Chapter 22: Worry

"Wait, wait!" I shouted, "You see, the posture of Professor Li Zhongkai's corpse seems to have changed. ”

Zhang Hefang listened to my words, turned his head, also looked at Professor Li Zhongkai's body, and then looked up at the clouds in the sky, and muttered, "It seems to be raining." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and said in my heart what he meant by this, I obviously asked him to see Professor Li Zhongkai's body, but Zhang Hefang paid attention to the weather. So, I reminded Zhang Hefang again, and Zhang Hefang came back to his senses and said to me: "Don't worry, that's a normal reaction, it's just that the body has become heavier and my feet can't support it." ”

When Zhang Hefang spoke, his eyes were always staring at the horizon in front of him, and he seemed to be a little worried. I looked along and saw that there seemed to be a thick dark cloud drifting towards me in the distance.

I saw that his reaction was a little wrong, so I went to his side and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Old ghost." Zhang Hefang muttered in his mouth, and then, he suddenly turned around and shouted at everyone, "Hurry up, we don't have long left, and the people of the organization are rushing towards this side quickly." ”

The fat old python seemed to be allergic to the name of the old ghost, as soon as he heard the name of the old ghost, he immediately became nervous and scared. However, I always feel that there is a bit of a fuss, why did Zhang Hefang say that the old ghosts are already coming over? Is it because of that dark cloud? No way! If the old ghost can make the sky cloudy when he walks, it will inevitably be too disadvantageous, how can a mortal have such strength.

Unless...... I was suddenly startled, and remembered what the lonely ghost and the one-eyed old man I saw on the train had said before, could it be that the old ghost had arrived here with his Yin Soldier Ghost Array? I don't believe that humans can change the color of the heavens and the earth, but if it is thousands of lonely ghosts walking in the mountains that make the clouds dark.

However, at this moment, we have no reason to speculate here, since Zhang Hefang said that the old ghost and others have already arrived here, then we have no reason to delay, we can only continue to speed up our pace.

Against the backdrop of the surrounding mountains, the valley is extremely narrow, but when we walked in, we realized that the valley was actually quite spacious. The width of the valley is almost a dozen meters, and although the river is dry, the road is still a little muddy. Looking up, the road ahead is very long, but because it is a straight road, the situation ahead is cloudless, and at the end of the valley, there is still a peak snow-capped mountain, which means that after we reach the end of the valley, there will be a long climb up the mountain.

In order to shorten the travel time as much as possible, we eat lunch while walking.

After about half a day's walk, we finally reached the end of the valley, where a high snow-capped peak blocked our eyes. Look up the river of the valley and lead straight to the top of the snow-capped mountain. We glanced at the foot, there was a path made of stone steps, although it was a stone step, but I am afraid that because of the age, coupled with the continuous erosion of the flowing water, the stone steps have been blurred, and there are only a few places to borrow.

We don't think much about it, after all, the road is under our feet, just take the right place.

I don't know if everyone is tired, or because of the dark clouds in the distance just now, everyone became silent, and everyone silently climbed to the snowy mountain, without any verbal communication, this feeling is really like the ancient ancestors climbed the mountain with devotion and begged to communicate with the gods.

At sunset and dusk, we finally came to the top of the snow-capped mountains. I don't know how high the altitude is here, but theoretically we climbed all the way up, and although we walked for four or five nights along the way, the altitude here should not be very high. Even so, I felt cold, and the chill was even more pronounced when I saw that the sun was about to set.

Climbing to the summit of the snow-capped mountains, I looked around, but saw that the surrounding was covered with clouds and mist, and the peaks of several high mountains were floating in the air. I didn't think that "I would be at the top of the mountain, and I would see the mountains at a glance", because as long as I looked to the west, I would suddenly feel that I was small, and that was the real plateau.

I looked left and right and asked Zhang Hefang, "Where is the priest's grave you said?" ”

"Look down the stone steps of the river." Zhang Hefang said.

I looked down the stone steps, but I found that there was no need for this, for the place under our feet was the end of the stone steps, and in front of us was the snow-capped summit of the snow-capped mountains.

I pointed to the top of the snow-capped mountain and said, "Do you mean that the priest's grave is inside this snowy mountain?" ”

Zhang Hefang nodded and said, "That's what I meant." ”

"But there's no ancient ruins to be seen here." I said.

"The entrance to the priest's grave is buried under the snow, and the stone gate is revealed at the height of summer." Zhang Hefang said.

I went up and looked at the snow, and although it was thick, it was very sparse, after all, it was already May anyway.

"What's the grind then, let's shovel the snow quickly." I said.

Soon, Bin Zi and Brother Liao took out the folding shovel again and began to shovel the snow desperately. However, while I was digging, I felt that this Zhang Hefang was somehow wrong, and it felt weird. I asked him if he was worried about the old ghost, but he smiled and shook his head, saying that it was only one aspect, he knew that the old ghost's Yin Soldier Ghost Formation was very powerful, but he was not afraid of the old ghost.

"Then what are you worried about, I think you always look worried." Afterward, I asked directly.

Zhang Hefang said with a smile: "Do you know the Tao, many historians like to call them the country of mythology when describing the ancient Shu Kingdom. ”

I nodded, and Zhang Hefang said: "And the so-called mythical country here actually refers to those mythical creatures living in the ancient Shu Kingdom, for example, the mermaids we saw before. ”

I imagined the terrifying faces of those mermaids in my mind, and I couldn't help but shudder, and said, "Are you worried that there will be other mysterious creatures in here?" ”

"It's not that I'm worried," Zhang Hefang interrupted, "There must be some unknown creatures in here." “

When he said this, I muttered a little in my heart, and said that you didn't say that you never came in, so why are you so sure? I told him what I thought, and Zhang Hefang said, "It's true that I didn't go in, but it doesn't mean that I haven't been here." ”

"Oh?" I raised my eyebrows and asked, "So, you've been to this place before, but you haven't been in it for some reason." ”

Zhang Hefang nodded heavily, and said, "I was still very young that time, only about twelve or thirteen years old, I came here with the group of Southern Witches from my father's generation, and now that I think about it, it should have been thirty years ago. ”

"Thirty years ago again?" I interrupted.

Zhang Hefang also laughed when he saw my reaction, and said, "Yes, it may be fate." Thirty years ago, thirty-one years ago to be exact, a lot of things happened, and those things were the original thing that brought us together in the first place. Thirty-one years ago, the two Qin brothers who were soldiers discovered the Gu master in the village of Southern Xinjiang, and also discovered the Miao village of Ashuna Dawu, and then, Fan Jiyun and others intervened, and the spirit demon jade appeared for the first time. At that time, none of us knew that the Dao Spirit Demon Jade had already been born. Our people in Nanwu began the first exploration of the mysterious altar of the ancient Shu Kingdom, of course, we have also explored the ruins of the ancient Dian Kingdom and the ancient Yong Kingdom, although we did not enter those ruins, but we did not encounter any danger, except for the ruins of the priest's burial pit is an exception. ”

"Wait, wait," I interrupted Zhang Hefang, "Thirty-one years ago, when you were only twelve or thirteen years old, what were you doing here?" ”

Zhang Hefang smiled and said: "Mr. Fan, I don't humble myself to say that I have studied witchcraft since I was a child, and I am gifted, and I stood out among my peers early, and at that time, I was already well-known among Southern Witches. ”

"Okay, okay, even if you become famous at a young age, you continue to talk." I said.

Zhang Hefang continued: "There were some people who accompanied me that time that time that you have seen before, such as Yuan Ye, Professor Li Zhongkai and that one-eyed Uncle Chen, including Ajuna and that Gu making master, they were all the leading figures of Nanwu at that time. In terms of personnel allocation alone, this is definitely an unprecedented all-star-level inspection team. And the reason why you heard about these people later was not because of a coincidence, because, after the end of the expedition that year, only a few of us survived. ”