[Rat cat] Mirror City

"It took a long time to come down?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang immediately realized the problem, they looked at each other, Bai Yutang signaled Zhan Zhao to continue asking, "Did you see what they brought down?"

Asked by Zhan Zhao, the little girl tilted her head and tried hard to remember, and finally shook her head in distress and frustration, "I'm sorry brother...I didn't see it."

It was just a quick glance, although Zhan Zhao was disappointed, but he also knew that he couldn't force the child to see clearly.Besides, if those people really went up the mountain, they would definitely carry their equipment on their backs, and it was really hard to see with so many backpacks.

"But we didn't find any traces of man-made vandalism when we were at the entrance of the tomb." Zhan Zhao was a little worried. They were the last batch to arrive, so they couldn't find any traces of people going up before them on the mountain. It's all human.

But analyzing the excavation traces at the entrance of the tomb was a piece of cake for Zhan Zhao, he didn't find any suspicious traces, "Little girl, did the uncles you saw go to the same place as us? "

But the little girl's next answer surprised Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang at the same time, "No, it's not that road." In the past few days, the people in the working group went up and down, and most of the people in the village knew the road they had to pass. By heart, the girl is no exception.But the girl remembered clearly the way they walked that day, it was different from the way Brother Mao and the others walked.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's expressions became serious again, the little girl asked timidly, "Did you...lose something?"

"What?" Surprised by the girl's sensitivity, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't react.Bai Yutang quickly asked, "Why do you think you lost something?"

If a little girl knows that she has lost her things, does the village chief who let those people stay here know something?No, definitely know something.

"Hmm..." The little girl was still afraid of Bai Yutang, she shrank her neck and replied softly, "Hmm... because Brother Mao asked if they had anything, that's all I guessed... and the village head uncle After knowing that the cat brothers are coming here, I have been very worried... so I dare not say anything."

The little girl's voice became softer and softer, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao couldn't help scratching their ears, they really underestimated the child's sensitivity, and they also discovered a problem, what is the village chief worried about?

"Brother Cat, don't blame the village chief, okay...the village chief doesn't know." The little girl was afraid that Zhan Zhao and the others would blame the village chief, so she pleaded, "I shouldn't have said it...but Brother Cat is a good person, Dad said You can't lie, the girl doesn't want to lie."

The girl was anxious, and also afraid that her words and deeds would really bring trouble to the village chief, so anxious that she almost cried, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurried forward to comfort her.

Zhan Zhao touched her little head, "We believe in you, girl is doing the right thing, she is a good boy." When the girl calmed down, Zhan Zhao asked, "Girl, do you still remember that those uncles left? Which road is the mountain, can you take us there?"

"Okay." The little girl didn't have much to think about in her world, so she burst into laughter immediately, and led Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang towards the foot of the mountain.

The location here is not far from the mountain where Zhanbai's tomb is located, and the three of them arrived at the foot of the mountain after a short walk.At first, Zhan Zhao was worried that he might meet people from the work team, but Ya Tou led them around.

The girl who entered the mountain lost her previous timidity, and her whole body exuded confidence and joy. In the mountains, among the trees, and among the grass, the girl's footsteps became extremely light, and she shuttled freely.

Just looking at such a scene, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt relaxed and happy.

Different from the way up the mountain before, the way the girl took them was very hidden and overgrown with weeds. If you don't look carefully, you can't see any place to step down.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked forward supporting each other, and finally stopped in the middle of the road with the girl. "It's here. I didn't follow up later, so I couldn't bring my brothers up." The girl felt very sorry for Zhan Zhao.

"No... it's already great to be able to bring you here." In other words, it's already great that the girl dared to come here alone. If it wasn't for the girl to lead the way, they would all be lost here, "Do you know who those uncles are? From which direction did you go up the mountain?"

The girl nodded confidently, then pointed in a direction.If the girl hadn't pointed it out, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were sure they wouldn't have been able to find it.

"Girl, thank you for bringing us here." Zhan Zhao sincerely thanked the girl, who immediately lowered her head.But Bai Yutang didn't miss the blush on the girl's face... this cat... Bai Yutang shook his head helplessly.

"Girl, you have helped us a lot. Remember, don't tell others what you told my brother today, otherwise people will blame the village chief and uncle." Zhan Zhao used a gentle tone to induce the girl, and the girl didn't care at all. Nods suspiciously.

Having fulfilled her wish for the past few days, the girl also felt that what she should do was over, "I won't tell others. I'm going home, and Mom and Dad will look for me. It's an appointment, brothers Don't blame Uncle Village Chief."

Before Zhan Zhao could say that he wanted to see her off, the girl jumped out a few times and ran away.After running away for a few steps, the girl suddenly stopped, turned around and waved to the two of them, "Bye bye Brother Mao, bye Brother Bai." After speaking, she ran away quickly.

He was also waving his hand at first, but when he heard the little girl's words, Zhan Zhao froze, and Bai Yutang immediately failed.The mood of mischief suddenly surfaced, Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder deliberately, "Brother Cat regained consciousness."

"Who is Brother Cat! What the hell is Brother Cat called?" Zhan Zhao jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on. Why did he call him Brother Cat, but Bai Yutang called him Brother Bai.Bai Yutang is so normal, but he became like this when he came to his side, "You deliberately called me a cat to seduce her in front of the child! And don't call me that, it's strange!"

"You forgot when you introduced it yourself, so I can't blame the child." Seeing Zhan Zhao's depressed face, Bai Yutang felt very fulfilled, and continued to tease, "And the fact that a girl likes you by calling you that means she likes you, Assistant Teacher Zhan That's extraordinary charm, the flower ring attack when we first met..."

"That's easy." Zhan Zhao quickly argued after hearing the second half of the paragraph, why did he feel that the more Bai Yutang said it, the more inappropriate it became?

"Send flowers if it's convenient, but if it's not convenient... There are so many of us, this child only tells you this matter, you can't tell..." Bai Yutang himself didn't notice that his tone became more and more wrong, but Zhan Zhao obviously heard it.

That's obviously just a child who hasn't reached ten years old, what is Bai Yutang doing... Zhan Zhao was depressed by Bai Yutang, and without thinking, he said, "What, a girl who is only a few years old, Do you also eat this vinegar?"

Seeing Bai Yutang's surprise in his eyes, Zhan Zhao wished he could bite off his tongue, which pot was not opened and which pot was lifted, and he didn't know which pot it was, he said it was true or not.

Regretted, Zhan Zhao hurriedly wanted to explain to Bai Yutang, who knew that Bai Yutang quickly adjusted his state, folded his hands on his chest and raised his eyebrows, "What do you think?"

The atmosphere between the two was intentionally quieted down, obviously the two of them would not have felt uncomfortable even if they were silent before, but the obvious embarrassment in the tug-of-war of sight grew deeper and deeper.

Zhan Zhao has never been Bai Yutang's opponent in this kind of eye-to-eye decisive battle, so Zhan Zhao turned his gaze away and changed the subject, "Let's investigate first."

This technique of changing the subject is not very good, even though he said so, Bai Yutang did not continue to tease the cat.Seeing that Zhan Zhao stayed where he was, he consciously went to check the path pointed out by the girl.

If it weren't for the girl's good sense of direction, she probably couldn't remember the location of this path at all.Even standing at the intersection now, Bai Yutang feels that the scenery in front of him is similar, how did they get in.

Thinking of this, Bai Yutang pushed aside the weeds that were obstructing his eyes, looked down, but found something that caught his attention.

After getting a little familiar with the unfamiliar environment, Zhan Zhao found that there were three big trees lined up in front of him, on the left and right sides, even if he left this time, he would still be able to find this place when he came next time.

Just as he was remembering it in his heart, Zhan Zhao suddenly heard a "swish", and the source of the sound was the intersection that the girl had pointed out to him just now.But he didn't see Bai Yutang.

"Yutang?" Zhan Zhao ran over without thinking, with an unconcealable anxiety on his face, Bai Yutang didn't seem like someone who would act in a hurry, could it be that there was a trap behind this road?

Worried about Bai Yutang's safety, Zhan Zhao planned to push the weeds away, but was suddenly pulled in by Bai Yutang. Thanks to Bai Yutang following him, Zhan Zhao didn't fall to the ground.

"You're here, don't disappear suddenly." Zhan Zhao didn't know whether he should scold him or what, but it's fine, "Let's go back and tell Gongsun and Brother Bao before going up. After all, we don't know the road up there. .”

"About the first point, I agree with you." Bai Yutang pulled Zhan Zhao to squat down, "Second point, I found something. Cat, look here."

Pulled by Bai Yutang to squat down, Zhan Zhao didn't understand why, but he still looked at the place Bai Yutang pointed at, "It's just weeds, nothing... eh?"

Zhan Zhao suddenly found that there seemed to be a darker line connecting the weeds among the weeds.I reached out and touched it, but found that it was the touch of leaves.

"It's also a plant?" Because the color is close to black, it is easy to mix with the earth color on the mountain where the view is not particularly good. In addition, this kind of grass is relatively small and will be blocked by weeds. If you don't look carefully Will not find out at all.

"Well, it should be planted here on purpose to guide the way. There is a section of road after this, and they should follow this." After discovering this, Bai Yutang walked forward for a short distance. , There are "black lines" guiding under the weeds on both sides of the road, which is easy to find.

This discovery was of course a surprise to them, "Let's go back quickly and tell Gongsun and the others about this." The two of them had already made up their minds, and the return journey was much faster.

When they returned to the village chief's house, they saw the changed shoes on the ground, and they knew that Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng had returned. "Let's hurry up and tell them the good news!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ran straight up to the second floor, crashing into Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng's room.

"Finally back, I was thinking of calling you." As soon as he saw the two of them, Gongsun Ce put down his phone, "We found something in the tomb."

"Brother Bao isn't there?" Zhan Zhao felt a little strange when he didn't find Bao Zheng.

"I sent you to take a bath." Gongsun Ce felt like laughing when he thought of Bao Zheng coming out from behind the wall. He was obviously watching the wind so nervously at that time, but Bao Zheng showed his white teeth and walked away with a smile Come out... and the body is still full of mud... Even thinking about it now makes me laugh.

"You ran into the wall without telling the work team?" Bai Yutang had no choice but to applaud Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng for their boldness. Zhan Zhao was also unbelievably eye-catching. Although Gongsun is usually bold, he has never done such a thing. blatant thing.

"That's because Bao Heizi said that he seems to have discovered something." Gongsun Ce hastily disregarded the relationship, "I'm just in charge of watching the wind."

"Gongsun, I'm sad when you say that. Obviously, if I didn't drag you later, I would like to go in again." Bao Zheng didn't know when he appeared at the door of the room, with a towel hanging on his head, and the ends of his hair were still wet Drip water.

"It's just in time for you to come back." Bao Zheng wiped his hair and sat on the bed, "I felt something was wrong before, but today I re-entered the passage and found only the footprints of the four of us.

Although the footprints on that passage are a bit messy, you can still tell who they belong to.But no new footprints were found except for the footprints of the four of us, and the things were stolen not long ago. If someone had entered the tomb before us, there would be redundant footprints, which means we didn't come from here at all. entered the tomb. "

"But if it's not from the entrance of the tomb, is there another way to the third tomb?" Gongsun Ce also began to consider this possibility.

"That's what we want to tell you." Zhan Zhao said excitedly, "Yutang and I found that girl, and that girl did have something to tell me. She told me that there was a year before Zhanbai's tomb was discovered. A group of people have been to the village, and they stayed at the village chief’s house. And before they left, they sneaked up the mountain, along another road.”

"Who are they?" You don't need to think about it to know that they are related to the disappearance of the sword. "You mean that there may be another way up the mountain, and you can find another entrance to the tomb?"

"It's very possible." Bai Yutang continued, "I think it might be connected to the last tomb. 'Zhan Zhao' was buried 15 years later than 'Bai Yutang', and his four older brothers couldn't dig it up again. The entrance of the tomb, right? No matter how you think about it, there is another entrance, which is more likely. Moreover, a dark-colored plant was planted on both sides of the road that Zhan Xiaomao and I discovered, and it was used as a marker to guide the way."

"Then do you mean that Bao Heizi and I can also enter the tomb?" After hearing Bai Yutang's words, Gongsun Ce was completely excited. His biggest regret during this trip was not being able to explore the third tomb. How could he not be excited in front of him.

"Zhan Zhao, I remember you said that the third tomb was very cold, right?" Gongsun Ce planned to rummage through the clothes he brought, "I didn't bring thick clothes, so I might as well wear a few more..."

"Wait, don't worry!" Bao Zheng has been paying close attention to Gongsun Ce, and when he saw that he was going to rush out, he reached out and pulled him back. "Even if we want to go, we have to wait until night, right? It used to be easy to get people's attention."

Bao Zheng's words made sense.The enthusiasm was suppressed, Gongsun Ce looked at Bao Zheng weakly, "Then we just wait for the dark?"

What's going on?Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows curiously and looked at Zhan Zhao. He had never seen Gongsun Ce look so low in front of Bao Zheng.

normal normal.Zhan Zhao leaned into Bai Yutang's ear and answered softly, "Usually Gongsun is in charge, but once Big Brother Bao is reasonable, it will become like this."

"Then how is it possible, there are still things to be busy." Bao Zheng waved his big hand, went directly to Zhan Zhao's outstretched hand, and tapped the back of Zhan Zhao's head with his index and middle fingers.

"Brother Bao, what's wrong?" Zhan Zhao didn't turn around, but looked up at Bao Zheng in the upside-down world.

Bao Zheng smiled and flicked Zhan Zhao's forehead, "Go and express your thanks to Mr. Village Chief. Gongsun, you and Bai Yutang will rest first."

Zhan Zhao's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he followed Bao Zheng out.

"Can Bao Zheng ask?" Bai Yutang hesitated.

"Bao Heizi, he has a black face and a black heart, there is nothing he can't get out of." As soon as Bao Zheng left, Gongsun Ce began to prepare clothes and other things, "Bai Yutang, you and Zhan Zhao haven't answered my question yet. , how many clothes can almost reduce the cold inside?"

For some reason, a certain answer came out, "Just wear something ordinary, and Bao Zheng will hug you."

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