At first glance in the darkness, there seemed to be nothing except a few straight and sloping roads in the distance and a calm lake.

I subconsciously touched the back of my head, and I didn't feel cold, could it be that I was a little nervous?

The snoring of a toad could already be heard in the hut behind him, and it seemed that he had fallen asleep.

I was nervous, and the feeling of being stared at was like a thorn in the back, and I felt uncomfortable. After solving my personal problems, I turned to go back, only to hear a faint sound again, as if something was floating on the surface of a lake in the distance.

I stood still, looking left and right, but I still didn't see anything. And in an instant, the voice disappeared again!

, what does that mean? I smiled wryly and shook my head, and as I walked away, the feeling of being stared at came again, and this time, right behind me!

"Who?!" I frowned and screamed, and turned around, only to see in the darkness a charred, wrinkled thing that looked like both a human face and a monkey's face floating on the surface of a lake half a foot away from me, quietly watching me!

"W-This?!" I instinctively took two steps back and accidentally stepped into the puddle with a "snap". When I looked closely, I saw that the monster's body was completely submerged in the water, but it only showed a strange head, staring at me motionless under the flashlight in my hand.

"What's wrong?" The toad seemed to be woken up by me, asked in the house, and then walked out.

I turned my head to tell him what I saw, but the moment I turned my head, I saw the monster's head shake, and it disappeared into the water......

"It's fine!" The toad itself didn't know those weird monsters, and he probably wouldn't believe it if he told him, so I simply didn't bother to speak: "It's okay, it's just dazzled, I saw something." ”

The toad glanced at me with disdain: "Heh, the more useless people are, the more suspicious!" ”

I took a sip on the toad's back, sat down in my corner, drank some water, and fell into a deep sleep......

When I woke up the next day, it was already past five o'clock in the morning. The water level outside had risen overnight, and had overflowed the threshold, slowly flowing into the house.

I picked up the walkie-talkie on the side and looked at it, and found that the Seventh Master and Lao Clam were walking west, while the Budai Monk and Liang Ruoyi were walking north. The road I took with the toad was in the southwest direction, which happened to be in the direction of the North Mountain.

I can't look at the coordinates on the screen and the distance display, so I can only roughly judge the direction.

"Grab a bite to eat and hit the road!"

When I heard the toad speak, I looked up at him, and saw that I had gotten a pig's foot from somewhere, and held it in my hand and gnawed on it.

I sneered, "Toad, I've been holding back a question to ask you. ”

"What's the problem?" The toad didn't even lift his eyes.

"You have a good life, why did you join this team?" I said solemnly: "At the beginning, the seventh master said that you love money like life, and I didn't doubt your motives. I've seen miser, too, so I'm sure you'll join us in this dangerous way for money. But now I think it's not like that's the case. ”

"How?" The toad glanced at me, nibbling on the fragrant pig's feet.

"The first time he participated in our operation, Xu Zeming threatened us." I feel that instead of guarding him all the time, it is better to find out his thoughts: "The second time, you almost lost your life." And you have taken a lot of gold ingots in my hands, and I think you should bring some good things out of other places, why would you, who advocate freedom of life, choose to join our ranks that are both free and dangerous? On top of that, the tombs we robbed didn't have much oil and water, and you didn't get much money, so I really can't figure out why you should get involved. ”

"I remember telling you once." The toad sneered: "I said, I need your Gu family to do me a favor, of course, what kind of favor it is, I can't say it yet." I'm just telling you, there are still two people in your Gu family, your second uncle, and you. If it weren't for this reason, I would have killed you directly last time in Jinsu Mountain! However, even so, if you really anger me, I don't care about killing you first, let your second uncle help me! ”

Although I have a little fear in my heart, I am not yet at the point of being afraid of becoming a fool: "These two things don't seem to be necessarily related, right?" ”

When the toad heard me say this, he paused, then gnawed the pig's feet in his hand in a few bites, and then looked at me and sighed: "There are other reasons for this." I can only tell you that I was entrusted by someone, or rather, I made a bet with someone else and lost, so I joined your team. ”

"Is it the Seventh Master?!" I immediately thought of the Seventh Master.

When the toad first entered our team, it was the Seventh Master who accepted it almost without hesitation.

"If it's really the Seventh Master, how good would it be for him to bring me in directly, wouldn't you doubt it?" The toad looked at me with disdain: "You are still too young, everyone is suspicious, but you, ask me directly." ”

I was speechless for a moment, shrugged my shoulders, took out bread, ate it, drank some water, and then walked out of the hut with the toad, and continued on my way.

On the screen of the walkie-talkie, you can see that the other two teams are also starting to act. From a distance, in the dimness, this huge fortification still gave me a great visual impact.

Now the place we walked through was already the center of this fortification, on both sides or corners of several horizontal and vertical roads, there were countless earthen forts and various moats, etc., and even saw two small armories, in which the toad searched for a long time, took out three well-preserved spear heads, and stuffed them into his backpack.

"Why do I think the water level is rising a little fast!" I looked at the water that was almost submerging my ankles and frowned slightly.

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden sound of "bang, bang, bang" on the water not far away!

I hurriedly turned the flashlight in my hand and shone it on the water in the distance, but it was calm again, and there was no sound.

"Strange cough!" I was a little overwhelmed: "Why do I keep hearing these voices?" I can't see anything again, is it an auditory hallucination? Do you hear the toad? ”

After waiting for a few seconds, I didn't hear the echo of the toad next to me, so I turned the flashlight back to shine at the toad, but I saw that the toad was motionless, staring at my back.

"What, what's wrong?!" I asked tremblingly.

Although the toad is a bastard, he has teased Liang Ruoyi and snatched my gold ingot, but his kung fu is good and he is bold, even when he met the huge corpse turtle in Jinsu Mountain, he has never seen him show this expression full of shock and even some fright, which naturally frightened me.

"Y-don't move!" As he spoke, the toad subconsciously took a small step back, and with a careful shake of one hand, a sharp steel thorn appeared in his hand, and he glanced at me, as if he was about to stab directly at something behind me!

I don't have that much guts, I don't know what's behind me now, and seeing the toad's expression and action, I'm so scared that I'm about to pee my pants!

But before I could get wet, I felt a puddle of slimy, wet stuff "snap" on the back of my head, and I suddenly felt a stir, and instinctively looked behind me!

I instinctively turned my head, but the flashlight didn't turn around, and I saw that under the dim light of the toad's flashlight, the face of the monster that looked like a man and a monkey and a monkey that I saw last night was less than a foot away from me, and the yellow demonic eyes with no eyelids and no eyelashes stared at me motionless with a hint of hunger!

After staring at each other for a few breaths, I suddenly bowed down and rolled over to the toad!

And the monster moved instantly, naturally much faster than me, and in a trance, I saw something like a sharp claw directly attacking the back of my heart!