Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Land of the Ranmin

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Moving a few steps forward, I stroked my chest with my hand, and I stood up little by little, I looked back at the two stakes with snakes coiled, and exhaled a long breath, I settled down, and thought to myself, where have I been? Looking around, I saw the outline of the mountains, as if they were so far away from me, that they did not look real, but were drawn with a watercolor pen, and when I looked up, the sky was gray and dark, and there was no sun in sight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 As for my feet, there is a road paved with large and small stones, which is not very wide, and it looks like some kind of ancient ruins. Not far ahead, there is a small hill, about six or seven stories high, and the road goes around under the mountain, and I don't know where it leads...

Everything was quiet, as if I was the only one in the whole world, and this feeling made me nervous, and I wanted to shout to offset the fear of the unknown world in front of me... I endured, didn't shout, and walked along the road one by one...

Slowly walking around the mountain, I couldn't believe what I was seeing... After passing this mountain, the road winds down a slope, and there are many large trees in the distance, and there is a place that looks like a village... I reacted immediately, Master was right, that eye-shaped pit was indeed the entrance to the residence of those remnants of the Ran people, and the 'village' I saw at this moment, I think, should be the residence of those Ran people...

The hard work paid off, and I finally found this place! … I bit my lip and clenched my fist hard and walked down, thinking to myself, if this is not another dimension, then maybe it was after I jumped down from that hole, the space was instantly displaced, so I don't know what kind of place I came to... Then, I thought of all kinds of mysteries about the 30th degree of north latitude, these Ran people, as I had speculated before, knew the secrets hidden by the 30th degree of north latitude, so they were able to live in seclusion here...

Bypassing two towering trees, the village is close at hand. As far as the eye can see, there are about 100 houses in the whole village, and the houses are all made of wood and are very simple. In the distance, there is a tall stone building behind the village, which looks very abrupt, and I don't know what it is for. This village is very quiet and eerie, that is, there is no voice, and you can't hear the roosters and dogs barking, as if there is no one living at all... There was a drum in my heart, could it be that those Ran Min had already moved out of this place? Or, what's going on here, people are all dead? …

My temples were a little swollen, I plucked up my courage, came to the door of a house, put my ear to the door and listened, there was no movement, I held my breath, pushed hard, the door opened with a 'clatter', I hurriedly turned to the side, waited for a while, nothing unusual happened, I stepped into the door...

There were no windows in this room, it was dark, I rubbed my eyes, and looked around, there was a wooden table, a stone bench, a stone bed, and several clay pots at the foot of the bed, according to their size... All of this made me feel as if I had traveled back in time to ancient times, when suddenly I saw a wooden shelf in the corner of the house, and under the shelf hung a bronze pot with a small pile of black charcoal. I thought about it, reached in, dipped a little bit of the soup, licked it with my tongue, and the salty one frowned, and hurriedly shook my hand. As for the clay pots, they are all salted meat, and the meat in each jar looks different, and I don't know what kind of animals they are...

I went to several houses in a row, each with a jar for meat, and a bronze pot for cooking, and two of them, like the first one, also had leftover broth in the pot... These signs indicate that the village is inhabited, but it is not known where they have all gone at the moment.

Walking around the village, I came to the stone building at the back of the village and looked up and down, and it felt like a temple. Through the doorway, I came inside, and sure enough, it was a temple, with a tall stone statue in the center, with a mask on its face and a strange headdress on its head that could not be described...

I was staring at the statue when I heard a faint voice coming from behind the statue... Bypassing the stone statue, I saw a small open door, the back door of this temple, and the outside was very close to this back door, and there was a big tree, and the voice of the human voice came from behind the tree...

My heart tightened, I didn't dare to make any sound, I rubbed little by little against the big tree, cautiously probed to look, I saw in the open space behind the tree, kneeling black pressed a large number of people... These people, numbering hundreds, men, women, and children, were all dressed in garments made of coarse bark... This must be those Ran Min!

Although these people have their backs to me, the nearest person is less than two meters away from me, and if you make a noise, you will be discovered... I didn't dare to move, but I raised my eyes and looked straight in front of the crowd, and I saw the bronze man, standing on a stone platform, and not far behind the stone platform, there was a stone house, much smaller than the temple behind me...

What the old man said was true, judging from the scene in front of him, this bronze villain was indeed some holy relic of the Ran clan... These Ran Min in front of me, bowing to the bronze man, while worshipping, muttering I don't know what to whisper, and I don't know when to worship, I looked at it like this for a while, I began to get impatient, in addition, those Ran Min's 'buzzing' voices, listening to it for a long time, people dozed off, their eyelids were heavy, and they were lightheaded...

I was afraid that I would fall asleep, so I pinched my arm from time to time. After nearly an hour, those Ran Min suddenly stopped worshipping. I suddenly lost all my sleepiness, shrank down, and said to myself, what's wrong? …

I was stunned when the door of the stone house in the distance opened, and two men wearing masks and headdresses, dressed in feathers of unknown sorts, staggered out. When the two of them came out, they walked around the stone platform, and with every few steps, they bowed to the bronze man...

The more I looked, the more confused I became, I didn't know what I was doing, and all of a sudden, I felt as if someone was looking at me, and I hurriedly lowered my head, and I instinctively stepped back... Because I saw that a person at the back of the crowd, who was very close to me, was turning his head to stare at me, that is, I had been discovered...

The man's eyes were full of hostility when he looked at me, and my mind went blank for a while, and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I squeezed a smile at the man and made a 'shh' gesture. As soon as I finished the gesture, the man stood up, pointed at me, and didn't know what to say, and all the Ran Min turned their heads and looked at me as he pointed out. The two masked men stopped moving.

So many pairs of eyes staring at me made my heart 'thump'. I didn't know where to put my hands and feet, so I nodded my head again and again, and said, "Big... Hello everyone... Huh..."

Those Ran people stood up one after another, and I suddenly noticed that some people were looking down, and I also looked down, only to find that I was wearing only a pair of underwear on my body, and I covered the vital parts with my hands, and my body was as hot as fire...

Suddenly, the crowd gave way, and the two masked men walked up to me. Approaching, one of them took off the mask on his face. I looked at him, it was a middle-aged man, about forty years old, with a fierce appearance and a grim look at me...

"Heh... I smiled at him.

Finally, the man spoke, in a stiff and strange tone, "Who are you?" ”

"I... I was—" I stumbled, not knowing what to say, "I was... Good. ”

At this time, another person also took off his mask, "How did you get here?" ”

"I..."

I gestured with my hand, and just as I didn't know what to say, a voice suddenly came from a distance, "I know this kid!" ”

These two masked ones, although they can speak Chinese, but their pronunciation is even stranger than that of the old fox, and the person who is speaking at the moment sounds like standard Mandarin, and the voice is somewhat familiar... I hurriedly looked over, and saw a fat man of medium stature standing at the door of the stone house, it was none other than the boss Cao...

"Okay, you bastard!" I straightened up and pointed at Boss Cao.

Boss Cao looked lazy and lazy, and crossed his waist with his hands, "I really didn't expect to meet Secretary Leng here, Secretary Leng is good lately?" ”

I looked behind Boss Cao, there was no one else, and I said in my heart, the person who was with him didn't know where he was, and he might have been eaten by the snake in the belly of the mountain...

"Boss Tuocao's blessing..."I endured my anger and smiled, "I'm not dead, no, I'm alive and well, just your three-legged cat ability, if you want to kill me, it's still far away..."

Those Ran Min didn't speak, they looked at us. I thought to myself, this Boss Cao found these Ran Min and returned this bronze man to them, and I don't know what kind of heart I have...

"Hehe..."Boss Cao sneered, "Boy, I really didn't expect you to come here, you were lucky before, and you escaped again and again, this time, even if you plugged in your wings, don't want to escape, you sent yourself to death, this can't blame me..." Take this bronze man away... I've said everything that needs to be said, what should be done with this person, you can see what to do..."

The malevolent-looking man turned his head and said coldly to me, "Is what he said true?" ”

Thoughts were racing in my mind... To say that I am not here for the bronze man, then, I should say, what am I here for? If it was to investigate the ancient curse and involve the secrets of their clan, I guess I would have died even worse...

Seeing that I didn't answer, the man turned to the crowd and didn't know what to say, and then, with another man holding a bronze mask, retreated to both sides at the same time, and several Ran Min stood out from the crowd and walked straight towards me...

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