On the way to the Cannibal Valley, Uncle Tian said to me: "The Cannibal Valley is a valley under Wanpogou. There are mountains on both sides, and I heard some old people in the township say that this Wanpogou refers to this cannibal valley a long time ago. Because at that time, the cannibal valley was still just a river, and there were still many people living in the waist mountain, and the people in the village wanted to get out of the mountain. It's all from the river. Because there are many deep pools in the river, there is no way to go directly to it, so it is necessary to climb a section of the road from the river, and then you can return to the path by the river, so that there is the name Wanpogou.

Later, some people said that the big trees in the mountain were cut down, which angered the mountain god, and the mountain god became angry, and the river became smaller and smaller, and then there were many landslides in the mountains on both sides, and then many people from the waist mountain died in the ditch, and then everyone changed the name of this place to the cannibal valley......"

"You know how people die?" I asked Uncle Tian.

"Actually, since some people died inside, no one dared to go in again. We grew up hearing from adults that there were a lot of ghosts in it, and we were so scared that we didn't dare to go in, so I never went in. Listen to the old people in the village. I just know that there are a lot of quagmires in it. On the surface, it looks similar to other places, but in fact, as soon as people walk up, they will fall in, and the more they struggle, the deeper they fall≡ after beating us sensible, there are many adults who accidentally get into it because of the livestock at home, and they go in to drive the livestock. But no one who went in came out again.

The big fool of the buffalo said that it was full of swamps, and when he was fifteen years old, he helped me herd the cow, and the cow accidentally fell into it, and he pulled the cow out.

I've never hit him, but I slapped him twice because of that incident. I said that if the cow is gone, it will be a thousand dollars, but if the person is gone, it is not a matter of money. But the big fool said, "My uncle's cattle are worth more than my life."

Since then, he and his brother have been in the mountains for almost half a month, fenced off the dangerous part of the Cannibal Valley, and since then, no one from the nearby villages has been there. There are also young people who do not believe in evil and hear that there is a lot of prey inside, and they secretly go in to hunt with guns, but they never come out after entering. ”

When I hear this. I feel more and more that Zhang Yihan and the others are likely to be taken to the cannibal valley by Tian Buffalo and Fan Xiuxiu. Because in the past two days, the county has sent no less than 200 people to search all the mountains, and no one has gone except the cannibal valley.

As the saying goes, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death, no matter what, I must go in and have a look.

Afterwards. Along the way, Uncle Tian told me a lot of legends about the Cannibal Valley. I could hear that this cannibal valley must not be as terrible as he said. Dirty Ping Pong Brother.

From what he described, it was certain that there was a swamp in it, but definitely not one with no place to put his feet. There must be a big difference from the swamp in Lotus Village.

It is clear that the marshland here must have been created by the deep pools in the original river. The high mountains on both sides of the river have been severely reduced due to over-logging, which has led to a shortage of groundwater reserves in the mountains, so that the river will naturally become smaller and smaller. And the big trees were cut down too hard, only some small trees were on the mountain, and after heavy rain, of course, it was easy to cause landslides. The mountains on both sides kept collapsing, and a lot of rainwater and groundwater were trapped in the valley, so they could only slowly merge with the soil and become very soft mud, and it was not surprising that there were many deep pools in the river, so it would form a lot of swamps.

However, the marshland formed under such conditions is absolutely local, and it is impossible to find a swamp formed by a lake like Lotus Village.

Uncle Tian and I descended to the foot of the hill and walked straight down the valley towards the inside, and after walking for less than half an hour, we came to a fenced area.

Uncle Tian pointed to the fences in front of him: "Look, these are the two brothers Tian Da Niu and Tian Buffalo who spent half a month in the mountains to fence them off. They have done a great thing for several nearby villages, since they surrounded this place, the cattle and sheep in the village have not been able to enter, and the people in the nearby villages have not had any more accidents. These two brothers have been good-hearted since they were children, Officer Lin, if you catch that vixen, you must return the buffalo to innocence! ”

Uncle Tian let me release the Tian buffalo in order to let me go, and Xiao Lin has already called me Officer Lin from the beginning.

"Well, definitely!" I nodded: "Uncle Tian, you can go back first in a while, if I don't go back tomorrow morning, you can go to the police station and tell them not to look for me." If I come out, I'll go to the police station. ”

"Officer Lin, I'm not afraid, others say that there are ghosts here, I'm not afraid, I'm waiting for you here, I'll wait for you to come out and go back together." If you don't come out at dawn, I'll go back and call someone from the police station to come and look for you. If something happens to you, I will definitely ask them to find your body and bring it back to your parents. I can tell you're a good cop and a man! "Uncle Tian gave me a thumbs up.

"Uncle Tian, thank you for your hard work, if something happens to me, don't ask anyone to come in to find me again." I shook my head: "In case something happens to me, it doesn't matter if the fallen leaves return to their roots, when the time comes, remember to help me tell my friends, just tell them not to tell my mother!" ”

With that, I turned and strode inside.

The fence in front of me has extended from the cliff on the left side of the valley to the cliff on the right, with a total length of about twenty or thirty meters. The stumps nailed to the ground were all made of wood one or two meters high, some as thick as thighs, others as thick as arms. Then tie an arm-thick wooden latte wire to the stump in the middle.

On a stump in the middle of the fence, a wooden sign is nailed, and on the top of it is written in red paint three striking red typetypes: Cannibal Valley. Written below are two sentences: dangerous inside, no entry. Those who trespass will die without a place to be buried.

The fence is very strong, and ordinary cattle and sheep will definitely not be able to enter, but people can get through the gaps.

There are few weeds and trees on one side of the fence, but the weeds on the other side of the fence are more than a man tall. There are also a lot of very tall trees inside, I heard Uncle Tian say that this fence has been enclosed for ten years, and it seems that no one should dare to enter it for more than ten years.

After all, under normal circumstances, if it weren't for their own livestock, no one would be willing to take that risk for a little firewood.

I walked along the fence and carefully looked around the fence with a flashlight. Soon, I had a lot to gain.

As I walked along the fence, I found a man's footprints. Due to the relatively soft soil in this area, the footprints were very clear, and although the leaves were falling everywhere, I quickly determined that these were most likely the footprints left by Zhao Xiaotian. He came wearing a pair of Marine boots that he had issued as a soldier, and the tooth marks on those boots were very deep, and the tooth marks on this footprint looked similar to those left by his boots.

When I followed his footprints along the fence, I noticed that his footprints had disappeared on the left side of the fence near the cliff. Where the footprints disappeared, the weeds on the opposite side of the fence were clearly treaded by.

I took a knife and cut a branch more than one person high, the diameter of the branch was about two centimeters, and there was a barb at the other end of the branch. I told Uncle Tian that I was going in, and I dragged the branch through the crack in the fence.

"Be careful, I'll wait for you here......" Uncle Tian called out from behind.

"I see......" I said, already digging into the weeds with a branch.

The weeds are very deep, more than one person tall, and people can't straighten their waists in it☆The main thing is that I got in along with the person who went in before, and he obviously came in with a cat's waist, so I walked forward with my waist in order to be convenient.

After walking for about ten meters, the front suddenly opened up, the weeds more than one person tall were gone, the trees were gone, and only a piece of mud that could not be seen at a glance remained.

The mud floor here is the kind of mud where you can see both the water and the bareness. There was some grass growing on the exposed mud, and there were also a lot of aquatic plants growing on the surface of the water, which was clearly a pond.

Seeing such a scene, I was dumbfounded.

Obviously, this is a swamp, because what I see now is almost exactly the same as the one I saw in Lotus Village before. I seem to have seriously underestimated the size of the marshland here.

Due to the fog in the mountains, although the fog at the bottom of the valley is much smaller than on the mountains, the visibility may still be only a few tens of meters. And as far as I could see, there was such a swamp as far as the eye could see.

I had thought that even if there was a swamp here, it would only be intermittent, and it was estimated that the swamp would be where the deep pool in the river used to be located, and I never thought that I would see such a large swamp not far after I walked in.

Luckily, there is still a small piece of protruding dirt near the cliffs on both sides, and if you want to get in, you can only go this way close to the cliffs.

I first looked down to see if there were any footprints around, and soon I realized that the footprints were heading towards the cliff on the right. I followed the footprint to the right side of the cliff∵ and when I reached the side of the cliff, I saw the footprint appear on the protruding dirt on the side of the cliff.

I took the barbed branch and stuck it down where I was going to land, and walked slowly.

As long as the branches can't be inserted deep and the soil is hard, it means that I can step on it☆At least the soil will not sink into it as soon as you step on it. And the reason why I cut such a long hooked branch is so that if I fall into it, I can use it to stand in the swamp on the one hand, so that it will not fall into it immediately. If I can, I can also pull myself out with barb hooks somewhere else.

In this environment, cutting roots and long branches in my hands was taught to me by Zhou Rong. He said that when they were on a mission, they would bring such a branch when they encountered a suspicious swamp environment in the jungle, and if they fell into it, on the one hand, they could save themselves, and on the other hand, when their comrades-in-arms came to save you, they would not let their comrades-in-arms go into danger with you. And to make a barb is an improvised idea of my own.

Originally, I expected that I could follow that footprint all the way inside to find Zhao Xiaotian, but I didn't expect that after walking less than fifty meters, the mud protruding from the side of the cliff in front of me suddenly disappeared, and what was exposed in front of me was a very large lake, and at a glance, I could only see the dense fog in the distance.

I tried it in front of me with a branch, and found that it was indeed a deep pool, and my branch, which was nearly two meters long, reached in and tested it, and my hand was in it, but it didn't stick to the end.

Obviously, if the person in front of him was really Zhao Xiaotian, he must have swam over.

I had no choice but to take off my clothes and pants and tie them to the branches, and then threw the branches forward, and swam towards the other side of the waterhole with a flashlight in my mouth. When I swam to the branch, I threw it a few meters in front of me and then continued to swim forward.

In this way, I swam nearly four or five hundred meters before I saw a big tree growing on the shore in front of me.

I quickly swam towards the big tree, and soon I was next to the big tree. I took a flashlight and took a picture on the shore, and I didn't find anything unusual, so I went ashore and started to get dressed. It's a very solid land, and there are a lot of trees growing on the shore, and if you go a little further, you might find something.

However, I didn't expect that just as I was getting dressed and sitting on the ground and putting on my shoes, the grass behind me suddenly moved, and a black shadow rushed out. As soon as I picked up the knife in my hand, and was about to slash at the black shadow, I had a sharp woodcutter set up around my neck.

I squatted on the ground, holding the mountain knife, and did not dare to move again.

The man was standing behind me, and I couldn't see what he looked like, but I could see that his shoes were also a pair of deep-toothed combat boots.

What I feared the most, but what I looked forward to the most, happened.

I didn't dare to call Zhao Xiaotian loudly after I came in before, because I was worried that Tian Buffalo and Fan Xiuxiu were hiding in it, for fear of alarming them, but now it seems that my guess is correct.

We have almost blocked the mountainous areas in this area in the past few days, but not only have we not found Zhang Yihan and them, but we have also not found the shadows of Tian Buffalo and Fan Xiuxiu.

I can think that Zhang Yihan and they may be hiding here, and of course I can also think of Tian Buffalo and Fan Xiuxiu hiding here. It's just that I thought this possibility was relatively small, but I didn't expect such a small possibility to be bumped into by me.

I eased my pounding mood a little, and forced myself to calm down: "Are you a buffalo?" ”