Chapter 178: What is the Truth?

After a long time, the old man finally sighed and led us to the hut where he usually rested.

This is a small house of only a dozen square meters, the furnishings inside are very simple, except for a bed, the largest furniture is the bookcase against the wall, which is full of all kinds of books.

There was an old solid wood table on the opposite wall, and with the old man's gaze, I saw at a glance the picture frame hanging on the wall, inside was a yellowed black and white photo, five young people in Mao suits, holding hands together with a happy face, the background of the photo was an old courtyard, and I also noticed that a shoe was exposed in the lower left corner of the photo, women's shoes.

I turned my head to look at the old man, who was looking at the picture on the wall with a sentimental expression.

Although time had left traces on his face, I recognized him at a glance as the young man on the far left in the photo, and he was undoubtedly the skinniest of the five.

"Old man, the festival is smooth." Although my arrival itself is to expose other people's scars, I can only comfort him like this at this time.

However, I believe that after so many years, he has long learned how to control his emotions, after all, no matter how sad he was in the past. One cannot live in the past forever.

"Young man, listen to my advice, if possible, you should not go there, that kind of thing is not something you can deal with at all." The old man sighed, as if he was making a final effort, but his expression was a little complicated.

"Old man, what did you encounter back then? Ghosts? Zhao Xinting couldn't help but ask, sighing in her heart that she really came to the right place this time.

"Well, since you want to know so much, I'll tell you." The old man finally decided not to hide it anymore.

"I have lived in a small town by the Yellow River since I was a child, at that time the movement had just ended, there was a geography expert who was the right element of the equation, although in the end he was wronged, but he chose to stay because of his health, and a few of us are his students, he taught us all kinds of geographical knowledge, saying that there is a shocking secret hidden in the depths of Dayi Mountain, and the night market because of this, our five brothers and sisters embarked on a road of no return."

"With continuous investigation, we did find a lot of things in the depths of the mountain, including all kinds of materials hidden there during the war, at first we didn't know what the secret of the teacher was, until a very chance later I learned that the secret in the teacher's mouth is the mystery of the disappearance of thousands of devils."

"To be honest, after knowing that it was this matter, I thought about quitting, in our place, there has always been a legend, saying that the devil disappeared because the mountain god was angry, and rash action would anger the mountain god, but the teacher also said one thing, that is, the group of devils carried a batch of gold jewelry, as long as they can find those missing devils, they can find those gold, which is enough for people to not worry for several lifetimes."

"Because of this, even though we knew that we would violate the taboo, we still chose to continue searching, and finally, the hard work paid off, and we found an important clue."

"What clues?" Hearing the old man say important clues, I couldn't help but ask.

"We found a few guns on a steep slope that had been dug deep into the cracks in the rocks, and although they were badly rotten, they proved to be the guns used by the devils in the first place." The old man's pupils slowly widened, apparently caught in a memory.

"It's just a few guns, what's the important clue?" Liu Xingyu asked puzzledly beside him.

"It's a basin, and apart from an entrance, it's definitely a good place to rest and camp, and isn't it strange enough that the guns wouldn't have been able to get down there if they hadn't been dragged with ropes from above?" The old man looked up at Liu Xingyu and said.

"Oh, if that's the case, it's a doubt, I wonder what that basin has to do with the crack that opened when there was an earthquake?" I looked at the old man and asked.

"It doesn't matter, the two are a little far apart, otherwise we wouldn't have been looking for so long before we found out." The old man affirmed.

"Go on, old man."

"Well, we did a lot of analysis when we first found those guns, but in the end we rejected them all, until we unearthed another buried bone, and everything was slowly unraveled."

"Bones?"

"Yes, to be precise, it should be a fishbone that was saved by chance."

"Fishbones?" The old man's words couldn't help but make the three of us look at each other, if there were other bones there, it would be nothing, but the appearance of fish bones would be a little abnormal.

Could it be that it was once a lake? How else to explain that there are fish bones? It's just that if it used to be a lake, it would be impossible for people living in the mountains not to know about it, and the old man wouldn't have been surprised by a fishbone in the first place.

But if it's not a lake, where do the fish come from? Could it be that someone accidentally threw it there?

Looking at the old man's appearance, it was obvious that he had gotten some answer from the fishbones, and the mystery was revealed.

"Based on the guns that could not have appeared there, and the fish bones, we made a bold guess, that is, if the basin had been filled with water, then everything could have been explained, because the height of the water was there, so the devil could stick the gun there and have a support."

"Old man, since that basin can get people in, there should be an entrance or exit, right? And if there is water, doesn't it just flow away? Unless the water comes in from the inlet, but where does the water come from? Liu Xingyu couldn't help but speak.

"Yellow River!" The two words came from the mouths of two people, and I glanced at the old man, and it was clear that my guess was correct.

Dayi Mountain is close to the Yellow River, so if there is really water, it should be the water of the Yellow River, but how did the water of the Yellow River lead it in the first place? If the end of that crack is the basin, or it can barely be explained, but the crack is far away from the basin, could it be that there is another passage? But why didn't those devils find out in the first place? You can't even have a sentry guard in the high places around, right?

Although the devil is indeed hateful, it cannot be denied that all the officers at the beginning were all graduates of the First Army Academy in Asia, and it is absolutely impossible for such an officer to make such a mistake.

So I looked at the old man, hoping that he would unravel the final mystery