Stealing Pens: Travelers from the End of the World

Zhang Qiling handed the grilled fish to Qin Yuchen, with unnoticeable anticipation in his eyes.

Tan Yuchen praised without hesitation: "Well, you did a good job."

Zhang Qiling became obviously happy after hearing the compliment, and even the innocence of secretly observing them could be felt.

"..." Who can tell me what the two big guys are doing? ! Wu Xie was shocked. He always had the feeling that Qin Yuchen was taking care of a child, but this feeling was a bit inappropriate.

Wu Xie fell into deep thought and felt that he urgently needed a Fatty Wang now!

Because he felt that the fat man would definitely answer his questions!

……

The four of them had lunch and then went on their way. This time Wu Xie and they didn't need to follow anyone anymore, because Qin Yuchen directly handed him the map in the morning and let him read it by himself.

Wuxie and Laochi had already studied the route in the shack, so they could just follow the map now.

"By the way, little brother, don't you need to go find the person who hired you?" Wuxie asked.

"No need." Zhang Qiling shook his head.

"Then you two won't have any balance left?"

Tan Yuchen smiled nonchalantly: "It's not short of money."

Wuxie: "..." I really thank you...

They crossed the creek and headed to the right. When they passed a hilltop, Wuxie and Laochi found several houses in front of them. They were all earth-tile houses scattered on the mountainside.

The four of them took a detour and entered a house. There happened to be three uncles at the door of this house, sitting in rocking chairs, shaking cattail leaf fans and chatting about home affairs in Shaanxi dialect.

One of the old men with a white beard exclaimed when he saw Lao Chu: "Young man, are you here again?"

Wu Xie looked at Lao Itch with confusion, and Lao Itch simply explained: "I came to see a guide before, and it was this old man."

"Old man, do you want to go into the mountain now?" Lao Itch asked.

"No, no, you can't go to the place you want to go to now." The white-bearded old man waved his hand and said in disapproval.

Lao Itch's face changed slightly and he explained: "I haven't even said where I'm going, old man, you already know?"

The old man shook his cattail leaf fan and said with a smile: "Hai, I thought you were going to Jiazi ditch like those people."

Wuxie and Tan Yuchen and Zhang Qiling looked at each other, and they nodded to him, and he knew that Uncle Tai's group had entered first after being dispersed by the brown bear.

Wuxie asked: "Old man, is there something wrong with that place?"

The old man and the other two old men looked at each other and whispered in a low voice: "That place is haunted this season..."

"I wonder if you have ever heard of Yin soldiers using the road?" The old man asked, "Last time I took you there, I didn't tell you because I was afraid of scaring you. That place is a plank road used by Yin soldiers. I was also afraid of you. We ran into it!"

"Is it really so mysterious?"

"No, the group of people who came yesterday were going to that place." The old man spread his hands, "No, we didn't stop them."

"That……"

Wu Xie planned to ask something else, but Lao Chi pulled his sleeves and shook his head. The obvious meaning was that he didn't want him to say more.

Seeing that they didn't believe it, the old man said nothing more, waved his hands and said, "Old man, I won't go into the mountain. You can find someone else yourself."

They couldn't help it, and they couldn't force it, so they could only continue to follow the map's route to Jiazigou.

"I didn't expect those people to be one step ahead of us." Wuxie said while looking at the map in his hand.

"Good luck." Old Itch seemed a little anxious and urged, "We have to speed up too."

Wuxie patted Lao Chu on the shoulder to relax him, and then asked, "Did you encounter anything last time you went there?"

Lao Itch said: "No, although I walked there last time, I didn't encounter the kind of thing the old man said."

"Jiazi Valley is a gap formed by two huge rocks. There is a path in the middle. Through the gap is a small valley. It was in that valley that we found the tomb."

Lao Itch explained that they went in very smoothly last time and didn't encounter anything along the way, let alone the Yin soldiers the old man mentioned.

Wu Xie nodded. He had only heard about Yin soldiers taking advantage of the way, but had never seen it with his own eyes, so he couldn't tell whether he believed it or not.

What's more, it's still the hottest stage of the day. If it really happens, it should only be seen at night, right?

They turned left and right all the way and finally came to the so-called Jiazi Valley.

Jiazigou is just like what Lao Itch described. There are very high rocks on both sides, and a long gap is formed in the middle as if it has been split by a sharp knife. There is an abandoned path under the gap. The path is rugged and overgrown with weeds.

"Let's rest here for a while." Wuxie put his hands on his hips and panted heavily. They had been rushing and didn't have time to rest.

Lao Itch put down his backpack and nodded: "Okay."

Zhang Qiling found a random stone to sit on, then took out the compressed biscuits from his backpack and handed them to Qin Yuchen.

Tan Yuchen took it, then sat on a stone that was shorter than Zhang Qiling and leaned slightly against him.

Wuxie looked at the two people who had not spoken a few words all the way down, and couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Because these two people had walked so far with them, they were still sitting there as calm as ever, even their breathing was not disturbed.

Wuxie roared silently in his heart: How did they manage to walk so far without changing their expressions? !