It had been five hours since I found him, and there was no good place on his whole body as long as his skin was exposed. I don't know what it was cut by, and the inch-long opening is dense. There are the most wounds on the face, which were originally quite good, but now they are completely broken.

It was said that it was early in the mountains, but for some reason it was pitch black everywhere, and I wondered if I was blind.

Looking at that laser, it was not far away, but no matter how you walked, you couldn't get close. When I really couldn't help it, I put the little bean out of my pocket, held it in the palm of my hand, and tried to say to it: "Trouble you, little one, take me to the bleeding man, the one you just met." ”

The little bean rose in the wind and flew behind me. I raised the flashlight to illuminate it, but suddenly I found that there were strange rocks and towering trees around me, and I could neither see the sky nor shine two meters away, and I had completely lost my sense of direction.

The beans were so small that I lost them several times. Later, I found out that this thing has the ability to change the direction of the wind, and the wind will blow in whichever way it flies. Carried by it, I began to go around in circles. After every seven or eight steps, turn to the left, and then walk and turn again, and the more you turn, the more steps you take. It wasn't until suddenly the wind blew in my face that I realized that I had finally walked out of the strange stone forest.

Beneath your feet are sleek pebbles, shining with a flashlight, and vaguely a dry stream. This is the valley floor between the mountain beams, and the mountains on both sides are surrounded by mountains, and you can only see a narrow line of sky when you look up. It is more appropriate to say that it is not so much a mountain beam as a hollowed out hinterland.

I walked a few steps away before I dared to look back, and the laser pointer was poking at the edge of a human-high rock in the outermost part.

Looking at my phone again, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

And at the bottom of that boulder is a large pit that I don't know if it is man-made or natural. When I ran over to take a look, Comrade Duo Xiao's head was buried in his knees, and the whole person shrank into a ball.

The pit was not deep, but there was no earth in it, and under the pebbles were gray rocks and thin ice. I just cared about him just now, but now I look at the dry bones that are covered underneath, and there are actually human skeletons inside!

I hurried to call him, and he should not. I had no choice but to kneel on the edge of the pit, trying not to look at what was inside, and pulling him out by the arm.

Although Duo Xiao is unconscious, he still knows how to chirp. I took a closer look at his face, and the openings were not too deep, and there were a few fragments of plants poking at them. Carefully pull it out and see that this is the wings of the maple fruit.

It turned out that he was besieged by the little beans.

My bag was full of food, so I had to open his mouth and pour some water into him. I didn't know where his backpack had gone, and there was really nothing around me to bandage his wounds, so I took off his down jacket and hat and buckled it upside down on his face, and tied the hat cord to the back of his neck.

Oh my god, it's scary.

Before I could take it off for him, the benevolent brother woke up on his own.

"You want to suffocate me?" The sound of the urn coming from the down hat was so angry that he sat up with his head drooped like a big-headed ghost.

I nudged him, "Are you okay?" ”

He reached out and pulled his hat down, the corners of his mouth twitching in pain. The whole person's mental state is called something wrong, I know that he is a little divided, and he is sad for a while, and now this is not good for melancholy?

"You speak, you knew you would have taken me with you, right?"

"It's not too late to know." He still hung his head, but he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the rocks.

"Let me slow down, slow down and go."

"Don't don't, I didn't rush you." This person is like this, and he still thinks that he is dedicated enough to complete the task, which makes me funny and sad. I held him down, I must go, but I am not really the owner, forcing people to be born and die, and waiting for the baby to arrive. You have to tell the ins and outs first, analyze the pros and cons and discuss countermeasures.

"The color maple wood is hard and sinks when it enters the water. Its greatest use is not to make furniture, but to make baixi. ”

"Okay, what is Bai Xi?"

He recovered quickly, sat up with a "flutter", and explained to me: "People will inevitably have disasters and diseases in the world. Some medicines can cure the disease, and some can cure the disease, and Bai Xi is one of the latter. Carved into a human shape with hardwood, engraved with a special technique of the person's birthday, can be used as a stand-in for this person, helping him ward off disasters and diseases. ”

"So god? Don't look for medicine in that leather door, specialize in selling Baixi. ”

"Not everyone has the blessing of being useful." His eyes narrowed, and he said a little mysteriously: "And as far as I know, there will be no more Bai Xi in the leather door now." He held up a bloody slap.

"Five?"

"Most of them are already dying, and it's hard to get moving. This method is borrowed from life, and the better the material, the better the effect. Bai Xi made of color maple is even more rare in the world, if it is really made, it must be a sky-high price. ”

The lady said that the boss's old customer didn't have much money, and he definitely couldn't give too high a commission. Wouldn't the boss suffer a big loss if he sold such important information to others? ”

"You should ask him to go." He pointed to the pit not far away, where he had been hiding, "Do you see the bones underneath?" ”

"Uh-huh."

"It's called a ground pool. Many years ago, an experiment was conducted to cultivate maple trees. They look for dirt-free rivers in valleys above two thousand meters above sea level. First cut off the flow of water, dig a vertical deep pit, peel the strong man alive and throw it into the pit to spread a layer, sprinkle it with secret medicine, and then spread it again and again until it reaches seven layers, and then release the water. The water was allowed to pour into the pit, and the person's stomach was stuffed with stones in advance to ensure that the position would not move. The secret medicine insulates the blood and does not attract animals. ”

The color maple is yin and easy to channel, and loves to fight yang. Whenever the mountain beast dies at the water's edge, the ripe seeds burrow into its carcass and take root. As large animals become scarcer, it is difficult for the maple to grow. Duo Xiao said that the purpose of the experiment was to borrow people's vitality to create an environment conducive to the growth of maple trees.

At that time, many people operated it, and the test of success or failure was that no matter what kind of drought, even if the river was cut off, there would still be water in this pit. Most of the experiments failed, so the predecessors of Pimen at the time agreed that maple could not be cultivated artificially.

"Obviously, someone succeeded."

I listened to it with a straight tooth, this is really an "artificial" method, will the planted tree cry in the middle of the night?

"It's hard to measure the value of something that so many lives have been exchanged for money."

I understand what he means, and the value of this thing depends on who it is used for.

And when he himself was searching near the strange stone forest, he was attacked by the unanimous attack of the maple fruit, and had to hide in the underground pool.

"You almost became a flower fertilizer, how do you feel? Let's talk about it. ”

"I don't have any feelings, but I found that there is one."

I'm glad that Duoxiao's discovery must be particularly valuable. Sure enough, he didn't disappoint me, and he led me back to the edge of the pool, pointing out a mark carved into the wall.

Shen

"Pan?"

He coughed and shook his head loudly: "Illiterate! That's Shen, the traditional character for Shen. ”