Vermillion mole

Zhu Sha was a little curious, because at first glance, the face of the man was covered with mud, and he couldn't even tell whether it was a man or a woman, but at this time, there was no time to think too much, so Pan Zi called out to help!Several people all rushed into the water behind Zhang Qiling.

Zhu Sha also hurried back to put away the golden silkworm Gu that was still playing, and wanted to follow, but stopped when she thought of Aning behind her, but she was stunned when she turned around, people...ah, it's not that the body is gone!

Soon Pan Zi and the others also came back, and told Zhu Sha that they could not catch up with them, so they came back.Seeing Zhu Sha standing there silent and not knowing what happened, but looking at the place where Ah Ning was staying, she was dumbfounded...

Wu Xie and Fatty were both dumbfounded when they saw it, and Fatty yelled: "Fucking shit, who did it?" Senseless.

Zhu Sha squatted down and opened the cloth bag, but there was no reaction at all, and she saw that inside the sleeping bag, there were all mud marks where snakes had crawled. Too many?

When I touched it, it was sticky, and the traces were very new, obviously it was left just now.The fat man's expression changed drastically, and he said in surprise, "Damn it, could it be that kind of snake that moved the corpse away?".

Pan Zi obviously didn't believe it, "It's impossible, how could the snake take away such a heavy corpse?".But his face also changed, obviously the traces here showed that what the fat man said was right.

"We need to find her body quickly. If the body is away from me for too long, it will affect her soul. If it is really taken into the underworld, I will not go to the underworld to ask for her soul." Zhu Sha said with a frown.

The fat man said again: "Then let's all go to Ah Ning, what should I do, brother? It will be more dangerous if we disperse Kai."

Zhu Sha sighed: "He has been here before and is familiar with it, not to mention it's Heitian now, we can't act rashly."

They had no choice but to continue to wait for Zhang Qiling, and the three of them leaned against Zhu Sha tightly, not daring to rest

In fact, it was not too early at this time, and it was only a while before dawn. With the radiance of the morning light, the depression that lasted for a whole night was relieved a lot, and the three of them also relaxed a little, but Zhang Qiling did not come back.

Zhu Sha couldn't help worrying, after all, Queen Mother Xi studied those strange things all day long, even if Zhang Qiling came here more than once, accidents might happen.

Seeing that there was no news from Zhang Qiling, Zhu Sha seldom became anxious. Zhu Sha rarely felt that he would lose someone at any time. The fat man probably saw Zhu Sha's anxiety, and comforted him: "Don't worry, little fairy, I believe in brother Proper, I believe he will try to escape when he encounters an uncontrollable situation."

Zhu Sha shook her head: "You don't know him, the word escape will never appear on him, if something happens to him, the first thing on his mind is definitely not to escape, but how to escape without being in fatal danger." , kill all enemies, he will not leave his back to the enemy."

The fat man said: "Okay, little fairy, don't worry about it. At worst, after my brother dies, you can just sign another contract for him!"

Zhu Sha slapped the fat man on the head: "You can only sign one at a time, and Zhang Qiling is considered a half-celestial family in name, the method of the underworld doesn't work!"

The fat man was stunned: "Brother is half a fairy? What do you mean?"

Zhu Sha smiled mysteriously, "You will know later!"

After eating something, Pan Zi walked back to the mouth of the canyon, picked up some branches and dried them in the sun, and lit a bonfire to make a pile of charcoal.

What does Wu Xie want to do.

Pan Zi said: "It is said that we have already passed the canyon. We know the basic situation. It has been a few days. If there is no accident, the third master and the others should arrive at the mouth of the canyon immediately. Although there was still light rain yesterday, But the Gobi outside has been exposed to the sun for several days, and the surface river is not known yet. He wants to make a signal smoke here. On the one hand, it will mark our location and let the third master know that we have entered and The route we go in, secondly, it can also warn the third master about the situation here, so that they can be more vigilant."

After Pan Zi finished speaking, he took out a yellow pill-like thing from his bag and threw it into the charcoal pile. Soon a puff of thick smoke rose. He told me that it was the signal smoke for distress in case of shipwreck. This kind of paratrooper military product he entrusted to a comrade who is still in the army, just a few balls can smoke for three to four hours.

Wu Xie said, "Can you tell Third Uncle that there are poisonous snakes in this canyon?"

Pan Zi shook his head and said, "Smoke of different colors represent different meanings, but they all have simple meanings. The yellow color represents danger ahead, so proceed carefully. For more complicated communication, you have to wait until Uncle San sees the smoke." , He can find a way to convey it after giving us an echo. The third master and the others are on a higher terrain than us, so it should be easy to see. We must always pay attention to the direction of the exit of the canyon, or whether there are signal smoke on the four walls to respond.”

Pan Zi refilled the smoke ball every two hours. After the first smoke ball was extinguished, there was no echo, and Zhang Qiling didn't come back, nor did he care about it. He waited until the afternoon, when the second smoke ball was about half burned. Suddenly the fat man yelled: "Yes, yes! There is an echo!"

As soon as Zhu Sha looked up, she saw a puff of smoke rising from a distance, slowly floating into the sky, the smoke turned out to be red, at first glance, it looked like a huge cockscomb snake, coming out from under the tree crown far away.

Everyone cheered, and the conditioned reflex started to laugh, and suddenly Zhu Sha asked, "What are you laughing at? Can you see where Yan rose from first? And red doesn't look like a good thing, does it?"

In the next second, everyone immediately realized that something was wrong, because the place where the smoke rose was not outside the canyon at all, but in the center of the basin we were in, the depths of this swamp.

Pan Zi couldn't believe his eyes: "Fuck, what's going on? Why are they in there?"

Wu Xie was afraid that there was a misunderstanding, so he immediately picked up the binoculars to look at it, and it was correct. The smoke was definitely not caused by a fire, because the color of the smoke was abnormally red.

"Da Pan, it looks like your third master is much faster than you." The fat man murmured.

"Impossible. Could it be that the third master and the others went in from another canyon? But, according to the plan, they didn't come this way. They should wait for my signal, and they are too damn fast..." Pan Zi couldn't figure it out .

"If you can figure out what Wu Sansheng did, then Wu Sansheng can call you Master Pan." Zhu Sha teased.

Pan Zi was right when he thought about it, "What does this smoke mean?" Wu Xie asked.

Pan Zi took the binoculars from Wu Xie, looked in the direction of the smoke, and after thinking about it, his face suddenly changed, and he said solemnly: "No, something happened to them. The color of the smoke has a simple meaning, Yellow smoke means that the road ahead is dangerous, so proceed carefully, orange smoke means stop and wait for confirmation, while red smoke is more serious, which means you must never approach, and it is usually issued to warn latecomers in extremely dangerous situations. In general activities, red smoke is almost never used."

Pan Zi shook his head, paused for a while and obviously became a little anxious, he said to me: "No, you guys stay here, little Zhusha fat man, I have to go over and see if anything happens to the third master. There are more than 30 people in the third master, People are strong and horses are strong. Normally, they don't emit red smoke. Something big must happen over there. That damn black blind man is still too young. Don't worry, little third master. I drilled a lot in this kind of woods when I was in Vietnam. If you can pass through, you wait here for the little brother to come back before making any plans."

When Zhu Sha heard that the black blind man was under Wu Sansheng's hands, he became uneasy: "Pack up your things and go to Wu Sansheng together! If my son is in danger, I will definitely pluck his hair!"

Pan Zi was taken aback: "Zhu Sha, do you still have a son?"

But Zhu Sha didn't talk to Pan Zi, but ran to the side to pack his luggage.Pan Zi cast a puzzled look at Wu Xie, and Wu Xie gave Pan Zi a bombshell: "The young blind man you mentioned is my aunt's son, and according to his seniority, he is still my third uncle's cousin. , is also my cousin. And that little brother is Zhu Sha’s younger brother, my third uncle still calls him uncle, I want to call him uncle! No matter which Panzi you have to call him master!”

Pan Zi couldn't believe his ears: "Fuck me? Isn't this world a bit mysterious?"

Fatty also had fun packing up his equipment, and Wu Xie was also very happy to see Pan Zi's deflated expression, and the depressive atmosphere disappeared.

There were 6 people when they entered the canyon, but now there are only 4 left, one died and the other ran away. The original supplies obviously need to be redistributed, but the fat man said that Zhang Qiling’s share should not be taken away, and it should be wrapped in a waterproof cloth After that, I pressed it with a big rock, and then used a marker pen to write our whereabouts on the inner layer of the tarpaulin.Next to the package, turn the smokeless stove to the darkest, so that it can burn for three days, and if Zhang Qiling comes back at night, he won't be able to find it.

Pan Zi said that the signal smoke can only be burned for three hours at most. We can’t take a rest when we go in this time, so we should pack as lightly as possible. Anyway, if we want to come back, we will definitely pass by here, so we don’t bring what we can’t bring.

After that, we went through the equipment and left some heavy things such as gas masks and Luoyang shovels.Then Zhu Sha changed some of the heavy things that Wu Xie was carrying into his backpack, and stuffed all the food into Wu Xie's backpack: "If there is an accident, the three of you can't get separated anyway. Wait for me to rescue you."

We all nodded and tidied up, just about to leave, suddenly the fat man grabbed us again and asked us to look up at the smoke in the distance.

It turns out that the signal smoke in the distance is getting thinner day by day. I don't know what happened there, or the smoke balls are not enough.Looking at it this way, the smoke must not persist until we reach it.

Without further delay, I immediately aligned the compass with Cong Panzi, walked into the swamp and headed towards the direction of the signal smoke.

Zhu Sha opened the way and cut down the vines that blocked the road. Because almost all the trees have a lot of roots connected to the vines, so there is almost no need to splash water, and it is very stable to walk on the thigh-thick vines.

However, what surprised everyone was that in such a dense forest, it was surprisingly quiet. Except for the sound of our marching, no other movement could be heard, and the silence was a bit uncomfortable.

"The Queen Mother of the West's territory is really evil," the fat man said as he walked, "the fuck doesn't even a bird sing?"

"It's more than that, it seems like there's nothing here?" Wu Xie said

Pan Zi said, "Maybe there are too many snakes here, and the birds are all eaten up."

Wu Xie shook his head: "Impossible, what do these snakes eat now?"

Zhu Sha smiled: "Maybe the snake has changed to a vegetarian?"

Everyone grinned, tensed their nerves and continued to move forward. Soon we saw some ancient architectural relics wrapped in trees and protruding from the water in front of us. Because the age is too long, these broken pieces of jade have become stones of different shapes. Blocks, a large number of vines and moss take root in the gaps of these buildings, and then wrap the whole body, mixed in

It is difficult to distinguish in the rainforest, and you can't find it unless you are close to you.

These buildings must have belonged to the top parts of the building at that time, so they can still protrude above the water, because the underwater part cannot be seen, and the overall shape is unknown, but looking at the top, they all look like simple towers.There are a lot of them, scattered high and low, and different in size. They look like the kind of Tallinn where monks are buried.

Wu Xie complained: "I basically didn't see the remains of the Queen Mother of the West along the way, and now I finally saw it. I had a guess before that we should not go wrong. After all, there is no sign at the entrance of the canyon that says "West Queen Mother City is 2 kilometers inward, move Signals are covered. "Go in after a while and find that there is nothing inside, that's a big joke."

The fat man smiled and said, "Xiao Wu, why didn't I realize that you have a funny side before?"

Wu Xie smiled: "I see everyone is tense, let's make a little joke to ease the atmosphere inside!"

Then don't delay, just keep going.The absolute area of ​​this valley is not large. The further you go in, the silt under the water is significantly reduced, and the remains of various underwater monuments are exposed, which are very clear, forming a very strange but spectacular scene. The depth of the water is only about two or three meters, and the countless remnants of jade and the roots of the trees under the water are mixed together, which makes me feel like a world apart with only a thin layer of water surface.

It wasn't until this time that I felt like I had entered an ancient city. Looking at these remnants, I could vaguely imagine how prosperous it was back then.