The mountain road of Wutou Mountain is very steep, there is thick snow along the road is very difficult to walk, now that the end of the year is approaching, the heavy snow has closed the mountain, and there are only three or five days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, the specific day Lu Qing is not very clear, and does not care..

Also, what is time for a monk like him?

Along the way, Lu Qing is observing the terrain near here, this aconitum mountain is not high in altitude, but it covers a large area, and it seems to be mountainous within a radius of dozens of miles.

The spirit stone mine they are going to now is also quite a distance away from Wujia Village, and the dense and deep jungle is silent at this time, and this can be said to be an extremely closed place.

It is no wonder that the villagers of Wujia Village have never realized that their relatives are only a stone's throw away from them.

The old mountain people introduced to him while walking at this time, the people near the Wutou Mountain used to hunt and chop firewood in the mountains to make a living, and the so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea is exactly like this.

However, since the mountain was sealed by the Yamen half a year ago, the people have lost their main source of livelihood, so their lives have been greatly affected for a while.

When the elderly mountain people said this, they scolded the county magistrate for saying something like a dog official, and said a few angry words about the mediocrity of the court and causing the people to suffer, and then thought of Lu Qing, an "immortal", beside him, they stopped talking, and their faces were slightly frightened and regretful.

And Lu Qing just smiled at their complaints and put them behind, these people are poor people, let them say a few angry words and be happy, there is no need to be like them.

The rest of the group didn't speak again, and the mountain people knew that they had lost their words, and they were all a little uneasy, and the team became a little dull.

After walking on the mountain road for a while, they came to the destination of this trip, the spirit stone mine that caused all the trouble.

"This immortal, this is the Spirit Stone Mine. ”

Seeing that he had arrived at the place, one of the villagers who looked older turned around and said to Lu Qing.

"Hmm.."

Lu Qing nodded indifferently and then said no more, he looked around and found that this place was not far from the top of the mountain, although there was still a short way to really reach the top, but compared to the whole mountain, the terrain here was already quite high.

There are several mines of different sizes on both sides of the mountain road, the small ones can only accommodate one person, and the large ones can only accommodate three or four people.

It looks rudimentary and informal, and the location of the mine is very haphazard, and it is clear that it has not been carefully planned.

The smaller mines had been completely blocked by the collapse, and even the larger ones had collapsed by now.

After asking the old mountain people, I learned that there was a heavy rain here not long ago, which washed down a lot of wooden tools used for mining, and the people of the three villages discovered the secret on this aconitum mountain.

And when they found the location of the mine, it was already deserted, leaving only these few mines that had been washed away by the heavy rain, and there was no trace of their relatives...

Lu Qing looked at this dilapidated mine and understood that this place had basically lost its value for exploration.

But he was unwilling to go back empty-handed, so he went to look inside the larger mines, only to see that the inside of the mines was dark and damp, and the tunnels were pitch black and deep, and he didn't know where to go.

He tried to walk more than ten meters inside, but encountered a large collapse, and finally had no choice but to give up.

Seeing that all the clues were broken, Lu Qing finally had to hope that the spiritual eye of the "Qi Sutra" could surprise him... As a faint golden glow flashed in his eyes, a colorful world became in front of his eyes.

He first inspected these caves one by one, and saw that in the dark and deep caves, except for the occasional existence of a few wisps of spiritual energy, there were no unusual findings.

And those few wisps of aura are estimated to be just some unmined ores, nothing unusual.

In addition to this, he also found a faint touch of white luck in a distant bush... And this discovery made him a little excited.

It's actually very abstract to say white, it looks like a white column of smoke, which is constantly churning up and down in the grass.

In doubt, Lu Qing walked over and opened the grass to take a look. I found a broken stone statue of a horse's head in the grass!

The thing that emitted a pillar of white smoke was the statue of a horse's head in front of him.

Lu Qing squatted down and picked up the horse's head, held it in his arms and looked at it carefully, and saw that the horse's head stone statue was about one-third larger than the horse's head of the real horse, and the rest of the sculpture had disappeared.

This horse-head sculpture looks to be some years old, and it should have been painted in lacquer, but now it has peeled off and only a few traces remain.

Judging from the shape of the horse's head, this should be part of a stone statue of a horse neighing to the sky, but now there is only this one horse's head left, lonely in the grass of this barren mountain...

To his surprise, the horse's mane was unusually vigorous, and it all rose upwards like a raging flame.

Lu Qing couldn't help but guess that the complete sculpture of this horse should look like it was burning with flames...

But who, and why, did they want to create such a statue of a burning horse here?

"Fire Spirit Beast!"

While Lu Qing was constantly looking at the horse's head sculpture, a cry of surprise and panic came from behind him, and there was an irrepressible fear in that voice.

Lu Qing turned his head to look, and found that the expressions of the old mountain people had already turned pale, and his eyes looked at the horse head sculpture in his hand in horror, in this winter, he could see that their heads were actually sweating!

"Fire Spirit Beast, do you mean this horse?"

Lu Qing couldn't suppress his doubts and asked, but those old mountain people were killed and didn't want to say it, and Lu Qing forced him to ask him tightly, so he had to loosen up and say, it's better to ask the village chief He about this matter..

Not again!

Lu Qing has been numbed by the ubiquitous secrets and taboos in Yongchang County, and now the spirit stone mine has been found, but the relationship with Yu Niang has not been found, and the man in white has not been seen at all. Now that this horse's head sculpture has been found here, is there any connection to all this?

But in any case, this trip was not completely fruitless, he at least confirmed that the spirit stone mine did exist, and judging from those mining tools, those missing villagers were indeed forced to work here, but where did they go after digging the mine?

...

After putting the horse's head into the space ring, Lu Qing was going to go home, he was going to take the horse's head and ask Village Chief He, what is this, and what does the fire spirit beast mean?

Along the road up the mountain, Lu Qing and the old mountain people quickly returned to Wujia Village, which is also because his cultivation is too low now, otherwise this road will only be ten breaths of time in front of Zhuji Dan.

Lu Qing had just entered the entrance of the village, and before he could catch his breath, a fragrant wind wafted by, and Lin Shiyan appeared...

"You're back. ”

He was already surprised by this, and he replied lazily.

"Did you find anything?"

"Not yet. Not only did they not find it, but the problems increased. Where's your side?"

Seeing her ask about today's harvest, Lu Qing complained nonchalantly, and then also cared about what she found after she left.

"I didn't find anything useful, just.."

Lin Shiyan was a little unnatural at this time, and she didn't know why there was some hesitation in her tone.

"If you have something to say, just say it. ”

Although Lu Qing was a little surprised to see her like this, she still said calmly.

"I found that most of the villagers in Wujia Village are old and weak, women and children, their resistance is already poor, and because of the recent cold weather, many people are sick and very weak. I'm afraid that if they don't get effective treatment, a large number of them won't survive this winter!"

Lin Shiyan said in the end, and a little unbearable look appeared on her face.

“.. So what do you want?"

After Lu Qing was silent for a while, she continued to say in a calm tone, and Lin Shiyan hesitated for a moment when she saw this.

"Can we help them?"

Lu Qing seemed to have expected it, and when she heard her say this, she asked.

"We are not disciples of Shantang, and we have not received training in this area, how can we help?"

"But we've taken medical lessons... Why not give it a try?"

"With our level, we can't do this kind of thing at all, can you be realistic?"

"But you haven't done it yet, how do you know that we will fail!"

“.. Senior Sister Lin, listen to me, our current situation is very complicated, accidents may happen at any time, we are now mud bodhisattvas crossing the river and it is difficult to protect ourselves, so don't think about these superfluous things for the time being, okay?"

As the two became more and more-for-tat, Lu Qing took the initiative to take a step back and persuaded her from a different angle, hoping that she could think about the problem with a cool head.

"We can try to do it, and if we really can't do it, it's not too late to give up. ”

But Lin Shiyan was unmoved, and said with expectation in her tone at this time, and looked at Lu Qing with big eyes full of hope after speaking, hoping to get his affirmation.

Seeing her like this, Lu Qing couldn't bear to hit her directly, and after slowing down his tone at this time, he said slowly.

“

On the one hand, we have to investigate the disappearance case in Yongchang County, this disappearance case is now implicated in more and more things, I suspect that behind this is not a simple local corruption problem at all, Fan Datong is now playing the trick of avoiding the important and trivial, I want to know what he is hiding! And if it is not good, if it is not for me to be alarmist, you and I may not be able to escape, I am not joking with you.

On the other hand, we don't have the energy to do such a thing now, you and I are only two people combined, and there are at least three or four hundred villagers here, and we have neither the ability nor the time to take care of so many people.

I say that, do you understand?"

"Oh.."

Lin Shiyan was silent after hearing a low "oh", and then lowered his head to stop looking at Lu Qing, of course he knew that Lin Shiyan was a little disappointed in himself, but what could he do?

Everything he said was the truth, Lin Shiyan was just a little girl, although she was very mature and steady, but in the final analysis, she was just a fifteen-year-old girl, most of her life was spent in a warm greenhouse, of course, there was that leisure to care about the poor people in the miserable wind and rain..

But Lu Qing is different, he has experienced the destruction of his family, he has seen life and death, and knows the difficulty and preciousness of living, in his current worldview, if he does not violate his principle of survival, then of course he will not hesitate to stretch out his hand.

But he himself knows best what their situation is now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are ambushed step by step, there are too many secrets in this Yongchang County, which makes him feel like he will be swallowed up every minute.

Now there are the Jade Niang, the man in white, and the fire spirit beast that I just discovered these half-understood existences, who knows what else is still lurking under the water, waiting for the opportunity to swallow them in one bite..

He always felt as if there was a rope behind these things connecting them, and if he didn't sort out the joints sooner, he always felt that something big was going to happen.

And in such a complicated situation, he is really not in the mood to care about the lives of others... This is the deepest thought in his heart, it is indeed cold and selfish, but it is very real...