my dream adventure

Chapter 79 Escape Room (29)

As night fell, Lao Tao suggested that they find a safe place to rest. Lin Yuan chose to camp in a small forest, dug a hole, lit a bonfire, and set up the tent in an orderly manner.

Take out drinking water and compressed biscuits from the backpack, pour them into a small pot next to the fire and boil them into a paste, add freeze-dried vegetables and sausages, and dinner is ready.

Zhang Yang looked at the dark dishes he had cooked and shook his head. He took out a bucket of Master Kong's hot and sour noodles from his bag and dipped them in. The rich aroma immediately diffused in the mountains and forests.

Lin Yuan watched him slurp up the instant noodles, but what was in his own bowl was a lump of mush of unknown color, and suddenly felt a little unbalanced. If he had known, he would have brought an extra pack of instant noodles.

Seeing his staring eyes, Zhang Yang wiped his mouth and said, "How about I give you a bite?"

"No, no. It's full of your saliva, I don't want to have an indirect kiss with you, let alone, I still have this."

Lin Yuan smiled mischievously, and took out two packs of snacks from his bag. It was the chicken legs that his younger sister loved most. Under Zhang Yang's eager eyes, he got up and handed the chicken legs to the old glutton who was watching.

"We were able to go up the mountain safely this time, thanks to the ability of the guide. This chicken leg is my gift to you."

"Hey, isn't the little girl very filial?" He smiled, put down the half-eaten hard steamed bun, and casually took the snacks he handed over.

Lin Yuan also squatted down casually, eating his pot of mush. Not to mention, although the appearance is not good, the ingredients are all simple, so that there will not be too confusing taste.

"Old glutton, why don't you ask us the purpose of going up the mountain, aren't you curious?" Lin Yuan looked at the flickering bonfire next to him, and said in a daze.

The old glutton chuckled twice, and said: "What's the point of asking, it's the professionalism of our business not to ask the source of the reason."

"I didn't expect you to have such a regulation in your line of business?" Lin Yuan's tone was slightly teasing.

"One line has its own rules. If you don't follow the rules, you will easily get into trouble. Besides, it's not like no one asked me to take someone up the mountain before."

"Oh, besides us, have any outsiders ever climbed this mountain? What's their history?" Lin Yuan's curiosity was aroused.

"Yes, there are many. There are only three types of people. One is the experts and scholars invited by the town to investigate the changes in the mountains. They are equipped with sufficient equipment to go up the mountain. Generally, they will not go deep into danger. They will go in and pick plant and animal specimens for research and analysis. I don’t understand the situation, I just learned from their chatter.”

"There are two other types of people?"

"The remaining two types are the pharmacists who have been inherited from generation to generation in the town. Sometimes they will go to the mountains to collect herbs and sell them as special medicinal powders. Just like me, my ancestors were also engaged in the medicinal materials business. After some medicinal materials mutate, they also have their unique effects."

"Is the medicinal powder you used before prepared from the mutated plants on the mountain?"

"Yes, there are many such medicinal powders. The poisonous ginseng sold in the market last time was also discovered by me by accident. Originally, the mutant ginseng would not cause much physical burden to ordinary people, but it happened that the woman was a Pregnant women will cause miscarriage." Lao Tao sighed.

When he was selling ginseng, he did not expect that the other party was a pregnant woman, otherwise he would not have sold it to the other party. How could a doctor be so kind as to do something harmful to nature? How to explain to the ancestors.

Lin Yuan nodded his head to express his understanding. Some people do not show their bosom for three months. If the clothes are looser, it will be difficult to see the difference in body shape.

"Who are the third type of people who go up the mountain?" Lin Yuan continued to ask.

The old man took out his pipe, lit a match, took a deep breath and said, "This third type of people is a long story. There were actually many people living in this small village in the mountains. Later, these people didn't When I moved to the town, I just moved into the city, and then the mountain gradually became empty."

"I know this. I heard from an uncle in the market that after an accident in the mountains, everyone left. I asked him what happened, but he refused to tell."

"The source of the change in the mountain, I and a few old guys secretly speculated that the source of the poisonous mist spread from the altar behind the village, but there is no way to get in now."

"So there is an altar in the small mountain village?" Lin Yuan became interested.

Things like altars are usually plots that appear in fantasy novels. The elements in this dream dungeon are too complicated. After the escape room, do you just go on an outdoor adventure?

"The altar, it's used for ancestor worship, what's so strange, it looks like you are from the city." Lao Tao broke his mouth.

"Okay, what you said is right." He smiled lightly, "Why can't I enter the altar now, has something changed after the mutation?"

"Weeds are overgrown there, and it is closest to the source, with the highest concentration of poisonous gas. I don't know what it looks like for a long time. If you don't bring an ax and saw in the whole virgin forest, how can you get in?"

Lin Yuan was stunned for a while, was that an exaggeration? It seems that he didn't have any equipment, but unfortunately he didn't bring an ax or a saw, at most he had a pocket knife for self-defense.

He turned his head towards Zhang Yang, who was still sipping instant noodles, and asked, "Brother Yang, did you bring an ax and a saw?"

"What?" He raised his head in confusion, then shook his head and said, "Didn't you prepare the equipment? If you didn't have it, how could I have it?"

"This is troublesome. I only have a jackknife here." Lin Yuan scratched his head, a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would have brought an extra ax for chopping wood.

"No rush, actually, I just found a hunter's cabin on the road. I don't know if there are people living there. Let's go and have a look later."

Zhang Yang put down the instant noodle bucket, dug a hole on the ground and buried it in the soil, mainly because he was afraid that the smell of food at night would attract some wild animals, so it was better to take an extra layer of defense.

No one knows what kind of encounters they will encounter in the mountains, but on the premise of ensuring their own safety, it is not impossible to go out for a while, and maybe there will be some unexpected gains.

"Old Tao, some of the people you said went up the mountain were heading for the altar. What did they do there?" Lin Yuan turned his head back and asked.

"People in the village used to be old-fashioned. Many ancestors' tombs are still above them. During the New Year holidays, a few families would go up to the mountain to worship their ancestors. Later, someone took the initiative to move the ancestral graves out, and these things gradually disappeared."

"Then, is it possible that there are other people living in the village now?" He recalled the news he had heard before, that Leopard Tiger came here to visit his mother in Shanligou, so it stands to reason that his mother still lives now on the hill.

The old man shook his head repeatedly and said: "Now on this mountain, there are no fox spirits, but silent tombs in the soil. Where there are living people who dare to live there, even if you and I are protected by amulets, we can't stay for more than seven days."

Lao Tao’s answer was very affirmative. Lin Yuan knew that what he said was not a lie. It seemed that there was indeed some misunderstanding in the information he had received from Leopard and Tiger’s chef, or that the other party had been deceiving them from the very beginning.

(End of this chapter)