Sourness

On the fifth day after entering the mountain, Sheng Anxi brought his team and hostages to the fort left by the ancient mountain people that appeared in Lin Ao's story.

Sure enough, as Lin Ao said, the fortress is located on a high place, overlooking the path they came from.On the other side of the fortress, there is a vast valley covered by green plants.

Sheng Anxi should have been here before, and he was very calm when he saw everything in front of him.Others don't care, they don't know about ancient ruins, ancient culture, and don't think these dilapidated houses with earthen walls are important.Only Lin Qingshan and Miyue's eyes were shining brightly, wandering back and forth inside and out.

On the whole, it looks like a big square courtyard with watchtowers at the four corners, but the steps of the upper and lower watchtowers have collapsed, and the remaining mounds seem to be unable to withstand the trampling of adults.

It has been too long, and the doors, windows, and things left in the room have long since disappeared, leaving only the earth wall that is about to collapse, and the general outline can still be seen.

"This structure doesn't look like something from the Ming and Qing Dynasties," Lin Qingshan murmured to Mi Yue, "It's even earlier."

"It should have been used for a long time," Mi Yue also said: "The stairs and walls have been repaired, and they were not repaired at the same time."

Lin Qingshan nodded.

At this time, an assistant beside Sheng Anxi came over and said carelessly, "Take a break and leave in half an hour."

Lin Qingshan was surprised, "still going?"

"Of course." The assistant was also surprised, "Do you think this is the place we are looking for?!"

Lin Qingshan raised his eyebrows, isn't it here? !

The assistant handed him two boxes of instant rice, turned around and walked back to the place where his friends ate in a circle.

Lin Qingshan sighed, and pulled Mi Yue to sit down on the steps that were about to collapse.He hasn't participated in outdoor activities with such a large amount of exercise for many years. As a result, he is old and has to march quickly... Now when he sits down, he feels that the bones all over his body are creaking.

Mi Yue's complexion was also always bad. While he was asleep, Lin Qingshan secretly checked the injuries on his waist and abdomen. There was a large area of ​​bruises, and it hurt to look at it.

But this place in the deep mountains and old forests is surrounded by robbers.Mi Yue offended Sheng Anxi again, and wanted to ask them for some medicine, but no one answered them.There is no other way but to endure.

Lin Qingshan sighed.

He began to expect that the brat who was drooling after Mi Yue would catch up quickly this time.

Nothing useful was found in the guest room, so Jing Rong led his teammates back out.

Standing in the sun, the dull feeling that weighed on my heart seemed to become thinner.

Jing Rong sighed, and handed the evidence bag to Ling Dongzhi.He knew that Ling Dongzhi was not a public official, but this person had a special status, and in some respects, he knew far more than he and his teammates.

Ling Dongzhi picked up the evidence bag and looked at it in the bright sunlight.

"I heard that for this type of animal, every year, an extra circle grows on the edge...it's called growth lines." Ling Dongzhi searched around in his memory, shaking his head, " If it's true, how old is the thing with these scales? Look at the circle, it's so dense that it's dazzling, so you have to use a magnifying glass to see it."

After seeing this scale, Jing Rong also became suspicious of the so-called growth lines.He remembers that the lifespan of snakes is not long. Small snakes usually only last two to three years. The larger the snake, the longer the lifespan. The lifespan of pythons can reach about 40 to [-] years.

Even if this poisonous snake was a boa constrictor, based on the impressions left by the cage on the carpet, it would not be too big, and it shouldn't have so many growth lines.

unless……

"Unless it's not a snake." Ling Dongzhi solemnly returned the evidence bag in his hand to Jing Rong.Holding this thing in his hand, Brown Tang kept trembling nervously against his legs. Although he was still holding on on the surface, the tightly clamped tail could not deceive anyone.

Sure enough, after the evidence bag was handed over, Brown Tang didn't tremble so much, and his tail could be thrown out, and the whole dog seemed much more energetic.

Jing Rong collected the evidence, and together with his teammates, asked the proprietress to see if she could remember more clues.Ling Dongzhi took advantage of this opportunity to bring brown sugar to find the proprietress' yellow cat.

People don't pay attention to the animals around them in action, but their every move often falls into the eyes of the animals.

The old cat was lazily nestling on the window sill basking in the sun, and when it saw a person and a dog approaching, it didn't even hide.

Ling Dongzhi asked it in a low voice if it had ever seen a little owl flying with the car, the old cat licked its paw, and said lazily: "I see it, but it didn't fly with the car, it was sitting in the car. "

Ling Dongzhi breathed a sigh of relief, which showed that the path they were chasing was not wrong.

"It's a black car. People in the car have something covering their faces. It's white, so they can't see their faces clearly." Lao Mao has never seen anyone wearing a mask, and he doesn't know the name of that thing.

But Ling Dongzhi understood.

After asking the direction in which these people left, Ling Dongzhi couldn't ask any more questions.The old cat doesn't remember much, and it can remember Xiaomao purely because it has never seen owls mixed with humans before. In the old cat's impression, this kind of bird with a big face and a plate is always in the middle of the night Only then will they fly out to find food.

Mi Yue scratched it for a while as a thank you.

The clues provided by the old cat were similar to what Jing Rong and the others got from the proprietress.

Furongping is located in the northwest of Changping. People who walk this road basically want to enter the mountain.After the plan to develop the mountain was stopped a few years ago, fewer and fewer people came and went on this road. Zhang Heng said that the town has also called for ecological planting in the past two years. If it can be developed, the town can avoid desertion Destiny went down.

Jing Rong has no time to care about the fate of the town at the moment. According to the time, the people who robbed Lin Qingshan's master and apprentice have already entered the mountain. Are the people with snakes behind them the same as the robbers? Further verification.

But now that he has entered the mountain, it is not something that a few people can solve.

Jing Rong ran to the side to make a phone call and apply for assistance.Looking at the undulating mountains in the distance, Ling Dongzhi never imagined that he would come back here in such a way.

All in all, it's really not too far from Dayan Mountain.

In the deep mountains, Lin Qingshan thought that their next stop was to go to the porcelain kiln that had an accident in the story after finishing their boxed lunch. Unexpectedly, after they set off, they heard Lao Jie muttering behind them, "Also I don't know if I have enough snake repellent..."

Mi Yue's scalp felt numb, and she couldn't help asking, "Why do you bring snake repellent?"

Lao Jie asked him angrily, "What do you think?"

Lin Qingshan looked at him, "Aren't you going to the porcelain kiln?"

"Where are you going?" Lao Jie also looked puzzled, "It's already empty there, there's nothing left."

Lin Qingshan's heart sank.It's not that he wants to relive other people's stories back then, but he just thinks that he knows this landmark anyway.

It's good now, I'm really blind.

There was a chattering sound overhead, Miyue looked up, and saw a few monkeys jumping over the treetops above her head.

They probably didn't expect there to be people in the dense forest, and they were a little frightened.He yelled and shouted, telling the companions behind to leave quickly.

Mi Yue looked at them enviously, wondering if they knew the monkey group on Lingxi Mountain.If only I could meet my acquaintances...

Thinking of this, Mi Yue suddenly saw a slightly smaller monkey turn around and run back, squatting on a treetop and looking towards him.

Mi Yue's heart moved, and she took out a banana that Lin Qingshan had saved for him during the meal just now from her pocket, and waved her hand at the little monkey.

Sure enough, the little monkey was attracted by the fruit, and curiously climbed up the branches and moved towards the direction of Miyue.

In front of the team, Sheng Anxi turned her head to watch this scene, the expression in her eyes changed, but she didn't make a sound to stop it.

Seeing this, his assistants didn't take it seriously.There was only a whisper, "You feed it once, and they will remember it, and they will follow it all the time."

Yi Le, his companion beside him, said proudly: "It's okay, when we get to Moon Lake, no amount of monkeys will dare to follow."

After Lin Qingshan heard this sentence, he secretly guessed that this Moon Lake is the place where there are poisonous snakes?Then what are they going there to do?

Mi Yue carefully took two steps towards the monkey, raised her hand, and passed the banana over.

When the little monkey reached out to pick it up, Miyue whispered, "Do you know the old mulberry father? There is a bunch of white hair on its neck?"

The old mulberry father is the leader of the monkey group near the research institute.The monkeys all called it that, and Miyue was fascinated by it, so they called it that.

Its size is slightly larger than the average monkey. Normally, the monkeys come out to play wild. Even if they fight with the people in the research institute, the old mulberry father never makes a move. He always watches the battle with a very calm face. ...Don't say it, its style is quite similar to Lin Qingshan.

Director Lin was also cheerfully standing aside with his hands in his hands, watching the excitement.

Probably because the breath on Mi Yue's body was too soft, the little monkey grabbed the banana, and instead of avoiding it, he tilted his head and thought for a while, then squeaked, "I know!"

Mi Yue was overjoyed, "Then pass a message for me, just say that Mi Yue is here."

When he spoke, his voice was extremely low, almost breathless, and people a little further away didn't notice that he was talking to the monkey.Only Sheng Anxi seemed to think of something, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The little monkey scratched his head hesitantly, "I don't know where they went. There have been some monsters in the mountains recently, and everyone is running for their lives."

Mi Yue froze for a moment, "What monster? Is it people like us?"

The little monkey shook his head, "The long-haired one is so big, it's fierce."

Miyue didn't know what it was talking about, so he had to remind it, "Remember, when you meet old mulberry father, tell it that Miyue is here, and want to ask them for help."

In fact, Mi Yue wanted to ask where the large group of them were going, and if it was possible to ask them to stay and help, but the companions of the little monkey ran over in a swarm, and the little monkey was also in a hurry to catch up with the companions. After a few words, it was already impatient.

As soon as Mi Yue let go, it jumped onto the branch and ran away with the banana in its arms. I don't know if it remembered Mi Yue's words.

After several days in the mountains, I finally met a relatively large-scale animal friend, and let him go away like this.Mi Yue was not without regrets in her heart, but the group of monkeys ran away too fast, and it was just this one who came to beg for fruit...

Mi Yue turned around, and saw Sheng Anxi striding over, grabbed Mi Yue's arm and walked towards the back of the line.Lin Qingshan jumped up to stop him, but was stopped by Sheng Anxi's assistant, who shouted in shock and anger, "Sheng Anxi! What are you doing?!"

Sheng Anxi turned her head to the side, glanced at Lin Qingshan whose expression had changed drastically, and raised the corner of her mouth, revealing a mocking smile.Then he turned his head, stared at Mi Yue and asked, "What did they say?"

Mi Yue's heart beat violently, he and Lin Qingshan both guessed that Sheng Anxi knew the secret of the Xishan tribe.But it's the first time that he guessed it and showed it clearly.

Mi Yue made up her mind.

If he was Sheng Anxi, how would he doubt him?What question would he think Mi Yue asked? !

"I asked it where it is," Mi Yue gritted her teeth, thinking that from the perspective of others, it would be rather strange for him not to ask such a question.

Sheng Anxi really raised her eyebrows.

Mi Yue felt that her acting skills were not good enough, so she lowered her eyes in annoyance and said, "But it doesn't know."

Sheng Anxi snorted, but believed it a little, "You are so naive. How could a wild monkey know the names marked on human maps."

Mi Yue smiled wryly, "I didn't think of this for a while..."

Sheng Anxi asked again, "What else did you say?"

Mi Yue's heart moved, she looked up at Sheng Anxi and said, "There are other monsters in the mountains."

Sheng Anxi frowned, "What monster?"

Miyue forced a bit of blank expression, "I don't know, could it be... other than us, someone else has entered the mountain too?!"

He was just talking casually at first, but Sheng Anxi frowned when he heard this, showing a somewhat relaxed expression.

Mi Yue was taken aback, "Could it be yours?!"

Sheng Anxi patted him on the shoulder, with a somewhat condescending expression, "Boy, be honest. Don't play tricks under my nose."

Mi Yue's heart suddenly became cold.Right now, these people are already beyond their master and apprentice's ability to deal with, so here are a few more helpers... Can we just sit and wait for death? !

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Miyue: No chance to find help~~