"Guests from Shandong?" I asked.

"Well, yes, my brother hung up the phone and told me that Boss Zhou said that there were a few guests from Shandong who came over, and he invited him to dinner. Shandong people have a high amount of alcohol, and Boss Zhou was afraid that he would not be able to resist it, so he thought of my brother and asked my brother to accompany him to drink... Boss Zhou is our big customer, and my brother naturally didn't say a word, so he passed..."

I said in my heart, who can be the guest of Shandong? The Sichuan mage who had an intersection with Boss Zhou had died a long time ago, could it be... When I thought of that mage, I thought of that Boss Ling, and then, I thought of the daughter of Boss Ling, who was exactly the same as Yu Xin, 'Ling Xiao', and from this, I thought of Yu Xin's father... Could it be that the so-called 'guests of Shandong' are from Yuxin's father's side? …

"Where they drank that night, do you know?" I asked.

"Then I don't know," said the man, "my brother was so drunk that night that he was sent back by two men, and I thought he would be fine after a good night's sleep." Who would have thought, I woke up yesterday morning and found that there was no one in his house, so I ran out to look for it, and I didn't find it, and I heard that someone was drowned in the river, so I went over to look, but I didn't think about it, it was actually my brother, alas..."

"Do you know the two people who sent him back?" I asked.

"Huh? Knowing one of them, not the other. ”

"Who is that person you know?"

"Master Chen."

"Is it the Master Chen who lives in the north mountain of your county?"

"Well, it's him, he has a good relationship with that Boss Zhou. Early this morning, I wanted to invite Master Chen to come over and see what happened to my brother's body running to the river, but Master Chen was not at home, so I had to invite this Taoist priest in our village..."

I nodded, thinking to myself, looking at this situation, this person's brother must have been killed by Boss Zhou, Master Chen, and their gang of people. The reason why those bastards chose to trade in the village, handing over the bronze man with one hand and letting the old man Yang with the other, is to use the corpse of this dead man to rob and kill us in the middle of the road after the transaction is completed... I don't know if Master has now predicted the whereabouts of the person who spoke to me on the phone last night and took the bronze man...

"Do you have snakeskins in your house?" I asked.

"There's it in the snake farm."

"Can you send me a few?"

"Absolutely."

The so-called 'eight feet and nine inches' refers to a different length in ancient times and now. According to the current conversion algorithm, it is about three meters, and in ancient times, it was more than two meters. Anyway, a three-meter 'snake rope' is enough...

I was so engrossed in casting the spell that I forgot that my leg hurts. Now as soon as I stopped, my leg continued to hurt again, so I didn't go to the snake field with this person. When the man brought the snake skin, I pulled each one, measured it, and it felt quite strong, twisted together enough to make a three-meter-long rope, so I put it in a plastic bag, and put it in the bag. Then, I went back to the hotel with Yuxin, Morning Star, and Xiaoqing.

Not long after I went back, Master and Xiang Feng also went back.

"How is Master?" I asked when I met.

"It's here."

"Oh? Where is that man now? I asked.

"On the way..."

"On the way?" I was stunned for a moment and looked at Xiang Feng, "So, the person who took the bronze man is no longer in this county?" ”

"That's right." Xiang Feng nodded, "It's gone, it's going southwest, and it's currently on the way." ”

"To the southwest, where is that man going?" I muttered, "Yuxin, help me get the map..."

I found the county seat we were in in the atlas and pointed southwest...

"To the southwest is Ya'an, could it be said that the person is going to Ya'an? He took the bronze man with him, what did he do in Ya'an? ”

I looked up at the crowd, and no one spoke.

After a while, Master said, "Leng'er, do you remember what the old man of the dead ghost told when he was in the ghost realm? ”

"Of course..."I said, and suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind, "Master means that they went to Ya'an, maybe it has something to do with those Ran Min?" …”

That night, I went to the 'ghost realm' with the old man who committed the robbery, and listened to the dead ghost old man in the ghost realm, telling a story about his ancestor Yang Xiansheng... Yang Xiansheng went to the area of Qionglai Mountain to play, and when he went back, he encountered a landslide and escaped by luck, but he got lost, braved the heavy rain, walked along a tributary of the Minjiang River, and finally fainted and was rescued by those Ran people to a deep mountain...

I looked at the map, Ya'an, located at the eastern foot of the Qionglai Mountains, and the largest tributary of the Minjiang River, the Dadu River, flows through Ya'an, in addition, the secondary tributary of the Minjiang River, the Qingyi River, also flows through Ya'an... Judging from this view, those remnants of the Ran clan may be living in seclusion somewhere around present-day Ya'an...

Previously, we speculated that the Sichuan mage, and the 'evil force' we were exploring, had some connection with those mysterious remnants of the Ran clan. And that bronze man is a so-called 'holy relic' of the Ran clan...

The person who took the bronze man, although I don't know who it is, is always from Boss Cao and their gang. If their gang has anything to do with that gang of 'evil forces', now that they have brought the bronze people to Ya'an, it may be related to those mysterious remnants of the Ran clan...

I broke away from Yuxin and told Master and them about the process of our search for snake skins. Under the analysis, several people felt that the so-called 'guests from Shandong' might be Yuxin's father's people, and the reason why they came here to meet Boss Cao and others may be because of the bronze man, and now, they went to Ya'an together... As long as you can keep up with them, perhaps, you can find those people and get to the root of that 'mysterious curse'...

Without further ado, after a hurried lunch, we immediately set off for Ya'an. Master, me, Uncle Yang, Old Man Yang, Old Man Yang's friend, Xiang Feng, Morning Star, Yu Xin, Xiaoqing, nine people, divided into two cars, one of us young. Along the way, Xiang Feng drove the car, and I sat next to him and asked him about Ya'an. Xiang Feng said that Ya'an is a famous 'rain city' in the Sichuan Basin, with abundant rainfall, especially in summer, continuous rain, sometimes it can rain for ten days and half a month... Then, Xiang Feng talked about what he knew, about the customs and humanities of Ya'an...

"Is there any mysterious culture in Ya'an?" I asked.

"Mysterious culture, I haven't heard much of it, but..."

"But what?" I asked.

Xiang Feng looked at me, "The 30th parallel of north latitude passes through Ya'an." ”

"Oh?" I was in good spirits.

I don't know when '30 degrees north latitude' has become synonymous with mystery, and there are all kinds of mysterious things around the world that this line runs through, some of which are considered to be the masterpieces of aliens, such as the Egyptian pyramids, the ancient Mayan civilization, the mysterious Sanxingdui in China, and so on. In addition, on this line, there are many mysterious areas where there are many incidents, the Devil's Bermuda Triangle, needless to say. It is said that located in Poyang Lake, which is located at 30 degrees north latitude, there was a mysterious incident, during World War II, a Japanese ship sank into Poyang Lake inexplicably, and none of the people on board survived, and the people who went to the lake to salvage at the location of the sunken ship, only one came up alive, and the spirit was still disordered. After the war, the United States sent divers with advanced diving equipment at that time to go into the water to investigate the wreck, and only one came up, and many years later, the surviving man broke the silence, saying that they were walking underwater, and suddenly a huge white light shot towards them, and then, the diver felt an inexplicable strong suction, and watched his teammates be sucked away by the white light... Many people believe that there is a mysterious force in the universe, and that the position of that force on the earth is the 30th parallel...

Right now, the mysterious ancient Shu people, the Ran people, may live in seclusion near the 30th parallel of north latitude... I can't help but think of the bronze man, the 'holy relic' of the Ran clan, it is said that once it is activated in a certain way, that bronze man will have an 'incredible' energy, if this is true, then, could it be said that that kind of power is obtained from the universe? And the reason why the ancestors of the Ran clan mastered things that we could not imagine, such as that kind of 'spell', was because they knew the secrets hidden at the 30th parallel of the north latitude? …

Along the way, I didn't bother to look at the scenery on the side of the road, and I didn't talk to Xiang Feng and Morning Star anymore, imagining all kinds of messy things in my head. In the evening, we came to Ya'an City, found a nearby hotel to stay, had dinner, and several people got together to discuss the next action plan...

The master looked at his watch, then at the crowd, and said, "Wait a minute, Ah Feng and Leng Er will go out with me, find a place to cast a spell, and see if you can find out where the person with the bronze man is now..."

"Okay."

"Okay."

An hour later, we took our spell casting stuff and left the hotel and drove north to a small secluded park almost out of the city. The three of them sat on a park bench and waited until the time came, when everything was silent, Master took out the sleeve of the man he had ripped off that night, cut a small piece of cloth with scissors on the bloody part, took out a small basin we had brought from the car, put the cloth in it, and poured a few bottles of mineral water...

As soon as he put the basin on the ground, the master lit six sticks of incense and ordered me and Xiangfeng to take two sticks each and stand on both sides of the basin. Then, he didn't know what to add to the basin, after adding it, the master took out a small willow branch, gently put it into the basin, and squatted on the side of the basin. After a while, the master stopped and looked into the basin, and after a while, he got up and stood up...

"How is Master?" I asked.

"It's here."

"Where?"

"Right in the middle of the city, it looks like a hotel, southeast of here... It's about six miles away in a straight line..."