Hu Laohan took a puff of dry tobacco and said, "The legends can't be true. There are wild yaks in the yak ditch, and snow wolves on the mountains or something, anyway, I haven't seen them for so many years. If you want to talk about strange things, there have been really two years in the past two years. ”

Lu Zhan became interested and listened attentively.

Hu Laohan took the cigarette stick and knocked on the ground a few times, put the rolled cigarette into the cigarette holder, lit it and smoked it. Then he said: "The mountains have been very strange in the past two years. ”

Lu Zhan asked, "What's the strange method?"

Hu Laohan frowned slightly, "Over the two mountains, there is a hot spring on the mountain, halfway up the mountain, and everyone around here knows it." Originally, the government said that it would develop the hot springs and make them a tourist attraction. As a result, at the beginning of this year, the hot springs suddenly disappeared. ”

"Gone?"

Hu Laohan nodded, "It's just gone." First, there was a heavy fog, and I couldn't see my fingers. When the fog clears, the water that comes out of the hot springs turns cold, colder than the water that flows down from the top of the mountain. ”

Lu Zhan asked, "Have you studied why the hot springs are gone?"

Hu Laohan shook his head, "Who is going to study." The common people don't have that kind of kung fu, and they can't figure it out. The government doesn't care about this kind of thing. ”

Lu Zhan drank a cup of tea and continued to ask, "Besides the sudden disappearance of the hot spring, is there anything else weird?"

Hu Laohan smoked a cigarette, frowned and said, "I lost five cows in the mountains this year. The rest of the village had lost sheep and cattle. ”

Lu Zhan asked, "Is there a wolf?"

Hu Laohan shook his head, "It's not a wolf." The sheep was lost on the mountain, and for no reason, it was lost in a daze. You can't find the reason. Now people don't go to graze on the hills, there are strange things on the hills. ”

Hu Laohan pointed to the direction of the mountain behind the village.

Lu Zhan asked, "The hot spring is also on the mountain over there?"

Hu Laohan nodded, "After turning over two mountains, there is a hot spring halfway up the mountain." But now the hot springs are gone, no one goes there, and the wooden houses over there are abandoned. ”

Hu Laohan looked at Lu Zhan, "Young man, you said you plan to enter the mountain?"

Lu Zhan nodded, "Yes, I'm going to go into the mountains." ”

Hu Laohan waved his hand again and again, "I can't enter." More than 10 years ago, there were people who entered the mountain from this side, and when they entered, they never came out again. I advise you not to go in, drive to the scenic spot early in the morning, and then hurry home. ”

Lu Zhan smiled, "Thank you, old man." Only this time I had a reason to go into the mountains. Don't worry, old man, I will definitely return safely. ”

"That's what you young people say. ”

Old Man Hu no longer persuaded and smoked in silence.

The gourd baby stared at the flames, a little bored.

The hacker shook his ears and glanced in the direction of the gate.

The wind was blowing outside, and the wind was whining. Pouring in through the crack in the door, it brought a chill.

Hu Laohan tightened his robe, smoked the last roll of dry tobacco, and said to Lu Zhan: "If you really want to go into the mountains, bring more dry food." ”

Lu Zhan said: "I plan to bring more dried yak and cured meat." The old man has a lot of them at home, can you sell some to me?"

Hu Laohan frowned and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow morning." ”

Hu Laohan still hoped that Lu Zhan would change his mind and not enter the mountain from this side.

No one has been in the mountains for many years.

The range of activities of the locals is concentrated on a few low hills.

What is going on in the mountains now, even the locals can't tell.

Inside the mountains, there are real inaccessible people.

On the side of the scenic spot, looking at the steep mountain, magnificent and majestic, the top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round. But compared to the mountains here, it is only a drop in the shadows.

It was late at night, and everyone went to bed peacefully.

The hard bed, the cold and hard quilt, exudes a chill.

Lu Zhan is not afraid of the cold, but he is not sleepy.

He took out the rattan and simply practiced at night.

Cotton hides under the gourd baby's belly to keep warm.

The gourd baby is on fire, and it is warm all over.

The hacker squatted beside Lu Zhan and swallowed aura.

After repeated cultivation, the rattan shows a dark red luster.

Lu Zhan's hand touched inch by inch from the rattan, guiding the aura and refining the attributes of the rattan.

The rattan strip seven or eight meters long has been repeatedly tempered, and only more than three meters long remain.

It was only in the second half of the night that Lu Zhan finished his cultivation.

Taking advantage of the sleepiness, quickly go to bed and squint for a while.

When the sky was bright, Lu Zhan turned over and got up.

I looked at the time, it was seven o'clock.

As soon as Lu Zhan woke up, the three of them also woke up.

Walking out of the door, Lu Zhan greeted Hu Laohan, "Good morning, old man." ”

Hu Laohan squatted at the door and smoked, saw Lu Zhan, and asked, "Do you still want to enter the mountain?"

Lu Zhan nodded, "After breakfast, we will enter the mountain." ”

Lu Zhan washed his face with cold water, and the skin on his face felt frozen instantly. The whole person also came to his senses.

Lu Zhan said: "The water in this mountain is really cold. ”

Hu Laohan said: "It's all snow flowing down from the mountains. How long are you going to get out of the mountain from here?"

Lu Zhan said: "If it goes well, you can go down the mountain in about seven days, and you will definitely go down the mountain in half a month at the latest." ”

Hu Laohan saw that Lu Zhan had already made up his mind, so he didn't persuade him. He pointed to the beam of the house and said, "Dried yak, cured meat is all on it, you can pick it yourself." You can look at the money thing. ”

"Thank you, old man. ”

Lu Zhan stepped on the wooden ladder, went up to the beam, and chose air-dried roasted chicken, preserved duck, and dried yak.

Lu Zhan got down the ladder and said to Hu Laohan: "Old man, my car is parked in front of your house, you can help me watch it, okay?"

Hu Laohan knocked on the cigarette stick and nodded, "Okay! The car is parked here, you put a hundred hearts, no one steals the car here." ”

Lu Zhan took out a thousand yuan and gave it to Hu Laohan.

Hu Laohan glanced at it and said directly: "It's too much." ”

Lu Zhan said: "Not much, old man, you let me stay overnight and help me look at the car, please accept this money." ”

Hu Laohan hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll take this money." Be careful when you enter the mountain, if you really can't do it, go down the mountain quickly, no one will laugh at you. ”

Lu Zhan smiled.

Breakfast was batter.

Lu Zhan asked Hu Laohan for a basket of potatoes to bake.

The baked potatoes were delicious, the gourd baby ate a whole, and the hacker ate most of it. The cotton was a little unaccustomed to the climate in the mountains, and only a small piece was eaten.

Hu Laohan looked at the three of them and said to Lu Zhan: "You are the first one to bring pets into the mountains." ”

Lu Zhan smiled: "My pet is not an ordinary pet. ”

Hu Laohan took a puff of his cigarette and took a bite of a potato. said: "It can be seen that your three pets have spirituality. ”

Lu Zhan touched the hacker's head. The hacker shook his eyes at Lu Zhan arrogantly.

Hu Laohan ate three baked potatoes in one go.

The young man was white and tender, but he didn't expect the baked potatoes to be good. It's even better than him, a man who has roasted potatoes for decades.

After breakfast, Lu Zhan packed his luggage.

A large backpack, half a person tall. Clothing, food, use, sleep, all the supplies are in the backpack.

Lu Zhan weighed it, and it weighed eighty or ninety pounds.

Lu Zhan changed into hiking shoes and cold-proof clothes. Put a sweater on the cotton and put it in the backpack with only one head exposed.

Then he picked up his backpack, said goodbye to the old man, and set off for the mountain.

Hu Laohan looked at Lu Zhan's back and nodded secretly, the young man has good physical strength. Carrying a backpack of dozens of pounds, you can still walk so easily.