I remembered that I had a strange dream before, in which a white figure kept asking me for help.

The voice was exactly the same as in today's dream.

He said we're going to meet soon, who is he?

White figure...... Could it be the White Snake, my family's protector?

The more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel in my heart, if it is really the White Snake, he has left such a mark on my middle finger now, and when Mo Jiuqi sees it, he will definitely go crazy again.

But these recent events are so complicated that I can't figure it out.

I don't think that if the snake temple is built in the village to worship Mo Jiuqiu, he will let me go, and the source of everything has to be investigated from my mother when she bumped into the red and white shuangsha twenty-one years ago.

Now the white evil is gone, and only the red evil remains.

If the real cause of Cao Qian's death is found out, there may be a glimmer of life.

I finally got up until my mother, so I told her that I wanted to go back to my house in Guzhen to get some change of clothes, and my mother asked me to go early and come back early.

I went all the way back to the city and went straight to Jiangcheng Medical College.

I asked my classmates about Professor Gong's contact information, and someone told me that Professor Gong has been at the school recently.

It is said that a batch of Han Dynasty cultural relics were newly unearthed in the county next door, and Professor Gong led a team to do research.

When I arrived at the school, I called Professor Gong, but no one answered, I thought about it and sent him a text message with a few words: Cao Qian, ghost mushroom.

Half an hour later, Professor Gong called and asked, "Who are you?" What do you want? ”

I hurriedly said, "Professor Gong, I am Chonghuan, a student of the medical school, and I am from Dushui Village. ”

"Watari Village!" Professor Gong's voice rose sharply, "You...... What do you want me to do? ”

I could feel that he was nervous, and I was nervous, and even began to regret whether it was appropriate to contact him so rashly.

If Cao Qian's death was related to Gong Hanzhang back then, I would have startled the snake.

But I can't help it, I don't have a choice right now.

I pondered for a moment and said, "Professor Gong, I don't know if you will believe what I say next, but I still want to tell you that I met Cao Qian, and she ...... She asked me to come to you. ”

I lied, the purpose was to test Gong Hanzhang's reaction.

The other end of the phone obviously gasped, and after a while, Gong Hanzhang said: "There are many things that can't be explained clearly on the phone, where are you, Chonghuan, I want to talk to you in person." ”

I also had this in mind, so I said, "There is a coffee shop on the pedestrian street, I booked a private room, let's go sit together?" ”

Gong Hanzhang responded and said that he would be there in a while.

Approaching the start of school, the pedestrian street traffic is OK, I have been to that coffee shop before, the environment is very good, and the privacy of the private room is also high.

I booked a private room and asked for two cups of coffee, but in a quarter of an hour, the door of the private room was pushed open, and Gong Hanzhang walked in.

More than 20 years have passed, and there are more traces of time on his face, and there is sadness between his eyebrows, and these years do not seem to be as smooth as they seem.

He sat down across from me and looked at me.

"Chonghuan, you say...... Have you seen Sissi lately? She asked you to come to me? ”

When Gong Hanzhang said this, I kept staring into his eyes, he didn't have a trace of fear, and there seemed to be a little expectation in his eyes.

I shook my head and said honestly: "I'm sorry Professor Gong, I lied to you on the phone, I met Cao Qian, but she didn't let me come to see you." ”

Gong Hanzhang was not angry, but the whole person suddenly fell into the chair, looking a little disappointed.

He closed his eyes, pinched his eyebrows hard, and said to himself: "More than 20 years have passed, and all kinds of things back then are as vivid as nightmares, I thought that there would be no news of Sissi again in this life, but I didn't expect ......"

The memories were painful, and Gong Hanzhang choked up a little.

I clenched my fists and asked carefully, "What happened in that cave halfway up the mountain in Dushui Village?" ”

"You even know about the cave?" Gong Hanzhang suddenly became excited, "What did Qian Qian tell you?" ”

"Yes, Sissi must have told you, otherwise, who else knows about the cave?"

The door of memory was opened like this, and I didn't need to ask more at all, Gong Hanzhang was cathartic and gushing.

"Sissi and I are high school classmates, we also like history, love archaeology, we agreed to be admitted to the archaeology department of Jiangcheng Medical College together, in a research project, our tutor mentioned the research topic of ghost mushrooms, and Sissi and I are very interested."

Gong Hanzhang paused, looked at me and said: "The ghost mushroom we are talking about is not a puffer fish mushroom in the ordinary sense, but a kind of fungus with a transparent white body, a pointed head and a round body, and a body covered with white scale-like substance. ”

"In other words, an adult entity ghost mushroom spans at least four thousand years of history, and studying it is of great historical significance to archaeology, biology and even human origin, but such a precious creature can be met but not sought."

"Who would have thought that on a college graduation trip, Sissi and I inadvertently found a ghost mushroom in a cave halfway up the mountain behind Dushui Village, and Sissi and I immediately decided to dig it out and take it back to the school laboratory to study it slowly......

Speaking of this, Gong Hanzhang's eyes turned red, he turned his face away, and stretched out his hand to cover half of his face, which was very painful.

I waited patiently for him to ease his mind.

After a long while, he continued: "If I knew that we would dig up that thing, I would rather never touch archaeology again in my life, and take Sissi into the mountains and forests instead of touching that ghost mushroom." ”

I immediately frowned and asked, "What did you dig up?" ”

"A coffin." Gong Hanzhang said bitterly, "That ghost mushroom is rooted on the top of that vertical coffin, and the dense white mycelium is all over the coffin, absorbing the growth of corpse qi in the coffin. ”

There is even a coffin in the back mountain?

I couldn't believe it and asked, "What about later?" Have you moved the coffin? ”

"No, how can we archaeologists not know the taboo of erecting coffins?" Gong Hanzhang continued to recall with a tense face, "At that time, I pulled Sissi and ran out, but the whole mountain shook, and countless mycelium gushed out of the ground, entangled Sissi, and dragged her back from my hands. ”

I heard that my scalp was numb: "The mycelium only wrapped around Cao Qian, didn't it entangle you?" ”

Gong Hanzhang shook his head: "No, those mycelium dragged away Sissi, and a small snake gushed out of the cave, and I fell in the chaos and rolled down the mountainside." ”

I asked, "So you think it was the ghost mushroom that killed Cao Qian?" ”

"Nope." Gong Hanzhang lost his mind and said, "Later, I recalled this scene countless times, the coffin, the mycelium, the snakes, the girl, this is not a simple ghost mushroom killing, but a sacrifice ......"