I almost escaped from the house before I recovered from the disgusting scene.

Jude Cow was behind me and handed me a bottle of beer, which I took a few sips to calm down.

"Do you have any thoughts?" He asked me.

I looked at him, not knowing the specific meaning of his question, he said: "Chinese like to beat around the bush, I am somewhat infected with a little vice, sorry, I am asking, do you want to cooperate?" ”

"Cooperation?"

"I don't have much time, and the next thing is your world, I have always been an outsider in this land, and I can't get the favor of this land. Cooperation has always been my choice, and you can consider considering my proposal. Jude Kaw said.

"You don't have to be high-sounding, I know what you mean." I said, "What do you want?" ”

"We've found out all the things that we've been inside for four hours, but after that black door, no matter what method we use, we can't break through. I can give you all the information. "But, on one condition, you must bring one of my men in. ”

I thought about it in my heart, Panzi seemed to want to refuse, so I immediately grabbed Panzi: "Wait a minute, I think it's acceptable." ”

"Third master, they are all rabble, and the information they can get, let alone us, this kind of condition is of no value to us."

"Not necessarily." I said, "Since Mr. Qiu said before that he never makes a deal that cannot be done, he must be very confident in his conditions, and the information he said should be different from what we think." ”

Jude Kao nodded: "My idea is not so simple, the reason why I want to propose this cooperation is to hope that you will not make unnecessary sacrifices. Without this information, you would have died at least one of you during the four-hour journey. ”

"That's useless for you." Pan Zidao.

Jude Cow laughed. Then he shook his head and said, "Well, you won't believe anything I say anyway, you have to go in by yourself to find out." What kind of place is this Zhangjia Ancient Building? I'm here to prepare four coffins and wait for you to sit down and talk again. ”

Huff. Panzi gave me a look. I actually wanted to cooperate, but Pan Zi also made sense, so I had to nod and say, "Then we'll talk about it then, Mr. Qiu, please." ”

Panzi and I sat on the edge of the stream, pondering what the old immortal foreigner had just said and what we had seen. Pan Zi said: "It seems that the inside of this Zhangjia Ancient Building is extremely weird, I originally thought that we were tossing and turning outside, and Jude Kao and them could enter the building." Unexpectedly, in so many days, so many people died, and they couldn't even find where the building was. ”

"Are you sure that this ancient building must be in the mountains?" I asked.

"100,000 mountains, there are many legends since ancient times, but here is the legend of the Ming Dynasty fire, and a lot of things have happened in modern times, in the past 100 years, I don't know how many people have entered this remote mountain village. These people certainly have a purpose. There must be a large number of clues pointing to the Zhangjia Ancient Mansion in these mountains. But I see that you didn't keep up just now, and you almost got into a goof. Did you just think of something? ”

I looked into the distance in the darkness, and I knew that it was a huge no-man's land, deep in the mountains and old forests.

I lit a cigarette and told Panzi about the terrible patient I had just seen and the shadow I had seen in the photos of Agui's family and the third uncle. "It's certainly not a coincidence, I think there's a possibility, that shadow, maybe the same person we just saw. It's of the same nature. ”

"Tell me more." Panzi obviously didn't comprehend.

I said, "We don't know what happened to that man in that gap. However, let's assume. If he survives this time, what will become of his body? You can imagine it. ”

Pan Zi nodded, the person stood up just now, his shoulders basically melted, the whole person was extremely weird, this kind of deformity is absolutely impossible to cure.

I said, "And the photo I gave me in Brother Chu is too similar to the strange shadow I saw on the second floor of Agui's house before, and the posture of the person standing up just now." I believe that in this village there was a man who had the same accident as the patient, but survived and became deformed. I took a puff on my cigarette and sighed for a moment, thinking more, "This person is probably someone from the archaeological team twenty years ago." ”

Panzi didn't say anything, I told him what I had experienced in Banai, but he didn't necessarily understand everything, in fact, I was just sorting it out for myself.

"Suppose that the archaeological team entered the deep mountains, whether before or after the bag drop, and carried out archaeological activities on the edge of the deep mountain lake, with the time and scale of the team at that time, there must have been some discoveries. They may have entered the cave and then things happened, some died, some survived, some disappeared. After they left, there was a man who they thought would die if he was hit by the trap crawled out of the cave on his own, survived and returned to the village and took up his place. "This man has lived for decades, and he knows a lot of secrets, and he doesn't dare to go back to the outside of the village." He thought that he would die in this village, but what he didn't imagine was that the matter was not over, and decades later, the consciousness inheritor of the previous archaeological team appeared in this village again. ”

"You made it up yourself." Pan Zidao, "How do you explain this photo that Brother Chu gave you?" ”

"The background in that photo is the sanatorium in Golmud, and the strange shadow is behind the screen, and the little brother was also found in this village, and the time is all in the same line. I don't know exactly how it is, but it's clear that this small village has more secrets than I thought. I said.

Pan Zi said: "Then don't sleep tonight, let's go ask Agui, what's going on?" Go to the second floor of his house and find him? ”

I shook my head: "No need. "I remembered the fire in the "former house" of the Stuffy Oil Bottle, and it is very likely that he lived in the house of the Stuffy Oil Bottle before, and as soon as we appeared, he found out and immediately burned down his own house, destroying everything.

So he won't find anything on the second floor of Agui, this person is not a poor worm, so many years. With this performance, he still showed an extremely high level of vigilance and execution ability.

Why?

In the time Jude Coe was here, he must have erased all the clues. And, now this time. He won't be in the village.

If it were me, I would be in the mountains, near Jude Cow's camp.

"Did they find Zhangjia Gulou back then?" Pan Zi asked, "Could the iron-like things they took away last come from the Zhangjia Ancient Building?" ”

I shook my head, I don't know where this man stands, but he burned down the house of stuffy oil bottles. It shows that he doesn't want the previous things to be exposed. I don't know if he doesn't want to expose himself, or if he doesn't want to expose everything. But I had a very ominous premonition.

This premonition may have something to do with the burning down of the stuffy oil bottle's house, and I was only a little close to seeing those photos, but a moment of negligence was overshadowed.

"Panzi! The team does not rest, can it go? I asked Pan Zidao.

"Yes, I picked these people. I can bear it without sleep for three days. Pan Zi said, "What? What do you think. ”

"We're going to go into the mountain immediately, I think something might happen." I said. "Tell them to rest in the mountains before tomorrow night. We had to rush to the lake. ”

My sudden decision caught everyone off guard, but fortunately, the deterrent power of the third uncle was here, and everyone packed up the baggage that had been opened in a strange atmosphere, and asked Agui to prepare dogs and mules overnight and set off for the mountains.

Even so, it was almost three o'clock in the middle of the night when the mules were brought in to set off regularly. The dark night of the mountains and forests is full of mosquitoes. I was extremely tired, but my heart was tormented by internal fire. I knew that it might be in vain, but I couldn't help but be anxious.

Along. I walked at the front of the line, closely following Ah Gui, who led the three dogs to open the way, and behind Pan Zi and a few men drove the mules, and pulled a long distance.

It was not until dawn that we rested, laid down the first supply point, marked along the way, and after walking through the dense canopy, we saw a procession of Jude Kao not far away, all of them in large blue tents, which we ignored and continued on our way.

There was nothing to say all the way, and when I arrived at the edge of the demon lake, it was already the evening of the next day, the sun only had one tail left, and only a trace of misty light was reflected on the calm lake, which looked extremely dim.

But on the other side of the lake, bonfires are lit up, and a series of red fires reflect an incredible scene.

There were campfires everywhere, rice was cooked everywhere, and there were many makeshift shacks between the rocks, covered with thatched leaves. There were twenty or thirty men, mules, dogs, and even ducks, mixed in with them.

The tape recorder was playing music, and beer and cola cans were scattered in the cracks of the stones.

Under the firelight, those people in twos and threes played cards, in a daze, and drank wine, a leisurely modern idyllic scene.

"The bosses on the rocky beach couldn't lie down in their sleeping bags, so they built shacks. The ducks are raised to eat, and it is too troublesome to bring them in one by one, so each family catches a dozen of them and raises them in the lake first, anyway, the ducks can't run away from the lake. Agui said: "In a few days, I will have to get some reclining chairs from the outside to come in, and the boss will take a shower on what day?" ”

"Sunbathing." Xiaohua said in the back and patted me, "People are like this, those who do this line of work naturally like to have fun in time." ”

I looked at two foreigners, a man and a woman, sitting on a big rock on the edge of the lake beach and kissing, and I couldn't help but sigh.

No one paid any attention to us, and when we walked into their camp, everyone looked at us with indifference, and Panzi passed by a place where beer crates were stacked, and threw a few cans at us, and no one protested.

"Looks like they're treating us as their own." Pan Zi said, "Jude is not reliable to fuck him, and he doesn't even have a sentry." ”

"It's not nothing, people are masters of art and bold." Xiaohua looked at a place, took a sip of beer and pointed. I turned my head and saw a little spark on a tree in the forest outside the rocky beach, and it seemed that someone was smoking on it.

"Just one?"

"Just one." Xiaohua said, "I guess I have a guy in my hand, and my eyes are good." ”

"Let's stay away from them." Pan Zi said, "The black smoke is miasma, and there are many people with mixed eyes. He pointed to the other side of the lake, which was pitch black. (To be continued)