Yunwu Villa in Fengtai District, Beijing.

Actually, it is a tea house that sells tea, with a tea room outside and a single room upstairs.

Grasshopper and I came in through the side door under the leadership of a little girl with our own luggage bags, and the fragrance of tea was refreshing.

"Two bosses, please sit down for a moment."

I sat on the bamboo bench with the grasshopper, and the waiter went to Biluochun, "Boss Xiao likes Biluochun, our tea house has prepared it early in the morning, please use it slowly." ”

"Ready in the morning? What do you mean by that that you already knew I liked to drink? I took the teacup and glanced at it, the finest tea leaves.

The waiter pulled down the bangs on the top of his eyebrows and said, "Cloud Mountain Villa has been in business for many years, and we still know the preferences of the bosses, Boss Xiao, please use it slowly, and the others will arrive soon." ”

I looked at each other and smiled, and I said, "See, this hasn't left Beijing yet, so he gave us a dismount, whether he did it on purpose or not, this is a little bit of letting us know that everything we have is under the control of others." ”

The gnats listened a little dumbfounded, and whispered, "Boss, will they install surveillance in our home?" As he spoke, he looked around and continued: "I think this Boss Jiang is not a trouble-free master, and I suddenly regretted it a little." ”

I patted him on the shoulder, "It's too late to regret it, if the guy who offered the reward in the rivers and lakes regrets it, after all, he hasn't paid yet, but we received the money first, according to the rules, if we regret it, it's not as simple as losing money." ”

The gnats didn't seem to understand, but he didn't ask any more questions, silently drank his bowl of tea, and then lay down on the table and closed his eyes to recuperate.

After only ten minutes, a young man in a black coat came up and said, "Please come with me, two of you." ”

Following him to the front yard, a man in a military coat said, "Boss Xiao, you and this little brother get into this car." ”

I and the Grasshopper carried their suitcases and equipment bags and opened the door of a Coaster car according to his instructions, and after getting into the car, I found that in addition to the two of us, there was a man and a woman, the man was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a scruffy beard like a wild man in the mountains, and the woman was about thirty years old, average-looking, but with a good temperament, these two people did not say hello when they saw us getting into the car, glanced at us arrogantly and continued to sleep.

Ten minutes or so, Jiang Yuan and several other people also got on the car one after another, Coaster ran all the way, I sat in the last row of seven meat and eight vegetarian swaying, and said that this driver's driving skills are a pity to drive Coaster, and I should go to the racing track to try.

"How do we get there?" I asked Jiang Yuan.

"Go to Xi'an first, transfer the equipment, and then go to Yunnan."

"What about Fourth Master Li?"

"They will meet us in Xi'an, Boss Xiao, please rest assured, we are fully equipped this time."

I nodded and said no more.

The car was quiet, I leaned on the seat of the car and slept soundly, suddenly I felt someone call me, opened my eyes and saw that the sky was already bright, and the first thing I saw when I opened the curtain was the vast prairie.

The driver stopped and asked us to get off the car to rest and replenish, I got out of the car with my backpack and sat under the tent next to the car to eat, and suddenly saw four more Coasters not far away, they stopped behind our car in turn, the door opened, and more than a dozen people came down from the four cars, all of them looked very mysterious, and a few were even weirder, wearing ghost masks as if they were afraid of seeing the light.

The grasshopper was a little motion sick, walked over to me with flirtatious steps, and said, "Boss, did you use to be so loud when you were on a business trip before?" ”

He said that business trips are our code words here, so that even if someone hears them, they won't think otherwise.

I squinted at the masked men not far away and said, "No, the more low-key this kind of thing, the better, and a person like him who makes a lot of fanfare will be blown up by thunder before he gets there." After that, I looked up at Jiang Yuan, who was sitting in the co-pilot of the car, he was using his mobile phone to debug something at the moment, his facial expression was very serious, I couldn't help but be a little flustered, and whispered to the gnat: "It seems that this operation is not so simple, when we get to the place, you don't go down, and support it above." ”

As soon as the gnatch heard that he would not be allowed to fight, he immediately became anxious, "That's not good, I want to see those bright weapons for the first time, you should know, once some things come into contact with the air, they will oxidize in an instant and lose their original light color, I want to see them for the first time, so that I can imitate more real and better things." ”

I looked at him helplessly and said, "You only think about Mingqi, don't you worry about your own life?" ”

The gnats were like deflated balls, sitting on the ground with their disappointments on their faces.

After a brief rest, the team set off again, and when we arrived in Xi'an, Li Siye met us at the highway, and all the equipment was transferred to a large truck, and then we flew directly to Yunnan by plane, and then went to the Mengshan border non-stop.

Stayed in the local area for one night, and the next day, our equipment arrived, and everyone went into the mountains overnight, and I and the grasshopper were placed in the third team, I was the captain, and there were four young men and a doctor in the team in addition to me and the grasshopper.

Li Laosi was arranged in the second team, and his team was all his own people, while Jiang Yuan personally led the first team to the front. At the back is Team 4, dedicated to ground support and supply.

After the personnel were distributed, we each checked the necessary items such as walkie-talkies, special mobile phones, and batteries, and everything was ready, and Jiang Yuan took the lead and began to march into the mountains.

Mengshan, formerly known as Hao Python Mountain, was the territory of a small tribe called Rama Wu in the Dian Kingdom, when the Northern Han Dynasty fought against the Dian State, the general Qin Wanjun led the crowd to encircle and suppress the remnants of the tribe, when chasing to Hao Python Mountain, the mountain suddenly fogged, and saw a warrior wearing gold armor falling from the sky in the haze, the generals in the army concluded that this was the Qin Dynasty general Meng Ji according to the appearance of this person, and then the fog dispersed, these people also lost their way, walked for a few days and nights before walking out of the mountains and forests, Qin Wanjun was convicted and demoted to Shuo Fang, But this incident was spread, and over time, later generations called this mountain Mengshan.

According to the geographical location analysis, Mengshan should belong to the fault mountain range, a total of three layers, the first layer because of the low altitude, lush vegetation, more wild animals, there are more than 100 villages under the mountain, the population is relatively dense, with the development of the tourism market in recent years, plus this place has been opened to the road, the mountain is rich in precious Chinese herbs and precious mushrooms, so there are more and more tourists and businessmen.

This second layer is a semi-uninhabited area, because the terrain is higher, it has reached about two thousand meters, there are often fierce beasts in the mountains, and the mountain forest vegetation in this area is more lush, and there is no sense of direction, most of the people who go in are going to be trapped to death, unless it is an old hunter who has lived here for decades and a well-equipped scientific expedition team, otherwise, don't want to get out alive at all. But even so, a few years ago, three scientific expedition teams disappeared here, and it has become an unsolved case so far. Therefore, tourists and businessmen are almost afraid to set foot in it. Of course, this forest is so big that there are all kinds of birds, and some of the brave ones will occasionally cross the boundary monument, but they only move within a range of ten meters or even dozens of meters outside the boundary monument, and they dare not go any further.

And the place we are going to is on the third level, a real no-man's land, commonly known as the ghost area.

When the army reached the first floor, Jiang Yuan took over the largest farmhouse here, and the proprietress was so happy that she added food and poured wine for us at dinner, and called her own girl out to accompany us to eat and drink.

Jiang Yuan and I ate at the same table, and the proprietress arranged her girl to sit next to Jiang Yuan, and said to us with a smile: "A few bosses, we have a lot of fun here, so many of you must have fun together, I have no culture, and I can't say anything special, let my family Xiaofang introduce you to you, she is the tour guide of our village, and has received many teams." ”

The little girl didn't recognize her life, and said while pouring us wine: "A few bosses are here to investigate."

I heard that this was wrong, and deliberately asked her, "How does Miss Xiaofang know that we are from the expedition team?" ”

Xiao Fang poured half a glass of beer into her cup, drank it all, swept her eyes, and finally landed on Jiang Yuan, looked at it for about ten seconds, and suddenly turned her head to look at me and said: "Your boss is from a good background, and several of your bosses also make a living in the soil, although there is no owner of this underground thing, it is not a good thing to take too much." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a few people sitting opposite me immediately stood up, Jiang Yuan glared at them, and several people sat back obediently, I saw that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately changed the topic and asked, "Miss Xiaofang, is there anything strange about this Mengshan?" ”

Xiao Fang looked left and right, and whispered: "I tell you, I can't catch up if I come early, just now, the old hunter of our village went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, and accidentally found a deserted village, he went in and wanted to ask people to ask for a bowl of water to drink, but guess what he saw?" ”

We shook our heads and said, "Could it be that you have met a ghost?" ”

Xiao Fang swallowed her saliva and whispered more and more: "He saw a headless man squatting at the entrance of the village and counting money. ”

"Huh?"

The chopsticks fell to the ground, and I was embarrassed to pick them up and wipe them with a paper towel and put them back away, and at this time, Jiang Yuan asked seriously: "Village?" Are there any other villages in Mengshan besides yours? ”

Xiao Fang pretended to look at him mysteriously, turned her head and continued to say to me: "How is it, it can be regarded as a strange thing." ”

I smiled, buried myself in eating, and ignored her.