November 14, Taean City, Yamaguchi Village.

At the foot of the hill, I sat across from Kuroko, checking my equipment.

The family had already gone out of the village to get busy, so they threw us at home, not worrying that we would steal his family's things, and went out of the village in a very chic way to go to the mountains to collect wild medicine.

"Explosives, detonators, guns" Kuroko muttered in a low voice, while checking the equipment, the excitement on his face could not be suppressed, it is estimated that this grandson feels that the opportunity for the salted fish to turn over and step into the sky has come.

I casually checked what I had brought, and when I saw that none of them had been left behind, I was relieved.

"Brother Yi, let's go up the mountain in a while?"

"yes, yes." I nodded and said, it's better to settle this matter sooner, it's not a matter to keep procrastinating.

As soon as I finished speaking, I put my backpack on the table next to me, lit a cigarette, and walked out of the room with it in my mouth.

In this kind of wilderness, the air is always exceptionally fresh, and compared to the smoky miasma of the city, it already belongs to the realm of paradise.

It's just that the sky is not beautiful, although it is not raining or windy, but the gray sky is extremely uncomfortable to look at, and I always feel like I have a stone in my heart.

Squatting under the banyan tree outside the yard, I smoked without saying a word, looking at the scattered pedestrians in the village, very quiet.

Before I came, I was still vaguely excited in my heart, because it had something to do with the resurrection of the old man, and although I didn't believe in resurrecting people, I still had some thoughts about it.

But when I stood at the entrance of the village, which was only five miles away from the mountain range north of Mount Tai, my footsteps stopped inexplicably.

It's not fear, it's not uncertainty, it's

"I don't want to die so early yet." I said to myself, snuffed out the cigarette butt, lit another cigarette, and continued smoking.

Actually, I'm not very afraid of death, really, this is not pretending, after the old man left, I found that life is just like that, and death and immortality don't seem to be much different.

When a person dies, he will become a ghost and wander in the underworld, or he will wander aimlessly in this fucking world in order to become a lonely ghost.

But it seems to me that many people who are alive are actually no different from ghosts.

The same aimless, the same confused walking dead.

Go to work, get off work, make money, support your family, stay alive, and pass on your family lineage.

It seems that everything is repeated, but the difference between humans and ghosts may be faith, and many people have the belief to live.

Maybe it's the hope for tomorrow's life, maybe it's something else, but in short, there is still a slight difference between people and ghosts.

After the old man left, I basically had no expectations for life, eating and sleeping, everything was repeating, and I was stupid and living in the repetitive days.

At that time, I often thought about how good it would be if the old man was here, because when he was there, I didn't know what it meant to be unaccompanied.

During that time, the concept of life and death was vague for me because I felt like they were both about the same.

If I had seen the danger of dying at that time, I might have been afraid, but I would never have been reluctant to die.

"Now I can't bear it, I still have to live, if I die, Uncle Fat will" I squatted on the ground and muttered to myself, my eyes slightly blank looking at the grass on the ground.

"That girl is still waiting for me to go back."

"The birdman surnamed Hai still has to ask me for help, if I don't go back, won't I miss the appointment?"

"But now I can't go back, what about him" My face tightened, and I gritted my teeth: "Grass you little Buddha." ”

Suddenly, Kuroko walked over quickly and handed me the mobile phone in his hand, saying that it was the phone number of the Buddha.

"Hello?"

"You're in Yamaguchi, aren't you?"

"Hmm."

"Come on, hey, I'm optimistic about you." Little Buddha said with a smile, and I replied to him, "Grass you".

Now I can't control the thought that I want to curse, if it weren't for the fact that Little Buddha wasn't by my side, I really wanted to fight with him, although I didn't seem to be able to beat him.

"Don't be so angry, you won't necessarily die."

"I don't know how dangerous it is here?!"

"Of course I know the way, doesn't Lafayette dare to go alone?" The little Buddha smiled, and his tone gradually changed a little: "Eh, the surname is Yi, you hurry up the mountain to do errands, don't ink." ”

"I'll go tomorrow." I canceled my plan because I wanted to be quiet.

"One will go, one will go." The little Buddha said word by word, and smiled: "I'll go in a while, do you know the way?" ”

"What the hell are you?"

"The people of the God of Wealth have gone to Tai'an, and this matter cannot be delayed." Little Buddha sneered: "Every shopkeeper has a task, and my brother's task is to find out the specific location of this place, and then sweep the surroundings to ensure that there will be no chance for outsiders to intervene in the future, and then we will give the old immortal news and let him come over to get the baby." ”

"The time for us to sweep is next week, this is what the old immortal has set for us, and we must sweep before next week." The little Buddha didn't give me a chance to interject, and said to himself: "We have prepared the manpower, and we will come to sweep after you leave, so you only have a few days, but now it seems that a few days are gone, and the God of Wealth, that bastard, wants to come and grab the credit."

"I'll go in a moment." I said with a blank face.

"Well, I'll wait to catch you up." Little Buddha said sincerely: "Be careful, the God of Wealth and they have already arrived in Tai'an, and I just had an informant tell me that they have stayed in Tai'an, and it is estimated that they have not moved in the past two days, so you have to hurry." ”

"I know."

"That'll do." Little Buddha smiled reassuringly.

"Little Buddha."

"What's wrong?"

"If I die, don't embarrass my family."

"Oh, the fat man?"

"Yes, and my friend, and"

"You can fail and die, but you'd better not fail and live, because that will make me feel like you're not trying hard enough, and if you die, I'll promise all of this and hang up."

I shuddered at the beep on the other end of the phone, and it wasn't because of the sudden drop in temperature.

"It's cold." I put my hands in front of my mouth and sighed, laughing inexplicably.

Little Buddha is just like this weather, which makes people feel bitterly cold.

Seriously, I regret that I didn't let Zhang Liguo take the opportunity to arrest him for nothing.

"Brother Yi, what did the Buddha say?"

"Pack up your things, go up from the North Pass marked on the map, and take the pine forest road." I said, but at the same time as the words fell, I changed my mind and hurriedly called Kuroko: "Set off in half an hour, I'll rest, I have to prepare." ”

Kuroko nodded, said "I'll check the equipment again" and walked in.

When I saw Kuroko enter the house, I squatted down again, leaning against the banyan tree, and looked at the gray sky with inexplicable eyes.

I took out my phone and looked at it, and more than ten minutes had passed.

"Time flies so fast, I haven't squatted enough" I sighed as time flew by, I lit the last cigarette in the cigarette box, this is the cigarette I bought in Guiyang, fifteen packs, the taste is quite pure.

There were other cigarettes in the backpack, but those were bought in Jinan, and they weren't the ones I was familiar with.

"I don't know if I'll have a chance to smoke in the future" I took a deep breath, only to feel a faint pain in my lungs, and I couldn't help coughing with laughter.

Blame me for being stupid, why did I get into trouble in the first place? Why did he go to Luo Dahai to get that thing?

People have to live their lives carefully, otherwise they will be like me, accidentally take a step to the side, and as a result, they will step into the mud and can't pull out their feet.

At that time, I did sigh like that, but it wasn't long before I realized that the so-called muddy water was not so shallow.

I just kicked it and put my whole life into it.

It's just that that's for later.

"Brother Yi, shall we go?" Kuroko came over excitedly with his bag and luggage, and when he saw that I was still smoking, he couldn't help urging: "Let's get this done as soon as possible, and go back to have a drink together." ”

"You don't know how dangerous this is?"

"Wealth and danger are begging." Kuroko smiled awkwardly and scratched his head: "As the saying goes, if you don't get into the tiger's den, you can get the tiger, and"

"What do you get this time?" I turned to look at him.

"It's a lot, if this thing is done, the Buddha will definitely promote me." Kuroko smiled wistfully.

Just a day later, his smile was not so longing, no, could he still laugh after being shot a few times by Little Buddha?

At least I couldn't see a smile on his bloody face, really.

"Let's go, go up the hill." I patted my pants and stood up.