"Here's the thing, man." The graduate said to me, "You should know your mask!" To tell you the truth, there is a place in our local area that once had a stone sculpture that resembled your mask. ”

"Ever?" I grasped the dissonance in my words and asked, in fact, when many people said that I was wearing a mask and was a mountain god sacrifice, I had already guessed that maybe there was really something running out of the ground and being paid as a mountain god.

"That's right, a few years ago, the mountain temple where we worship the mountain god was buried in the mound by a landslide, so now the temple is no longer visible."

"And your sacrifices still don't stop?"

"Huh! How do you know? Is your mask also recognized, in fact, it is completely lost now, but some villagers under the mountain will go to see it every year when they have time, and they have built a new temple with wooden blocks under the mound. ”

"Then why don't you dig up the temple again?" I asked, "Otherwise, no matter how miserable it is, you don't need to build a wooden shed, right?" ”

"There's no money!" "About six years ago, we caught something that looked like a monkey in the mountains, it was very weird, it not only wore a mask on its head, but it even spoke a few words. ”

"What?"

"No, no, no. It's just my opinion, he can talk but it's not like a human being, I don't know what to tell you for a while, anyway, it's just a high-pitched low-key voice, but we don't understand a word. ”

"I know. You continue. ”

The villagers had no choice but to think it was a wild man, so they didn't dare to kill it, so they handed over the creature to a local bigwig. A friend of the big man came forward and said that this thing was a mountain god, the essence of the mountain, and if this thing was not put back into the mountain, there would be ominous signs. But how could we believe it at that time? But that night, a fire suddenly broke out on the mountain, and this fire burned very strangely, a place and a region, you know? There was no rescue in the middle of the woods, only one area was burning, and the place our villagers said was where the creature was first found. As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and searched for something on the Internet, and then took it out and showed me, "Look." ”

I took the phone curiously, but I didn't look at him but looked at the fat man, and found that the fat man was also playing with the phone, and didn't pay attention to the words of graduation. I looked down and saw that the graduation was in Baidu a "Kedu weird incident" entry, the progress bar is still reading, graduation said let me wait a while, the network is not strong, I nodded, and soon a photo emerged, it was a fire, there was a slender shadow in the fire. "Was it the fire that year?"

"Right?"

"How do you still have a picture?"

"I still don't know whose masterpiece it is, or if it's dead."

"Why do you say that?"

"Look at it again."

As he spoke, another photo on the webpage of his phone was swiped out of a backpack with a bloody handprint on it. "What is this?" I felt that things were very messy, and I couldn't see through them, so I said to the graduates, you better explain.

"Alright! Actually, that's how it is. "The staff of the mountain patrol found a large tourist backpack full of indentations at the entrance of Kedu, and there was a camera next to this tourist bag, and the camera was a photo on the Internet, originally to see a blood backpack and a fire in the mountains and forests, everyone's first thought was to kill people and burn corpses, but when he reported it to his superiors, he felt that something was wrong, he was an old man who had been active in the mountains for a long time, and the claw marks of the beast were almost recognizable at a glance, but the claw marks on this backpack were imprinted with five blood marks, The blood marks were clearly skeleted, even with a hint of minced flesh, and it stands to reason that no species would have such slender claws. The bones on that bloodmark are not in the right proportions. The distance between the phalanx trochlea and the bottom of the phalanges is far beyond the phalanges of a normal person.

So we thought it was a punishment from the god of the mountains. They all ran to beg the master, and after begging in every possible way, the master finally said that he would build a mountain temple in the place where the fire had burned, and then dig a big hole under the mountain temple, invite the mountain god down, and finally seal it. ”

"Dig a hole and drop the mountain god down?" I was taken aback and said, "Isn't that a joke?" The mountain god won't suffocate inside! ”

"Stupid!" The graduation said: "The reason why the mountain god is the mountain god is because he can open the mountain and the same vein, as long as it is placed in the mountain, he will have the spiritual vein of the mountain and take a steady stream of heaven and earth essence." ”

"It was the god stick who said it." The fat man interjected at this time, "Later, we heard that this master turned out to be just a tomb robber in order to take the treasures in the mountain, so he took this creature to weave such a big lie, and after building the temple, he went down with tools inside, but unfortunately in the end he died, died inside, and was found at the door of the mountain temple 1 year after the incident, and when he found it, his whole body was covered with that terrible paw print, and the bones of the corpse were missing, God knows how he came this year." ”

"Wait?" I turned to the fat man, "Is that paw print real?" ”

"Yes, as far as we can see, it's a rat's paw print, and you see if there's a long tail behind that shadow in that picture of the fire?"

"Really?" When I was mentioned by the fat man, when I looked at the photo, I noticed that there was a looming tail-like thing behind the figure, so I even felt a little cold. "It can't be true, can it?"

"I don't know." The fat man suddenly smoked a cigarette, "I only got the photo yesterday, and I have been working on this matter after graduation, so we plan to go where to see it in a few days, uncle, I have to get some money back after spending so much money on you, right?" So let's go back to sleep first, and we'll see tomorrow. After saying that, he gestured to the graduation, and the graduation also greeted us and left.

"There is no interest." The fat man asked me when I went back.

"Let's see!" I sighed, to be honest I didn't want to go, but I always felt that I owed too much to the fat man, who was a man who didn't matter to me to anyone

I still slept with Wang Lei at night, and when I went back at night, I found that Wang Lei had fallen asleep, but in the early hours of the morning, Wang Lei, the kid, woke up, and ran to the bathroom to wash and wash, of course I didn't care so much, after all, I can't control other people's shit and fart.

Sleeping until dawn is an unusually good thing.

"Puff puff."

"Who?" Early in the morning? I was about to get up when I heard a knock on the door.

"It's me, you fat brother."

"What's wrong?"

"Graduation died." The fat man suddenly put his mouth to my ear and said, "It's a mouse." ”

At the same time, in Jianhe, Guizhou, a new day had begun in that very small library, and Gan Lao walked in with sleepy steps.

"Gan Haihui" suddenly someone shouted to him upstairs.

"Huh?" Gan Lao subconsciously replied, there are not many people in this place who know his name, and there are not many people who dare to call out his name directly, so he stopped and looked at the second floor.

It was a very inconspicuous person, except for his height, he had no advantage, he looked down at Gan Haihui when he leaned over the railing, especially those eyes made Gan Haihui very unhappy, "What's the matter?" He replied, and then instead of looking up at the man, he walked upstairs alone, and the man didn't say a word. When Gan Haihui walked to the second floor, he saw that the person was already standing there.

"The Boss is here." He followed Gan Haihui's footsteps and said in his ear.

"Boss?" Gan Haihui was stunned, few people above call the leader like this, it seems that this young man is very useful! "I see, how many days have you been here?"

"The second day you're gone."

"By the way, why did he come back? I was in the image as if I had been transferred here and he had never been there. ”

"I don't know, but I think there's already a clue about what happened in Document 82, right?"

"Oh? So fast? I remember when I was ten years old, it was still on the 80th, huh? ”

"That is, and don't look at who our leader is! The hidden space of Lop Nur has been found, just like Pisces Jade Perry's message, anyway, I don't know how to say those professional terms, I'm just an errand runner, huh! It's here. The young man pointed to the door that had never been opened, and inside was the largest office of the library, which had been empty since its renovation, but today its owner finally arrived.

Gan Haihui didn't knock on the door, he pushed the door open and walked in, the middle-aged man was sitting on a sofa with a glass of wine, and a game of chess was placed in front of him. "Gan Haihui? Long time no see. ”

"It's been a long time." Gan Haihui found a stool and sat opposite the middle-aged man.

"I gave you when you came from Shanghai!" He tasted back, but never looked up.

"Yes! I still have the pipe you gave me! Gan Haihui smiled, but had no intention of continuing the words.

"But you quit smoking."

"I have to quit, my body is not good, and this salary can't support myself."

"Will you be paid less?"

"I don't have extra money, I don't want Yang Sheng, others are a big push!"

"Xi'an is a great place! However, Yang Sheng's personal ability is also quite outstanding, if he hadn't deciphered the code of the Pisces Jade Pendant and translated the ancient book left by Peng Jiamu, our Document 80 would not have been carried out so quickly. ”

"Hehe, I know all about this, but I don't think you came here to talk to me, right?"

"It's not like I just came here to let you go with me, we're in trouble."

"What's wrong? Only then did I think of me. ”

"Here's the thing, we ran into a problem on the way to Document 82 this time, and it was a long story, probably because our people sent a message that they had found a coffin in an underground sea, and the coffin contained an octopus-type mask."

"It's the same mask you're looking for?"

"Huh? You know that, too. ”

"I've heard of it, but I don't know."

"Actually, we found a mask of the same size, but the appearance is different, but it's all a small thing."

"A trifle? What's a big deal going on? We've never lost so many test specimens in our hands, and this test item was an accident. ”

"I don't know if it's a test subject, it's an inconsequential figure in the plan anyway, I'm just curious who put his mask on him?"

"Forget it, this is not my jurisdiction, I haven't seen that thing, it's useless for you to tell me, let's get to the point! What is that sea? ”

"The Sea of Yellow Springs. You may have heard. ”

"Oh! You know, it's the paleontological sea, doesn't it mean that the country doesn't allow scientists to investigate there? It's like Lake Vostok. ”

"It's different, our country's ability to control this kind of project is not as strong as the United Nations, and Antarctica is not a place to go, and a lot of money is not something that a country can afford in this regard." As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out a file bag, "It's a photo of that mask, you can take a look at it first, but I'll say that shooting in the water may not look good, so I still suggest you go to Shanghai with me." ”

"Okay!" With that, Gan Haihui turned around and left.

"Wait a minute." The middle-aged man shouted to him again.

"What's wrong?"

"You told you about the mask we're looking for."

"Didn't you say it didn't matter?"

"Ask! It's a tiger-like mask, with an empty groove in the back and a long nose in the front. ”

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