I didn't know why I said that, and as soon as the words fell, I regretted it so much that my bowels turned blue. I looked at the strange man, and I didn't dare to regret it, for fear of being spurned, and for fear of being beaten, so I stiffened my neck, smiled, and took the triangular jade in the girl's hand tremblingly.

"You have to be careful!" The man reminded.

Watch out? How should I be careful? If something messy is activated, life and death are just a moment, what's the use of me being careful?

Next door to Mali, tube ball!

I took a deep breath and nodded to the man. After watching them walk away, I slowed my breathing and slowly aimed the jade at the hole. My hands were trembling, and the vision in front of me was blurred with nervousness.

When the jade was put into the hole, I just felt as if I saw my whole life pass by in front of my eyes......

Immediately after, I heard a very harsh sound, which seemed to be the sound of stone slabs rubbing against me.

The door opens?

I was overjoyed, but when I looked back, I saw that the door was not open, and only a small window was opened, and a ray of sunlight shone in from the outside, casting it on the ground.

"What is this?" The girl walked over and muttered dissatisfiedly, obviously not satisfied with the result, "We can't get out of such a small hole!" As she spoke, she held out a hand and gestured.

"Little brother," at this time, the strange man looked at Xiao Rong, "Your awesome right hand, can you smash the door open?" Borrowed for use? ”

Before Xiao Rong could react, I heard this, and immediately stopped between the two of them, and I said, "You wait a while, you can let me take a look at it again, maybe it will be opened soon." "I thought to myself, I can't smash it again, it's going to collapse if I smash it again.

I went to the little window and tried to poke my head out, just enough to get out, but not below the shoulders.

It should have been ten o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was shining, and I saw green bushes outside, and there was a path paved with stones, and I didn't know where it led, and beyond the bushes was a dense forest, soaked in the warm sun. Everything looks so peaceful that it's like the backyard of Miyuan.

I sighed with emotion, and was stunned for a long time when I looked at this scene, until the girl's voice came from behind me.

"Little Yoko, how is it? Did you find anything? ”

"Wait a minute." I waved my hand behind me, then looked left and right.

The right side was bare, and I couldn't see anything, but there was a strange thing on the left, and when I looked closely, I was startled.

I saw that on the thick door panel, there were two keyholes that protruded outward, and on the keyhole lay a thing, which was covered with long black hair, and its body was curled up in a ball, motionless, like some kind of mammal.

"What the hell is this?" I muttered and immediately retracted my head.

"What do you see?" The girl asked me.

"I can't tell, you can see for yourself."

So I let go of the hole and let the girl poke her head out, and after a few moments, she also shrank her head back in confusion.

"How does it seem to be only...... Dead monkeys? The girl was stunned for a long time, looking at me with an expression of disbelief.

"Monkeys? Do you feel like a monkey? I sighed, "But how can a monkey lie on the door lock?" ”

"What did you just say?" The man seemed to have thought of something as he listened to us, and he asked, sticking his head out. So I immediately described to him what I had seen.

"Well......" the man thought, "you say, that thing looks like a monkey?" ”

"Well, I think it's a monkey anyway!" The girl nodded, then poked me with her elbow, "Little Yoko, you may not have seen it just now, that thing also has a long tail coiled around its belly." ”

"What could it be?" Xiao Rong interjected and asked.

The man thought for a moment, "According to your description, I think it's a 'monkey lock'. After a long time, he said, as if he was affirming his own judgment, and his head kept nodding.

"Monkey lock? What is it? ”

"A monkey lock is a kind of monkey. In ancient times, there was no such thing as a 'lock'. It was very difficult for the ancients to hide things privately. Later, one day, the ancients found a monkey with strong vitality in the west of the great wilderness, and after the monkey was born, as long as the slugs were salted into water, and then the water was mixed with spices to give them a special smell to feed, they would immediately freeze. And the limbs are extremely strong. They don't move for the rest of their lives until they die.

For a time, the ancients also had the habit of using this monkey as a torture instrument to punish those who liked to speak ill and spread rumors. They put the monkey on the face of the prisoner, and the prisoner's face would be hugged tightly by the monkey, and he could not eat, see, or smell, and sometimes he could not even breathe. It is basically foreseeable that this person's life will be over. ”

"Is there a way to open the lock?" I asked.

The leech man touched his chin and continued meaningfully, "There is also a way, it is said that if you want to unlock this monkey lock, you can only stimulate their mouths with the same taste of slug juice that they drank when they were born, and the recipe for this slug juice is only known to the owner, so isn't this just like the current combination lock?" ”

"But what do we do now?" I asked, "Where are we going to find that juice?" ”

"You're too kind, still looking for juice?" The strange man looked at me and shook his head, "Wouldn't it be over if you just kill it!" ”

"Huh?!"

"I agree!" The girl raised her hand and said, "Without further ado, let me come." ”

I'm grass, I want to say, you're still not human, are you? No matter how you say it's a small life, and it doesn't hurt anyone, it's too cruel to kill it!

"Can we not do this?" I was dissatisfied.

"Or you have a better way?" The strange man glared at me.

"I ......," I said, my mouth open, but the words I wanted to say froze in my mouth, and I couldn't say anything, "I didn't." ”

"Then go out of the way." The strange man pushed me aside and glanced at the girl, "Xiao Jiu, you go!" ”

"Okay!"

At this moment, I suddenly realized that the "Xiao Jiu" in the mouth of the strange man turned out to be "girl".

Did the two of them know each other before? Didn't the girl say that she only met her in this city? I was a little confused, and thought to myself, could it be that this man is the girl looking for a pick-up in this city? Guide?

No, I'll have to ask if I have the chance.

The girl looked at my expression, I don't know if she guessed my thoughts, but she smiled, took out a small silver pistol from her waist, and loaded the pistol neatly.

"Be ruthless! The monkey has a strong vitality, and one shot may not kill him. The man said.

I couldn't take it anymore and stood far away.

On the surface, the girl looks like a soft and cute girl, but in fact, I found that she is not an ordinary person at all. I saw her poke her head out of the window again to look, probably estimating, and then stepped back and stretched out her hand. Three shots were fired blindly without being able to aim at anything - accompanied by a loud gunfire, a "squeak" was heard outside the window, and then, not long after, there was no sound at all.

I guess the monkey is dead.

"I'm good marksman, right?" The girl raised her pistol and looked at me, "Twenty meters away, I can hit the apple in your hand blindfolded." ”

"Well, yes, yes." I replied with a blank face, I didn't bother to pay attention to her, and my head was full of the monkey's screams.

In this city, I have also fought big rats and killed small flower snakes, but those things are the ones that want to harm me first, and I have no choice but to resist. But this monkey is different, it is pitiful enough that it is fixed here as a lock by humans, and it ends up like this......

I suddenly realized that when there is no other choice, people often choose cruelty. This seems to be a step that must be taken before maturity, and no one can be as innocent as a child forever, and I am no exception.

"Oh, don't think about it!" The girl seemed to see through my thoughts, and smashed her fist on my shoulder with dissatisfaction, "You just ate a monkey brain at that time and replenished your brain, okay?" ”

"yes, got it." I smiled and nodded.

The girl patted me on the shoulder, and together with Xiao Rong, she pushed open the stone door with all her strength. The moment I walked out, I just felt that my whole body was loose and I had no strength at all.

I watched the white sunlight shine through the gaps in the fine leaves and spread on my body, and the slightest warmth made people feel soft. Suddenly, I felt so tired that I felt like I was going to die forever.

The girl took out her compass and looked at it, pointing in a direction. At the moment, my physical strength and energy are overdrawn, and so do others. We didn't go far and decided to take a break and restock some food and water in a place that seemed safe.

After sitting down on the spot, the man took out the pot and alcohol stove from his backpack, and then took out a few bags of instant noodles that had already been broken into slag. I said in my heart, thank God, I can finally have a hot meal anyway.

We decided that the girl and I would cook the noodles first, and the others would go to bed, and when we had cooked them and eaten them ourselves, we would eat them for someone else. The advantage of this is that while cooking and eating noodles, there are also people who can keep watch, so that a situation does not suddenly occur and a group of people are caught off guard.

Xiao Rong chose a farther away, but very cool place to lean on. The strange man and the leper man slept on the grass not far away, and the short man sat alone on one side, not moving, and asked him not to answer. His eyes were bruised, and I felt like he was completely stupid, and his body must have reached its limit, and if he continued like this, he would definitely die. So I beckoned Xiao Rong to come over.

"Do you know that?" I looked at Xiao Rong and asked.

"What's the move?"

"Slap him out with a slap." After saying that, I remembered something again, and advised, "But don't try too hard, it's not good to shoot to death." ”

"I'll give it a try." Xiao Rong laughed.

Xiao Rong, a little classmate, was really reliable, I saw him walk behind the short man, suddenly raised his left hand and swept it behind the other party's back, before his eyes could see clearly, the short man snorted and fell down.

Xiao Rong and I carried the short man to the shade of a tree, made him lie flat, and gave him a shot of nutrition. I thought that this way he could at least get a good night's sleep, and he wouldn't die of exhaustion right away.

After Xiao Rong left, the girl and I sat on the floor. I watched her set the pot on a lit alcohol stove, fill the pot with water, and sit silently waiting for the water to boil.

The weather was not bad, the sun popped up from the clouds from time to time, and the water and sweat on the body were quickly dried by the air.

I looked at the girl and thought to myself, this is a good opportunity, so I asked her, "Who is that man?" ”

"Who?"

"It's the one with the Miao knife."

"I really don't know," said the girl with a serious face, "we met near the Golden Pit, and he seems to be looking for something there, or ...... I'm looking for someone. Anyway, he helped us then, otherwise you wouldn't have seen me again. He promised to take us to the cave where we came, but asked us to do something for him. ”