We have been walking along the mountain road, ups and downs, are the dirt roads stepped out by the mountaineers under the footboard, there were some fields at the beginning, and then there were none, they were all dense undulating mountain forests, but when we walked to the front of this black bamboo ditch, we felt that the terrain was steeply lower, all the way down to the bottom, forming a wide canyon, about hundreds of meters. Looking through the thin veil of mist, the green grass is shady, the forest is dense, and occasionally there are some red, yellow, and white small flowers dotted in between, and there is no bit of winter chill, but it looks green, like spring.

The road under Heizhugou is a large area of skateboard rock with an inclination of 40 degrees, which is tortuous and not easy to walk. After a night of rain, the rock seemed more slippery, and if you were not careful, you were afraid that you would fall into the ditch and die.

The group stopped at the uphill head of this skateboard rock, looking at the mist gully below, and they all felt a little uncertain about the future.

Wan Sanye is over seventy years old, all the way, his face is not red and breathless, showing a strong physique, but his eldest nephew Wan Yong is panting, and he is tortured enough by the mud along the way, Wan Yong is more than fifty years old, but Wan Sanye's two grandsons Wan Chaoxin and Wan Chaodong, one in his thirties, and the other in his twenties, are all in their prime, but they are also too tired to do it, squatting on the ground and refusing to get up.

They are all men who are used to running in this big mountain, which shows how difficult the mountain road is after this majestic rain.

It would be extremely difficult to find the missing Wan Chao'an in this situation, unless the kid ran out on his own.

Wan Sanye held a wooden stick, dug the grass nearby, and stared at the ground, trying to find some remaining traces, but there was no, which made him a little puzzled. Wan Chaodong, who was squatting on the ground, pointed to the mountain road in the oblique side and said: "Third grandfather, the humidity has been heavy these days, and the goats are also afraid of slippery hooves, so they will definitely not slip into this black bamboo ditch, but I am afraid that Xiao Anzi will chase him to the side of the umbrella slope?" ”

Wan Sanye didn't pay attention to him, twisted his beard and thought for a while, then squatted down, unbuttoned his raincoat, took out two copper coins from his arms, put his hands together, prayed silently, threw them on the ground, and before others could see clearly, he put away the copper coins, got up and said let's go, let's go down.

After speaking, he took the lead and walked down, and Zhao Zhonghua and several of his juniors followed carefully along the zigzag stone road.

We were about to follow, when the tiger cat flying in the sky flew down, stood on the arm of the hairy trail, shook our bodies, and shot us all in the face, and I was about to scold the damn fat hen, but she told us in a voice that was a little lower than usual that there was something strange in the ditch.

I smiled and said that this ditch is naturally strange, otherwise those who disappeared or died before were not sacrificed in vain?

The tiger cat pointed to the ditch at the foot of the slope, saying that it was not only thick with yin qi, but also seemed to have the shadow of the magic circle, but I was afraid that the reason why many people died in Heizhugou in the past was that they were lost in the formation and couldn't get out...... However, I have adults here, so if you want to go in, you don't have to worry. I and Miscellaneous Xiaodao hurriedly patted its ass, saying yes, yes, it all depends on adults to take care of it.

When this guy heard the praise, he immediately got up, and said Little poison, if you marry your good daughter to me, I will definitely ensure that you come and go freely, how about it?

The shopkeeper's shout came down the slope, I took a bite of the toad who wanted to eat swan meat, and walked downhill with a wooden stick, and the voice of the tiger cat came from behind: "You dog, even if you trap you, I won't save you!" ”

I laughed: "Isn't that flower also unable to come out?" ”

Budge: "You ......"

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Descending from the skateboard to the bottom of the ditch, I found that yesterday's torrential rain had flooded the creek in the distance, and as a result, the stream swelled and overflowed the surrounding rocks, making it a swamp. However, the bottom of the ditch is wide, half a mile smaller, so we naturally choose the higher place to walk. The white mist in the ditch seems to be a little thick from above, but it is nothing when it goes down to the bottom of the valley.

Wan Sanye's eyes were very vicious, and after a while, he found evidence that Wan Chao'an had been here in front of a nest of grass.

Looking at the black button on the old man's hand, Wan Yong also confirmed that it should be the button on the jacket of Chao'an Na rabbit cub.

Now that we have clues, we naturally search for them by the mouth of the ditch. However, everyone else is searching for people's traces, and most of my attention is looking for the flowers and plants around me - before leaving, Wan Sanye told me about the appearance of Artemisia Dixue Guts, so that I could pay more attention when I entered the mountain. It's a matter of life, so naturally I bothered to look around.

After searching for a while like a fishing net, we didn't see any more clues, so we headed inside.

I don't know if it's a hallucination, but I seem to see a dark shadow on the top of the skateboard slope in my peripheral vision, but when I look closely, I can't see it. I pulled Wan Chaodong beside me and asked him if he entered the mountain today, just us people, no one else followed? Wan Chaodong fell several times when he came down, his hands were full of mud, and he looked unhappy, and when he heard me ask this, he laughed, saying that on this rainy day, who didn't run into this mountain? I'm sick!

I stopped talking, looked back at the top of the slope a few times, and continued my way inside.

There are a lot of rocky ground at the bottom of the ravine, and although there is standing water, it is much easier than the mountain road we came from. There was no mud, we walked cautiously, and we felt that our steps were much lighter. Miscellaneous Trail and I were at the back of the line, and the crowd took turns shouting the name "Wan Chao'an" in the hope that the daredevil's would hear and show up quickly.

After walking for a few miles, several forks suddenly branched out in front of me, including the beast trail leading into the dense forest, the stone path that went straight, and the muddy road along the stream.

This valley is wide, and we are only seven people, so it is naturally impossible to divide the army into several roads. Wan Sanye squatted on the ground, asked for directions with copper coins, and finally chose the path on the left that the beast stepped on. We brought two three-barreled shotguns (three shots) on this trip, which were carried by Wan Yong and Wan Chaoxin respectively to prevent wild beasts, Wan Chaoxin is the militia captain in the village, and he often goes hunting in the mountains on weekdays, so naturally he takes the lead and goes all the way forward.

I still walked to the back of the mountain, and after walking for a while, I suddenly saw several plants with dark green broad leaves in the thorny grass not far away, with long and thick stems, short hairs, dense papillary protrusions on the edges and center of the vines, and sparse on the back, dotted with some obovate white fruits.

I was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked over, wanting to observe one or two closely, but I didn't take a few steps, and there was no feeling of force on the grass-like ground in front of me, and my feet were empty, and I fell down.

The moment my body lost balance, the muscles of my whole body immediately tensed, my waist twisted, and I reached out and grabbed a few canopies of weeds.

Ahh

Where could the weed be able to bear my weight, it immediately broke away from the soil and fell with me. I panicked, but before I could react, my foot hit the ground. I half-crouched, buffering the potential energy of the fall, and looked around with the help of the light cast from above, only to find that I had fallen into a long, narrow pit, because the grass above was growing obliquely, and there was a layer of floating soil, which caused me to fall into what I thought was flat ground.

"Small poisons, small poisons......"

Overhead, there was an anxious cry from the hairy trail, and then the light dimmed, and the space above was blocked by a figure.

This pit is three or four meters high, I was afraid that he would fall, so I hurriedly said that there was nothing wrong, Lao Tzu was an iron pimple, and he couldn't step on it and not break it. He scolded angrily, saying that you are a hanging hair, you have nothing to do to run over here, hurry up. It was a little dark in the pit, and I took out my flashlight and tried to find a place to climb up, but as soon as I turned on the flashlight and shone it on the wall, my heart trembled with fright.

I'm ......

The whole mud wall is densely inlaid with a lot of white bones of the dead, this bone has thigh bones, ribs and bones that are so finely broken that they are not shaped, and what is even more shocking is the skulls mixed in it, black, white and gray, covered with slippery moss, suddenly I saw each other, my tongue was numb, my whole body was stiff, and the flashlight shone everywhere, and I saw that the long pit was full of bones on all sides, and under my feet.

There happened to be a rope hanging down on the top, I immediately dragged it, and climbed up hand and foot together, and the miscellaneous hair trail saw my shocked face and asked what's wrong? I said damn, there are some dead people's bones below, and the shopkeeper said that this is an ancient battlefield, and it is true.

Miscellaneous Xiaodao sneered, saying that two thousand years have passed, where are the bones, and the eyes are spent, right?

When I saw that he didn't believe it, I urged him to go down and take a look, but he didn't want to, so he raised his leg and was about to leave, saying that there was a situation in front of him, and everyone had gone over, so hurry up. I said wait, go around the pit, and pick up what seems to be Artemisia snow gall in the thorn bush. Looking at the spindle-shaped white fruit in my hand, Miscellaneous Hair Xiaodao said suspiciously: "Could it be that this thing is Artemisia Snow Gall?" ”

I said yes, but I still have to ask Wan Sanye to confirm it personally...... Hey, what about them? - I looked around, but I couldn't see anyone anymore.

Miscellaneous Xiaodao said that Wan Chaoxin found a rainproof tent at the corner in front, and everyone ran over, if it weren't for Lao Xiao and I looking at you, you would have stayed in that pit and waited for death. After saying that, we ran forward with me, and we turned around a wild peach forest, only to see a big blue tent on the meadow in front of us, and there were many stoves, benches, ropes and other things around it.

As we approached the meadow, a dark figure suddenly ran out of the woods, clutching a gun in his hand, and yelling at us.