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Lian Qiao also sensed Shentucheng's doubts almost immediately, dug out an aqua-blue glass bead from somewhere and stuffed it into the opponent's hand, and whispered, "He's here."

Shen Tucheng looked at the small bead in his palm in surprise, he didn't feel it until he took it, it turned out to be a drop of water.The refreshing coolness unique to the water penetrated into his heart, and he brought the water drops close to his eyes, and found that there were traces of ice blue things swimming and flickering inside.

"what is this?"

"I don't know either." Lian Qiao shook her head, "It's transparent when it's in my hand."

At this time Gao Jie also came over, studied for a while and said, "It's probably something like a soul storage bead... I've never seen something made of water." He couldn't help stretching out his fingers to poke the water bead, " It's so small, and it doesn't use a fixed shape."

Shen Tucheng staggered his hands, squeezed the water beads tightly in his hands, and thought, isn't this just Ah, he doesn't need a stable temper, no matter how it changes, he just wants to look good.

"Where are we going now?"

"X City." Liu Xia replied while driving, "Go to Niushan Mountain."

Shen Tucheng said, "I need to go back to City Z first."

"We will take care of Hu Jianhui's matter." Gao Jie said in a deep voice, "We will try our best to make arrangements for his family, and we will also say hello to the school."

Shen Tucheng lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "I don't want this matter to be published in the newspaper."

"Of course." Liu Xia said, "We don't need to make trouble for ourselves."

"Not only this order from Jianhui, but also everything else, I don't want to see it in the newspaper." Shen Tucheng said in a calm tone, "It doesn't matter now or after the matter is resolved."

"So many people have died, it's hard for us to explain to all parties." Liu Xia sighed and said, "Don't worry, we know what to do."

"En." Shen Tucheng responded, and said nothing more, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Lian Qiao was watching Shentucheng silently from the side. In just a few months, he had faded from his youthfulness and turned into a full-fledged man.His brow is stretched, but it makes people feel majestic.He was still calm and rational, but the corners of his tightly pursed lips showed a bit of violence.He is still a gentleman and polite, but he is more elusive and difficult to get close to than before... The former Shentu City is gone.In other words, the former Shentu City was incomplete, but now, he has grown into a real Shentu City - he should be like this, even coincidentally.

She gently covered Shentucheng with the thin blanket, and whispered to Liu Xia, "Turn off the air conditioner."

Liu Xiateng raised the temperature a bit, and said, "My heart is burning."

"That's all for this matter." Gao Jie said with some frustration, "So far, we can't stop anything."

"So success or failure depends on one move." Liu Xia said wearily, "Niu Shan...Either everything ends there, or..."

"Or, we all die there."

The three people who were talking fell silent at this moment, and for a long time, no one spoke again.The three looked solemn, and began to recall their life bit by bit.Among them, sour, sweet, bitter...everything is precious at this moment.

After a long time, Lian Qiao also said, "I have no regrets..."

"Yes, so no matter what the ending is, I will gladly accept it." Liu Xia finally laughed.But under Gao Jie's sharp eyes, he still put away his smile and said seriously: "Of course I will do my best to make the ending the best."

The best ending is that everything will come to an end in Niushan.No one died.Liu Xia looked down at her palm and clenched it tightly——I will do my best to survive, and more importantly, let you all survive.

……

When the itinerary was about halfway, Shen Tucheng replaced Liu Xia.Liu Xia couldn't wait to get into the back seat, and fell asleep in less than half a minute - at some point, the cynical smile disappeared from his face.The fatigue on his face made him look a little more stable and responsible.Gao Jie silently put a thin blanket on the people around him, thinking, maybe, they all became more mature unconsciously.

……

When the car drove into Niushan Mountain, the sky was already dimly lit, and a drizzle began to fall in the sky. Shen Tucheng closed it with his hand, and opened the car window again.The fine rain blew towards the face with a coolness, as if something blocked the sight all of a sudden, Shen Tucheng slammed on the brakes.

creak-

Gao Jie was awakened immediately, shocked: "What's wrong?!"

Shen Tucheng was startled, wiped the water from his face, and said apologetically, "It seems that the car broke down."

"Oh..." Gao Jie heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at the scenery outside again, "Are you at Niushan?"

"kindness."

"Then get out of the car and walk, the sentry booth is not far ahead." He said, waking up the other two people in the carriage.

"Hmm..." Liu Xia rubbed his eyes in a daze, "Are you here so soon?"

Without saying a word, Gao Jie supported Liu Xia and walked forward.He and Lian Qiao also looked at each other, and Shen Tucheng walked in the last with a graceful manner.

A group of four soon arrived at the sentry booth. Liu Xia handed in the documents, and very familiarly put the shoulders of the two sentries, and whispered in their ears from time to time.After a while, Shentucheng and the others were arranged at a small table with hot food on it.

"Let's eat something first." Liu Xia took a sip of hot porridge and said, "If you don't eat enough, you won't have the strength to search the mountains."

"Soushan?"

"En." Liu Xia solved a bun in two or three bites, put down his chopsticks and said seriously, "Wang Shiwei escaped."

"Shit!" Gao Jie couldn't help cursing in a low voice.

Lian Qiao also asked, "Which direction did he run?"

"……north."

"Strange..." Lian Qiao didn't understand, "The north belongs to yin, so it should increase yin."

Gao Jie thought for a while, and said, "You missed a little bit, the north returns to the water." He glanced at Shentucheng as he spoke.

Shen Tucheng was thoughtful, as if he didn't worry about their conversation at all—"We will meet again, right here." That's what the little girl said to him at that time.

Now that he's here again, does that mean...she will come to him soon?

Shen Tucheng tried his best to recall the scene at that time, remembering that Ah Hao once said that it was a goblin, so he asked Lian Qiaoye: "What is a goblin?"

Lian Qiao was also stunned for a moment, and replied: "The spirits cultivated by gathering the spiritual energy of the earth... the most common ones are ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum."

"Where is the biggest difference in their habits?"

"Well... Polygonum multiflorum likes sun and dampness, tolerates half shade, and fears waterlogging. Ginseng likes shade and humidity... Ah! I remembered! The child we met last time! She is a goblin!" Lian Qiao also showed joy expression.

"It's probably ginseng." Gao Jie said, "Niushan's environment is not suitable for the growth of Polygonum multiflorum."

"It's just ginseng!" Lian Qiao also pointed to the topographic map of Niushan Mountain on the wall and said, "Ginseng likes both shade and humidity, and there happens to be a river to the north of this mountain."

The more she talked, the more excited she became, but Liu Xia was at a loss: "Excuseme, I don't seem to understand what you are talking about."

"You don't need to understand." Lian Qiao also said, "Ginseng baby is best at finding things, so don't worry about finding Wang Shiwei now!"

"Even if that's the case," Liu Xia refused to give up, and struck down, "How did you find that...uh, ginseng baby?"

Even Qiao was at a loss for words, but Shen Tucheng smiled and said, "She will come to me soon."

After breakfast, Liu Xia asked the sentinel to borrow something, and led the other three to the north.After walking for more than an hour, the drizzle turned into a downpour.

The rain curtain blocked the sight of the four like a waterfall, and the road under their feet became muddy.The heavy raincoat hindered the movement, and Lian Qiao was walking with difficulty, shouting loudly through the thick mask: "I can't find my way!"

"Stop first!" The heavy rain made Liu Xia's voice unreal.Lian Qiao also stopped as she said, a few drops of rainwater seeped in from nowhere, and slid down her back, like a cold finger pointing on her back... She couldn't help shivering.

Obviously, Shentucheng and his party lost their way in the heavy rain. Liu Xia shook the instrument in his hand and said to Gao Jie helplessly, "It's broken." The pointer kept spinning back and forth, as if the magnetic field around everyone suddenly became very chaotic. "Damn it." Liu Xia whispered.

"What should I do now?" Lian Qiao barely stood on a fallen tree trunk, her white toes were covered with dirty mud.Liu Xia squatted down with her back facing her, Lian Qiao also touched her already cold arm, and silently fell on it.

Liu Xia threw away the instrument in his hand, and said to Gao Jie: "The most basic item of survival in the wild - to identify the direction, you will not forget it?"

Gao Jie snorted, and after carefully observing the surrounding situation, he took the lead in walking in one direction.

Shen Tucheng was silent all the way, but compared to the embarrassment of the other three, he seemed much more at ease.With his hands in his pockets, he followed behind Liu Xia unhurriedly. At this moment, his mood seemed surprisingly calm.The water-blue beads flickered slightly in his palm, and Shentucheng's hand tightened unconsciously...

Suddenly, Lian Qiaoye's scream came from not far ahead, and her and Liu Xia's blurred figures disappeared almost instantly in the rain curtain. Shentucheng was startled and rushed over quickly.

When he got closer, a deep pit with a diameter of about two meters appeared in front of him—it turned out that Lian Qiao also fell down accidentally.The pit was very deep, and under such lighting conditions, Shentucheng could hardly see the bottom. In addition, the three people who fell were wearing borrowed army green raincoats, so Shentucheng couldn't find them now.He was half lying on the ground, stretched out most of his body, and shouted, "Are you all right?"

After a while, Gao Jie's voice came from below: "It's okay... Liu Xia... we saw... come down..." His voice was intermittent, even a little ethereal, and was instantly covered by the sound of pattering rain past.

In this way, the people on both sides of the up and down are separated by a long distance, as if... two worlds are separated...