I was startled, and suddenly turned around to see a dozen people walking from the muddy mountain road below, led by a middle-aged man in camouflage uniform, shouting at us with a flashlight.

Ma Yiao and Martin glanced at each other, then squinted and did not speak.

When the group came to the front, Ma Yiao quietly walked up to us, calm and relaxed, while the other party fanned up, violent, and the leader of the hand, there was even a shotgun, straight at Ma Yiao, and then repeated the words just now: "Several, it's getting dark, what are you doing here?" ”

Ma Yiao touched the rain on his face, and then said, "It's nothing, just passing by." ”

The man raised the muzzle of the gun, pointed it at his chest, and said raise your hands, raise your hands - hear no, raise your hands!

His voice became sharp, and Ma Yiao did not resist, but lazily raised his hand and said nonchalantly: "Beware of misfire, brother!" By the way, who are you, do you dare to come here with a gun license? ”

A young man dressed as a villager next to him stepped forward and said, "Brother Fu is our militia platoon commander here, what do you say?" ”

Hearing this, Ma Yiao immediately softened, hurriedly surrendered his hand to the eldest brother, and took out a bag of soft China from his pocket.

We were wearing raincoats, but we had been through the rainstorm and I was soaking wet inside and out anyway, and God knows why he was able to keep a pack of cigarettes that didn't stick to the water.

The cigarette was used as an introduction, and the tense atmosphere eased a little, Ma Yiao lit it for the other party, and then said: "Old cousin, we are here to find relatives, don't misunderstand." ”

The feelings of the fellow are very simple, when he saw that the other party was smoking soft China, knowing that the other party's identity was either rich or expensive, his posture was a little lower, he took the cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, looked at us with some suspicion for a while, and his eyes fell from the fat flower to Ma Yiao's two beards, and then said: "Relatives? Do you have any relatives in the village? Which one is it? ”

Ma Yiao pointed to the deep mountains and said that people are there, they haven't seen each other for many years, isn't this looking for a girlfriend and preparing to come and take a walk?

He reached over and grabbed Fatty Flower's broad shoulders with a sweet expression.

Seeing the fat flower that was even more burly than himself, and her oily round face, the middle-aged man was a little frightened, subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and said with an admiring smile: "Congratulations, congratulations." ”

After that, he glanced in the direction of the forest with palpitations, and said I know which relative you are talking about. Merely...... You'd better not go.

"It's okay," Ma Yiao said vaguely, and passed the pass by mistake, and didn't ask much about the reason, but smiled, and then said: "Fellow, look at you guys on a rainy day, a large group of people, why are you going to go?" ”

Hearing this, Brother Fu, the militia platoon commander, suddenly became serious and said: "In the afternoon, a few strangers came to the village, broke into Cuihua's house, didn't even say anything about eating and robbing, and kidnapped Cuihua and his eldest brother, didn't I hear the news and said that I entered the mountain, so I brought people over - by the way, have you seen three men, one bearded, one is only one and a half meters tall, and a fat ......?"

Chubby?

We all looked towards the fat flower, and Brother Fu hurriedly waved his hand, saying that he was not as fat as your daughter-in-law, but he was still a little thinner.

When Feihua heard this, she held her mouth and looked depressed, while Ma Yiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Just now, just over there, there seems to be a scream coming from ......"

He pointed in the direction I had just said and said solemnly.

Hearing this, several people changed their faces, glanced at each other, and carefully confirmed: "What scream? Male or female? ”

Ma Yiao looked at me, and I thought about it for a while, the scream was just a brain supplement, not an ear, but looking at the size of the person who was smashed and fell to the ground, it seemed to be a man, so he said, "Man." ”

When Brother Fu heard this, he hurriedly beckoned the people behind him to go in that direction, and then asked us, "What should you do, go together?" ”

Ma Yiao shook his head and said no, it was about to get dark, and the weather was not good, so we couldn't delay it.

Brother Fu nodded, and said It's okay, but you have to be careful, the few people who entered our village just now are not simple characters, all of them are outlaws, and they are very fierce.

He left with the people, looking at the somewhat embarrassed backs of these people, Martin frowned, and said that when these people saw the corpses, would they come to trouble us?

Ma Yiao shook his head and said no, the two sides looked not far away, but it took a long time to walk, and the person who had just died had nothing to do with us.

Martin scoffed, saying that these villagers were not forensic doctors, so how could they know the time of the deceased's death? When the time comes, a few people will think about it, and we are outsiders, and our origin is unknown, maybe they will suspect us.

Hearing him say this, Ma Yiao also frowned.

After a few seconds, he said, "How's it going, have you found the location?" ”

Martin tucked the compass into his raincoat, nodded, and pointed to a path in the diagonal thorn on the left, saying that the place was more or less correct, and that he would go from here until he went.

Ma Yiao said let's go.

The four of them didn't stop long, and began to step on the mountain road that was washed by the torrential rain and full of mud, walking deep and shallow, although we were prepared when we entered the mountain, all wearing waterproof boots, but all the way, the boots were already filled with muddy water, and when I stepped on it, it was rustling, and my feet were soaked in it, and I could feel the smell of spoiled tempeh emanating from it, and sometimes I stepped into the mud puddle and couldn't pull it out.

At that time, I wanted to die.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the luck methods that Ma Yiao taught me a few days ago, plus the fact that I used "Nine Xuanlu" to refine the bloodline demon power in my body, so that my body became strong and strong in these few days, such a journey, I would have collapsed long ago.

Even now, I feel extremely difficult, but I don't have any complaints, because the three people around me are all walking with their heads buried in their heads.

Even the fat flower who talked the most kept his mouth shut, saving his physical strength as much as possible.

After braving the drizzle for more than half an hour, we climbed several hills and finally came to a small village hidden behind the ridges.

This village is even more dilapidated than the one outside the mountain, and the scale is much smaller, and by the faint light of the sky, you can see that there are only seven or eight families, and they are quite scattered, not large-scale.

Ma Yiao walked ahead, and when he saw a dwelling, he stopped.

He squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and then said, "How can there be people in this deep mountain and old forest?" ”

Martin waved his hand and said normal, I have been to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and no matter how deep the mountains and forests are, where there are a few acres of fields and can grow some vegetables and grains, there are people living there, what is so strange?

Ma Yiao shook his head and said no, this is not the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, this is Jiangzhou.

Feihua walked out of breath, the whole person was about to fall, and when she saw the houses, she couldn't care about them, and hurriedly said, "What, how far is it?" Why don't we stop here tonight? Wait until tomorrow when it's dawn and it won't rain, and then set off again, okay? ”

She looked at Ma Yiao with tears in her eyes, that pitiful look made people's hearts soften, Ma Yiao hesitated for a moment, and asked Martin, "Look? ”

Martin nodded briskly, and said okay, anyway, there is still a long distance, rather than wrestling in the dark, it is better to find a place to rest first, and then set off tomorrow, this is called "sharpening the knife and not cutting wood".

After a few people decided, we began to look for the building in front of the forest.

Wangshan ran a dead horse, the place looked close, and it took more than 20 minutes to walk to the front, and the two houses at the foot of the slope were rotten and shaky, looking like they were about to collapse at any time, and we knew that this was most likely an abandoned village.

However, we soon rejected this conclusion, because at the foot of the slope there are several acres of vegetables planted, and looking at the growth, there must be someone waiting for them.

We walked up the slope along the broken bluestone road, and came to the third house, and found that the house frame was better, and the tiles were complete, but the door was not locked, and it was hidden.

Unsure of what the situation was, we continued to walk up and finally came across a building with light.

This is a small temple, different from all the temples I have seen, except for a mud fetal mountain god statue and two oil lamps enshrined in the center, nothing else, it is so tattered that it does not look like it, plus the rain leaks, the ground is muddy, and people can't get off their feet.

It's not surprising that the small temple is dilapidated, but it's strange that such a small gathering place can't even be called a village, and a temple has been built.

There are also oil lamps, and they are lit.

This is even stranger.

There must be people in this place.

We made sure of this, and continued to walk uphill, and came to the house closest to the small temple, and found that it was much cleaner than the ones below, and the weeds around the house had been cleared, and there were traces of human life at a glance.

Along the way, we were very excited and hungry, thinking that we had finally met a living person, so we didn't care about face and hurriedly knocked on the door.

I knocked for a while, and no one answered, which made me very strange.

At this time, Ma Yiao twitched his nose and suddenly whispered, "Don't knock." ”

I wondered, said why?

Martin, who hadn't been talking much next to him, opened his mouth: "Your nose, don't you smell blood?" ”

The smell of blood?

I was stunned for a moment, and then I couldn't help but take a deep breath, and sure enough, in addition to the coolness of the rainy night, and the smell of mud mixed with grass, there was also a strong bloody breath, through the crack in the door, from the room was leisurely coming out.

Ma Yiao stepped forward and said to me, "Get out of the way." ”

I got up and walked away, Ma Yiao took out a sharp knife with dark sides from his pocket, gently picked it into the crack of the door, and then pushed it in, and the door opened with a "creak".

Ma Yiao waved his hand, and Feihua hurriedly raised the flashlight and shone it into the room, but the light swept away and immediately fixed in the middle of the room.

There were two bodies lying there, a man and a woman, who had just died, and the blood was soaked in the ground and was slowly flowing towards us.

The flowing blood light, it was so dazzling in the light of the flashlight.