Strangers

, I found another lunch box, put it in, and poured boiling water to warm it up.

Xie Yu watched his series of actions from behind: "Actually, it is similar to the legend in the market."

Qi Xie didn't look back: "When you compliment someone, remember not to sneer on your face."

In the early morning of the next day, Xie Yu was woken up by the alarm clock at 04:30. Qi Xie had already finished packing: jackets, peaked caps, and hiking sticks, all of which looked similar.Go downstairs to meet Lord Lu, and the guide will arrive later, and the six of them board an Iveco and head towards the depths of the forest.

Along the way, the sky was not very bright, the mountains were very quiet, and the group basically had nothing to say, Master Lu opened the window to smoke, Xie Yu read e-books on his tablet, and Bai Deqi and Qi Xie dozed off against the back of their chairs.

Finally, there was a gentle brake, and Guide Liang in the front row turned around: "Bosses, we're here."

After getting out of the car, the six of them were already in the hinterland of the mountains.

It has just rained here, and the air is so good that it makes one's lungs weak, the trees are very dark green from the moisture, and the rocks are also tanned into dark gray.There was some shallow water on the ground, and there were some red and yellow things floating there. Xie Yu looked down and saw a group of drowned caterpillars. Some of them were still struggling, but they could only curl up on the spot.

"I now understand why Assistant Qian called you here." Qi Xie said behind him.

Xie Yu turned his head, and a huge mountaineering bag appeared in front of him with a gloating smile.

"I think my round-trip air ticket and board and lodging expenses are more expensive than the money for hiring a small worker." Xie Yu carried a lot of equipment on his back. Looking at it again, Qi Xie carried more than himself.Bai Deqi over there only has an ordinary backpack, while Lord Lu is basically a hands-off shopkeeper, and everything is in Xiaoma's place.

"If you can't memorize it, you can share it with me." Xie Yu originally realized that he wanted to say this to Qi Xie, but after thinking about it, that guy would say hello shamelessly, then throw all the things to himself, and immediately decided pull down.

"Bosses? If we're done, we'll be on our way!" Guide Liang greeted.

Master Lu looked at the sky and said yes, and the team marched towards the virgin forest area full of unknowns.

Tightening their trouser legs and cuffs, the six of them tapped the ground with their canes as they walked, in order to scare away the insects and snakes in the grass.The leader is Guide Liang. He grew up in the mountains and is very familiar with the terrain. He knows where to go just by looking at the almost identical mountain buns.Since this trip was to search and rescue students, the speed of the march was inevitably accelerated, and there was almost no rest time. Occasionally stopped to drink a few sips of water and continued on the road.Xie Yu has the habit of running in the morning, and he is confident that his physical fitness is not bad. It is a bit tight to climb a mountain with a lot of equipment on his back.Looking at Bai Deqi behind him, it's not much better. As for Master Lu, he was already out of breath.Only Qi Xie walked briskly, even after walking more than ten miles of mountain roads, his expression remained unchanged, and he even chatted and laughed with the guide.

"You said these kids are really brave now." Guide Liang turned over a big rock and sighed, "Leave a good scenic spot instead of playing, but go to this place where there is no one, really stayed in the city for a long time , I don’t know how powerful the mountain is! There are more than a dozen “ecstasy trips” in this forest area, and the old hunters dare not break in. My grandfather accidentally went in once when he was young. He walked along the mountain for three days and three nights and came back. In place, almost trapped to death inside."

"Really?" Qi Xie was very interested, "Then how did he get out, you have to tell me about this experience."

"You probably don't believe me when I tell you." Guide Liang laughed, "We have a legend called 'Monkey Head'. It is said that a group of monkeys once lived in Mihun and stole the fruit wine brewed by Shennong Ding. Monkey spirit. They often hide in trees. When they see someone passing by, they stretch out their claws and slap him on the back of the head. People got lost and died because of this. Later, a butcher heard about this and decided to kill these monkey spirits to eliminate harm for the people. He mobilized everyone to cast dozens of large copper tripods, poured fruit wine into the tripods, and arranged They were placed in a row in the woods. After a while, the monkey spirits smelled the smell of wine and ran over. They were all drunk and fell asleep in the tripod. Take a fir branch, light a fire, and burn all the monkey spirits to death!"

"So there is such a story." Qi Xie was full of interest.

"Yes!" Guide Liang said enthusiastically, "Later, the old man said that if you get lost in the mountains, you have encountered the ghost of a monkey spirit! At this time, you only need to pick up a fir branch and draw a tripod on the ground, and you will be able to get away." It scared it away. My grandfather thought of this method at the time, so he did it, and within a long time, he really got out of the ecstasy!"

Guide Liang turned his head with a smile, only to realize that he and Qi Xie had already left behind a large portion of the people behind, so they quickly stopped.

"Oh...You young people are really in good health. My old arms and legs are no match for me!" Master Lu came up panting heavily.

"No, no, those of us who have been running in the mountains all year round are used to it, but at your age, boss, it's amazing to walk so far!" Guide Liang looked at the sun, "It's not a problem to get to the place today at this speed, look at this It's already noon, why don't we have a meal on the spot and take a rest?"

"That's it." Master Lu sat down while supporting the stone.

After simply clearing out a place, six people set up an alcohol stove and cooked canned food and noodles.

Qi Xie unscrewed the kettle and looked at the fire not far away: "If you think it's too heavy, you can share some with me."

After a few seconds, Xie Yu next to him realized that he was talking to himself. After a few seconds, he found that there was no sarcasm in his tone, but deliberately lowered his voice so as not to embarrass him.

Xie Yu was very surprised, and then said: "No need."

Qi Xiong's tone is still calm: "We still have time to spend, saving energy is the key point, there is no need to be brave."

Xie Yu also looked at the fire: "Don't you need to save your energy?"

Qi Xie took a sip of water: "I'm not human, so I don't have physical disabilities."

Xie Yu was silent for a moment, then said, "No need."

The pot boiled, and Xiao Ma on the opposite side buried his head in his meal. Master Lu finally had time to chat with Guide Liang.Bai Deqi's face was always stinky, as if someone owed him money, he looked around while eating, and finally picked up the weeds with the other end of the fork: "Master Lu, look here."

A chocolate wrapper.

Master Lu pinched it and looked back and forth: "This paper is quite new, it should be left by those students. It seems that we are on the right path."

Guide Liang sighed: "Boss Lu, it's not that I'm talking nonsense, I think those children are in danger! This area used to be a hunting area. Leaving aside those wolves, tigers and leopards, the traps of the old hunters alone don't know what to do. How much. Look over there, do you see a vine? It’s a mechanism, just touch it a little, and a row of bamboo knives will be lifted from the ground, and the force can penetrate the calf bone.”

"Those students aren't dead yet." Qi Xie interjected, "They're just trapped in one place."

Guide Liang was surprised by his determination: "How do you know?"

Qi Xie looked up at the treetops: "This mountain told me."

"Mountain?"

"Mountain God." Qi Xie took a sip of noodle soup from the tea mug.

After a meal, several people started on the road again.

After crossing two passes, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Guide Liang stopped in front of a stream and said, "Going forward will be a trip to the fascinated soul. If it's not for saving people this time, I won't enter for any amount of money. "

After that, he squatted down, grabbed the brook to wash his hands and face, dipped his middle finger in the brook water, and drew something on his forehead, as if he was performing a solemn ceremony.

"You guys come too." Guide Liang turned his head, his honest smile faded, and he said solemnly, "Wash your hands and face clean, and draw a tripod on your forehead."

Qi Xie and Master Lu stepped forward first, followed by Xiao Ma and Bai Deqi. Xie Yu felt that this move was meaningless, and considering going to the countryside to do as the Romans did, he also took off his glasses and picked up water.

☆、Shen Nong

Stepping on dead wood and crossing the stream, there is a dense fir forest in front of you.At this time, everyone had exhausted a lot of physical energy and just walked with their heads down. Guide Liang tried his best to identify the direction and didn't talk much. Compared with before, the atmosphere in the team seemed a lot heavier.

Walking to a turn, Bai Deqi stopped suddenly.

"There is something!" he said in a low voice.

Everyone suddenly became concerned, holding their breath and concentrating, only to hear an instigating voice coming from the bushes!First from the front, then from the sides, and finally everywhere, as if a group of wild beasts were running around everyone at high speed!

"What!" Master Lu was surprised.

"Who cares about him, strike first." Bai Deqi grabbed a scimitar.

"Slow down!" Qi Xie stopped him.

"What?" Bai Deqi squinted.

"Brother Bai, show mercy." Qi Xie smiled, "Those are just a few ground mandrills, they can't hurt anyone, so you don't need to have the same knowledge as them."

Bai Deqi looked contemptuous: "The kindness of a woman can accomplish anything!"

During the stalemate, the voice gradually dissipated.

"Let's go." Qi Xie said to Guide Liang.

Everyone didn't move.

"Go." Lord Lu ordered.

Only then did Bai Deqi put down the scimitar, and the moment he sheathed it, Xie Yu found that the two sides of the blade were made of different materials, one side was made of metal, and the other side was actually wood.

"Silver peach thorn?" Qi Xie laughed and said, "Half peach wood and half silver, brother Bai, where did you get this treasure to exorcise evil spirits?"

Bai Deqi ignored him at all.

Qi Xie didn't care, and followed closely with his backpack.

"Are you the one who laughs with you in the bar?" Xie Yu couldn't see it.

"What?" Qi Xie asked.

"He obviously looked down on you, and you even heated up your face."

Qi Xie still smiled: "He is a senior, and I am a newcomer. It is normal to put on airs. I will hang around in Guixintang in the future. I don't want to make the relationship too rigid."

"The more you are like this, the less he will take you seriously." Xie Yu looked directly at him, "If you want others to value you, you must first value yourself."

Qi Xie smiled: "He looks down on me, why are you angry? Could it be that you have established a revolutionary friendship with me so quickly and started to fight against the enemy?"

Xie Yu almost didn't appreciate his tricks: "Don't flatter me, I'm not your senior." Then he quickened his pace and left him behind.

The sun is slanting to the west.

A broken twig, a pen in the grass, a piece of toilet paper, and an earphone case.

Pushing aside the last few bushes, an open space finally appeared. Several people walked in and found that there were many footprints on the ground, some holes in the soil, which were traces of tent supports, and a pile of firewood in the center of the open space had turned to ashes.

"This should be their campsite." Master Lu looked around and sighed, "Those five students walked out from here in the middle of the night and disappeared."

"Boss Lu, what do you think we should do?" Guide Liang asked, "Should we look around first?"

"Hey, I'm not busy." Master Lu thought for a while, "The armed police have been searching the net for the past few days but they can't find them. Those students must be trapped in a place that is difficult for ordinary people to find. Bai Deqi, what do you think?"

Bai Deqi lit a cigarette, hooked his mouth and hummed: "This place is so dark, there must be dirty things. Ordinary people are looking for death if they camp here."

As soon as the voice finished, there was only a scream, and several people followed the sound, and Qi Xie in the distance retreated from the woods in a few steps.

"What's going on!" Master Lu hurriedly asked.

"A lot..." Qi Xie panicked.

"A lot of what." Master Lu stepped forward.

There are more than a dozen centipedes coiled under a stone.

"Ah!" Qi Xie shouted again.

"So what!" Lord Lu frowned.

Qi Xie pointed: "His back—!"

Xiao Ma turned his head and saw that there was a big centipede lying on his back collar!He was about to scream when he heard whoosh!Someone raised a knife and dropped two centipedes on the ground, with the collar intact.

"What a fuss, it's like a woman!" Bai Deqi stomped on the flatworm corpse and left.

The pony's face flushed red.

Xie Yu stared at Qi Xie with a cold gaze: "You are pretending."

"No, I'm most afraid of centipedes." Qi Xie hurriedly explained, "I was bitten during the primary school cleaning, and the back of my hand was swollen for a week!"

Xie Yu snorted coldly: "Even if it's a fake, it's too ugly."

Qi Xie frowned: "I'm not a superman, can't I have something to be afraid of?"

Xie Yu ignored him.

Lighting fires, pitching tents, and pulling cordons, several people were busy until evening to finish taking care of the camp.Xie Yu went to fetch water nearby with a bucket, and suddenly heard someone whispering in the bushes on the way back.

"He said he was the old man's student, so it's so useless!" A sneer came from Bai Deqi's voice.

"That's not necessarily the case." Master Lu held a cigarette in a low voice, "Maybe he is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. In our business, there are people with all kinds of tempers."

"What kind of pig is he? I think he's an idiot." Bai Deqi spat, "I heard he's still a rabbit master? Could the concubine be named Xie..."

Master Lu suddenly coughed twice while smoking a cigarette, and finally shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter if it's a straw bag or a gold bag, anyway, you should have something to eat. If something happens to him, we won't be able to explain it to Master Xun when we go back."

While talking, the two turned around and found Xie Yu standing behind.

Bai Deqi sneered: "It turns out that she is not only a concubine, but also someone who listens to the corner."

Xie Yu did not avoid it, and met his gaze directly: "Boss Bai, I have three points to remind you: [-]. Arrogance is a manifestation of inferiority complex; [-]. Sexual orientation discrimination is narrow thinking; It’s the basic quality of being a human being.”

In the strong smell of gunpowder, Shanye came.

During dinner, Lord Lu began to discuss the search plan for the next day.

"No, we will act tonight." Qi Xie said, "They disappeared at midnight, and we have to go out to find them at that time. This trip may be dangerous, everyone wait here, I will go."

"It's absolutely impossible!" Guide Liang waved his hand straight, "Every poisonous snake and beast comes out of this forest area at night, and the direction can't be discerned! Leaving the campsite is tantamount to death!"

"Director Liang, I know your intentions are good." Qi Xie lied casually, "But you don't know, my grandfather is also an old hunter. To put it bluntly, I am no stranger to things in the mountains than you. Even walking at night is not a problem. .”

"No, no." Master Lu also dissuaded, "It's too aggressive to act at night, no matter what, we have to wait until dawn!"

Qi Xie smiled: "This time Master Xun asked me to come to Shennongjia by name, because he believed that Qi could do things well. If you doubt my judgment, don't you mean that Master Xun knows people well and employs them unwisely?"

"Master Xun did let you do things, but he also asked me to lead the team! I must ensure your safety!" Master Lu said, as if realizing that his tone was too harsh, he softened his tone and said, "Brother Qi , Don’t mention this matter, we still set off tomorrow morning, and leave the job of finding someone to Bai Deqi.”

Qi Xie could only sigh and give up arguing.

After discussing the order of the vigil, Bai Deqi and Master Lu were on the first shift, and the rest went back to the tent to rest.Even in September, the mountain night is still very cold, and there is an indescribable yin in the Mihun trip. Fortunately, the sleeping bag prepared by Assistant Qian is thick enough so that it is not too cold to sleep.

Xie Yu turned over.

"Hurry up and sleep, there are still three hours." In the darkness, only Qi Xie said.

Xie Yu whispered: "Are you still deciding to leave at zero o'clock?"

"It's not me, it's us."

"Don't arrange schedules for others." Xie Yu was very skeptical, "Rushing into the mountains and forests in the middle of the night, are you overconfident?"

A laughing voice came from the darkness: "If you want to see my methods, this is an excellent opportunity."

After a while, Qi Xie was breathing evenly, as if he was fast asleep.Xie Yu was not sleepy, half asleep, half awake, he was Cheng Yu from "Three Cities" to solve murders in the city, and then sneaked into the government of country A to secretly investigate the "Mistletoe Project". When the aircraft crashed into the primeval forest, he suddenly Became a member of a hunter-gatherer, worshiping a cauldron in some ancient ritual...

Heat, blood, gold symphony.

The ceremony is reaching its climax.

The painted priest held up a monkey and was about to throw it into the boiling cauldron!Buzzing and chanting mantras, monkeys chirping and screaming, bronze drums, gongs and cymbals blaring, countless voices gathered together!

He opened his eyes abruptly—

The sound turned into an alarm.

Xie Yu frowned fiercely, and stretched out a heavy hand to press it away.

Qi Harmony next to him is ready to go.

"Brother Qi?" Master Lu's voice came from outside the tent, "It's almost time for you to watch the night."

"Here we come." Qi Xie opened the cloth door and went out.

At zero o'clock, the two sneaked out of the camp.

The so-called "you can't see your fingers" refers to the night in the mountains, where there is no light, as if the whole world is packed into a black plastic bag.In the four fields, you can hear the guttural sounds of distant animals, smell the raw mud, and feel the low branches touching the back of your neck, but you can't see anything.Only the stars are densely pressed down, and the huge Milky Way is like a scar with teeth and claws, smeared on Ye's face.

Qi Xie picked up the military flashlight and walked around like a trot. Xie Yu tried his best to follow behind. He blamed himself for being physically fit but slightly night blind due to myopia, so he was almost thrown away several times.

After a while, Qi Xie's speed gradually slowed down, Xie Yu followed him slowly for a few steps, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

The soft feel of the mulch disappeared, and the boots seemed to be stepped back on the concrete floor.Qi Xie squatted down, Xie Yu also touched the ground, took a flashlight to take a picture, and his hands were covered with moss.

Smell it again, but it's not.

"Copper." Qi Xie said.

bronze.

Turning up the aperture and sweeping away, Xie Yu couldn't help being stunned. ——There is no grass growing on the ground ahead, the tall trees are all dead, and the feet of the trees are all covered with bronze!It was as if someone knocked over a pot of copper juice, which flowed down the ground and solidified into a dead shell, completely smothering life!

"What's going on!" Xie Yu said in a deep voice.

"I know where those five students are." Qi Xie knocked on the copper shell.

Xie Yu was taken aback: "Could it be that the copper shell is empty?"

Qi Xie was about to speak, when he heard hurried footsteps, a beam of bright light came rushing forward.

"Thank God, I finally found it!" Master Lu panted, "Brother Qi, how dare you go into the forest by yourself! If I hadn't woken up just now, you would have disappeared like this!"

"Master Lu, I found those students." Qi Xie said.

"Student?" Master Lu was taken aback, and immediately asked where he was.

Qi Xie pointed at his feet: "Here."

"Under...underground?"

"No." Qi Xie said, "In copper."

Master Lu was surprised: "How do you say that!"

Qi Xie slowly turned his head and looked into the dark dead wood forest: "The answer lies ahead."

☆, good tripod

Unable to resist Qi Harmony and the attraction of the truth, Master Lu raised his flashlight and followed him cautiously.

This is a steep uphill, the dead wood is more and more sparse, and the copper shell under the feet is thicker and thicker. At first, it was only two or three centimeters, and gradually became more than ten centimeters. In the end, the thickness could not be measured. The mountain seemed to disappear. The three climbed on on the copper block.

If the silence has a density, it must have reached a saturation point here, and the gloomy atmosphere made Xie Yu extremely vigilant. ——This mobilization is not due to reason, but instinct, as if every pore is automatically opened to sense all possible dangers.

Suddenly the eardrums itch!Xie Yu hurriedly swept the flashlight behind him!

"Don't be nervous." Qi Xie didn't turn his head, as if he meant something, "It's just a wild ghost, it can't be a climate."

Master Lu cleared his throat: "How far do we have to go?"

"We'll be there." Qi Xie pointed.

The slope ahead has reached its limit, almost bent down to climb up with his hands, Qi Xie suddenly stopped, took two steps back, and jumped up to the top of the slope.

"Master Lu." Qi Xie stretched out his hand.

"Hey." Master Lu pinned the flashlight on his waist, and supported it with Xie Yu's support.

Qi Xie smiled and stretched out his hand: "Thank you, Lord?"

Xie Yu snorted, handed him the flashlight, and ran up by himself.

Standing still at the top of the slope, he patted his trouser legs and looked forward...

This is the shape of a crater, with a diameter of more than [-] meters, but what gushes out is not magma, but copper slurry.Looking from a distance, it looks like a big pot boiling copper juice, but the pot solidifies at the moment of boiling, forming some high and low bronze waves, the boiling splash at the highest point is higher than one person, standing sharply Standing like a tree made of bronze.

The three of them slowly descended to the "Bronze Pond", walking through the copper tree forest, they gradually felt a burst of heat.Xie Yu touched it, and it seemed to be ground heat. He bent down and smelled a pungent smell, whether it was sulfur or copper.

The smell became stronger as he walked toward the center, and Xie Yu became dizzy for a while, so he could only cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve and breathe as shallowly as possible.After a while, the smell faded away, and the dizziness eased, replaced by an inexplicable sense of excitement.Xie Yu's heartbeat sped up faintly, and the hand holding the flashlight trembled slightly. The light beam inadvertently swept under his feet, and his eyes lit up:

The condensation at the moment of boiling caused a fine and enchanting pattern to crack on the ground, and the golden light shone in the bronze, which was breathtakingly beautiful!

Xie Yu couldn't help squatting down, wanting to watch carefully.

"That thing is magical, don't look at it." There was a whisper in his ear.

"There are words." Xie Yu answered it.

Then his finger touched the pattern, and wherever he went, there were golden symbols jumping out one by one, some like seal characters, some like oracle bone inscriptions, Xie Yu carefully identified them, and slowly read out...

"I...will...die...at...two...zero...five..."

Swish!

His whole body was shaken, and the consciousness that came out of his body instantly returned to his body!At that moment, Xie Yu saw his fingertips disappear and merge with the bronze ground!

Then he was dragged out by Qi Xie.

"There's not a word there, it's your illusion." Qi Xie let go.

"Impossible." Xie Yu subconsciously looked at it again.

"Hey!" Qi Xie straightened his shoulders, "If you don't want to be like those students, restrain your curiosity!"

student?Xie Yu suddenly remembered: "Those students also saw these words, so they said 'I know everything' and 'God is here'!"

"There are no words there." Qi Xie said coldly, "It's an illusion created by humans inhaling poisonous gas, that's all."

"Brother Qi, look at that!" Master Lu suddenly pointed.

Following the light of the flashlight, Qi Harmony stepped forward a few steps to reach the core of the depression.

The surface here is no longer smooth, and various things have solidified in the bronze: pottery, rotten wood, rusty iron, and some yellow and white fragments.

"This is a human skull." Master Lu was shocked.

"There is still a section of the barrel." Qi Xie kicked the ground.

Xie Yu shook a piece of metal that was as wide as his index finger, but it was obviously impossible to pull it out. Looking closely at the surface, it seemed to be a sign. The back half was buried in copper, and the front half had the words "special letter" written on it.

Master Lu looked around: "What happened here, how could there be these things..."

Qi Xie stared at the ground: "Let's talk about it later, save those students first."

After that, he squatted down, raised his right arm, straightened his palm, and his fingertips touched the ground vertically.

"What are you doing?" Xie Yu asked.

"I want to drag them out." Qi Xie said.

His gaze was firm, his mind was calm, and all his attention seemed to be concentrated on his fingertips.

Xie Yu was sure that he was right, as if the piece of bronze had suddenly melted, he gradually sank Qi Xie's hand into it, and when his entire palm was buried in the copper, Qi Xie paused for a moment, then slowly returned with great strength. pull.

Then a hand was pulled out of the bronze!

Then, an arm, a head, a body...a person.

Xie Yu is now convinced that it is a hallucinogenic gas, because he saw Qi Xie drag five living people out of the bronze and arrange them in a row on the ground.

After regaining his senses, Xie Yu touched the ground again: it was a whole piece of hard copper without any gaps.

"Don't stand still, come and help!" Qi Xie poured some cold water from the pot and splashed it on a person's face.

The boy woke up with a jolt.

The students' thoughts were already broken, and they looked at each other and asked what happened. Qi Xie said that they had inhaled the poisonous gas in the mountains and passed out here. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, and they must leave immediately.

Just as the voice finished speaking, there was a muffled sound!The foot suddenly vibrated!

"Oops, we may have touched something." Master Lu felt very bad.

"Follow him! I'll adjourn!" Qi Xie shouted.

Xie Yu understood and led the students back!The vibration on the ground became stronger and stronger, and the two students couldn't help but fell down. Xie Yu finally escaped from the bronze pool by dragging and pulling, and sent the five of them to the top of the slope safely. Then the flashlight turned back, but Master Lu and Qi Xie disappeared !

"Boss Qi!" Xie Yu shouted.

There was no echo from the other side, only shock and rumbling.

"Stay here!" Xie Yu told the students to search for them. Just as he took a step down, he heard a hissing sound. He looked down and saw that the bronze pool was so hot that it almost burned through the rubber soles and scalded them. Unable to settle down.

Without further ado, Xie Yu took off the coats of the two students, drenched them with water, wrapped them tightly around their boots, and took a deep breath before going into the copper pool.

"Hello..." a voice came out suddenly.

Xie Yu looked around.

"Here..." Qi Xie supported his knees, panting ten meters away.

Xie Yu relaxed his shoulders and looked around him: "Where is Lord Lu?"

Qi Xie raised his head: "He was in front of me just now."

Xie Yu's flashlight scanned around and found nothing. Then he looked towards Tongchi, where there was already a cloud of blue-white poisonous smoke, and there could be no more living things.

"Forget it." Qi Xie remained unmoved, "Life is a matter of life and death, if he confesses here, doom will come."

Xie Yu frowned: "He had an accident just to find you."

"Wrong." Qi Xie looked directly at the five people, "He is looking for these students."

Back to camp.

Guide Liang and Xiao Ma were guarding there, only knowing that Bai Deqi and Master Lu went to look for them separately, but they haven't come back yet.

The tent was given to the students to rest, and several people slept around the fire. Qi Xie sat down and took off his shoes. Only then did Xie Yu realize that his feet were severely burned and covered with blood blisters.

"Can I still go?" Xie Yu asked.

"It's okay." Qi Xie washed it with water, "It will be fine in one night."

Bai Deqi came back at dawn.

Xie Yu thought he would make trouble for Qi Xie, but he didn't say a word, squatted in the woods and smoked, and finally returned to the camp, and called Mr. Qi respectfully.

Three days later, a minibus drove into Muyu Town and took five students away.

Shanghai, Moon Garden.

Qi Xie knocked on the door and walked into the study. Seeing Xie Yu sitting in front of the computer, he asked, "Still thinking about Feng Tie's novel?"

"Looking at the forum." Xie Yu turned the screen to him, "Student forum, posts from the hiking club."

Qi Xie leaned against the table: "How do you say it?"

Xie Yu turned the scroll bar: "The former president took the blame and resigned, and the vice president posted a long article on the forum, saying that the hiking club will always cherish the memory of the rescuers who died, and uphold the fearless and enterprising spirit to make new achievements and scale new heights." Gao Feng, students are welcome to join the club enthusiastically. Due to the successful completion of the crisis public relations, this person has been elected as the new president, and plans to reorganize the team during his term of office and lead the members to brave the Taklimakan.”

Qi Xie smiled: "The young people nowadays are really amazing."

Xie Yu's eyes moved from the screen to him: "What's going on with that bronze pool?"

Qi Xie picked up the folding fan on the table, slowly pushed the fan away, and changed the tone of the story.

"In the depths of Shennongjia, there lived a family of people who claimed to be the casters of the Shennong Ding, named 'Shan Ding'. The Shan Ding family's copper smelting technology has reached the peak, and the Ding they made has a round square and beautiful patterns. But their greatest ability is not in this, but in the characters on the cast tripod. The Shanding clan casts a tripod every year, and a hundred characters are engraved on the bottom of the tripod. Every time a character is engraved, a human head is sacrificed. That is quite cruel and pious In the endless blood and fire, their tripod writing gradually became magical. Some people say that the writing can predict the future, and some say it can determine the rise and fall, but in fact it has only one function, which is to change history. "

"Change history?" Xie Yu repeated.

"It may be easier for you to understand." Qi Xie folded his fan, "Rewrite the collective memory of mankind."

"I don't understand." Xie Yu emphasized, "How can human memory be rewritten."

Qi Xie smiled: "Dong Hu often writes straight, Cui Zhu kills his king."

"Please speak Mandarin," Xie Yu said.

"What's the job of a historian?" Qi Xie asked.

Xie Yu understood what he meant, and asked back: "How many people will go to the primeval forest to see a tripod when researching history?"

"Like I said, that's a magical cauldron. It doesn't need to be seen, as long as it exists, it's fine."

Xie Yu was noncommittal: "You haven't mentioned the bronze pool yet."

"Bronze Pond." Qi Xie tapped his palm with a folding fan, "Do you still remember the legend of 'monkey head'? In fact, the legend is divided into two halves with the appearance of the butcher. The first half is the old one, and the second half is the new one." .”

Xie Yu paused: "Could it be that the prototype of the 'monkey spirit' in the story is the Shanding clan!"

Qi Harmony just laughed.

Xie Yu squinted his eyes and tried to restore the truth: "In the enchantment... there used to be the Shanding clan living there. They often hid in the trees. When someone passed by, they cut a knife at the back of his neck and hunted away a piece of meat. The head was sacrificed to the cauldron. Later, a person appeared, captured them with tricks, lit a fire, and burned them all to death in the bronze pool."

Qi Xie sneered: "It's because you still write novels, this story is really boring."

Xie Yu was dissatisfied: "Then what should it be?"

"You can think about the plot in the middle. I just want to tell you that the top of the mountain where the bronze pool is located was originally a furnace for their copper smelting. When the 'butcher' drove the Shanding people here, the people of the clan would rather be jade pieces, and put a thousand mouthfuls of the big tripod into pieces. Pushing them all into the furnace, I also jumped down with the 'butcher' in my arms, and the thousand-year-old copper tripod melted away, and the enchanted tripod text also turned into a strange crack."

"I will die in [-]..." Xie Yu read slowly, "Is this a prophecy?"

Qi Xie shook his head: "Dingwen does not have the function of prophecy."

"That's the curse."

"It also has no curse effect."

"What is that?" Xie Yu asked.

Qi Xie smiled: "You are what you see."

Xie Yu did not accept Qi Xie's statement and left the right of interpretation to himself.

"I found a sign in the Bronze Pond." Xie Yu continued, "The first half of it is written with the words 'Special Letter'. Do you know what font it uses?"

Qi Harmony didn't answer.

"Mao body." Xie Yu replied, "That is something after the founding of the People's Republic of China. ——The butcher appeared after the founding of the People's Republic of China."

Qi Xie nodded, seemingly unsurprised.

Xie Yu declined to comment on his reaction: "The last question, how did those students end up in Tongli?"

"What else can I do?" Qi Xie shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly, "Wandering around in the mountains in the middle of the night, encountered a 'monkey's head', and fell into the bronze pool by mistake, just like you, and fell into it."

"What is 'falling in'." Xie Yu asked again.

"You just said, the last question." Qi Xie put away his folding fan happily, and went to the bookcase next to him to read ancient books.

Xie Yu shook his head at his back, looked back at the screen and pressed the switch button.Turning the webpage back to a word file, he scanned through the densely packed text, first pulled it to the title, typed the eight words "Shennongjia Shanding Clan Incident", and then dragged it to the end, typing:

"PS In any case, the matter of pulling people out of copper, I believe, must be an illusion."

When the save button was pressed, the phone on the desk rang.

Xie Yu looked at the caller number, and glanced at Qi Xie from the corner of his eye, only to see a smile appear on the corner of his mouth. While putting down the book and walking towards the phone, Xie Yu gradually restrained his expression, and when he picked up the receiver, he had changed back to that A lazy and indifferent look.

"Hello." Qi Xie picked it up, "What's the matter. Um. Um. Recently? Reading and lecturing, feeding fish seeds and flowers. —— Very free."

☆, bamboo shoots Tai Sui

Under the momentum of the public relations department, the rescue of students in Shennongjia was widely reported by various media, and the public opinion praised President Xun's righteous deeds, and Guixintang frequently appeared in a positive image.

When Xiao Tao came back from shopping, she handed a few coloring pages to Qi Xie as soon as she entered the door: "Mr. Qi, this photo of yours is really good!"

Qi Xie glanced at it and put it aside.

Xie Yu reached out and touched it. It was Guixintang's admissions advertisement, and Qi Xie suddenly appeared in the column of senior tutors.In the photo, he is wearing an azure slanted jacket, leaning on a chair with a folding fan in his hand, his eyes are not looking at the camera, but slightly sideways to the light on the right, looking idle and indifferent.

"It seems that Guixintang thinks your image can be marketed." Xie Yu is a businessman