《Shadow Code》


 C1

    Don''t go back to the truth of the story. I''m just telling stories about things that aren''t necessarily virtual.


    Some people say that what we see is true, whether one day we discover that the most deceptive thing is our own eyes.


    If you build a plane world of ants, then if you add vertically, build up our three-dimensional world, continue to add time space, will there be real multidimensional space, and when one day your dream happens the next day, is it your real action in other space, and only our time has been displaced?


    If we had such a code, we could walk into the space created by the shadow elements. Do you believe it?


    Is it possible that we have never understood the earth on which we live, that we are only a tiny species living on the skin of an apple, and that there is such a mysterious world in the apple core that we do not know about?


    If you have come with a hasty heart, please release some patience and follow me into a mysterious but not necessarily fake world. Maze forest, strange city on the south island, blood desert in the west, shadow space, let me sink into another world with you, and enjoy being lost!


    " "So what? The deeper parts of the mountains are covered with snow all year round, and the hunters who come from the forests aren''t that rare!" Luo Yuan threw his peanut into the air and raised his head to take a bite.


    " "What do you know? From the color of the snow in the depths of the mountain, I can tell which mountain it is, and which year''s Chen Xue. The snow on those people''s feet is not the real snow!" The old branch used a pipe pole to knock on the circle of brains.


    " What''s the color of the snow? What''s wrong with you? " Erlu blinked her beady eyes and asked anxiously.


    " That''s a dead body''s white, when they pass in front of me, the smell of it pours out of my nose! "


    " Fragrance? By the way, what do they look like, Zhushu, where do you think they come from? This bumpkin of ours doesn''t like to use perfume! " Luo Yuan grabbed the peanut and rolled it around in the ashes from the smoke bag before putting it back into his mouth.


    " That fragrance was not a spice. It was the fragrance of a corpse. How did it look like? I can''t even see her face! " After saying this, the old branch family member poured the entire cup of wine into his mouth, turned it around, and spat it out. He then ruthlessly touched his face and continued, "Those people are not human. Where did they come from?"


    " They had come from that place, but no one had ever entered it! "And how can anyone walk out of there?" Tun Qiushu raised his head, his vision blurred as the strong aroma of the liquor dispersed, covering his aged face with a layer of murky drunkenness!


    " "Aiya, Uncle Cough, you''re not talking so much, you''re hanging a dead man in the capital!" Luo Yuan urged.


    " "Remember your words, when you are hunting, go to a place where the sun is out of sight and the sky is bright. Don''t go any further!" Tsui Shu said as he closed his eyes, two lines of old tears trickling down from the corner of his wrinkled eye.


    Tun Shu was an old bachelor and the most powerful hunter in the village. After this round of wine, the crowd next door saw the old man carrying a shotgun as he was walking down the mountain path into the woods on the top of the bungalow.


    It was normal for Luo Yuan to go hunting in the mountains. It would take him half a day just to get to the depths of the mountains from the village. It was not unusual for him to be toyed with by a wild rabbit for an hour.


    On the third day, at night!


    As soon as Luo Yuan came out of his front room, he looked at the silver moon and saw a shadow on it. It''s you? " Luo Yuan looked at his body which was shaped like a small book. Plus, he was standing in front of the door of the small book.


    The silhouette did not reply, but stood there motionlessly.


    For the small villages deep in the mountains, people, strange deaths, did not cause much of a ripple, because their ancestors had dealt with the beasts of the mountains for generations, with the most primitive and mysterious forests.


    With the sun and wind, no one dared to bury a shadow, and they couldn''t move it either. It was as if their feet were stuck there.


    Half a month later, the first snowfall of winter finally arrived. Night after night, the entire village was covered by a thick blanket.


    All over the mountains and plains, in the Mantuan house yard, a clear and pretty white.


    Only, there was an extra line of footprints.


    When Erlu''s mother saw the footprints in the snow, she was completely dumbfounded. Covering her left ear, she said, "Those are the hard soles I made for you last year. He never had a wife in his life, and I even secretly made a wish.


    "Aren''t you just standing there? Mother means, ''I''m not dead''?"


    "Mom, I don''t know. It''s just that after your uncle met with trouble, he sat in the same dream for several nights. In his dream, he stood in a bright place, as if he was looking for something. Always, always looking!"


    That plum blossom shoe was the wish that her mother had made for her. As the old saying goes, after death, dream about giving it to the people closest to her, as well as the bright and bright land, wasn''t that the last wine, the place mentioned by the old book? There was no sun, only snow. No one had ever entered that place before!


    Erlu was a very manly girl. She had not seen her father since she was young, and after asking him a few times, her mother kept sighing. On the other hand, grandpa Qiushui had always treated her as her daughter. "The three families were like a family, relying on each other, taking care of each other. A pot of stew, a table for dinner, and a kang chatters. All that was missing was a bed. Now, one person had left, and the sky had fallen by a third.


    The entire village had dozens of families with scattered houses, because they were all hunters, all of them had large courtyards filled with cold deer, yellow fox, wild boar, and black skin. These three families were at the front and back of the house, and as soon as Erlu opened the back window, he could see what they were doing in their yard.


    Luo Yuan also had something to do as he leaned on the window and shouted.


    From then on, Erlu lay on the back window and stared at the statue for a whole day, thinking about how the old man had been good to him, good to his mother, thinking about how, finally, when he had been drinking, Erlu''s hair had turned a little white, but, man, gone, there was a corpse, crying and sending off, man, living, breathing, even scolding himself for calling her a silly girl, what was this?


    One night, her mother was talking in her sleep in the East Room. Why, why don''t you look there? You''re a dead man after all, and that sort of thing. You woke up the dewy dewdrop, so you put on your jacket and got off the kang.


    On that day, the moon was a shaggy crescent. Faint gray dust sprinkled down from the sky. It was a gloomy silver color.


    She suddenly realized that something was wrong. She remembered clearly that the statue''s shadow had been struck with her left hand. Why did she suddenly open her arms?


    He didn''t sleep for the entire night!


    The next day, the big rooster on the east side of the village had only half a squawk when the dew had pushed open the door of the circle.


    "I swear to my beady eyes, the old man''s left hand was spread out in the middle of the night!" Erlu bent his body and paced back and forth around the hand. Daybreak had arrived, and the old man''s left hand was still clenched into a fist.


    "Lu Zi, why is there something in that hand!?"


    "Where?" Why can''t I see anything! "


    "Change the angle and come over to my side to take a look!"


    The old shadow''s left hand, spread out in the direction of the moonlight, shot out a bright white light straight at the deep old forest behind them. The old trees, which had once covered everything, were now covered by a white house, which hung like a mirage above the forest of the Great Hingan Ridge. Countless shadows busied themselves within it, as if people from another world had suddenly broken into this ordinary world.


    It stayed still for just a moment, and there was nothing to be seen anymore.


    Within half a minute, she was like a piece of charcoal, struggling silently under the pale moonlight with a ferocious expression. Everything happened too suddenly, and the dew almost suffocated as it rushed into her sight, and the circle used its last bit of willpower to grab onto a line of symbols on her arm. The pain in her arm caused her to continue to suffocate under the mysterious shock.

 C2

    " "Great sir, what is spearmanship?"


    " Do you know why he dares to go into the woods alone? The wild beasts of the old mountain forest are all intelligent, if you respect them, they will give you their territory. If you one day break their bottom line, then you won''t be able to escape even the corners of the world! "


    " That is their bottom line. If we don''t hunt them down, what should we eat and what should we wear? "


    " When it met a wolf that was carrying a baby and used its empty gun to circle around, it would know! "


    " If that''s the case, then I''ll just take a detour, and not even open fire. It''s different, why waste a bullet! "


    " If you directly take a detour, wolves are not easy targets, and will most likely attack you. If you use your empty gun, that means you can tell it that you can jump, but if you don''t go and do it, the other party will know! "


    " Look at the sky above the mountain, how many stars are blinking merrily, they say that people are smart, but in fact, they are all smart. Humans, where is the wisdom of the stars, the stars understand that they abide by the rules of the universe, and do not escape their own orbit, and, humans, everything is because of desire, planted retribution! "


    " Great sir, I don''t understand! "


    " When you grow up, you''ll understand. Remember, when you grow up, no matter what happens, you must not complain about it, because if you look into anything, you will find out that there is no way to find the source of everything. Everything is a cycle.


    One year, when he was rushing up the mountain, he had seen with his own eyes a garland of snakes coiled in a crooked tree. The snakes really did lie on the third floor of the tree, making it bend over for many years, but they didn''t go. When the old man bravely moved closer, he realized that they were all dead snakes, such as rattan and tree, or could it be that the snakes were actually coiling around a tree? Another time, after a big hailstorm, many of the short logs in the mountain were smashed into disarray, except for a few big bright red mushrooms, which were so bright and terrifying that they looked like a bloody corpse''s head emerging from the ground. In the mountain, there was also a wild grape ditch, a few miles of deep ravine, and layers of vines.


    To this day, the fullest part of my memory is still the blurred and inscriptions of the story, the monotonous and warm nights, the bonfires in the brightly lit wooden house, the narrow, bright stars glimpsed occasionally through the cracks in the roof, the taste of the roasted hare''s legs on the edge of the wasp honey, the smell of the roasted shellfish stewed with sweet potato chips, the smell of the frosty moon in the mountain wind, the smell of the emerald trees, the smell of the wild beasts, the unique smell of the primeval forest!


    When the night was even deeper than the deepest old forest, Old Book would lie on the brick bed with me and talk to himself as if he were telling me, "There''s all sorts of evil things in the old forest, savages who drink blood, pythons who can stand up and walk, and blind men who can weave grapes, queens even more beautiful than peacocks, but no matter how scary they look, they are just a small species, a magical and insignificant existence in the boundless universe, a tiny dot in the long river of history!"


    "He''s starting to talk about things I don''t understand!"


    "The hardest thing to do in this world is choice. The hardest thing to break is habit. And the most extravagant thing is balance, the peace after balancing everything!"


    At that time, I was too young. I could understand every word of the old branch book.


    In the lonely capital, there was always a gap between the bustle and me. Whenever I was alone, I would recall these warm and mysterious memories to pass the lonely time. Sometimes, I would even wonder if the Old Ancestor was dead or alive, why was he still walking in the village and mountains when his relatives couldn''t see him, and if the shoes of the plum blossoms were really old books? And what did the circle of Luo see, and what did the symbol on my second sister''s arm represent? The Luo family must have seen more than what my second sister saw. And after he said it three times with all his might, ''Don''t look, don''t look. Are you protecting my second sister? Are there some things in this world that you will never be at peace with?''


    If I think too much, I''ll go numb, and even if I don''t experience it myself, I''ll even suspect that it''s some exaggerated version that''s been passed on and stored in a distant memory. I don''t want to dig it up, so I''ll worry about it and start a good business with this small leather shop, and even if I can''t live with it, I''ll only be able to repay the old man. However, I never thought that everything had just begun, and it all started with me!


    One autumn afternoon, I was warm and sleepy by the sun outside, a few maple leaves were falling, Xuan''er was stirring, I was holding a horror novel scanning ten lines.


    A person wearing a black cotton jacket came out of nowhere. When I smelled the damp cotton that had not seen the sun all year round, he had already entered my shop. The new shop assistant eagerly greeted me.


    In this business, you mustn''t go up on the pole and sell socks on stalls, you just have to be enthusiastic. Just hold on to it and wait calmly like that, it''s because you can''t get away from the business. You are getting more and more aggressive, so the other party is getting more and more frustrated.


    I got up and went into the shop. My footsteps were not light. The visitor had his back to the door of the shop and did not notice me behind him. At that time, I had been on guard.


    We have our own supply of goods, which is to say, the generations of old hunters in the village. If we see those respectable customers, they would usually buy a few pieces, go back to look for them, order a piece of fur for one of our women, if you look at their grey faces, it''s very low-key, the unremarkable kind of people walking on the street are usually the large number of two-way merchants, after they buy it, how to earn money from the middle is not something I can ask, of course, this is the rule of a few senior customers in the village every few years. I''m not here to collect furs, I''m here to sell my own goods. Normally, I don''t come here to pick up goods that have my own origin, because for one thing, I don''t lack it. I don''t have time to take the money, so why are you giving me money?


    So, a hunter who has been soaking in the mountains all year round will have an extraordinary hearing, and even if I were to approach him openly, he would still be very sensitive to it, let alone if I were to approach him openly. I am surprised that I am unable to pinpoint who this person is, or is not, or is not, or is dressed in the same outfit, contradiction, or pretends to be, someone who can even disguise his or her instinctive reaction, so I must be on guard against him.


    In the end, I didn''t guess correctly. After the new shop assistant introduced him for a long time, a hoarse voice came from his throat. It was a mute.


    Oh, mute, inaudible, that was born. No wonder. My heart relaxed a little.


    The man threw down a large snakeskin bag from his back. With such a shake of the bag, a few pieces of skin fell out. It seemed that my guess was right. It was a hunter that delivered goods to this place.

 C3

    There was also a spotted adult deer hide, and a white bear skin was pressed under it. Fresh blood was still dripping from the hide, and this was an unripe dregs, they were usually clean after preliminary tanning, and the ones with blood were the most primitive dregs, I thought they were all some scarce goods, and there were a lot of these in the village, I didn''t need to sell my own goods, I even bought them from the shop, I waved my hands, but he didn''t understand and said, "You''re lying, old fellow, I want to sell them to you, but I don''t want to sell them to you, so why don''t you come in?"


    This is what the lord gave me. If I can''t do it, I''ll tear off my face. I''ll leave some leeway for myself to do things, and give myself a way out when I''m done.


    The man didn''t leave, and I didn''t think I understood. I waved him to tear up a piece of paper and write it down.


    When he turned around to rummage through the drawer, the man shoved something into my hand and, before I could react, spread his legs and ran out. He didn''t even want the skin on the floor.


    It wasn''t that my reactions were slow, it was my brain that had twisted too much, I was feeling the things in my hands, soft, definitely not a note, it was a piece of leather, the person who threw away so many valuable pieces of leather just for me, it must have been just for this, he was carrying anyone, so I could not make any noise. Also, when he passed something on to me, I noticed that his hands were hairy, it was definitely not a person''s hands, only an animal''s hands would have such coarse fur.


    He kicked me in the face, "Little Third Boss, you must be secretly happy, you met a fool and took advantage of me. When I was applying for the job, I said that there was no place to be lucky, do you believe me? I''ve only been here for a month and you haven''t returned for half a year, yet you''ve already dropped your pie and dropped your money!"


    I thought, "It seems that I was wise to look for you. I''ll give you half of the reward as long as you sell these furs later." I turned my head and thought, completely covering it up, I couldn''t be this calm, "Call the boss in the future, and let Little San go!" Two kicks back.


    When I was going upstairs to find a place to be alone and look at the note in my hand, I suddenly realized that I shouldn''t be so careless, so I turned around and said, "These days, there are a lot of people who are bad. Don''t sell these skins for now, I''ll find someone I know who understands. I rolled up the skins with my other hand and wrapped them in a snakeskin bag and carried them to the second floor under my armpits.


    "You''re really stingy. Just when I said that half of the prize money would be mine, you went back on your word!" "What are you talking about?" Mariko mumbled discontentedly.


    That''s weird, if someone used this method to give me a piece of skin, it wouldn''t just be sending information, wouldn''t it be a real fool? I closed my eyes, but I couldn''t feel that the person before me was a fool, and even if he was a mute, I still wouldn''t believe him. With my many years of experience in reading people, he seemed more like someone who had lived in the old forest for a long time.


    Just as I was about to dig through the pile of skin in the snakeskin bag, the door behind me moved. Subconsciously, I put away the piece of skin in my palm, and the sound of gunfire came from behind me, "Little Third Boss, why are you closing the door in broad daylight?"


    " How can a man close the door when he''s a big man?


    " I can''t be your assistant in this matter. How about this, come down after you''re done. That mute came back just now, he wants money! " He closed the door, which had been opened a crack.


    "I asked you for money when you came back. Have you become retarded? Are you still happy?"


    I could only rudely reply, "What do you know? He came back to ask for money, so I don''t doubt that there''s something fishy about these furs. My heart is in turmoil, and money for no reason is not a good thing. Besides, I don''t need this kind of money!"


    "Oh," Mariko said, and we went downstairs one after the other.


    This way, I calmed down quite a bit, and after thinking about it for a while, I was able to distinguish who it was. This person was tall and strong, especially his shoulders, which were wider than most of the other men''s. Moreover, he was thicker and darker than the rest of the men; apart from his nose, eyes and mouth, his face was full of coarse hair.


    Seeing that he had come back to ask for money, the little man, who was not even 1.7m tall, smacked Mountain Demon with his fist, "Brother, you gave me the money and I gave it to you. When you come back, do you understand the rules?"


    I thought to myself, "Isn''t this just asking for a favor? There''s nothing wrong with this place. Besides, I really hate this kind of businessman. Although I do business as a butcher, I am also a proper businessman. A businessman is not a scoundrel; I myself am not a rogue who only look at money. How could I recruit such a scoundrel?" I thought, "If I could find an excuse, I would just kick him out and kiss my ass, and I would definitely not be happy."


    "Old partner, I''ll be taking those furs. Price, let''s talk about it alone. You can leave a contact number for convenience in the future!"


    The man didn''t seem to know me and didn''t seem to come back for money, but he must have understood me, because he stopped and didn''t really leave.


    I led him up to the second floor, and told Mariko to go to the back street and get me two bags of liquor to keep him out of the way.


    I went up to the same teahouse on the second floor with the man who looked like a mountain genie.


    "Do I know you?"


    I nearly peed my pants in shock and thought to myself, fuck, you know how to speak? Why did you act dumb just now?


    "You came by just now!"


    "Oh, I''m a amnesic person. My memories can only be retained for a short period of time!"


    These words sounded strange to me. It would be normal to say that I met with some strange incident in the old forest, but in the capital, it had been almost several years since I had met such an unorthodox situation. A mountain elf who lost his memories sent me a note and then turned around and didn''t recognize me.


    " Do you know this? " I hesitated for a moment, then took the note out of my pocket and showed it to him.


    " Someone asked me to give this to someone else. Why is it in your hands? " As he spoke, he tried to snatch it back.


    " "Bro, that''s not it. Old partner, don''t make me laugh. Just now, you sneakily passed me this thing. I should be the one you''re looking for. Just look, there''s nothing here!"


    " "Oh, then you keep it. I''m leaving. I''ve finished this. It''s enough!" With that, he prepared to leave.


    "Well, who asked you to give this to me?"


    " "Like I said, I''m a amnesiac. I can only remember what I need to do!"


    After that, we went back and forth. Half an hour later, I didn''t ask anything, and I was even more confused. Originally, I just didn''t understand this note that was handed over so suddenly, but this time, I was even more confused than before when I saw that the person in front of me wasn''t human.


    He was a huntsman in the village, about my age, and when the Old Branch sent me out to school, he was with me too, and after a couple of years of studying together, he dropped out of school to go back to the village because he couldn''t stand the drudgery of school. In his words, studying was for a good job, a good job for a boss, and a boss for a beautiful wife.


    We had an agreement that as long as the phone didn''t ring, he would be in the woods, and since there was no signal, when I called, there was no answer, so there was no call.


    A few minutes later, a phone rang. I saw it was him.


    The moment the phone was picked up, the whistling sound of the wind coming from the other side of the phone was unclear. Following that, the sound of someone pulling on the chicken''s neck could be heard, "You brat, are you alright? You won''t remember this number, right?"


    "Is everything alright in the village? Has anything strange happened recently?" I don''t know how to say it, but I can''t say a word or two about what happened in the afternoon, and I can''t understand it either.


    "Yeah, that''s him, the winterhead. Remember, he died a few days ago. He sat on the brick bed and killed himself. It seems that it''s been a few days. If it wasn''t for Mountain Cui giving him a bowl of noodles, he wouldn''t have found it."


    "Oh, what else?"


    Also, that''s right, and that''s right, on the other side of the ravine, Brother Wang, in partnership with his little brother, they have made some living animals and are preparing to raise them, and in the future they will become a hunting ground. You don''t know, Little San, now that the rich are freakish, they are willing to spend money to hunt in the mountains for trouble if they have nothing to do, Brother Wang said that this hunting ground, in the future, they will earn money from these people.

 C4

    " Have you received anything unclean recently? " There was no sound of wind coming from that direction. The sound was surprisingly clear. It must have come from somewhere outside the village.


    " "What''s wrong?" While Mariko was in the shop, I could clearly hear what she was saying in the bathroom. I couldn''t say anything, so I could only hold the phone and listen to her, trying to keep her voice low.


    " "It''s better if you clean up your things and go back to the village. The accident in Old Forest has something to do with you!" Zhang Daozi was just about to hang up when I called out to him. I didn''t care about avoiding him, "What''s the matter? Why is it related to me?"


    " "You, hanged yourself on a tree in the old forest. If it wasn''t for me talking to you like this, I would have really thought that you were the one dying at that time." Ma Zi really hung up. This news was enough for me to rush back to the village at night without caring for my life.


    Am I dead? I''ll go back and see if I''m dead? Was it me?


    If I were to treat him like a fart, I would have done it. But there''s one thing, something happened in the forest, that''s for sure. Do you think I''m going to hang myself on a tree? Who would believe me, even if I were to hang myself, I wouldn''t expect a tree.


    I bought two boxes of scented rice snacks for my mother, and after calculating, I bought a few more boxes of old people and children in the village. When I went back to divide the snacks, I didn''t buy any roast duck, because the wild game in the mountains was much more tasty than the other stuff.


    After buying the fastest train ticket, even though the traffic is more developed now, it is still troublesome to go back to the village. Because there is no direct train, I will take a train and hire a taxi, and then I will have to walk for a while, because the village is halfway up the hill in the old forest, and the little forest at the bottom, and I must walk by myself.


    By the time I got off the taxi, it was already late and I was anxious not to sleep in the town of Mi at the foot of the western mountain.


    During the train ride, I dragged a large luggage case like a human being, but when I arrived in the town, I just dropped the suitcase and slung my back over my shoulder. Behind me was the hide given to me by the Mountain Elf, with the dim sum in the front and the empty strip of paper in my pocket, and then I bought a few fires because I didn''t smoke and I didn''t have the habit of burning, but I needed a torch in the woods in the middle of the night, so I had to prepare the fire, everything was all right, and finally sent a text message to the hemp, meaning I was going back into the woods.


    There are signals in some parts of the forest, but not in others. Therefore, before you enter, send a text message, if you have free time, then pick up your phone. Busy, that''s all.


    He would walk into the small forest and search for some dead trees and sticks, and place them at his waist, so that the sun would set at any time. He would use them as torches, and find a fresh stick that was as thick as a mountain, and with the snakes in the grass, he wouldn''t live longer than 48 hours if he were to go up into the old forest, because there were all sorts of things he could think of. This small forest, at most, had green snakes as thick as a human wrist, and those things were not poisonous, so there was nothing to be afraid of.


    It''s also weird that an ordinary person would walk this kind of route at night, with the egg in his crotch jumping at the same rhythm as the heart in his chest, but I might be born with the blood of a hunter, and I''m actually excited. Although spending these few years in the shop to earn some money is comfortable, it''s not as exciting as being mixed up in hardship like a hunter.


    Sometimes, under the most vicious sun cats, in the middle of a field full of black mosquitoes, one can guard a pheasant. If one is unable to walk on the muddy mountain road due to the heavy rain, one has to eat and drink for days and nights in the drizzling rain, and hunters need to have a spring stomach. When one is hungry, they have to endure when they are hungry, and when they reap a lot of rewards, they can roast an entire rabbit, which you can eat.


    So, as a hunter, you will miss the hardships and the thrill of being a hunter. This is the charm of a hunter. It is very difficult for a man to not be tempted by this charm.


    At this time, the sun had already begun to sink from the moment I had just entered the forest, and I did not intend to light the fire immediately, because this road can be walked with my eyes closed, and if I were to walk on it, I would reach a small mountain valley. There was a ravine below, and this ravine led from the old forest curve all the way to here, through our village, so it would not be a problem for me to follow the ravine, and tonight''s moonlight was crystal clear as it shone onto the ravine, illuminating the path beneath my feet, allowing me to listen to the water at night.


    I would have probably reached the cove by then. I kick the rocks under my feet and roll down the cliff one after another. The autumn frogs cackled in shock. If I go any further, I would see the silver glow of phosphorus on the water.


    In a narrow bend in the mountain stream, it twisted and turned, spiraling upwards, passing through the woods in front of me like a ribbon in a dark mountain. It was beautiful and cool, and right below where I stood, a person was squatting on the edge of the water with his back to me.


    I thought to myself, it seems that something big has happened, every time I sent a text message, every time I went back by myself, the pockmarked one is when I brought him gold bars and refused to receive them. In his words, it is not easy to deprive others of the opportunity to enjoy the mountains on their own.


    " Why don''t you give me a hand! " I shouted down below.


    " Is my mother well? " I went down into the cove completely and walked along the bank of the ravine where the white sand was soft and occasionally had a few stones on it.


    " You have a bad throat? "Yes, stop smoking!" I hurried a few steps.


    " "Oh yeah, tell me, how did you see me hanging in the old forest? Let me tell you, in this lifetime, I''ve seen everything, except my own body!"


    Within the radius of a few miles, we are all villagers, and we know everyone. Moreover, we mountain people are all rough and bold, and we don''t like to meet people without speaking to them.


    I couldn''t figure out who was in front of me, and I didn''t dare to alarm them, so I kept talking to the person in front of me while I was talking to the pockmarked person in a low voice.


    He kept coughing.


    I cursed in my heart. Did he eat a pheasant''s hair?


    I asked pockmarked. "What''s the matter?"


    "That''s the wild man in the ravine!"


    "Fuck, aren''t all the barbarians in the mountains? How can they reproduce so quickly, and even occupy this small forest? Did you kid smuggle Brother Wei to them?"


    "I give them spring wine every year. Kid, you''re so generous. I''ve already said that you died in the woods. You''re still in the mood to joke!"


    I don''t even know how to hoodwink people. If you say you''re hanging in the old forest like a ghost and you''re calling me, then I''ll believe you. Say, I''m hanging on a tree and trying to hoodwink a donkey, and with my IQ, no matter what the old saying is, you can''t count on a tree to hang yourself.


    "Keep your words to the big brick bed. If we can walk out tonight, we''ll burn incense!" Something has happened to old Lin, and the beasts in the old forest can no longer hold on, so Little Lin is also not safe. " The last word of the pockmarked man was so quiet that I immediately became alert.


    "The old branch book that died seventeen years ago recently appeared. Someone found the quincuncial shoe print of the old branch book in the old forest. Along the shoe print, he also found a cave. At the entrance of the cave, you''re hanging on a tree!"


    " "Fuck you, second master, what are you doing, you''re still bragging!"


    " "If you didn''t believe me, then it''s fine. If you were to say it to me like that, I wouldn''t believe you either. But I saw it with my own eyes, and I saw it with my own eyes!"

 C5

    " "Eh, why did the wild man in front disappear in the blink of an eye?" When I looked up, I couldn''t see him.


    " "F * ck, who am I supposed to talk to for justice? I just stared unblinkingly at him and then I suddenly disappeared!" Just as the pockmarked child was about to say something, a miserable wail sounded out from the front, like a Erhu with a broken string, then abruptly stopped.


    " "Blight, isn''t it Jiang Taisong who''s fishing straight? How come he''s fishing at night now?"


    " I''m afraid we''ve met some of the elites who know secret skills! "


    " "Can you not be so cowardly? I have a javelin with me, and the two of them can''t be dealt with later, so we''ll use it again. Right now, it doesn''t look like we''ve just encountered the wolfman. Don''t you think that we''ve never been to this place before?" As I said that, I stabbed a blowtorch from behind. I stuck it into my waist. The moment I touched the shaft of the spear, my waist immediately became much harder.


    " "Nonsense, did the barbarian lead us on the wrong path? That''s not right, we didn''t walk very far into the light forest. It should be within the small forest, but, there aren''t any caves in the small forest!" We will just cause a ruckus around here when we were young. We can talk about every tree and every road with a few big stone blocks. Now that there''s an extra cave, I muttered to myself in my heart.


    " "No, that''s not right, isn''t the cough made by the barbarians on the way? Is the barbarians from the wolf?"


    " "Damn, how is that possible? According to what I heard, we were led into the cave by a wolf spirit wearing barbarian skin, and now we are being watched by a wolf spirit wearing the clothes of an old man?"


    " Have you lost your mind? We just met a wolf-spirit at the beginning, the wild man before us, the one in front of us, is a wolf-spirit. He changed into two different sets of clothes, do you understand, with just a cough, my ears swear to your ears, that cough just now was one sound! " The more I thought about it, the more I felt that there was something sinister about it, but I couldn''t say what it was.


    " If it''s one, then why is there blood in the water? " The pockmark pointed to the color in the ravine beside us.


    " Little San, that, is not blood! " Ma Zi stammered as he quietly moved a buttocks near the water. "It''s, it''s, it''s a red-robed snake!"


    " What bait did this wolf-spirit use to attract so many red robes?! " The pockmark muttered.


    " Being awesome isn''t something that can be done with just one or two rabbits. The key is that our Spitfire seems to be quite ineffective against wolves and snakes! "


    " I found out that this wolf-spirit is very stable and has confidence. He had attracted so many red robes, but was also able to trap them inside the water, and if they die, then the red robes will no longer be in the water, and as long as we come up and entangle us, we won''t be able to escape even if we run into the wastelands. We can''t be sure if they let you kill me, and I''ll eat you!


    The pockmarks'' analysis makes sense. Regardless of whether our cave was created by the wolf spirit or not, at least it isn''t enough to scare us. Maybe it''s in the water, but if the fluids were affected, it would be troublesome if they went ashore.


    Or else, this wolf-spirit, seeing that the blowtorch in our waists is still so calm and unperturbed, f * cking high IQ wolf, that wouldn''t be a higher IQ wolf, they would use the advantages and disadvantages of the different species to force each other, and finally listen to them. At this moment, he definitely predicted that we would understand this, so he didn''t dare to provoke him.


    But he couldn''t waste it like this.


    The bonfire in the far side of the cave was still burning, and the flames were occasionally swaying in the wind, but I couldn''t feel any wind at all.


    I, am extremely sensitive to sound, wind, temperature, and light. This was given to me by the old forest when I was a child, and I could not feel the fire in the cave swaying around due to the wind. Does this mean that this cave was really made out of an illusion, and after the illusion is broken, this is the real Little Forest side?


    Then why did so many exquisite red robes appear out of nowhere? Would the red robe become an illusion? Would the cave also produce an illusion of a wolf-essence?


    No, that''s not right, it''s a mess. If the wolf-spirit was also affected by the red robe, then who was the one who attracted so many red robes?


    I want to bet!


    A bet was the spirit of a hunter.


    I didn''t explain too much to Piko, because there was no way to figure it out. I just made a gesture, and they got up and went into the wolfhound.


    As long as you had the guts to touch them one by one, those things that did not have any temperature would usually be virtual. Of course, whether or not the cave was real or fake, there would not be any temperature in the cave, and you would have no way to determine that, but as long as a human or animal dared to touch them, they would be ten thousand percent virtual, if they did not have any temperature.


    What I want to bet is that this wolf-man is a virtual simulation. At first, it''s just an intuition, but there''s also another thing I can only do to solve this situation from here.


    "Light a cigarette!" I told pockmarked that we were close to the wolfhound by this time.


    After saying those words, the wolf-spirit still only turned around to look at me. That gaze, filled with lively viciousness and a sense of loneliness, really made me feel conflicted. How could this be an illusory wolf, this is more real than a real wolf.

 C6

    " F * ck, Little San, shoot those red robes to death! " He pulled the shotgun out of his belt and shot it into the water.


    " Are there enough bullets? " I shouted at the pockmarked child in the confusion.


    As soon as I caught my eye, I realized that I was already at the village. I didn''t come back this time, I just came back!


    I was stunned. Am I going to roll around for too long? Even the pockmarks were excreted?


    "You are seventy or eighty years old, do you even need a walking stick in this shallow forest?" The pockmarked fellow lifted up his pants and swiftly came over to me. He removed the back from my back and wiped the mess from the frenzied roll just now before throwing the walking stick in my hand.


    " "Nutjob, is that you? Tell me honestly, did you pick me up just now?"


    " But your second sister said, you can do it, it''s not necessary, so I didn''t go. It just so happens that Auntie cooked a pot of chicken leg mushrooms, so I helped you eat half a pot first. If you eat too much, then I went to the latrine and called me out from the latrine. "


    This is too scary. If I confuse the brothers who grew up in the virtual world with the truth, wouldn''t that be extremely terrifying?


    Mother got up and patted my arm, the dust in my eyes pulled back my thoughts.


    "Mother!" I shouted and followed her pull absent-mindedly, entering the east side of the brick bed.


    The small teak wood table was half filled with chicken leg mushrooms. There were also a few wine cups and the black cat.


    I sat down on the kang and told them what had happened.


    "The things that have happened to us recently are much more bizarre than yours. Let''s take a rest first, if we go and have a look tomorrow, we won''t be able to avoid what should come. Our boys can always support themselves!" Mother had played down a few words.


    " "At that time, the virtual you spoke the same words as you. Oh right, you also said that there was an old quincuncial shoe print in the forest, and then you found a cave. The one hanging from a tree at the cave entrance was me, and you saw it with your own eyes, as well as the spring in the village!" I repeated what the fake pockmarked one had said to the real pockmarked one.


    " "Damn it, what you said is quite true. This is exactly what happened!" The pockmarked fellow was holding his head up as he looked at the ceiling. It was unknown what he was thinking about.


    " Even the fuck you said it! "


    " "It''s f * cking weird, it''s really a shame that I''ve been drinking and eating on your brick bed, so why don''t I find someone to justify my actions?"


    " Right, who should I find to reason with? He has also said those words! "


    " "Forget it, let''s not talk about this matter anymore. It''s over now. You brat, you have come back with a brain matter. It''s just a matter of great fortune. Let me tell you the details about finding you back!" He sat up and asked seriously, "Have you collected anything unclean recently?"


    "I don''t know if it was clean, but I did encounter a strange thing. There was a Mountain Demon, a Mountain Demon who lost his memory. He delivered leather to the shop, but the leather was given to me as an empty piece of paper!" I felt for the pimp in my arms.


    " "That''s right, in the forest two days ago, a person died. That person seemed to have had his intestines torn apart by a wolf and eventually died!" If you meet a wolf, it''s the best way to pull an animal''s intestines from the anus. Don''t lift your butt, as long as you can catch your chrysanthemum, one of its claws can pull out your entire intestines, there are many wild boars, or even large animals. Don''t know, at the beginning, when the wolf licks the chrysanthemums, he was enjoying himself very much, and when he was caught off guard, he inserted one of his claws into the intestines and pulled it out. Even a strong animal couldn''t run away for two miles without dying.


    After that, when the villagers were on their way to collect the corpses and bury them, they saw the plum blossom shoe print on the ground. Everyone was very sensitive to this shoe print, and it was the sole mark of the old branch, because the shoes my mother had personally sewn and embroidered all those years ago couldn''t possibly be the second pair. The trail of footprints actually led them to a cave in the forest several dozens of miles away, where a person was hanging at the entrance of the cave.


    However, with this hook, everyone was dumbfounded. It''s actually me.


    At that time, they didn''t dare to tell my mother and my second sister.


    In the spring, there were a few other kids who wiped away their tears. Later on, they became calm and said that it was impossible for it to be Little San.


    "How did you know it wouldn''t be me?" I asked, this time at this part of the story, from the west room came my mother''s sigh, my mother, likes to cry when the sigh.


    " "Because, because, because Me thinks, you are not someone who will die so easily!"


    What kind of reason was this? I have always felt that the pockmarks have changed in the last few years, not because my relationship with me has changed, but because ever since I dropped out of school, I have felt that the pockmarks have changed, but I can''t tell where they are really changing. Many times, I can read something that is difficult to say in the brevity of their words.

 C7

    " Weird, why is the empty note in my personal pocket gone? "


    " Could it be that I threw it into the small forest while I was scram? " Ma Zi expressionlessly asked.


    " "Oh yeah, I carried the leather from the Mountain Demons. Did you take a look? Is there anything that''s not clean?"


    " To think that you were trying to get into the woods with Old Branch Book as a kid. That flower snake skin, but why is there only a gap of one horn on the skin of that flower snake wrapped in rattan, that spotted adult deer? It''s a horned deer, the last white bear skin. Didn''t you find some dead body snow in the skin? "Think about it, where would these animals appear from? You should know where these skins are from!" He took off his clothes and got into bed.


    "Bugs, what have you done these past few years you''ve dropped out of school?" Actually, I still couldn''t bear to trust this pockmarked fellow in my heart. Ever since I lost my empty spot, I seemed to have understood a lot during my sleep last night. After this realization, I suddenly didn''t dare to believe anything overnight, including the person I was most familiar with.


    "How many times have you touched money all these years? How many times have I touched mountains?!"


    "But I''m numb. I feel that I can''t get excited about money, especially the feeling when I touch it!"


    "But, I am becoming more and more infatuated with Mountain, did you know, Little San, sometimes I feel like I have a disease, I can live my life without touching women, but I can''t do that without touching Mountain, Mountain''s beauty, danger, and mysteriousness, it''s just like a giant poison, I''m addicted to it!" When the pockmarked person said this, his eyes flickered with an abnormal flame, as if he was a person that loved food and wine. Whenever he talked about hawthorn, large mouthfuls of saliva would gush out from his mouth.


    At that time, the big guy only opened up a path, because there were a lot of kids, not just for hunting, but also for fun. However, on the way back, after walking along the same path for half a day, they were unable to find the main road, and then, after walking for a long time, they were unable to find the end of the road where they finally stopped.


    It could be said that no matter which direction they went at the fork in the road, it was an endless stretch. One wouldn''t be able to see the original red cloth strip, nor would they be able to find the end to it.


    "Then you guys definitely came out at the end. How about, I still talk to you this time?"


    "We really haven''t come out yet. At that time, we were trapped on that road for over half a month, and after the snow melted, we finally walked back!"


    "Why didn''t anyone mention this when they were delivering the furs to the shop?!"


    " Almost every single person who enters the forest will encounter one or two abnormal things, which we don''t mind. Besides, we came back alive, and we haven''t been back for a few years, who knows if we''re still alive or not? "


    "Who, hasn''t been back for years?"


    "Fuck, how many are in the village?!"


    There''s another year, it''s summer, and after the heavy rain, when we went to pick up mushrooms, our woods are usually those familiar old varieties, what chicken leg mushrooms, wild hill, small hill, and fine neck, and when the pockmarks said these things, they brought back the warm memories of my childhood, chicken leg mushrooms, they usually grow under the silk tree, an orange mushroom jar, with a thick stump at the bottom, wild hill, but the rarest kind of mushrooms, looking from afar, with the thumbs that come out of the baths, half circle of the pot, very pretty stew, if you don''t need anything it''s just fresh salt, and it''s on the bottom of your head. It''s like a quick boiled scallion, but just a few pieces, and the taste of your stew will seep out a very special smell, the thin neck, and these are the eternal things I remember from the tip of my tongue, and when I hear those words, my mouth will fill with beauty.


    The pockmark continued, "I was looking for the little shorty on the ground, because I was going back to cook pheasants, but you would never have guessed what I found!"


    "What the hell? You found the gold mine?"


    "Tsk, he even said that he wasn''t excited about the money. Do you remember the grave in our village?"


    "I remember, what happened?"


    "When I was plucking the grass, I accidentally dug out a tombstone. Later on, I was also free at that time and continued to dig. It really was a tombstone!"


    " Do you see the words? Who touched the tombs of the ancestors? The graveyard of our village is not far away from the back of the mountain. It is very far away from the old forest, who would be so free to dig the monolith inscriptions and carry it so far away? "

 C8

    " A year ago, Widow Wang''s grave was lost, but after that, the village was unable to find it. Another piece was added, and the name I found on it was not ''Wang Xiuyun'', but Li Xiuyun! "


    " "F * ck, what do you mean by that?"


    " That word doesn''t seem to belong to a human. It seems to belong to the claw of some kind of animal.


    " "What do you mean, animals in the forest stole Widow Wang''s inscription and changed her surname?"


    " "Yes!"


    " F * ck, did you not eat your fill in the morning? Are you trying to make fun of me? What animal in the woods has a mental illness? Do some silly, hairless things? "


    " "You are the impatient one. Do you know that in the past, there were people who claimed that Widow Wang''s father was not her father?!"


    " "The more you say it, the more confused I am. Her father isn''t her father, could it be her mother?"


    " There''s no way for me to chat with you any longer! Your brain won''t budge! Wang Xiuyun''s father shouldn''t be Seventh Brother Wang, but Li Fugui! "


    " Ah, ah? What do you mean, there are animals in the mountains that know about Widow Wang''s mother and Li Fugui, and they came over after a few lifetimes to change their surname from the widow''s grave to the grave? Is that what you''re trying to prove? "


    " You''re finally saved, that''s what I meant, but this matter, we have already agreed upon, no matter what, do not tell the third person, I have buried that grave, because after Widow Wang died, I only had one child, I do not want my child to be innocent, and to be looked down upon! " There were several small forks in the road in front of us.


    " "Could it be that someone prepared the buttons for the animals?" Sometimes, other hunters would bury a fox or a rabbit or something like that. If you were blind and stepped on it, you could break it with your foot and neck, but you never heard of anything else that could be hunted with grass buttons.


    " "This is for blind donkeys, do you have a lack of intelligence? What can you hunt with this kind of button that can even be seen with one eye?" The pockmark kicked me. "This is a signal that hasn''t been used for many years!"


    " "Signal?" I seem to remember something.


    In the past, the old branch book seemed to have said something like this, saying, if one encountered a very strange place to hunt, just do it well and not let the hunters fall into it, then they would tie it with the grass on both sides of the road. Of course, as long as one saw the knot, anyone would understand and stop entering those places for the time being.


    " "That must have been last night, because I came here at noon yesterday, and it''s just that we haven''t entered the deep forest yet, so why would we use such an easy signal?" The pockmark muttered.


    There are almost no flaws in this logical reasoning, but the biggest one that doesn''t work is, pockmarked, I can''t believe that pockmarks would go through so much effort to scheme against me.


    However, this thought appeared inexplicably when I saw these knots. I even felt that I was very dirty, thinking like this about someone who isn''t close to me.


    Sometimes, people are hard to change. For example, one of the habits of their life is to be talked about every day and you can''t change it. Sometimes, people can change, quickly, simply, you can go from one extreme to the other and only need the speed of light.


    As for me, I''m not a very suspicious person. I hate people who think that they are smart and suspect this, but in the end, they are smart and wrong. However, after going through a matter that I can''t figure out and can''t find an answer to, I became so quick.


    " Then we won''t go in? Or a few days? " I pulled at a knot. It was strong, and dead.


    "Can you see what''s written there?" The pockmark pointed at one of the forks in the road. It was not far away, and at the end of the knot was a stone slab. There was indeed a line of characters written in blood on it.


    " It looks like a date! "


    " "That''s right. Take a look at the final days. What is it?"


    " "Like an 8!"


    " Today''s the 9th, that''s what happened yesterday! "


    " "What do you mean?"


    " This sort of knot, do you think, if it was tied like this last year, wouldn''t it be a waste? So near these knots, the knots had to leave a date of blood to inform the newcomers, when it started, and then you counted the knots, and if there were too many, you wouldn''t be going in for ten days or half a month, and if there were only a few, it was usually some kind of ferocious animal that came out, and that was a moment of danger, and when that guy was far away the place would be safe, and the bold one would be, so the knots would go in, look at the numbers of the buttons, and roughly estimate, but there would be, like, knots, between 12 and 14, and if you saw 13, you''d be dead. The pockmark said.


    "Did you count the ties? Look, there are a total of three forks. The first one, two links, the second one, seventeen, the third one, and the twenty-three. It seems like the first one is safer! "


    If it was before, I would not hesitate to follow the thoughts of the pockmarks, but I am calculating on my own. Firstly, these knots were made by the pockmarks, and were even left behind by a hunter who had risked his life to survive. If it was the former, there must be a reason for the pockmarks to do so, I cannot listen to it.


    " Then let''s go to the first fork? " I tried to find out what pockmarks meant.


    " But, the plum blossom shoe mark is not at the first fork in the road, if we were to take the first, we have to take a detour! "


    " If the danger is too great, I can''t guarantee that I can save the victims in danger. What do you think, besides, this method of binding is not very accurate, it''s a person''s assessment of the danger, and as long as it''s man-made, it''s not a small horse crossing the river. Listen to the rat, fox, hedgehog, you don''t have to walk into it yourself, right? "


    "That''s fine, but remember, little San, no matter what happens, remember to protect your life and don''t worry about me!" I feel a little guilty about that.


    We really took the third fork in the road with the most knots.


    At first, every step was as if he was stepping into a bottomless pit. He was extremely careful as he almost wiped, landed and carefully lifted his foot once more.


    Afterwards, after half an hour, without even seeing a grasshopper, he relaxed his guard, but he was still worried.


    The pockmarks were in front, and I was behind.


    "Little San, don''t you think it''s abnormal?"


    "There''s no danger. For now, what''s wrong? There''s not even a autumn grasshopper! "


    "Isn''t it abnormal if he doesn''t even have a f * cking minimum of grasshoppers?"


    " "Bam, pockmarks!" I called for the pockmarks to stop and they stopped and turned back.


    " "What''s wrong?"


    " If you go any further, let''s keep going! "


    " "No, why did I hear the footsteps of three people?"

 C9

    " "Pock, wait!" I called out to the pockmark in front of me.


    " "San-zi, San-zi, what the hell!"


    "Impossible! You did all this in the blink of an eye! Even if the opponent was running, he wouldn''t be this fast, unless he was light!"


    " "What is this?" As the pockmarks peeled away some of the leaves, something could be clearly seen on the tree trunk.


    " "How come there wasn''t such a strange thing in the forest before? Did it start in the past few days? Or was it that I''ve never been in the woods before? Do these things seem so common to you?"


    " Maybe what we saw just now wasn''t someone''s eye, I wasted two bullets, but didn''t want to talk about it, it seems like I shot something useful away! " The pockmark strangely moved away from the symbol, searching for something on the ground.


    " "What do you mean, what do you mean?"


    " "Look again, I hope this isn''t the only one!" I don''t understand what pockmarked man is saying.


    " "Let''s go. Remember, when you feel like you have eyes again, you must tell me!"


    I was at a loss. The pockmarks had already crossed the grass and returned to the fork in the road.


    " "What on earth are you thinking about? What was that just now?" I asked as I walked.


    " I saw that the tree trunk had a lock on it. I can''t guarantee that the thing that was shot out was not the eye, it was the key! "


    " "Damn, it can''t be, boasting all the way to the wolf''s bottom, this is too unreliable, there''s a lock on the trunk and a key on the leaves, which means that some thousand years old immortal locksmith died and buried this place, his spirit was touched by the soil, such a tree grew out!"


    " "If I had known better, I would have told you that in the recent few years, you were obviously too normal in the shop. Let me tell you, San-zi, there are some places where you can just think about unreliable things and you''ll be right. If you think normally, then you won''t even know how you died!" The pockmarked man walked and talked.


    " Blood, Blood Amber, could it be the legendary Blood Amber? " It was unknown whether it was due to fright or excitement. The two rows of smoke-stained gums in his mouth were beating up and down, and even his cheeks were twitching.


    " What? "Amber, is that something made from pine resin?"


    " "Yes, I am talking about that amber. You know what amber means, it doesn''t mean what you think it literally means. When the amber was formed, it happened to meet with blood. No, amber is directly secreted oil from the tree!"


    " "Damn, what kind of tree is it that can secrete this kind of stuff?"


    " Do you know about Cage Grass? If you specialize in eating insects, there''s a tree, eating humans, or animals. In short, if you eat anything that contains blood, it will secrete some blood resin! "


    " "What the hell, then this tree is?"


    " This is definitely not a tree, because this amber did not come out from here. It should be someone.


    " How do you know? "


    " The man-eating tree is not like this. Look, what''s this place? " With just a little effort, the pockmark tore the pair of eyes off the tree trunk mountain and held them up higher. Under the sun, there was something inside.


    " I said, it might be a key, do you believe me? "


    " Keep bragging, how is this like a key? "


    " If you think so, currency, every historical period, culture is different, currency is also different, then what about the key? "Of course it''s different. If you think about our current keys, that''s limited. If this tree can find a symbol, I would bet that there''s a key to the lock!"


    " The value of keys and locks is nothing more than a pair. If we can open the amber, take it out, and put it together, will we be able to discover anything? " I took the one in the pockmark''s hand and touched it. It was warm and lovely, and I couldn''t tell what it was made of from, but it was darker than Amber''s own red.


    " We have already thought about it. There are some things that are hard to deal with once they are opened! " The pockmark hesitated.


    " How about, we throw rocks! "


    " Throw away the ready-made amber, and if this is the face that falls into your palm, we will continue. As long as it is not any face of this face, we will give up and continue on our way. We will pretend that we did not see this thing! " Pockmark suggested.

 C10

    " "Alright!"


    " Throw it once, so be it! "


    The pockmarks let me throw them because my hands stink.


    As a smelly hand, I met a pockmark with a rotten idea, so I decisively threw it out and caught it in the palm of my hand.


    " "Why? Of the two keys, only one will be able to eject it, but why does it look exactly the same?" I don''t understand, why would a single key be insufficient for a single raised lock on the trunk of a tree? Also, why are two keys the same? One is easy to obtain, while the other isn''t. What does this mean? Or was it just a game that was easy to get?


    " I always feel that the heavens will not easily drop a pie. This key is too kind, I don''t dare to use it! " "So, San-zi, the purpose of our visit is not to find your corpse, let me tell you, what is Old Lin? He''s a land of many pirate ships, and for a time, you couldn''t hold back your curiosity and got on some pirate ship, then it would be hard for you to come back down. If we continue to waste time on the mysterious research that we came out from on the road, it would go against our original intentions!"


    "I don''t think so. First of all, I don''t believe that there really is a corpse of my own in this mountain, I tell you pockmarks, unless you are going to beat me to death, I swear to my own crotch, I don''t believe that. Also, I have no plan, and my motto in life is to never plan to change, I like to adapt to change!"


    "Alright, I''ll accompany you then!" The pockmark was not stubborn, "Anyway, if you delay here, your corpse will stink and you won''t be able to see it. Don''t blame me for not reminding you!"


    "I pried it open myself. I''ll do it myself!" I took the key that popped out and leaned on the symbol that I found.


    The most unassuming tree in the world opened up a door from a vertical section, and inside that door was the purest and darkest part of the world.


    The light in the forest was so green and beautiful, but it couldn''t reflect any of the drops on the tree. It was like an invisible interface that prevented the light from spreading, but it also had a strong and domineering feeling.


    That taste, I have never touched, even I in all taste buds can find words to describe.


    It''s a smell that makes you want, and I''m a very sensitive person, and before that I hesitate, but after that every cell in my body calls to me, goes in, goes in, goes in.


    The pockmarks didn''t look any better. I actually stepped into it first.


    Just when the pockmarks were about to enter, an awkward scene unfolded before me. It was as though a knife had sliced through the pockmarks that went into my body.


    Moreover, when I opened my mouth to call for pockmarks, I couldn''t even feel my own mouth. It was just like the universe, the abrupt sound was very distorted.


    "Third brother, look outside!"


    It was also this voice that influenced me to regain my senses. When I turned around, I actually wasn''t able to find the direction, but I instinctively turned my body to a certain degree.


    The door that the tree trunk had opened was slanted at a fork in the road where we had entered, and it looked so clear, which was strange, this feeling was so incredible, there was a pure darkness in front of you, this darkness was the part between me and the door in the tree trunk, but after this darkness was the most normal part of the world of light, the forest beyond the tree trunk, but I was in darkness and I saw a darkness, and then I saw another light, and this splitting the light into sections was really confusing.


    "Ma Zi, did you see that?" I searched the darkness for the pockmarks, the warmth, the sense of safety.


    "Sans, should we not come in? Let''s get out!" The pockmark had never really been afraid of anything in my memory, but its voice was shaky.


    "Why can''t the light come in here? And why do we see it like this outside? "


    "Sans, stop asking, hurry up and get out!" The pockmark almost snarled an order at me.


    Panic was contagious, and I took a big step out of the tree trunk.


    At the same time, he didn''t loosen his grip on the hemp.


    However, after taking three steps in succession, I actually didn''t step out. At that time, my heart was really in a panic.


    I could even feel it, not the rush of my heart, but the choking of my blood.


    "We''ve caused a disaster this time. San-zi, I''ve never come across such a quiet and terrifying place. Why don''t a blind man come out and kill me himself? The wild boar bit me, and this kind of secret mute made people sweat all over their feet!"


    "Don''t, don''t rush, let''s walk a bit more, a few more steps!" It''s been a few minutes, but we still can''t get out of the darkness. And everything outside can be seen, the wind blowing by, the little grass, the leaves being lifted, all of this has become our unreachable dream.


    AHH! Why do we feel like we''re moving?" What I''m most afraid of is snakes. That thing grows so long that it freaks out. When it walks like this, I can always feel something moving under my feet. The first thing I thought of was that thing, goosebumps appearing on my back.


    "Why didn''t I feel it?"


    "My senses are sharper than an ordinary person''s. I swear to my crotch that there will definitely be something moving under my feet!"


    " "Hah, let me feel. My shoes are thick, I really can''t feel it!"


    The pockmarks were really not ordinary fat. I felt them holding each other''s hand, and the pockmarks were really there, so I should have touched them with my other hand. At that time, I was about to crush my teeth with my teeth, but when I thought about the process of being bitten, I immediately felt it.


    "Sans, we might be able to get out of here now. I''ve discovered that if we move, our feet will follow us!" The pockmark''s voice was filled with joy.


    "What do you mean?"


    "Think about it, why did we only take a few steps when we came in and not dozens of steps when we went out? Could it be that there''s something moving under our feet, moving in the opposite direction from us?"


    "Fuck, it''s a Treadmill that''s used by the city people?"


    "I''ve never seen that thing you''re talking about. But, think about it, isn''t that logical?"


    The pockmark almost sprang up like a spring, "It, it couldn''t be that we have a living creature under our feet, right?"


    "Snake?"


    "Then I touched it just now?"


    "Have you touched it? Is it warm?"


    "It seems like, there''s, there''s, there''s, there''s no!"


    "It''s over, pockmark. You''re right, I came to the forest to look for my corpse!"


    " You aren''t even as good as the you who died. At least you still have a corpse. If we were to die here, who would be able to find it? "


    "Punk, I already said that when a man is about to die, he won''t lie. Tell me the truth, when I returned to the village yesterday, did you meet me in the small shallow forest?"


    pockmarked man did not speak.


    "Yes, or no?" I felt that this question, which he hesitated for a moment, was not normal.


    "San-zi, remember this: In this world, there is a type of person who loves you the most that can spend so much effort in hiding something from you!"


    "Stop bullshitting, I just want to know, do you?"


    "There are a lot of things that you will regret knowing if you know about them. Just like right now, in a lot of places, if you have come here before, you will regret coming here!"

 C11

    " Let me tell you, pockmarked, if there really is someone in this world who loves me, at least give me the means to do so, I will not accept anything under deception, in the name of love. "Tell me, is it also you who met the pockmarks on my way back to the village at night?"


    " "You still haven''t had enough experience, Little San!"


    " "Yes, that''s why you have the ability to beat around the bush!"


    " If we can get out alive, I''ll tell you! "


    " "Do you mean that if you go out dead, you will take it to the coffin?"


    " "How can we get out of here if we die?" The tone of his voice caught my attention in the dark, but I could hardly tell if he was serious or unreliable, for it was almost emotionless, even calm, and I could not feel the fear I had felt before.


    " Little San, take a look at the tree opposite you, quick, look over there! " The pockmark suddenly changed the subject and urgently showed me. Because of the darkness, it was impossible for him to point at me, so he simply took my hand and pointed outside with his finger. I then looked outside with my own hand.


    To be honest, I was pointing in the direction of more than one tree.


    "F * ck off! Which tree are you on?!" "What does it look like?" There are so many trees outside that I can see nothing unusual.


    "It''s from the first tree in front of us, between the eighth and the ninth!"


    "Fuck, it can''t be. Either the eighth or the ninth tree. You want me to look at a tree and then tell me that it''s between two trees. Is that a fun joke before you die?"


    "Your brain really is a piece of smelly tofu. Didn''t you notice that something was wrong between the two trees?"


    " "Huh?" Don''t say, although I''m not a person who can remember every detail, I still have some impression towards the things that I''ve seen before. I remember that between these trees, there would usually be at least one person stretching his arm the distance between them, but the pockmarks said that the two trees are too close, and if we have to pass through between these two trees, that would be bad enough. It seems like the two of us haven''t met yet.


    "What do you want to say?" I asked.


    "Why do I feel like these trees aren''t plants, but animals instead?"


    "Pfft!" The pockmarks sometimes need to be slapped, they say something that makes people want to slap them, but as long as you think about it carefully, you will agree that this comes from the springiness of the pockmarks, and that most people are able to form a logical meaning with each sentence, and that the pockmarks are all silently operating in their own brain, and that the result is just a result through words, so I immediately seem to understand what he really means. "You mean, that the plants outside, like the grass with the buckles, we can be sure here that they are alive, and those outside the trees, maybe we can really be animals? "What do you mean? I understand, I don''t understand. Are you going to explain to me that we entered a strange place where plants can be regarded as living things?"


    "Pretty much!" He continued, "Little San, don''t you think this world is a strange thing? In one space, you can see plants, in another space, you can see animals, or in other words, this is just one of them. In other words, in another space, what looks like this kind of thing in one space would look like a different species?"


    "Stop talking, pockmarks, why am I dizzy? According to what we''re saying, is there something wrong with the woods outside or is there something wrong with the place we''re staying?"


    "Perhaps, something is wrong. Don''t you still suspect that something is wrong with me?"


    "You''re too sensitive. It''s obvious that you''re suspecting me in your heart. It''s as if I''ve seen a ghost when I said it out loud. Your mind isn''t smart even with sensitive nerves. This is the root of your lowest intelligence!" The pockmark''s voice softened a little, and it took the initiative to pull my hand back. "You must not disperse from here. With your intelligence, you won''t live past two hours!"


    "People with low IQ usually have high EQ!" At this moment, I suddenly discovered the evidence, "Look at the pockmarks, we''re right. Those trees are living beings. Look, just now, there were only two trees that were too close. Did the distance between the fifth and the fourth one change?"


    "F * ck, Little San, are we inside the body of some living thing?" While speaking, the pockmarks should be covering my mouth and nose. In the next second, I ruthlessly inhale a smell, this smell came suddenly, and I almost choked out my tears. After I realized that I was going to cover my nose, it f * cking disappeared, and I didn''t even know what the smell was.


    " You are not loyal! " I scolded the pockmarked one, and in the darkness the pockmarked one hand suddenly covered my mouth, while the other quickly wrote three words in my palm: "Something!"

 C12

    "What''s going on?" I was out of breath and didn''t run out of the tree. When I thought back to how we couldn''t get out no matter how hard I tried to get out, I started to feel that something was amiss.


    " I don''t know either, but if we are to run with all our might, our running speed must be the opposite of what this thing is capable of! "


    " "What was that thing just now?"


    "These trees are really living beings, the thing that touched your face just now should be some organ within its body, I was just guessing. I haven''t encountered such an evil thing in my entire life, hurry up and run, you faster, if you can''t do it, I''ll let it go first and speed up to see if I can charge out!" As he spoke, the pockmarked fellow really wanted to let go.


    "Don''t, I used 80% of my energy. I still haven''t figured out what it means, so I don''t dare to run."


    "F * ck, what on earth is your IQ? If it''s a war, then do you think you need to figure out how many yards the enemy leader''s eyes are and shoes before you can shoot?"


    " "I said, it''s so damn dangerous, where the hell did we get to just now?"


    " "I don''t know, but it feels like a living thing. Little San, do you see that? When we come out, the knots or the grass and the distance between the trees will be exactly the same again. Tell me, what''s going on?"


    " "Oh yeah, which tree did we run out from just now? Why can''t we find it?"


    " F * ck, that tree used the key in the Amber Blood to match the bulge on the tree to open up the entrance. How come there''s no trace of it now? At least there''s a door! "


    " Look, this is the bullet I fired. I remember that we were not far from the bullet at that time, at most three to four trees, it should be nearby! " The pockmark found the bullet in the grass.


    " What should he do? We are here on official business, we can''t possibly be so conflicted over the matter of Cheng Ya Jin! "Oh yeah, you were the one who said it earlier. If you can come out alive, then tell me about it!"


    " You still believe what I say? It''s not like I don''t know when I''m small, I always fart when I speak! "


    " This matter, if you don''t mind, I will take it back. I have to say, this matter is very important, if you continue to beat about the bush, I will choose to go back and not look at anything anymore. I am not curious! " I sat down again.


    " Then you can go back, and leave me the dry rations and the water bag! " The pockmark is a scumbag. It is useless to goad him, and we grew up together. He knows more about my intestines than I do, and I can''t hold him.


    " "Yes!" On the one hand, I replied in a low voice. On the other hand, I had to continue hanging onto my pockmarks, and I had to continue to be bored to the point where I could see what else the pockmarks could say. He said too much, and there would always be moments of exposure, but on the other hand, I also slowly realized that the pockmarks made sense.


    Just now we were wasting time here, if we don''t hurry up, then it might be night by the time we reach the planned location, but in that place, it''s not far from the old school''s wooden house, we don''t need to worry about sleeping out at night. If you believe me, then you won''t ask anything and come with me.


    " Ma Zi, did you hear anything? "


    " It seems to be in front! " The pockmark pointed in the direction we were headed.


    " Let me tell you, this place can crash into a snake at any time and devour rabbits, or an eagle can bite a snake, or a wolf can bite off an ox''s leg, or the blood of the food chain! "


    " What do you mean, this sound, could it have come from some animal that ate another animal? However, ever since we entered, there haven''t even been any grasshoppers. If we can see a living creature, does that mean we''ve escaped from those so-called dangers? "


    " "Shh!" The pockmarks stopped suddenly, and he stopped, pointing to a spot.


    "What is it that the wolf wants to do? Could it be the female wolf that I fell in love with, Chopping Legs and Bears? " I asked the pockmarked man, relaxing my finger on the trigger.


    " It doesn''t seem to be a problem with wolves. Have you heard of the man-eating tree? " pockmarked eyes scanned the surroundings, looking nervous.


    " "Ah, you mean ¡­" I dare not continue, because of the words'' man-eating tree '', I am beginning to understand the scene in front of me.


    " ''Bugs, these trees, did they become like this after eating so many animals in the forest? No wonder we can''t see any living things after entering this area! ''

 C13

    " "Punk, we really have entered a mysterious place!" I used to know every time I heard old books about the magical stories of the mountains, that it wasn''t a story, that it was true, but you knew in your heart, on the surface, that it was the truth and the truth of what had happened to you, or two things, and you could say that the sight was far greater than the trembling brought about by hearing.


    " Let''s go, they won''t provoke us, let''s move forward! " The pockmark dragged me along the same path as before.


    " What do you think happened to the key in the Amber Man just now? " I was indeed curious about this question, so I asked it. Even though I knew that asking was useless, I still hoped that by making use of the topic, I would be able to make some noise.


    " "God knows, but I dare say it wasn''t grown up on its own!"


    " That''s man-made? "


    " The method of elimination is quite scary. If it''s manmade, then let''s think about it. Wouldn''t that be even more terrifying? "


    " Yeah, who would have the ability to create such a thing? The key is, is the key to open the tree? Why did you open a tree? People always have a purpose when they want to do something, and the more skilled you are, the stronger your goal is. However, we are not trapped, aren''t we too easy to escape from? There''s no point in breaking this trap. What is the creator thinking? "


    " "Little San, I say your brain isn''t strong enough. If you think straight, I dare you to bet that you won''t even be able to fool a rabbit here. You know there''s a saying that is most suitable for survival in the mountains!" The pockmark deliberately paused to whet my appetite.


    " "What?"


    " If you want to conquer a wolf, you need to use the wolf''s mind. If you want to capture a bear, you need to know the bear''s thoughts. You cannot use your own thoughts to guess at other things, or else, you will always be on the same level as them! "


    " What''s wrong with being parallel to side? Do we have to intersect? "


    " Mathematics is still on the level of Mathematics, parallel is always passing by, you understand? "


    " I just saw another tree, that way! " I pointed to the tree that was already far behind me.


    "I feel sick every time I see a woman''s things!" The pockmark said this in a completely lost manner.


    "You mean the hair is female? But what huntress is there in our village? And it''s more than one woman''s hair? "


    "Can''t they be outsiders?"


    "Right, how far do we have to go?" I hastened my steps, forcing myself to look at the road ahead of me. After all, the things in this place are just as the pockmarks say, as long as I don''t provoke them, it isn''t dangerous. As long as I can control my eyes, my heart.


    The last time I was here, it was only for half a day. This time, you''ve seen it too, something happened on the road, I dare not say anything. Right now, I know the way, but I''m afraid I might get lost.


    " If you can''t find it, you''re lying to me! "


    " Don''t keep on lying to me. Why aren''t you peeing to peek at yourself? What''s so worth lying to me all over your body? "


    "Pock, tell me, we passed that forest so easily, is it that?"


    " "I told you, people like you are always suspicious of what you easily get!"


    "It''s a good thing that nothing happened. It''s just that nothing happened where it should have happened. It''s not necessarily a good thing!" I talked to myself. There are times when I have an intuition, an instinct, that I don''t need a reason.


    " At the moment, we cannot continue to walk, because after this period, we will be facing a troublesome place that leads to that cave, and that place can''t be left at night. It''s already afternoon, and the next day, when the sun sets early, we will enter that place, and once we reach the sun, we will definitely be unable to leave. pockmarked explained to me what to do next.


    " "Fine!" For many years that cabin had been wandering in my memory, vague and clear, and I think I had to see it many times over the years, even if I had to spend the night and listen to the night wind, but the time was so strange, so busy, so lost in silence, that I forgot what I wanted to do most.


    " "Are you sure you can reach the cabin in this direction?"


    " Thanks to living with Old Branch Book for so many years, do you remember the beast skins in that wooden house? " Scabbers said as they walked.


    "What happened to the beast skins?"


    "That''s not an ordinary beast skin. You''re still not convinced when I say you''re stupid? Why do you think a wooden house could be so peaceful in such a dangerous mountain? How dare we spend the night here? The old branch got all that beast skin from that place!"


    " Why haven''t I heard of it? Just a place where you can''t see the sun all day long? "At that time, the branch book said that we were not afraid of anything when we moved into the house. It was because we respected the animals in the mountains, and the animals knew better than anyone that they didn''t hurt us!"


    " "You''re such a fool, believing whatever the branch says!"


    " I wouldn''t fool a child! "


    " It''s not a bluff. There are many things that he can''t explain, so he can only compose a frame and make a circle! "


    " Ma Zi, you seem to know a lot. I keep feeling that there''s something wrong with my return this time. There''s something in your words! "


    " Sans, this is the first time I have encountered such a thing, and many of the things that I have done are actually in a dilemma. If you were to find out about it one day, I will do it for your own good, but I don''t know if I will really do it for your own good! "


    " "Oh right, I just asked, are you sure you can go to the wooden hut in this direction? It seems like you''re asking a wrong question!"


    " "I haven''t finished talking. The beast skins in the wooden house come from that place, but the things there are all fragrant. If you have a keen nose, you should be able to smell the fragrance of the wind coming from that direction!"


    " Have you ever been to that place? "What do you know? About where the beast skin came from, how do you know? Also, how much do you know about that incense?"

 C14

    "You heard it all, I know I found it all myself!"


    " What do you mean, don''t always talk like that! Have you ever been to the place described in the old branch books? The branch books know about most of the things in this forest. If it''s not the branch books, then unless you''ve really been there yourself! "


    " If you really want to know all of this, then go find the answer yourself! "


    " Ma, don''t you feel that something''s wrong here? "


    " I have never lived here before, so how do I know what it was like before? "


    " You don''t need to live here. Didn''t you find anything? "


    " If there''s really something that doesn''t make sense, it might be possible to say it! " The pockmark paused.


    " Tell me about it! "


    " "The mattress on the kang!"


    I went to study in the city. The old branch book probably lived here alone, using a rabbit skin as a mattress, because many of the hair was flattened and there were traces of a body lying on it.


    The pockmarked man said the mattress was wrong. I don''t understand.


    But just as I was about to ask, my heart skipped a beat. Damn, a room that no one had visited for so many years could not still have a strong smell of dry smoke, so how could a mattress that had lain so many years ago leave any traces of a person''s body?


    The two of us looked at each other for a brief moment before we understood what each of us was thinking.


    " Aren''t you surprised that you''re so calm? " I almost bounced up, but the pockmarks were too calm.


    " "What''s there to be surprised about? There are many signs, I''ve already suspected it!"


    " Who do you think it is? Is it really a book? "


    " "It''s a book, I can''t imagine what''s behind it, not a book, I definitely can''t imagine it, San-zi, if it was just the tip of the iceberg, would you dare to investigate it?"


    " "What do you mean?"


    " There are many things that you might never know about. If you were to know even a tiny bit of them, it would be equivalent to being infected by poison. I''m afraid that you won''t be able to get rid of them! I am reminding you to consider it! "


    Because the next day there was something important on our minds, we just managed to get it done. After filling our stomachs, the brick bed was also hot, so we quickly went to sleep.


    At night, at an unknown time, I woke up with a piss. The brick bed was very hot, and I really didn''t want to leave this warm bed, so I opened and closed my eyes, holding it in for a long time in the mountains. The brick bed was hot under my back, and the tip of my nose was cold, because there was only one layer of heat on the bed.


    I looked at the fire under the brick bed, I really needed more firewood, so I got up and pissed together.


    The pockmarked man was sleeping soundly, so I didn''t wake up even when I climbed over him. I pushed open the door and left the room.


    The moonlight outside, hidden between the two treetops, cast a silvery light through the cracks, and I was just outside the house peeing, preparing to grab some dried branches that were ready, but there seemed to be movement in the distance.


    At first I thought it was a wolf or something, but no, it was a human voice, because it was a regular sound, it sounded like someone digging, one time, one time, but digging deep in the mountains in the middle of the night was impossible, was it digging?


    Ignoring the fact that I had to go back to the house and wake up the pockmark, I followed the sound of the noise.


    Damn, I was right this time. After walking a few steps, I saw a shadow squatting in the moonlight from afar. Coincidentally, I could see the pit in front of him by borrowing the moonlight.


    It seemed that he had not been digging for a long time. That person''s face could not be seen, and his hair was neither long nor short; it hung down on his head, covering his face, facial features, and was draped around his neck. He looked like someone who had been living in the mountains all year round, with an unkempt look on his face.


    Who knows if it''s a man or a ghost, even if it''s a man, he''s not a good person. With my hands and IQ, even if I''m not a match for him, I wouldn''t dare to go any further than him, and I don''t dare to walk back for fear of being found out. Besides, I''m also curious, what is the purpose of digging a pit?


    At this moment, that person stopped digging, scaring me so much that I didn''t even dare to breathe, so much that I struggled to lower my body, ''Did he discover me?'' Just as I was about to discover him, I ran and shouted at him, and that person took something out from his clothes. That thing seemed to be small, about the size of a rag, but I couldn''t see anything clearly, so I threw it into the hole and started to fill it up.


    F * ck, I was wondering, why did you bury something so secretively and not go into detail, why did you throw it in so casually? Furthermore, it''s just a cloth, is there really a need to dig a deep hole, it''s illogical for him to do it so carefully, it''s much more serious than burying things.


    He didn''t even look around, but started walking in one direction, and soon disappeared into the darkness of the jungle. After I couldn''t hear his footsteps, I got up to walk towards the wooden house, but just as I was about to turn around and walk away, there was a person standing behind me.


    I almost peed, it was pockmarks.


    " When did you wake up and how long have you been here? " I''m not sure if the pockmarks saw the digging.


    "When you get up, press on my elbow and you''ll wake up. We should hurry up and dig that pit and take a look!"


    "What if that person didn''t go far? Or else the sky will brighten!"


    " "Why would you want to dig in the middle of the night and specially choose a spot so close to the wooden hut? Why is there such an eye-catching sound coming from the hole?"


    "What do you mean? "You don''t understand?"


    "We arrived at the wooden house in the evening and started a fire or something. As long as the person who came was not a fool, he would know that there is someone in the cabin tonight. If Zhang Xuan were to dig a hole and no one knew about it, would he be able to do so silently? Would he really have to dig one after another? "Apparently, the other party is doing this on purpose for the people from the wooden house to see, but I''m not sure if this is a trap or just a message." The pockmark said the first half of the sentence with a confident tone, but in the end, it was obvious that he was hesitating.


    "So maybe the other party hasn''t gone far yet. Maybe he''s hiding nearby to see if we should dig out the things he buried!"


    "Then we''ll dig out that rag and it''ll still be daylight. In fact, the nature of danger is the same, right?"


    "Right, what, what rag?"


    "It looks to me like that person buried a rag!"


    "Damn, that''s just skin! What kind of brain do you have?"

 C15

    " "Skin?" I don''t know why, but the moment I heard the word ''skin'', I couldn''t help but think back to a few days ago when that Mountain Demon had gone to the shop to give me a piece of skin. That piece of skin was about the same size as the piece of cloth I had just used, but that piece of skin was lost on the way back, and I didn''t have much impression of it. Otherwise, I would have thought of the piece of skin and not the piece of cloth.


    "Could it be the one you lost?" the pockmark asked.


    "Hard to say, like!"


    " If it''s the one you lost, that''s also true. Maybe the other party is just borrowing it, and after using it, he''ll return it to you this way! "


    "I''m the opposite of what you think. If you''re an acquaintance, you can just say so. If you''re a stranger, then what''s the difference between borrowing secretly and stealing? Why do you need to return it to me after stealing it?"


    " Maybe the other party just doesn''t want to make things difficult for him. Maybe the other party isn''t a stranger, and isn''t an acquaintance either! "


    "Damn, you speak as if you are that person. Don''t tell me you are the most familiar stranger?"


    "Why must it be for me, or maybe for you?"


    " Someone sent Mountain Demon all the way to the shop to give you a piece of leather. You think no one will give you another piece in the middle of the night because I don''t think this leather is for me! "


    "I don''t think it''s a problem with the leggings. It''s been a long way. The animals seem to have disappeared!"


    "That''s true, but if no animals come out, there must be something more dangerous. We have to be extra careful!"


    "What could cause all the animals in the forest to run away?"


    " You know, humans are the spirits of all living things, and are indeed very clever, but did you realize, people''s progress in being close to nature is far inferior to that of animals, or it could be said that people''s ability to sense nature is far worse than that of animals, or else, before the earthquake, animals would react to everything, and people would just not know, this time, there''s nothing in the forest. The pockmarks held onto my leggings, hesitating whether I should tie them up or not. In the end, they still tied them up, and passed them to me, indicating that I should also tie them up.


    " It doesn''t seem right, pockmarked! "


    " "What''s wrong?"


    "We arrived at the cabin in the evening yesterday, right?"


    " "Nonsense!"


    "Do you remember when we were walking toward the cabin, we were facing the sun, that is to say, we came from the east side of the cabin, and this would be in the morning, why is the sun still in the west?"


    I told him about the instantaneous analysis in my head.


    "Ma Zi, tell me, this wooden house isn''t equipped with wheels, how could it be moved?"


    "Wait a minute, it''s easy for your thoughts to lead people into the ditch. Could it be that this isn''t a morning, and it''s just another evening?"


    "What the hell, you can''t be. According to what you said, we slept for a night and a day, and woke up in the second evening? "That''s impossible, I didn''t sleep well last night, I only wanted to sleep when the sun is about to up!"


    " However, according to what you said, it is impossible for the wooden house to be moved. You should know that even if the wooden house could be moved, the kang and water vats inside would not have been moved! "


    " Yeah, we were lying on the brick bed for the whole night. Whoever has the f * cking capability wouldn''t be able to move the brick bed. That''s even more impossible! Even if my eyes are wrong, the sun won''t be wrong! "


    "San-zi, San-zi, I think I agree with what you said. Say, do you think our eyes will lie to us?"


    Let''s not talk about that, pockmarks. If we continue analyzing like this, I won''t even recognize myself anymore. Yesterday, didn''t we see that the tree had become a living thing and the grass had become a living thing? Here, maybe, maybe, we really can''t believe our eyes!


    " If I find your corpse later, it won''t be safe for one day. Fortunately, it''s this season, and it won''t rot so quickly, and the forest is so nefarious that there aren''t even any grasshoppers. Otherwise, it''s very possible that I would be torn apart by wild wolves! "


    " "It''s not really me, what''s there to be afraid of? Why don''t we do it this way? If the direction of the wooden house isn''t right, we can talk about it later. This time, let''s hurry up and find yesterday''s route and follow it. First, we''ll go to the cave and look for my corpse!"


    " Yes, but there is one thing, the house is not in the right direction, if there is one possibility, it will be evening, and we will be passing by the place I mentioned before. In that place, there is a taboo, we can''t leave at night, how about we avoid breaking the path and coming to the house for the night first, then, tell me, if that is possible, what should we do? "


    " At least we know the time, the day and night, f * ck you, who knows if we can still be confused by this, but, I bet you don''t care about the evening, life is certain, we''re just looking for yesterday''s road, let''s go, I remember yesterday when I stepped on the insole and walked out of the grass, I casually threw a insole away, if we could find a insole, that''s right! "


    " "Then look for it!"


    " "It''s not hard to tell if it''s morning or evening. Wait, when the sun turns high it will be noon, then it will be morning, and if the sun goes down it will be evening, and it will be evening!"


    " San-zi, I keep having the feeling that someone is messing with us, you want to go to the cave, we have to pass through Blackwater Cliff, that place is the only way to go to the cave, that place is the most dangerous place, and if you want to say safe, that place is absolutely safe, because as long as you promise to leave during the day, that is fine, but, as long as you don''t go out during the day, and stay at night wherever you go, then even god will not be able to keep you alive.


    " Didn''t I say to wait and see, at worst, we can just leave at noon, and hurry up! "


    " If we leave at noon, I can''t really guarantee that we''ll have sufficient time.


    " "Why don''t we stay up for one more night? We won''t be sleeping tonight, we''ll be waiting for the morning!"


    " "I''m just afraid that we''ll wake up after a night. It''s the same situation as today, and it''s not that we want to sleep, but that this might be a trap. If we can''t break it, we''ll never find the morning!"

 C16

    " If we wait for one day, and if the sun still rises the next day in this direction, then even if it''s morning, we won''t be able to figure out whether the morning sun in the mountains is in the east or the west. In any case, we''ll just have to travel in the morning, don''t you think? " I asked.


    " "You''re right, but it''s not that simple. If this plot was designed to trap us, then the other party would sincerely stop us. I think we''ve been targeted, and if we just get through this, we''ll be tricked in the future!"


    " Then what should we do? If we don''t break this trap in one day, then we''ll just waste one day? Wouldn''t that be starving? "You don''t even have a bird''s bottom, do you think we can eat grass after eating our rations?"


    " How about, a bet! "As long as the sun still rises from today''s direction, we will be on our way. However, we can''t sleep tonight either, we will have to watch the sun go down and rise again before we leave!"


    "F * ck, when did we ever get so tired of living and have to keep an eye on the sun?!"


    The sun can''t be wrong. We have witnessed the operation of the day, and now our cabin will be in doubt from the road that we came from before. Let''s not talk about the cabin first, it''s just the same, tomorrow morning when dawn arrives, should we try to find our way back from the insole or the opposite direction of the insole?


    "According to the sun, we came here facing the evening sun. If we return in the morning, we should return facing the morning sun, right? But according to the insole, we should return with our backs facing the morning sun. How should we go tomorrow?" I sat in front of the cabin with Scabbers, counting the stars, staring, afraid to sleep, unable to sleep, how to get there in the morning, that was a decision to make.


    "Say, do you think that someone might have tampered with the insole you threw down and found a way back according to the insole? It''s unreliable!" said the pockmark.


    "But, think about it, not only the insole, even the direction of the proof in the cabin is the same as the insole. Besides, even if someone really plotted against us, who would have thought that we would rely on the insole to find the way again? I just happened to think of this too, otherwise, even we wouldn''t notice it!"


    " Fuck, the person who designed this trap is simply a genius, if we judge the wrong time according to the sun, and go to Black Water Cliff at night, it would be fatal, if we judge the wrong direction based on the reference, then going to Black Water Cliff would be going in the opposite direction, and we wouldn''t even be able to send ourselves to our death. They are playing around, and we are completely trapped, and we don''t even dare to hit the road! "


    If we can find the piece of cloth you tied up yesterday along this road, it will be in the right direction. If we can''t find it, we will return to Black Water Cliff, return to the cabin, and then search in the opposite direction of the insole. When we find the right path, this is the first step!


    " We found a piece of cloth from here. Isn''t that proof that the wooden house and the insole were in the wrong direction? The insole could have been moved to another location, but how could the wooden house be changed? " I was surprised and annoyed.


    " So, San-zi, I''m not lying to you. If I told you the source of this matter, you would not believe it, but it''s strange. The dream I had that day, it didn''t seem like a dream. Also, do you know why I can''t reply to you that you met another me on the night of your return? Because I had a dream about what happened to you the day before. Can you understand what I mean? "I''m confused myself now. Why would the things I dream of really happen? It''s just that the time is wrong!"


    "Then I asked you several times, what do you mean by your vague answers? Everything is for my own good. If you know something, you might as well not know it.


    "Yes, those parts, I can''t say for now, San-zi, because you were confused enough by what you heard, and if you say that again, I''m afraid you''ll think I''m a madman. There''s another thing, I dreamt that I took that piece of leather paper you lost, and it will be returned to you!" As he spoke, pockmarked man pulled out a leather note from his bosom.


    F * ck, the pockmark took out this piece of leather paper given to me by Mountain Demon. Doesn''t that mean I have to prove two things? First of all, the pockmarks I met when I went back to the village were real pockmarks, but at that time, they were actually eating mushrooms with my mother on the brick bed of my house. Second Sis was eating mushrooms on the brick bed of my house, but the pockmarks had indeed taken the note I lost, but in my dream before I came back, there was a difference of one day.


    "Then what do you mean by not admitting it? Do you mean that someone used the dream to manipulate your work? You suspect yourself, don''t you? " I looked at the pockmarks.


    " "Yes!" The pockmarks'' messy hair fluttered in the wind, and when the topic of discussion was brought up, his face was filled with an expression of being split apart.

 C17

    " "San-zi, you''re finally enlightened. I''ve already suspected all of this, but we don''t have any evidence, so what can we prove?"


    " Science always talks about evidence. In reality, where is there evidence for the truest things, such as history? Who are the historical records? If someone writes something that is not 100 percent true, then there will inevitably be the bias of the writer. How can we infer the truest things when we are always exploring history in records that are not true? Therefore, the evidence is bullshit! "


    " It should be night now. Let''s go to Blackwater Cliff, there''s no hurry to go in, let''s wait until the next day when we leave! " I calculated, because it took us a whole day to find the path written down by the cloth in the evening, so now, at night, if we were to continue walking, we would have to stop at Blackwater Cliff and wait until daylight to pass.


    " You really aren''t an idiot, but in this kind of forest where you can''t see the sky, we can''t even tell when the sky will brighten. Fuck, no matter how hard we try to dodge it, we can''t avoid it. The pockmark spat out a mouthful of saliva and cursed.


    " Anyway, it''s definitely night now, and we can''t reach Blackwater Cliff. We''ll talk after we walk, and once we reach Blackwater Cliff, we can climb a tree and see if it''s daytime or nighttime! " "No," I said.


    " This method is reliable! "


    " This branch has never talked about Blackwater Cliff before. What kind of place is this? Why haven''t the hunters in the village mentioned it before? "


    " That book must have told you about the Ghost Beast Tomb! "


    " Damn, to put it bluntly, Blackwater Cliff is only the name of the Ghost Beast Tomb for a special period of time. Why not go there at night?


    " Which dead person did you meet? Tell us what it felt like when you died, and where did you go after you died? Those who went to Blackwater Cliff at night were all buried there. You''re asking me, who should I ask? "


    " "Who''s buried there?"


    " I don''t even know the first you, just say in recent years, know Guo Gou? The one who was so stingy that couldn''t wait to sew a rag and put on his underpants, disappeared from your university, then was found by the people in the village at the entrance of Blackwater Cliff. No one has ever seen that old hat before, but the person who picked up that hat said that the cap was filled with brain matter, and was frozen into ice, like it was shot out by a blowhole! "


    " What could have made a head like that? "


    " The elderly say that there are levels to burn and there are levels to terrifying injuries. We all say that you are scared to death, but in truth, amongst the injuries caused by terror, being scared to death is considered the lightest of all of them. If you continue to go any higher, you would be scared to death, and your face would be paralyzed from paralysis, or even your facial features would be distorted, or your skin would be out of shape.


    " In other words, Guo Guo had entered Blackwater Cliff, and was scared to death. He couldn''t imagine what in the world could have frightened a living person to such an extent. I want to see the true terror of what you have to say at night! "


    F * ck, you''re not some ordinary pervert. Your curiosity is too great, it''s a disaster, do you understand? But, do you know why I say that mountains are a type of poison? Even though you know that there''s poison, you''re still willing to go in there and you''re not willing to give up. That feeling is just like what you''re thinking right now, just leave it to fate. "Nutty''s face, with its long sigh, did indeed sparkle with oil, and for a moment I was at a loss as to why he had made such a split face.

 C18

    " What''s wrong with you? "What did you meet? Why was your reaction so intense?" The pockmark''s expression was innocent, not faked.


    " Aren''t you in front of me? Why is it coming from behind, look! " I couldn''t explain it in a few words, so I pointed to the straight hemp rope in front of me.


    The next thing that happened, I was not boasting at all, it was like a magic trick, there was a very straight hemp rope in front of me, it was like something pulling on it, of course it was empty, the hemp didn''t begin to untie my side of the rope from behind me, and as the hemp continued, my end of the rope was untied, and at the same time as my length of hemp loosened, the other end immediately loosened, as if there were a mirror opposite me, and the rope in front of the mirror collapsed and was reflected in the mirror at the same time.


    "Why are you right behind me?" I asked.


    "Weren''t you always behind me? When did you get ahead of me?!" the pockmark asked.


    "What about the other end of the rope?" I asked the next one.


    " Fuck, I was looking at the part in front of me, okay? If you untie my rope, I''ll loosen up as well! Besides, didn''t I point out the part in front of me for you to see? "


    " I see it, I see all three of them, the rope on your body has been untied, the rope on the other end is loose, the rope on my waist is also loose, fuck it, I''ve never seen a button undone, all the clothes of a woman fall to the ground, damn it! " The pockmark spat out a mouthful of saliva and cursed again rudely.


    " If we climb up a tree to see the sky, who knows what we might encounter. The heavens are fated for our lives, and Hades has set his eyes on us, so we can only marry into his family. What''s there to be afraid of?


    " This place is so weird, don''t talk so much nonsense, maybe we''ll meet some honest, mysterious, materialistic people next? "


    "We should be reaching Blackwater Cliff soon!" said the pockmark.


    "You recognize Lula?"


    "No, Blackwater Cliff is a tunnel, so it''s easy to gather wind. Think about it, why do you think the fog we used to walk in earlier became fainter and fainter? It''s because of the wind from Blackwater Cliff!"


    "Hmm, what should we do? Continue going in?"


    "Nonsense, you''re afraid of that?"


    " "Why, why can''t we see without the fire handle?" I looked around at everything. It was so clear that if I stared at a certain spot for a long time, I would feel a kind of piercing pain. "Even if it''s daytime, it shouldn''t be as bright as the tunnel!"


    " "Don''t step on it!" The pockmark suddenly stopped my right foot as I was about to step in.


    " "My god, what do you call that? It''s a miracle, tell me, these animals have such tacit understanding. Putting the sh * t on the ground and pulling them out together, yet doing it in such a orderly manner!" I clicked my tongue.


    " "What do you know? Humans and animals often empty their bodies before they die, so these feces must have been left behind by a group of animals before they died!"


    " What do you mean by empty before death? "


    " If you meet a seriously ill old man, you will suddenly lose your ability to move and you won''t be able to control your defecate, then you will be saved. Once a person is empty, it is a sign of death, obviously a group of animals once died in this place, but third son, can you understand what kind of animals these defecation are? " The pockmark suddenly squatted down and asked.


    " "F * ck, I only know mutton beans, and I''ve seen dog shit before. Oh yeah, I''ve never seen cat shit before!"


    " Let me see, the feces of wild boars are usually viscous, showing loose lumps, and also can be seen in the feces of wild boars. Our forest has bamboo shoots, pine cones, wild fruits, and even pheasant eggs, so we can see the shell of the bamboo shoot, pine seed, fruit core, broken eggshell, and other similar types. Right, it definitely isn''t the feces of a tiger, because there''s a very elegant title for tiger, called black gold. These are obviously not the right colors, if you sprinkle their feces somewhere, you won''t see them for three days, the wild sheep, the cat, the fox, the wolf, and all the manure of these wolves will find various kinds of bird hairs! " The pockmarks finally began talking to themselves, and I could barely hear what they were saying.


    "Three, three, I ¡ª!" The pockmarked man''s face changed suddenly, and he looked at me, hesitating to speak.


    "What''s wrong? Could it be dragon dung? " I can''t imagine what kind of animal''s dung would make a pockmark like this.


    "Looks, looks like a human!"


    " Ah, f * ck, so that means that it''s not a group of animals that died together, but a group of people? But wasn''t this the Beast Cave? How could it bury people? "And when did so many people die in our village?"


    "It''s not our village, it''s an outsider! So many people died, it''s nothing! If I could pry open these ice layers and dig out those yellow ones, I think you would be shocked!" The pockmark''s expression made me momentarily unable to tell if it was excitement or excitement.


    "You ¡­"


    "Say, if someone ate some golden beans and pulled them out, would it be the same as burying them in the feces?"


    "Gold? "You mean there''s gold in the shit down there?" "If I look at it this way, don''t mention the earthy yellow, I would have already felt that I would not have been able to imagine it on human feces, because it is not the pure yellow of our poop, like the pockmarks say. Some of the brighter colors are wrapped in a layer of something that gives off a light color, so if the golden color is covered and looks earthy, isn''t that right?" Didn''t the old saying that if a person swallowed gold, he would die? "


    "Did you see those dark green parts? Maybe they were pulled out by eating wild leeks in the mountains. If a group of people swallowed gold and also ate a lot of wild leeks, then it''s not like they died after eating gold, but after they swallowed gold, Larkin, you know?"


    "Bringing gold? Why? Could it be that some people used this method to bring more gold away?"


    "Yes, for example, those who steal the grave and dig it up, some of them are for the big boss to work for. After coming out, they have to give all the things they brought from the grave to the boss, and for the sake of saving some for themselves, they use this method."


    "Ma Zi, I remember something. Back then, I heard that there were some mountain elves in the forest that raised wild barbarians. You know what these wild barbarians are raised for, they are like picking golden dates on a tree!"


    "You mean there are trees that can form gold, and people that are raised to pick gold? "You can''t pick it with your hands. Could it be that in order to control those barbarians, Mountain Demon cut off his hands and feet, then let the barbarians eat the gold before pulling it out?"


    No, those golden dates are just a kind of golden dates, not real gold. Do you know that if we eat and drink the persimmon, our stomachs will form a lump of persimmon? "After the Mountain Demons let the barbarians eat the golden jujube and drink another type of wine, they will form a hard golden cask in their stomachs. I thought it was just a book playing around with me, but I didn''t expect it to be so. I think if we really dig out the gold cask, it might actually be like that!


    The ice, some hardness, but also brittle, almost shakes open a hole, will crack, split again, we put in the pry, pout, very strong.

 C19

    " "No, pockmarked, are you sure we really have to dig it out of the dung after we break the ice?" When I saw the thing below me, I felt like vomiting.


    " Let me tell you, Sans, later on, you won''t be able to hold it in and will vomit. But turn around and spit it out, don''t spit it out on these piles of dung. As he said this, the pockmarked man gave me a shred of a shoulder, which I immediately stepped aside and gave up, watching him play with it.


    " But what about the golden beans? Who left them here? Do we continue on our journey or what? "


    " Let''s not rush on our way. According to the normal time, it should also be night time. If we encounter this at the Black Water Cliff, perhaps the heavens have arranged for us to be unable to pass by this time? Furthermore, with so many gold beans, it would take us many years to earn a sum from the shop. Come on, if you don''t pick them up, I''ll pick them up. In fact, I really admire pockmarks. Although they love money and are often reprimanded by us, love money so much that it is worthy of respect.


    He immediately stopped picking up the golden beans with his sharp eyes. Instead, he inserted his hands into the direction where the feces were flowing. "There''s something down there!"


    I could tell from the look on its face that what was down there was not simple. I used the crowbar to dig around its two arms.


    When the crowbar hit something hard, I picked up speed.


    From the sound of it, I thought that maybe I dug out some gold-headed tiger or wolf, but I only managed to dig out a tile, and it was incomplete.


    "What the hell is this crap, shit!" I didn''t even look at it.


    "Adam? Eve''s husband? "


    Are you still in your crotch? This is Vadang! "People call it a tile head, or a drop of eaves, which is the top tile of the roof, do you see, there are patterns on it, as if the pattern of a tile in different dynasties of history is different, only, I don''t know, how to dig out a tile here?" "The pockmark scratched his head. Just as he was about to take a look at the pattern of the broken tile, he heard a sound floating behind him.


    " Are you a human or a monkey? Male or male, female or female? Where did you come from? " When I looked up, the man was looking at me with his big, mischievous eyes. He chuckled and blew out a breath of fresh air, revealing his white teeth.


    Would monkeys understand history? If it was a person, would they not wear clothes? "You don''t care if I''m a human or a monkey. Besides, if I go back for many years, a human is still a monkey, but a monkey is still a human." "The other laughed mischievously again, snatching away the Vajra from Ma Zizi''s hand.


    " "I guess you''re a mother, or a female monkey!" The pockmark rudely pulled at the other party''s grass skirt, but ended up being pierced by a thorn as it cried out.


    " "Ma Zi, what are you doing? She''s a girl, don''t mess around!" I saw the small white hand that had just snatched away the Waddang, although covered in grime, but still unable to conceal the beauty of the bottom, so I decided to kick the Wadden.


    " This type of vandal should exist in temples, and is even used as a temple to worship the Evil God! " The little girl raised her head and said this to me and pockmarked one very seriously.


    " Temple? We don''t have monks here, how can there be temples? " The pockmark did not dare to underestimate this girl. After suffering from a single loss and the fact that she was experienced and knowledgeable, her words were much more polite.


    " What is an Evil God? " I asked.


    There are many places in the northeast that respect the Evil God. For example, there are places in the forest near the mountain where the Five Immortals live. Yellow, white, black, and gray. Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, skin.


    " What about Gray? I got it, Gray Rabbit? "


    "No, Gray, it''s a dead man!" the little girl said.


    "F * ck, why did they have to respect others to death!"


    "Because the dead only went to another world!" Ma Tzu interjected.


    " "You know all this, pockmarked?"


    " Then what was the pattern on the tile? Can you tell anything from it? " The pockmark looked closer to the girl.


    " What''s going on? Why can''t I see anything? Is there something wrong with my eyes, or is there something wrong? What did you two see? " I watched the pockmarks and the little girl attentively all the time, wondering if they could see anything, or who else would be staring at a blank so stubbornly?


    " What?! You can''t see anything? " The pockmark looked up in surprise, "There''s a woman painted on it?" "No, it''s just singing and dancing. I wonder which dynasty the clothes came from!"


    " "What? You saw a woman?" When it was the little girl''s turn to be surprised, she looked at me in surprise. "Can''t you see anything? "Are you sure you can''t see the pattern on it?"


    " To be exact, when I look at it, I can see a pattern instantly, but when I look at the pattern in detail, I can''t see anything. So, I can only see the pattern, not the specific details of the pattern. It occurred to me that this was not a simple piece of land.


    " From the beginning to the end, I only saw a woman dancing, and from the looks of her figure, yes, like you! " The pockmark pointed at the little girl, looking at the woman on the wall before looking at the little girl again. "It really does look like her, but she smells like an ancient woman. You lack something more subtle than her!"


    " But, why, I saw half a door! " The little girl''s expression was so serious that it seemed as if her small face would collapse.

 C20

    " "Oh right, why did the feces all flow towards this place just now? What does this have to do with Vadang? Why don''t we keep it in our pockets and continue digging to see what''s down there?" I saw that the moving rarity looked more like a whirlpool at the bottom.


    " "Miss, where did you come from?" The pockmark suddenly ignored everything and looked the girl up and down. Perhaps he had seen the face of the woman in Wa Dang and suspected something?


    " I''ve been following you all for a long time. If I didn''t see this, I wouldn''t have shown myself! " The girl had gone straight to the point.


    " Follow us? When? Is the third footstep we have been hearing yours? What is your relationship with the man who dug the pit at night? Is it you? " As soon as I said those words, I was filled with regret. I wasn''t sure if the other party had followed us to our cabin for the night, so I said a lot more.


    " From the moment you entered the forest, you have been following me, but the one digging is not me! " The look in the girl''s eyes made me doubt it. There are some people who look like they want people to trust them, even if it''s just a single encounter.


    " Why are you following us? " The pockmark looked at me and then at the girl.


    Why must there be a reason, in the woods, for an ant to fall in love with a goat, and for a rat to live in a bear''s den? Then why were you born? Why are you a man? Why do you have two eyes? " "The little girl''s mischievous expression flickered again, and she once again appeared to be ignoring him.


    " "Damn it, aunt, we men can''t afford to provoke your mouth!" Ma Zizi had no temper, so he was helpless.


    As I thought about it, pockmarked heart also turned, I guess he had the same idea as me, moreover, we are all men, it is difficult for men to resist the approach of beautiful girls.


    The pockmark did not say anything else. "Why don''t we continue digging and see?" She actually looked at the little girl first.


    "I have tools. It''s much faster than your original method. How about it?" The little girl asked us, but she looked at me first.


    The voice continued, "Don''t ask, why? If you''ve been to Tibet and met some of your teachers, you will understand! " The little girl''s voice floated not far from us, as it had been when we first came in. It was impossible to tell where it came from.


    " Are you even human? " The pockmarks were really f * cking vulgar. They would ask when they saw something they didn''t understand, even without turning corners.


    "If you encounter something that doesn''t make sense, use a ghost to define it. You''re too simple, little big brother!" The little girl''s voice was filled with a lush green smile, mocking Lin Ming. It sounded as if she was moving something, and she was slightly out of breath.


    ?" Nutjob, I seem to know a little bit, back in college we had a mentor who told us about something we once went abroad to study, something that said that real, cutting edge science didn''t always announce people, like a lot of Einstein''s later theories were sealed off, because some things that were published were causing panic, and science, it wasn''t what we went to school for, it was a lot of science, like hypnotism, like many ancient customs, like Indian yoga, even the existence of God, and immortality, we always think of the superficial science as the unsolved ones that are superstitious! This is narrow.


    " Don''t always use that crappy little thing to teach laozi. Who said she was a ghost? This daddy has seen a lot of things, and no matter what language I use, my heart will always be in awe! " As soon as the pockmark finished speaking, the little girl reappeared.


    " "Miss, ah, no, little sister, you don''t mean to use this bamboo tube to dig, right? In my opinion, at most we can split your bamboo, but you don''t have to squat to get close to the smell of the crowbar!" The pockmark said.


    The little girl didn''t get angry nor warm, instead, she started to tap the side of the bamboo tube gently. After a while, some of the powder began to scatter from the bottom of the tube. Hmm, a sweet fragrance started to rise in the air, making me wonder if it was air-dried bamboo tube rice. Sparse sounds came from all around us, and some small, dark creatures appeared out of nowhere. When I paid attention to them, I really didn''t know where such a large group of animals had been hiding. Besides, I didn''t know those animals. They looked like rats, and they were much bigger than rats, and they had claws that were out of proportion to the size of their bodies.


    "This is a Blind Bamboo Bear!" the little girl said.


    "Can''t they see?" My conjecture, as the name suggests.


    "Yes, but the other senses of humans and animals that cannot use their vision are much sharper. These Blind Bamboo Bears have a really good sense of smell. You saw it yourself, just this tiny bit of bamboo powder was enough to tempt them!" The little girl continued to beat away at the bamboo, dropping even more powder, attracting even more Blind Bamboo Bears.


    " This kind of bear, why have I not seen it before?


    " This kind of bamboo is not just any bamboo, it grows on the top of the cliff, and its joints are as hard as steel, so half of the cut won''t work unless the roots are uprooted. However, the plants on the cliff top move slightly and it will cause the cliff to crack, making it hard for the blind bamboo bear to eat this kind of bamboo, so it usually eats pine nuts, or some kind of bark, and it also has a name, Soaring Snake Bile Powder.


    "Damn, there''s even this kind of animal. Nature is really too magical. One thing wins the other, one loves the other." I admire the little girl a little. It seems that she has lived in the forest for a long time and knows all kinds of animals.


    "Ask them!" The little girl rolled her eyes and turned her head with a snort. It seemed that she didn''t like pockmarks. I secretly rejoiced and then asked myself, "Why is she thinking this way?" Did I like her, and that she didn''t like people other than me? Even my brother, pockmarked? But, I understand pockmarks, pockmarks really like a person, will always be against each other, nothing more than to use this way to attract attention to oneself, pockmarks in the emotional aspect is indeed naive, and I, like to please the person who like.


    Once this idea was formed, I immediately mocked myself. Such a mysterious girl, it was best not to have any thoughts about her.


    "Look at the way these guys eat! They''re greedy! No, they''re crazy!" pockmarked tone full of surprise.


    But just when the first batch of blind bamboo bears were desperately digging the ground, cries of terror rang out, and soon after, the deliciousness at their mouths was discarded, as they fled in all directions. In an instant, the small animals under our feet exploded into chaos, the first layer fled for their lives, the second layer went all out, while the second layer went all out in selecting the bamboo heart powder that would scatter onto the bodies of their first batch of teammates.


    "What, what''s going on?" The pockmarked little girl and I did not look calm, as we did not know what was going to happen.


    "Look, they seem to have dug out something. Did you see that? It looks like there''s a piece of tile in our hands down there!"

 C21

    From the first disgusting discharges, to the golden beans, to the mysterious Vadang, why was this small piece of land crowded with these inconsequential objects?


    When we didn''t know what to do, the blind bamboo bears finally scattered and fled in all directions, leaving no trace behind but the flustered little feet and the weirdness they''d worked so hard to dig out.


    "No way, I''m dizzy. Little San, how come I saw so many women dancing!" The exposed tiles caused pockmarks to become dizzy and disoriented.


    " Then, little sister, have you seen countless half doors? " What I saw was a blank space with no pattern on it. From what we had seen before, and from the reaction of the pockmarked girl at this moment, I thought, the little girl must have seen many half of the doors.


    " "Yes, yes, those doors, those doors ¡ª!" The little girl''s face was suddenly covered in sweat as she spoke incoherently.


    I panicked. Why was I all right, they were both obviously affected by these vandals, was I going to have to face a more subtle effect, or was I the one who''d been isolated from the mysteries all along?


    The first second''s impact was too strong, and I kept feeling that there were countless patterns in front of my eyes, but they just couldn''t be imprinted onto my eyes. It was an extremely unpleasant feeling, like a fire that had gone past my throat.


    I immediately kicked him, but at this moment, the little girl actually fainted. Back then, I was so fast, grabbing her by the waist from the half of the sky, only by doing so was I able to save myself from lying down in those muddled and dirty filth.


    No, no, why am I fine? What''s so special about me? I quickly repeated in my head, Gender? No, the pockmarks were also male! IQ? More importantly, the little girl''s IQ is definitely a lot higher than mine! But, what on earth does this tramp, a tramp, have on his person that will not be violated by these vandals?


    Could it be a pimp? At that time, I don''t know why, but I suddenly thought of it, because other than this, I really didn''t have anything else. It couldn''t be that my mother had fixed up a lot of my underwear to protect me! Old Branch Book had never said that underpants could ward off evil. When I thought of that naughty guy, I immediately tore open the front lapel of my cotton-padded jacket and came out, throwing one on the little girl''s face and the other on the back of her pockmarks.


    First, I looked at the little girl''s reaction, not because I was in a rush, but because the little girl was in my arms, after all, I couldn''t leave her like this, and even if I hugged her like this, I couldn''t go help her with the pockmarks, I could only check to see if the note had any effect on her, and in the end, it would be better to use a rag to cover her face. At the very least, she would wake up, and I was also an idiot.


    While I was helplessly carrying the little girl in one hand and starting to take off my jacket, pants, socks and underwear with the other, I was planning on peeling off my skin and letting out some blood in an attempt to fluster, the pockmarks stopped running.


    "What happened to me just now? What happened to you two? What happened?"


    Just as I was about to be happy, the pockmarks finally returned to normal, and I thought about what had made him normal. However, when I saw that I had taken off half of my shirt, and was only missing one sleeve because I was holding the little girl''s coat, unbuckled belt, and pants which had been pushed back halfway, I immediately received a slap on my face.


    The little girl woke up. The first thing she did was slap me.


    The little girl thought that I had slighted her, and even I freaking thought that I had done something like that. But just now, I was trying to get rid of the egg in order to save the two of them, and I couldn''t even explain it with my hundred mouths. What''s more, the two of them didn''t seem to remember what I did just now.


    I held it in, not saying a word as I waited for the little girl to slap my left and right face. It was so cold that I panicked. "Little sister, you can wait for me to put on my clothes, okay?" Trembling, I started to put on my cotton-padded jacket.


    "Oh right, I clearly saw many doors just now. Those doors, where are they?" The little girl finally stopped fanning me.


    "Those doors that are half-open, even if you go in you won''t be able to open the door. I''ve already closed it!" It seems that the both of them will remember what happened in a moment''s time.


    "Oh, yes, yes. Just now, a group of dancers confused me. Little San Zi, were you possessed as well? Were you trying to help me take off my clothes but ended up taking off my clothes wrongly?" The pockmark said.


    " No, you misunderstand, those are all half-doors, not half-opened doors! " The little girl should have been completely awake by now. She regained her sharp gaze and then smiled at me in embarrassment. She wanted to touch my face but didn''t dare to. Her expression immediately caused my anger to dissipate.


    "Half a door? "I always thought you said that half a door was half open. What does half a door look like?"


    "Half a door, that''s the door that could have been pressed. The door is only half the size!" the little girl said.


    "So you can see through the other half of the door?"


    "I can''t see!"


    " "F * ck, I can''t imagine, I really can''t imagine what that half door looks like!" The door actually wasn''t of a fixed size. As long as one door summarized the corresponding opening, wasn''t it just the entire door? If one could clearly see half of the front of the door, then that meant that the other half was not blocked. However, how could one not see inside the door? What the little girl said about the half door really made me feel conflicted.


    " "San-zi, why did you give that thingy as a token of love to someone else?" The pockmark suddenly pointed at the little girl, who had long since ripped off the leather strip from her face and held it in her hand.


    " Oh, the chaos just now, the two of you seemed to have been possessed. She fainted, you''re crazy, I''m normal, I just used everything on me one by one. Right, you even stepped on the other one! " After hearing what the pockmark said, I recalled, Emma, it can''t be the effect of that leech, right? Perhaps, it''s the one who was stepped on on on the ground!


    " "F * ck!" Ma Zi cursed, lowered his head and started searching.


    " How could you have such a thing? " The girl picked up the piece of leather paper and carefully examined it.


    " You know him? What is this? " I asked.


    " How did you get it? Don''t you know what this is? " She looked at me, searching every corner of my face.


    " Who gave it to you? " The little girl seemed to have taken a fancy to this and closely asked.


    " We don''t know each other, we really don''t know each other. The ones who sent this are all eccentric, so we can''t say for sure either! " I don''t know how to describe it, but I can only guess if it was the Mountain Demon. To be honest, I can''t even be sure if it was the Mountain Demon who dug the pit that night.


    " These should be two pages of diary, but why are there only two pages! "


    " Diary? You don''t even have this? "


    " This kind of diary, of course I can''t see anything here! "


    " Eh? "Why do you sound so confused the more you say it, then where should I look?"


    " How about a deal? " The little girl put away her innocent expression, giving off a very imposing air.


    " "What?" I looked at the pockmarks. The pockmarks looked at me.


    " Believe me, I swear to your gender that you two definitely need me, and then, we don''t need to ask each other about each other''s origins, what to do, and everyone being respectful towards each other. What I want is to go to a place with me, a place where you can understand these two pages of diaries, and someone else might even send you a diary in the future, so you must keep it well! "


    " This transaction doesn''t sound too fair. We aren''t afraid of death, and we don''t want to look at any diaries. If what is written down is some kind of Emperor''s mess, then we''re both bachelors, no? The tone of a pockmarked person''s voice.


    " Fine, you don''t need to be afraid of death, you can just die as you please. It''s not the same thing. After saying that, the little girl immediately turned around.


    " "You can be considered as a wise man. You should know that when dealing with intelligent people, hypocrisy is the greatest taboo. As the other party sees you as someone with petty schemes, it would be better for you to be honest with them!" The corners of the little girl''s mouth curled up as she glanced at the pockmark provocatively.


    " That, since we''ve already known each other so well, we won''t be able to get along in a day and night. According to the deal, we can''t ask each other about anything, so I won''t ask for his name, and from now on I''ll call you Little Sister, can I, I''ll call you Little San. Bro, alright.


    " Brother Xiao San is very happy to meet you, Brother Pock, hello! " "If I ever knew my name, I would tell you, sister, very well, just call me that!"

 C22

    " One of you is doing things based on your feelings while the other one is doing things according to his bottom line, so I''ll take a step back and explain why I fainted just now. Hempen-ge, you should know, calm is not necessarily equal to safety, just now you and I are both affected by Wade, and only third brother is not, but third brother is not, at the same time, superior to us, he was protected from the truth, so I don''t know how to describe this, like love, you will never be hurt by it, and you will also never walk into love! "


    " I understand a little now, little sister. You mean, although you and pockmarks were secretly influenced by it just now, perhaps it was the principle of not getting into the tiger''s den, and not getting into the tiger''s den? "


    " Not exactly, more or less, third brother, don''t let your appearance hide the truth, things from the mysterious world, if you can''t sink into it yourself, you will never be able to see through it, and then continue, just now you asked me what the half door is, I understand your thoughts, but, I really can''t see inside it, because what I saw was the door, just now, I was basically inside the countless half doors, now do you understand? "


    " Yes, outside the door is the three of us at that moment in time the entire truth! I didn''t feel anything when I saw a half door, but when I thought about it, I felt like I was suffocating. That feeling was very real, and then I felt like I was dying for some reason, maybe you saw me unconscious. " As the little sister spoke, her nose continuously trembled, as if this repetitive description made her feel as if she had just entered a trance.


    " Eh? Slurp. Girl, do you mean, you just saw countless half doors through this tile? And then you didn''t see inside, because you were inside, and you saw outside? And the three of us are outside the door? " I don''t know, he thought of something, then continued, "I thought you had some sort of relationship with the women in the Wah Dang, or you couldn''t possibly look that much like them. Little sister, it wasn''t that I wasn''t friendly, it was just that there were too many evil things in the forest, and it was common for a lot of animals to have cultivated into spirit, especially when you appeared out of thin air, disappearing out of thin air and wore such strange clothes. You can understand that, if what you saw just now is true, I''ll have to rethink about it again, the ancient woman in the Wa Dang Dang, maybe it''s the same principle as if you saw us three people, such as if we had seen something similar in a modern mirror. If he could see it, what would he see? "


    " Firstly, I have a good idea. Firstly, I have to verify if I can''t see anything just now because the two of you have been hiding your secrets, or maybe it''s because I shook out those two pieces of skin, and since everyone is within the protection of the skin, it''s normal. Secondly, I want to see, if I am not protected, I want to see what would happen to me after I fall into those mysterious places? " I said, looking at the two of them.


    It makes sense, we have to try it out. Just when the three of us were talking just now, it was all because of these two pieces of skin, so we couldn''t see the patterns on it anymore, if it was really the act of the skin, then I guess it would be similar to nuclear radiation, and this thing also has a range. Right, it''s useless when it''s far away, it seems like we can''t just hide it in someone''s arms, maybe, San-zi, your cotton jacket is too thick, affecting the effect of the radiation. said the pockmark.


    "That''s the only way!" I buttoned up the jacket I was wearing, and when I was talking earlier, I didn''t even have time to cover my mouth as I tightened my belt again, "Um, you two, don''t trust me in anything I do later, I just don''t know what weird things this Wade can do, like, I''ll run naked later, don''t be shy, just follow me and grab me, you know, I''ll eat sh * t again, you guys have to stop me, what I did was not my intention!"


    "Don''t worry!" "If you run naked, I''ll definitely take your clothes off. If you eat shit, I can''t let you not eat something new, I''ll definitely give you a good pile. Bro, after so many years, do you still not believe in your bro''s abilities?"


    I''m speechless!


    As per our agreement, pockmarked and my sister retreated to a place outside the mouth of Blackwater Cliff, a distance away, and I, watching them walk away, looked down at the Vajra that my sister and I had dug up, and I had to restrain ourselves from looking at the whole piece on the ground.


    Looking at this Wa Dang this time, I no longer had the same feeling as before. I understood more and more that those empty cops had protected me or deceived me. At the same time this thought flashed across my mind, I was completely shocked by what I saw.


    The pockmarked one simply says that I saw a dancing lady and my sister simply described half a door. On the other hand, when I saw a pattern with my own eyes, I realized that the mysteriousness of this pattern isn''t something that can be described with words.


    What I saw was a pack of wolves.


    The most important thing is that these wolves are like living wolves, moving all the time. If you count them, you will find that they are completely different from before, with a different number of expressions on their faces. Each time you count them, you will find that they are in a different position, position, and finally, you will feel dizzy and disoriented, as if you have jumped into the middle of these wolves. When I close my eyes at one moment to get rid of this dizziness, not only have I not seen them before, I have also lost all traces of their confusion. I can''t remember which wolf left an impression in my memory. Right, right, which wolf did I see before? This is me!


    I was completely shocked by what I had discovered. I, my face, grew on a wolf''s body, transforming into countless wolves, making all sorts of expressions, and was then depicted on a palm-sized tile. Moreover, I was eternally trapped in a cycle of death, a cycle of death that could not count the number of wolves.


    When I saw this Wade, I couldn''t stop myself from looking away. I wanted to see the entire piece urgently. I couldn''t imagine what kind of grand scene this mysterious Wade Pattern would be like after it was copied countless times.

 C23

    Suddenly, I accidentally stepped on empty air and fell into an unknown abyss.


    In a daze, I felt a claw groping around my body, but I struggled to wake up. The feeling passed, and I fell into a state of conscious death.


    When I opened my eyes, I was in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, I finally heard a voice. It was also a familiar voice that made me wake up a little.


    "Third brother is awake. Hurry and get some water, pockmarked brother!"


    "Xiao San, come and drink a little first!"


    "Don''t ask too much. When are you going to take a break? When are you going to remember that everything is back to normal?" I saw my sister slip a rag into my arms and move it around as if she had felt claws on me, and the pockmarked girl kept staring at me.


    " You had very strange eyes back then, I couldn''t figure out what you saw, so I shouted at you to ask, but you didn''t even turn around to answer me. Later on, we saw you running into Blackwater Cliff, we didn''t dare to let you go on your own, and just chased after you, but that time you were running at an astonishing speed, you were just like an owl wolf, fortunately little sister was agile, and with a somersault, she caught up to you. But right at the moment she caught up, you stepped on air, fell down, little sister also jumped in, I was the last, we all came down right now! " Ma Zi spoke randomly and I roughly understood what she meant. I looked at my little sister again, wanting to hear what she had to say.


    "I think that the mysterious world that Vadang created is not fake. Previously, the time that we fell into the trap was very short, so if you didn''t save us, maybe I would have continued inside the gate, and Brother Pai might have entered into another place with a group of dancing ancient women. But we all missed it, so we ended up following you here!"


    " It makes a little bit of sense, but thinking about it, if I didn''t save you guys at that time, then this time, maybe the pockmarks would have gone to the dancers, and you went to the half door heap, and I would have stayed at the Black Water Cliff feces heap by myself. Only then did I sort things out and begin to pay attention to where we were at the moment.


    "I don''t know. It should be a pit at the bottom of Blackwater Cliff. It''s just that it''s very difficult for us to climb up. Right, I''ll take this tile with me!" She took the piece of tile from me and stuffed it into her undergarment.


    "Don''t panic, that''s a dead man!" The pockmark pressed down on me.


    "Dead? What the hell, why are you squatting here like we are! "


    "He''s not squatting, he''s actually so tall!" The pockmark dragged me forward.


    " This person must have been skinned alive! " the little sister said.


    " "What do you mean?"


    " "I heard that there is a very cruel burial garment. It is said that instead of wearing silk and silk, gold and silver, or pearls and jade, one finds a living person with a body similar in size to the dead person and skin him alive, putting him on while he''s still warm. It is said that this kind of burial clothes can protect the dead person from rotting away!"


    "Isn''t this nonsense? I already have skin on me, so if I had another layer of skin on me, I wouldn''t have rotted. Bullshit logic!"


    "Of course it''s not that simple. The person who was chosen to make the burial clothes has to drink a type of medicinal soup a hundred days in advance, and then use the sun as a bath every afternoon. The medicinal soup will nourish his skin from the inside, and the Zang Redgrass will seep out and nourish his skin.


    "How do you know this dead man is dead?"


    "This is because it''s said that people who have been soaked by Zang Hongji grass would be able to seep into the red lake from the inside out. Of course, the burial clothes they made would also be of a bright red color!"


    "Cruel, perverted, and simply devoid of humanity!" I looked at the pygmy victim and felt pity for him. I could not be afraid.


    "So we''re in a dead man''s cave that''s shelved for burial?" The pockmark suddenly took a few steps back and looked around timidly.


    "More or less, perhaps there is more than one red corpse like this, because after many burial clothes are completed, the most important step is to skin them alive, to ensure that they are not damaged at all. Almost everyone will not be able to withstand the pain and struggle, causing the burial clothes to be damaged, so, a successful burial clothes requires a lot of sacrifices!" The younger sister continued, "If we can find something to burn, I have flint here. We can take a look at this hole!"


    "F * ck, this one won''t do. It looks green at first glance, so it''s best to find some dried up soy tree!" Just as I said this, the branch in pockmarked hand twisted a little. I thought it was caused by the pockmarked hand, but it shook the branch as if it was electrocuted. "That''s, that''s not a branch, it''s a living being!"


    " Snake? Did you just pick up a green snake? " Only the snake is similar to the rope stick, I all over the chicken skin, panic-stricken.


    " "No, no, it shouldn''t be a snake, because when I took it just now, it looked like it was hollow. How could a living snake be hollow?" The pockmark looked back in the direction he had flung it.


    ?" We squatted down in the relatively bright light of the cave entrance. It probably wasn''t a snake, because it had no head or tail, but as we watched, it did occasionally writhe, and when it did pinch, I squeezed, too, and it was hollow, like an empty piece of snake skin left behind by a snake. But how could a snake''s skin be alive? We all know that snakes have a strong life force. If you skinned a snake, you would chop it into pieces, then throw them into a frying pan to fry. For at least two minutes, every piece of the snake would writhe.


    " Little sister, do you know him? "


    " It''s like a snake''s skin! "


    " Serpentine skin? "But how can a slough move? Besides, isn''t a slough usually the color of a cocoon?"


    " Snake molt itself is not alive, but it contains living things. When it comes to temperature, it will awaken! "


    " "Besides, the snake skin should be white, and the things that parasitize inside are green. Let''s not disturb this for now, I suspect that there are a lot of these kind of snake skin in this cave. If all the living things inside were to wake up, we would have nowhere to hide!"


    " "That''s not right. Since there are living things inside, how can they be hollow?" The moment I said those words, my little sister''s face didn''t look too good. I thought that I was questioning her knowledge and that she would lose a lot of face.


    " Could it be the Incantation Qi? "

 C24

    " So, what does all this have to do with what we''re seeing? Could it be that the legendary Curse Technique is also used on us? But normally, only the royal family would use it. Could it be that this grave is the royal family''s funeral chamber? "


    " I can''t be sure about this, but you reminded me just now, if the parasite isn''t empty, then I thought of the incantation, and I''m not sure if the hair green snake skin in front of us is real or not, but there''s a possibility that we have to be careful, and if it''s true, then we won''t be as simple as dying in a graveless place, maybe there will be endless troubles in the future, and we''ll never be able to escape the curse! "


    " little sister, if this is really a curse, how are we supposed to avoid it? " The pockmarks were hidden far away.


    " You must not break it, and vent the anger in it! "


    " "Right now, we must find something that can be burned for a torch. Otherwise, if we are not careful, we can break a snake skin under our feet, release the aura, and then, without anyone noticing, we will be hit with an incantation. Aiya, shit, we shouldn''t have stepped on it long ago!" As the pockmark spoke, he almost floated into the air with a light movement. He could not move his feet, nor could he move them.


    " I have an idea. One of you take off one of your clothes, and I''ll shave some corpse oil off the corpse just now and soak it in your clothes! " The little sister looked at me and the pockmark.


    " "Little, little sister, where did you come from? How come you''re even more daring than this brother?"


    " "Nutjob, you''re so long-winded. Like I said, heroes don''t ask about their origins, and bears don''t ask about their gender. You can''t ask about your little sister''s origins. Just take off your hat. It''s convenient with a zipper anyway!" I looked all over my body. It was cold to take off any of my clothes, but only the pockmarked hat was all right.


    " This shouldn''t be ice, right? When I was touching the branches, I got all the dust on my hands! It''s not cold, and feels grainy to the touch! " The pockmark said, spreading out his palm. No, there was a layer of white soil on the pockmark''s hand, which was definitely not ice or snow, because it had already been a few minutes. If the snow had already melted, could it really be white soil?


    " No, Little San, I understand, this is just a corpse''s ashes, okay? "


    " Damn, could it be that we are standing on a thick layer of ashes and a red burial ground? "


    The little sister didn''t say anything. She broke the neck of the squatting red corpse and held her head in her hands. As she walked, a red head oil lamp expanded our visual field bit by bit. We followed her steps, step by step, and saw more scenes within the grave.


    My mind was a mess. I suddenly realized that the world I had seen before was too simple. The real world might never be as bright as it was under the sun, but there was a corner in the darkness that was even more mysterious and real that we didn''t know about. As long as I tore it open, it would be an unstoppable mystery.


    " Don''t move, pockmarked brother! " My sister''s voice interrupted my thoughts.


    It turned out that pockmarked person almost stepped on another snake skin. I indicated that we should go around and continue walking.


    Those who don''t know what is happening would think that it is just a branch. Moreover, it isn''t moving at all, and from the looks of it, it doesn''t have any temperature, so it isn''t possible for me to disturb this creature. I gave it a glance, so I temporarily couldn''t analyze this matter any further.


    However, after walking through this, I couldn''t help but take another glance back. Just from that glance, I unexpectedly noticed something unexpected.


    One of them laughed.


    There was a smile in the slough, but I couldn''t find a face.


    It never occurred to me that I would not have the face to make a platform, or the smile, or the paper to make a floor, or the painting, or the heaven to make a background, or the clouds to see?


    I was about to call out to them when the voice of the pockmark called out from behind me, "Run the fuck out!"


    I was almost wrenched out of my mind by a powerful hand, pulled my body back, and ran.


    As they were running, pockmarked man panted and explained, "I just stepped on the third shedding snake. Fuck, I missed the curse. We''re going to suffer!"


    "Where''s little sister?" Where did little sister go? "


    "I ran faster than anyone, so I was already far away from you!" The pockmark was pointing at the figure in front of him. It was almost like a bird flying in the air.


    "Nutjob, if that isn''t little sister, then where did little sister go?"


    "But, little sister, you''re right in front. When I shouted for her to run, she really did start to run. I only turned around to pull you, then turned around, and it was as if she ran far away!"


    "You don''t need to think about it. Little sister, although we just met, we aren''t people who only care about ourselves. Moreover, when little sister runs away, why didn''t you say anything? At least ask, what''s the matter?" Or call out, Follow up, what do you think? "


    I''m not running with the pockmarks, I''m not running either. I don''t know if the snake skin that was broken behind us was really a spell or not, and maybe we were already under a spell. Also, if the person in front wasn''t my little sister, then who was it, then where was my little sister?

 C25

    " I''m on top, look at that red corpse''s head torch! " In a moment of desperation, I thought of something. I saw a torch in my little sister''s hand, but that person in front of me didn''t have it, so the torch was just above us. It moved but it wasn''t fast. Or had he simply gone to another overlapping space? But, why isn''t little sister saying anything? "


    " "Don''t say anything, Little San, follow the torch!" The pockmark seemed to have thought of something and stopped me abruptly. It no longer chased after the figure in front of it but followed the speed of the torch.


    "En, looks like I''m going to get the gas mask. Oh yeah, there was someone running in front. What happened?" Putting on the pockmarks, he asked.


    I don''t know why, but when I thought about it, my mind suddenly jumped back to the night seventeen years ago when Erlu was in trouble with Luo circle. Back then, Second Sister saw countless houses floating in the sky above the Great Xingan Ridge, as if another world had broken into our world.


    No, absolutely no, the people in that world, plus the story the old man had told us at the end of the book, in a comprehensive analysis, don''t all of them live in a group of shadows with no particular features, just a group of living shadows, but how can the little sister in front of us look like the most normal girl in our world, and how can she, if she doesn''t, explain that she came and went as she pleases, I wouldn''t think of that, but she can take what she wants back and forth, only somewhere else exists, stores it, can be taken away, does she approach us, has another purpose, a close connection with the events of seventeen years ago?


    However, he had a goal in mind. Why was he so brazen? Aren''t you afraid I''ll think of that, by the way, those blank cops, she said, are diaries, and they can only be seen in one place, and where is that place, the world of overlapping spaces where she takes things? Or was there something else? Or was it the old school book that said you could never see the place in the future? Was the place mentioned by the old branch book the same place as the floating world that Er Lu Zi saw or two, and were they also the same place as the space world that little sister took things from, or were these three places three places and three secretive places?


    I couldn''t seem to see it all. Soon after entering the woods I was suspicious of the pockmarks, and now I was suspicious of the girl in front of me. We had entered a mysterious funeral pit by mistake and mystery, all of this happening within a short span of two days.


    But, welcome all this, I feel hot, burning heart!


    The pockmark said that when there was someone running in front of me, I was frozen in place. When I thought about what just happened, maybe she was trying to determine who was running, "Let''s follow in its direction!"


    "Hey, it seems like that person really isn''t you?" Someone else? " The pockmark opened its mouth wide.


    "It definitely isn''t me. I won''t abandon my companions and escape on my own. Besides, if I run around randomly here, I might encounter something else if I don''t get hit by the Incantation!"


    " "F * ck, could it be that Aladdin''s Divine Lamp is holding some monsters and releasing a smoker from the slough?" The pockmarks started again, and the mask began to tear in the exaggerated shape of his mouth.


    "Don''t waste your breath. Do you want to follow my sister''s instructions and look in that direction? Since we have no purpose and are unable to climb up the Black Water Cliff, we can only take a step at a time!"


    "However, I am very confident right now. With little sister here, we can have anything. Little sister, if I want to drink, can I get some?"


    "I guarantee you that you won''t be hungry, but wine, no!" The younger sister waved her hand as she said, "Let''s continue."


    But what did this space have to do with the world that Erlu Zi saw?


    And did the people in that world grow as dark as shadows because there was no light?


    I turned to look at the pockmarked man walking side by side, and I wondered if he had thought of so much, and then looked at my little sister, who was so clever that she would have thought I wouldn''t miss it, but what was she up to, following us, knowing us, was it an occasional hobby or a meticulous plan?


    "Why is there no path?" The pockmark stopped. I focused all my attention on my thoughts and crashed headfirst into the body of my little sister who was in front of me. Aiya, what the f * ck! I was stung by grass clothes.


    " "No way, there weren''t any turns along the way. That person ran in this direction just now, then where did he go? Did he crash into a wall and die?"


    " Don''t talk about that person just now, do you really think that there''s someone here? "


    "That''s true! "Is there a mechanism in this wall?" "Right, we haven''t reached the end of the wall since we came in. Tell me, is it possible that there''s such a wall on all four sides of the grave? It''s just that it''s too big and we''ve only just reached the end of one side? Or should we continue to walk along the wall?"


    "Then how long will it take? We can''t just foolishly walk all over the place to prove the shape of this pit!"


    "Then what do we do? Why don''t we try the wall itself? Maybe it''s a door, and find a way to go inside?"


    "A door? "Third brother, now that you mention it, I remember now. I saw many doors on the roof, and those doors look a little similar to the walls in front of us!" The little sister said.


    "Similar? There''s nothing special about this wall. Besides, isn''t half of your door half closed? How can the two be similar? "


    "No, they are indeed similar. They are similar in texture. Look at this wall, is there any texture to it?"


    " That''s right, this is the pattern! "


    If this was a new year, then this wall was a wooden wall? However, there were no seams. It did not seem like someone had deliberately chopped down some trees to leave behind half a ring. If it were to be a whole piece, how many years would it take for this old tree to be able to cut down such a large piece of wood? Also, what tree has a semicircular ring? You haven''t heard about it in your life? " "The pockmark clicked its tongue in admiration and rubbed back and forth.


    " Why did the Vajra pattern that little sister saw appear here, and when I saw it, I actually brought everyone here. Does this have anything to do with the Vajra pattern? Why didn''t that pockmark appear? "


    "Oh right, I saw little sister dancing in ancient clothes, could it be that we can find the clothes of a dead person here? Little sister, how about jumping up and down while wearing the clothes of a dead person? Right, right, little sister, who knows, what mechanism will be activated this way? What do you think?"


    " "Stop bullshitting. First, there are no ancient women''s clothes here. Second, these are all speculation!"


    " Don''t, Little San, let''s talk like this. I remember what happened, and that Wade I saw, the dancing lady was dressed in fiery red clothes, didn''t little sister say that the red corpse was made into red clothes, or did it count as anything? "

 C26

    After doing all this for a few minutes, the little sister suddenly stopped her actions and walked over to where the pockmarks were.


    "Why does it sound different here?" the little sister said.


    "It seems a little, is this not the truth?" said the pockmark.


    "Let me try and hear it. My ears are more sensitive than ordinary people!" I walked over and put my ear to it.


    " "Is there anything that can be used for marking?" I asked them.


    " "What are you trying to do to open this concave line?" The pockmark frowned as he looked at his younger sister with a mischievous smile. His intention was to have her take it.


    " What are you shouting for? I thought you had met with some big trouble, I just realized it, could it be that there''s a dead person behind this wall? "


    " Only a living person can have such fresh blood, right? Don''t tell me that we''ve killed someone, Emma, Little San, could there be someone living behind this wall? Did we just run into someone''s house? That person just happened to eat a melon seed on the wall and got killed out of the blue! "


    " "Don''t spout nonsense all the time. Where is this place? How can someone live at the bottom of Blackwater Cliff?"


    " Why is there no movement from my side? " The pockmark turned and looked into the distance.


    "You guys continue to work. I''ll carry on if something happens!" The little sister said to us without raising her head.


    " "Just listen to little sister. Come, let''s go back to work!" I pushed at the pockmarks.


    Let''s just say that the line we cut is not the kind of line we draw with a pen in our mathematics. Let''s think, if this line is so abstract and narrow, how can I judge such a small area from the sound, and in fact, what I said is narrow, is the relative width of the whole wall. If it is cut off, this line is also wide, almost three or four centimeters above and below, and after we have done all this, we naturally dig out a groove in the wall that is three or four centimeters wide, exposing a gap of the same width.


    It is strange that there is actually no blood on the wall. We thought that there must be something strange and bloody behind the wall, so we naturally touched the whole thing behind the wall, including the part of the wall that was dug out.


    "Look, it melted!" The pockmark stretched out his hand. A layer of liquid.


    " Isn''t it a wooden wall? How could it melt? "


    " "No, maybe this piece of material isn''t made of wood, otherwise the lower part of the wall would be stained with blood, and this section wouldn''t be, that would be a reasonable explanation for why there''s no blood on the back. Oh right, I don''t know how long this wall is, if we look for, mark, draw, cut, buckle, it would take a lot of effort, I think we should reach in and see if we can dig the upper or lower part out from the slit, which part is good?" The pockmarked man looked at us and clapped the liquid on his hands.


    " Fine, let''s give it a try. Do we dare to guess what''s behind this? " I asked them.


    " "Come on, good idea, it''s too tiring to work and get some fun out of it. Why don''t we all guess it and see who got it right in the end?" Ma Zi was very happy to continue.


    " Let me start with the terracotta soldier''s red corpse, or a giant wolf, or the black blind man.


    " I still have one more thing to do, a real burial pit. Right now, we might be at the periphery of the grave and have yet to come in contact with the core. I bet that this is the real burial chamber! " Ma Zi was very confident. It sounds like I''ve thought about this as well. If it''s true, countless curious cells in my bones would be itching from the temptation.


    " Little sister, don''t you think that one of us is right? " He got up, approached the wall again, and tentatively put his hand inside.


    " pockmarked brother, wait! " She raised the red corpse''s head and torchlight near her. She lowered her head and looked inside, "It seems like there are a lot of things hanging there. I can''t see them clearly, they''re too narrow!"


    " Hanging things? "Emma, could it be that there''s a group of terracotta soldiers dead? F * ck me!"


    " "It''s not a corpse. It doesn''t look very thick. It''s very thin!"


    " "Forget it, I can''t see the accuracy of it either. This brother will pay for it!" He threw it into a dry land where we could dry our rations.


    " No problem, come, you guys back off, I''ll give it a try myself! " As he said that, he rolled up his sleeves and slowly reached his hands into the air. I held my breath as I stared at his hands, ready to make a move at any moment. I grabbed him by the waist and pulled him back.

 C27

    " "Fuck, this is simply a miracle, comparable to the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles!"


    " But, when we cut him just now, where did the blood come from? It can''t be these burial clothes, they won''t lose color! " As if a country bumpkin and I had never seen the world, we looked up at these burial clothes and praised them in succession. After saying those words rationally, we pulled our attention back onto them.


    " That''s right, it''s obvious that these clothes will not ooze blood. Furthermore, these clothes are not damaged at all.


    The little sister played with the grass spike in her hand, slashing it into the air. The next moment, the air started to drip. A few drops of blood fell onto the floor of the wardrobe in front of us.


    There was blood in the air of the wardrobe?


    I looked at the pockmark.


    " Little, little sister, why is this place so weird? There''s even blood in the air, shouldn''t, shouldn''t we stay here for a while? " Sometimes, I find that the pockmarks are really sick, making it hard to tell if I am feeling fear or excitement, or both.


    " "Don''t be like an impotent pervert who can''t even lift his face up!" I stepped forward and pinched the pockmark mask and closed my trembling lips.


    " A dog that bites is not powerful, but a dog that doesn''t bite knows that it doesn''t. Even so, this sort of quiet thing really broke out, you have a problem with it, don''t you think, water can dissolve things, you''ve heard that air can dissolve things, no? But just look at the blood that can cut through the air of this underground wardrobe, what does that mean, it dissolved something! "


    " Don''t tell me that when you said it like that, I realized that the curse was sealed in the same air. Could it be that the air in this closet also has the same logic? " I subconsciously tightened the mask on my face.


    " Little sister, what do you think? "


    " I think it''s very peaceful here, but there are great dangers lurking in the air. Maybe the air is the fatal danger, so you have to wear the mask all the time, don''t take it off, don''t drink water, and eat! "


    " However, the hole we fell into can disperse outside. Even if the air here is strange, it can''t be sealed! "


    " However, as you see, if I used a bayonet and drew on the inside of the wardrobe, I would be able to cut out the blood. If I took it out again and drew on the outside, no, how should I explain it? The little sister said, and demonstrated, and the pockmarks and I fell into deep thought. If we hadn''t seen it with our own eyes, no one would have believed it.


    " Some of them are the original appearance, from the human body is like, I also saw some parts of the dead person''s mole or birthmark, but some, one can see that the original skin cut, processed into a design, such as that one, looks magnificent! In fact, for the sake of beauty, a red lotus was embroidered on a red spot on the original skin. " I followed my little sister. I was taller than her, so it was easier for me to hook onto these items. The tentacles felt really creepy. They were as soft as a left hand holding a right hand, but it just so happened that this kind of softness made one''s entire body tense up.


    " Oh yeah, little sister, it''s not like we guessed before, so we said it already, when Little San saw the running wolf on the roof, we fell down, you saw the half door covered with semicircle texture, we also met it, just opened it just now and went into the underground closet, the only one I saw you wearing red clothes to dance with is us, are we ¡­ " At the same time, he slowly raised his hand and pointed towards the sky, "I, I saw it, I actually saw that ancient little sister wearing the exact same burial clothes as her, that''s the one, I swear to the eunuchs in the sky, it''s definitely the same one!"


    Of course, my sister and I didn''t see the pattern of the Vajra, and when the pockmarked one got excited, his hands would tremble and he wouldn''t know which one he was referring to.


    "What''s the number here?" "You sure are accurate!"


    "The seventh one, the one that looks like a monk''s monastic robe. Half of it is on his shoulders, and the other half is missing!"


    " Do you really want me to wear this and dance here for a bit? "


    " Let me guess, either little sister will take the initiative to wear it, dance for a while, maybe we can open the door to the next place, or we''ll be tricked by something, into the trap, little sister will be forced to wear it, forced to dance, but, if it''s the latter, little sister will be dancing not as a way to open the next place, but as a last resort, right now, both of these are possible, of course, it might not be possible, if you guys come up with the idea, we won''t have no way out, we''ll all be guessing! "


    "First, I''ll take off that burial cloth. We''ll talk about it later!" The little sister interrupted us.


    " "How do I hook it?"


    " "Yeah, without the hook, we wouldn''t even be able to hit them, right?"


    "Let''s do this, I have an idea, we can''t use this burial cloth to mess around, we can find any other items and try to drag it down, and if it succeeds, we can try to get that piece down again. If it doesn''t succeed, we can at least damage some other items, right?"


    "Sure!" The pockmark was impetuous, and responded with his mouth. His hand then pulled on the other one and pulled it down.


    "F * ck, now we''re done for, aren''t you adding to the mess!" He looked like a deflated ball.


    "How do I know that? Besides, I didn''t expect your hand to be too fast. I thought the hand that kicked you and pulled the trigger would stop you from using martial arts. This place doesn''t work. Do you understand me? I need to rely on my IQ. Who would have thought that I kicked the wrong place. What should I do now?"


    "Little sister, what do you think we should do?"


    " "Little sister, where is little sister!?" The pockmarks were face to face with me, and my sister was behind me, so he shouldn''t be able to see her. I turned my head, and there was a groan coming from beneath my feet.


    " Little sister, what''s wrong with you? " I bent down, and my sister clutched her chest, her face full of pain.


    " Little sister, you''re hurt? " Only then did I see blood seeping from between her fingers against my chest, and just as I was about to ask her why she was so suddenly hurt, my sister looked up and covered my mouth, her eyes filled with sadness, and her other hand plunged into her chest, stirring, pulling out a bloody, glistening shell, and then a flash of pleasant pain passed through her face.


    "Don''t ask, I don''t have much time left. Listen, listen to me!" The little sister struggled in my arms and held onto the hemp. "You know, I''ve been waiting for this kind of fate for over a thousand years, right? We are both dead people and living people, we have already died a thousand years ago, but, we all have the chance to live again, the piece you dug out belongs to me, I became the most fortunate of the dead, the lucky chance of being resurrected was ignited by you, if, if I could be lucky enough to put on this dance robe, I could truly live forever, but it was all due to fate, heaven''s will! "Coincidently, I was given a new life, and this short life ended in the same way. I have to leave as soon as possible, and not stay for long, because, because, this place is sealed ¡­!" The younger sister spat out a mouthful of blood, soaking the mask red. Her lips moved even through the mask due to the pain of death.


    "What is sealed inside? Little sister, is it a curse energy?" Little sister, what do you know? " The pockmarks shook her body with all her might.


    "Yes ¡­ Yes ¡­" Another mouthful of blood sprayed on the dancing dress. It was like a blooming beautiful sunset flower, sprinkling the setting sun with rosy clouds. In the end, it was just an epiphyllum flower, and the vastness of the sky could not be preserved!


    How could a living girl, even if she was dressed strangely, be a dead woman? She said so much about our time, how could it be a thousand years ago? She said that she had been following us ever since we entered the woods, but we had not dug up the tile. How could she do that? She lied to us, only to say the truth at the last moment, to deny all the previous words, but I really can''t hate her.


    "Tell me, pockmarked one, this is not the truth. Right? How could she possibly be a suicide? "Didn''t she say that she would tell me more when there''s a chance in the future? Also, didn''t she say that we shouldn''t doubt her disappearance and that we could go to Tibet to meet some of her masters? If it was the departed spirits of a thousand years ago, how would they know about the master of our era?"


    " Little San, don''t roar, I don''t believe it either! " He buried his head deep in his crotch.

 C28

    " No, little sister, third brother doesn''t believe it, third brother doesn''t believe it, you just die like that, open your eyes, don''t challenge my intelligence, only a fool would believe it, you speak fluent twenty-first century language and tell me that the dead have been dead for a thousand years, waiting for reincarnation? You just told me a minute ago that if there''s a chance, you will tell me that this world might not be real, and if there''s a chance in the future, you will tell me more. If you are really loyal, then tell me now, I want this chance, you said that empty note is a mysterious diary, you want to trade with us, protect us all the way, we will go to a place, a place where we can understand this diary, you forcefully terminated our trade, I have the right to make you pay with your life, don''t you understand, how can your life be so selfishly yours, you have no right to die, understand? " I''ve never lost my mind like this before. I don''t know if it''s unwillingness or love!


    "Little San, put it down!" The pockmark pulls my sister''s body out of my arms.


    "No, pockmarked, I fell in love with her, you know, I''ve never felt this much pain before, I know I don''t have a reason to fall in love with a mysterious woman for no reason, but at this moment, I have no control over my heart, do you understand, I don''t need to find someone to hang me, I will just die here, I just want to accompany her, so that she won''t be lonely after this cycle of reincarnation!"


    "Are you crazy? Sans, how do you think we''re going out? Didn''t I just tell you not to stay? First, carry her on your back, think of a way to slowly cry, okay?" If I knew that you were so stupid, I wouldn''t have brought you into the forest, and I could have carried you, the one who was hanged, back to you. Fine, it''s fine if you take advantage of this situation and stay here as soon as possible, so as to avoid encountering a fox fairy in the future, a rabbit spirit, and getting hurt in the future! "


    "Water, water ¡ª!"


    "San-zi, San-zi, if you wake up, she''s not dead!"


    "Water!"


    " "Hrm?"


    "Little sister, what is sealed here?" The pockmarks took advantage of the air to chase after them.


    "Little sister, come and drink some water. Don''t be hasty!" I propped her up on one leg, took the water bag from Scabbers, and carefully put it in her mouth.


    "What''s wrong with me?" After drinking a few mouthfuls, she opened her eyes once again and looked around with a lifeless gaze.


    "Little sister, big brother will definitely think of a way for you to wear that dancing dress. I don''t care what status you had a thousand years ago, I will make this cycle of your reincarnation last as long as my life in the future!"


    "How come I don''t understand what you''re saying!"


    You just need to know that the man in front of you will do his best to save you, revive you, take you out of that dark grave, and bring you to a whole new world. Then, I will marry you, love you, and accompany you to the end of life.


    I slapped him across the face.


    "You! I, I''m serious! "


    "Tell me, what happened to me just now? Did you touch me? Why are you marrying me? Are you worthy?"


    "Little San Zi, you think too much of your feelings. She was the princess of the Royal Family a thousand years ago, and yet you''re a tramp. Do you think you''re worthy enough to marry her?"


    "What bullshit is this? Didn''t you all want to hook that burial cloth? Why are you all surrounding me?" The little sister''s anger isn''t faked, and this slap is as heavy as the last one, it doesn''t seem like it came from someone on the verge of death.


    "Does your chest hurt?"


    "You, you actually!" The little sister lowered her head to look at her chest. She was so angry that she was about to raise her hand again. However, the pockmarks stopped her white wrist in midair. "Little sister!"


    "No, that''s not right. Little San, little sister is not injured!" We were confused! " The pockmark loosened his grip on his sister and picked up the bullet shell on the ground. "Look, where''s the blood?"


    "What the hell? When I took it out from my chest just now, it was bloody!"


    "Did I just get shot? Impossible, I feel very good all over. I just feel very weak, but I''m definitely not injured! " The little sister looked at us in surprise.


    "Hmm? Is there no wound on your chest? The cartridge shell you pulled out just now, it came from your own chest! After you took out the bullets, you died. Look, your grass clothes, aren''t they torn? " However, at this moment, the little sister''s chest only saw the torn clothes. There was no blood, and I couldn''t remember if there was blood on her clothes when she took out the bullet.


    " Do you think I''m that capable? And you even dug out the bullets yourself? When have you ever seen a dead person take out the bullets while on the brink of death?! "


    Little sister, don''t be in such a hurry to talk. Bro, speak properly about what happened just now. Say it after you''ve heard it!" "With a few words, he explained everything that had just happened in detail to my sister, even going so far as to say what I had just said. My sister listened with a surprised expression on her face, looking me up and down with an expression as though she was looking at a monster. Then, she stared at the dancing dress with a gloomy expression.


    I''m not the one who accompanied the funeral a thousand years ago, so you guys definitely believe me and then I wasn''t injured. Also, I don''t know anything about what you said just now, but I don''t seem to be present or unconscious. I''m wondering if the owner of this dancing dress possessed me before I died.


    "But, you, who admitted to being a dead person from a thousand years ago, spoke in modern language as well. Don''t tell me all the things that possess you are like this?"


    "It''s something that belongs to the body. It only uses the power of its host body to send out messages!" You don''t want to be negated by these superficial things. To take the simplest example, a fox becomes a spirit and is possessed by a human, and still speaks human words. "


    "That''s right. Did the bullet from the pockmarks just now cause something to go awry?"


    "It should be!"


    "I told you, pockmark, don''t move your flamethrowers around here!"


    "Damn, it''s not you yet, otherwise I would have already shot that one. This is great, breaking this crucial point. What should we do next? You guys give us your ideas, I don''t dare to be rash!"


    " I remember that pockmarked brother saying just now, what I said about what was sealed here, that it was gone. Think about it, if the possessed person were to continue with the story, will they reveal more information to us? Also, that coincidental chance just now had triggered me, so if we were to create another possession, what do you think? "


    I didn''t even dare to believe what you said after you were possessed. At that time, you said that you were a piece of luck, that you were dug up by us, and that you waited for the chance to enter the cycle of reincarnation for a thousand years. Do you believe that? "


    "That''s right, that''s right, it gave us a lot of information. If we weren''t possessed, we wouldn''t have thought of that even if we guessed right through our brains, so why wouldn''t we believe it? At that time, there were so many walls under the ground, and we were the first one to be dug out. Is it the luck of the other mourners, or is it the luck of the other? "


    "Don''t interrupt me, I just thought of something. Is that Vadang and this dancing dress related to the undead that possessed us just now? For example, the piece of Vadang on the ground corresponds to every burial cloth in this underground wardrobe. They correspond to the companion of a thousand years ago.


    " I think so too, but we are not the savior, if we really dig out all those tiles and try to find some way to revive them with the burial clothes in the lower and lower wardrobe, I can''t go to the police station to tell them what''s going on, so the police are definitely going to lock me up or send me to a mental hospital! "


    "I''m not done, don''t interrupt me, we need to hurry up and get out. What I mean is, are there many pockmarks bullets? If you fire one more time, you will directly aim at that dancing dress. I want to trigger one more time to have my body possessed, you must remember every word that I said, these are all information!"


    Don''t worry, I have a lot of bullets prepared for my crotch. But, let me say, Little San, later on, don''t cry again. I''ve never been through this before, so I can''t see through it no matter how many times we have a relationship.


    I stuck out my tongue and didn''t dare to look up at my little sister. It was quite awkward. To be honest, it wasn''t that I wasn''t a man, but I was a real one. Men aren''t made of steel either.


    " Um, little sister, don''t you worry about just now. I, I, I''m not that kind of person, just, don''t have any burdens in your heart! " I lowered my head, not daring to look at my little sister. My face was burning with panic. Not admitting to this was good, but piercing through the window. Since the other party didn''t want to please me, I felt embarrassed.


    " An explanation is a cover up, while a cover up is an act. In a while, Brother pockmarked will be in charge of shooting. You will be in charge of gathering information about me before I die. Do you remember that? " I simply gave out instructions for each of them to complete their respective missions, not sparking my emotions in the slightest.


    The pockmarks were shot again, revealing another wound on his body. The little sister was injured again, but this time the pockmarks were very agile, moving towards his heart, causing the dead man to not be able to breathe fast enough.


    I looked at my little sister''s painful expression and my heart ached again. I knew that it wasn''t her true injury, but I just couldn''t bear to see it. I couldn''t even find the reason for this emotion. He couldn''t control himself when he came. If he couldn''t, why couldn''t he light it up and start a fire? Or is love at first sight a lexical excuse forged by fate that we cannot explain? Could it be that at times, people really did have a cycle of reincarnation, a continuation of love debts?


    "It''s sealed here." She really did go on.


    Ma Zizi and I were flabbergasted. We would never believe that a thousand years ago, there was such a meticulously planned burial at the bottom of Black Water Cliff in the Great Xing''an Mountains!

 C29

    From then on, Emperor Wen Xuan could not leave the Nine Palace Lock every day, and he became a guest. At first, it was just to satisfy the pain of being in love with E''ao, but then he became overly reliant on the Nine Palace Lock; it could be said that whoever possessed such a treasure would not be able to restrain themselves. This way, one could imagine that Emperor Wen Xuan''s world was actually almost perfect, as long as they wanted it, they would have to rely on him to decide whether or not they could enter the Nine Palace Lock.


    Once, when Emperor Wen Xuan was entering the world of the Nine Palace Lock, he couldn''t help but think of this helplessness. He felt resentment and wanted nothing more than to kill him, but in the end, he really did kill him.


    And when Emperor Wen Xuan came out, he no longer saw the young man, and felt regret that he could not reach him.


    Some people said that he lived in seclusion deep in the mountains, while others said that he was not a real person. Since he came from the Nine Palace Lock, he naturally went back to the Nine Palace Lock, and some people also said that the Nine Palace Lock world was a fake, and it was just a trick of a martial artist.


    The young girl struggled to continue. This companion was a woman who was proficient in dancing in the country at the time, and she was forced to take care of herself and skin her body and make countless burial clothes for the sake of accompanying the dead dancing girl, E''Yu, so as to prevent her from being lonely, why did she accompany her in this manner? Back then, Emperor Wen Xuan had also peeled off E''Yu''s skin and left her skin for him according to Wen Xuan Emperor''s wishes.


    Therefore, he must not linger here. Otherwise, if he accidentally touched the Nine Palace Lock, he would be doomed.


    After struggling to finish, she finally spat out another mouthful of blood and died.


    A few minutes later, when the real girl woke up, I told her about the record.


    "So you''re saying, if we don''t use the Nine Palace Lock, we won''t use the Incantation? It seems that we don''t need to be that careful!" He took off his mask and greedily took a few breaths. "Right, I''m so inhaling, I won''t inhale into the souls of those dead, right?"


    " Don''t worry, our lungs can only take in oxygen, and even carbon dioxide is repelled, let alone souls! " I took off my mask.


    What do you think? The words of this dancing girl sounded real, if not, who would be so free to make up such a ridiculous story to play with us? It''s just that this story is too mysterious.


    "Yes, he is indeed a lecherous emperor, and his young death is related to his lustful nature. Also, when Emperor Wen Xuan beat up his own mother-in-law, according to historical records, Emperor Wen Xuan once beat up his own mother, if he beat up his own mother, it would be unfair not to beat up his mother-in-law. Furthermore, according to what the dance girl said, Emperor Wen Xuan skinned off Yu E, then he would skin all the women in the world.


    " "This guy is truly abnormal. He loves a woman, but if she dies, he''ll peel her skin off to commemorate her death. What kind of love is this, it''s simply crazy love!"


    " This is nothing, it''s an open and honorable record. He once made a musical instrument out of the leg bone of a concubine, and whenever he thought about it, he would command the musicians to use this musical instrument! "


    " Should I order some wine and dishes and move a table over while you two drink and talk about Emperor Wen Xuan and those dead women? " My little sister rolled her eyes at us.


    "Oh, yeah, let''s get down to business. That, what''s a Nine Palace Lock? Is that thing real or fake? Is there really such a treasure in this world?" The look in his eyes that was like a pockmark being forged for three feet.


    " Do you know how experts nowadays say that most of the furnaces used to concoct pills are made of aluminum, and that aluminum has been heated for a long time to be poisonous, do you know, how is that longevity of alchemy, that is refining poison seeking death, but then again, if one does not use such a secretive place to store things, it does not seem very reasonable, and, indeed, there are treasures in this world, like night pearls in one''s mouth that preserve corpses, and what kind of precious coffins are there?! When I was in school, my classmate in the archaeology department, I did see those mysterious coffins that could have been preserved for thousands of years! "


    " You don''t need to say it, everyone already knows about it. I mean, why don''t we take a look at the legendary Nine Palace Lock? "


    " "Fuck, ancestor''s dog legs, do you really want to die?"


    " Little San, you still haven''t learned the way of thinking I said, but on the other hand, do you think that the dead spirits of these people who accompany the dead are the same? Let''s put it this way, is it possible that the dancer''s story is true? The curse is also true, it is also true that the Nine Palace Lock is sealed, but the last sentence of the story, if you touch the Nine Palace Lock you will be cursed and die here forever, is in itself a trap? It is simply to scare the intruder, and never have the idea of hitting the Nine Palace Lock again! "

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    " It''s just that a lot of things in this world happen at two extremes, and there is no room for manoeuvre between them, just like life and death. If you bet on life, you wouldn''t be able to die, if you bet your life, but you can''t, if you really bet on the Nine Palace Lock being passive, and there''s no danger, that would break Emperor Wen Xuan''s heart, but, if you think again, Emperor Wen Xuan spent so much effort to seal the Nine Palace Lock, how could it be just a bluff, he''s not Zhuge Liang! "


    " If I win the bet, it means that Emperor Wen Xuan''s plan and the Nine Palace Lock''s were different. If Emperor Wen Xuan loses, it means that if he dies, then it means that no one will die. The pockmark got more and more excited as he spoke.


    " I understand, how about this, let''s just get used to it. Weren''t you guys just throwing things around in the forest, listening to the arrangement of the heavens? Let''s do it the same as always, what do you think? " The little sister waved her hand and interrupted me.


    " "Damn, little sister, it seems like you are following us for more information. You even remember the part where you threw something at us!"


    " Aren''t you curious that I caught the amber blood you threw and then threw it at you? "


    " "Huh?"


    "You guys aren''t curious, why did the bullets shoot out from the dark tree so many times before they hit the ground? Is it me catching them and teasing them?"


    "Holy sh * t!" Is it really you? "


    "Are we going to believe it if we take the amber? Are we going to catch the bullet with our bare hands?" "I don''t believe it!"


    "In the world of magic, it''s not like I''ve never received a bullet with my bare hands before!"


    " "Then you''re admitting that you did it?"


    "Secrets!" The little sister made a face.


    " "One second, little sister. Then, on the first day that we woke up from the wooden house, we couldn''t tell if you were the one who set up the trap in the morning and the one in the evening."


    " If I don''t tell you, you''ve guessed it! "


    "Then what should we throw, Emma, don''t say, back then we dropped a key when we threw the amber blood, if it wasn''t for that thing, we wouldn''t have entered the tree, we can''t just throw anything, how about this, coins, words, we''ll find a way to climb up the hole we fell into, flower mask, we''ll bet that we will find that sealed Nine Palace Lock here!" As he spoke, the pockmark actually pulled out a dollar coin from the dried melons.


    "Is this real money? How did you get here?"


    "I throw the coins on the brick bed into the rice grill''s dry grain bag every time I have nothing to do. What do you mean by burying money with food? Come on, let''s make more money!"


    I took out a few dried seeds and gave them to my sister, biting on them myself. "Quickly throw them away, what nonsense, when I get back, I''ll pick up those golden beans and bury them in your rice vat. Then I''ll marry a woman and play along with you, shouting like a man with gold beans in the rice steamer!"


    If so, let''s throw it once, even if it''s accurate, you guys better watch it well. I didn''t cheat, so what if you bury gold beans in the rice jar, when we get to the Nine Palace Lock, I''ll stay there every day. The pockmark spat out a mouthful of saliva, touched his face with all his strength, and blew into the coin again. Finally, it curled its two fists and shook them happily.


    "Goodbye, big brother. How innocent are we!" I may be a person who thinks things over, and sometimes the pockmarked one deceives himself into thinking only the good end.


    "Right now, where should we start?" Sis is a realism, decided things, do not ink, will be the first time into the practical action.


    "Indeed. We''ve been walking around the great red corpses and ashes ever since we came in. At most, we''ve met a few molted snakes, and then there''s this wardrobe. In order to find the nine palace locks, we have to at least know the location of this thing. How do we find it?"


    "Do we have to shoot another time and listen to that dancer tell us?"


    "No, I feel like the dancers might not know, but even if they did, they wouldn''t tell us. She kept persuading us to leave, so how could she tell us? Besides, since we all suspect that the dancers'' last sentence is a trap, how could we listen to her advice?"


    " That makes sense. If you want to beg someone, you might as well beg yourself! "


    " We don''t even know what a Nine Palace Lock looks like. Pockmark, if you keep wasting time here for something that you don''t know for sure whether or not you have access to, then my corpse will be rotten, how will you deal with it? We have serious business here, not just traveling around! "


    " Nine palaces lock, nine palaces lock. Let me think, what does it mean to be called such a name? Nine palaces? " He drew with his finger in the ashes on the ground.


    " Have you heard of the defective energy of the pyramid? " The little sister looked at the painting and said.


    "What?"


    "What does this have to do with the Nine Palace Lock we''re looking for?"


    "It doesn''t matter. I was just thinking about the number nine when I saw the nine palaces drawn by Brother pockmarked painting. I just casually said it!" The little sister let out a light sigh and started drawing on the ground, whether intentionally or unintentionally. With the gray ashes as the background, it was as if she was drawing an artistic picture.


    "Little sister, what is the Pyramid of Flaws?" the pockmark asked.


    "Well, to start with a simple story, an old man sees a poor child, of course the child has nothing and is very lazy, the old man happily gave the child a jar of gold coins, the child went home to count and found out that it was just 99 gold coins, from then on he worked hard and vowed to save it up to 100 gold coins and then stored it as a fortune. This is a near miss of power, why is everything in the world imperfect? This kind of energy is defined as the missing pyramid energy! "


    "So abstract, I don''t understand!"


    "That sounds reasonable, but it''s too profound!"


    The missing pyramids later became a general term for energy, a general term for never reaching the peak of a thing. Also, I am thinking, what is the principle behind the Nine Palace Lock? Could it be that there is a huge power that can bring people into another world, and because no one has been there before, people think that it is a trick created by a Warlock. Sometimes, things that are called scam can be proven to be science after a long period of time. She continued to explain.


    " So, I can understand, very early on, we didn''t know that the earth was round, people would look at the horizon in a mysterious way, but if we randomly picked out any of the things we were used to, aren''t those really magical things like light, light speed, light itself, probing, that''s the optical world, and how life, how on earth did humans get it, and why a woman''s breast could produce milk to nurture this life after a life came out of a woman''s womb, and genes, aren''t these things very mysterious? If the ancient people always used the words of gods and ghosts to bewitch themselves, the modern us could really face it calmly. If the Nine Palace Lock really existed, how could we explain it with science? Could it really be something similar to a time tunnel, that allows one to bring people into another world? " For a moment, I fell into a state of selflessness, trying to understand as much as I could about the depths I had never had a chance to touch.

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    " The wind is blowing! " As soon as he said it, we saw the ashes on the ground start to make Xuan''er restless.


    We looked around, not knowing what was going to happen. After a few minutes, the wind was still as strong as before, but we could smell the aroma of stew.


    " Do you two smell it, does it smell like someone''s cooking? " I looked at my sister and the pockmarks, and they both stood up.


    " I thought it was the wind that made me hungry and wanted to stew, but why would someone start a fire to stew in this place? " The pockmark kept flapping with his hand and took a few deep breaths. "Hmm, it seems to be coming from that direction!" As he said that, he pointed to the back of the wardrobe.


    " "Go take a look!" I''ll go first.


    There was a soup sink, a huge soup sink, all surrounded by silk, so that before us was a huge multi-colored silk curtain. Through the curtain, one could vaguely see, in the middle of the soup pond, an old woman cooking something.


    "Little sister, move the torch behind you, don''t light the curtain!" But when I said this, I realized that my sister''s torch had touched the curtain in front of us and hadn''t been lit. I was just thinking that it might be the moisture in the ground, but it would be fine for a moment, so I casually lifted the shield, wanting to see the inside more clearly. I really didn''t think that my hand would actually be wet from touching it.


    "This is the water curtain!" She went into the water curtain without any scruples.


    "Holy sh * t, there''s even water as beautiful as rainbow silk?" Surprised, I tried again with my hands. It was indeed a water curtain.


    When the three of them entered the water curtain, the tranquil fragrance was even stronger. It had already been a few days since they last had hot soup and hot food. The smell of meat in front of them made them feel even hungrier.


    " "Damn, how can that old woman stew with her feet?" With that said, I drew my attention from the water curtain and the beauty of the soup pond. However, there was no firewood in front of the old woman, but instead a bonfire rack with two legs spread wide open. A pot the size of a human head was placed on top of it, and from time to time, the lid of the pot would fall down together with the heat coming from within.


    " "Hi, Auntie!" I want to try and see if the other person is deaf or not.


    " Is she deaf? "


    " "Fuck, could he be a dead man?!" Ma Zi then shouted, "Big Sis!"


    " She''s so old, and you call her Big Sis? "


    " Let me try. If you call me old, I''ll ignore you! "


    The old woman still did not respond.


    " "Little sister!" pockmarked and I was about to ask younger sister if she was a dead person, but this sound was clearly very soft, but that old woman actually turned her face towards us.


    " Emma, what kind of a tempo is this? Are these ancient women so hypocritical? "I was casually shouting out beauties on the street, and the children, girls, and old ladies all turned their heads. Did she turn back just now when she heard us calling out ''little sister''?" the pockmark asked.


    " Who knows, it doesn''t seem to be a dead man, maybe a coincidence? "Don''t be so unreliable. This is a damn place, why don''t you find it funny just because of a single title!"


    " "Little sister!" We shouted, and the old woman looked back.


    " "Fuck, it''s really true!"


    " "No, perhaps her name is Little Sister?" The little sister had a very serious look on her face as she tried to stop him from jeering.


    " [Hmm, that''s possible. But how could there be a living being here?] Furthermore, how can a living person burn his own feet to stew? "


    " Do you see that there''s no stopping place in the middle of this soup pool? Why is she just sitting there, not even falling down? "


    " This soup pool is not deep, let''s go in and take a look? " pockmarked proposal.


    " "Wait, let''s take a look first. There''s no rush!" Actually, what the pockmarks said was quite feasible. This soup pool was very clear. Even the picture of a white phoenix welcoming a dragon and cloud could be seen at the bottom. It was only as deep as our knees.


    " Did you see where she was looking when she turned her head? " the little sister asked.


    " "I didn''t pay attention to that. I was just wondering why she would turn back to this matter after calling me little sister!"


    " Why can''t I see her eyes? Isn''t it all covered by her scattered hair? "


    " Let''s shout one more time, and you two can look into her eyes! " the little sister said.


    " I suspect that it''s our feet. It can''t be that she''s finished burning her own feet and is preparing to burn us? " said the pockmark.


    "Damn, then wouldn''t the water in the soup be able to specifically soak the foot of the person who entered? It''s fortunate that it didn''t go down!"


    " Let''s go down, we can''t just let a young lady lead the way. I urged the hesitating pockmarks.


    The other side didn''t even respond, it really looked like a dead person, but as long as we talk and mention the word little sister, she will react, but not to our feet, but to the place where we were originally standing.


    "It looks like it''s not our feet. As long as she hears the word ''little sister'', she will be able to see a place. It must be a place with something!"


    " That''s reasonable, this should be a dead person, she wouldn''t even be angry! " After provoking her a few times, the pockmark became even more bold. It did not place this old woman in its eyes and even extended its finger to test the other party''s breathing.


    " Dead? A dead person can understand why burning their own feet doesn''t hurt, but why can a dead person turn their head when someone is shouting at them? "


    Perhaps she had been placed in some sort of trap? "She would react if some sort of sound symbol stimulated the mechanism.


    " It looks like we just happened to call each other ''little sister''? Did she react only to such symbols, or was there something else? There are so many Chinese characters, and she''s an ancient person. If we want to find the symbol that would stimulate her reaction, wouldn''t it be even harder to climb into the sky? "


    " Let me take a look at the stew in the pot first. " The pockmarked old woman casually lifted the lid, and just as the old woman was about to dip her palm into the pot with her other hand, the pockmarked old woman''s hand and the pockmarked old woman''s hand simultaneously touched the lid.


    " Why were you smiling just now? Is there any warmth in her hand? " I don''t know what''s wrong with the pockmarks, but they look weird.


    " Why can''t I lift the lid? "


    " Let me ask you, why did you laugh just now? "


    " I''m not laughing? "I clearly wanted to lift the lid, but why can''t I hook it?"


    "What''s going on?" I repeated the process I had just seen to Tsukiko.


    " "Little sister, tell that pockmarked old woman that just lifted the lid of the wok and touched the hand of that pockmarked old woman, and then they both shrank back and didn''t lift it, right?"


    " "Right, pockmarked brother, don''t move recklessly. You were smiling very strangely just now, and we can''t act rashly. Every single thing here is deeply hidden, and we might have even touched something at some point, but it''s all kept in the dark!"

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    " "I don''t believe you. Come, San-zi, come over here and bind the hands of those old women. I''ll do it again!"


    " Can this work? " I looked at my sister subconsciously.


    " Let me do it. I want to see what exactly is being stewed in this pot. " The little sister waved her hand and made me take half a step back.


    This time, it was unknown if it was really a forceful method or just a coincidence. The old woman did not scoop up any more water to raise the lid and add it to the pot, and the hemp smoothly lifted the lid.


    It was a surprise to see us so close.


    There was actually a mirror in this pot.


    "It''s actually not meat? But the smell does come from the pot. How can a mirror smell meat? "


    "Is this a mirror made of meat?"


    "Why is there a mirror being stewed? What is this mirror?"


    "Damn, I''ve already taken it for so long. Right, why is the lid of such a steaming hot pot cold?"


    "This is too damn unbelievable, why isn''t there any normal objects here? Since the lid of the pot isn''t hot, then the pot must be cold, why don''t we take out the mirror and take a look?" See if you can find anything? "


    " Let me do it! Just watch out for this old lady. Although she''s a dead person, who knows what cultivation experience or mechanism she has! " The pockmark threw the lid of the pot into the pit where the old woman sat with her legs crossed.


    This, let me remember now, stone statues often see stone lions, in front of many buildings, two magnificent stone lions, this kind of lion''s mouth usually contains stone beads, but you can never think of taking out the bead from this lion''s mouth, because at that time, when the mason was making the stone beads, it was inside the lion''s mouth that the cutting process was completed, is this mirror also? When someone had made this pot, they had polished a mirror inside it?


    Since the pockmark had failed, he could only withdraw his hand.


    " However, this is different from a lion. The lion''s entire body is made of a piece of stone, a material made of, and this pot is clearly not made of the same material as the mirror inside, so how can it be? "


    " No, there are several possibilities, one is that this pot is some kind of cast iron, so at that time when trying to find a way to put the mirror inside the pot into the cast iron grinder, after the cast iron is formed, the mirror will naturally be inside, but this pot doesn''t seem to belong to any kind of metal, it is more like a natural rock, if it is a natural rock, then that is another kind of possibility, this rock itself is a piece of jade mine, inside there is a type of core, the ore outside has become a mirror, and the ore outside has become a pot body, that is why a raw material, two types of materials, create this kind of vessel! " the little sister said.


    " The second possibility sounded reliable. If that was the case, then this pot and the mirror inside it would be completed using a piece of ore. Wouldn''t it be priceless? The value of the mine itself, coupled with the craftsmanship of the craftsman, were still ancient! "When I get back, I''ll be at the Tsui Tsui [1]. I''ll make this pot of stewed rice with golden beans and white rice and treat you to dinner!" Ma Zi''s eyes flashed with curiosity.


    " There''s no market for it, and you have no road ahead of you. Who would dare to believe that it''s not easy to get it, and who would buy it at such a high price? "


    " A good girl is not worried about marriage. Fuck, that''s stupid, this thing is so valuable, why are we fishing for it alone, even if it''s just a pot. Since this is a set, it''s worthless to be separated! " As he spoke, the pockmarked fellow was about to move the pot. He was impatient and quick. Just as I was about to stop him, he had already moved the pot.


    How could any of us still stand? We fell into the soup pond, and just as we were about to struggle and hold on to the pot, the water in the soup tank suddenly surged up, and in our desperation, we didn''t forget to pick up the pot lid that was placed on the old woman''s abdomen, covering it with the pot and stuffing it into the cotton-padded jacket.


    I want to call you a fool who wants money more than his life, so I choked a mouthful of water out of my mouth. Seeing that the pool of soup is already as high as the water of Jinshan Temple, and it''s still going on, I immediately held my breath and looked at my sister under the water. I saw that she actually swam to the spot where we were standing just moments ago, by the way, the old woman looks back every time she turns her head, is there a trap there? What did my little sister discover?


    I couldn''t speak, so I patted my pockmarks to indicate that I should swim to that side as well.


    When we swam over, my sister was already studying that piece. It turned out that there was only a layer of bone ash on the surface, and as the water in the soup pond rose, it flooded the surrounding platform and washed away the bone dust, revealing a clean floor tile.


    Every tile on the ground is about the length of a person''s foot and about the width of his palm. Furthermore, they are all in very strange shapes, and I can''t see anything for a while, so I quickly took advantage of the fact that there''s still some water on the surface to swim up to catch my breath, or else I''ll suffocate to death.


    I swam up to the surface of the water and inhaled deeply a few times. I was just about to give it to the two of them when I realized that there was nothing I could do. I could give them anything, but I just couldn''t let them go.


    I found that the water was already rising very high, and somehow I felt that this height had long since exceeded the distance between the hole we fell into and the ground. At that time, I suddenly thought to myself, whether there are any other holes in this burial site, if this goes on, wouldn''t the water rise up to the hole we came in, and flood Blackwater Cliff?


    Afraid of losing track of the situation and not daring to linger for more than a second, he quickly turned back.


    When I returned, the two of them had already pried open a floor tile. There was no way to communicate with them, I didn''t know how they managed to find their way in such a short period of time, but looking at the floor tile, there was actually light.


    That''s right, I suddenly had a bad feeling when I saw the light. Our old torch had been extinguished when it fell into the spoon. That meant that while we were in the water, we didn''t have any lighting tools, but we could clearly see everything. Where did the light come from?


    As he thought of this, he looked around and discovered that there was a luminous pearl the size of a goose egg carved into the phoenix crown at the bottom of the white phoenix pattern on the bottom of the soup pond.


    I pointed to the location of the Night Pearl to the pockmarks, which immediately lit up. I thought to myself, If you can hold your breath, you can swim over and dig it out.


    As expected, the pockmark turned around and swam away. The little sister glanced at it before continuing to concentrate on the floor tiles.


    When I started to count, the floor tiles that were picked out looked no different from those around us. Furthermore, there weren''t any special marks on the floor where she pointed, but I actually clicked on another one, which was similar to a Chinese acupuncture point. I couldn''t help but admire my sister, while at the same time, my curiosity towards her background and background deepened.


    After that, she lied down on the floor tiles, took big breaths, and then raised her head to signal me to do the same.


    The floor tiles had been opened, and we lay on our bellies, breathing hard at the same time.


    Through the brick entrance, I could clearly see the forest underneath. The light I saw was actually like the light of the sun, but how was that possible? Could it be that this isn''t the underground world? It was actually on the ground? Could it be that the place where he was buried was in the woods of the Great Xing''Anling Mountains?


    Impossible, absolutely impossible. We fell from Blackwater Cliff, and the Blackwater Cliff is in the forest. Isn''t the bottom of Blackwater Cliff supposed to be in the forest? How can it be the forest on the ground?


    I don''t know what method the pockmarked brat used, but he actually managed to obtain the Night Pearl and swam back. His face was purple from holding it in. I hastily pressed his head against the floor and stuffed it into the mouth of the brick.


    Ma Zi greedily took a few breaths and I guessed that he must have also seen the ground underneath the brick. As expected, he raised his head to look at me and my little sister with a questioning gaze.

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    And then he did smash open yet another tile, and when the local brick broke free of its fall, I was stunned, for it did not fall below what we thought it was ¡ª into the old woods outside, but up into the waters of our soup ponds.


    Isn''t this completely proof of my previous conjecture?


    I think my little sister will understand, but pockmarked just happy that he did one thing and went on with another.


    I don''t know what is the purpose of my sister using such great skill to carefully tap open the floor tiles that seemed to follow a pattern. I don''t know what is the purpose of my sister using such great skill to carefully tap open the floor tiles that seemed to follow a pattern.


    When the hemp was about to cut off another floor tile, the little sister didn''t continue with her work.


    That idiot, pockmarked, thought it was because everyone was looking to him to be the savior. With such a powerful attitude, he was even more motivated. I thought, maybe he really screwed up my little sister''s mind.


    In less than a few minutes, the pockmarks had made a hole along with the floor tiles that she had opened earlier, smashing the surrounding areas. The hole was not small, but it was clear that the person would be able to enter the hole.


    That guy happily kissed the lid and was about to drill through it.


    The little sister shrugged her shoulders and gave him a look of ''I''ll follow you''.


    I didn''t follow him immediately when he drilled. I had always wanted to see if he would be forced to fall into the woods after he left, or if he would do a climbing action. I wanted to verify my conjecture once more and reverse the direction of the problem.


    However, just as the pockmarks stuck out of his head, he started shouting "F * ck, save ¡ª" with bared fangs and brandished claws.


    I don''t know what happened, but I grabbed onto the leg of the pockmarked man, but he was too fast, and by the time I reached out my hand to really grab his leg, he was already out of the brick, leaving only a stump of his ankle behind. When I grabbed his ankle and was about to pull him back, it was too heavy for me to bear, and I was carried out of the room. I called out for my little sister in a hurry, and the top half of my body fell out of the brick with the pockmarked man.


    In an instant, a strong gust of wind pounced on me, drenching my wet jacket and making it cold from the inside out.


    "Little, little sister, how can you console me like this? If you have the time, quickly find some hay to light a bonfire!" All my doubts about the funeral were pushed to the back of my mind, and I just wanted to be warm, damn cold.


    "Tell me, what''s going on? How could we fall into the old forest?" "No," I said.


    "I can''t go back. My Nine Palace Lock is hopeless!" The pockmark was still thinking about that treasure. His face was blank and his hands had already turned blue. He was still holding the pot in his arms.


    " Can you stop being so greedy? F * ck, I''ll take the beans and the valuable pot. I''m not going to snatch anything from you if you''re not satisfied with what I have! "With a good brother like me accompanying you, the results are all yours!" I tried my best to comfort the pockmarks, who also said that they didn''t feel anything for money. Damn, they really didn''t feel anything for money.


    " Little San, where''s the Nine Palace Lock? We just entered the Nine Palace Lock. Look up, where did we fall from? We can''t even find it now, the tree is the sky and the sky is the clouds. Did we fall from the clouds? When we first fell into the Black Water Cliff, we had already entered the Nine Palace Lock. The Nine Palace Lock was not an object, it was a place, if you understand, then the Nine Palace Lock that we entered earlier was the Nine Palace Lock itself, think about it! "


    "Then where are we now? Surely it wasn''t Blackwater Cliff? "I had wanted to see what kind of horrendous power Guo Gu''s brain could bring out, but now, I''ve only been to the entrance of Blackwater Cliff and missed it!"


    "Are you crazy? Don''t you think about it? We haven''t even entered Blackwater Cliff yet, we''re just standing at the door curious about a pile of feces. After that, so much has happened. If we do enter, won''t we be played to death?"


    "That''s true, then tell me, where are we now? It''s definitely in the old forest, but it''s definitely not the same place as before. That fog is so thick, and it''s not that cold.


    At the very least, let''s fall down from Blackwater Cliff and come out from the original position. Think about it, if that dancer said, every time Emperor Wen Xuan entered the Nine Palace Lock, he wouldn''t be able to enter from the palace, stay in the Nine Palace Lock for a period of time, and finally come out from the stables. He shouldn''t have been able to get out from anywhere yet, aiya, no, at that time the Nine Palace Lock was supposed to be an object, it can''t be a distant place! The pockmark buried its head in its crotch again, freezing the jacket. There was the sound of the back of my shirt being snapped, and I quickly patted him.


    The Nine Palace Lock may be an object, but it is also a place, a nonexistent world created by idealism, but it is also a real world. At the very least, we will never be able to return to it, and will never be able to find our way back to it. But, look, the pot in our hands is real.


    "Little sister is back. Let''s go down!" The pockmark pointed to the bonfire that was lit below.


    The little sister''s movements were very fast. In a few sentences, a large bonfire was built. The pockmarks and I tried our best not to slide down the tree trunk conservatively. Otherwise, the jacket would have been torn off before it melted.


    When we got down, the pockmarked man and I approached the bonfire to bake our cotton-padded jackets.


    "You two sit first, I''ll go hunt some meat. We''ll use the pot of the pockmarked brother to cook some soup, and I think this place is pretty good. We''ll rest for the whole afternoon, we''ll spend the night here, tomorrow morning, then we''ll discuss further, so let''s see if we can find some usable vegetation for a tent or something!"


    "Little sister, sorry for troubling you. Two men, I''ve always been counting on you as a girl when things go wrong!" I looked at the cut on the back of my sister''s hand and thought that she must have been in a hurry to pick up the hay. I felt a pang in my heart.


    "Little sister, thank you, sincerely!" The pockmark said in a serious manner.


    " "It''s nothing, it''s just a small matter. Oh right, don''t wander around in the forest. Just stay where you are and shout at me if I meet anything. Or I can smother the bonfire and set the smoke. I''ll stay nearby!" With a word of warning from her younger sister, she turned around and submerged herself in the dense forest.


    "San Zi, San Zi!" The pockmark''s eyes darted around and landed on my face.


    "What''s wrong? Why are you so quiet! "


    "Tell me, who do you think this lady is?"


    "Who?" "Little sister?"


    "F * ck, who else? We don''t have many opportunities to talk on our own. Tell the truth, just the two of us. Whatever you think, don''t worry about it!"


    " "You are more sinister than her. Just a moment ago, you even expressed your gratitude sincerely and muttered behind his back. A person like me is just like you, openly talking about people behind their backs!"


    "You are really stupid, really, or else you must be serious. Fuck, you can''t really love this girl, right?"


    "It''s good that I fall in love with her. She doesn''t have any feelings for me, but I know that she must be a woman with a story!"


    "Right, that''s right. Women who have stories are usually complicated. I''m just afraid that her stories are too far away from you!"


    "The furthest distance in the world is not within arm''s reach. It is within arm''s reach, and the heart is indeed far away from the sky!" I was depressed.


    "No, the furthest distance is that you two are people from two different worlds. It''s like a fish and a sparrow kissing; there''s no room for you!"

 C34

    " "I think we''re pretty bastards, a girl was looking for food for you and me in such a cold weather, let''s be suspicious of her. Stop it, pockmarked!" I thought of my younger sister''s pure and mischievous eyes, her undisguised and natural aura, and her mysterious words that weren''t forced upon me. Should I be on guard against anyone who had a story? No, friends don''t have to go from knowing each other to knowing each other, just like parents and children. Maybe each of us won''t understand our parents until we''re old, but in our previous life, not only does it not mean we don''t trust them, on the contrary, it''s an innate instinct for every child to trust their parents. Therefore, not knowing a person didn''t necessarily affect the existence of family, friendship, and love.


    " "Oh right, what can little sister hunt with her bare hands? I have a gun here, why don''t I take a stroll around? Why don''t you just wait here?" The pockmark stopped talking and pinched the cotton jacket until it was dry.


    " That''s fine too, don''t go too far! After all, the rations are here, and it would be best to find some water source. We don''t have much water left, so we don''t have enough to cook! "


    They seem to have gained quite a lot, the pockmarks were actually carrying an old fat wild lamb leg, roasting it diligently over the fire, the meat of the mutton made a ''zizz'' sound, and there was some I recognize beside the meat. It''s primrose grass, this stuff is very rich in juice, when it''s used for roasting wild food, it''s the best seasoning, the pockmarks actually got this, it''s very rare and remote, if you go to sell it in the city, it''s a rare thing.


    " What''s in the pot, sister? " I rubbed my eyes embarrassedly. Three people, I was the only one enjoying myself. I thought to myself that I would let the two of them have a good rest on night watch tonight.


    " Guess? "


    " What can I guess? Little sister, do you dare to use this pot?


    " Should I eat first? Seeing how scared you are, don''t worry, I threw a few ants into this pot. If they don''t run, I should be fine! After a while, don''t eat your tongue off. There are sheep''s faces, torn into pieces, mixed with a few small female fishes. The fishes have seeds in their stomachs, and there are also some mountain fungi, grey vegetables, and a lot of them! "


    " How could there be fish? Have you found the water source? "


    " Of course, it''s easy to find water. You just have to climb a tree and find a place where the surrounding trees are dense, which is usually near the water source. However, I only gathered weeds and caught a few small fishes. The little sister stuck out her tongue and mischievously handed the wooden stick to me. I took it and continued to stir the delicious food in the pot.


    " "Yes, the freshness in Chinese characters is the combination of fish and sheep, so the freshest is fish stewing and sheep stewing!" I licked the end of the stick that was dipped in the pot. Just this lick alone was enough to make me hungry.


    " "Come on, little sister, clean up that lamb leg and roast it as well!" The pockmark threw over a bloody item. The little sister quickly caught it and began to clean up.


    His two legs had been chopped off when he came back, and his face had been torn apart by his little sister after she smashed the stone plate. His entire body had been thrown into a pile of bonfire.


    The pockmarks rolled around as they found a thin piece of stone, and the top layer of meat they were roasting was handed to us to eat first. By the time I took the first bite of the meat, I had already chewed it into minced meat, but I couldn''t bear to swallow it. It was too damn delicious, I hadn''t eaten anything so tasty in such a long time, "Right, how about the soup in that pot, no spoons?"


    "Use this!" The little sister kicked a few items over, which looked like grooved shaped stones that she picked up for serving as a bowl.


    "Grill a bowl for me. If it''s delicious, then shut up and eat. Stop spouting nonsense and treat your friends better than you!" Ma Zi complained as he salivated.


    "Let me first test if the stew is safe or not. What are you in such a hurry for!"


    "Sheep''s body, if any of you haven''t eaten your fill, find some cooked meat to eat, don''t waste it, and bury the rest in the bonfire." Sheep''s body, if any of you haven''t eaten your fill, find some cooked meat to eat, don''t waste it, and bury the rest in the bonfire. After saying that, the pockmarked person continued to burp a bunch of times. Just as he stopped burping, he started to snore.


    " "Little sister, you should go to sleep too. I''ll pull out some thick and withered roots and fill them to the brim!" I got up.


    He didn''t understand what was being said, but an old woman and two voices seemed to be conversing face to face. The other voice seemed to be that of a man.

 C35

    "Oh my god!" How could the pockmarked old woman care about that?


    "What is this? The stairs to the sky? " For a moment, I felt like I was in a dream. If it weren''t for the fire burning my feet and neck, I wouldn''t even have been able to find my true feelings.


    " "Sans, pinch me, am I still dreaming?"


    "F * ck, you even shoot yourself in your dreams, then just shoot yourself in the thigh and see if you can wake up!"


    "Is this thing real or fake?"


    "It''s because of that mirror in the pot, but I touched it just now, and the ladder below is real. If you don''t believe me, why don''t you try it?"


    " I''m just afraid that we''re both in a dream and that we''re actually touching the real thing, isn''t that still a fake? "


    " I didn''t sleep, okay? "


    " Right, I only heard your roars, and inside the fence, there was only me, my little sister, and that old lady. I thought you were inside the stomachs of those old ladies, and before I could digest it, you shot that old fellow.


    " Do you remember, seventeen years ago, when Erlu saw that shadow sculpture in the old branch book, she saw a branch of the old branch book lying open one night. There seemed to be something inside, and I remember very clearly that when the object faced the moonlight, a bright white light shot out.


    " You mean, the Heaven Stairway we see now is the same as the houses in the woods that Er Lu Zi''jie saw seventeen years ago? Both of them, are from another world? "


    "I just feel that there is a connection between these two things. It''s night time with the moon, and they are both objects facing the moon, and they are both strange worlds suspended in the woods. Is this a coincidence or a certainty?"


    "It can''t be, old Lin. We have been hunting wild beasts here for so many years, but because of a pile of feces, we ended up dying with them!" I always thought it was just an episode on our way to find your body. "


    "The more inconspicuous a place is, the more deeply hidden it is. Have you ever thought that those feces might be the best type of concealment? Who else would be so freakishly hiding their feces?"


    "Fuck, what you said made sense to me!" The most dangerous place is actually the safest place, and the most inconspicuous is actually the most important place? "


    "There''s someone!" As she shouted, the Heaven Stairway in front of us disappeared. I instinctively wanted to look at the pot, fuck, some wild man appeared out of nowhere and took the pot, but just as I was about to escape, she actually failed to stop me and chased after me. In that moment of life and death, I saw the wild man catch the bullet that was about to blow his head off with his bare hands, and with a roar of rage, she disappeared into the night.


    " Chase after it, you can''t lose that pot! " I shouted at the pockmark and followed closely behind my sister, the sound of pockmarks running behind me, and the occasional bullet that grazed past me.


    " You don''t even have enough bullets, just be careful. That thing is very powerful, even I can''t handle it. Just follow me! " I didn''t even turn around to shout at him about the gunshot wounds. Other than shooting in a hurry, they had no other abilities, but the gunshot skills of the pockmarks were useless, and if he was not accurate in his first shot, then his opponent would be hard to deal with. However, that furry barbarian was able to receive the bullets with his bare hands, and not only did he have thick skin, but his hands were also quick to move, and his brain had extraordinary reflexes.


    "Nutjob, are you there?" I gasped.


    "I''m here, your elder has always been behind you, this way of chasing isn''t a good idea. I don''t think that hairy barbarian is a human. How could he have such speed? He shouldn''t be a wolf wearing human skin, right!"


    "To think that you could think of such a thing. How could you possibly have wolf legs?"


    "I''ve seen it before. If a wolf is powerful, its front two legs will evolve into a hand to fight for it. However, a wolf is afraid of fire. If that guy dares to steal from a bonfire, he shouldn''t be a wolf. We have to think of a way to deal with him!"


    I''m not even mad, it''s good if you don''t fall behind. Besides, we are lost here, not a village alley, so we can find the other party and cut off their path. If you have any tricks up your sleeves, I don''t think I''ll be able to handle it!


    "Let me think, don''t interrupt!" We didn''t speak anymore. Talking consumed a lot of energy, so I could only run for my life, "Little sister? "Little sister?"


    "F * ck, if I get hit, then I''ll end up running to the anus with my intestines?" The pockmark scolded again, "San-zi, I seem to have been here before. When I was running over there, did you see a high tombstone? I was here two years ago and I know the way now. Follow me! "


    "It should be about right, you don''t have full confidence, but you don''t have to worry about me. I am like a fish in water in the forest, you should worry about yourself the most!"


    " Say hello to that little sister, otherwise, she will think that something has happened to us, then go back and look for her, or else, she will think that we left her behind. Anyway, that''s not good! "


    " In my opinion, don''t speak the truth. If you were to be heard by that furry barbarian, you must have been alerted! "


    " "Where is the usual place?"


    " The old place is where the three of us go together! "


    " Blackwater Cliff? A bonfire? We''ve only just met, where else would we have been together? "


    " I won''t go to Blackwater Cliff, but the bonfire will be extinguished tomorrow morning. It''s still the same place! " The pockmark grabbed my ear, and it was so quiet that I could barely hear it, "The old place is called the old place in the forest. Since I agreed, I just know where it is! "Don''t worry."


    " "We''re here!"


    " Is this the old place you were talking about? Why have I never heard of it? Does a lot of people here know about it? "


    " Not all of us know about this place, but the elderly should know that our forest is not that big at first, and this forest is the mother of the entire Great Xing''An Mountains! "


    " Mother? "


    " That''s right, the origin of the entire forest! All the trees that we have seen are self-contained on the ground, but in the underground world, they are actually all intertwined and intertwined. They all originated from the root of a tree, and this is where the mother tree grew, only, you can''t see it, it''s under this lake. "


    " How can there be trees underwater? "


    " It is a tree, and also a cave.


    " With regards to the cave, you must be very mysterious, but now that we have made an appointment to come here, why is that? "


    " There are spirit or cultivation experience animals and people in the forest. As long as they pass by, they would come to pay their respects to the cave! "


    " "Do you mean that the fur-barbarian will definitely come here?"


    " "Yes, if it''s an ordinary animal or someone like you who doesn''t know anything, they might have left. But we hunters who spend our days in the woods all revere this place, and even when we''re hunting, if we encounter snow, freezing mountains and heavy rain, as long as we''re walking within a radius of several miles, we''ll have to come over. Otherwise, the mountain god won''t be able to forgive us!"

 C36

    " Then, shall we wait here? " I returned the Night Pearl to the pockmarks, and touched the two empty strips of skin on my body to ensure that they were still there. I patted the cold dew on my body that night.


    " We still need to make some preparations. That fellow''s skill is something we can''t match up to. After chasing after him for so long, my stamina is exhausted, so it''s up to us! " As he spoke, the pockmark began to study the area, trying to figure out how to take advantage of the natural advantage.


    " Then hurry up, maybe they''ll be here soon! "


    " "Let me think, don''t worry!"


    I didn''t dare disturb the pockmarked man''s attentive thinking, so I looked around.


    Here, in a circle, three sides of the ring of trees and one side of the circle of mountains, facing a small hill, where the snow had not melted for a long time, and there was a cloud of snow in the sky, looking ethereal, and there was a crooked-shaped gravel road at the foot of the mountain, which should have been built by humans, with a frozen lake in the middle and a mother tree canyon growing under it according to the lake that the pockmarked.


    " "No, pockmarked, they seem to have arrived before us!" I suddenly saw a line of large, eye-catching words on the gravel path on the opposite hill: Follow me, sister!


    " F * ck, we''re even one step too late for a shortcut. Isn''t that guy surpassing us? You know, if you run from the forest to the hill on the other side, you will have a long way to go. That speed is not ordinary, but little sister is also very fierce, so you''ve really caught up and even left a mark for us. He walked down the slope toward the white lake.


    " This White Lake is already frozen. Whether it is solid or not, we will slide across it and save time! " I asked.


    " This lake is hard even if you want to dig it open. It''s frozen all year round and you have to cross it from the top! " As he spoke, pockmarked man strode like a meteor to the shore of the lake.


    When we arrived at the lakeshore, I discovered that the temperature here was much lower than the forest a few meters away. The thick cotton pants were pierced through in a short while, making the rolling bones feel really cold, so cold that you couldn''t even find your legs.


    "We have to hurry, otherwise, we''ll freeze to death!" The pockmarks rubbed against his body, constantly moving to defend against the cold.


    "Don''t tell me we were frozen to become living scarecrows as soon as we reached the middle of the lake. I''ve never come across such a cold place and I really want to die. No wonder this place is frozen for so long.


    "Freezing is impossible, don''t you think we can still speak freely? This is just the extreme low temperature within half a meter of the lake, and if you don''t believe me, you can feel that your upper body is not that cold, so you have to keep moving and rely on your upper body to constantly transfer heat to warm your lower body, or you will be in trouble!"


    " Wait, San-zi, did we fall for something? Look, the words on the snowy road across there, it''s not right! " He continued, "If I followed the hairy man into the hill from the lake side, there would be a row of footprints of the hairy man into the snow mountain, and then he would give us those words as he chased after us. So we should assume that they would be on the hill, and if they ran from the forest to the opposite hill at night, and then down the snow road to the lake, it would be the footprints of the hairy man first, and then the footprints of the little sister would be written down. At the same time, we would not be able to follow those footprints up the mountain.


    But the words were directed our way. If she followed the Mao people up the mountain, she followed them, and if she followed them down the mountain, it was written in reverse, but she didn''t know which path we took to get closer. If we chased from the mountain to the lake, why did she write these words in desperation so that we could stand here and look at them? Moreover, the footprints were wrong. They were missing a person.


    " "It is a situation where someone is following us and when we are about to arrive, they arrive at the other side ahead of time and write these words as if they were ''little sister'' to mislead us."


    "If you think about it this way, many things will make sense. Think about it, if a person writes these words, of course they will leave a trail of footprints. Moreover, these words are coincidentally directed at us, so we can see it with a glance!"


    "That''s right, I''ll look again. The handwriting is neat and not too hasty. I don''t believe that I would have the time to write like this after chasing after her at that speed. However, if someone is following me, who could it be?"


    Three, we''ve been targeted by several groups of people ever since we entered the forest. Other than this little sister, the person who sent the piece of leather to us is a group of people, think about it, that person intentionally gave you the piece of leather, or he sent you the first piece of fur from the rouge shop earlier, or they are all under the orders of the same person, and the people who stole the pot yesterday shouldn''t be that group of fur people. With the addition of this little sister, we have three people following us!


    "Punk, you always say that my line of thinking is straight. This time, I''ll bend down, do you dare to think that I''m in cahoots with the Maoists?" I don''t know why, but I can''t believe everyone else because things are so complicated and weird.


    "Bugs, you''ve thought about it too, haven''t you? It''s just that because of my love for little sister, I''ve kept it in my stomach, haven''t I?"


    "If that''s the case, then there''s nothing we can chase after. Really, even if we tied her up, we wouldn''t be able to beat that little girl, plus that human who took the bullets with his bare hands. But, it''s still the same, he''s not coming for us, otherwise, we would have died a long time ago, we have what they want in our hands!"


    "But, why are they so amazing? What do they want? Why don''t they get their own way?"


    Maybe, many things can only be obtained by using you and me, or more accurately speaking, only by using you. For example, when little sister made the transaction, little sister clearly cared a lot about this diary, why never stole it, because this diary only has two pages, stole two pages, and is hostile to you, in the future, won''t have the opportunity to obtain more, the complete diary will certainly not only be two pages, she thinks more, so she can only use it on the surface to gain trust, and secretly use it on the surface. I didn''t want to think about the string of words that the pockmark had said, because I was emotionally opposed to thinking about my little sister that way, and I wanted to escape even if I had to deceive myself. However, the fact that there were many things that made me have to face the possibility of such a possibility of existence head-on.


    Thinking of this, there was no point in chasing after them. The two of them were like homeless people who had been tricked until they lost their lives.


    As long as we still have some value, the other party will appear again. Just like you said, he wants more from us. For example, if he gives us those journal notes, I will definitely find us myself!


    " "Right, then let''s follow our old plan and go look for your corpse!"


    "We seem to have forgotten something important, pockmark, those footprints belonged to a person, that''s right, do you remember that I can become invisible? Why didn''t I become helpless and become invisible to follow the Mao people? That''s right, those footprints belong to the Mao people!" I suddenly understood.


    The pockmark also smacked his forehead, "F * ck, things have suddenly turned out too extreme. We can''t trust anyone so easily, and we can''t easily wrongly accuse them either. Then, let''s go to the hill opposite and see who''s footprints are. Let''s make an initial judgement on who!"


    In the end, he still had to slide across the lake to the hill on the other side.


    " "Blight, there''s blood!" The pockmarks had already walked over, leaving the snowy road untrodden as they followed the roadside as well.


    Let''s not move, let''s first check along the road and go back to check if we find anything. But, looking at the size of the footprints, they shouldn''t be mine, at least this is 45 yards of feet, all men are big, it''s impossible for me to have such a body. The initial appraisal of the pockmarks is very reasonable, so we immediately decided to go up the mountain.

 C37

    "Pock, when did this place have a castle?"


    "This is the first time I know this. Before, it was all hunting here, so I just paid my respects by the lake and then hurried off. I''ve never been to Mt. Tuji before, but it seems to be quite some time. Should I take a look?"


    "Little sister, did you lure that hairy man to this castle?"


    "It''s possible. The plan might as well change. I saw smoke coming from inside. Maybe someone should go in and ask around!" As he spoke, the pockmark climbed up the mountain.


    The smoke was coming out of the castle through a window in the second and third floor.


    "To light a fire in the house? "Most of the materials in this castle are made of wood. Aren''t you afraid of fire?" I looked curiously at the pockmark.


    "Why are you still so stupid? Don''t you need to think normally when things go wrong? Haven''t you figured it out in the past few days? Anything that fits with the norm won''t appear in this old forest. Here, why don''t you just come as you please? Go and have a look!" As he said this, he tightened his grip on the blowtorch around his waist and dove into the doorway.


    He took off the lock, pushed open the door, and saw that the creaking old wood was making an ancient noise. The inside was simple and unadorned, and on the opposite side of the door was a small window, which should have been seen outside the castle earlier, a square table with a few memorial tablets on it. The dusty offerings were mountain grass, wild walnuts, and dates.


    "Who are you people? How did you come in?"


    "Uncle, I''m sorry. We were the last one to go hunting in the mountains. We lost our way because we were chasing an injured deer. We saw some blood on the snowy mountain just now, so we came looking for you!"


    The old man looked at the guns on our bodies. It must be a letter. Furthermore, we are not lying. We are indeed hunters.


    "Which way did you come from?" the old man asked again, standing on the spot.


    "It''s a tree entrance on the right, from the frozen lake below!" We looked at each other, wondering what the old man was asking. Was there more than one door here?


    " "Then follow me, don''t wander around in the village, every house here is independent, but they are all connected, if you randomly enter or move something, you might be trapped here!" The old man turned around.


    " Great sir, you said the village just now? "Could this be a village?" Scabbers and I asked as we followed the old man out of the house and closed the door behind us.


    "Of course, what do you think it is? A family? "


    " "There aren''t many people in that village. My lord, we are hunters in a village, but I''ve never heard of a village in this forest. May I ask, what is the name of the village?" The pockmarked old man and the old man slowly chatted, but they didn''t directly say that we were from Yanzi Village, so they were also on guard.


    " Young people, don''t ask what you shouldn''t ask. If you say it out loud, I''m afraid that your hearts will not be happy! " The old leader led us forward.


    " If it''s not convenient to say it when I''m happy, just pretend that I didn''t ask, hehe! " Ma Zi replied as he followed the old man, looking around everywhere. He couldn''t help but want to look at the details of every single place they went.


    I wanted to find out if my little sister would be here, uninterested in this strange village castle.


    " This village is called the La Moon Village, and it only exists during the La Moon Village. When the old man said this, I was stunned.


    The village we see in front of us is so ingenious that it only appears in the last month of every year? The rest of the time? Where did that place go? How could there be such a village in this world? Could it be that he could move there? Impossible, it would be a joke if such a building, built on trees and trees, was removed.


    "Great sir, what do you mean?" I tried to talk to him. The old man looked weird, afraid that he might say something that would make him unhappy.


    " "Therefore, don''t stay here for the next month, it will disappear along with you, and will only appear again in the next year!"


    " Gramps, ah no, Gramps, where did that vanished village go? Then he''s not a monkey? The summer turned into a cicada coming out one or two months later and then disappearing? " He didn''t care if the old man was willing or not.


    When the old man heard how he compared the villagers to Ma Hou, he was displeased. He turned around and used his finger to knock on the pockmarks on his forehead.


    Hehe, old man, dinner, I''ll treat you to old age. No matter what, I''m still a junior, and as the old saying goes, we rely on the mountains to eat the seas and the seas to eat the seas. We are a family that relies on the forests to eat the seas and the oceans. The pockmark followed the old man with its thick face.


    Walk around, we actually went down several floors of the corridor, it felt so damn good, not to take the stairs, not to take the elevator, but to go downstairs.


    We must have reached the place where we had seen the smoke, because in front of the corridor there was a room with a door open and some smoke coming out of it.


    " "Hey, you little bastard, why don''t you take the pine cone away, use your table legs!" The old man leaned against the door and was about to touch the boy with a field of chicken blankets when I saw, no, the boy was so naughty that he put a pile of pine cones on the floor to light a barbecue. When the child was almost done with cooking, he made sure that the entire table of legs was on fire, and the dozens of skewers of meat skewered on the corner of the table were pressed with one elbow. Hey, before the old man could raise the chicken blanket, he ran away and dropped all the meat skewers onto the ground.


    "What a bastard!" The old man furiously ladled out a ladle of water to extinguish the burnt half of the table leg.


    "Where is the child?" The room wasn''t big, so why did the naughty kid just now disappear just like that?


    "This house is connected everywhere, I think it''s to another house!" He kept his eyes on the window curtain.


    "Take a seat, it''s very stable!" The old man told me to sit down if I didn''t.


    " You must be looking for someone! " The old man spoke first.

 C38

    " Since you guys are really looking for someone, then just look for him and ignore my master. If you guys have the ability to please that child, he will bring you guys in and out as you please. Otherwise, not only can you guys not find the person you should be looking for, I can guarantee that you guys won''t even be able to find yourselves! " The old man walked out of the room.


    I hastily followed him out to ask how I could find that child. However, the moment I stepped out of the door, the old man''s figure was nowhere to be seen in the corridor. After walking out from the front and back legs, the old man disappeared.


    "Ma Zi, what should we do now?"


    "Eat the skewers first, then we''ll find that baby later!" He touched the table and ate the meat.


    "Right, what did you say this wood was?"


    " Dark Wood, which is also known as Dark Wood, is usually formed after a thousand years of lack of oxygen in the earth by the Golden Silk Nan or the Magma Chun. People say that even though there is a box of jewelry, it is inferior to Wu Mu''s side, and even more so, it is used to guard the mansion, to ward off evil spirits, and after the Qing Dynasty, it was mostly used by the royal family. As it is known that the Great Qing Dynasty, which is forbidden by the public, is completely used by the royal family, and because it is not rotten, it is used by the royal family as a tomb, thus, this table should be an object from the Ming Dynasty.


    "Pocked, this castle is indeed strange. Look outside the window."


    "San-zi, I know a person in this photo!"


    "Eh?" I thought I knew someone.


    "This person, when I was hunting, I met him before. He saved me!" The pockmark was pointing at a man, and I realized that he was the same person I had seen and felt familiar with earlier. However, when the pockmark was hunting, I hadn''t been with him, so why would I be familiar with its savior when I wandered around the shop every day?


    "I also think that I''ve seen it before. When are you going to be saved from hunting? Do I know if I''ve delivered any furs to the rouge shop? "


    That girl was not easy to serve, so she insisted that I personally make a wolf skin for her to make clothes for her. It was also because I talked too much, since she often boasted about it in front of her, talking about that, I said, in terms of skin, the best one was a wolf cub that had not even been born two months ago, a wolf cub at that time had just grown up, was soft, and had a layer of soft fur. If it was made into clothes, then it would be even more slippery than a black skin, and would be even better than a blind person. "I was almost killed by a few small rabbits!" "Do you know where those rabbits live?" "I lived by an old grave, and just as I was about to dig up their old roots, I actually dug up a broken coffin. That coffin had no name, no tablet, and no corpse, but there were several jars, and what was inside those jars, you will definitely not be able to find it!


    "What?" A mutilated corpse? Valuables? Or do you need to take a piss? " I absent-mindedly listened to the story of the pockmarked Lori while racking my brains. Who was that person and why did I seem to know him? I didn''t really listen to the unreliable matter between that pockmarked man and that woman.


    "What, do you know what that thing in the coffin is? "I still don''t know. Tell me!"


    "Mountain Demon, this is a person, okay?" The pockmark understood what I meant.


    "No matter who they are, they are the same person. I will never forget that look. I believe that there won''t be a second person in this world who has this kind of look. He has seen through life and death, and looks as if he has lived for tens of lives in the cycle of reincarnation forever. No one can learn his gaze. "


    "Then this La Moon Village is even more complicated. This village''s old man already knew Mountain Demon, who sent you the diary''s leather note dozens of years ago. What is the relationship behind this?" They were very close, with arms around each other''s shoulders, and there was almost nothing in the house, so it was obvious that it was important, but he didn''t hide the photo, which was that he didn''t want anyone to see it, and why? And who is that woman? " We were determined to find my body, but there were a lot of accidents on the way. We wanted to get away as soon as possible, to find the way, to find my corpse, but every accident was inevitable, and had something to do with everything around us. What was all this about?


    For a moment we were too embarrassed to steal in front of a child, but we didn''t know how to ask who it was and didn''t want to ignore it, because the old man had said that this child could lead us around the castle.


    "En, it tastes better than meat!" The child took a bite and smiled happily. "Is there anything else?" I can exchange with you! "


    "What do you want to exchange with me?" As soon as the pockmark saw the door, he stepped forward to touch the braids and spread out his back to show him that there was still a lot left.


    " Roast meat? A string for a piece? "


    "No, exchange one for one question. What do you know? Answer me! Right, it''s a deal!"


    "Well, do you know the man next to Grandpa in the photo?"


    " There''s no grandpa in the photo! "


    "Hmm? Isn''t this your grandfather? "


    "Yeah, but at that time, grandpa was young and everyone called him uncle!"


    "But, he''s your grandfather forever?"


    "No, he''s just our village chief. I''ll call him whatever everyone calls him!"


    "Oh, okay, then do you know the person next to this uncle?"


    "I don''t know him, but he has answered four questions already. Give me four pieces first, otherwise, I will refuse to answer them!" The child held out her small, dirty hands.

 C39

    " "Kid, what''s your name? I''m Zhang San, you can call me Third Uncle or Third Brother. Let''s get to know each other!"


    " Zhang San? Oh, my name is Li Si, you can call me Fourth Nephew or Fourth Brother! " The baby blinked.


    " I wasn''t born when he came! "


    " Then, have you been here before? "


    " Of course, I''ve never been here before, so why would I have this photo? "


    " That might be your grandfather. Um, where did the Village Chief go to find him? "


    " "No, look at the background, it''s this room!"


    " How can this picture tell that it''s this room? " I looked at the blurry background, but I couldn''t make out anything except the darkness.


    " Light! "


    Only a fool would believe that this is the house. Come, child, count up a few questions, I''ll give it to you, brother, in a bit, bring your brother out from behind the curtain that you just escaped from, and I''ll take you out of the village to hunt! "" No, no! "The pockmark took the picture and put it back.


    " "You''re talking about the train. No one can move the kerosene lamp in this room. The light of this kerosene lamp is in the background. If you don''t believe me, I''ll show it to you!" When the child heard that the pockmarked child despised him, she became unhappy and insisted on proving that her words were true, so she found something to light the lamp.


    " Little brother Li Si, can you explain to your brother about this lamp? " It was just a muscle in his body. Of course, this question had been answered wrongly by the child.


    Sure enough, Li Si said, "What are you talking about? Light? Did you see that? Did you see it, too? You saw it all. What am I going to talk about? "


    I have observed that this child, you don''t need to ask him directly, what do you want to know, you need to talk indirectly, you can naturally come up with the answer you want if you want to rush things out. The pockmarked child is speechless, he could only look at me, I''ll move a stool over to Li Si, everyone sat down.


    "Why can''t you move this lamp? What if you go to the latrine at night and use it? "


    "Something bit on the base of the lamp. Whoever moves is bitten. I won''t go to the latrine in the middle of the night. My bladder is big, so I can pee for an entire night!"


    "Something?" This answer surprised both pockmarked and me. Could it be that there were dangerous living beings in this room?


    "Who was bitten? How do you know you''ll be bitten if you move? "


    "The person bitten is dead, many people in the village are bitten, dead, that''s why we can''t move!"


    However, why is it that such a dangerous thing is only a common living object in the village? Since even the most unremarkable thing in the castle has such a complicated background, then wouldn''t this seemingly unimaginable building itself have an unfathomable background?


    "Was there a lot of people in this village? Just one lamp was enough to kill some people. Are there any other deadly objects?"


    As you can see, this building is only a part of the ground, and it is still sinking. If it were all sinking, then it would never appear again, even if it was the next year''s La month. As for the underground part, it has already sunk even more, so this is a tall wooden building with hundreds of floors.


    Li Si''s words made me and pockmarked dare not to imagine, a hundred storey tall wooden building, or a conch style, whose work is this? How could there be such a rare building? If the Eiffel Tower was only hair in the world, and the Paris Tower was to the side, it would be a shocking architectural miracle both at home and abroad. But why did it sink? It turns out that underneath the topography of the Tudou Mountain Basin, there are still hundreds of layers of fallen wooden buildings buried. My god, if there wasn''t a part of me that could see it, I would have thought this kid was crazy.


    But the light of this lamp is truly strange, as we have seen. The words spoken by this child can''t be false. It''s just that the environment of his life is very hard for us to come into contact with, which is why people doubt him.


    " Li Si, do you know why we have to keep sinking? If one day, this place really falls into the depths of the earth and is gone, what will you do with Grandfather? "


    " We are waiting for a man, he! " When Li Si said those words, his eyes no longer held the mischievousness and childishness of a child. He was like an adult, filled with worry. The person he was referring to was Mountain Demon in the photo.


    " "Come, Li Si, let''s go hunting some game in the forest and have a good dinner with grandpa tonight. How about it?" The pockmarked man stroked Li Si''s ponytail.


    "Are you running out of dried melon? Are there still a lot of questions?" Li Si pushed away the pockmarks on his hands and unhappily fixed his hair.


    "You''re a ghost, then that''s what Uncle is thinking. Let''s not go, it''s a hundred times more delicious than the meat you''re eating!"


    Li Si seemed to have always been in the village with his grandfather. He probably never left the castle, and after a few words from the pockmarked person, he started to drool, and then looked at me as if he trusted me more. I nodded, and suddenly started to like this child in my heart.


    No one knew where the Village Head old man went. The smoke from Li Si''s roasted meat skewers was gone from the castle. It was like a three-dimensional painting. It was lifeless and it was difficult to confirm that this was real.


    After blowing on the oil lamp, Li Si happily led us out of the room. However, this time, he didn''t bring us along the corridor. Instead, he opened the door halfway and revealed another narrow door.


    Before pockmarked and I could see what it was like to open the narrow door, we were in another place, a place that looked like a house or a forest, full of leafy trees and flowers, and the smell of green leaves and flowers was really in my nostrils, making me feel like I was in a paradise, but there were all sorts of facilities in the house, tables, chairs, beds, and on the walls were wooden bows and arrows, each of which looked like a fine art piece, and everything here was wood, and I could even see wood growing itself, like a table that had been cut, but there were only two or three of them, and there was only one new bud to be completed, according to the trend.


    I asked if Pappy was doing this somewhere in the castle, and Li Si nodded.

 C40

    " It seems like everything here is dependent on the plants in the forest? "


    " Yes, even the barbecue I just ate was made from a fruit from a plant that had been soaked in water and softened! "


    " "Damn, looks like you haven''t even eaten real barbecue before?" "I thought you were getting tired of eating barbecue every day. You didn''t like to eat dried melon seeds so much until you had eaten some cereal!" "I''m still wondering why the barbecue from earlier can''t taste what kind of meat it is and it''s still a rare and precious ingredient. It''s actually plain meat!"


    " I''ve always eaten from the trees in the building. I''ve never eaten anything else! " Li Si said as he plucked a spike from the top of a long house we passed in front of us. It looked like a wheat ear.


    " Can this be eaten? " I don''t know which part of this stuff to eat.


    " It can all be eaten! " As he spoke, Li Si chewed out the outer layer of skin like a melon seed and passed it to me.


    " You can eat anything, but don''t you still want to spit? "


    " This is eating meat when you grow up. If you don''t have anything to eat, you have to eat it even if you don''t have any skin! "


    " "Oh, that!" I began to feel more and more sorry for this child, which was a little weird and mysterious, but it was hard to imagine a child born into his teens eating limited food, and what I had just said, obviously not all of it. It was like three years of starvation, when people would eat peanut shells, they wouldn''t be able to poop, they would eat cotton, they would eat cotton, and when there weren''t many cotton, they would have to wash and continue eating those food they pulled out, which was the most cruel reality of living in front of hunger.


    " Does grandpa not let you come out? I see many bows and arrows on the wall. You can kill animals, so it won''t be that difficult! "


    " I''ve shot, but I''ve never succeeded! " Li Si scratched his head in embarrassment.


    " Haha, even your grandfather can''t do it? "


    " He only knows how to make bows and arrows, and he doesn''t know how to use them.


    " "How did I find out that you two are just elves in the castle, and idiots outside the castle in the world!" said the pockmark.


    " We would rather be loyal to the territory that belongs to us! " Li Si''s words sometimes make people feel funny, but when you think about it carefully, in front of his words, the really funny thing is us.


    " "Don''t be surprised, I can''t explain it either!" Ever since we agreed to take him to eat game, Li Si took the initiative to answer a few questions. It seems that people are all the same.


    " "Sans, today, this brother will show you two brothers and little brothers something good. Do you know what kind of stuff is most f * cking delicious this season?" As soon as the wind blew in the forest, the pockmarked person became addicted to bragging, and began to strut around in the open air again. I treated it like fart, but it even made Li Si Wa''s mouth pop up to his chest.


    " "Since everything is good and everything is good, can you hunt one today?" Li Si asked.


    " Look at you, combing the tails of two lambs. If you want to eat a wild chicken, you must first eat that soft and lightly twisted cockscomb. After eating the cockscomb, you can comb your hair, do you understand? " Li Si nodded his head obediently and said, "If you want to eat it, just listening to it sounds like you''ve eaten it once!"


    I''ll tell you what a wild chicken path is, which is what a wild chicken path is like, because the wild chickens here are unusually beautiful, especially during the mating season. They value their feathers more than their lives, because the wild chicken has a saying, ''Earth phoenix, open its tail, the feathers are the signboard, and the forest is deep, the wild chicken is not big, the thorns pull their feathers apart, and the wild chicken has some rules, but the wild chickens are old and old, and the wild chickens can follow them, and the wild chickens can follow them, and the wild chickens can follow them, and the wild chickens can grow old and old, and the wild chickens can follow them, and the wild chickens can walk in the wild grass, and the wild chickens can follow the wild grass. "Of course, it''s not just the wild chicken that steps on the path, even the wild boars will step on the path, but the wild boar''s path is wide, and if three or more hunters don''t dare to follow the path of the wild boar, not only would they not leave, but they would also need to avoid it, because if they are too lucky and run into the wild boar''s leader, they would lose their lives!


    " Is the wild boar meat delicious? " Li Si was very curious about these things and asked closely.


    " Of course it''s delicious, but there are a few parts on the wild boar''s body that can''t be eaten. First, the male boar''s testicles, that thing is so coquettish, it''s not even the topic, the wild boar has time to talk, right now, the boar is coming for a wild chicken, so I''ll tell you how to beat it, but don''t be messed up by the two of you, do you see that? It''s clearly the wild chicken path! " The pockmark pointed to the road in front of us.


    " Why is it so easy to find the wild chicken path? " I asked, for we had not gone far when we came upon the pheasant path, and it seemed to me that the pimple had made an appointment with the pheasant.


    " The wild chicken has a special characteristic, if you see it nestling there, you can''t even pounce on it, because the wild chicken will fly out immediately after being pounced on, but it''s still smart, and it''ll run out a few steps as soon as it lands, so if you''re smart enough to think that the pheasant is too conspicuous and too far away to follow it, you''re wrong, you''ll never know which direction it''s headed in, so you''ll always be able to catch it in the air, and you won''t even be able to catch it! "


    " "What do we do then, shoot?"


    " "If you want to kill a chicken, don''t use your knife. If you want to shoot a wild chicken, then go home and burn it; if you want to live in a flock of wild chickens, then you can''t just run into one; and if a flock of wild chickens, first of all, you have to scatter them and wait for them to flee in all directions, then you will have a target. Or a cliff, or a trough, or a grass field, then you will chase it; if a wild chicken is nervous, you will drill into a thick bush." He made a shushing gesture and whispered to Li Si, "Child, do you see that? Wild chicken feathers!"


    " Give it to me! " Li Si''s small hands quickly grabbed the chicken feathers and brought them to his nose to smell them. "Hmm, the chicken feathers are so fragrant, the meat must be delicious!"


    " "Bones, look, it''s tail hair. Don''t you think you can smell chicken dung?" The pockmark waved his hand, asking me to lead Li Si to a distance behind us. He pointed at our feet, indicating that we should take a light step so as not to disturb them.

 C41

    There are dozens of wild chickens with different sizes strutting along the narrow road in front of us. This is the first time I''ve seen a live wild chicken, and it''s also a group, and it''s really beautiful. I can see that the last one on the side is actually pure white feathers, and its entire body is as white as scallion snow. It''s so white that people can feel that the name Chicken stains its beautiful appearance. How was this following a wild chicken? This was simply a row of phoenixes, and their beauty was astonishing.


    " This is a group of wild chickens, you two can play around and try your luck, if you want to follow, use the method I just tried! " Li Si Ling is indeed an independent child, the moment he heard the words of the pockmark, his two short legs immediately followed behind a wild flower chicken. I can roughly guess Li Si''s general position, and went to look for the snow-white wild chicken in the chaos, that chicken I wanted for no other reason but to have that body full of fur.


    " "If you get burnt by the mud, you might as well pull it out. It''s so nice to look at!" He talked to himself as he plucked his fur.


    "If I had it, I could do it too!"


    "You have good eyes and poor hands. You can be good at casting the net. If you don''t believe me, you might scare away a wild chicken in the middle of the air! Come at me!"


    " Your net only covers the upper half of the grass. The wild chicken has long since walked through the lower half of the grass, and wants to cast the net right. Moreover, it needs to sink, sink into the ground.


    " "Go back and practice. Help me get that white pheasant. I''m going to skin it today!" Twice I failed and wanted the white chicken more and more.


    " Don''t break your neck, you still need the hair on your neck! "


    "I''ll do it!" The pockmark took out a small knife and cut down the wild chicken''s mouth, along the neck, and along the middle line of the abdomen, all the way to the anus. With a shake of his hand, he tore off the wild chicken skin.


    " You can''t do it, but it''s done with skill! " As soon as he finished, he signalled to us not to make a sound.


    " Eh? "No?" Li Si fiddled with the flint.


    "You mean the corns?" A few open pheasants were watching us.


    "No, it''s a pair of eyes in the distance!" The pockmarks seemed to be very nervous. Li Si and I were very happy with today''s harvest. We didn''t understand why the pockmarks, which were so awesome a moment ago, suddenly changed appearance.


    "Could it be fox yellow?" the pockmark whispered.


    "Hu Huang?" Here, foxes, great deities with yellow skins are known to everyone, they are usually called foxes, but, in order to enter the mountain, there is a taboo, do not directly call foxes or yellow skins, call Hu Huang, this taboo is not a superstition, if you live to a certain extent, you will understand a lot of evil things, for example, Shaanxi, Emperor Tombs, do not speak carelessly with friends, if you talk about thieves, do not say, I have never been run by thieves, then you will wait a week, and there are many old people who do not praise children, fat children obviously cannot speak, some things in your heart, do not say out.


    "Right, I was wondering why such a large flock of pheasants couldn''t be a match for them. Maybe the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind them, and the pheasant in our hands might have been targeted by the fox yellow eyes earlier. The person watching could only see that they were looking at us, but not where their eyes are!" The pockmarked man embraced Li Si, "Follow your brother, child!"


    "Hurry up and return to the village before it gets dark!" The pockmarks urged us.


    When he came out, it was already afternoon. The sun was shining down on the mountains and the sun had risen high in the sky. It was almost dusk.


    I have seven fat chickens on my back. Li Si Zhan took advantage of the mountain breeze to dry the blood stains on the skin of his head. The three of them no longer had the time to talk nonsense as they anxiously rushed back along the same road.

 C42

    Fuck, looking at this, I got a blow on my head. What Li Si took out was nothing else, it was the Blood Amber we met, a pair.


    " How could you have such a thing? "


    " This is the key, if we were to walk through the whole forest, it would be like walking through a tree! "


    " Why a pair of keys? " I remembered that I had met a pair of pockmarks. One of them had opened the key, while the other had failed to open the key, and I had used the one I had opened to meet a raised symbol on the trunk. The tree had opened a door and entered a dark place.


    "Every tree in the forest can find a symbol. Some of the trees need to climb very high, while some need to climb very high, and some are close to the roots. In short, you have a pair of keys, one is the one who opens the door, the other is the one who closes the door, and if you don''t open the door, you won''t be able to see the tunnel inside the tree!"


    It seems like pockmarked and I only opened the tree door earlier because we didn''t know that the other Blood Amber was for closing. It didn''t close at all, so for some reason, we fell into darkness, thinking we''d run into a ghost.


    Li Si looked around the tree trunk and sure enough, he saw a raised symbol beneath a branch. He put the key into the symbol and pressed it down. The tree opened a door and Li Si went in first.


    In the darkness, Li Si seemed to have touched something, when we heard the sound of a door closing, our eyes immediately lit up.


    "You have to close the door, because the light in the tunnel can be felt. Only by closing the door, can the light be felt!"


    "Whose work is this? Are all the trees connected? What does this light come from? "


    "I don''t know whose hands it was either. Grandfather said that there was a prophet living in the lake below our village, and that the prophet knew a lot of things. It was only because of him that the whole forest was made up of trees, and the prophet lives in the mother tree!"


    The lake Li Si mentioned was the frozen lake mentioned by Li Si. Under the frozen lake was a mother tree, also known as the lagoon flower. It seemed that this was true.


    "Have you seen the Prophet who lives in the mother tree?"


    "I''ve seen it, but I''ve never seen it either!" Li Si placed a pair of blood amber in the braids of his sheep tail, one at the base of each braid.


    "They''re running around with their mouths full of trains again. What do you mean by ''I''ve seen them'', ''I''ve seen'' them before, ''I''ve seen'' them ''and'' I''ve never seen ''them?" said the pockmark.


    "I have only seen his back and never seen his true appearance. Grandfather said that the face of a prophet is very strange and cannot be seen. If you see his face, you will see your own future! It''s a terrible thing to see your future. "


    "Isn''t it a good thing to be able to see their own future? How many people would spend money to find someone to tell their fortune and predict their future? Why is it so scary?"


    "Whether you know or not in the future, you cannot change it. If you know something and you can''t change it, then doesn''t that mean that you will have no other choice in the future? "The most beautiful thing in life is ignorance!" Li Si led us through the passage in the tree.


    The words of the child touched me deeply, and sometimes Li Si''s words were like old school letters, they were all incongruous freaks, and after many years I understood all the logic, people are afraid of death, but in this world, there are still many people who look forward to death, because it is a happy thing to be able to die; people want to predict their own future, but do you believe in fate, fate has already preordained everyone''s future, you know and do not know, the future is waiting there; when we were children, teachers always instilled in the idea that you can do as long as you work hard, people want to fight for it, but what is, a kind of desire at the top? Did humans have to reach this peak even if they lived? Life is only a dream. What we fight for is only the end of a dream. Once we wake up from a dream, the end of a dream is the most meaningless thing in the world.


    I started to size up the source of the light. Honestly speaking, I was unable to find the source of the light.


    "Li Si, what''s going on with this light?"


    "Go ask the prophet. If you have the answer, tell me when you get back. I will give you the land to do it!" Li Si bluntly said.


    He seemed to know how to walk through the trees in the forest, and he didn''t know why, or how many years we had used fire, and no one could say what fire was, or how long we had been warmed by the sun, or what the sun was, or how many thousands of years we had lived on Earth, who could tell us the details of the earth? We don''t even know how we came here, we don''t even know where we went after we died, we are even studying the gene chain now, we are at a loss whether to have chicken or first eggs or just an egg alliance, revolving around everything we are used to everyday, in fact, we don''t know anything at all, or even, humans, what we don''t understand the most is ourselves.


    " At this time, do you still feel like someone is staring at you? " Li Si asked Ma Zi.


    "Nonsense, that fox is not a clairvoyant!"


    "If it weren''t for my wild chicken, I wouldn''t have brought you this way!" Li Si pouted and said.


    "If you can take us to the Prophet, I can guarantee you that you''ll eat pheasants every day of your life!" said the pockmark.


    Tian Tian will vomit if I eat too much. I''m afraid that if I eat too much, the pheasant will find me to settle the score. Besides, my life might not be that long. As Li Si said this, his gaze turned heavy again, as if he was filled with worry.

 C43

    " What''s wrong with that? " Li Si stopped.


    " What''s wrong? " pockmarked and I looked at the normal passage, but there was nothing dangerous to hide.


    " Usually, when we walk a certain distance, we will see the junction point. It''s the junction point between this tree and the next tree, but since we''ve walked a certain distance, logically speaking, there shouldn''t even be a junction point! "


    " "What do they look like?"


    " I have walked through many intertwined tree roots before. From what I can sense, the path designed by the Prophet is to cross over the trees that we seem to be standing on and link them together. That''s why I have to walk through a lot of connecting points every time! "


    " How could the standing trees be strung together horizontally? It''s hard for me to imagine! "


    " "Orientation, is all orientation. Sometimes, what we see is just a reference object. The so-called" East, South, West, North "and" West, North "is actually not absolute!"


    " You don''t understand this either! "


    " Well, do you know the topography of Tarot? There are many places, like when you fall out of a hole in a mountain and then fall out of a hole in the mountain, do you think you''ve fallen into a deeper hole in the mountain, no, you might fall into another part of the mountain, that''s the Tarot, just like the world, do you think that everything will go on indefinitely, no, when a thing reaches the peak it will go down, and you think that something will go down to the extreme, or that it will go down to the climax, so the direction of the development is always the same direction as the one we see, it''s very unreal, you can''t ever trust anything! " Li Si is definitely a genius who is half a step away from being a lunatic. You can think of him as a lunatic asylum that cannot be cured, and you can also define him as a genius that mortals cannot understand.


    " Oh yes, I told you, baby, no, Li Si, I met you with the amber blood in the woods before, we actually opened the tree door and went in, but we didn''t know that the other key was closed, it turned out that the place was very strange, dark, that was really dark, but it was still bright outside the tree, and then we kept walking out of the tree, we kept walking, and then we felt that the tree was like a living thing, maybe if we walked forward, it would retreat, so that we couldn''t leave, and then when we sped out, you said that we couldn''t see the door, or that we couldn''t sense the light, that there was something on the ground? "


    " You guys met Blood Amber? It''s a trap, and only Grandfather and I have the key to the Blood Amber in the forest. The only things you can find are traps, and because a group of people were looking for the key, we designed a lot of fake hallucinations! "


    " "Who?"


    " I can''t say that those people are not from our world! "


    " The people from that world, are they your enemies? Does it have anything to do with him? Does it have anything to do with the Prophet of Cave Dolly? And the wooden building you are sinking into, is there a connection behind all of this? " After a series of questions, Li Si was unable to cope with it.


    " This is something I and grandpa need to know as well! "Let''s see what''s wrong with the passageway first. If we''re stuck here, it will be very troublesome." As Li Si spoke, he surveyed the ground in a youthful and mature manner.


    " Did you smell anything else? " I took a big sniff.


    " "No!" The pockmark twitched its nose like a dog.


    " It should be a rectangular cut, why don''t you try again! "


    " And this one, try again! "


    " What is this? Should there be? " the pockmark asked.


    " No, definitely not, someone came here before! " Li Si''s brows were tightly knitted. He acted like an old man and made me think of something. He had a three-year-old long beard and looked like an old man.


    " It looks like they got the real Amber Key! "How is that possible?" Li Si muttered to himself.


    " What is this? " pockmarked and I looked at the empty space, like an empty underground coffin.


    " I''ll go down and take a look. There should be something there! " As Li Si spoke, he put down the wild chicken in his net pocket and jumped down.


    " Don''t move, Big Brother, why do I feel like it''s a formation! " Li Si stopped the pockmark.


    " What kind of formation is this? Even a few vats have a reason to speak of it? " The pockmark turned back.


    " Look, don''t these seven jars look like the Big Dipper? "


    " Big Dipper? "It seems a bit, but it seems like the distance between the two is too far!" I often look at the stars in the cabin, the most eye-catching in the sky of course is the Big Dipper combination, so I have some impression.


    " This might be the ratio of the distance between the seven stars of the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper Formation is a very mysterious array. Legend has it that when the seven stars fall into this array, it will cause the heavens to change! " Li Si said.


    " What scale of the future? If it''s the future, then what does it have to do with the present! " said the pockmark.


    " "How do you know that''s the ratio of the future of the Big Dipper? Speaking of which, doesn''t it take hundreds of millions of years for the future of the star body to change?" "No," I said.


    " That''s right, the stars that we see now are not the same as they were hundreds of millions of years ago, so the stars definitely aren''t the same. Other than Grandfather, I, and the Prophet, we might have been following him here. Li Si looked at the wild chicken next to him. His stomach let out a dissatisfied growl, and he embarrassedly tightened the rope on his pants.


    " The future belongs to the future, and cannot interfere with the present. Right now, the luck of this array is not good, if we meet any of us, we can move out of the way, but we are not doing a great deed, in the future, hundreds of millions of years later, the descendants will suddenly be hit by a meteor, delaying them from taking the college entrance exam to getting married. Come, let''s see! " When the pockmark heard what Li Si said, it seemed to be distant and unreliable, so he didn''t care.

 C44

    " Could there be some sort of trap? "How did you get that thing up there? You can''t just recklessly use violence, right!" The pockmark asked, and his hand unconsciously touched the blowhole. This guy always thought about military matters whenever he encountered a problem that he couldn''t open the door. This was the logic of having dealt with animals for a long time, vulgar and violent.


    " "What is this?" I discovered that every seemingly black jar had a inscription on it. The inscription was also black, but it could be seen, what did it look like, like an album that would be popular in the eighties, a photo album with a dark red cover, where you could use your hand to feel the hair on it and draw a mark on it from the opposite direction. Although it was all red, it would appear because the hair on it was turned upside down, and the black writing in front of you could be seen on the same black jar.


    " It looks like a line of words, but it also looks like a symbol! " The pockmark pushed me away and tried to look at it from a different angle.


    " Ma, Ma, why do I feel like I''ve seen these symbols before? "


    " What was that word? "Don''t tell me you know more about your first female friend from the archaeology department?"


    " Third brother, what''s the number one girlfriend? "


    " "A girlfriend is a woman who has seen your balls. If a lot of women have seen your eggs, then you must rank; otherwise, you won''t be able to remember them. When you talk about them in the future, you might end up messing around!" The pockmark explained.


    " "Oh, then I have many female friends!" Li Si said seriously.


    " Bath? "


    " Yes, I often bathe, and in the frozen lake, I should have already seen a lot of mother fishes bathing, but I am unable to rank among them! "


    " Oh, female fish, isn''t the frozen lake always frozen? How can it take a bath? "


    " It''s not all ice under the frozen lake. I''ve been in there before, and the water''s very warm.


    " The well in our room leads down to the frozen lake, and what we drink is frozen lake water, which is sweet and tight! "


    " That is to say, you can jump into the frozen lake from the tank in your house? "


    " "Yes!"


    " "No wonder I couldn''t see the bottom of the vat when I was scooping up the water. It looked like a well, so if I could get in from there, I would be able to see the Prophet."


    " I''ve only seen it a few times. Prophets are not easy to find! "


    " "Then why do you want to know? Let''s send the wild chicken over to the Prophet when we''re bored. Can we use that as a reason?"


    " I''ve never seen a prophet eat before. I feel like he doesn''t need food at all! "


    " What''s the matter, third brother? "


    " Don''t worry about him, he has too many girlfriends, and is thinking about who actually taught him this line of symbols. That, Li Si, let''s continue, tell me what the Frozen Lake looks like, and what the Prophet looks like! "


    " Not all of it is water, but only in the water in the middle of a lot of ice houses. When my grandpa went to take a bath, he would often bump into the ice house''s wall because he couldn''t focus his eyes right now. Those ice houses, you will never be able to remember the location of, and you will probably never be able to count them! "


    " "One, Li Si, why don''t you count them clearly? If you want to be a marker, just go through a room and be a marker, wouldn''t that be enough?" Li Si''s words interrupted my thoughts. It made me think of the endless pack of wolves in Wa. Could it be that those ice houses were constantly moving as well? It should be possible. The ice floats in the water.


    " I always felt that those rooms were just one, because I had done it before and had carved a mark on one room, but when I looked back I saw that all the rooms had this mark, said Pappy, as if all the rooms were in fact reflected in one room, but it was a very strange reflection, and if the objects in our mirrors could only be seen, then the mirrors under the frozen lake would be able to show a copy of them! "


    " "Good boy, there is such a magical thing in the world!" pockmarked sighed.


    " "Bast, I recognize this line of words!" I excitedly grabbed onto pockmarked wrist.


    " "What do you mean?"


    " "I don''t know what it means, but ¡­"


    " "Damn, what''s the point of saying that? I don''t know what it means, but it''s useless!" The pockmark interrupted me and went on talking to Li Si.


    " "My second sister has this symbol on her arm!" I said straight to the point.


    " Have you thought about it, the corpse fragrance that we smell comes from this underground coffin, and where does the corpse fragrance come from? And the symbol on second sister''s arm is related to something, to the floating world. How can I infer that the mysterious floating world is related to the place where the old branch book said that there is no sun at all? Maybe the two are the same world? "


    " "F * ck, then let''s see what you want to open today!"


    " The key is how to open it! "


    " It''s not good to just open it. Brother, I don''t want to die, I don''t want to die before these wild chickens do, if I don''t eat these wild chickens then I will open it again, then I will die with no regrets! " Li Si hugged the fat chicken tightly.


    " We''re hungry too, pockmarked, why don''t we roast a few of them here and think about it! "


    " That''s right, only after eating your fill will you have a brain to think. If you think about it carefully, if you can''t die, I can still give my grandfather the wild chicken! "


    " "F * ck, you two really have no future. Just a few chickens and you''re all worried about one another. The key is that there''s no grass here, so how are you going to roast it?"


    " "Fuck, it''s simple, I''ll go find it!" Li Si volunteered.


    " "Fine, I''ll go get the grass with you and let San Zi study it on his own!"


    " "Then you all can go. It won''t take too long, I won''t dare to move about recklessly. At most, I''ll just ponder over it!"


    " Don''t worry, very quickly, just stay where you are and don''t touch anything if you encounter anything, third brother! " After all, Li Si was a child and wanted to eat.

 C45

    " Is that enough? " It was Li Si''s voice. Only then did I open my eyes. It was all bundles of hay. pockmarked people had returned.


    " That''s enough! " The pockmarked person jumped down from the straw bundle, nearly stomping me flat.


    " "I think this jar is rather strange. Let''s go up and start a fire!" As I cleared the pile of grass, my face was covered in cold sweat.


    " "F * ck off, these jars are actually made out of skin, yet they''re still warm, damn it!"


    " A jar? That can''t be, what the heck is black? "F * ck, could it be those shadows'' skins?" I was surprised by what the pockmark said. He really dared to think, "A human skin jar?" But then again, everything here had something to do with that world, and it was a black jar, so why couldn''t it be made from the skin of those shadow people?


    " "Si''er, we forgot to find clay and water. We can''t make a chicken anymore. Why don''t we roast it and eat it?" Li Si didn''t care about these weird things, he just focused on eating the chicken.


    " "Anything is fine, I can bake it on top and call you guys!"


    " "That''s fine too, it''s not very peaceful down there. I''ll pass you the grass and the chicken. You keep roasting them, I''ll study these jars with your third brother!"


    " Third Brother, how are you going to steal raw chicken? " Li Si said.


    " Are the chickens gone? I''m handing over seven chickens? " said the pockmark.


    " A chicken claw is missing! "


    " Oh, I broke a claw just now to use as a tool! " I looked around for the claw and gave it to him.


    At first, I didn''t think much of it, nor did I need to eat too much. But once it did, I wanted to look for it even more. There was nothing here, just a square empty coffin, just pockmarks and a few jars on the side wall.


    "Kid, take a look and see if there''s anything in the pile of grass." I asked.


    "Forget it, it''s just a claw. There isn''t much meat, and the chickens aren''t enough. It''s not bad either, so don''t bother looking for it!" He squatted down and looked at the jars.


    "It''s not a pockmark. I had clearly used up a claw just now and put it here. How could I not see it?"


    The pockmarks seemed to have understood what I meant. The claws couldn''t have run away on their own, and they had indeed disappeared. Could it be that there was something here that had eaten claws?


    "Si''er, break your claws and throw it down!" Scabbers shouted.


    "I''ll do it, look at it. I used this claw to touch the cover and the symbols, then you guys came back, but this time you guys won''t be able to find it. That''s it!" I repeated the gesture.


    Ma Zi and I stared at the claw. Damn, what happened next really made me break down.


    I touched the cover of the claw, and the symbol after it was completely normal. Just as I finished doing all this and was about to casually place it on hold again, f * ck second uncle, I put it on the ground and can''t see the claw anymore. It was like a magic trick, I didn''t know what was going on and the thing in my hand disappeared right in front of my eyes.


    "F * ck, touching my balls in front of laozi, laozi doesn''t know how laozi did it!"


    "Si''er, throw another claw down!" He seemed to be in a bad mood.


    "I''m already roasting it, brother, how about this chicken butt?"


    "Then let''s start with the chicken butt!"


    "I''m glad I didn''t place those pheasants on the ground earlier. Otherwise, I would have disappeared a long time ago. I wouldn''t have been able to save anything at the bottom of this coffin!" That''s the only way I can understand it.


    "Then why are we still here? Aren''t we always standing on the ground? "


    I was sitting on the ground with my butt on the ground, and the butt was still on the ground, but why did the chicken disappear the moment it landed on the ground? Could it be that the bottom of the coffin was a fox? Specially picking a fight with chickens?


    "It''s done roasting. Third brother, third uncle, why don''t you come up and eat it? It''ll smell good just by smelling it!" Li Si''s voice jumped in joy.


    "Forget it, we are already hungry. Let''s go and eat. Don''t eat all the roasted chickens later. When we are full, we will have the strength to move this jar away!"


    I haven''t eaten wild game in a long time. The fragrance from the roasted meat assaulted the corpse fragrance below me, and the first one was even more stimulating. Besides, I couldn''t figure it out for a long time, so I decided to study it thoroughly.


    Li Si was not suitable to be a hunter, he was absolutely suitable for hunting and logistics. Seven chickens, each of which had been sliced into a thin piece, were placed on a stick, placed horizontally across the inner wall of the passageway, just in time to be supported by the inner wall. Below the bottom was the bonfire, which he was only responsible for constantly rotating and mixing the pieces together; furthermore, after the outer layer was done, he would follow the chicken fibers and throw them into the bonfire.


    " Is it delicious? "Later, go out and ask your grandfather. How about following your brother in hunting in the future?" The pockmark looked at Li Si, whose mouth was full of chicken meat that couldn''t even speak properly.


    "No, I can''t leave grandpa behind. We''re the only ones left in the village, one old and one young. If I leave, what will grandpa do?"


    "Then we will bring Grandpa along. The people you guys are waiting for might encounter us in the future, and we might even encounter them together with us. If you guys are so passive in waiting, you might as well take the initiative to look for opportunities!"


    "You guys don''t understand, wait, it''s not like we want to meet this person. That person lost his memory, and we waited, just to come back when he can''t even remember himself, and tell him who he is!"


    " So the last time was when Mountain Demon lost his memory and couldn''t even remember what time it was? "


    " It should be, because as long as he doesn''t forget himself, he won''t come back, even if he has to pass by! "


    " Then, the frequency at which he forgets about himself isn''t that high, at least once every dozen years. According to this frequency, you all can always play around, why wait so long! "


    " "That won''t do, we''ll wait for the rabbit. How can you calculate the next time we hit a tree based on the time when the rabbit crashed into the tree?" Ma Tzu interjected.


    " What do you mean by just waiting? " Li Si did not understand. It seemed that he had never read a book and did not understand these legends.


    " "That means that you are guarding the village. Si''er, by the way, do you have any personal details? Before we arrived, did a woman or an injured barbarian enter the village?"


    " There were two men who came in but there was no woman! One of his shoulders was indeed injured, but the skinny man was still supporting him! "


    " Si''er, are you sure it wasn''t the injured man who kidnapped that skinny man or threatened the injured one? I mean, are you sure they''re supporting a relationship, not a hostile one? "


    " It shouldn''t be, because both of them are threatening Grandpa and me at the same time! "


    " Fuck, San-zi, looks like we were deceived by our little sister, that savage is indeed our little sister''s companion! "

 C46

    " So where did they go? Is he still in the village castle? " I felt a stab of pain in my heart. Little Sister had actually been lying to us all this time. If others lied to me, I would only feel resentment. But if she lied to me, I would only feel burning pain.


    " They threatened me and Grandfather not to follow them, so I don''t know where they are! "


    " Ma Zi, let''s hurry up and go back. We came here to look for our little sister in the first place, that pot is very important to us! "


    " Alright, then, what about the pots below? "If we go into the tree now, we might as well go from the outside. Didn''t Si Er say that there is something wrong with the tree and we can''t find the junction point? It seems like the fox root has disappeared when we went out to clean up."


    " "Fine, if you find my sister, you must ask her in black and white. I want to see how she speaks with her sharp teeth!"


    "I''m fine with it, I''m just afraid that when someone sees my face they will soften their mouth!" "Before I leave, I can''t just do nothing. Leave behind some memorabilia to prove that I''ve come here for a visit!" The pockmarked man said as Peng''s shot went from top to bottom into a jar.


    " "Bast, your hands are so cheap!"


    " Didn''t you guys say that you want to leave? If you don''t destroy that Big Dipper Formation before you leave, then you still have to wait for a blind date between heavenly bodies in a few hundred million years. Zhang Zhe, I don''t need to be recorded in the annals of history, just want to silently do some great things! "


    " Run, third brother, it''s coming! " Li Si was in front of me, Zhang Huang looked back, I saw Li Si''s eyes far behind me, I looked behind me, my intestines were green with regret.


    " "Fuck, you didn''t die!" When the pockmarks saw me, it was wild with joy. "Damn it, even if I wasn''t bitten to death, I would still be smoked to the point of seeing the King of Hell!"


    " Third brother hurry up, there''s an exit right in front of us! " He didn''t forget to turn around and look at the pockmarked person, "Brother, hurry up and come out. I''ll seal it in there. I''ll count to three. In a while, everyone will try their best to leave, I''ll close the door!"


    " "Understood!" Ma Zi hastily replied.


    " "Pocked!"


    " Here! "Alright, me!"


    " "One, two, three!" In order to prove in the darkness that we were able to keep up with the rest of the team, pockmarked and I shouted one, two, three together. When all three of them fell, a few of the battered and exhausted people seemed to wake up from a nightmare and fell into the warmth of the sun. On top of the card on the tree trunk, the sound was also instantly isolated.


    " Are you okay! Don''t try to show off. If your bones break, it will be troublesome! "


    " It should be a flesh injury. If it''s a bone wound, you won''t feel any pain and you can feel it. Generally, bones are fine, but a layer of skin should be removed! " I pulled back my jacket and let the pockmarks take a look.


    " "Thirdie, you, your back!"


    " You, you show it to Si''er! "


    " "Little Four, what''s on my back?"


    " "It''s nothing, it''s just a palm mark. Brother, you!" Li Si said.


    " "Ha, are you trying to scare me like you broke an egg? If I''m trying to scare you, your blood will boil and you will easily regain your strength. You''ll feel much better!" The pockmark was laughing loudly, looking extremely comfortable.


    " "Damn, I thought it was some kind of Ghost Talisman. If I was scared to death, what''s the point of recovering my strength. Hah, this time, try it next time, I''ll die for you to see!" Needless to say, the pockmark technique was quite effective. His back no longer hurt as much as before. Besides, he had been scared to the point that he gained strength several times in the tunnel. It seemed this move was not bad.


    " The sun is about to set, let''s hurry back, grandpa is worried! " Li Si saw that I was fine and urged me on.


    " It''s just that the wild chicken is gone! " We were empty-handed. We didn''t even have enough time to run away after that gunshot with the pockmarks. Who would even care about carrying a wild chicken?


    " "It''s better to lose the pheasant than to lose your life. Just treat it like your father generously invited the black beast to a meal and go back first. Bring along whatever you run into on the way back to grandpa''s side!" He stretched his arms and legs.


    " Then let''s hurry up and leave! "


    " Talk about something interesting to relieve your boredom! " Leading with pockmarks on the head, was a strong looking man.


    " Brother, let''s talk about hunting. It''s so nice to listen to it! " Li Si''s group walked a few steps closer to the hemp.


    " "Then tell me about my encounter with the Falcon!"


    " "Good, good, good!"


    " You would never have imagined that there was an eagle as big as a house in this world, but I have seen it with my own eyes! "


    " It''s started to blow again. I said that I haven''t seen an ox for years, but it turns out that you''re here, and I can''t be here! "


    " "Believe it or not, I swear to the eunuch that this is the truth. Si''er, I''ll tell you about it. Don''t bother with him, you have never seen the world before!"


    " Hehe, is the Falcon the size of a house? "


    " Yes, the few of us who went hunting on the mountain road ran a car over and very few people drove into the mountain and the few of us coincidentally chased after a rabbit and it crossed the road and got crushed by the car and then we fought over the rabbit and the car seemed to be a wandering donkey friend and three strangers who said that the rabbit was theirs but the rabbit was our prey who chased for half a day and got shot and they messed it up and the key thing was that the rabbit ¡ª no hair, no fur ¡ª got so noisy and we didn''t care about the hare, but the hackles didn''t really talk and we started arguing about the hare. A hawk as big as a house flew down from the sky, and after a few minutes, it turned into a black dot and disappeared into the air! "


    " When do you think you can chase a rabbit for half a day in the mountains? If that little thing couldn''t chase after you for a bit, then it wouldn''t be worth it to look at it for a long time! " I knew at once that the pockmark was playing with the child.


    " "Don''t believe me, that rabbit is as big as a lamb. You know how big it is, don''t you? Don''t you know, how could a very small rabbit coincidentally be stuck on a passing car. That rabbit is as big as a lamb, do you understand?"


    " Then why don''t you talk about the Falcon or the Rabbit King? "


    " I didn''t finish my sentence. I thought, why did the falcon coincidentally appear here? Could the rabbit king and the falcon be related by telepathy? If it wasn''t for that rabbit, we wouldn''t have met that falcon! "

 C47

    " I am not done yet, but what I mean to say is, whether it is my opponent or natural enemy, they are all his companions in this world. When his opponent left, he also took his time, so I feel that the falcon must have appeared to pay homage to his opponent! "


    " Perhaps, this reminds me of a magician, there was a case in Beijing where a magician died twice, and then the case was solved, and you never would have thought of the reason, the magician''s father was a magician, but the best magic in his life was not the art stage, but the life stage, because he registered a birth medical certificate after the birth of his twin sons, and the last two children grew up together, a wife who performed many of the magic that would make the world cry out in surprise, but in reality it was just two people''s magic, the first one was a brother who died in a single hand, and the human brain could not react fast enough to fire. The last thing he said was, "A great magician cheats with his soul and life. Deceit itself is dirty, but the realm of deception is also great. It''s just that I don''t want to take away all the mysteries from the world and spread them around. The more people pursue him, the more they struggle with him, the more he will be satisfied with his endless loneliness, because to a magician, the most successful thing is that his magic will never be seen through, and the loneliest thing is that he will never have an opponent!" So, the opponent is the other half of the soul of a person with a certain level of cultivation, if the opponent leaves, then naturally, half of it will be extracted, and the higher level species have a deeper feeling of the opponent''s loneliness. I think, that eagle might really appear because of the rabbit''s departure!


    Little San, have you ever thought about it? If one day, I become your most powerful opponent, will you still love me? "Would your love grow from a simple relationship between a man and a woman to a relationship between a man and a woman? If you and your sister were a relationship between an eagle and a rabbit, would you ever think about it?


    That''s right, if my little sister and that wild man who stole the pot were partners, we would be destined to be enemies. Moreover, my little sister was the one who started off bewitching me, just to achieve a certain purpose, why didn''t I think of this level, why did I think of this, that little sister could brazenly sneak through this world and that invisible world, could she be an emissary of that world, and come close to us with some sort of mission? If I was destined to tear that world apart, she was destined to stop me from tearing it apart. We were destined to be enemies forever.


    "Brother, did you hear something?" Li Si''s words interrupted me and pockmarked.


    " There seems to be a lot of people here! " But as I said this, I could not really tell the direction of the steps, and I could not really see any signs of people.


    "Flax, what should we do?"


    "Thirdie, I feel that there are a lot of people around us!" Every time I see this, I have the urge to be a woman again, to follow him, whether he is rich or not, uncultured or vulgar. Based on his dominance, I can tell that when he is a woman, he will definitely be more powerful than this, so, the pockmarks have hit many women with money, in the later stages of the game, they are tired, and many women cannot leave him, and the pockmarks always say, "There''s no other way, I''m a hardware man." With the three of us back to back, he did not even touch Li Si and I with his spear. He just performed a suave 360 ¡ã circular motion and shot out.


    "Negative 2, Negative 1, Negative 1!"


    "Fuck, there''s still a zero between negative 1 and 1?" "Are you putting on an act or are you making fun of me?"


    "Third Brother, Brother pockmarked, I''ve missed you for a few days!" The first thing I heard was the sound of her voice, followed by the sound of her voice. Walking towards us from the air in front of us, she was dressed in black, her hair tied up in a bun with a single horn, and had a cold expression on her face like ice. Behind her, there were a few similarly dressed men in black, but they were unable to see her facial features.


    A woman who falls in love at first sight,


    See you again for revenge?


    "Little sister!" My voice was heavy, and it sounded like a crippled black bear that had aged a lot, full of struggle.


    "San-zi, go ahead and ask. This little sister is so carefree and unrestrained. If you still can''t let go of her, then I''ll let down my crotch!" The pockmark wrapped Li Si with a gun.


    "Let me speak! Third Brother, Zhang Zhe lied to you from the beginning. Do you believe that there is your corpse in this forest? Do you believe that a living person can see his own dead eyes with a pair of living eyes at the same time? Do you believe that you can breathe each mouthful of oxygen while testing yourself to stop breathing? He brought you to the forest to look for corpses, but he only brought you to a place to send you to your death! " Every word from my little sister upended my thoughts. With a few turns and turns, she made me hostile to her as well as to pockmarks.


    As long as he didn''t deny it, it was equivalent to admitting it. My heart is bleeding, my sister''s words were short, but they were worth considering, I never believed that I could see my own death, moreover I have encountered many things that were unclear since I came back, I suspected that the pockmarks were, but I never suspected that they had reached such a boundary, I never had the courage to rebel and think that searching for my corpse was akin to sending me to death!


    " "And then?" I walked away from the pockmarks, leaving myself to stand alone in the forest, not moving closer to anyone.


    The mountain breeze blew over,


    Night had arrived.


    Lonely!


    "I belong to another world. Seventeen years ago, you all saw something that you shouldn''t have seen, and seventeen years later, there will be someone who lured you to try and disturb our world. Give me back those diaries, and if you leave them behind, they will be the source of disaster. Your world''s desire is too high, and our world cannot contain those who desire! "


    San-zi, don''t be so stupid, I''m not a normal person, she has aura, she has aura, she has aura of deceit, yes, I want to send you to your death, but why don''t I find a place to send you to your death, have you thought about it, San-zi, why do I have to do everything I can to find that place to send you to your death, because there, death is rebirth, do you understand? The pockmark''s eyes were fixed on the hand I was reaching into my lap for a strip of skin.


    Thirdie, there are a lot of things that I can''t explain to you right now, but at any time you have to believe me, because I will use my life to tell you the truth, and that is, I will never harm you, you understand, even if I personally kill you one day, it will be a kind of love and responsibility, we are men, men have responsibilities, you understand, I am only treating you as a brother, I am going to fulfill one of my responsibilities!


    " "Bullsh * t. If you''re a brother, then don''t hide anything from me. Even if I die, I''ll die knowing what you''re saying. Do you understand?" The tears that were embedded in my eye sockets could no longer stay. Hot tears were pouring down my face.

 C48

    " I don''t have much time left. Give me the diary, and you brothers can slowly talk about it! " The little sister spread out her palm. She seemed very confident that I would do this, or perhaps she was simply the most venomous of women. If I didn''t do it, then my life would be the price.


    " "Sans, don''t give it to her!" The pockmark raised his gun and pointed it at her temple.


    " I would like to ask, little girl, you said that there will be more than that in the future. I thought you would be hiding by my side. Aren''t you a very intelligent woman? "You should know that if I die, you won''t be able to get what you want in the future. Killing a chicken to reap its eggs, and raising one will be better than raising one for the rest of my life!"


    " It''s your bro that''s too violent, I''ve changed my mind! "


    " Then what was the meaning behind the large group of people that surrounded us just now? "


    " I will throw my life as a captive to you all! "


    " Ha, looks like you''re too smart. You know that you''ve been exposed, and can no longer win our trust.


    " "Sans, don''t talk nonsense with her!" The word "pockmarked" was followed by the sound of gunfire.


    " A superficial wound? I''m sorry, I was half a second late and I caused you to suffer! " Mountain Demon''s voice was very gentle as he quietly sat beside the bonfire. Behind the bonfire was snow, and I could only see the endless snow. The snow was so vast that it was like a painting, depicting only me, Mountain Demon, and the flames.


    " Am I dead? "


    " You won''t die, as long as I am here! "


    " Are you a human or a gorilla? "


    " I grew up in the forest! "


    " Then you are a savage? "Mountain Demon?"


    " Didn''t you always think I was a Mountain Demon? Then let''s follow your plan! "


    " You can read other people''s minds? "


    " You are no one else! "


    " Why did you save me? And why did you give me such a shitty gift? Didn''t you lose your memories?


    " "Remember, my memories can be preserved for a period of time. My memories are a mystery that I don''t understand myself, but as long as I don''t forget myself, I will protect you!"


    " "Why? Why is it me? Why should I?"


    "There''s no reason. If it wasn''t you, who else would it be? There has to be someone like that!"


    F * ck, this Mountain Demon''s words are even more terrifying than Li Si''s. Li Si''s words are a kind of crazy philosophy, and Mountain Demon''s words are a kind of cliff-style thinking. You''ll feel like you can''t find a way out and will fall into the abyss at any time.


    " "Where is this place?" I had to change the subject.


    "There will never be light here, no sunlight, no moonlight from the stars, no light from any star. There will always be snow, never melting!"


    " Are you very skilled? Why are they afraid of you? They have so many people! "


    " "You should rest. If your injuries aren''t too severe, we should hurry on our way. If you''re tired, you should rest for a bit!"


    " On the way? Where are we going? "


    "I don''t know either, but we must hurry on!"


    " My brother, how, how is it? " I felt guilty, and the first thing I did when I woke up was not to ask about the pockmarks.


    " He''s fine, don''t worry! "


    "Oh, thank you. Then, what about that woman?"


    " She didn''t sincerely want your lives. What she wants most is my life, but I can''t kill her.


    " What did you burn? "Can you eat it?" He knew that everyone was fine, but he also felt hungry. He watched as the Mountain Demon continued to roast something in the bonfire.


    " It''s a type of food here, it should taste pretty good, you can try it! " Mountain Demon handed it to me.


    " What is this thing? Why is there no warmth or smell? "


    " The food here is all like this, and can''t stimulate your appetite. There are many things here that can''t stimulate your appetite! "


    " Have you ever thought about why people in our world would commit suicide because of love''s pain? Why people would commit suicide because of money, struggles, schemes, people, even from birth, instinctive hunger, having appetite, even people struggling before dying. Because of the desire to live, all of our emotions are actually born from temptation. However, our world only wants to explore the world of others, while others only reject all desires, including the desire of outsiders to explore! "


    " Mountain Demon, are you the messenger that walks between our world and theirs? Had my brother-in-law been viciously murdered seventeen years ago for seeing their world appearance? Then wouldn''t the people in their world be too vicious, narrow-minded, and sensitive? If they really didn''t have a shred of desire, shouldn''t they have given up even their desire to protect? Furthermore, we were just looking. We accidentally saw it, but didn''t do anything about it! "


    " Your brother-in-law is not dead, Old Branch Book is not dead, and everyone who has seen their world was sucked into their world! "


    " That''s the password to open that world! "


    " Password? That is to say, as long as we accidentally look at that world, people would die in our world and then go to that world, right? It could be said that he was forced to go with the characteristics of a captive, right? And that world isn''t something that will always be seen, so if the people of this world want to take the initiative to go to that world, we''ll have to use that password, right? "


    " You know the way, you know the password, then you will go to that world, and the place we are staying right now is just outside the city gate of that world, I didn''t even enter the real city gate, so when I said that we were going to hurry, we were just waiting for an opportunity, waiting for your books or your brother-in-law to see us, so we could continue to write down our diaries. You can take out those two pages and see the blueprints, but you can only see them here, because there are no obstacles in seeing these records here, so naturally you can see them! "


    " So you gave me the first page, and the second page, too. Was that you, too, the one digging outside the cabin in the middle of the night? It really was the pockmark''s guess, and it was purposely given to me, wasn''t it? "


    " "That''s not me. Because I noticed that the one called Little Sister was following you, I lured her away. The other companion gave you that!"


    " That''s right, does pockmarks know everything, because it said that it would send me to my death. Only now do I understand, perhaps it means to send me to that world? "


    " Maybe I''m the contact person with the old branch letter, and the branch letter is contact your second brother-in-law. Maybe your second brother-in-law didn''t use the branch letter to send the message, maybe he found a certain place to go to that world, or maybe he found an opportunity, like when he knew that the world would appear again, and if you saw it at that time, you would have naturally become the third prisoner there. So, my guess is that the branch letter sent you to die, that''s the meaning! "

 C49

    " "Normally, people would put the most precious things into their hearts. Others could easily find them, so I put them in your underwear for you!"


    " "You!"


    " It seems like you are a sensitive person, but the egg is not sensitive at all.


    " Is the support book not doing well over there? Why would he even use the brush to draw the painting? "


    " "Perhaps, but I feel that he is afraid that others will understand it. Think about it, even if we are unable to understand it, others will not be able to easily understand it. Things are always two-sided!"


    " "F * ck, you''re right, but I''m a bit disappointed. How are we supposed to find clues or anything on this kind of map? Moreover, the first thing we did was taken away by little sister, we were at a disadvantage!"


    " So, I said, we have to keep going. You know, this map does not provide us with clues, but it does provide proof that we can only move forward and look for what we encounter on the map! "


    " I understand, if this map is like life, where everything is compared to many things in life, such as wealth, health, partner, career, freedom, and so on, you have to continuously walk the path of life for as long as possible, in order to slowly return to the inevitable through chance, and take these factors one by one, understand them, and then understand them, right? "


    " You are quite perceptive. Looks like it is correct for me to choose you as my backer. As I said, without you, even if it isn''t you, it would still be someone else! "


    " So, we need to hurry on, to hurry on without a destination in mind? "


    " "Yes, the purpose of travelling is to reach our destination, and the absence of a goal is the process. Everything that we need can only be given along the way!"


    " There are more words? "


    " "Yes, put the blueprint further away and try not to focus on one spot. Try using your peripheral vision to look at it and you will see a sentence!"


    ?" I don''t know what it''s called, it seems to be a three-dimensional painting. From your point of view, it''s a beautiful lady''s pair of white things, and from your point of view, it looks like a ferocious dog, and from another angle, it might even be a rose. The old branch book''s blueprint has a bit of a tone, and it''s not just changing the angle, but it''s some objects in front of it.


    " Mountain Demon, what do you think of those words!? "


    " The first sentence I feel like is that everything we have seems real, but in fact it is all a dream, a virtual reality. Do you think that the world is time, the world is space, the world is time and space, and space is space and time is space, and that all the species that live in an empty space and time, including people, is not another kind of space? "So, all of our dreams are meaningless, and dreams should be our real dreams. In other words, our lives are empty, but in other words, we still have physical beings, and there is a physical phenomenon in real life that is dreams. We have always had a lot of explanations for dreams, and I think that what I meant was that our dreams might not only be dreams, but might be another kind of life!"


    " I remembered that on the night I returned to the village, I met a fake pockmarked person who saved my life in the shrubbery, but when I returned to the village, the real pockmarked person said that it was impossible for him to save me during that time period, because eating in my house, my mother and sister could bear witness to that. Later on, the pockmarked person said that the fake pockmarked person who saved me appeared in his dream the day before. Maybe, maybe, that''s what it means! "

 C50

    Look at the back, I think, both sides of the front and back of the eye can see the message, the front of the eye can see the message, and the back of the eye can see it too.


    " Don''t say anything, put away the diary! " Mountain Demon practically carried me on his back like a chicken, and I quickly tucked the leather strip into my underpants.


    " "I''ll give you one thing, you must learn it from now on!" Mountain Demon was breathing so well that it was hard for me to match his gait.


    " "What? What is it? Can you speak now?"


    " With your breath, I know that your sense of smell and hearing is far more sensitive than normal people''s, so learning this is not difficult. As long as you pay more attention, as long as you pay more attention, just now, it was because of her breath that I noticed her presence, so this time, she shouldn''t be following us! "


    " You mean, I can follow us anytime, like stealthily? "


    " You can think of it that way, but there''s no invisibility, the so-called invisibility technique is when a person uses a different method to enter another world. The world we live in is actually overlapped with other worlds or worlds, and if a person has the password to enter and exit these two worlds, they can become invisible anytime, anywhere! "


    " When I was in college, a girlfriend told me about Einstein. She said that a lot of his science was sealed, because once it was announced, people would panic, because one of his was invisibility, and there was an experiment in which he used his theory to make a person invisible, but the invisibility actually had a magnetic field, and the invisibility was only an invisibility of the body and the soul. In the experiment, Einstein arranged for two other people, one an ordinary person, one a Tibetan master, to go into a room and be invisible, but the invisibility was different because the invisibility of the invisibility of the invisibility of the other person. "I don''t know, but that girlfriend of yours only had an organic meeting with this experiment, so I don''t know much about it. But, I''m thinking, maybe invisibility can be done in a lot of ways, there''s one type of password you said just now, and it''s not important, what''s important is that the aura you said just now, is it that I understand the magnetic field, and that I learned to distinguish the breath my sister was following, is it because I learned some kind of magnetic field discrimination?"


    " I don''t know Einstein. Do you have a lot of girlfriends? " Mountain Demon actually paid attention to these two points in the bunch of words I tried my best to organize. I was suddenly speechless.


    " May I have a look inside the wooden house? " I was curious about what was going on. Was it only necessary to find the cabin and enter from the jungle of the Great Xing''An Mountains?


    " I have a password on my finger, but if you go in again, it will not be like this. I will teach you this later, but I want to say, this wooden house, ordinary people will never be able to enter it because it looks like a house. In reality, it is just a door.


    " F * ck, I get it. If one day a hunter comes here hunting, meets this house, opens the door and finds another one, continues to open, there will always be endless doors, either he will be exhausted to death, or he will go out and tell the tabloid reporter that he has encountered some mysterious incident! "


    " "Yes, but in every country, there is a special organization that deals with the mysterious event, and the mysterious event is always sealed in front of the public, and then used some fake science to explain the past. The public won''t know the truth!"


    " It seems like there is a saying is right, the truth is often in the hands of a few people! "


    " Yes, many times, the world that many people see is not the real world. The real world is known only by the world itself, as if the real heart is known only by the person concerned. What you say is the embodiment of your inner world, and the world is also the embodiment of your inner world! "So, don''t believe your eyes. What you see are the products of the world''s modification and processing!"


    " That, Mountain Demon, talking to you always makes me feel that my IQ is too low. What do we do next? Right, just come out like this.


    " I''ve already seen it. Let''s go to a place first. There are several places on the back of that map. I know of them. Let''s go closer and find the object that corresponds to the front! We need to find everything in the diary. "


    " If you understand the diary and the location, why do you have to give it to me at all costs? Why do you have to make me go with you?


    " "I have been puzzled as well, but for a branch book to be so arranged, you should have some value. However, for the time being, I am unable to find any value in you!"


    " "Damn, I couldn''t tell, but you''re pretty humorous!"


    " The place closest to us is the Evil Tomb right behind us! "


    " It sounds like a mausoleum! "


    " When you talk to me, you need to pay attention to the presence of multiple strings in your head. When you have an item that we have spent so much effort to find, it would be a waste of time to get ambushed in the end. I am very powerful, and before you get the item, she will not disturb you, she will only follow you silently, and when you get your hands on it, she will pick up your loot, so, you know how to do it! "


    " "Damn, looks like you know your opponent very well!"


    " "Let''s go!"


    " "Right, where''s the pockmark?"


    " He''s fine, don''t worry! "

 C51

    When I felt this aura, I didn''t know if my heart was on guard or warm and excited, because in a certain position, I was destined to be opposed to her, but because of my inner feelings, I couldn''t resist this close-by approach. At that moment, I somehow understood how difficult it was, originally, it was not that I couldn''t win against the hardest pursuit of love, but rather, you fell in love with someone who didn''t have desires, this person might not even have the most instinctive desires, you''re just like chasing a rock, no matter how warm it is. A woman without desire, without lust, and an adversary, how to find a cut to open her heart.


    Thinking about this, I instead enjoyed every second of her invisibility, because I knew that at least she was looking at me, as if at the most pathetic moment a man could not have a woman, could only satisfy her and pay attention to you, that you were still alive and moving in her field of vision.


    However, I didn''t dare to tell Mountain Demon about the contradictions in my heart. Mountain Demon might be a strange person, a person who didn''t understand the feelings between a man and a woman. He wouldn''t understand the many struggles and contradictions between ordinary mortals.


    I followed the mountain elves, soulless, wobbly walking, occasionally closed my eyes, imagining that the girl I loved at first sight was looking at me, and as long as I imagined that beautiful gaze falling on me, I didn''t care whether it was cold surveillance or warm gentleness, that feeling made me mock myself a million times over.


    Unknowingly, they had already walked out of the pine forest, and could clearly see the forest with red leaves in the distance.


    "I have to be careful later. That place is a bit weird. I almost couldn''t get out last time!" Mountain Demon''s words interrupted my thoughts.


    Oh, yes, I said, trying to come back to reality, to face it, to imagine the ones in the journal.


    "What''s the matter with you?" Mountain Demon stopped and looked at me.


    "No, I''m just tired!" I was actually using my conversation with Mountain Demon to tell my sister that she was so intelligent that she should be able to understand.


    "Where is your heart tired?" Shouldn''t you be tired of your legs? " Mountain Demon was indeed a crook, and he kept saying he didn''t understand why I was assigned to partner with him. I thought to myself, A man who doesn''t know anything about favors, or a male gorilla, shouldn''t cooperate with an authentic person.


    "You said that if you saw a woman, it would feel like you''ve known her for a long time in your previous life, and the first time you saw her, you would tell yourself that she was your opponent for life. But then you realized that she was destined to be your opponent, but you thought that you would one day be able to resolve this conflict with your emotions. "But you''re in despair. You can choose to forget or leave and let time wash over you, but this is the closest opponent you''ve ever met. If you keep getting closer and closer, will you feel tired?"


    As long as I can do something, I''ll do it. There''s a saying, not because you see hope, but because you see hope, but because you see hope, but Mountain Demon once again displayed his swagger. "Oh, since you''ve met him in your previous life and haven''t been able to get him in your previous life, don''t expect me to do it in your current life!"


    I felt like I was playing a lute with a donkey, and I didn''t expect a donkey to understand, but Mountain Demon''s club had slowed my heavy heart, and it was better to speak than to hold it in.


    "Xie Ling, why is there such a name? Who''s buried inside?" I took a few quick steps to catch up with the Mountain Demon.


    "I got it. I went up and down the mountain three times but I''ve never succeeded. Every time I go down the mountain and see a sunny day, there would be a torrential storm. But when I go down again, it will immediately become a sunny day. I feel very strange!"


    "Fuck, I thought it was the Evil Tomb that was buried here, but you didn''t succeed even after three times. I think that even if I did it, there''s a 80 to 90% chance I didn''t succeed!"


    "If that doesn''t work, then I think we have to find someone. Don''t you have a student from the archaeological department? Archaeologists are capable of finding tombs, or you might have to find folk tombs robbers!"


    "I didn''t expect you to understand this. My university classmates haven''t contacted each other in a long time. Furthermore, they''re all girls!"


    "Man, there''s nothing wrong with that. Remember, you''re a man!" Mountain Demon looked at me very seriously.


    As we walked, we also walked into the Red Leaf Forest. From a distance, we could see a sea of red leaves, and when we walked into the same towering tree, we would see that it was originally at the same height, but it grew on a slope, and finally formed layers of orderly red leaf forest scenery. As we walked into the Red Leaf Forest, we also walked into the Red Leaf Forest, and we would see a sea of red leaves, and when we walked into the Red Leaf Forest, we would see a sea of red leaves, and we would see a sea of red leaves, and we would see that it was actually a natural tree.


    "Mountain Demon, how can you tell that this is a mausoleum?"


    "With the epitaph, we can''t go up now. We''ll show you the epitaph first, then when we get to the mountain, you''ll find a torrential storm and you won''t be able to see anything!"


    As expected, Mountain Demon didn''t head up the mountain, but rather, he went to another place at the foot of the mountain.


    After walking for about half an hour, the red leaved forest was so vast that one could not see the end of it.


    Mountain Demon stopped.


    "Is this the place? But there''s no epitaph! " I didn''t see anything, but Mountain Demon suddenly turned around and looked at me strangely.


    "It''s right under your feet!"


    "F * ck, can this bro not create tense air when he has nothing better to do? What''s with that gaze just now made me feel scared, as if I''m the epitaph to a grave!"


    Mountain Demon retracted his strange gaze and gave an embarrassed smile.


    "Hey, you better stop laughing. You''re used to seeing facial paralysis. Your muscles don''t even have tendons of joy. It''s even uglier than crying when you laugh!" I looked down. There was nothing under my feet. Could it be that I was buried in this layer of earth?


    I stepped on it.


    "Actually, there are tombstones down there. The ground we were walking on was covered by a tombstone!" Mountain Demon said as he used his bare hands to dig.


    I can''t stay calm. What do you mean, the ground of the redleaf grove where we walked for half an hour was covered with epitaph? And why did the Mountain Demon stop here to tell me?


    I started to doubt why he was looking at me with such a strange expression. Because it was too abnormal, but he was very strong, and now it was only the two of us. I honestly asked if he could see through my thoughts, which I couldn''t hide.


    As expected, before I could say anything, Mountain Demon took the initiative to say, "I won''t harm you because there''s no need. Just now, I was looking at you because there was a ray of light shining from your body!"


    "What light?" I looked at my body and saw nothing different from the light around me.


    Mountain Demon didn''t reply. He just kept digging. I discovered that Mountain Demon''s hands were very rough, full of fur. He looked like a gorilla, and in a few moments, he dug out a red stone slab.


    It looked like granite, but the red was no lighter than maple leaves. It was also stronger. I touched it and felt that it was a rock.


    "You see? Let''s dig up a small piece of the epitaph here, and we''ll go up the mountain soon. You''ll see lightning striking together, and there''s something in this stone!" Mountain Demon stopped moving.


    It seemed like he had been here before, and knew a bit about this place. He just wanted to prove something to me.


    I didn''t ask any more questions and just followed Demon Mountain up the mountain. We followed the red slate that was dug out and headed towards the higher ground. This was because the tree was a ruler and it was very precise. As long as we followed a tree, we would reach the top.


    As I walked up the mountain, I kept my eyes fixed on the sky. I was puzzled as to why there was suddenly a thunderstorm without any signs of brewing.


    We walked on for another half hour, and when we reached the top of the mountain, there was a cracking sound. My "He stuck me between his arms and the tree trunk and shouted in my ear," "Look down the mountain!"


    Then I remembered what had happened at the foot of the hill, and I looked towards the place where the Red Slate had been dug up.


    A group of eunuchs were beating the gongs and drums as they walked through the space. After a dozen or so eunuchs walked past, a steamer appeared, and half of the steamer''s arm drooped out, while the other half of the steamer was forced open by the struggling arm. There was a flash of lightning, and I actually saw the face of a woman inside the steamer, like a swollen steamed bun, ferociously staring at me.

 C52

    ?" Actually, I don''t need to continue watching it. After thinking about it carefully, I can understand that a lot of people who visit the old palace are familiar, and can sometimes see a group of palace maids and eunuchs walking in the middle of it. There are a lot of theories about this, some say that it''s a supernatural event, but there''s a reasonable scientific explanation, and I think it''s a magnetic field. In the past, these court ladies and eunuchs might have walked on a cloudy or rainy day, but if they had the same magnetic field as in the past, they would have been shown in a movie.


    " "Hurry up, the closer we get to the foot of the mountain, the more normal we become!" Mountain Demon put his arm around me and pushed me.


    " "It looks like you''re right, bro!" I took off my jacket and twisted the water, then took off my pants and underpants. I didn''t care if my little sister was following me stealthily, I had to wring them dry.


    "I''ve been going up the mountain a few times already, and it''s been like this all the time. Did you see that just now? You don''t have to look at everything. I''ve watched your actions a few times. If you had a body, you would be able to stay up there watching for the rest of your life!


    " What did you see? "


    " Those eunuchs were the ones who built this Evil Tomb, and I saw the process of how they built this tomb! "


    " "Huh?"


    " That''s right, but I don''t understand the crux of it, because I spent half a month on the mountain and saw them design the entrance to the mausoleum to the top of the mountain and see nothing else but to repeat the same actions! "


    " Wait, I don''t understand, what does that mean? That is to say, after the Red Stone Tomb''s inscription is exposed, if someone goes up the mountain, they will see the construction process of the mausoleum builder in the lightning? But, at the critical moment, it''s gone. No matter how many times you look at it, you will never be able to see how the entrance to this mausoleum was designed, right? "


    " Yes, but it must be at the top of the mountain, because this mausoleum was built from the bottom of the mountain and was built using all the blood stones available. Just like you saw those eunuchs digging late into the mountain, when they piled up all the stones at the top of the mountain, they also completed this mausoleum. But as for the specific entrance, I only know it''s the top of the mountain.


    " Brother Mountain Demon, is it true that the creator of the mausoleum used some sort of technique to record the construction of the mausoleum onto this large piece of tombstone? Furthermore, they cleverly designed a technique to trigger lightning in the mountain, so that these videos would appear, but why? Was it to tell the newcomer about the construction process? But if you want to tell us this information, why didn''t you tell us the entrance to the mausoleum?


    " You can still see through it in such a short period of time, but I feel that it''s not that simple. You have to understand the principle of wanting to capture what is good for you, if the creator deliberately protects his own mausoleum, why did he use such a method to let the later generation see it, if they were just letting the later generation know, why did they not reveal everything, so, maybe this is a trap, any contradiction is a trap, and it is to tempt you to jump in first! "


    " But do we have a choice? We have to get the item inside, damn it, tempting doesn''t have a difference! "


    " "So, I guess we can''t do it. We have to find someone, or else it would take us a few years to go up the mountain and watch the eunuchs wring their cotton-padded jackets. What do you think?"


    " Shall we go out of the woods and look for someone in Beijing? "


    " Yes, I''ve been analyzing for a long time, and it can only be like this, and it''s not just for the sake of the Evil Tomb, I''ve read the diary, and there are also several other places that require the help of such people, for which they only know how to hunt, for which you don''t even know how to hunt, and for which you can only touch a few furs. As for me, other than those that you don''t understand, I understand everything else, it''s just that I don''t understand these things! "


    " I couldn''t tell, you not only have the cold humour of us humans, you''re also quite shameless! "


    " I don''t want to go back to look for someone, I want to go back and change into my cotton-padded jacket. Let''s go, what''s the matter with the pockmarks?


    " "He''s fine, he should have returned to the village by now!"


    " Right, where are we right now? Do we need to return just like that? "


    " "I''ll bury the epitaph that I dug up and then leave. We should be home in two days, as long as everything goes well on the way!"


    " "Mother, let''s find some clothes to exchange with us. We''ve been stuck on our bodies for two days because of the rain. It feels terrible!"


    " Sigh, I wonder how much this little brother is wearing? I''m afraid your shoulder is too narrow, why don''t you try finding the biggest one first? This won''t do, I''ll break it down and change it immediately! "


    " "Fine, I''m fine with that, pockmarked one, why don''t you go home and look for it?" The pockmarks are bigger than I am, a yard bigger, and the guy makes his own clothes out of good leather.


    " "Aunt, I have Mountain Demon''s clothes at home, so don''t be too busy. I''ll go back and get them. Come, Mountain Demon, come home with me and try it out. We''ll come back later to eat. Don''t be in a hurry to eat first!" As he spoke, he got off the brick bed, and Mountain Demon followed him out of the yard in a daze.

 C53

    After saying some flippant words, pockmarked came back with Mountain Demon.


    " "By the way, pockmarked, how''s Little Four?"


    " "It''s quite good, I said that I would bring him back to our village, but he didn''t tell me. He said that he couldn''t bear to part with his grandfather, and also wanted to guard Mountain Demon!"


    " "Hmm, why are you waiting for me? Do I know that child?" Mountain Demon asked.


    " Don''t you know that you will lose your memories to the point where you will forget about yourself and then go to a village to look for someone? "


    " I know that village, but I don''t know the kid you''re talking about. "


    " "Oh, then that''s right. The last time you forgot yourself was more than ten years ago. That child was either not born or just returned to the village. It''s normal that you don''t know him. That child is from that village!"


    " "It''s like this!" Mountain Demon lowered his head in silence, as if he needed to reflect on what I had just said.


    " Why can''t I understand your words! " Second Sister looked at us.


    " "Sigh, it''s fine if you don''t understand. I''ll write a book later. You read it slowly, and I won''t be able to explain it to you in a short while!" I had no choice but to put a piece of meat into second sister''s bowl and ask, "Oh right, when little sister was shooting at the same time as you, what happened to the three of us?"


    Mountain Demon threw three pieces of stone at us, causing three bullets to hit us. The damage from the bullets has been greatly reduced, and we''ve suffered some superficial wounds! "


    "Then how did I faint?"


    "You didn''t faint because of the shot, you were unmanly. You fainted out of fright, do you understand?"


    "San-er, are you hurt?" my mother asked.


    " No, don''t interrupt. Mother, I''m fine! "


    "Later on, when I saw Mountain Demon, I didn''t say anything and automatically put away my gun. It was just that simple!"


    "Oh, then, is she hurt? "Are you alright?!" My mother was here and my sister was. I didn''t dare to ask too much, but when the pimple was mentioned, I was still worried. I asked Mountain Demon a few times without saying anything, so I didn''t know the specific situation of the pimple and my sister.


    "San-zi, I''m not trying to shock you, let me tell you the truth, don''t be so straightforward, this little sister doesn''t have any opinion of you. Bro, I''ve seen a lot of people in the past, speak clearly, I always felt that little sister was interested in Mountain Demon, you didn''t see that look in her eyes, Emma, it''s hard to say, there''s no way to describe it. Many women have seen me like that before anyway!" Ma Zi, you thick-skinned old man, even though you know that I don''t want to say such embarrassing things in front of my mother, you still want to make it clear that I''m afraid that you don''t know anything. As expected, my mother put down her chopsticks.


    "San-er, which girl do you like?"


    I directly spat out a mouthful of water from my mouth. I didn''t bother to reply my mother and said, "Leech, your IQ is too negative, okay? My eyes don''t look too good. Do you like it when you are handsome? You like a gorilla?"


    "I''m not a gorilla!" Mountain Demon said with an emotionless expression.


    "No, I don''t mean that, but you''re not a standard person either, are you, man, do you admit it?"


    My mother and my sister kept asking, "Who is the girl, what is her character? She is unfilial and unfilial." The pockmarks and I talked about how women view men, and how women choose to love. Mountain Demon would interrupt every now and then, telling us the difference between a man and a gorilla. Anyway, it was already half the night, and I was confused by that line of words.


    In the end, everyone fell asleep. Second Sister and Mother slept in the same room, while Mountain Demon and I slept in the other room, on the kang.


    Originally, I didn''t want him to follow me back to the capital. He couldn''t go to the private hall, so he was suitable to interact with animals, and he didn''t have any standards, so I was afraid that if I went out to bring him along, it would be a mistake. Furthermore, pockmarks would sometimes easily fall in love with chicks, so I was going to find a female classmate.


    " You can scram if you want to! "


    " You''re not joking, boss! "


    " During the period of time I''m gone, someone must have made a profit! "


    " "Yes, there was. Those who didn''t pay earlier, I''m going to bring them all back. They''re all being recorded in the account book!"


    " "Bro, if your boss really kicks you in the ass, then follow this bro. He has no taste for things, this bro likes your personality!" The pockmarked man patted Tsukiko on the shoulder and flicked out a cigarette, which he handed to Tsukiko.


    I thought to myself, what kind of cages are these? I''m too lazy to care about these kinds of people.


    I went straight upstairs, thinking about my college class book, which seemed to be in the bedroom drawer, looking for it.


    He spent an entire afternoon trying to find a small notebook in the corner of the drawer. He remembered all the ways to contact his classmates and the work unit, but of course, it was possible to change the number, but at that time, he remembered his parents'' phone, not their personal phone. Usually, when we were at that time, the home phone would not change, and the phone would often lose some numbers.


    The girl I was looking for was on the last page of the book, because we were in a relationship, and her phone wasn''t in my book at all, but in my heart, and then I broke up, broke up peacefully, and wasn''t the kind of girl who would give me a hard time when we met, so I made a phone call on the last page, but when I opened it, there seemed to be no reason for me to go to someone else.


    Always feel, once the love can be turned into a flat, hard to turn into something to run to others.


    After thinking about it, I decided not to call her and went to her office to meet her in person.


    I decided to go alone.


    The next day I was wearing a pair of white jeans, and I remember her saying that she liked the whiteness of my clothes, the uninhibited elegance of my youth, and the warm color of my cardigan shirt, which said I looked like a male star.


    I got up in the morning and brushed my teeth three times, for the garlic I had eaten the night before was dipped in pork, and when it was ready I was going out.


    In order to act cool in front of me, I don''t know if he woke up in the middle of the night or not, but when I went downstairs, I saw him wiping the cabinets. The cabinets in the shop were all shining bright, and when he saw me coming down the stairs, he was shocked speechless for a long time. Are you going on a blind date? "


    " "F * ck you, don''t wipe off the paint on the cabinet. Go to sleep if you have nothing to do!"

 C54

    " "Don''t go today, next time!"


    " You don''t know women, and there''s something that you should say. If you argue with a woman, you might as well explain it a thousand times over and block your mouth by blocking it on the wall. Your temper is too sissy, no, let''s go, I''ll make sure that I settle this for you today! " "Women don''t like fresh meat. They like uncle, understand? You dress like a student, with a pretty white face on your upper body, what do you mean, the years of passion, you ignite the feeling of that little girl in university?" Several years have passed, and he has long since lost his student attitude. Go back and put on the leather straw that he ordered for you last time. Listen to me.


    "Forget it, only women wear leather. If I had a girl''s temper and wore a girl, wouldn''t I only have to prove that I''m a man?


    " It''s hard to believe that your classmate might fall for me! "


    " I''m telling you, don''t try to trick Bai Bai. She''s not an ordinary girl.


    " I couldn''t tell that you were a playboy, didn''t you like your little sister? Why are you still thinking about your ex-girlfriend? Bai Yunlai, hmm, this name was quite interesting. Oh right, what was her brother''s name? Her parents really know how to name things. "


    " I''m not thinking about it, I''m just telling you, we''re going to beg him, so that he won''t make any love triangle! Her brother is called Daylight! "


    " Day? White Cloud? "Fuck, what a good name!"


    " We have to find the items on top, but the place where these items are located is rather strange. We''re looking for Bai Yunlai to beg him, maybe not, but at least she knows some people who can lead us to other places. How about we have a leather collector, a leather beater, and a head full of fog? "


    " Wait a minute, where did you and Mountain Demon see those things in the diary? Didn''t little sister say that the diary needs to be somewhere to see them? "


    " "How long has it been in Beijing? I didn''t even know there was such a place, how come there aren''t even guards? How about we go in?" He locked the car and looked around.


    " Two minutes! " Bai Yunlai gave a short answer.


    " Damn, why does it sound like an old couple, with such tacit understanding! " The voice on the other end of the phone was very clear.


    " Yes, I wonder if I ever had her before. She is a strange person, forever foreign to you! "


    White Cloud poured the wine and handed it to me and pockmarked, and the three of us sat down.


    " I know men may not like women who drink good wine, but sometimes it''s good. It can at least break the awkward conversation that''s been brewing for a long time. The white cloud gulped down half a cup.


    " "If there really is a Fan''er, Bai Yunlai, I''ll give it to you!" The pockmark raised his glass and was about to drink it when he added, "Just treat it as a wedding wine for you and Little San''er!"


    " You, don''t mind me, I don''t know how to talk. I can see that you''re quite busy too, but I''ve been feeling uneasy for a very long time this time. Even after a night, I still mustered up my courage, because I have something to ask of you! "


    " "Yes, he didn''t lie. He was really conflicted all night. Yesterday, I heard that he went to the latrine several times in the middle of the night. San''er, if you get nervous, you can run to the toilet. Also, I saw how many times he changed his clothes in the morning ¡­"


    " My brother texted me yesterday, I know, we''re old classmates, there''s no need to be nervous, just say whatever you want, if I can do it, I''ll definitely try my best! "


    " "Hmm, I understand. Then let me say a few more things about me. I will tell you these words today, because we might be cooperating for a long period of time, and if you hear it, don''t tell anyone else!"


    I nodded to the pockmark.

 C55

    I never liked listening to other people''s secrets, because if I didn''t know, I wouldn''t leak it, I knew, I''d have the ability to leak it, so I''d rather not know, like a guy who''s got to tell you the code of his safe, one day this safe is stolen, I''m not going to be suspected, but you never tell me, I''m going to be very hard to be suspected, so I don''t like listening to other people''s secrets, because I''m afraid that one day they aren''t secrets, and I''m the object of suspicion.


    " Brother, this thing is easy to replicate! " The pockmark turned over and over, looking at the sign, telling Sun.


    " It will not be copied, and in this world, there can be people who can replicate humans, but there will never be anyone who can replicate the member plates of pi organizations! "


    " "Why, tell me!"


    " "Trust me, you can go to any craftsman''s shop and try. If one day someone can copy it, then he can become a member of the pi organization!"


    " That''s right, not everyone with special abilities can join, right? We have a brother, Mountain Demon, and he can definitely join us. He put away the sign.


    " He was originally a member of our organization! "


    " Bai Yunlai, what''s going on? Does Mountain Elf know you? " I trust Bai Yunlai. Either she doesn''t tell me, or she won''t lie if she can tell you something.


    " He is a person who lost his memory, and he is also a special member of the pi organization. This organization will always know that he is a member of this organization, but he might not always remember this organization! "


    " Oh, so I thought Mountain Demon was a very complicated person, because I trusted him very much! " Bai Yunxiao''s words should be true. I heaved a sigh of relief.

 C56

    " "Nutty, wait, don''t rush back to the shop yet. Since Raptor is an outsider, why don''t we just call Mountain Demon over?"


    " "You think you can figure it out? Mountain Demon doesn''t have a phone!" said the pockmark.


    " Zhang San and Zhang Zhe will head back to the store. Bai Yunlai and I will go prepare some equipment, and we''ll split up and notify the rendezvous point in two days. You guys should go back and rest with Mountain Demon, and don''t discuss too much in the shop! " Qing Yang said.


    " Boss, you''re awake. What are you eating for dinner? I''ll go prepare! " When Mariko saw me walk into the shop with my neck hunched back, she immediately pounced on me with her horse''s fawning.


    " "I''m not eating anymore. You three can eat whatever you want. If not, I will go upstairs to sleep. Even if the sky falls down, don''t call me!" I went straight to the second floor.


    " Oh, go on down, eat and find the pockmarks! "


    " "Where is this place?" The look in Mountain Demon''s eyes was different from before, reminding me of the look on my face when I first came to the shop to deliver a bill to him.


    " It''s our store. Bro, what happened to you? "


    " I am a man of amnesia! "


    " "Fine, I know, but didn''t you save your memory for more than a few days? Don''t you remember how it was last time when you were in the forest for a few days? How come you can''t remember after just a day here?"

 C57

    Then, after racking my brains to figure out why, I put them on the table, one by one, and looked back and forth, a few times, still confused, and began to pull the drawers again.


    There were some Qing Dynasty coins in the drawer, there were also some old coins and paper money, they seemed to be collection items, there were also a few Yuan Bigheads, a few Chairman Mao''s medallions, a few copper boxes of cracking cream, underneath these things was an old calendar paper. Originally I was going to close the drawer, but after a while the drawer got old, and when I closed the drawer, it didn''t go well, and I only pushed it a few times, but then the calendar paper was pulled by something on top, revealing some things on the bottom.


    At the bottom of the page was a book. This book had no cover, it was just a stack of paper bound together, and this stack of paper was actually the page of an old account book.


    The old account books that had been torn off at the front and back were once again bound together and made into a new book.


    I couldn''t wait to open the book. I had a hunch that the book would remember something.


    When I opened it, the emotions were complicated, such as loss, surprise, bewilderment and deep contemplation.


    The most surprising thing was that there were indeed some things in these books. The only thing that puzzled him was why there were some designs here, while the thing that made him think about it was that he didn''t seem to be a stranger to these books.


    I didn''t graduate from architecture, so I definitely wouldn''t be familiar with architectural designs. But why does this painting give me a sense of familiarity? I stood there for almost ten minutes, and finally understood that these blueprints were the blueprints of this shop.


    First, each of the pages had been designed in detail, and then there were all kinds of blueprints. As I flipped through the pages, I kept thinking about why I tore open some old account books and made them into a book for my design. Normal people should at least take out an account book and use it for their own purposes, unless this person is abnormal.


    Or maybe, I thought, the store wasn''t designed all at once, maybe a person designed it every once in a while, and wrote it down at the same time, and after a while, when it was found that the design was complete, he would tear down the sketches and arrange the costs, which was a reasonable thought, but if that''s the case, then the store was already a store when it wasn''t, because the account book was designed at the same time as the design drawings, which was the store running while he was keeping accounts and designing blueprints for the later period.


    In the end, I thought that this idea was very reasonable. Perhaps a hundred years ago, when I first ran this shop, when I didn''t have any money in the village, I set up a shop in this courtyard to sell leather. Later on, when I made a profit and earned enough money, I planned to tidy up this place and buy this place and decorate it properly. Thus, I planned to keep an account book while designing the blueprints in my account book, and according to the time when I made a profit, I was even more certain that I would have to continue designing and renovating the shop.


    When I think about it, I don''t find it so weird to look at the torn parts of the old accounts. On the contrary, it''s the hard feelings of intimacy.


    But just as I was beginning to feel that all this had gone back to being reasonable, I flipped to the last page of the design blueprints.


    This page was the complete blueprint of the entire store.


    Something was wrong with that part of me, I couldn''t say. Something was definitely wrong.


    F * ck, it''s the upstairs bedroom.


    The bedroom of the design drawing was twelve, but the shop actually had thirteen rooms.


    I went back and forth counting the number of rooms on the blueprint. Finally, my entire body went numb. It was absolutely true.


    When I found this strange place, I didn''t dare to look back at all. I just stood there, frozen in place. The whole shop was like a strange hell, while I stood alone somewhere in hell.


    He didn''t dare to leave the study. He went along the corridor and checked the blueprints to see which room had been added.


    I tried to trace the truth of the shop in my mind, and realized that I hadn''t found one of the deadliest things in my many years of staying in this shop, and that was that the rooms on both sides of the upstairs bedroom corridor were one to one, and the whole shop was a standard square, with no extra room to the east or to the west, so why were there thirteen bedrooms in this one-to-one shop? Either 12 or 14, it had to be a double count. Was it not too impossible to get more single rooms?


    Furthermore, I swear to Yama that I have never seen any bedrooms on the second floor that can''t be found on the opposite side. That is to say, all thirteen bedrooms on the second floor of this shop are opposite of each other.


    Unless there was one possibility, which was that there were two small rooms corresponding to a large room, but that was not true, because each bedroom was the same size, as was the actual shop, and as indicated on the drawings.


    Then, what does that mean? It means that there are twelve bedrooms on the blueprint that are exactly the same size and structure, while in reality, there are thirteen bedrooms that are exactly the same size and structure. Oh my god, they should come back quickly, I''m about to collapse.


    Can you imagine how many years you''ve lived in a shop that''s home? One day, when you discover the mystery of the room, won''t you go crazy?


    I looked at my cell phone. It had only been half an hour, and they couldn''t possibly be back soon. The restaurants in the capital were bustling with activity, especially the ones that were good to eat, and didn''t go to the restaurants that didn''t seem to be in a bad mood. I waited for them to come back, and with the time we had to drive back and forth, I estimated that it would take two to three hours.


    Actually, in the past, I''ve stayed in this shop countless times during the night, such as when the shop assistant went back home or opened up an old store, and the new shop wasn''t hired yet. In the past, I decided to go back, in the past, I''ve stayed in this shop for countless of nights, such as when the shop assistant went back home or opened up an old store, such as the new shop assistant going back home, such as the old shop assistant, and so many times when the shop assistant went old, it could be said that the shop store was deserted most of the time. All day long, there were endless customers, so most of the time, it was a deserted shop. People went in and out of the shop, but it was very lively.


    For the first time, I felt fear and unfamiliarity towards the countless shops that were all alone.


    When I finally turned my head, I saw that my bedroom door on the other side was as though it had seen a ghost and I didn''t dare to take another look.


    Almost ran out of the study, into my bedroom, kicked the door shut, and leaned against it, gasping for breath.


    With my cell phone in my hand, I wondered if I should call the pockmarked one and come back quickly, thinking what would happen if I didn''t come back and live in the shop, and I couldn''t tell the pockmarked one that I was going to sleep in the same bed as me tonight, and, step back and think about it, I was the one who had just discovered the abnormality in the room, the one who had been so confused for so many years, without missing an arm or an egg, and that was when, for the first time in my life, I understood something: ignorance is happiness, you get upset when you know something.


    For example, if you go to a restaurant to eat, do not look at the kitchen, or else you will not be able to eat. For example, if you drink a drink, do not go to the factory to watch the production process, or else I feel, hehe, for example, we are all normal professionals, but you should try to do a forensic examination. With so many bodies dissected every day, you will be able to see the human body from a different perspective.


    Leaning against the door, I stood there blankly, looking out the window at the bustling night lights. There were many cars and very few people on the street, and time passed by second by second. For some reason, I cried by myself during this time.


    When I reached a certain age, I wanted to find a girl I loved and had a lot of plans for my life, but after half a month, my life was messed up. I originally thought that these were all just small episodes, but more and more, I felt that this episode was just the beginning.


    And what did I lose? Having lost the most ordinary life of an ordinary mortal, when all ordinary mortals dream about making their lives extraordinary, who would have thought that extraordinary people would crave for their ordinary lives to be doubled.


    After thinking a lot, I finally saw the figure of pockmarks in the street light below. I realized that I had been standing stiffly against the door for nearly three hours now.


    When I heard the door open and close, I turned around and opened the door. I rushed to the first floor and threw myself into the arms of the pockmarked man.


    The pockmark first hugged me, and then touched my waist. Afterwards, he pushed it away. "Fuck, I thought that girl was waiting for me, so why is it you?" "Was it sleepwalking, or did he suffer from sexual blindness after taking a rat drug?"

 C58

    I wanted to go upstairs and talk to the pockmarked man alone, but when I saw him coming and going from the car to the packed meals, and remembered that he and I had spent so many nights together in this shop, I did not reject him. I felt a surge of shared gratitude.


    "Son of a bitch, hurry up and come in. Close the door!"


    Mariko was not used to my attitude, so she touched my face even more. "No fever, why does it seem like a different person all of a sudden!" Big bro pockmarked, what happened to Little Third''s boss? "


    "San-er, what''s wrong with you? Are you still there? How did you end up like this after eating a meal? " The pockmark slapped my face a few times.


    "Slap, slap a few more times! Come!" I face him.


    "Emma, pockmarked brother, don''t lock up your car, hurry up and take him to the hospital, he doesn''t feel right, I have an acquaintance at the hospital, he''s at a mental health clinic, we''ll be there soon, don''t think it''s private, but there are a lot of success stories, let''s go!" He was about to carry me out the door.


    "No one can treat this illness of mine. It''s useless for you to be busy for now. Follow me upstairs and do me a favor!" I closed the door of the shop and put all the food I had packed on the table. I waved my hand and everyone went upstairs. Mountain Demon didn''t say anything as he walked into the shop.


    Ma Tzu and Tzu Tzu Tzu came with me in a daze.


    "Come on, let me ask you something. If it''s a square shop with thirteen bedrooms on the second floor, and each room is exactly the same in size, and each room is headed in the opposite direction, do you think it''s possible?"


    "I don''t understand. What are you saying is impossible? Is it that every two things cannot be compared to each other? You want a confrontation between the north and the south? Or what? " the pockmark asked.


    "You fucking retard, shut up!" I kicked the pockmark.


    "Boss, it''s impossible, it''s absolutely impossible. If I can''t even calculate this well, then don''t bother with me. In a regular square area, every two identical figures are facing each other. They must be a double number. How could it be an odd number?" he said.


    "Damn, I didn''t hire you for nothing. But, come with me to our second floor. Our second floor is such an impossible place!"


    While they were talking, everyone had already climbed the stairs and arrived at the corridor on the second floor.


    "Take a look, the first object is in the bedroom opposite mine and the study opposite mine, right? You can take a look at the position of the door and see if it is in a straight line or not. Then, let''s continue walking and take a look at the next pair!"


    "Yes, absolutely!" Kikuko watched the hand measure.


    "Come, take a look at these two!" After saying that, we walked to the next pair, "For the sake of recording, I''ll temporarily call you room number 1. Since the opposite study is number 2, then this means we''ve walked past number 12 and arrived at number 34, right? Son of a bitch, do you think Number Three and Number Four are the same? "


    "Yes, boss, yes!"


    Then we walked past five, six, seven, eight, ninety, and twelve, all facing each other. What about our room thirteen?


    After reaching number 12, he found himself at the end of the corridor.


    That means our shop is actually twelve rooms.


    I should be happy, actually. In fact, there are twelve rooms in the shop, and the blueprints are twelve as well, isn''t that just right, but, I can guarantee that there are thirteen rooms on the second floor of the shop, because I only need one or two workers in the shop, one for my study, seven for my guest rooms, which seem to be quite a lot. In fact, sometimes it''s not enough.


    We counted twelve rooms, and except for the Mountain Demon who didn''t understand, both the pockmarked and the feral felt that something was wrong, because they knew better than I did that it was really thirteen rooms.


    "Boss, how about this, let''s mark it down and write numbers on every door!" He went downstairs to find a pen.


    We found the pen and started counting again, only this time each one had to write a number on the door, starting from one to the next, but after a while we finally got to twelve and walked to the end of the corridor, which was no doubt proof that there were twelve, but when we looked back we saw that there was one more that had no numbers.


    "How did you miss one?" pockmarked looked at the unmarked door.


    Forget about the pockmarks, I don''t get it either. Everyone counts one by one, so how could I miss out on a single one?


    As we walked back and forth along the corridor, it was true that the number one to twelve was twelve, but there was also one room with no numbers to prove that we were missing a number. However, it also proved that this shop had thirteen rooms.


    So we counted from the beginning, but we didn''t erase the number we had written down the first time, just went on to the second time in another place.


    What happened next simply caused the few of us to collapse completely. We counted out twelve rooms each time, and we did indeed see the end of the corridor, and we never missed any of them, but every time we looked back, we would find that there was always another room missing, with no numbers, and that the room that was missed was not a fixed room. Almost every time we went down there, we missed a different room.


    "What''s going on, pockmarked, how did I get confused and disoriented? Mad one, you know what''s wrong, why do you think there''s one missing every time, and we''ve been counting back and forth for a few times, and the rooms that are missing are all different rooms. If there''s something wrong with one of the rooms, logically speaking, we should be missing this every time, right? But look, the mark on our door isn''t that the room we''ve never marked before, but this time, this time, this time, this time, that was missed, didn''t all rooms have a chance of being missed?"


    Boss, don''t worry, let''s tidy up a bit, did you notice a pattern? Among so many rooms, we only miss one every time, not two or three of them, and we are living people, so why do we miss one every time when we look back? Then why do we only miss one? First, second, every time, we don''t find any unmarked rooms. "If it was before, I would indeed be scared, but ever since I met those things in the forest that are even more ghastly than ghosts, and found out about the pi organization, a ghost, I have despised them. But I understand that this brat''s world is definitely still on the cognitive level where ghosts are the most mysterious things.


    However, Mariko''s words reminded me that whether or not there were any ghosts in this bedroom on the second floor was definitely strange. I looked at Mariko and me, and we still didn''t have an exchange of views. It wasn''t Mariko, but the concept of the pi organization had begun to take effect in my heart.


    Although Mountain Demon had lost his memory, his brain was still working. After speaking for a long time, he broke our silence. "There should be a hidden room in this place!"


    In the presence of Mariko, I did not say that there were only twelve rooms in the design of the old account book that had been discovered tonight, and I was going to avoid being told that, again, it was not the bandit, but that he was not part of the organization, and that I had no right to bring him in, and this sentence of Shanda''s made it clear to me that twelve rooms had been designed here, and that twelve rooms could only be marked every time it was counted, and it was not a coincidence, but it was not entirely true. If one room was to be hidden forever, then we would look back and find that one room had been missed, and the missing twelve rooms would disappear at the same time, one to make up for the last time of the balance.


    It was still the same, as if he had seen the world for the first time in his life. It was a kind of excitement, and then I winked at him and went back to bed.


    Later, when everyone was sleepy, when I, Pockmarks, and Mountain Elf had seen many strange things, and the rooms were not filled with people calling for their parents, we all went back to our own rooms and slept. As we closed the door, the sound of Masako''s footsteps could still be heard coming and going in the corridor, and I said in my heart, "Let''s count the number of things."


    That night I slept very heavily, I was too tired, and before I fell asleep, I couldn''t stop my mind from thinking too much, but after a long night of dreaming, I felt weird and dizzy, and when I woke up the next day, my head was covered in paste, and my limbs felt like they were made of lead. When I pushed open the door to the latrine, I tripped on something in the corridor, and when I thought I had seen a ghost, the one who tripped me shouted, "Ghost, ghost, I see a monster!"


    With this shout, pockmarks and mountain elves emerged from their respective houses.


    It was me and Mariko, and Carmen from Pen went back to sleep.


    "F * cking hell, where did you count all night?" I kicked him.


    "I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. I can''t fall asleep!" He rubbed his eyes and stood up.


    I saw, no, he was stubborn, too. All night long the door of the room had been painted with Arabic numerals, and from a distance it looked as if it had been decorated and painted with some sort of pattern.


    He was indeed a person who took certain things too seriously. His seriousness and persistence towards things were like a difficult growth in height, even though you couldn''t see his achievements.


    I am a very sensitive person, sensitive sometimes excessively, I always feel that there is some law in these numbers.


    So I took three steps down to the back outhouse, drained it, and came up again.


    The first line of each door was the first, and the second was the second. So I could look at the number of numbers on each door to see which one had been left out, and the first one was the one between the number 2 and the number 4, which was the third, in a sense.


    The second one was the one before the number two for the third time, which was also the first one in a sense.


    As I continued to search, I actually managed to find the number 314159265358979323846433 on the door I left behind last night.


    "Son of a b * tch, you''re so awesome. Do you see the numbers? How many times have you counted them? Every number is the relative position of the room that you missed each time. Look, how many times have you counted it? " I was also just a salty egg, I actually did a thorough check of the rooms that I missed out on.


    When I showed the serial number on the back of my hand to Mariko, she said something that surprised me!


    "Boss, aren''t these numbers the value of pi?"