mountain valley is no more than the size of a football field, undulating, woods, overgrown with weeds, and the sound of gurgling water can be heard in the distance, there should be a small river.
"It's that big." The Seventh Master let out a sigh: "Let's look separately and see what will be in here." β
Everyone nodded, and they scattered to look for it.
Liang Ruoyi and I walked west, and the other three scattered to the other three places. Because it was a mountain depression, the humidity was very heavy, and Liang Ruoyi took out a headscarf from his bag and wrapped it around his head.
I was walking forward with a broken branch, and when I saw Liang Ruoyi's appearance, I immediately laughed: "Beauty, your white turban is good!" But why is the sign in front of it red? From afar, it looks like that...... Ha ha! Hey, don't make a fuss! β
Liang Ruoyi naturally knew what I was going to say, so she hit the branch in her hand, I hurriedly hid back, she glared at me, and continued to walk forward.
By this time, my body was already slimy, and the humid air around me and the wet ground under my feet made me feel even more uncomfortable.
Soon, Liang Ruoyi and I walked to the opposite peak, and we didn't find anything along the way.
"Go back!" Liang Ruoyi turned to me and said, "Take a closer look, there is nothing around." β
I nodded, sighed, and followed Liang Ruoyi's zigzag back, expanding the scope of my investigation, hoping to find something.
But ten minutes later, when we returned to the position we had just left, we still found nothing. In addition to trees and weeds, the wet ground, and even the larger rocks are few.
"Xiao Gu, have you found anything?" The Seventh Master walked out of the woods not far away and asked loudly.
I shook my head: "No, what about you?" β
The Seventh Master sighed: "I don't have it here." β
Not long after the seventh master came over, the Budai monk also came back and shook his head at us, indicating that he had also found nothing.
"Are we really in the wrong place?" The Seventh Master smiled bitterly: "Will there be two peaks in the world with such similar topography?" β
Everyone smiled bitterly and did not speak, waiting for the pig's head to returnβthis is also our last hope.
About five minutes later, there was still no sign of the pig's head, and the time had pointed to five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was getting darker.
"Pig's head?!" The seventh master shouted in the direction of the pig's head, with a trace of anxiety in his eyes.
There was no echo in the woods, and the pig's head didn't know where it had gone.
"Seventh Master, let's go find it!" Liang Ruoyi frowned and proposed.
The Seventh Master pondered for a moment: "Okay, it seems that even if we come to the wrong place, we won't be able to get out tonight, everyone be careful, don't get separated again!" β
Everyone nodded, and walked towards the south where the pig's head had just gone.
It stands to reason that the distance to the south just now is the closest, and it looks like it is only a mile or two, so why hasn't he come back yet?
After two or three minutes, everyone noticed that the ground under their feet began to become soft, deep and shallow, extremely slippery.
"Wait." The seventh master, who was walking in the front, turned around and waved his hand, signaling us all to stop: "Look! β
We looked back in the direction of the seventh master's finger, and found that we had unconsciously walked into a small basin, which was about two meters down from the place we had just walked from, because of the lush trees, and the angle of the descent was very gentle, we didn't even notice it.
"There may well be a swamp ahead." The Seventh Master said in a deep voice.
We were stunned: swamp?! If it was a swamp, the pig's head would probably be in danger now......
The Seventh Master thought about it for a while, took out a rope from his backpack, and handed it to everyone: "It's all tied around the waist, let's slow down, it's better to make this rope a lifeline, not a life-killing rope!" β
I shrugged my shoulders and took the rope and tied it around my waist, feeling a little apprehensive. At this point, we stopped for about a minute, and our two calves were already submerged in the mud, still slowly sinking.
Everyone tied the ropes and hurriedly helped each other to pull out their legs from the mud, Liang Ruoyi warned: "I have been to this kind of place many times, if we are all over the calf, it will be difficult to pull it out again, and if we force each other at that time, we will all fall into it!" β
The Seventh Master nodded, his face was a little grim, and he glanced up at the gray sky: "Okay, everyone pay attention, let's try to control the speed!" β
After that, the seventh master used the branch in his hand to probe the depth of the mud in front of him, and walked over cautiously......