Humans are superior to animals in that they know how to use tools and their skills are constantly evolving. For example, before the advent of writing, human beings could only use simple knotted rope records to record the traces of life, but once there was writing, all history was faithfully recorded, so that future generations have a benchmark for reference.

"The four mountains must represent some direction, and perhaps some kind of wonder that this man discovered is on those mountains. "I secretly guessed.

I just flipped through the "Notes of the Plum Blossom Mansion", most of the events took place in the city of Jinan, and there was very little mention of other cities. It can be inferred from this that after this person arrived in Jinan, he lived in the city and did not go out with the army.

So, could it be that the four photos are taken of the mountains of Jinan?

I looked at the photo again and came to a negative conclusion.

As an old Jinan, I am still familiar with the southern mountains, where the mountains are relatively short and the mountains are also very stocky, and there is no such steep and tall appearance as in the photo. If you look closely at the photo, you can see that the two main peaks in front of and behind one of the mountains are sunken in the middle, forming a flat and smooth arc-shaped connecting line, like a saddle. It was the first time I had seen such a strange mountain shape, and I had never seen it before.

Judging from the records in the booklet, any clue points to some mysterious event, and there are absolutely no meaningless landscape photos.

The red sleeves came out of the bathroom, energetic and radiant, as if he had changed a person.

"I may have lost control of my emotions just now, like you were in Wanda Fun City. Well, now resurrect with full blood. She said.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Stimulant synthetic, non-toxic, local method extracted from some kind of cold medicine, cheap, good efficacy. She replied.

"It's not a good thing to get as little of these things as possible. I said.

The old people of Jinan often say that eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking these five things, if they are stained with the same, they can make people bankrupt and die without a place to be buried.

"It's just antidepressant medication and there are no side effects. Besides, as you saw just now, I can't even stand up without taking medicine. I knew that I had developed a strong dependence on this medicine, but I knew that it was to quench my thirst, but I couldn't help it. She said with some sadness.

I shook my head: "Depression cannot be eradicated, and it requires long-term antidepressant medication, not this fast-acting and accident-prone secret medicine." Listen to my advice, if you feel that your body can't support it, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment, and don't abuse yourself. ”

Red Sleeves smiled: "How my own body is, I know best, don't nag, let's take a good rest, and in another hour it will be time to go to Whip Finger Alley." ”

I actually have a lot to say to her, because I've done a lot of research about depression.

It must have been when I was seventeen years old, because I failed the college entrance examination, I almost suffered from depression, and I fell asleep at home every day for two months. Later, thanks to the help of the official lady, she used some secret means in spiritualism to save my life.

Now Aunt Guan is gone, but her words that enlightened me at that time remain in my heart.

If Red Sleeves is willing to listen, I'll tell her word for word.

I was about to speak, but the Red Sleeves had already raised his hand to stop him: "Hey-okay, okay, don't say it, I don't want to hear about it." Now, everyone rests and waits for the start of the war. ”

The pill is very symptomatic, and now the red sleeve move is the same as the two of them an hour ago, even the walking and movements have become extremely light, and the mood is even more pleasant, and there is no sign of depression.

For the next hour, Red Sleeves lay on the bed, and I sat on the couch, resting with my eyes closed, not speaking again.

I'm looking forward to the next battle, because it's very likely to help me uncover the truth of the tragedy at the Iron Shrine, so that I can find the real culprit behind the scenes, and give my eldest brother justice.

Dusk came as scheduled, and at six o'clock in the afternoon, I looked out the small window of the bathroom and saw that the twilight in the sky had gradually closed.

"Let's go?" asked Redsleeves.

I nodded, my face impassive, but my heart was a little apprehensive.

"Do you need a weapon?" asked Redsleeves again.

"No, you don't. I shook my head.

She stretched out her hand and gestured with a "gun", and then asked: "If you need this, I will make a phone call, and it will be delivered in ten minutes." Elder Wen is a practitioner, and if the situation gets out of control, there will be danger. ”

I still shook my head: "This is a downtown area, and under normal circumstances, you don't need to shoot and kill." ”

When she saw that I insisted, she had to give up.

The two of us left the room, passed by the service desk, and the red sleeves handed back the key to the girl at the front desk.

"Your boyfriend is handsome. The girl smiled, revealing a mouthful of white, neat teeth.

"Thanks, don't try to beat him. Red Sleeves slapped lightly on the counter, "The old lady is not a vegetarian." ”

The girl giggled, put the keys away, and took advantage of the red-sleeved gesture to bow her head and sign on the ledger, threw me a wink, and then held up her phone.

There is a big WeChat QR code on her mobile phone screen, as long as I take out my phone to scan, it is equivalent to exchanging contact information.

I smiled and took a step back, deliberately pretending not to understand what she meant, just staring at her face with wide eyes.

"Alright. The red sleeve put down the pen and slapped it on the girl's arm again, "Sassy hooves, don't be a ** at everyone, he doesn't eat the grass next to the nest." ”

The girl laughed uncontrollably again, laughing so hard that the bulging part of her chest trembled like a wave.

Red Sleeves and I went out of the door, and instead of going straight to Baotuquan North Road, we walked all the way through the alleys, zigzags and sprints.

"Don't be in a hurry to contact Miss Lian, let's go over and explore the way first. When it was almost time to reach Whip Finger Alley, Red Sleeves beckoned a reminder.

I think so too, after all, Lian Chengbi still has half of the Qin Wang Hui on his shoulders, and he already has a disturbed conscience by dragging her in, how dare he let her devote herself wholeheartedly?

"Don't touch that girl just now, at the age of twelve, there are no less than 300 men, big and small, who are real natural buses. You look beautiful, all of them are made by plastic surgery and makeup, from the hair to the toenails, there is no place where it is the original accessories of your mother. She is full of diseases, and a little bit of it is enough for you to go bankrupt, and in the end you have to get a flower willow disease, and the whole family will be humiliated and die of hatred. Red Sleeves said.

I'm not going to come to this place a second time, so I won't have a chance to be tempted by that girl.

"Okay, you still think I'm nagging, you're really nagging enough. I followed her example and gently stopped her from continuing to complain.

"I'm just-" Red Sleeves sighed, "you're a good person, after the chaos, I hope you can live well and be a good person for society." Unlike me, I live to complete my mission, and there is a knife hanging on the Tianling cover all the time, and I don't know when the knife falls, poof, and I pass away. Mr. Xia, my only blessing and only request to you is to live well and live happily. ”

Her expression was so serious, and her eyes were so sad, that my heart trembled.

In the current city of Jinan, everyone with thaumaturgy has a mission, and no one is easy, including me. Death is like an eagle hovering over the steppe, and every time you hit in the air, someone falls.

"Hey, cheer up, why don't you think more about the joy of becoming famous and letting go of Nanshan?" I reached out and gently held her hand.

"Because I never thought I would be able to wait until then. Red Sleeves said frankly.

We talked as we walked, hit the horizontal east, and entered Whip Finger Alley.

Whip Finger Lane is a quiet place in the middle of the noise, connecting Quancheng Road in the south and the outer wall of the provincial capital in the north, which belongs to the core laneway of the inner city of Jinan. As far as the eye can see, both sides of the street are quiet and elegant galleries, bars, handicraft shops, although there are many storefronts, but the signboard at the door is neat and orderly, not chaotic at all, and the Furong Street is 100 meters away has a fundamental difference.

"Elder Wen's warm nest is behind the Collecting Society. Red Sleeves gestured north.

"He is very good at choosing a place to live, and when people come to such a place, they unconsciously become more elegant. "I am genuinely amazed.

Whip Finger Lane is a small alley with royal blood, which is unique among so many streets and alleys in Jinan.

The name "whip finger" comes from a good story of the Qianlong Emperor's southern tour, when the emperor traveled to Jinan, he saw that this alley was quiet and elegant, suitable for literati and ink writers to meditate and live elegantly, so he raised the horsewhip in his hand, pointed to the alley and asked its name. The entourage really didn't know his name, and he was in a hurry, and replied "Whip Pointing Alley", which means "the alley that the emperor pointed out with a horse whip".

Although the legend is far away, this alley is indeed different from other places I have passed, with an indescribable unique charm, and even the air is faintly bookish.

A man stood silently in the shadows on the side, and when we approached, he stepped forward and saluted Redsleeves.

"The target didn't come back, and there were only one big and two small ones at home. He said.

"Where's the target?" asked Redsleeves.

"Probably in the area of Huanshan Road, the eyeliner said that the target was with the people of the Qin Wanghui all day today, non-stop, and he didn't even eat lunch. The man replied.

Red Sleeves waved his hand: "Continue to monitor, as soon as the target enters this area, report immediately." ”

The man said yes and disappeared into the darkness again.

"This is my informant, fixed in the area of Quancheng Road, Baobei Road, and Sanlian Trading Company Building, spying back and forth for intelligence. On this street, there are not only Elder Wen's warm nests, but also a few of them, all of which are the courtyards of the gangsters, purchased for raising canaries. In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that this is a prosperous commercial area, all the restaurants and shops have style, and the canaries are not short of money, eating, drinking, buying, shopping, and shopping, and where is the more convenient place than living in Whip Finger Lane? Those girls who go to Nanshan and Donghuan to buy villas have eaten too much sashimi and their brains are broken, and when they go there to live, the lights are blind at night, and there is not even a place to sing and eat......" Red Sleeves complained in a low voice.

When passers-by passed by, she took my arm and pretended to be a little couple shopping.

We walked a little north, and saw the big sign of the collection association hanging at the gate of a house, walnut bottom plate, the line block inlaid with large silver characters, the words iron hook silver painting, the end is magnificent.

The red sleeves beckoned: "Go into the alley next to you, walk forty steps and turn left, there are two doors, and the one in the middle is Elder Wen's warm nest." ”

The alley is only three steps wide, about two meters wide, and it is difficult to even ride a bicycle into it, and there is no room for cars to enter.

"Nice place, secluded and undisturbed. I whispered in admiration.

Elder Wen's appearance didn't dare to compliment, and it was calculated that even if he was young, he wouldn't be too good-looking. If a woman is willing to be her outer chamber, it is undoubtedly his money.

Across the street from the alley is a café with soft lights shining through the vertical checkered glass doors, casting them at our feet.

The name of the café is "Fragrance Floating Sea", and the colorful neon tubes are twisted into a font and clinging to the top of the glass door.

"Go in and sit down for a while and wait and see. Red Sleeves said.

We pushed open the glass door and went in, and sat down in the booth in front of the window, just in time to see everything moving in the alley, from beginning to end.

"What do you need?" said a slender waitress.

"Two cups of lemon tea. Red Sleeves said.

My attention was all in the alley, and I didn't look back.

"Okay, wait a minute. The hostess politely stepped back.

"Don't worry, there are informants all over the five routes leading here, and as soon as the target appears, I will receive the news as soon as possible. Red Sleeves said.

I looked back at the Red Sleeve Move, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "Can you tell me how to use the hysteria technique?"

Although I had fallen into the illusion she had created with hysteria before, the process of entering and exiting the illusion was very delicate and unpredictable. This time, if the red sleeve move can explain the action link in advance, I will at least be prepared and not lose ground.

Redsleeves frowned: "This is the problem...... It was extremely difficult to answer, and it stumped me all at once. You should know that any kind of thaumaturgy can only be comprehended by a practitioner, and that is after a thousand tempers, it is suddenly an epiphany. That kind of epiphany is beyond words, and even I don't know why it is. I can only describe it in general terms - hysteria is like a dream, entering and exiting is the link between falling asleep and waking up. Anyone who is half-asleep and half-awake will lose consciousness, and there is no clear boundary between dreaming and waking up. I've tried and the more I try to memorize the steps to perform the hysteria, the more I can't do it because of distraction. Now, I summarize the key points of this thaumaturgy as 'natural, quiet, and inactive', condense some familiar images and environments in my mind, and then guide myself in, break through all the barriers and obstacles in the virtual environment, and then expand this environment infinitely, so large that it can accommodate thousands of people to enter, turning that environment into a complex city...... With enough space, then a lot of people can come in and start a new story. ”

Although she said a long time, it was all useless clichés, and it did not solve the confusion in my heart at all.

"So, where were you when the illusion created by the art of hysteria appeared?" I asked again.

"I'm in a dream—I'm the magic, the magic is me. She tapped her temple lightly, "It's here, it's all in it." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned, because I seemed to have a glimpse of the true meaning of the "art of hysteria".

The essence of that thaumaturgy is all about "brainpower", or "brainwaves". When the red sleeve moves release their own brain waves, it affects the people around them, making everyone fall into an illusion unconsciously. In other words, she hypnotized everyone present at the same time, causing everyone to dream together.

Dreams are fake, but people tend to tell the truth and do real things in their dreams, showing their truest side. Thus, the dreamer obtains the most fundamental truth.

"I see. I said.

Redsleeves nodded: "I know you will understand, because it is clear that you understand the meaning of 'thaumaturgy' better than anyone else." If one really wants to understand the so-called thaumaturgy, one must always adhere to the belief that 'existence is reasonable', rather believe in what is than what is not, and give up the concept of right and wrong that one insists on in the face of more and more bizarre phenomena. Although the truth is simple, there are very few things that can really be done. ”

In the realm of thaumaturgy, communication between people became more difficult, because every thaumaturgist was arrogant and refused to submit to others. Moreover, everyone kept to themselves, for fear that their thaumaturgy would be seen by others.

This point is equivalent to the dispute between the martial arts sects in the rivers and lakes in the past, and each faction holds its own mastery behind closed doors and will never spread it. When this view reaches the level of confrontation between countries, it becomes a closed country and does not want to make progress.

Facts have proved that the more stubborn and self-suolated any person, sect or country is, the sooner it will collapse without leaving a trace.

"What are you going to do tonight?" I asked again after a long period of contemplation.

"If it's to hear about the elders, of course, it's to rebuild the Iron Shrine when the black-clothed man committed the murder in the past. What I'm worried about is that if you can't keep your emotions calm, you won't be able to distinguish between reality and illusion, and if you get too deep into the drama and can't help it, then we'll be bad. Red Sleeves replied.

"Rest assured, I will be cautious and will not be rash. I replied lightly.

At this moment, I looked out the window at the quiet alley, but what I thought of was the scene of the cruel murder of the eldest brother on the night of the Iron Ancestral Hall. The big waves wash the sand, the feng shui rotates, and today is finally waiting for the moment of revenge.

For this moment, I have already suppressed myself into a real stone, cold and silent, stubborn and strong.

I am the Summer Stone, a stone that has been calcined by the fire of vengeance for ten years.

The stone turned to lime in the flames, but I was tempered into a snow-bladed steel knife eager to drink the blood of my enemies.

"Brother, you watch it from the sky, my brother is going to avenge you. "I prayed silently from the bottom of my heart.