After I came out of the town, I followed the marks left by Xu Qian and began to search, but between the reckless world of the snowy plateau, I was like a wandering lonely ghost, not knowing where I was looking for the end.

There are few people here, and if you look for it rashly, you will inevitably be discovered by the other party, and the marks left by Xu Qian are not all regular, you have to go back, or you can't find the remaining marks for most of the day. Not to mention the long distance, there are many inventory points along the way. However, I know at least one thing that I have to find.

Further on, on the edge of no man's land, there were almost no towns, only scattered villages, and for the killers, perhaps, it was their paradise, and my presence there was too conspicuous. The only way to do this is to dress up.

I stole an old jacket from the farmhouse yard and took a skinny horse with me. Ride a horse, pick the forest and the mountains, and walk through the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests. In the middle of the night, I did not dare to rest for a moment, until the horse was so hungry that he would not go when he saw the grass, and could not drag it, that I rested, tied the horse to a tree, and then took a nap against the tree.

"Where the hell are these people coming from, the front is where the birds don't poop, will there be people there?" I was suspicious, but the mark left by Xu Qian was gone, indicating that she had thrown them off, and I followed their trails all the way.

At night, the cold wind in the mountains was cold, I shivered a few times, woke up, and looked up at the endless star, and couldn't help sneering a few times, "Hehe, Lin Kun, Lin Kun, I didn't expect you to come to this barren mountain and wilderness for hiking like before!" ”

This deep mountain forest is not unfamiliar to me. After a few days of eating and sleeping in the open, I was already hungry, so I dug some weeds to satisfy my hunger, and continued to ride south.

Walking through the primeval forest, the stars and the moon showed me the way, and when it was vaguely dawn, the fog rose in the mountains, and I gradually lost my way.

From my experience in the wild, in addition to the stars and moon at night, I can also distinguish north and south according to the direction of the tree's rings and dense foliage. However, in the forest here, the trees are strangely and terrifyingly looking, with bumps the size of a hornet's nest on their bodies, like tumors, twisted branches and leaves, and hairy bumps everywhere on the branches. The growth rings and the dense foliage of the trees are so disorganized that it is impossible to make out the direction.

"This place is strange. This is the first time I've encountered this strange phenomenon, and the strangest thing is that even the horse has lost its way. I couldn't help but start worrying, "What the is this place?" No wonder these people choose to hide here, even if a regiment of troops comes, it is difficult to find their lair. ”

"In the past two days, I have traveled at least 200 miles on foot and into the starry night, and now most of them have reached a no-man's land similar to Tibet." As I walked and observed my surroundings, something suddenly touched my nerves, "Wait, something is not right!" Annual ring? ”

My eyes lit up, "There are growth rings!" ”

I saw that some of the trees around me had been cut down, so I showed the rings, "If someone is cutting down a tree, there must be a house nearby." ”

Suddenly, the horse neighed for no apparent reason, and it jerked its hooves up, and I fell off the horse without paying attention, and felt dizzy.

The horse seemed frightened, and let out a few heart-rending swords, and then ran away like a gust of wind. The fog was so thick that the horses had not gone far before they were gone, leaving only the sound of horses' hooves echoing through the forest.

I was just about to stand up when I suddenly felt a dull pain in my back that went straight to my chest, and when I turned around, I saw that I had fallen on a large rock. If you look closely, this is not a natural stone, but more like a stone tablet, erasing the soil on the surface, it is really a stone tablet.

"The stele?"

I saw three words engraved on it: Mawanggou.

"Mawanggou? This is Mawanggou? ”

I didn't expect that I actually came to Mawanggou while walking, "It seems that our previous judgment was not wrong, Mawanggou must be hiding an unknown secret." ”

I haven't eaten a grain of rice for a few days, the physical exertion is very great, I lie on the ground and can't get up for a long time, I gritted my teeth and stood up, but I haven't walked a few steps, a few drops of bean rain hit my face.

"Damn, it's raining at this time, I have to find a place to shelter from the rain."

Once you catch a cold in Tibet, it's not a joke, and if you don't get it right, your life will be in danger. I hurried in two steps, and the branches in the forest were intertwined, and the more I walked, the more confused I became, and the rain became heavier and heavier, so that I could not open my eyes.

In the pouring rain, I ran into a village. I couldn't care so much, so I broke into a courtyard and rushed to the main house after a few steps.

With a "pop", the wooden door of the main house was opened, and I was about to rub in, when I tripped over the threshold under my feet and fell directly into a mouth full of yellow mud. I quickly got up, straightened my clothes, and prepared to greet the owner, only to find that the main room was empty.

"Anyone?"

The room was old and slaggy, the wooden tables and chairs were covered with thick ash, the cobwebs in the corners were dense with insects, and the beams above the head creaked, as if the storm could tear it apart.

The whole courtyard was in ruins, the earthen walls had been worn away by wind and rain for a long time, and now only a ring of broken mounds more than four feet high remained, and there was a dilapidated and simple wooden house on the left and right of the main house, and the ground in the courtyard was pitted and full of grass and moss.

"Let's find someone to fill my stomach first." There are dozens of households to the right of the discharge door, the air in the mountain village is very fresh after the rain, the village is full of smoke, and when you hear the chicken, you think of the whole chicken barbecue.

At this time, I faintly heard the sound of suona and crying, "It must be a dead family, there must be a lot of people in the township, and marriage and funeral occasions are the easiest to eat." ”

After walking for more than a mile, I saw a courtyard in front of me that was crowded with people, the paper money on the ground was flying in the wind, and the sound of crying and suona was endless. I squeezed into the yard and saw that offerings were being made in the kitchen of the side house, with steamed buns and roast chicken.

I slipped over, looked left and right to make sure no one noticed me, and then took the opportunity to go into the side room and grab the roast chicken.

At this time, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl came out of the kitchen in the back room, her black hair was combed with braids, her small melon seed face, cherry lips, and a pair of watery eyes were childish.

As soon as she appeared, I was embarrassed to steal it.

"Big brother, where are you from? How come I have never met you? The girl's sudden question made me unprepared for a moment before answering, "I am the distant cousin of Zhang Sanwa next door." ”

"Who is Zhang Sanwa?"

"It's your brother Zhang's cousin." Anyway, there are many people in the world with the surname Zhang and Li, and I will definitely be able to meet it when I say this.

"Oh. Big brother, are you hungry? The girl asked childishly.

"No, not hungry." I endured hunger and said with a face to death.

"You must be hungry, come with me." The girl took me to the kitchen, served me a bowl of chicken soup, and took three steamed buns. I gobbled it up, finally let go of that bit of face, and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

The girl smiled sweetly and went to get me a chicken leg and three steamed buns.

After a period of hunger and hunger, I felt much more comfortable.

"Thank you, little girl, what's your name?"

"My name is Zhuoma, but my parents call me a girl, big brother, you can call me a girl."

This is called Zhuoma, you must have been in the mountains since you were born, and you haven't studied any books.

"Oh, that's cute. Well... My brother had something to do, so he left first. "After cheating, eating and drinking, hurry away, so as not to be exposed.

"Big brother, you lied just now." The girl's question made me stunned.

"My brother never tells lies."

"I heard my father say that there are mountains and forests for thousands of miles around here, and no one in the village has left the village since their ancestors, so no one in the village has distant relatives." The girl's voice was soft and gentle.

I couldn't answer what she said, so I had to do my job.

"Big brother, why did you come to our village?"

"Hmm... Actually, I was a hunter from other places, and I accidentally got lost, so I got here. Girl, is there a way out of the mountain in your village? ”

The girl shook her head and said, "I don't know. Dad said that the people in our village had never been out of the mountains, and the mountains were full of forests and wild beasts. ”

"So how do you communicate with the outside world? You have to take the money to go to the county seat to buy clothes and stuff, right? ”

"We've never been to the county seat. The clothes we wore were all exchanged with the Yi horse gang. There are a lot of fine timber in the mountains around our village, and our ancestors have made coffins for a living, and the Yi horse gangs from outside have come here to bring clothes and miscellaneous goods to trade with us and exchange for our coffins, which has been the case for thousands of years. ”

"You mean to say that the people in Mawanggou have been in the coffin business for generations?" I wondered, "Hasn't anyone ever gone out?" Since people from outside can come here, it means that there is a way in and out. ”

"Yes A few decades ago, girls here could have married, but ...... But not anymore. ”

"What does that mean?"

"I don't know."

The clue that Dolma said, in my opinion, may be related to those killers of the ancient Tibetan religion, this place may be close to their lair, so this place has become extremely closed.

For now, we have to get a horse and get some money and dry food.

"I'm really embarrassed to trouble the girl anymore, so I'll figure it out myself. Uncle Mao said that there is endless fun in fighting with the sky, and there is endless fun in fighting with people, but you can't realize where the fun is when you kill Lao Tzu."

At this time, someone came in and called the girl away: "Girl, what are you doing idle, go to the kitchen and bring offerings." ”

While the girl was called away, I bowed my head and leaned out of the side room to the courtyard door, but someone grabbed me from behind. When I turned around, goosebumps bulged all over my body.

The man who held me in was a terrible-looking little lame leg, with a blackened face, no hair or eyebrows, only two holes left in his nose, chapped skin, and exposed teeth, like a mummy.

It appears that the dwarf had been severely burned by the fire and disfigured. Lame dragged me hard, not knowing what to shout,

At this time, an old man came out of the mourning hall, lame and hunchbacked.

"Wow whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa......" The lame leg had no eyelids in either eye socket, and his eyes bulged out and stared at me viciously.

The hunchbacked old man drank his lame legs, walked up to me, looked me from head to toe, and asked maliciously, "City people?" ”

"It's not. I'm a hunter, and the day before yesterday I went into the mountains to hunt and got lost. ”