Urban Oddities: Soul Contract

Chapter 26 Ghost Mountain Maze

For everyone, Xiaoqiang's approach has a very clear meaning.

He just used a stone and carved a number on the moss.

When he saw Chu Gan going towards Xiaoqiang, Huo Minghai was still in a daze, but suddenly, a terrifying thought flashed across, and Huo Minghai jumped up!

The big reaction of the two of them startled everyone. Big Mao pulled Huo Minghai and asked him what happened. Huo Minghai froze there unable to say a word, just staring in the direction of Moss in a daze.

Chu Gan brushed aside the weeds, only took a few glances, then nodded to Huo Minghai.

"Impossible...how could this be..."

When the flashlight shines on the numbers one by one and moves to the small hole under the numbers, Huo Minghai finally understands that an almost impossible thing has indeed happened.

They once found numbers at the bottom of a cliff. General Chu was wondering if there would be a mechanism, so he stabbed the mud under the numbers one by one with his sword. Now, that group of numbers and mud holes appeared before his eyes again. !

This cliff is actually the previous one!

After thinking about this, even more terrifying things were about to happen, Huo Minghai couldn't help but gasped!

Du Jiajun was still calm, pointing to the number and asked Xiaoqiang: "You wrote it all?"

Xiaoqiang nodded.

Du Jiajun looked at Yan Shi: "What do you mean?"

Yan Shi showed a wry smile: "It's written so clearly, what else can't be understood?"

In fact, the few numbers written by Xiaoqiang can be understood at a glance.

He is making a record.

Count how many times they reach the cliff!

"This is the fifth time you have come to this cliff?!" Huo Minghai was so shocked that his voice was out of tune.

There was silence in the camp, save for the thumping of food being cooked in pots.

After Xiaoqiang finished engraving the numbers, he ran back to the campfire and waited for dinner.

Yan Shi took a puff of cigarette, and said slowly: "To be exact, more than five times."

There was another silence, and General Chu's voice sounded: "Repeated several times, and found something was wrong, so I thought of engraving numbers as marks?"

"Yes." Yan drew a circle on the ground with a stone, "We're like going around in circles, and we're still going around this place."

"That's not right!" Chu Ganjiang drew an arrow on the circle with a stone, "You are going out of the mountain, we are going into the mountain, the direction is different, how could we meet?"

Yan Shi and the others came down from the cliff, and Huo Minghai's trio also came down from the cliff.

The contradiction is so obvious that a strange paradox arises!

The two teams from opposite directions turned into the same direction at some point and met on the cliff!

"What if we walk along the cliff?" Du Jiajun asked.

"Walking along the cliff is where we met last night." Yan Shi said word by word, "Whether it's to the left or the right."

It sounds so simple, but it made Huo Minghai feel cold all over.

No wonder Xiao Miao saw them as if she had seen a savior.

No wonder Yan Shi hesitated to speak when they parted during the day.

After the initial panic, the strict team became numb and calm. Xiaoqiang ran over and asked them to go over for dinner.

"Let's go, let's fill our stomach first." Yan Shi dropped the cigarette butt and stood up.

"How much food do you have left?" Du Jiajun grabbed him.

"Don't be afraid, you can still eat for a while."

The program group is full of compressed food, a small piece every day can cover a meal, as long as you find an exit before the food is finished...

At night, the camp was quiet, everyone was asleep, but Yan Shi was sitting by the campfire, holding a stone and drawing on the ground stroke by stroke. He couldn't figure out which link had gone wrong.

A person sat next to him, and a long strip of paper was handed to him.

Du Jiajun asked: "How many noodles are there?"

"Two sides, front and back." Yan Shi thought it was funny, he didn't understand why Du Jiajun asked this.

Du Jiajun rotated one end of the paper tape 180 degrees, and then spliced ​​it with the other end, and a strange ring twisted into a twist appeared in sight.

Suddenly thought of something, the cigarette on his lips fell, Yan Shi was dumbfounded.

Mobius Ring!

German mathematician Mobius once did an experiment, twisting a piece of paper tape 180 degrees and splicing it together, then put a small beetle on the paper tape, the beetle does not need to climb over the paper tape, as long as it keeps moving forward on the paper, But climbed from the inside to the outside, climbed from the outside to the inside, and returned to the starting point.

There is no end to the ring space!

Du Jiajun picked up a small stone and put it on the paper tape: "I think we are like little beetles, entering a very complicated ring space."

Yan Shi was silent for a while: "If you want to break through the Mobius ring, you can only..." He stretched out his finger and bounced the small stone off the paper.

General Chu Gan listened to their discussion and thought it was very interesting as listening to a story, but he poured cold water on Yan Shi when he opened his mouth: "I don't know how wide the affected space is. I don't think it is easy to break through."

"Because of the formation?" Huo Minghai couldn't fall asleep, so he also sat by the campfire.

The backpack was placed on the ground, and the reflections of the eight shiny beads frowning tightly.

"To make the space like this, in addition to the formation, I am afraid that a very powerful energy is needed." Du Jiajun took the paper tape apart and twisted it back.

As with paper tape, so with space.

"You kid, are you a fan of science fiction?" Yan Shi smiled, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he stood up abruptly!

"Where are you going?!" Du Jiajun stopped him.

"Look for a pinch interface!" The question that has plagued me for several days finally became clear, and Yan Shi flushed with excitement, "If the spaces are connected, there must be a pinch pin!"

"Look for it? How to find it? Even if there is an interface, so what if you find it?"

"Let's talk when we find it!" Yan Shi picked up his backpack and started to leave.

"It's too dangerous at night, wait until daytime!" Huo Minghai couldn't stop Yan Shi, and winked at General Chu, telling him to come and help.

General Chu raised his sword and said to Yan Shi, "Let's go!"

As the team leader, Yan Shi turned on the flashlight, and the light reflected in his firm eyes.

"We will make a mark along the way, if we haven't come back at noon..." Yan Shi got stuck while talking.

Didn't come back to explain why?Either there was an accident, or he walked out successfully!

"If we don't come back, follow the marks we made!" After the super bodyguard finished speaking, he took the lead into the woods.

Huo Minghai was worried and wanted to follow.

"Let's wait here." Du Jiajun pulled Huo Minghai to a stop, and looked in the direction where they disappeared, "There are generals here, so there will be absolutely no danger."

When it was just dawn, Huo Minghai was awakened by a cry of pain, and a man rolled to the ground in embarrassment more than ten meters away from the camp.

Chu Gan, who stumbled and fell off the cliff for the third time, supported his waist with a grin, while Yan Shi slowly fell off the rope.

Obviously, they failed.

Huo Minghai was thinking of saying something to comfort him, but Yan Shi jumped off the rope and went straight to the camp, yelling. Everyone didn't know what happened, and they all stared at him in a daze.

"There is a hole in the ground." Yan Shi pointed forward, "It's about seven or eight miles away."

"How big is the hole?" Huo Minghai was curious.

Yan Shi and Chu Ganjiang looked at each other, their expressions were very strange, after a long silence, they faltered and said: "I guess...about ten meters in diameter?"

"Is there that hole?" Du Jiajun couldn't recall it anyway. If there was such a big hole, why didn't they find it before?

A group of people walked in the direction of the big hole, and only a few hundred meters away, the sky began to rain, and it stopped after a while. The muddy ground covered with fallen leaves was wet and slippery. Huo Minghai felt his back Being tugged by someone, he turned to look at Du Jiajun.

When Du Jiajun was seen by him, he was stunned for a while, and then he winked at him after reacting: "Why? Have you never seen a handsome guy?"

"Cut! Are you as handsome as me?"

"No." Du Jiajun said bluntly, "In my eyes, you are the most handsome."

General Chu blew a whistle: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!"

Yan Shi pointed at himself and bravely lay down the gun: "Am I handsome?"

Du Jiajun: "The weather is really nice."

Yan Shi: "..."

Suddenly, Huo Minghai was pulled again, this time with great force, Huo Minghai's feet slipped, dragging Du Jiajun and both fell to the ground.

The backpack jumped away and swelled into the shape of a giant spider. Before the girls had time to scream, they saw a few strands of silk shooting out, sticking to Yan Shi in front, pulling it hard, and the unsuspecting Yan Shi was treated as human flesh The bowling ball knocked Chu Ganjiang and Da Mao Er Mao off their feet.

The team was extremely chaotic, those who were lying on the ground hadn’t gotten up yet, and those who were standing sat down again. The silk thread tied them together, and under the irresistible force, the clubs were dragged up the tree screaming. .

"Fuck! What kind of monster is this?!" Yan Shi was startled.

"Help!!" Xiao Miao and Lucy struggled desperately.

When they moved, the men in the line followed suit.

"Don't move! Everyone, don't move!!!" Xiaoqiang yelled anxiously.

Look, how thin this silk thread is, it can be broken by blowing a bullet!As the big spider climbed higher and higher, everyone fell silent.

"Zhu Lang! What's going on? Let us go!" Chu Gan shouted.

The big spider ignored him, and quickly climbed to the middle of the big tree. Big Mao, who was hanging upside down at the bottom, looked at the ground farther and farther away.

Du Jiajun knew in his heart that there must be a reason for Zhu Lang's actions, so he searched carefully, and found that it didn't matter, which made him break out in a cold sweat.

"Zhu Lang, go up further!" Du Jiajun yelled words that no one expected.

The big spider climbed up obediently, Chu Gan also calmed down this time, staring at the ground, and soon found something unusual.

A faint black mist floated on the ground, and strands of black smoke were spreading into the air through the gaps in the fallen leaves. The black smoke condensed below, as if covering the ground with a layer of black veil.

"What is this?" Da Mao's nose was several meters away from the black air, and he tried his best to sniff, but he didn't smell anything.

"I don't know, it looks like it's not a good thing." Du Jiajun breathed into Huo Minghai's ear, making Huo Minghai's face hotter and hotter.

"It's not about you, why are you blushing?" Du Jiajun secretly kissed Huo Minghai's neck, and now the blush on Huo Minghai's face spread to the base of his neck.

"Kiss again, I'll bite you!" Huo Minghai threatened fiercely.

"Do you dare?"

"Why don't I dare?"

"Then come." Du Jiajun pursed his lips and smiled.

"Ahem!" General Chu, who was watching, couldn't stand it any longer.

It was as if the teacher found out about cheating in an exam, and the two of them blushed and remained silent.

For the next half an hour, almost no one spoke, and they all stared blankly at the ground. When the black smoke was at its thickest, it was like spilled ink, and then slowly faded away. When it cleared up, the big spider slowly retreated. When it hit the ground, the silk thread came loose, and Miao Miao and Lucy hugged each other and burst into tears.

The people in the program group were very curious about the big spider, and those who were brave even touched it a few times. Da Mao held up the DV and shot at the big spider without losing the opportunity, almost making it laugh.

And the eyes of the big spider reflected Yan Shi brightly, as if ignoring everything around him, only interested in Yan Shi, Yan Shi also stared at it, the two stared at it for a long time, and Yan Shi tentatively asked: " No, take me up the tree?"

"Team leader, what are you doing on the tree?" Da Mao was surprised. Could it be that he was addicted to hanging sausages just now?

"No, just go up and take a look." Yan Shi picked the thickest tree, and hooked his hands at the big spider. After it climbed up the tree, Yan Shi lay on its back and was carried up by it.

"What about me?" The trailblazer Chu Ganjiang had an opinion.

A strand of silk hangs down, with a vigor that you can't fall in love with.

Chu Gan grabbed the silk thread and was slowly taken off the ground. Unexpectedly, Du Jiajun and Huo Minghai jumped over and hugged his waist one by one. Under the eyes of everyone, three big men rushed up.

Yan Shi picked the tallest tree. The big spider climbed to the top of the tree and lay firmly on a branch. When Chu Gan was about to fish Du Jiajun and Huo Minghai up the branch, Yan Shi was sitting on the back of the big spider, holding a The telescope looks around.

The line of sight on the ground is extremely narrow, and a tree is just a few steps away. When you reach the top of the tree, your eyes suddenly open up, and the large canopy of trees is connected together, just like being in a vast green ocean. The mountains in the distance are like isolated islands in the ocean. , standing abruptly.

"There is indeed a problem with this forest." Yan Shi handed the binoculars to General Chu. General Chu looked at it for a while, then handed the binoculars to Du Jiajun.

When it was Huo Minghai's turn, the green eyes made him feel dizzy. After looking at it for a long time, he still couldn't see what the problem was.

"Look at the direction of the tree crown." Du Jiajun reminded.

"Canopy?" Huo Minghai looked at it seriously, "They all follow the same direction, nothing special...huh?"

Not right...very wrong!

The canopy is neat and tidy, all leaning in one direction!

The green ocean formed a neat vortex, and the center of the vortex was the mountain in the distance!

"This tree is not straight, it is a bit inclined, and the direction of its inclination is the spiral trajectory of the vortex." Yan Shi turned his head and asked fans of science fiction, "What do you think?"

"What do you think?" Fans of science fiction asked Huo Minghai the question.

Huo Minghai tilted his head and thought about it, and said seriously: "I only think of the unplugged sink."

"What a metaphor!" Fans of science fiction praised angrily.

There is a mysterious force that has affected the entire mountain forest year after year!

That power is at the center of the vortex!

Yan Shi took a deep breath: "The mountain?"

"Perhaps in the mountains."

"What do you think that force is? Could it be an abnormal magnetic field?"

Du Jiajun nodded: "There must be something wrong with the magnetic field emitted by that mountain!"

At this moment, Huo Minghai and Chu Ganjiang pointed in one direction at the same time and shouted.

I don’t know what happened in the forest in the distance. The crown of the tree is shaking greatly, as if someone is shaking the trunk below. This movement is especially obvious in the ocean. Yan Shi stared nervously with his binoculars. The crown of the tree shook more and more violently. , a strange green object sprang out, and before they could see it clearly, the object retracted very quickly, the tree crown shook, and gradually returned to calm.

"Look... did you see it?" Yan Shi came back to his senses and found that his clothes had already been soaked in cold sweat.

"What it is?!"

"Snake?"

"impossible!"

If it is a snake, how big is it?

The people under the tree were already fidgeting, and when they saw them coming down, they huffed and surrounded them. When they heard that a green thing appeared in the sea of ​​trees in the distance, Ermao's eyes lit up immediately.

"If it can be photographed, what a great material it is!" Da Mao was excited.

"Should I go to see the big hole first, or go over there?" Er Mao muttered.

"Don't go!" Yan Shi waved his hand irritably, interrupting Er Mao's words.

"Why?" The program team couldn't understand, the team leader excitedly told them to get up and set off early in the morning, but he went up to the tree to watch it, and then suddenly stopped going?

"The cave is also in that direction." Chu Ganjiang pulled a wry smile, "No wonder I didn't dare to approach that cave last night, maybe... that hole... that hole..."

The rest of the words were not finished, but everyone understood.

The thing that suddenly protruded from the sea of ​​trees came out of the hole in the ground!

In other words, the burrow is the pothole left after the thing came out!

"Anyway, don't go over there again! The farther away the better!" Yan Shi finished smoking a cigarette, pressed the end of the cigarette, and pointed in another direction, "Let's take a walk over there today!"

In the evening, Chu Gan, who was walking ahead, stepped into the air and fell off the cliff again...

Xiaoqiang took the stone and wrote a 5 after the 6.

"Team leader, there is something I need to tell you." Lucy leaned close to Yan Shi's ear and said softly, "There is not enough medicine."

Miao Miao has been ill for a long time, and has not recovered yet. She has lost a lot of weight after tossing around in the next few days. She wears a white skirt, which is light and fluffy like a female ghost.

"Eat first, as much as you want, and when you run out of food, think of a way." Yan Shi said.

After Lucy left, Du Jiajun lowered his voice: "Actually, there is something I've always wanted to ask you."

"Oh?"

"Aren't you going to take pictures of the brook?"

"That's right." Yan Shi knew what he was going to ask, so he took the initiative to answer, "I've been guarding for two days, but I didn't take any pictures."

"So, you ran to the side of the creek?" Huo Minghai asked.

Yan Shixu looked at the air for a long while before shaking his head.

If he could go back in time and give him another choice, he would never cross the creek again.

Without crossing the creek, I would not have ended up in this situation.

"On the second night, we saw a bump in the ground next to the creek."

Huo Minghai and Du Jiajun looked at each other, and they both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

It's okay to say that the ground is sunken. It's not surprising that mud and rocks flow by the stream, forming a ground subsidence, but what's the situation when it bulges?

"It just bulges and moves in a long strip..." The more Yan Shi said, the more difficult it was to understand. Chu Gan pushed Huo Minghai and asked him to make metaphors.

Huo Minghai thought for a while: "It's like...a snake moving in the ground?"

"Ouch!" Yan Shi patted his thigh, "That's it!"

At that time, on the opposite side of the creek, a large piece of the ground suddenly bulged, like a huge snake swimming in the ground, but in just a few seconds, the ground returned to calm. After discussion, the team members decided to step over Xiaoxi, go and see what it is.

"Actually, there is another strange place." Yan Shi raised his head and glanced at the camp, "I always feel that since we entered the mountain, something seems to be following us."

"What?" The trio was curious.

"I don't know, it's just a feeling." Yan Shi tilted his head and thought for a while, and said something that made everyone's hair stand on end, "It's like there is always an extra person in the team."

Da Mao, who was picking up branches, heard a voice behind him, and looked up. In the forest more than ten meters away, there was a touch of white moving. .

"Really, the woods are so dark, and you dare to run around." Da Mao walked towards the camp with the branches in his hands, and he didn't forget to turn around and tell him, "Follow up, dinner will be served soon!"

At night, the fog thickened, and the surroundings were dark, with only a vague shadow of Miao Miao following far away. Da Mao stopped and walked, and when they returned to the camp, Lucy was distributing porridge to them.

"Lucy, let Ermao do the cooking." Da Mao put the branch on the side of the fire, "Xiao Miao is sick, so go alone, and you won't follow her."

Lucy was puzzled: "What happened to Xiao Miao?"

"She went to the woods, but fortunately she didn't go far."

Several other team members felt strange: "Didn't Xiao Miao just enter the tent?"

"Huh?" Da Mao was taken aback.

Lucy got into the tent, bringing out a white figure.

After Xiao Miao sat down, her eyelids drooped, and she looked drowsy.

"Xiao Miao, cheer up and have some porridge." Lucy is as close to her as sisters. Seeing Xiao Miao's appearance, she felt uncomfortable. She scooped up the porridge herself, blew it cool, and brought it to Xiao Miao's lips. After vomited it out, Xiao Miao's condition became more and more serious, and it was still a question of whether she could survive these few days.

The team members all gathered around, Huo Minghai took the towel and was going to wash it, but when he looked up, he found Da Mao sitting beside him, his face was pale and pale.

"Hey, are you okay?" Huo Minghai touched his forehead.

"You... look... who is the person behind?"

"Behind?" Huo Minghai looked over, "Is there no one?"

Da Mao turned his head, there was nothing behind him, how could anyone be there?

"Oh... Maybe... I'm dazzled?" Da Mao rubbed his face in self-deprecating, at this moment——

What did you see out of the corner of your eye? !

That is……

That is……? !

"Hello, big hair?" Huo Minghai followed his line of sight, and immediately after, even his eyes widened.

In the corner where the fire couldn't reach, there was a white figure standing there.

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