"It's... This..."Tian Qi saw the small temple, remembered the story told by Lao Qiu last night, stumbled a little under his feet, and unconsciously leaned towards Pang Xie's side.

"This temple has a history of at least hundreds of years, it was built by the ancestors of the villagers of Sanjia Village, and it is the python spirit of the Black Dragon Valley that is sacrificed, and the locals are very convinced of this python spirit. Yang Pacing introduced from the side.

"Why don't we go in and have a look?" said Ponche.

"Huh?" Tian Qi was startled, and hurriedly said, "Don't, let's still hurry." ”

"Look, it's not too late. Zhao Huxing was quite interested, and agreed with Pang Xie's idea, since he opened his mouth, others did not object.

Pushing open the temple door, the dim sunlight shines into the temple, and everything in the temple is presented in front of everyone's eyes.

The small temple is not big, there is a main hall in the middle, there are two side halls on both sides, the main hall enshrines a clay statue of the god, the statue is more than two meters high, the expression is serious, the body is solemn, the head wears a golden crown, the black robe is worn, the waist is tied with a python belt, the hand is holding the jade gui, and the jade gui is written on the four golden characters of "black dragon true monarch".

In front of the statue is a copper furnace more than half a man high, the surface is covered with patina, the inside is covered with incense ash, and there are some unburned residual incense, which seems to have been worshiped recently.

Pang Xie stopped in the main hall, stared at the statue for a long time, and suddenly said: "Xiao Qi, do you think that this 'Black Dragon True Monarch' looks like a person. ”

"Brother Pang, don't scare me. Tian Qi waved his hand again and again, not daring to look at the statue again, and turned around and walked towards the west side of the hall.

Pang Xie smiled and didn't explain much.

"Huh, what is this?" Tian Qi shouted sharply.

When the other people heard the shouting, they hurriedly walked into the matching hall, and when they saw the things in the matching hall, they were also taken aback.

There is only one small window in the side hall, and most of it is blocked by snow, and the light is extremely dim, and in this dim light, a long offering table is horizontal in the side hall, occupying more than half of the area of the side hall.

There are many spirit cards densely placed on the offering table, all of which are black spirit cards more than half a foot long and more than three inches wide, and the name and date of birth and death of the owner of the spirit card are written with a red pen.

Lin Jieyu... Zhou Qian... Qian Xiaomei... Lin Huan...

"Why are they all girls' names?" Tian Qi didn't know if it was cold or frightened, and his teeth chattered when he spoke.

"If what Lao Qiu said is true, I'm afraid that these are all sacrifices offered when paying tribute to the python spirit. Pouchie said in a deep voice.

"It turned out to be true, I thought it was just a legend. Li Dayong's face became gloomy.

"There are often appalling things happening in the barren mountains and mountains, and the living sacrifice is nothing, but this sacrifice can be passed down for a hundred years, which is still a little rare. Zhao Huxing frowned and said.

"It's really rare, over the years, I have been to many places across the country to collect style, and this is the first time I have heard of this kind of thing, which is why I stay here. Yang Yan also followed into the matching hall.

Pang Xie swept the spirit cards one by one, and when he swept to the very end, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he saw the word "Lin Gui" written on the spirit cards.

Tian Qi saw Pang Xie standing still, followed his line of sight, and happened to see the word "Lin Gui", he couldn't help but stammer, and said tremblingly: "That... What that old Qiu said is true!"

Pang Xie patted him lightly on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, maybe it's the same name." ”

"What if not..."Tian Qi had a scared expression on his face.

Zhao Huxing and Li Dayong also saw the wooden card, and their faces were not good-looking.

A few people sighed a few words, exited the west side of the hall, and went to the east side of the hall, the size of the hall on both sides is exactly the same, but the layout is different, the west side of the hall is placed for the table, the east side of the hall is a bed.

A few people opened the bamboo curtain of the east side hall, and a faint smell of fireworks suddenly spread, and when they entered it, they saw some food packaging bags thrown indiscriminately in the corner of the wall, and there were traces of flames burning in the middle, obviously someone was cooking here.

Zhao Huxing approached, looked at the traces carefully, frowned, and said, "Someone spent the night here last night. ”

"Could it be their freshman year of high school?" asked Li Dayong.

"Possibly. Zhao Huxing said.

"I knew we were going to catch up last night, but I'm afraid we'd be able to catch up with them. Li Dayong said.

"These two bastard boys, when they are chasing them, they must break their legs!" Zhao Huxing couldn't help but say angrily.

......

The group came out of the small temple and continued to walk forward.

According to Yang Yan, he was collecting wind nearby, and at most he only walked here, and he didn't go any further, but he heard from the villagers that further down was the Black Dragon Valley.

Several people walked forward for more than an hour, and finally came to a valley, at the mouth of the valley stood a stone tablet more than one person high, on which were written "Black Dragon Valley" three big characters, the stone tablet was exposed to the wind and sun, the handwriting on it was not very clear, obviously some years.

The group walked through the stone monument and continued to walk towards the valley, the valley was extremely vast, several people walked for more than half an hour, and they had just passed the valley mouth, and they didn't know how long they would have to walk from the bottom of the valley.

Zhao Huxing suddenly raised his head, looked at the clouds in the sky, frowned, waved his hand, and said: "No, you can't go any further, the weather is going to change, and it will snow heavily in the past two days." ”

"What does Instructor Zhao mean...?" asked Li Dayong.

"There's no way, that's the end, you guys go back to the base first, leave all the food to me, as for these two little bastards, I'll go in and look for them alone, maybe I can find them." Zhao Huxing said angrily.

"No, there are too many dangers in the mountains, you go alone, we are really not at ease. ”

"What's so worrying? I don't know how many mountains I've climbed in my life, and I'm much more familiar with the dangers in this mountain than you! When it snows heavily, being trapped in the mountains is death! Since the two of them dare to come out of the base, they have to be responsible for their own lives, but I can't risk the lives of a few of you for the sake of them. ”

"I have a different opinion, you are a retired officer, I am an active duty soldier, the first lesson we learned after joining the army is 'never abandon comrades-in-arms', as long as there is one percent hope, we must make 100 percent efforts. ”

"I understand what you mean, but both of them are my nephews, so you don't need to take this risk. ”

"That's not to say, since they have entered the training class and become my students, they are future comrades-in-arms, and I will never give up on them. ”

"Well, since you want to stay, I won't say anything, as for the two of them, let's go back first. Zhao Huxing turned his head and pointed at Pang Xie and Tian Qi and said.

"That's not necessary, you dare to go down at an old age, can I go back first, and besides, with my ability, will I still be trapped by the heavy snow?" Pang Xie smiled.

"Are you really not leaving?" asked Zhao Huxing.

"Of course. ”

"Well, with your kung fu, it's really not easy to trap you. Zhao Huxing nodded, turned his head and asked Tian Qi again: "What about you?"

"I'll go wherever Brother Pangda goes. Tian Qi said.

"Good boy, in that case, let's not go back, and continue to go deeper. Zhao Huxing said.

.......

"Several, let me start with a word. Yang suddenly interjected.

"Is Mr. Yang going to say goodbye? Thank you Mr. Yang for showing the way, and when we find them, we will definitely go back to visit." Zhao Huxing said.

"Mr. Zhao is polite, I didn't mean that, I just have a suggestion, I don't know..."

Mr. Yang, but it didn't hurt. ”

"Mr. Zhao, as far as I know, although this Black Dragon Valley is deep, it is a dead end, if you continue to walk, you will eventually reach a dead end, I think the people you are looking for will naturally go back at the end, so you don't have to chase them, just wait for them at the mouth of the valley. ”

"I'm afraid it won't work. Zhao Huxing shook his head and said: "I have seen the terrain of this place from a high place, from here to the end, it will take at least two days to walk, and it will take four days to come and go, and I am afraid that the food they bring will not last so long, not to mention that even if the food can hold up, it will snow heavily and the weather will turn cold, and they will freeze to death." ”

"They don't bring enough food, and you don't have much food to bring, do you?

"I really don't bring much"

"Otherwise, let's go back to Sanjia Village today, prepare food and cotton clothes, and wait for tomorrow morning, and then you will enter the valley again, and then drive straight in, no matter where you meet them, you can help them on the spot." ”

"That's a way to do it. Zhao Huxing nodded.

"In that case, let's go back today, prepare our things early, and enter the Black Dragon Valley tomorrow. ”

"Good. ”

After discussing it, the group walked towards Taniguchi.

Coming to the stone tablet at the mouth of the valley, Li Dayong took out a king-size marker pen and wrote a few simple messages on the stele, which was left for the first year of high school and others, in case the two of them turned around and came out of the Black Dragon Valley, after seeing the message, it was better to go to Sanjia Village to find them.

After writing the message, several people returned to Sanjia Village again, and when they passed by the "Black Dragon Zhenjun" temple on the way, Pang Xie went in again and whispered a few words to the statue, but the voice was too small, and even Tian Qi on the side didn't hear it clearly.

After the group returned to Sanjia Village, they went straight to Lao Qiu's tavern in the east of the village and asked Lao Qiu to help prepare some food and clothes.

Lao Qiu said that the food is easy to say, the transportation in the mountains is inconvenient, every household has food reserves, just find a random one to buy a little, but the clothes are not easy to do, there is no clothes to sell nearby, you can only find some old cotton jackets worn by the villagers, I don't know if everyone will dislike it.

Zhao Huxing and the others naturally did not dislike it, and gave Lao Qiu some money at the moment and asked him to help prepare, after Lao Qiu collected the money, let everyone rest in the tavern first, he cooked something to eat first, and when a few people ate, he went to buy other things.

A few people had just sat down in the tavern when they suddenly heard the sound of crisp footsteps, Pang Xie followed the sound and saw a petite long-haired girl walking over in the distance.

The girl walked up to a few people, coughed lightly, seemed to be a little hoarse, and said in a low voice: "Teacher Yang, you are back." ”

When Tian Qi heard the girl's voice, his face suddenly changed, and he wanted to say something, but he was quietly pushed by Pang Xie and motioned for him not to speak.