I survive in a high-risk world by writing essays

This is a village that seems to have lived in the last century. The road connecting with the outside world is quite difficult, and it is quite a basin surrounded by mountains. Some difficult roads were led by Ryoko.

Originally, she wanted to jump off with me in her arms, saying that it was so fast, but I... I still need to save face. Thinking about being carried away by Ryoko, who looks like a high school girl with a short head, I just I'm sorry [softly]

In the process of walking from a slightly higher-lying place to a slightly lower-lying village, as the distance gradually approached, I could clearly see the original appearance of the village below from a bird's-eye view.

There are not many houses, probably about a hundred households, most of which are fields. The Xuyu River flows through this village and disappears into a mountain in the distance. That mountain is the source of the Xuyu River.

Judging from the results, although we took the wrong road, there seems to be a direct way to the mountain at the source after passing through this village.

"Outsiders?" A white-haired old man who was plowing in the fields saw our group coming down the mountain road, stopped farming and straightened his back slightly, squinting his eyes as if he couldn't see people clearly, "You come to the village What are you doing here?"

I let go of Liangzi's hand that was holding me to lead the way, and walked forward to talk to the old man. At first, I said with reservations, "We lost our way in the mountains. We saw a village here and wanted to ask for directions. The old man , do you know the mountain at the source of the Shuyu River, the one with a cave, how to get there?"

"Oh, that mountain." The old man was a little deaf, I asked him twice before he heard clearly, "I know, but what are you little kids doing in that dark cave?"

"Expedition." I smiled, pointing to the travel bag that Knotweed and the others were carrying, "We are an expedition team. I heard that someone came here before and discovered that the source of the Xuyu River is a snake story. How amazing it is. How amazing, we just want to see if it's real."

Listening to my nonsensical excuses, the children in the back cleverly said nothing to the contrary, and nodded in agreement.

"The cave is dark and dangerous. Every few years, there will always be one or two people who are more courageous than the sky and run in to explore. Where are you young people going to have fun and come here to explore?" After listening to the old man With a bad face and a bad tone, he waved his hands in a gesture of repelling, "Go back, don't come here to make trouble!"

This reaction... can't be said to be particularly unexpected.

I would like to continue talking to this old man. A middle-aged man walked out of the next house. He saw a group of us standing by the field and talking to the old man. He hurried over, "Where did you come from? What is my dad doing!"

Since the middle-aged man came out, the old man has focused on farming and stopped talking to us. What I said to this middle-aged man is the same excuse as I just said to the old man, but the attitude of the middle-aged man is completely opposite.

"That cave? I know, I even showed people the way before!" The middle-aged man entertained us very warmly and invited us to sit at his house.

Hearing what the middle-aged man said, I thought about it and asked, "A lot of people have been here, have you ever seen a man named Deng Ben Jiandou?"

Middle-aged man showing a puzzled look and shaking his head

"There is a beard, and there is a small scar under the eyes, which is about this high." I compared the height and described Deng Ben Jiandou's appearance.

The appearance of Deng Ben Jiandou, the owner of the fishing tackle shop, most people would probably think that he is not a good person when they see him, especially because there are scars under the eyes, which looks very black.

In fact, his personality does not match his appearance at all, and he is a good old man.With a tough face, he would put his little daughter on his shoulders as a horse for her to ride on, and when he saw a group of bad boys bullying around girls, he would scold and drive those bad boys away, and then Send the girl home and tell the girl's family to pay attention.

I noticed that after I described Dengben Jiandou's appearance, the expression of the middle-aged man changed slightly, and he said that he had no impression.

This subtle expression change can already explain many things.

At least one thing can be confirmed for the time being, either this middle-aged man has seen Dengben Jiandou somewhere, or Dengben Jiandou came to this village before he disappeared.

We followed the middle-aged man into the village. Before entering the village, I took one last look back at the old man who was buried in the field.

Bent and silent.

If you don't look at the subtle expression changes of the middle-aged people just now, this village still looks good, with a slow and relaxed rhythm. From everyone's face, it can be seen that they live in this village in the mountains, and their lives are self-sufficient. Not bad, you can also see old people strolling leisurely on the road.

I am also a person who likes to walk around in these places in the countryside to collect stories. This village looks not much different from the villages I have seen before, and even the outsiders are friendly and enthusiastic. They will also stop to say hello and chat.

"Yuhito, Kuroshio-sensei, Fuguro, Kizaki... Do you feel a very uncomfortable feeling?" The middle-aged man stopped again to say hello to an acquaintance passing by, and pulled away a little When there was a distance between us, Junpei lowered his voice and asked us in a low voice.

"I've always been very uncomfortable." Wild Rose clicked her tongue lightly, and said with some disgust, "I've said it all, I hate rural villages, the more ignorant and remote the countryside, the more 'I'm weak but I'm justified' There are idiots who have ridiculous delusions of 'does she look down on the country people', and idiots who pretend to be deaf and dumb and think that 'although I didn't stop it, I didn't participate in it either' so I didn't do anything wrong."

"Too, too extreme... There should be some good ones, right?" Frightened by Wild Rose's aura, Knotweed said in a low voice.

Wild Rose snorted and continued to walk forward, "Anyway, this is what I encountered."

The middle-aged man took us to meet the village chief.

The village head of Shancun is an old man with white hair and beard, so old that people doubt that he has stepped into the list of long-lived elderly in Japan, which can pull the average age of Japanese people.But the appearance of walking with a cane seems to be quite stable.

The middle-aged man told the village head why we came, and the village head looked at us with cloudy eyes for a while, then waved his hand and turned around, "If they want to go, take them there, and they will leave naturally if they satisfy their curiosity."

The middle-aged man should come down and promise to take us to the source of Yuchuan tomorrow.

"You guys should stay here for tonight. They have a lot of vacant rooms." The middle-aged man—we now know his surname. He said it was Ge Tian, ​​and the village chief just called him the boy of Ge Tian's family.

Ge Tian took us to a seemingly wealthy family in the village, and introduced us to stay with this family for one night.

Of course, it is a temporary residence that provides accommodation fees.

So far, what this village has presented to us is normal and a little abnormal.

"There is a lot of fog. I'm just a horror novelist, not a mystery novelist. Why do I have to encounter such a brain-intensive thing." I looked at the room provided by this family, watching Ryoko lift up the bed and turn it on the floor. Open, couldn't help sighing.

Although it is said that it is the one with the most vacant rooms in the village, in fact there are only two vacant rooms that can be cleaned up immediately, so there is one for me and Wild Rose, and one for the other three boys.

"We don't do anything. Is it okay to wait for others to show their feet and then act according to the trend?" Wild Rose sat cross-legged on her bed in a heroic posture, stretched out her finger and pointed at the curse skeleton I put on the table, "Speaking of which—his psychological gender is also male, shouldn't he go to the next room?"

I was caught off guard for a moment, "...Huh?"

Wild Rose was taken aback by my reaction, "What, isn't it? It's a man's voice."

"No, it should be..." I just realized it for the first time.

My gaze slowly moved to Xia You, who was lying motionless on the table.

Although under the influence of the voice, it is true that people will have a superficial gender awareness, but when getting along, who would always realize that it is a person of the opposite sex when they see a brain, this is very strange, right? !

So strictly speaking, most of the time, my subconscious sees him as genderless.

Oh, and of course I don't change in the living room, or come out of the shower without clothes.

I nodded thoughtfully, "So Xia You should really go to the next door."

As soon as my voice fell, Ryoko jumped off the bed, picked up the curse skeleton on the table and ran briskly to the door, then turned her head and winked at us, "No problem, leave it to me~"

Summer Oil: […]

Xia You had nothing to say, so he could only keep quiet.

Ryoko ran out and knocked on the room next door where the three boys lived, and soon someone opened the door, followed by Junpei's surprised voice, "That... Ryoko? What's the matter?"

Apparently, he never thought that Ryoko would be the one he saw when he opened the door.

Ryoko's voice came from outside the door, "It's nothing, I want to leave this to you. Our room is full of girls, it's not good to let him stay~"

I can imagine Junpei's stunned expression when he took the summer oil.

Then Ryoko came back soon, her dimpled face could be seen to be in a good mood.

"What about this one?" Wild Rose looked at the reef in the room who kept quiet and squatted in the shadow of the corner.

"Jiao is really genderless."