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"Ah, I really don't know, please..." Bai Yaoyao's whole body convulsed, and the feeling of her skin being burned was excruciatingly painful.
She rolled and struggled on the ground, trying to break free from Guodong's confinement, but no matter how hard she struggled, she still couldn't escape. These, coupled with the fear in her heart, made her completely lose her mind.
"sorry Sorry……"
Looking at Bai Yaoyao like that, Guodong didn't feel distressed, but instead felt irritable and displeased. If he had known this, why would he steal his mirror in the first place?
He was murderous.
He squeezed the kitchen knife in his hand tightly, and stepped on Bai Yaoyao more forcefully.
As he became more and more angry, the ends of Bai Yaoyao's hands and feet were burned by the yin energy until she could see the bones. From the fierce struggle at the beginning to the inability to breathe and move afterwards——
As death approached little by little, Bai Yaoyao's pupils, which were constricted by fright, dilated.
Guodong suddenly raised his head and looked to one side.
Chen Ran's breath came faintly from there.
The breath was so weak that it was blown away by the Yin Qi gathered around him because of his anger, which made him almost miss it and made him unable to catch it.
Guodong suppressed his anger, he closed his eyes to feel it.
The Yin Qi sweeping around stopped abruptly, and the world returned to stillness.
The canopy that blocks the sky, with a touch of rancid soil, soft fallen leaves...
At the other end of the forest, in the middle of the slope next to their camp, under the big rock before...
Guodong suddenly opened his eyes, Ruruo Hantan's black eyes burst out with surprise and doubt, he found the mirror and Chen Ran, but why did Chen Ran run back under the rock?
Knowing where Chen Ran was, the stone hanging in Guodong's heart finally fell, and he couldn't wait to turn around and head towards the camp.
No longer being suppressed, Bai Yaoyao, who was almost out of breath, panted heavily. When she noticed Guodong's departure, her eyes burst into ecstasy, "Ahem..."
However, before she could pull the face that had been burnt until the subcutaneous muscle was exposed and smiled, her curled up and broken body suddenly burst into flames.
She screamed and struggled, but everything she did was in vain, her body was shrouded in black flames, and turned into a handful of dust in just a moment.
This is not the end.
Her bewildered and painful soul had just recovered when she was once again shrouded in black flames, screaming pitifully, until she completely dissipated into the air, and everything was completely over.
She shouldn't have stolen his mirror, Chen Ran obviously belonged to him.
Guo Dong left without looking back, he quickly walked towards the cliff with Chen Ran's aura.
The woods in the mountains are not as good as the flat land, and the distance in a straight line may not be the shortest.When Guodong followed the smell all the way to find it, he somehow got around to the bottom of the cliff.
The cliff was very steep, and although there were many weeds and shrubs on it, it was almost impossible to climb up it with bare hands.Guodong hesitated for a while, and had no choice but to walk around the cliff obediently, looking for a way up.
When he returned to the camp, he just approached the camp, and before he had time to speak, Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi had already rushed over with hasty expressions on their faces.
"Guo Dong!"
"Where did you go, I thought something happened to you!"
"It scared us to death, we searched everywhere but couldn't find you..."
Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi spoke to each other with anxiety and joy in their tone.
After Guo Dong chased You Long and the others and ran out, the two immediately chased after them.
Lan Haoyi's legs and feet are not good, and he is becoming more and more unable to run in this kind of mountain.
Gao Jin ran fast, chasing Xu Yuan in one breath, but his speed was far behind Guo Dong, and Guo Dong disappeared within a short distance after he chased him.
After losing Guodong, the two had no choice but to search for it along the way down the mountain.
After finding a way and finding traces of running and dripping blood among the woods, both of them couldn't help becoming nervous.
If something happened to Guodong, Chen Ran would definitely kill them directly.
They hurriedly followed the trace all the way, and after walking not far, they smelled a thick and suffocating Yin Qi in the air.
They didn't know what happened, but the traces stretched all the way to the center of the storm, and the two had to take out their weapons and walk in bravely.
The storm rose suddenly and then stopped abruptly, leaving the two at a loss.
Without the Yin Qi that was so thick that it was almost impossible to move, the speed of the two of them accelerated.
But following the traces all the way, they did not find Guodong at the end of the traces. Instead, they saw Qi Gu and Gao Yun who seemed to have been burned by fire, two blood corpses, and a burnt corpse beside them. Human traces.
The moment they saw the burned figure, both of them panicked.
On the way back, the two comforted each other that the person might not be Guodong, but until now when they saw Guodong, the two of them finally put their hearts back into their stomachs.
"Did you find the mirror?" Gao Jin asked, after seeing Gao Yun and Qi Gu, they also searched around them, but they couldn't find the mirror.
Being reminded, Guodong hurried over the two of them and walked towards the camp. He took the rope put aside and quickly walked towards the cliff.
"Guodong?" Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi hurriedly followed.
Seeing this, Chu Xi and Xia Chan hesitated for a moment and followed.
When he came to the edge of the cliff, Guodong skillfully tied one end of the rope to the tree and the other to his waist. He grabbed the rope and slid down as fast as before.
With the previous experience, this time he was faster, but he came to the edge of the rock in a short time.
It was already after noon, more than two o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun that climbed overhead brought the scorching heat unique to the beginning of summer, baking the rocks exposed to the sun into steam.As soon as he got close, Guodong felt the heat.
After Guodong slid down to a position parallel to the rock, he stepped on the edge of the rock and jumped out to the side. At the same time, he quickly lowered the rope to slide himself under the rock.
Under the rock, in a dark corner where the sun cannot shine, the place where the mirror was placed before has now been filled again, and the mirror that he took away before has returned to its original position.
There was a faint smell of rust in the air, which was the smell of blood, and under this smell was a faint yin energy, which was the smell of the ghost in the knife that Chen Ran carried with him.
Chen Ran in the mirror used the yin energy in the knife.
Guodong reached out to get the mirror.
The moment his fingertips touched the mirror, the slightly cold mirror trembled slightly, as if unwilling to be taken away by him.
Guodong ignored the subtle resistance and pulled out the mirror.He turned it over and looked at it, the mirror was still the same as before, except for the change of Chen Ran's breath inside, there was no difference.
"Guodong?" Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi, who were waiting above the cliff, saw that Guodong hadn't moved for a long time, and thought that Guodong had disappeared like Chen Ran, and their hearts arose.
Guodong put his mind back and revealed his head from under the rock.
Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi at the top quickly pulled the rope and pulled Guodong up.
"You run down—" Lan Haoyi was just about to ask Guodong why he went down again, when he noticed that Guodong had an extra mirror in his hand.
"Huh?" Jia Jin also noticed.
"It ran back by itself." Guo Dong said.
"Run back by yourself?" Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other.
Chu Xi and Xia Chan who followed were also surprised, but their faces were more fearful and alert.
Guodong didn't explain, because even he didn't know why.
After finding the mirror again, Guo Dong Gao let go of his hanging heart. He put the mirror into his arms seriously, and finally patted his stomach to hide the mirror.
Just as Gao Jin was about to say something, there was a burst of voices from the camp. Yang Qi returned to them and saw that the camp was empty, and there was another pool of blood and human skin on the ground, shouting.
"Captain!" Chu Xi and Xia Chan hurried to the camp.
Guodong and the others followed closely behind.
Back at the camp, seeing Li Zhuofeng, Yang Qihui, and Chengde in distress, Chu Xi and Xia Chan exclaimed, and Guodong raised his eyebrows.
"What happened?" Lan Haoyi asked Li Zhuofeng.
Among the three, Li Zhuofeng was in the worst condition.
Most of his body was stained red with blood, and there were obvious scars on his neck and arms. It looked like he had a hard fight with someone.
"Where's Guangxuan?" Xia Chan asked.
Yang Qi recalled that there were four of them when they left, but now only three of them have returned, and Guangxuan has not returned.
"Don't mention it..." As soon as Guangxuan was mentioned, Chengde, the tallest of them all, changed his face, as if he had just experienced something extremely terrifying.
Lan Haoyi looked at Li Zhuofeng.
"When we were approaching the top of the mountain, Guangxuan suddenly attacked us. Strictly speaking, it wasn't Guangxuan anymore, he was just wearing Guangxuan's skin." Li Zhuofeng lifted his clothes to let everyone see the teeth marks and fingers on his body Yin, if it wasn't for his quick response, the skin on his body would have been skinned alive by Guangxuan.
Chu Xi gasped.
Yang Qi, who was also injured all over his body, returned a wry smile, and found a place to sit down, "Now that I think about it, the person we put down last night should be Guangxuan. It was the same, except for our own people, who would believe me..."
At that time, no one wanted to go down after getting ready, and the atmosphere fell into embarrassment for a while.In the end, Guangxuan took the initiative to stand up, and they were able to release him smoothly.
Self-blame appeared on Yang Qi's face, if it wasn't for him, Guangxuan might not have gone down, if it wasn't for this, Guangxuan might not have died.
"team leader……"
"Don't think so."
Chuxi and Chengde appease.
"The matter has come to this point, it's useless to think about it, the most urgent thing now is what to do next?" Jiao Jin said.
Yang Qi nodded back, rubbed his face vigorously, stood up, "We didn't get through the phone."
Cheng De and Li Zhuofeng, who followed up together, already knew that Chu Xi and Xia Chan were not too surprised. After what happened last night and what happened to Guangxuan, there was nothing to surprise them now.
Guodong and the others had already guessed that this would be the ending. The reason why they didn't stop and let Li Zhuofeng follow was mainly because they wanted to see if Yang Qi returned the mirror they had picked up during this journey, but they didn't expect it to be They got the mirror here first.
"What is this?" Li Zhuofeng had already noticed the pool of blood and human skin beside the fire.
"Zhang Mei, she is the same as Guangxuan..." Gao Jin briefly explained what happened before.
Hearing that so many things happened in the camp after they left, Li Zhuofeng and the three of them were all surprised.
A group of people looked at Guodong one after another, and Guodong reluctantly took out the mirror from under his clothes for everyone to see.
Yang Qi reached out to grab it, but Guodong took the mirror back before he touched it, and only showed it, not touched it.
Yang Qi replied funny, "Chen Ran is inside?"
Guodong nodded, and quickly hid the mirror in his arms.
"Have you seen this mirror?" Lan Haoyi asked Yang Qihui and Chengde, Guodong had already asked once before, but Yang Qihui and Chengde were not there at that time.
Cheng De shook his head almost immediately, "No, I rarely come into contact with such things."
That mirror looked like an antique.
"Me too." Yang Qi shook his head back.
All four of Guodong were disappointed.
"However, I remembered something about this mountain." Yang Qi replied.
Guodong looked over.
The same is true for Lan Haoyi and the others.
"This mountain is said to be a spiritual mountain. People worshiped it a long, long time ago. It seems that there is some kind of festival." Yang Qi replied.
Lan Haoyi was disappointed, they already knew this, "The Yinshan Festival used to be held at the beginning of June every year to sacrifice livestock to the mountain gods in the mountains, in order to pray that the mountain gods would not attack the villagers."
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Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, "Is that so?"
Yang Qi replied and said: "That's not what I heard. I heard that there was a mountain god in this mountain, who had always protected the nearby villagers. Later, there was a war outside, and many refugees who fled came into the mountain. Those refugees saw The mountain is not affected by the outside world at all, it is like a paradise, so I have a murderous intention, I want to kill all the people in the mountain, and then the birds will occupy the dove's nest."
"After a fierce battle, the villagers who have been training up and down the mountain all year round finally won the victory, drove all the refugees away and defended their homes."
"But the living people are gone, and the refugees who died in the mountains are not willing to die. They were originally destroyed and displaced because of the war, so they turned into ghosts and frequently made troubles."
"After that, people disappeared from time to time in the mountains. After the disappearance, people in the village searched the whole mountain and couldn't find anyone, but after a while, those missing people would appear out of thin air."
"It's just that the person who reappeared is no longer the original person, but the ghost of those dead refugees who came back with the skins of the villagers. After death, those refugees still want to occupy the dove's nest."
"The people in the mountains couldn't bear the fact that their relatives were skinned and returned with skins on, so they prayed to the mountain gods to bless them so that the refugees could no longer do harm to them."
"It seemed that the mountain god did something later, so that this situation never happened again, but at the same time, the people in the mountain must also offer tribute to the dead refugees every year to calm their anger."
"Many members of the mountaineering team chose this mountain to climb because they heard about it. There is even a saying in the mountaineering world that after reaching the top of the mountain, as long as you pray sincerely without distracting thoughts, the mountain god can hear you statement of wishes."
Hearing Yang Qi's reply, Guodong and the others were taken aback, which was completely different from what they had heard before.
The three of Li Zhuofeng saw surprise and complexity in each other's eyes.
Judging from the current situation, what Yang Qi said is obviously more suitable for the situation than what Lan Haoyi investigated before. They disappeared and reappeared after being approved, which is completely consistent with their current situation.
But if this is the case, doesn't that mean that there is a mountain god in this mountain?
god?
If someone told them that there are ghosts in this mountain, they wouldn't be too surprised, but God...
"It would be great if there is a god in this mountain." Cheng De obviously didn't believe it either.
If there were gods in this mountain, then they wouldn't have encountered so many horrible things.
"I also heard it from other mountaineering teams. It is said that the people who originally lived in this mountain have already made fortunes because of the blessing of the mountain god, so they all moved from the mountain to the city. They were the first batch of people who entered the city back then. .It is also because of this that there are no people in the mountains, so there is no one to worship..."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Because I believe in worship, I get blessings, because I get blessings, I get rich, because I get rich, I move away from here, and then I don’t believe in it anymore.
It does seem like something a human being would do.
"Is there anything else besides these? Is there any explanation about what the mountain god has done?" Guodong asked.
He didn't know when he took out the mirror hidden in his bosom again, he felt that he probably figured out what was going on, the problem now was how to get Chen Ran out of the mirror, and then how to get rid of the copy.
This mirror is probably not a spirit possessed by those things.
Yang Qi shook his head back, "I just listened to it as a story, I never believed it before."
After Yang Qi replied, there was a short silence in the camp, and a group of people were thinking about each other with strange expressions.
Li Zhuofeng and the others were still surprised about the mountain god, but Yang Qi and the others were thinking about something else.
"Who are you guys?" Yang Qi asked back.
After asking the words, he smiled wryly and said, "We have really..."
If what You Long told them is true, then the five of them have been dead for ten years.
In their memory, in their impression, they had just left home and climbed this mountain, and the memory of yesterday and the day before yesterday still clearly appeared in their minds. They couldn't accept that they had been dead for more than ten years. thing.
Hearing Yang Qi mention this, the faces of Chu Xi and the others were also pale.
They didn't have to believe it before, but after what happened with Zhang Mei, Guangxuan and the mirror, they had no choice but to believe it.
Li Zhuofeng smiled wryly and nodded.
Yang Qi was dumbfounded.
Xia Chan couldn't hold back, she whimpered, turned and entered the tent.
Seeing this, Chu Xi quickly followed her in to comfort her.
Yang Qi looked back and explained with a wry smile, "She didn't plan to come this time. She also has a four-year-old daughter who was born in poor health, so she has been taking care of her at home. It was not easy to find the time..."
Halfway through Yang Qi's reply, his voice choked up and he couldn't continue. Everyone of them has a home.
When they entered the mountain the day before yesterday, they had agreed with their family members to go back the day after tomorrow, but today they were told that they would never go back again.
"Sorry..." Yang Qi wiped his face back, and walked aside with red eyes.
Sitting by the fire, Chengde raised the corners of his mouth and smiled awkwardly at Guodong and the others. He probably wanted to appease Guodong and the others, but he didn't know how ugly his smile was.
Chengde looks ordinary, the only thing worth remembering about him is that he is half a head taller than ordinary people, but this is such a man in his 30s who is about to forty, but he smiles like a man who has suffered countless grievances. A crying child.
Chengde took a deep breath pretending to be relaxed, and he asked, "What about you, what's going on?"
The situation of Guodong and the others is obviously different from theirs.
Li Zhuofeng looked at Guodong and the others hesitantly, wondering if he should tell about the possibility of them getting out alive.
Yang Qi went back to them dead, and it was impossible to go back forever.But they are still alive, as long as this dungeon is solved, they can go back alive.
This alone is already a kind of cruelty to Yang Qi and them, even if it is not caused by them.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin hesitated, but Guodong nodded.
Li Zhuofeng looked at Guodong a little more in surprise, and he also noticed the difference in Guodong.
Taking a deep breath, if Dong signaled, Li Zhuofeng didn't hide anything, and told everything about the dungeon and the attached spirit.
After listening to Li Zhuofeng's words, Cheng De, Yang Qihui and Chu Xi who came out of the tent were all surprised.
"That means you can still go back..." Yang Qi was surprised.
"Yes."
Yang Qi moved his lips back, and after a while, he came back to his senses, he was a little excited, "Then, can you give me a message for—"
Halfway through the speech, Yang Qi swallowed the words again.
Yang Qi smiled wryly, "Forget it, it will definitely scare them, it's been ten years..."
Hearing Yang Qi's reply, Xia Chan, who hid in the tent crying, became more and more uncontrollable, and could faintly hear crying from outside.
Ten years, her daughter is now fourteen, and she may have already forgotten what she looks like.
Chu Xi didn't go in to comfort her, and was going to let her cry enough.
This kind of thing can't be comforted at all.
Yang Qihui and Chengde were silent amidst the suppressed crying, both of them lowered their heads and didn't speak any more.
Chu Xi's eyes were also red, but she was far stronger than the other three. She sniffed and said, "I'm going to pick up some firewood. If I don't go later, it will be dark. Since I can't go down the mountain..."
Chu Xi couldn't say what she said next, she took the rope next to the tent, and walked towards the woods beside her.
Yang Qi rubbed his face back, then got up, "I'll go too."
Cheng De also stood up.
Guodong and the others didn't stop them, nor did they bother them.
After they all left, the four got together.
"Is there really a god in this world?" Lan Haoyi still finds it difficult to accept it. The organization they belong to has been established for hundreds of years, and no one has ever seen a "god" so far.
The same is true for Li Zhuofeng and Jiajin, both of them were surprised and complicated.
"The problem now is how to solve this dungeon. If there are really gods in this mountain, then this mirror is most likely not a spirit possessed by those things." Guodong said what he had seen before.
"You mean..." Li Zhuofeng looked at the mirror in Guodong's hand.
"This mirror should be the artifact that the mountain god used to 'seal' those refugees." Guodong looked at the mirror again and again.
There is a large space inside the mirror, and there are many black things in the space, and everything matches.
"Would the spirit being be in the mirror?" Lan Haoyi looked at the mirror.
"Chen Ran is also inside." Guo Dong said.
If the spirits were inside, then Chen Ran must have already destroyed all the spirits.
Although Chen Ran didn't know the situation outside, he was very smart and perceptive. He must have deduced something that they didn't know, and he would not sit still.
"So the possessed spirit is not in the mirror, the mirror should only lock those refugees..." Lan Haoyi frowned.
"In this case, our goal remains the same, to find the possessed creature, and then destroy the possessed creature." Jian Jin said.
"It's easy to say, this mountain is so big..." Li Zhuofeng looked around, and just seeing the endless forest around him gave him a terrible headache.
They don't know what the spirits of those refugees are. Even if they know, such a large area, giving them five hundred people to conduct a blanket search here, is enough for them to search for a month.
"This happened hundreds of years ago, so it is not something that exists now, and there are more than one refugee, so it must not be a small thing." Guo Dong said.
After a pause, Guodong said again: "We can start with the mountain god."
"Mountain God?" The three were puzzled.
"This mirror should have been placed among the stones by the mountain god to seal the contents inside."
The eyes of Li Zhuofeng and the others lit up, indeed.
It is impossible for the mirror to be born among the rocks by itself. The only possibility is that the mirror was put in by the mountain god. As for the purpose, it can only be to seal the things inside the mirror.
"You say..." Li Zhuofeng leaned forward slightly, "Since this mountain really has a mountain god, then if we..."
The mountain god can seal those things, he must also know what the spirits of those things are, and he might be able to help them guide the way.
Li Zhuofeng felt that his idea was absurd, but he couldn't help being excited. He had never seen a god before, and that was a god.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin understood the meaning of Li Zhuofeng's words almost immediately, and they couldn't help but sit up straight.
The three looked at each other, eager to try.
Guodong looked at the three of them with black lines all over his head, with a slight disgust deep in his dark eyes, why did he suddenly feel that these three were not reliable?
With disgust in his eyes, when Guodong looked down at the mirror in his hand, he couldn't help but feel nostalgic and tender in his eyes.
As if aware of his changes, the rabbit who was placed on his knees secretly put his hand on his palm, facing his palm.
Guodong stroked its head.
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Guodong got up, ignoring the three people who were already interested in thinking about which posture to use to worship God more sincerely, "I'll go under the rock to have a look."
Li Zhuofeng and the others quickly followed.
Holding the rope, they came back to the edge of the cliff again. This time, the four felt less nervous and more curious.
"Let's go down and have a look first, we haven't seen the situation below yet." Gao Jin tied one side of the rope to the tree, and tied the other side around his waist.
Guo Dong didn't stop it.
After tying it up, Gao Jin followed Guodong's example and slid down slowly.
Guodong was going down very fast, and it looked easy, but when it was Jianjin's turn, Jinjin slipped and slipped several times, and his whole body stuck to the cliff, rubbing himself in mud.
After finally reaching the bottom of the rock, Jin Jin had to hold on to the rock, but fortunately he finally saw the situation below.
After approaching, Li Zhuofeng and Lan Haoyi also went down to have a look.
They had heard Guodong describe the situation below, but when they really saw the dent that almost perfectly matched the mirror, their eyes still showed surprise involuntarily.
After Guodong also went down to read it again, several people gathered together to discuss the next thing.
"This stone split and slid out of the mountain because of a landslide. We have to find the other half." Lan Haoyi said, while speaking, he looked up at the mountain behind him, "It seems that we have to look up."
On the left of them is the downward cliff, and on the right is the collapsed mountain in the woods.
It has been many years since this landslide, and many trees have grown on the flat land, and they are now in this forest.
Several people walked through the narrow woods and came to the mountain that was landslide inside.
At the bottom of the cliff was a rock protruding outwards, which was not the one they were looking for.
Further up the rock was an almost straight cliff, and the rock they were looking for should be on this cliff.
Li Zhuofeng tried to climb up, but couldn't go up at all, the steepness here was steeper than the cliff next to it.
"I have to find a way to go up the mountain, and then drop the rope down from the mountain." Gao Jin looked up while speaking, and saw the almost endless cliff, which gave him a headache. This is a big project.
On the way back, several people were discussing what to do along the way. They had ropes, but the length of the rope was not enough for four people to go up.
"It's no wonder that the people in this mountain want to move out. This kind of place is really not for ordinary people to live in." Jia Jin sighed.
Most of the mountain is covered by forest vegetation. At first glance, it is surrounded by lush greenery, but under the forest vegetation, there are countless steep slopes that are caught off guard.
This kind of terrain is too dangerous, even for people who live in the mountains all year round, it is difficult to avoid accidents.
In times of war, such deep mountains and wild forests may indeed be able to create a paradise, but in times of peace, such places are really difficult to live in.
Hearing the approaching words, Guodong looked around the surrounding mountains and forests.
It's not unreasonable to approach, but it can't help but make people feel lonely, especially for the mountain god who guards this mountain forest.
The mountain god was born because of people's kindness and belief, and he loves those who created him in the mountain.Now, all the people he likes abandon him and leave, and they will never come back again...
Guodong touched the mirror hidden in his arms, his eyes dimmed, and he suddenly realized that the time of human beings is different from that of gods and ghosts.
Even if he can take Chen Ran out safely this time, Chen Ran's time will be shorter than him after all. Chen Ran will always grow old and die.
Even if they don't think about such a long-term thing and just look at the present, they can't go on like this forever.
It is impossible for him to be guarding the warehouse all the time, and it is impossible for Chen Ran to keep taking him into the dungeon.
Especially Chen Ran, Chen Ran has his own goals, he entered the dungeon to find his parents, Brother Sun Wu's family, and to find out about the knife.
If he can't find it and can't figure it out, he will probably keep looking for it, but what if he finds it and figure it out one day?After that?
"Guodong?" Li Zhuofeng noticed the disappointment on Guodong's face.
Guodong raised his eyes, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked over.
"What?" Gao Jin looked at Guodong.
Guodong Yaoyao head.
Thinking that one day he might not continue to guard the warehouse door, Chen Ran would not continue to take him into the dungeon, and they might never see each other again, he felt a heavy emptiness in his heart.
Not because they can't get wages and overtime pay, but because they can't maintain the present.
Thinking that this day might come soon, the uncomfortable feeling in Guodong's heart became stronger.
"Tired? Have a good rest today, and we'll figure out a way tomorrow." Lan Haoyi said.
When they returned to the camp, Yang Qihui, Chu Xi, and Cheng De had already returned, and there was an extra pile of firewood beside the campfire.
Yang Qihui and Cheng De took the small climbing shovel and stood around Zhang Mei's human skin, looking embarrassed.
Seeing Guodong and the others come back, the two quickly looked over, "We want to bury it..."
The two looked at Guodong and the others hesitantly, they didn't dare to touch the human skin.
"I'll help." Li Zhuofeng walked over.
Li Zhuofeng was also terrified of that thing, but after all, he saw them more than Yang Qi, and if they didn't deal with it, they would have to sleep and eat around it tonight.
With Li Zhuofeng's help, Yang Qihui and Cheng De hurried over with a sleeping bag.
The three put Zhang Mei's skin in a sleeping bag, carried it away from the camp, dug a hole and buried it.After burying the human skin, the three of them were also buried in the pool of blood next to the camp.
By the time this was done, the sun was already hanging on the side of the mountain.
Chuxi lit a bonfire and set up a boiler in front of the fire.
When You Long and the others left, they almost threw away all their equipment, including a lot of rice and dehydrated vegetables, which made them cheaper.
The aroma of the food quickly spread in the air, making everyone who was tired all day couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Under the light of the fire, a group of people sat around the fire just like last night.
"Want some water?" Chu Xi asked.
Looking at the crowd that was less than half the number of people last night, Chu Xi had a bit of sadness on her face, but she didn't show it. She smiled firmly and filled hot water and handed it to everyone.
The temperature was low at night, and everyone wearing thick clothes felt refreshed after drinking a cup of hot water.
"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Chu Xi asked.
Li Zhuofeng, Gao Jin, and Lan Haoyi looked at each other, and told them about their next plan.
"That's it..." Chu Xi looked at Yang Qi and returned to the three of them.
"We're going to help too." Yang Qi replied.
Cheng De and Xia Chan nodded and agreed.
Li Zhuofeng and the others looked at each other, slightly surprised.
There are only four of them left now, even if Chen Ran is included, there are only five.
It was very difficult for five people to check the cliffs of Banbian Mountain, but even so, they never thought about asking Yang Qi to return to help.
Yang Qi told them that the situation was too special, and he had just experienced such a thing, so no one knew what he would do.
Seeing the concerns of Guodong and the others, Chu Xi smiled, "There are quite a lot of ropes left now, it happens that you two teams and our two teams, two people go down and two people watch from above, each searching a certain range, it will be faster .”
Listening to Chu Xi's words, the faces of Li Zhuofeng and the three who were still on guard all burned.
They have seen too many selfish people in the copy, so that they are almost used to this kind of ubiquitous malice, habit of suspicion and vigilance.
After dinner, everyone went to bed early.They didn't sleep well last night. If they don't sleep well today, they won't be able to go up the mountain tomorrow.
When arranging the vigil, Guodong rejected Li Zhuofeng and the others' proposal to let him rest, and insisted on keeping the vigil for the first half of the night.
Watching the night with him was Xia Chan who was in Yang Qi's team. Xia Chan was not a talkative person. After the others fell asleep, the two of them only exchanged a few words and then stopped talking.
After the first half of the night, when it was time for the shift, Guodong woke up Lan Haoyi and Lan Haoyi returned to the tent where he was the only one left after the shift.
Taking it alone, Guodong finally had a chance to check his body.
He had noticed before that his human skin seemed to be broken by him.
It wasn't the wounds on his neck and back, but the seal, the seal he used to seal his ability and malice, seemed to be broken by him.
Sitting cross-legged in the tent, he tried to mobilize Yin Qi, and as soon as he thought about it, countless icy breaths condensed around him. Even if he deliberately suppressed it, the force that kept gushing out was much stronger than before.
What gushed out of the crack together was not only strength, but also malice mixed with negative emotions such as despair, madness, and anger. The extremely turbid emotions made his brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes were no longer clear.
Faced with this, Guodong had a bitter face.
His skin hasn't been repaired yet, and now it's healed, but the seal is broken again.
Just when Guodong was annoyed, the rabbit he put aside dragged the mirror out of his arms.
It was sitting in the tent, holding a mirror that was almost as tall as it was sitting on and studying seriously, trying to find a way to help Guodong and get Chen Ran out.
It doesn't want Guodong to be unhappy.
After researching for a long time, he couldn't find the switch. It got up, raised the mirror above its head with both hands, and shook it unsteadily, trying to shake Chen Ran out.
After shaking for a long time without shaking, it frowned, its stitched mouth collapsed, opened its mouth, and took a mouthful facing the edge of the mirror.
When Guodong found out, the rabbit had already bitten two clear teeth marks on the mirror.
After being caught, the rabbit looked up at Guodong innocently, wanting to help.
Guodong touched the tooth marks, put the mirror under his nose and sniffed it, and made sure that Chen Ran was still alive. He stuffed the mirror into his arms and hid the rabbit in his arms. "Sleep."
"Ah, I really don't know, please..." Bai Yaoyao's whole body convulsed, and the feeling of her skin being burned was excruciatingly painful.
She rolled and struggled on the ground, trying to break free from Guodong's confinement, but no matter how hard she struggled, she still couldn't escape. These, coupled with the fear in her heart, made her completely lose her mind.
"sorry Sorry……"
Looking at Bai Yaoyao like that, Guodong didn't feel distressed, but instead felt irritable and displeased. If he had known this, why would he steal his mirror in the first place?
He was murderous.
He squeezed the kitchen knife in his hand tightly, and stepped on Bai Yaoyao more forcefully.
As he became more and more angry, the ends of Bai Yaoyao's hands and feet were burned by the yin energy until she could see the bones. From the fierce struggle at the beginning to the inability to breathe and move afterwards——
As death approached little by little, Bai Yaoyao's pupils, which were constricted by fright, dilated.
Guodong suddenly raised his head and looked to one side.
Chen Ran's breath came faintly from there.
The breath was so weak that it was blown away by the Yin Qi gathered around him because of his anger, which made him almost miss it and made him unable to catch it.
Guodong suppressed his anger, he closed his eyes to feel it.
The Yin Qi sweeping around stopped abruptly, and the world returned to stillness.
The canopy that blocks the sky, with a touch of rancid soil, soft fallen leaves...
At the other end of the forest, in the middle of the slope next to their camp, under the big rock before...
Guodong suddenly opened his eyes, Ruruo Hantan's black eyes burst out with surprise and doubt, he found the mirror and Chen Ran, but why did Chen Ran run back under the rock?
Knowing where Chen Ran was, the stone hanging in Guodong's heart finally fell, and he couldn't wait to turn around and head towards the camp.
No longer being suppressed, Bai Yaoyao, who was almost out of breath, panted heavily. When she noticed Guodong's departure, her eyes burst into ecstasy, "Ahem..."
However, before she could pull the face that had been burnt until the subcutaneous muscle was exposed and smiled, her curled up and broken body suddenly burst into flames.
She screamed and struggled, but everything she did was in vain, her body was shrouded in black flames, and turned into a handful of dust in just a moment.
This is not the end.
Her bewildered and painful soul had just recovered when she was once again shrouded in black flames, screaming pitifully, until she completely dissipated into the air, and everything was completely over.
She shouldn't have stolen his mirror, Chen Ran obviously belonged to him.
Guo Dong left without looking back, he quickly walked towards the cliff with Chen Ran's aura.
The woods in the mountains are not as good as the flat land, and the distance in a straight line may not be the shortest.When Guodong followed the smell all the way to find it, he somehow got around to the bottom of the cliff.
The cliff was very steep, and although there were many weeds and shrubs on it, it was almost impossible to climb up it with bare hands.Guodong hesitated for a while, and had no choice but to walk around the cliff obediently, looking for a way up.
When he returned to the camp, he just approached the camp, and before he had time to speak, Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi had already rushed over with hasty expressions on their faces.
"Guo Dong!"
"Where did you go, I thought something happened to you!"
"It scared us to death, we searched everywhere but couldn't find you..."
Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi spoke to each other with anxiety and joy in their tone.
After Guo Dong chased You Long and the others and ran out, the two immediately chased after them.
Lan Haoyi's legs and feet are not good, and he is becoming more and more unable to run in this kind of mountain.
Gao Jin ran fast, chasing Xu Yuan in one breath, but his speed was far behind Guo Dong, and Guo Dong disappeared within a short distance after he chased him.
After losing Guodong, the two had no choice but to search for it along the way down the mountain.
After finding a way and finding traces of running and dripping blood among the woods, both of them couldn't help becoming nervous.
If something happened to Guodong, Chen Ran would definitely kill them directly.
They hurriedly followed the trace all the way, and after walking not far, they smelled a thick and suffocating Yin Qi in the air.
They didn't know what happened, but the traces stretched all the way to the center of the storm, and the two had to take out their weapons and walk in bravely.
The storm rose suddenly and then stopped abruptly, leaving the two at a loss.
Without the Yin Qi that was so thick that it was almost impossible to move, the speed of the two of them accelerated.
But following the traces all the way, they did not find Guodong at the end of the traces. Instead, they saw Qi Gu and Gao Yun who seemed to have been burned by fire, two blood corpses, and a burnt corpse beside them. Human traces.
The moment they saw the burned figure, both of them panicked.
On the way back, the two comforted each other that the person might not be Guodong, but until now when they saw Guodong, the two of them finally put their hearts back into their stomachs.
"Did you find the mirror?" Gao Jin asked, after seeing Gao Yun and Qi Gu, they also searched around them, but they couldn't find the mirror.
Being reminded, Guodong hurried over the two of them and walked towards the camp. He took the rope put aside and quickly walked towards the cliff.
"Guodong?" Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi hurriedly followed.
Seeing this, Chu Xi and Xia Chan hesitated for a moment and followed.
When he came to the edge of the cliff, Guodong skillfully tied one end of the rope to the tree and the other to his waist. He grabbed the rope and slid down as fast as before.
With the previous experience, this time he was faster, but he came to the edge of the rock in a short time.
It was already after noon, more than two o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun that climbed overhead brought the scorching heat unique to the beginning of summer, baking the rocks exposed to the sun into steam.As soon as he got close, Guodong felt the heat.
After Guodong slid down to a position parallel to the rock, he stepped on the edge of the rock and jumped out to the side. At the same time, he quickly lowered the rope to slide himself under the rock.
Under the rock, in a dark corner where the sun cannot shine, the place where the mirror was placed before has now been filled again, and the mirror that he took away before has returned to its original position.
There was a faint smell of rust in the air, which was the smell of blood, and under this smell was a faint yin energy, which was the smell of the ghost in the knife that Chen Ran carried with him.
Chen Ran in the mirror used the yin energy in the knife.
Guodong reached out to get the mirror.
The moment his fingertips touched the mirror, the slightly cold mirror trembled slightly, as if unwilling to be taken away by him.
Guodong ignored the subtle resistance and pulled out the mirror.He turned it over and looked at it, the mirror was still the same as before, except for the change of Chen Ran's breath inside, there was no difference.
"Guodong?" Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi, who were waiting above the cliff, saw that Guodong hadn't moved for a long time, and thought that Guodong had disappeared like Chen Ran, and their hearts arose.
Guodong put his mind back and revealed his head from under the rock.
Gao Jin and Lan Haoyi at the top quickly pulled the rope and pulled Guodong up.
"You run down—" Lan Haoyi was just about to ask Guodong why he went down again, when he noticed that Guodong had an extra mirror in his hand.
"Huh?" Jia Jin also noticed.
"It ran back by itself." Guo Dong said.
"Run back by yourself?" Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked at each other.
Chu Xi and Xia Chan who followed were also surprised, but their faces were more fearful and alert.
Guodong didn't explain, because even he didn't know why.
After finding the mirror again, Guo Dong Gao let go of his hanging heart. He put the mirror into his arms seriously, and finally patted his stomach to hide the mirror.
Just as Gao Jin was about to say something, there was a burst of voices from the camp. Yang Qi returned to them and saw that the camp was empty, and there was another pool of blood and human skin on the ground, shouting.
"Captain!" Chu Xi and Xia Chan hurried to the camp.
Guodong and the others followed closely behind.
Back at the camp, seeing Li Zhuofeng, Yang Qihui, and Chengde in distress, Chu Xi and Xia Chan exclaimed, and Guodong raised his eyebrows.
"What happened?" Lan Haoyi asked Li Zhuofeng.
Among the three, Li Zhuofeng was in the worst condition.
Most of his body was stained red with blood, and there were obvious scars on his neck and arms. It looked like he had a hard fight with someone.
"Where's Guangxuan?" Xia Chan asked.
Yang Qi recalled that there were four of them when they left, but now only three of them have returned, and Guangxuan has not returned.
"Don't mention it..." As soon as Guangxuan was mentioned, Chengde, the tallest of them all, changed his face, as if he had just experienced something extremely terrifying.
Lan Haoyi looked at Li Zhuofeng.
"When we were approaching the top of the mountain, Guangxuan suddenly attacked us. Strictly speaking, it wasn't Guangxuan anymore, he was just wearing Guangxuan's skin." Li Zhuofeng lifted his clothes to let everyone see the teeth marks and fingers on his body Yin, if it wasn't for his quick response, the skin on his body would have been skinned alive by Guangxuan.
Chu Xi gasped.
Yang Qi, who was also injured all over his body, returned a wry smile, and found a place to sit down, "Now that I think about it, the person we put down last night should be Guangxuan. It was the same, except for our own people, who would believe me..."
At that time, no one wanted to go down after getting ready, and the atmosphere fell into embarrassment for a while.In the end, Guangxuan took the initiative to stand up, and they were able to release him smoothly.
Self-blame appeared on Yang Qi's face, if it wasn't for him, Guangxuan might not have gone down, if it wasn't for this, Guangxuan might not have died.
"team leader……"
"Don't think so."
Chuxi and Chengde appease.
"The matter has come to this point, it's useless to think about it, the most urgent thing now is what to do next?" Jiao Jin said.
Yang Qi nodded back, rubbed his face vigorously, stood up, "We didn't get through the phone."
Cheng De and Li Zhuofeng, who followed up together, already knew that Chu Xi and Xia Chan were not too surprised. After what happened last night and what happened to Guangxuan, there was nothing to surprise them now.
Guodong and the others had already guessed that this would be the ending. The reason why they didn't stop and let Li Zhuofeng follow was mainly because they wanted to see if Yang Qi returned the mirror they had picked up during this journey, but they didn't expect it to be They got the mirror here first.
"What is this?" Li Zhuofeng had already noticed the pool of blood and human skin beside the fire.
"Zhang Mei, she is the same as Guangxuan..." Gao Jin briefly explained what happened before.
Hearing that so many things happened in the camp after they left, Li Zhuofeng and the three of them were all surprised.
A group of people looked at Guodong one after another, and Guodong reluctantly took out the mirror from under his clothes for everyone to see.
Yang Qi reached out to grab it, but Guodong took the mirror back before he touched it, and only showed it, not touched it.
Yang Qi replied funny, "Chen Ran is inside?"
Guodong nodded, and quickly hid the mirror in his arms.
"Have you seen this mirror?" Lan Haoyi asked Yang Qihui and Chengde, Guodong had already asked once before, but Yang Qihui and Chengde were not there at that time.
Cheng De shook his head almost immediately, "No, I rarely come into contact with such things."
That mirror looked like an antique.
"Me too." Yang Qi shook his head back.
All four of Guodong were disappointed.
"However, I remembered something about this mountain." Yang Qi replied.
Guodong looked over.
The same is true for Lan Haoyi and the others.
"This mountain is said to be a spiritual mountain. People worshiped it a long, long time ago. It seems that there is some kind of festival." Yang Qi replied.
Lan Haoyi was disappointed, they already knew this, "The Yinshan Festival used to be held at the beginning of June every year to sacrifice livestock to the mountain gods in the mountains, in order to pray that the mountain gods would not attack the villagers."
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Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, "Is that so?"
Yang Qi replied and said: "That's not what I heard. I heard that there was a mountain god in this mountain, who had always protected the nearby villagers. Later, there was a war outside, and many refugees who fled came into the mountain. Those refugees saw The mountain is not affected by the outside world at all, it is like a paradise, so I have a murderous intention, I want to kill all the people in the mountain, and then the birds will occupy the dove's nest."
"After a fierce battle, the villagers who have been training up and down the mountain all year round finally won the victory, drove all the refugees away and defended their homes."
"But the living people are gone, and the refugees who died in the mountains are not willing to die. They were originally destroyed and displaced because of the war, so they turned into ghosts and frequently made troubles."
"After that, people disappeared from time to time in the mountains. After the disappearance, people in the village searched the whole mountain and couldn't find anyone, but after a while, those missing people would appear out of thin air."
"It's just that the person who reappeared is no longer the original person, but the ghost of those dead refugees who came back with the skins of the villagers. After death, those refugees still want to occupy the dove's nest."
"The people in the mountains couldn't bear the fact that their relatives were skinned and returned with skins on, so they prayed to the mountain gods to bless them so that the refugees could no longer do harm to them."
"It seemed that the mountain god did something later, so that this situation never happened again, but at the same time, the people in the mountain must also offer tribute to the dead refugees every year to calm their anger."
"Many members of the mountaineering team chose this mountain to climb because they heard about it. There is even a saying in the mountaineering world that after reaching the top of the mountain, as long as you pray sincerely without distracting thoughts, the mountain god can hear you statement of wishes."
Hearing Yang Qi's reply, Guodong and the others were taken aback, which was completely different from what they had heard before.
The three of Li Zhuofeng saw surprise and complexity in each other's eyes.
Judging from the current situation, what Yang Qi said is obviously more suitable for the situation than what Lan Haoyi investigated before. They disappeared and reappeared after being approved, which is completely consistent with their current situation.
But if this is the case, doesn't that mean that there is a mountain god in this mountain?
god?
If someone told them that there are ghosts in this mountain, they wouldn't be too surprised, but God...
"It would be great if there is a god in this mountain." Cheng De obviously didn't believe it either.
If there were gods in this mountain, then they wouldn't have encountered so many horrible things.
"I also heard it from other mountaineering teams. It is said that the people who originally lived in this mountain have already made fortunes because of the blessing of the mountain god, so they all moved from the mountain to the city. They were the first batch of people who entered the city back then. .It is also because of this that there are no people in the mountains, so there is no one to worship..."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Because I believe in worship, I get blessings, because I get blessings, I get rich, because I get rich, I move away from here, and then I don’t believe in it anymore.
It does seem like something a human being would do.
"Is there anything else besides these? Is there any explanation about what the mountain god has done?" Guodong asked.
He didn't know when he took out the mirror hidden in his bosom again, he felt that he probably figured out what was going on, the problem now was how to get Chen Ran out of the mirror, and then how to get rid of the copy.
This mirror is probably not a spirit possessed by those things.
Yang Qi shook his head back, "I just listened to it as a story, I never believed it before."
After Yang Qi replied, there was a short silence in the camp, and a group of people were thinking about each other with strange expressions.
Li Zhuofeng and the others were still surprised about the mountain god, but Yang Qi and the others were thinking about something else.
"Who are you guys?" Yang Qi asked back.
After asking the words, he smiled wryly and said, "We have really..."
If what You Long told them is true, then the five of them have been dead for ten years.
In their memory, in their impression, they had just left home and climbed this mountain, and the memory of yesterday and the day before yesterday still clearly appeared in their minds. They couldn't accept that they had been dead for more than ten years. thing.
Hearing Yang Qi mention this, the faces of Chu Xi and the others were also pale.
They didn't have to believe it before, but after what happened with Zhang Mei, Guangxuan and the mirror, they had no choice but to believe it.
Li Zhuofeng smiled wryly and nodded.
Yang Qi was dumbfounded.
Xia Chan couldn't hold back, she whimpered, turned and entered the tent.
Seeing this, Chu Xi quickly followed her in to comfort her.
Yang Qi looked back and explained with a wry smile, "She didn't plan to come this time. She also has a four-year-old daughter who was born in poor health, so she has been taking care of her at home. It was not easy to find the time..."
Halfway through Yang Qi's reply, his voice choked up and he couldn't continue. Everyone of them has a home.
When they entered the mountain the day before yesterday, they had agreed with their family members to go back the day after tomorrow, but today they were told that they would never go back again.
"Sorry..." Yang Qi wiped his face back, and walked aside with red eyes.
Sitting by the fire, Chengde raised the corners of his mouth and smiled awkwardly at Guodong and the others. He probably wanted to appease Guodong and the others, but he didn't know how ugly his smile was.
Chengde looks ordinary, the only thing worth remembering about him is that he is half a head taller than ordinary people, but this is such a man in his 30s who is about to forty, but he smiles like a man who has suffered countless grievances. A crying child.
Chengde took a deep breath pretending to be relaxed, and he asked, "What about you, what's going on?"
The situation of Guodong and the others is obviously different from theirs.
Li Zhuofeng looked at Guodong and the others hesitantly, wondering if he should tell about the possibility of them getting out alive.
Yang Qi went back to them dead, and it was impossible to go back forever.But they are still alive, as long as this dungeon is solved, they can go back alive.
This alone is already a kind of cruelty to Yang Qi and them, even if it is not caused by them.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin hesitated, but Guodong nodded.
Li Zhuofeng looked at Guodong a little more in surprise, and he also noticed the difference in Guodong.
Taking a deep breath, if Dong signaled, Li Zhuofeng didn't hide anything, and told everything about the dungeon and the attached spirit.
After listening to Li Zhuofeng's words, Cheng De, Yang Qihui and Chu Xi who came out of the tent were all surprised.
"That means you can still go back..." Yang Qi was surprised.
"Yes."
Yang Qi moved his lips back, and after a while, he came back to his senses, he was a little excited, "Then, can you give me a message for—"
Halfway through the speech, Yang Qi swallowed the words again.
Yang Qi smiled wryly, "Forget it, it will definitely scare them, it's been ten years..."
Hearing Yang Qi's reply, Xia Chan, who hid in the tent crying, became more and more uncontrollable, and could faintly hear crying from outside.
Ten years, her daughter is now fourteen, and she may have already forgotten what she looks like.
Chu Xi didn't go in to comfort her, and was going to let her cry enough.
This kind of thing can't be comforted at all.
Yang Qihui and Chengde were silent amidst the suppressed crying, both of them lowered their heads and didn't speak any more.
Chu Xi's eyes were also red, but she was far stronger than the other three. She sniffed and said, "I'm going to pick up some firewood. If I don't go later, it will be dark. Since I can't go down the mountain..."
Chu Xi couldn't say what she said next, she took the rope next to the tent, and walked towards the woods beside her.
Yang Qi rubbed his face back, then got up, "I'll go too."
Cheng De also stood up.
Guodong and the others didn't stop them, nor did they bother them.
After they all left, the four got together.
"Is there really a god in this world?" Lan Haoyi still finds it difficult to accept it. The organization they belong to has been established for hundreds of years, and no one has ever seen a "god" so far.
The same is true for Li Zhuofeng and Jiajin, both of them were surprised and complicated.
"The problem now is how to solve this dungeon. If there are really gods in this mountain, then this mirror is most likely not a spirit possessed by those things." Guodong said what he had seen before.
"You mean..." Li Zhuofeng looked at the mirror in Guodong's hand.
"This mirror should be the artifact that the mountain god used to 'seal' those refugees." Guodong looked at the mirror again and again.
There is a large space inside the mirror, and there are many black things in the space, and everything matches.
"Would the spirit being be in the mirror?" Lan Haoyi looked at the mirror.
"Chen Ran is also inside." Guo Dong said.
If the spirits were inside, then Chen Ran must have already destroyed all the spirits.
Although Chen Ran didn't know the situation outside, he was very smart and perceptive. He must have deduced something that they didn't know, and he would not sit still.
"So the possessed spirit is not in the mirror, the mirror should only lock those refugees..." Lan Haoyi frowned.
"In this case, our goal remains the same, to find the possessed creature, and then destroy the possessed creature." Jian Jin said.
"It's easy to say, this mountain is so big..." Li Zhuofeng looked around, and just seeing the endless forest around him gave him a terrible headache.
They don't know what the spirits of those refugees are. Even if they know, such a large area, giving them five hundred people to conduct a blanket search here, is enough for them to search for a month.
"This happened hundreds of years ago, so it is not something that exists now, and there are more than one refugee, so it must not be a small thing." Guo Dong said.
After a pause, Guodong said again: "We can start with the mountain god."
"Mountain God?" The three were puzzled.
"This mirror should have been placed among the stones by the mountain god to seal the contents inside."
The eyes of Li Zhuofeng and the others lit up, indeed.
It is impossible for the mirror to be born among the rocks by itself. The only possibility is that the mirror was put in by the mountain god. As for the purpose, it can only be to seal the things inside the mirror.
"You say..." Li Zhuofeng leaned forward slightly, "Since this mountain really has a mountain god, then if we..."
The mountain god can seal those things, he must also know what the spirits of those things are, and he might be able to help them guide the way.
Li Zhuofeng felt that his idea was absurd, but he couldn't help being excited. He had never seen a god before, and that was a god.
Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin understood the meaning of Li Zhuofeng's words almost immediately, and they couldn't help but sit up straight.
The three looked at each other, eager to try.
Guodong looked at the three of them with black lines all over his head, with a slight disgust deep in his dark eyes, why did he suddenly feel that these three were not reliable?
With disgust in his eyes, when Guodong looked down at the mirror in his hand, he couldn't help but feel nostalgic and tender in his eyes.
As if aware of his changes, the rabbit who was placed on his knees secretly put his hand on his palm, facing his palm.
Guodong stroked its head.
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Guodong got up, ignoring the three people who were already interested in thinking about which posture to use to worship God more sincerely, "I'll go under the rock to have a look."
Li Zhuofeng and the others quickly followed.
Holding the rope, they came back to the edge of the cliff again. This time, the four felt less nervous and more curious.
"Let's go down and have a look first, we haven't seen the situation below yet." Gao Jin tied one side of the rope to the tree, and tied the other side around his waist.
Guo Dong didn't stop it.
After tying it up, Gao Jin followed Guodong's example and slid down slowly.
Guodong was going down very fast, and it looked easy, but when it was Jianjin's turn, Jinjin slipped and slipped several times, and his whole body stuck to the cliff, rubbing himself in mud.
After finally reaching the bottom of the rock, Jin Jin had to hold on to the rock, but fortunately he finally saw the situation below.
After approaching, Li Zhuofeng and Lan Haoyi also went down to have a look.
They had heard Guodong describe the situation below, but when they really saw the dent that almost perfectly matched the mirror, their eyes still showed surprise involuntarily.
After Guodong also went down to read it again, several people gathered together to discuss the next thing.
"This stone split and slid out of the mountain because of a landslide. We have to find the other half." Lan Haoyi said, while speaking, he looked up at the mountain behind him, "It seems that we have to look up."
On the left of them is the downward cliff, and on the right is the collapsed mountain in the woods.
It has been many years since this landslide, and many trees have grown on the flat land, and they are now in this forest.
Several people walked through the narrow woods and came to the mountain that was landslide inside.
At the bottom of the cliff was a rock protruding outwards, which was not the one they were looking for.
Further up the rock was an almost straight cliff, and the rock they were looking for should be on this cliff.
Li Zhuofeng tried to climb up, but couldn't go up at all, the steepness here was steeper than the cliff next to it.
"I have to find a way to go up the mountain, and then drop the rope down from the mountain." Gao Jin looked up while speaking, and saw the almost endless cliff, which gave him a headache. This is a big project.
On the way back, several people were discussing what to do along the way. They had ropes, but the length of the rope was not enough for four people to go up.
"It's no wonder that the people in this mountain want to move out. This kind of place is really not for ordinary people to live in." Jia Jin sighed.
Most of the mountain is covered by forest vegetation. At first glance, it is surrounded by lush greenery, but under the forest vegetation, there are countless steep slopes that are caught off guard.
This kind of terrain is too dangerous, even for people who live in the mountains all year round, it is difficult to avoid accidents.
In times of war, such deep mountains and wild forests may indeed be able to create a paradise, but in times of peace, such places are really difficult to live in.
Hearing the approaching words, Guodong looked around the surrounding mountains and forests.
It's not unreasonable to approach, but it can't help but make people feel lonely, especially for the mountain god who guards this mountain forest.
The mountain god was born because of people's kindness and belief, and he loves those who created him in the mountain.Now, all the people he likes abandon him and leave, and they will never come back again...
Guodong touched the mirror hidden in his arms, his eyes dimmed, and he suddenly realized that the time of human beings is different from that of gods and ghosts.
Even if he can take Chen Ran out safely this time, Chen Ran's time will be shorter than him after all. Chen Ran will always grow old and die.
Even if they don't think about such a long-term thing and just look at the present, they can't go on like this forever.
It is impossible for him to be guarding the warehouse all the time, and it is impossible for Chen Ran to keep taking him into the dungeon.
Especially Chen Ran, Chen Ran has his own goals, he entered the dungeon to find his parents, Brother Sun Wu's family, and to find out about the knife.
If he can't find it and can't figure it out, he will probably keep looking for it, but what if he finds it and figure it out one day?After that?
"Guodong?" Li Zhuofeng noticed the disappointment on Guodong's face.
Guodong raised his eyes, Lan Haoyi and Gao Jin looked over.
"What?" Gao Jin looked at Guodong.
Guodong Yaoyao head.
Thinking that one day he might not continue to guard the warehouse door, Chen Ran would not continue to take him into the dungeon, and they might never see each other again, he felt a heavy emptiness in his heart.
Not because they can't get wages and overtime pay, but because they can't maintain the present.
Thinking that this day might come soon, the uncomfortable feeling in Guodong's heart became stronger.
"Tired? Have a good rest today, and we'll figure out a way tomorrow." Lan Haoyi said.
When they returned to the camp, Yang Qihui, Chu Xi, and Cheng De had already returned, and there was an extra pile of firewood beside the campfire.
Yang Qihui and Cheng De took the small climbing shovel and stood around Zhang Mei's human skin, looking embarrassed.
Seeing Guodong and the others come back, the two quickly looked over, "We want to bury it..."
The two looked at Guodong and the others hesitantly, they didn't dare to touch the human skin.
"I'll help." Li Zhuofeng walked over.
Li Zhuofeng was also terrified of that thing, but after all, he saw them more than Yang Qi, and if they didn't deal with it, they would have to sleep and eat around it tonight.
With Li Zhuofeng's help, Yang Qihui and Cheng De hurried over with a sleeping bag.
The three put Zhang Mei's skin in a sleeping bag, carried it away from the camp, dug a hole and buried it.After burying the human skin, the three of them were also buried in the pool of blood next to the camp.
By the time this was done, the sun was already hanging on the side of the mountain.
Chuxi lit a bonfire and set up a boiler in front of the fire.
When You Long and the others left, they almost threw away all their equipment, including a lot of rice and dehydrated vegetables, which made them cheaper.
The aroma of the food quickly spread in the air, making everyone who was tired all day couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Under the light of the fire, a group of people sat around the fire just like last night.
"Want some water?" Chu Xi asked.
Looking at the crowd that was less than half the number of people last night, Chu Xi had a bit of sadness on her face, but she didn't show it. She smiled firmly and filled hot water and handed it to everyone.
The temperature was low at night, and everyone wearing thick clothes felt refreshed after drinking a cup of hot water.
"What are you going to do tomorrow?" Chu Xi asked.
Li Zhuofeng, Gao Jin, and Lan Haoyi looked at each other, and told them about their next plan.
"That's it..." Chu Xi looked at Yang Qi and returned to the three of them.
"We're going to help too." Yang Qi replied.
Cheng De and Xia Chan nodded and agreed.
Li Zhuofeng and the others looked at each other, slightly surprised.
There are only four of them left now, even if Chen Ran is included, there are only five.
It was very difficult for five people to check the cliffs of Banbian Mountain, but even so, they never thought about asking Yang Qi to return to help.
Yang Qi told them that the situation was too special, and he had just experienced such a thing, so no one knew what he would do.
Seeing the concerns of Guodong and the others, Chu Xi smiled, "There are quite a lot of ropes left now, it happens that you two teams and our two teams, two people go down and two people watch from above, each searching a certain range, it will be faster .”
Listening to Chu Xi's words, the faces of Li Zhuofeng and the three who were still on guard all burned.
They have seen too many selfish people in the copy, so that they are almost used to this kind of ubiquitous malice, habit of suspicion and vigilance.
After dinner, everyone went to bed early.They didn't sleep well last night. If they don't sleep well today, they won't be able to go up the mountain tomorrow.
When arranging the vigil, Guodong rejected Li Zhuofeng and the others' proposal to let him rest, and insisted on keeping the vigil for the first half of the night.
Watching the night with him was Xia Chan who was in Yang Qi's team. Xia Chan was not a talkative person. After the others fell asleep, the two of them only exchanged a few words and then stopped talking.
After the first half of the night, when it was time for the shift, Guodong woke up Lan Haoyi and Lan Haoyi returned to the tent where he was the only one left after the shift.
Taking it alone, Guodong finally had a chance to check his body.
He had noticed before that his human skin seemed to be broken by him.
It wasn't the wounds on his neck and back, but the seal, the seal he used to seal his ability and malice, seemed to be broken by him.
Sitting cross-legged in the tent, he tried to mobilize Yin Qi, and as soon as he thought about it, countless icy breaths condensed around him. Even if he deliberately suppressed it, the force that kept gushing out was much stronger than before.
What gushed out of the crack together was not only strength, but also malice mixed with negative emotions such as despair, madness, and anger. The extremely turbid emotions made his brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes were no longer clear.
Faced with this, Guodong had a bitter face.
His skin hasn't been repaired yet, and now it's healed, but the seal is broken again.
Just when Guodong was annoyed, the rabbit he put aside dragged the mirror out of his arms.
It was sitting in the tent, holding a mirror that was almost as tall as it was sitting on and studying seriously, trying to find a way to help Guodong and get Chen Ran out.
It doesn't want Guodong to be unhappy.
After researching for a long time, he couldn't find the switch. It got up, raised the mirror above its head with both hands, and shook it unsteadily, trying to shake Chen Ran out.
After shaking for a long time without shaking, it frowned, its stitched mouth collapsed, opened its mouth, and took a mouthful facing the edge of the mirror.
When Guodong found out, the rabbit had already bitten two clear teeth marks on the mirror.
After being caught, the rabbit looked up at Guodong innocently, wanting to help.
Guodong touched the tooth marks, put the mirror under his nose and sniffed it, and made sure that Chen Ran was still alive. He stuffed the mirror into his arms and hid the rabbit in his arms. "Sleep."
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