Team Zhao, senior sister

Captain, Zhang Yihan

I shouted a few words, but there was not even a single echo of the valley.

I took out my phone and looked at it, and found that the phone had no signal here. Immediately after that, I immediately turned on the walkie-talkie we had prepared a long time ago, turned on the channel we had discussed in advance, and started calling: Team Zhao, senior sister, please answer when you hear it

I called for a long time, but there was still no response. Presumably they didn't turn on the walkie-talkie. I kept the walkie-talkie on and waited for them to call me.

Looking at the thick fog that covered the sky, I began to feel a little unsettled. Because the fog in the valley was so thick that the sun couldn't shine in at all, even though it was daylight and sunny outside, the valley still looked very dark inside.

I knew it wouldn't be a problem to stand here and wait, so I hurried back to the way I had come to see if they were still behind. But when I climbed for more than ten minutes, I still didn't find them, but I saw a small fork in the road that parted on both sides. There were some branches and weeds that had been cut off by knives on both forks in the road, and the incisions were very new, probably freshly chopped.

There should be very few people coming to these mountains, and the woods are densely packed with all kinds of weeds and shrubs, and you can't get into them without opening the mountain knife to open the road. Depending on the situation, they should have gone their separate ways.

I was a little angry in my heart, and these two people didn't take me seriously too much, and they didn't say a word to me when they went their separate ways. So I chose a random fork in the road and got in.

I could see a lot of weeds and branches cut by machetes along the fork in the road, but I chased it for more than an hour, but I never caught up with the person in front of me. So I sat down and took off my gas mask, rested for a while, and ate something.

By this time I had already discovered that the fork in the road I had taken had been straight along the mountainside, neither up nor down. I wondered a little, didn't he just say that he was going to go to the valley to see, why did he keep walking sideways like this?

I thought about it for a while and couldn't figure out why, so I rested for a while and then hurriedly continued to chase forward.

In this way, I pursued them along the cut path, believing that if I picked up my speed, I would be able to catch up with them.

After chasing and chasing, about another hour and a half, I finally saw the path suddenly turn sharply down the valley. I looked at the same place and found that there was nothing wrong here, and I couldn't understand why the person in front of me suddenly chose to go down the mountain here.

As I walked down the path towards the bottom of the valley, I suddenly saw a yellow rune paper hanging from the tree.

The paper was about three fingers wide, and it was marked with a red pen with a jumble of patterns.

Originally, I thought that this rune paper was left by Zhao Mingzhu, but when I ripped it off from the branch and looked at it, I found that the rune paper was very wet, and it was covered with dew, and I didn't think it was done by Zhao Mingzhu. Although the humidity in the mountains is heavy, in just an hour or two, a piece of paper will not be stained with so much dew.

However, if it wasn't Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan who did it, who would have done it?

Then, I hadn't walked a few steps when I suddenly saw a white skeleton beside the path. This is a very complete human skeleton, no less from head to toe. At this time, he had a yellow talisman on his forehead, and he was quietly leaning against the trunk of a tree beside the small fork in the road. The main thing is that his right hand is on a small tree next to him and pointing to the valley below, as if he is showing me the way.

At this time, I was already sure that the people who opened this path were definitely not Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan, because it was impossible for the two of them to carry this kind of rune paper on them. The fog in the mountains is so heavy that the sun doesn't get it, and even the branches that were cut a few days ago may make people feel like they have just been cut down, so it seems that I have been misled.

After thinking about this, I didn't dare to stop any longer, I just wanted to hurry up and go to the village under the mountain to see what was going on.

I thought that even if Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan got lost, they would definitely go to the Lotus Village at the bottom of the mountain, even if the person in front of them was not one of the two of them, I should still have time to meet them when I went down the mountain.

So, I hurried down the path towards the bottom of the mountain. But I hadn't gone far when I suddenly noticed that the path was moving in parallel again.

This time I knew I couldn't follow anyone else anymore, and I had to make my own way down the mountain. I quickly took out the mountain opening knife and rushed straight down the mountain.

Finally, after more than an hour of continuous chopping, I finally reached the bottom of the valley. The fog here is much better, and the visibility is about twenty or thirty meters.

I took the walkie-talkie and called for a while, but there was still no response. I don't plan to wait for them any longer, going to find Ge Lao and Zhao Xiaotian is the top priority at the moment, even if they are not alone, I can still go to them. So I walked along a stone path towards a faint wooden house built into the woods.

When I first walked to the front of the wooden house, I was stunned.

I saw three pitch-black coffins in the center of the wooden house, and the most important thing was that there were two human skeletons in front of the coffin. They also had a yellow rune paper taped to their foreheads.

Actually, these are all secondary. The most frightening thing is that a white-haired woman with a cloak hangs from the beam above the coffin.

The man had apparently just died, and his body hadn't started to decompose, because I didn't smell the stench of corpses. It's a pity that her hair covers her face, and she can't see what she looks like.

I suddenly felt a gust of wind around me, and a chill ran down my spine. Seriously, for professional reasons, I would love to go over and see who the hanged man was? But I didn't dare go in.

Old Ge, Brother Zhao, I stood in the overgrown patio and shouted a few times. As expected, there was no response at all in the room.

I didn't dare to go in, so I turned around and left.

Back on the stone road, I picked up a white stone from the side of the road and left a few words on a stone slab: I am looking for Ge Lao and Brother Zhao in the village, and I will return here at 16:20 in four hours. After seeing the words, remember to wait for me here, if I don't come at the appointed time, you will go back first, Lin Mingjun.

Then I started my solo adventure in this valley.

After that, every other stretch of the road I would draw an arrow on the stone pavement in the direction of the house I saw first. I thought I'd go back the way I came when I had a circle around the village, so I wouldn't have to make a new one, and I would be much quicker when I got back. The reason why I left such a mark was that I was afraid that if it was dark, I would lose my way in the case of so much fog around.

The houses in the village are all built on the edge of the mountain, all facing the marshland in the middle of the valley. There was a bit of a discrepancy between the situation described by Lao Wang from the county magistrate's office, who said that the valley floor had dried up and cracked, but what I saw was still a large stretch of swampland. And I can still see a lot of sparse lotus flowers in the swamp.

I kept walking along the stone path, and every other way I came across a wooden house. There were several coffins in each wooden house, and almost every family had a different number of white bones in front of the coffins, and the white bones had a yellow talisman paper on their foreheads.

I can imagine how terrible the plague was back then, presumably the first person who died was put into a coffin by his family, and the person who died later had to lean against the coffin because the coffin was not enough to prepare a coffin, so he could only lean on the coffin and die together as a family.

In the seventies, when our country was still very poor and backward in all aspects. In the event of such a plague, there is no other way but to wait for death.

It's no wonder that there is such a powerful miasma here, which is actually a poisonous gas formed by the decay of animals and plants. The main reason for the formation of miasma is the untreated animal carcasses in the mountains and forests, where all the people in a village died in just a few days, and the surrounding seven mountains are environmentally friendly, the air cannot be circulated, and the miasma is all gathered in the valley and cannot be diluted, and over time, the miasma will only get heavier and heavier. It would be really strange to come here rashly without preparation, without going crazy and not dying.

Originally, I thought that this valley was not very big, because we had seen it from the top of the hill before, and these seven hills were not very far apart. But as I walked, the more I walked, the more I felt that something was wrong, because I always felt that I had been walking in a straight line, without the slightest sign of a turn. It wasn't until I unconsciously walked to the place where I left a message for Zhao Mingzhu and Zhang Yihan that I couldn't calm down anymore.

How did I get back? Looking at the words I had left on the slate, my forehead began to sweat.

Looking at the time, it was only half past two in the afternoon. Did I turn the valley in two hours?

I took out the air detector and looked at the air index here, and found that the problem was not very big, so I quickly took off the gas mask and hurriedly nibbled on a few sips of compressed biscuits and drank a few sips of water.

Although the miasma is powerful, it is not a chemical gas after all, and it is not a big problem to take a few puffs. In addition, the miasma at the bottom of the valley is not very heavy, so I plan to eat and drink enough to replenish my body, and then find a way.

After eating, I put on my gas mask and walked towards the house I had seen first. Because I had the last glimmer of hope, I wanted to see if Zhang Yihan and Zhao Mingzhu would wait for me in that house.

However, as soon as I reached the entrance to the patio of the house, I was stunned.

Because I saw that the white-haired woman who had fallen on the beam of the house was gone.

I didn't think anything about it at the time, so I quickly turned around and ran.

At that moment, I found two reasons for myself to leave this place quickly.

One, I probably have walked around the bottom of the valley unconsciously, since I didn't find Ge Lao and Zhao Mingzhu, it means that there is no need to continue looking.

Two, I had to hurry back before it got dark, or I might get lost.

I hurried up the way I had come. However, what I didn't expect was that just when I was halfway up the mountain, an urgent voice suddenly came from the intercom: Xiaolin, Xiaolin, please answer when you hear it

As soon as I heard it, I knew that this was Zhang Yihan's voice, so I quickly pulled out the walkie-talkie from my waist and shouted happily: Senior sister, where are you?

Stinky boy, we're waiting for you in the house where you left your words, why haven't you come yet? Zhang Yihan shouted loudly.

Hearing Zhang Yihan say that, I was dumbfounded.

At this moment, I was happy and hurt at the same time. Happily, they finally have news. The pain is that I am going down the mountain now, and I will not be able to come back before dark.

But I certainly can't leave them alone. I quickly turned and walked down the hill, but just as I turned around, I caught a glimpse of a scrawny old man standing in the woods on one side, bowing upstairs and smiling at me