The ridge is high and dangerous, the forest is deep, the clouds are surrounded by fog, here according to the guide Lao Jiang, the name is Climbing Nest and Ditch, it already belongs to the primeval forest area, except for a few herb pickers, generally few people will come, even if he is only heard the old man said, and has not really come. There are no roads in the mountains, but only paths trodden by wild beasts. We searched for a long time before we found a passage to the bottom of the ditch.

At this time, Lao Jiang suddenly brought it up, saying that there was a snake below, no, he couldn't go down.

The third uncle squatted on the side of the road, looked at a small tree that had been cut out of two white marks, and turned around and asked why he didn't go? Is there a snake down there? No, those long bugs, I'm afraid they're hibernating, and they can't take care of us.

What the reason is, just say.

Old Jiang looked at the deep ditch below, weeds, moss ferns and thorns covered the mountain, there was the quiet flow of the stream, quiet as heaven and earth, he swallowed his saliva, said that he remembered, climbing the ditch is a dangerous place, he knows a friend, his father died here. How did he die? Ten thousand snakes devour the heart, and when the corpse is collected, there is only a bone shelf left, so isn't it dangerous? The old generation said that Grandpa Shennong lives here, and these snakes are all for Grandpa Shennong's tomb, and they can't go down.

We laugh, who is Shennong? The so-called descendants of Yan and Huang, he is the legendary Yan Emperor, the sun god of China, one of the three emperors and five emperors, thousands of years ago, it is said that he once built the capital in Qufu, Shandong, the world name Shennong, and is also the god of medicine and agriculture in ancient China. Although I heard that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and came here, if it is far-fetched to say that Shennong's tomb is in this Shennongjia, I think the people of Qufu must be the first to refuse.

The third uncle said don't talk about this, can you add another 10,000? If you can't go down, if you can't, you go, we'll go down by ourselves.

Old Jiang thought about it for a long time, and agreed shyly.

I originally had some respect and good impression for this honest Hubei man, but I was immediately wiped out by his behavior of sitting on the ground and raising prices. Walking down the trail, the road was steep, and the old ginger who had overcharged him worked very hard, walking in front, cutting weeds with a hunting knife, and helping us clear a way. The earth dog jumped up and down, and was also very busy. But it didn't dare to come near me, it looked at me from afar, and avoided it.

This animal is quite sensitive, but I don't know if it's because of the flowers, or the golden silkworm Gu.

Or both.

In fact, when you walk down this road and see the branches and thorns piled up on the side of the road, you can clearly see that someone has recently gone down from here. This discovery is exciting, but it also makes the balance of people's hearts continue to rise and fall in disappointment and hope, and the heart is even more apprehensive. Lao Xiao's third uncle is a person who has studied traditional Chinese medicine, so along the way, he kept explaining to Zhou Lin and us the characteristics of some plants on the roadside, which can be used as herbal medicines, and what are the uses.

When he met someone of good character, he put it in his bag.

Only then did I realize that the reason why Zhou Lin came with him was mainly because the master who was taking him now was Xiao Yingwen, the third uncle of the miscellaneous hairy path.

It took us more than half an hour before we reached the bottom of the valley, where there was a small stream, and we found a campfire on the pebbly beach by the stream. I touched it, I'm afraid it's been a few days. Yesterday it was drizzling again, and it was wet, and it was even more difficult to find. In addition to that, we also found some food in plastic bags, instant noodle crumbs, and a cotton sock. Zhou Lin asked his uncle if he should have been here, right? The third uncle nodded and said that it should be, look for it again, and see if you can find anything.

So we looked around, and I looked along the rocks by the river, wondering if there was any sign of this three- or four-meter-wide stream running to the other side.

Ten minutes later, Lao Jiang shouted to us from twenty meters downstream, telling us to come and have a look.

We hurriedly walked over and surrounded it, only to see a few footprints on the shallow mud by the stream, like a human, but larger and with sharp claws. I crouched down and looked at the footprints carefully, trying to find some clues. However, perhaps because of the rain, except for a stream like a piece of turquoise glass, there are white and cyan pebbles.

The third uncle also searched everywhere, trying to find the mark left by his brother.

Zhou Lin's eyes were still sharp, and he felt some gray hair from a branch by a stream, and then brought it to the display in front of us. Let's get together and talk about what this hair is. Several people tend to be mammals such as monkeys, after all, there are many monkeys in the Shennongjia area, such as the golden snub-nosed monkey, which is an endangered animal. However, Lao Jiang was inexplicably frightened, he trembled, what kind of golden monkey? This is clearly the wild man of Shennongjia, it must be.

Shennongjia savages? This thing is famous, as far as 2300 years ago, the famous poet Qu Yuan left a poem "Nine Songs, Mountain Ghosts", described this thing, since the founding of the People's Republic of China in the past 60 years, at least more than 400 people have witnessed the Shennongjia savage, but so far, no organization or individual has caught the living body, the hustle and bustle, but there is no strong proof, but it gives this forest area more fantastic, mysterious and fascinating attraction.

Lao Jiang said this, Zhou Lin was excited, he said what are you afraid of? It's not okay, if it is, we will just arrest them, and when the time comes, as soon as the media exposes it, you will be very famous here, and we will be able to make a lot of money. Old Jiang looked at Zhou Lin in horror and said How can you say that? What is a Savage? is the darling of the mountains and forests, the gatekeeper of the mountain god's grandfather, if he is caught by you, then where will he have a good life in the future?

When the time comes, I'm afraid that before I become famous, people don't know what Lu Dao will die like? I'm afraid that the bones and scum are all white!

As soon as Lao Jiang mentioned the mountain god grandfather, my heart jumped: Another mountain god grandfather? If it is an ordinary mountain spirit and wild monster, I am not afraid, but if this Shennongjia savage, like a dwarf mule, can confuse people and repel insects, then I don't care about others, I will retreat first. I asked why the wild man was the gatekeeper of the mountain god's grandfather...... You will be Emperor Shennong Yan for a while, and Grandpa Mountain God for a while, what kind of trouble are you going to make?

Zhou Lin said that too, the money has been added once, and it can no longer be added a second time, the money is hard to earn, the is hard to eat, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Since he has gone down to the bottom, Lao Jiang is also difficult to ride a tiger, so he has to nag, saying that he will talk about it first, don't scold people indiscriminately, and be full of respect for the things in this mountain in your heart, don't talk nonsense, so as not to anger the mountain god grandfather. When we saw him say this, we gave him a step down and said okay, okay, which skull is broken, and he didn't scold others for bad things?

The old ginger pulled the earth dog to the fire, sniffed it, and then let go of it, and it ran like a yellow thread all the way to a place upstream. Lao Jiang went to chase after him, and said that the dog must have made a discovery, so he ran as fast as a rabbit, walk, walk, and keep up.

We followed, following the stream upstream from which we had come.

The dog ran until the end of a turn, then barked at a fallen tree. The main trunk of this big tree is more than ten meters long, and the four people hug it widely, spanning both ends of the stream, and the trunk is pitch black, which makes it difficult to understand. But the third uncle ran up and touched it, saying that it was a locust tree, an old locust tree, a hundred years, and the result was struck by thunder, well, soon, it should be in the recent past.

He sniffed it for a while and said what it smelled like?

As soon as he reminded me of this, I immediately reacted, and there was a very strong smell in the air here, the smell of rotting meat, the smell of corpses, which smoked people's noses, and made the food in people's stomachs churn and want to vomit. Of course, this is just an idea, I don't know how much I have smelled similar smells, and I will get used to it after a long time.

We followed the smell and climbed the big tree, and before we could see anything, we heard a voice in the air shouting: ", what a bad luck!" It's unlucky! ”

It was the fat parrot of the budgie who was talking, and it didn't know where it had run to just now, but now it came out again.

As soon as we heard this, we knew that there would be nothing good about it, and when we turned over the trunk of the tree and looked down, we saw that in the grass four or five meters away from the stream, there were two naked corpses, a man and a woman, all without heads, and the palms and soles of the limbs were all gone, and the white flowers, the belly, from the neck to the lower body, were artificially dissected, and the skin was peeled off, revealing the flesh and blood blurred, and the empty chest, all the internal organs in it were gone, and it rained two days ago, and the corpse was soaked to white fleshThe blood in one place is semi-coagulated, like a pig red in the vegetable market.

On top of the two headless corpses, maggots with white flowers were rolling.

In winter, there are still a mass of flies lingering, I don't know where the tunnels come from, black corpses and maggots compete for food, and there are crows in the air that make a depressing cry. Not far away, in the thorny grass, there was a creeping sound of a thin rope, which seemed to be from a diner who had just left this gluttonous feast.

Uh-Zhou Lin couldn't hold back any longer, knelt on the trunk of the tree, and gulped down the food from last night and this morning, which had been processed by his stomach for more than six hours, and had become sour, especially when mixed with the smell of corpses wafting over. The guide Lao Jiang couldn't hold back any longer, rolled down the tree, supported the trunk with his hand, and became a pair of difficult brothers with Zhou Lin, vomiting happily.

I, Miscellaneous Xiaodao and his third uncle stood on the trunk of the tree, with a gentle wind, blowing with the smell of corpses, and their faces did not change.

Whose bodies are these two?

Just as we were questioning, suddenly the earth dog that had been barking at the end of the tree trunk whimpered a few times, and then we heard the water splashing, and hurriedly turned around to take a look, only to see that the earth dog was bitten by the neck of a black-brown monster nearly two meters long, and dragged down the stream.

The monster's body was smooth and covered with slime, its limbs were short and flattened, and its round tail nearly a meter long stirred up the waves, and when it sank downward, the muddy water drowned its figure.