I went down the river with Fat Brother, the river was still warm, and the water flow was as slow as before.

In fact, I know in my heart that the words of looking for clues are just to coax that child, how can this group of primitive people who appear when they say they appear and disappear when they disappear, how can they leave evidence, do they have to leave a shoe for us like Cinderella before they become invisible? Even if we had shoes, we couldn't find the owner, and the shoes couldn't be used as a compass.

I borrowed the head light line of the fat brother, looked at the bottom of the river, the river water is still very clear, I hope to see the footprints left by the team, look carefully under the water, I found that there are a lot of small stone figures in the water, neatly arranged, and the original team just now, I hurriedly fished one, excitedly ran to Jiang Li's side, and said to her: "Look, isn't your guide here, there are many such small stone figures in the river." ”

Jiang Li just raised his eyelids, then lowered his head again, teased the big cat with one hand and said: "This kind of stone man, on the hill in our village, there are so many, every year we have to carve a lot, buried in the soil on the mountain, this is for the sacrificial team to attach the soul, so you can see, now they are all scared away, and they are away from the stone man." ”

I said how I caught a big fish with the fat brother, I didn't find that there was a stone man in the river, it turned out that I really came up from the bottom of the pool, I can't think of a better way, I looked down at the stone man, the stone man is about thirty centimeters high, the carving is very rough, in addition to being able to see the nose, eyes, mouth, just a few carved on the body, indicating clothes.

The fat brother also had one in one hand, and two stone men came over, and we compared each other, and there was really nothing special, it seems that it is impossible to find clues from here.

I said to Jiang Li again: "If we don't make noise about those sacrificial primitive people, then they will always be attached to the stone man, and they will walk along the river impartially, which means that if the stone man leaves the river, it will not work." ”

Jiang Li nodded and said, "And then?" ”

I continued: "Then it means that we have been walking along the river, and we should be inseparable, and when there is a fork in the road, it is better for us to find clues than to sit here and delay time." ”

Jiang Li may have felt that what I said made some sense, or because she was in a hurry and didn't answer my words, she just picked up her bag and walked down the river.

The fat brother and I also took our weapons and walked forward with her.

Although there is no fork in the river, it is about a kilometer away from the river, and the river is gone. The ground ahead was a block higher than we had walked, and at the point where the two tectonic plates met, the river turned into the ground.

Now the three of us were dumbfounded, we thought that if we walked along the river, we would reach our final destination, but we didn't expect the terrain here to be so complicated.

The fat guy shook his head and leaned against the big rock next to him.

Jiang Li was even more disheartened, standing there looking at the river.

I hurriedly comforted: "If the river can flow in, it will definitely flow out, and our direction will not change, and we should still be able to encounter the river." "Actually, what I'm talking about is not practical at all, in case the river turns underground, none of us knows, but at this time, I prefer to believe in miracles.

I was the first to climb the heights, which was a very flat rock, as if weathered, all sand and fine gravel, I couldn't see how big it was, it was larger than the light area of the wolf's eye flashlight, and it probably fell from the side wall of the sinkhole.

Jiang Li and the fat brother also climbed up, and the two big cats were agile and jumped up with a slight jump. We instinctively follow the direction of the river.

We didn't go far, the strange scene in front of us blocked the way, just on the ground in front of us, densely packed with human faces, these people's faces have different expressions, the size is comparable to the proportion of real people's faces, there are tens of thousands, and they are arranged on the ground irregularly, so that people have nowhere to put their feet.

I turned my head and asked Jiang Li, "Little girl, what's the situation?" You know what? Does it have anything to do with sacrifices? ”

Jiang Li shook his head and said, "It's the first time I've been here, I haven't heard of these things, and I don't know what they're for." ”

The fat guy picked up a small stone and threw it at those people's faces, but there was no response.

The two big cats looked very curious, and ran over first, sniffed one of the people's faces, and then pawed them off.

Meng Ji's claw, the human face actually moved, the human face turned down, and the back of the head was facing the big cat, behind it was white hair, half long and not short, and the hair looked very hard, more like a hard thorn.

Seeing that the man's face moved, the two big cats felt that they took a few steps back, but they did not stop exploring the face.

The three of us were already stunned on the spot, and I said to them, "This is not a human face, this is a human head, and it moves." ”

The fat brother said: "Let's take a detour, remember the direction and go around, in case these people come out of the soil, we can't deal with it." ”

It seemed that Jiang Li was very reluctant, but she didn't refute it, she could still distinguish the stakes.

Just as they were about to turn around and go around the lower ground, the two big cats came back, still holding a human head in their mouths.

The three of us all avoided backwards, Jiang Li hid behind the fat brother, and the eyes of the three of us stared at the big cat, as if it had come back with a time bomb.

Finally the big cat let go of his mouth and threw the man, face down, face down in the center of our standing. The two cats remained silent, just staring at the head together.

Suddenly, the back of the man's head was facing us, and he began to move towards his original position, not moving fast, like a puppy that had just reached the full moon, stumbling back, and the white hair on the back of his head also fluctuated, because of some hardness, it was not as flowing as long hair.

The fat guy boldly walked over and turned the human head back with the soles of his feet.

The man's head was fixed, and he crawled back on his own.

I immediately realized that this thing was an animal, but it looked like a human head. I pulled up my sleeves, hid my hands in the cuffs, pinched the hair of the thing with two fingers, and then lifted it up and looked the other side, and I saw a small pointed mouth, a few moustaches, two round black eyes, which were rolling at me, four small short legs pushing hard, and a small, short tail, coiling hard behind my buttocks.

I excitedly shouted, "This is a hedgehog, a white long-haired hedgehog." ”

As soon as he heard what I said, Jiang Li, who had been hiding far away, also ran over excitedly to take a look.

I handed the hedgehog to her, Jiang Li carefully grabbed a thorn with her hand, and then said happily: "It's really a hedgehog, I haven't seen a hedgehog since I was a child, and I thought the hedgehog was round, a cactus." ”

I hurriedly explained: "The hedgehog is indeed what you remember, but this kind of hedgehog is more alternative, it is estimated that it is a different breed that lives here all year round, the thorn is much longer than the ordinary hedgehog, and there is no sunlight exposure, lack of pigment, so it is a white thorn." ”

Jiang Li slowly turned around again, looked at the front of the hedgehog, and then said, "It's really like a human face." ”

Indeed, this hedgehog looks very strange, and when its limbs are tightened, the lines really look like a human face, making strange expressions. Looking at it just now, the fear of the unknown and the large number of them make it feel very weird. Now that I look at it, the fear is completely gone, but it's funny.

The fat brother scratched his head with one hand and said, "Don't be happy yet, there are so many hedgehogs blocking the way, how can we get by?" There is no place to put your feet. ”

Jiang Li threw the hedgehog to the ground, patted the soil on his hands, and patted the fat brother's waist, the height ratio between her and the fat brother, and it was not difficult to pat the waist. Then he said slowly and confidently: "As long as it is an animal, it is easy to say, and the mountain people have their own tricks." ”