Chapter 36: A Man's Adventure

As soon as Xiao Xia came out of Tietou Mountain, he rushed to Naman Village non-stop.

In terms of the journey, the southern Sichuan to Yunnan was much closer than the last time they traveled from the north to Naman to deal with Guan Zheng's case. However, due to the lack of transportation, it took more time than the last time.

In the past few days, Xiao Xia has basically not slept anymore, she is afraid that Ruan Zhan's soul will wake up, and she is afraid that she will never be able to save him, so although she is tired to death, she is still desperately in a hurry, compared to the pain of losing Ruan Zhan, all the torture is bearable for her.

However, it seems that God is deliberately against her, no matter what means of transportation she chooses, she will have a situation halfway, planes, trains are delayed, cars break down halfway, and even if she finds a taxi, she will go the wrong way. This made her anxious to fly to the vine, and by the time she finally reached the town at the foot of the mountain, her body was falling apart, and it was already dark.

After eating a bowl of rice noodles and drinking some water to ensure that she would not starve to death on the way to seek medical treatment, she began to consider whether to go up the mountain overnight. Time waits for no one, of course she wants to leave immediately, but the mountains and forests in the middle of the night are dangerous, not to mention that there will be demons and monsters, but the mountain road at night is difficult to walk. It's not that she's afraid that something will happen to her, but if something happens to her, Ruan Zhan won't be able to save her.

Just as she was wandering around the town, struggling to make a decision, she was attracted by the loud sound of machinery. When she turned around, she saw a brand-new red tractor driving from inside the town to outside the town, and the position where she was standing was clearly blocking the way.

Instinctively, she wanted to dodge, but at the same time, she had an idea, so she hurriedly ran back to her original position to stop the car. The person driving the tractor obviously didn't expect her to do this, he didn't slow down at all, and only braked urgently at the moment. Looking at the front of the car that was getting closer and closer, Xiao Xia closed her eyes in horror, only to hear a sharp chirp, and when she opened her eyes again, the tractor was only half a foot away from her, and if the person driving the tractor braked half a second late, she would be directly knocked away.

The person driving the tractor was stunned for a minute before he came to his senses, he glared at Xiao Xia, looking very angry, and yelled at her a string of ethnic minority dialects, and the other people sitting on the tractor also said something. Xiao Xia didn't understand it at all, but she knew that it was scolding, but this matter was her fault, and she had asked for help, so she could only listen, and put on a good attitude, and kept bowing and apologizing.

She couldn't tell the difference between the costumes of ethnic minorities, but according to the experience of living in Naman Village for a while last time, the seven or eight people driving the tractor and the small dump bucket behind her seemed to be from Najin Village, a neighboring village of Naman.

"Is there anybody -- who can speak -- Mandarin -- that's Chinese." She leaned over to the side of the tractor, looked at the men pitifully, asked loudly, and slowed down her voice.

"You don't have to say that, I understand." A young man in his twenties in the car said. He was wearing a self-woven green cloth cardigan, wide-brimmed trousers, and a blue handkerchief wrapped around his head, and the young girl next to him seemed to be with him, wearing a blue and black round-necked slanted shirt, with an embroidered square scarf on the chest, wearing a long skirt, the cuffs and skirts were trimmed with white cloth, his hair was tied up, covered with a black handkerchief, and he wore a pair of large silver earrings on his ears.

"Excuse me, are you going to Najin Village?" She asked nervously.

If so, she could take a ride. She also remembered that there was a small wild shop in the middle of the mountain, where there was a three-way intersection, and from where the three village fortresses in the hill were separated, and Naman Village was the closest to the wild shop. Although something terrible happened in the wild shop last time, and Wanli almost died here, the last time she came to look for Ah Bai, the wild shop had been renovated, and the real owner and his wife had already returned to run it.

If she could take a ride to the wild shop, she could go to Namancun by herself, or pay for the shopkeeper to send her. She also knows that family, and they are all very kind and simple people.

"How do you know?" The young man said, "My name is Tushui, and we are going back to the village." Are you going up the mountain? Who are you looking for? Now it's dark, it's too dangerous for you to walk the mountain road alone! ”

"I'm going to Naman Village, and I'm looking for the village chief in a hurry." Xiao Xia hurriedly said, and raised the respected village chief: "Can you take me for a while?" ”

"That's fine." Tu Shui agreed without discussing with the person driving the tractor, "But when it comes to the fork in the road, you have to go by yourself, we also have urgent matters, we must go back to the village as soon as possible, there is no way to send you, I advise you to leave during the day tomorrow." ”

When Xiao Xia heard this, she insisted that people take her a ride. She calculated in her heart that if it went well, she would be able to find Ah Bai in the middle of the night, and then she would be able to go back to Tietou Mountain overnight. In that case, even if it takes a few days for Ah Bai to treat Ruan Zhan, he will be able to catch up in time.

The person driving the tractor grunted, as if he was in a hurry, thinking that Xiao Xia and Tu Shui had been discussing for too long, so Xiao Xia hurriedly climbed into the car behind the tractor, obediently cowered in a corner, and drove out of town with the trembling bump of the tractor.

And in the eyes of the rest of the town, they all thought that Xiao Xia was a psychopath. She was a foreigner woman, who came here in the dust, so dirty that she couldn't see her original color, unkempt, anxious, and didn't look for a store to live after eating something, she kept going around at the gate of the town, and then she was there alone, and she didn't know what to say to anyone, and finally ran up the hill in a smoke, and a few well-wishers wanted to stop her, but she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

These Xiao Xia didn't know, she only heard during the meal that a simple gravel road had recently been built from the foot of the mountain to the village fortress on the mountain, and the money from the village of Naman, and the other two village fortresses also contributed manpower, and now the road up the mountain is not smooth, but it has been much better. She guessed that it was last time she stole He Fugui's ill-gotten gains to bring a little benefit to Naman, and also made her road up the mountain a little smoother. For this matter, she is happy that she can finally help others, and she feels that good people will be rewarded in the end, and her previous kindness is now repaid to her, which can make her action to save Ruan Zhan a little smoother.

The tractor drove really fast, not much slower than the car, and sitting in the corner of the body, I actually felt dizzy. She looked up at the others and saw that none of them spoke, as if they were tired and sleepy under the bumps of the tractor. She wanted to wake them up, for the wind in the mountains was unusually cold, so cold that her teeth trembled, and if she fell asleep like this, wouldn't she catch a cold?

"Hey, wake up." She nudged Tushui beside her.

Tu Shui turned his head and glared at Xiao Xia, as if to blame her for waking him up, and then lowered his head and went back to sleep. Xiao Xia's hands froze in mid-air, feeling even colder.

Tu Shui's face was gray-black, and in the gray and black, the pupils and lips were so white that there was no trace of blood, and the muscles on his cheeks were wrinkled like dried meat, and they were not the faces of a living person at all! Looking at the other people, although they all lowered their heads, their side faces could be seen clearly in the moonlight, and they were all the same as Tu Shui.

She was in a ghost car full of dead people! What's going on? Although it was already dark when she went up the mountain, it was not yet the time for the fierce ghosts to run rampant! Why did you find her again? Was she too unlucky or was there some kind of conspiracy? But why target her? Could it be that something was secretly preventing her from saving Ruan Zhan.

Thinking of Ruan Zhan's name, thinking of Bao Datong saying that the three men were waiting for her to save him, although Xiao Xia's heart was afraid, he gave birth to a trace of courage. Don't be intimidated! She told herself, secretly observing her surroundings.

On both sides of the narrow mountain road, the cliffs fell behind them like dense forest flying, and the black shadows illuminated by the moonlight sprinkled on this strange tractor, making the sleeping "people" seem even more ethereal. The road was so silent that even the roar of the tractor had disappeared at some point, and Natsu felt as if she was sitting on a kite.

She quietly shrank back, afraid of waking them up, and at the same time observed the place where she could jump out of the car, but for some reason, the moonlight was very bright, but the ground was pitch black, and it seemed that the front and back of the tractor were cliffs, and no matter which way she jumped, she would fall into the mountain stream.

Suddenly there was a violent vibration, although there was no sound, but the entire tractor seemed to be bumped by something, not only Xiao Xia was shaken, but the Zhuang woman (Tu Bureauc) beside Tu Shui also shook. She kept her head down and slept, and the shock caused her head to snap with a click, and she rolled to Natsu's feet with a grunt, her face up, her eyes still closed.

The earthman moved, slowly crawled over, and reached for his head. The head opened its eyes after being caught by her, and said a word to Xiao Xia, who didn't understand and didn't dare to answer, just froze, watching the local bureaucrat return to his place and continue to sleep.

But in less than a second, the local bureaucracy opened his eyes again. This time, she was no longer sleepy-eyed, as if she had been woken up, she looked at Xiao Xia and screamed, "No her!" This time, she was speaking Chinese, and Xiao Xia understood.

When she screamed, all the people on the tractor woke up, and even the person driving the tractor turned around, only to hear the local bureaucrat pointing at Xiao Xia and shouting: "No her!" There was no her in the car! ”

"Who are you? Why get on our tractors. Tu Shui was closest to Xiao Xia, and grabbed the clothes on her chest and asked.

Because the two were so close to each other, Xiao Xia had no way to dodge, and the whole person was lifted up, and he was dangled in the air like a rag doll.

"You got me into your hearse!" Xiao Xia shouted in her heart, but she couldn't speak, she was still awake in the panic, and she touched her pocket, feeling that her hand was hot, and quickly held it tightly.

"I know her, she's the one who donated money to build roads in Naman Village." Another person said.

Tu Shui sighed and looked at Xiao Xia hatefully, "It's all your fault, if it weren't for your money, we wouldn't have built the road." If I didn't build the road, I wouldn't have driven such a fast tractor, and I wouldn't have fallen into a mountain stream in front of the three-way road. It's you who are not good, and now I want you to pay for your life! He said viciously, because it was less than half a foot away from Xiao Xia's face, Xiao Xia, who had no yin and yang eyes, could clearly see that his entire face was full of black resentment. And with his words, his palms began to tighten, wanting to strangle Xiao Xia.

The feeling of suffocation came, and even though Xiao Xia had the charm in his hand, he couldn't raise his arm now. But at this critical juncture, the bone chain given by Uncle Bao played a role in hindsight. This bone chain did not have the divine power of the amulet, and it was slow to react to the evil qi, but now that it realized the invasion of the evil object, it suddenly became red, and the dazzling light hit Tu Shui's face at once, making him let go of Xiao Xia with a scream.

In an instant, Xiao Xia clearly saw that behind Tu Shui's lifeless face, there was a pair of flexible black eyes looking at her, which made her even more creepy.

"South away from the heavenly fire, turn into samadhi, refining!" As soon as he regained his freedom, Xiao Xia threw out the fire talisman of the Five Elements Forbidden Law, and at the same time, he couldn't care about anything, and jumped under the car.

She didn't have time to think about it, she couldn't see the road clearly, but the instinct to escape prompted her to make a choice. At the moment of jumping out of the car, she even regretted it a little. What if it's a mountain stream? Then she will fall to her death, she is dead, who will save Ruan Zhan?!

With a thud, in her chagrin, she fell to the ground, and although the fall hurt a lot, it was evident that it did not fall very deeply, and there seemed to be a sloping dirt slope under her, and she rolled twice and stopped.

She didn't wait for her body to calm down, she immediately took out another charm, and when she looked up, the tractor was flashing with white and black light, and it was still parked not far behind her, and she hurriedly cast the water talisman of the Five Elements Forbidden Law. The terrible hearse in front of him finally disappeared.

Looking around, it was a dirt slope on the side of the gravel road, there was no cliff in the distance, only a small mountain wall, Xiao Xia was afraid that something strange would appear again, so he quickly took out another charm and was on guard.

She'd been to the vine twice, and although it was deep in the mountains, it was easy to tell the direction after the gravel road was repaired. She found that she was almost halfway up the mountain, and then she should have arrived at the Yedian on the three-way road, if she went down the mountain at this moment, the road would not be close, for Xiao Xia, it was now as heavy as carrying her back, so it was better to go up the mountain directly, so it would be closer to Ah Bai. She didn't have time, she had to seize every second.

Walking forward, although the mountain village shop had given her very bad memories, and the current situation did not guarantee that the owner's family was still normal, she could not enter the store and go directly to the village from the three forks.

"Excuse me, how do you get to Naman Village?" A woman asked suddenly.

It was so sudden that it almost scared Natsu away. When I turned my head, it turned out to be a woman in black, all black, with long black hair hanging down to the waist, and only one face was snow-white and snow-white.

"Where are you going?" The woman said and pointed ahead, and her hands were terribly white. She looked at Xiao Xia, only the pair of black eyes on her white face seemed to be alive, but she seemed to be looking behind Xiao Xia.

Seeing that Xiao Xia ignored her, the woman stretched out her other hand into the air, and a green firefly lamp instantly lit up in her palm, and then walked forward without waiting for Xiao Xia to answer, which was the direction of the vine.

No one asks for directions on the mountain road in the middle of the night, and she is not human!

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