The valley in front of me is surrounded by mountains, and I don't know if there are other entrances and exits to the valley. I always thought that such a place would only exist in martial arts novels, but I really didn't expect that it would exist in reality...

Master, Uncle Yang, and I stood at the mouth of this cave and looked around the valley, and finally all our eyes fell on the 'strange mountain' in the middle of the valley. The little fox also followed us to watch.

The bottom rock that makes up the mountain is upright, and from a distance it looks like one of the legs of this 'rooster'... It's really hard to imagine how this mountain was formed...

"Master, look..."

I pointed over to it, and saw that there seemed to be a hole in the second boulder above the 'rooster leg'.

"His grandmother's, not only does it really have this mountain, but there is also a 'ghost cave' on the mountain?" Uncle Yang said in surprise, and then glanced at me.

I thought to myself, could it be that Gao Qien lives in that cave?

"Let's go." Master said, "Go over and see..."

The gap between the entrance of the cave and the valley floor below is quite large, but there is a slope down, and although it is overgrown with wild grass, there are faint signs of human trampling. I don't know how many years ago, there were people going up and down this slope...

The valley was full of shrubs, old trees, and stones, and shadows in the moonlight.

"Huh? Master, Uncle Yang, look..."

After walking a little further, I pointed to a pile of rubble in front of my left. When I came to the front, I saw that although the stone pile was messy, the stones that made up the stone pile, whether large or small, had a smooth surface, and at first glance they had been polished by hand.

If you look closely, this pile of stones is a collapsed stone house. It's just that I don't know how many years have it been, and the cracks in the stone are full of weeds... Look at this, many years ago there were people who lived in this valley...

Not far further on, we found the ruins of a house, and the further we went, the more ruins there were...

Bypassing more than a dozen ruins one after another, a road crosses in front of us. The path passed through the vines and shrubs in the direction of the 'strange mountain'. Although this road is also paved with stones, compared to the road leading to the waterfall that we have taken before, the paving stones are polished very smoothly, each paving stone is about the same size, the gap between the stones is very small, and the road is much wider, but because of the cover of the dead leaves of the vines, it is impossible to see how wide it is.

Continuing along the road, we suddenly noticed a stone stake standing among the trees on the right-hand side. When I came to him, I lifted the vines on the stone pile, and a 'ghost head' appeared, looking very hideous, which made people feel cool at first sight...

"This..."

Uncle Yang and I looked at each other, and the master didn't say a word, staring at the stone pile, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a few moments, Master turned and walked towards the other side. As we walked, we pushed aside the vines, and suddenly, we found that there was a stone pile in the distance on the opposite side, but it had been broken, only a small section was left, and as for the broken section, I don't know where it ran to...

After walking along the road, we found two more stone piles, and after another section, there were two more... We walked like this, not far from the 'strange mountain', and at the end of the road, we came to an empty field, and in the middle of the empty field, a boxy altar was hidden by trees...

The altar is quite large, but not very high, and there is a hole on each side of the altar, which gives the impression that it was carved out for the purpose of stringing iron chains and the like.

When I jumped on the altar, I found that there was a certain pattern carved in the center of the altar, and I took out the knife from my bag, scraped off the floating soil, and a strange beast's head appeared. It looks exactly the same as what I saw at the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, and the beast head engraved on the wooden pendant...

When I think of the pendant, I think of the cave in the belly of the mountain behind the stone village, and then I think of the 'monster' that was imprisoned in the cave in the first place... Look at the altar in front of you, and the holes on the four sides of the altar. I said to myself, could it be that this altar was used to tie up that monster in the past? … So, then, the people who used to live in this valley were the keepers of the monster? …

From afar, the mountain looks like a chicken, but when you come closer, it doesn't look like it. Upward, at the height of a dozen floors, you can vaguely see a hole, but the mountain wall is very steep, nearly 90 degrees, unless you use a ladder or have wings, don't think about going up.

There was nothing we could do, so we had to give up. As we went around to the back of the mountain, we saw a house in the distance, shaded by trees.

This is a simple house built of wood, the door is not locked, push the door to the house, only to see the bedding, pot stove, all available, very modern. From the front of the mountain to the house behind the mountain, looking at these things in front of me, I have a feeling of time and space.

Lifted the lid of the pot, only to see that there was still residual soup in it, picked up the leftover meat in the soup and smelled it, it felt like rabbit meat, not bad at all, it seems that someone stayed here not long ago... Who will it be? Gao Qien? …

The three of them are very excited, as long as they stay here, they should be able to wait for this person, and he will definitely come back... In this way, it doesn't matter to us whether we can go up to the cave above this 'strange mountain' and find out if there are any secrets hidden inside...

The three of them stayed in this room, without making a sound, no one was sleepy, listening to the movement outside, and the little fox lay quietly next to me.

Finally, Uncle Yang couldn't help it, looked out through the crack in the door, then pricked up his ears to listen, turned back and lowered his voice.

"You say, if this is really what Gao Qien lives here, what is his purpose?"

"I think..."Actually, I had been thinking about this question just now, and now I listened to Uncle Yang's words, and said, "It should be to find some secret, if the altar in front of the mountain was really used to tie up that 'monster' before, then I think this secret should be related to that monster..."

"Xiao Zhang, what do you think?" Uncle Yang said.

"I'm similar to what Leng Er thinks."

"Hey, his grandma's..."

Uncle Yang didn't know what to say, and suddenly, the little fox stood up from the ground, and then, we heard a 'boom' sound, and the ground, as well as the whole house, trembled. It felt like a large truck pulling a huge load of goods was driving in front of the house.

Suddenly, I thought of the legend that Uncle Yang told me, and then I reacted that this 'strange mountain' was shaking... It's just a shock, and there's no rooster crowing as the legend says...

The shaking lasted for less than a minute, and everything was calm, and the sky was already dark outside, and I couldn't hold back my curiosity, and when I was about to go out to have a look, Master suddenly said, someone is coming...

Person? … I hurriedly pricked up my ears, and after three or four seconds, I vaguely heard the sound of someone walking, coming towards the house. Master glanced at us, and I lifted a wooden mound that had been placed at my feet, and Uncle Yang picked up the iron pot after pouring out the rabbit soup. The three of them waited intently.

The footsteps came very close to the door, and suddenly there was no movement. The air was silently suppressed as if it was about to explode, and after four or five seconds, the master flew up violently, kicking even the door frame into the air. As soon as Uncle Yang and I rushed outside with Master, we saw a person jump up from behind a tree in the upper right of us and run into the distance.

"Stop!"

The master shouted and chased after him. The little fox rushed in front of the master, jumped out like an arrow, and bit the corner of the man's clothes.

The man hurriedly stopped and shook the little fox hard, and by this time, the master had already rushed to him, and with a pounce, he threw him to the ground.

Uncle Yang and I held a hand, and as the master got up, he dragged the man up from the ground, and when the man raised his head, I couldn't help but cry out excitedly after seeing his appearance... It's really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes all the effort, this person is none other than the Wanjin Mountain that we fought against in the old village!

I hurriedly looked around with my eyes, I didn't see any Gao Qien, and I said in my heart, it is okay to catch Wanjin Mountain, this time, he will not want to run again if he puts on his wings...

When I looked at Wanjin Mountain, I saw that his clothes were dirty, horizontal and vertical, all of which were scratched. In just a few months, Wan Jinshan looked much older than he did then, and his hair was not combed on his back, but was messy like a bird's nest on his head...

"Bring him into the house." Master said.

When he came to the house, he pressed Wanjin Mountain on the wooden pier, and Uncle Yang took the door with his hand. I have a lot of questions to ask this Wan Jin Shan, and when I didn't know where to speak, Wan Jin Shan suddenly said dumbly, do you have anything to eat?

Master nodded.

I opened the bag, took out a roast goose, tore off a large piece of the meat from the goose's legs and handed it to him. Wan Jinshan hugged it and gnawed it, and the eating appearance was similar to that of the vicious woman in the ghost building.

After devouring a piece, Wan Jinshan asked me for another piece, and after eating, he took the water I handed him, poured most of the bottle in one go, and let out a long breath.

"Is there any smoke?" Wan Jinshan asked bluntly.

I frowned, wanting to have a seizure, but Master waved his hand, then took out a cigarette and threw it to him.

Wan Jinshan couldn't wait to ignite it, and then, like taking a drug, his lips trembled, and he took a hard breath, half-squinting his eyes, and enjoying the smoke in his mouth very much.

"Why do you look like this?" Master asked.

Wan Jinshan took a few more puffs of cigarette as if he hadn't heard it, smiled hehe, and said unhurriedly, "Do I need to tell you?" ”

I snorted coldly.

Wan Jinshan raised his head, his eyes swept contemptuously across the faces of the three of us.

"You're not small, you can even find it here..."

"Less nonsense!" I shouted.

"Tsk, what's the hurry, wait for me to smoke this cigarette and then do it, anyway, I don't have anything now, hide here like a lost dog, it's not interesting to live..."

"Nothing?" I was stunned.

Wan Jinshan didn't speak.

"I ask you." I fixed, "Where is that Gao Qien?" And..."

I voiced a series of questions in my heart in one breath, including whether the disappearance of the nameless mountain village was related to him, and the death of the boss of the brick kiln factory, etc...

"You really want to know?" Wan Jinshan asked.

"Of course." I say.

"Okay." Wan Jinshan said, "Then it depends on whether you have a fight with me." ”

"Fight what?"

Wan Jinshan flicked the cigarette butt to the ground, stroked his messy hair, and said slowly, "It's very simple, everyone is a cultivator. I've always wanted you to have a direct confrontation head-on, and now, here's the opportunity, what I call a fight, is a fight, if you win, what you just asked, as long as I know, tell you. If I win, then you will let me go, and you will never interfere in my business again..."