Chapter 61 Chapter 7 Falling into a Deep Pit, Bones and Skeletons and a Wall

We have been walking along the mountain road, ups and downs, all are dirt roads stepped on by mountain people with the soles of their feet. At the beginning, there were some fields, but then there were no more. It was all dense and undulating forests.When I walked to the front of the Heizhugou, I felt that the terrain suddenly became much lower. All the way down, I formed a wide canyon, about several hundred meters long.Looking in through the thin veil of mist, you can see green grass and dense forests, occasionally dotted with small red, yellow and white flowers, without the chill of winter, it looks green, like spring .

The road to Heizhugou is a large piece of slate rocks inclined at an angle of 40 degrees, with twists and turns, and it is not easy to walk. Yesterday Wan Sanye and the others stopped here.After a night of rain, the rock became even more slippery. If one was not careful, he might fall into the ditch and die. A group of people stopped on the slope of the skateboard rock and looked at the misty ditch below, feeling a little uncertain about the future. Wan Sanye is over seventy years old. He was not blushing or panting all the way, showing a strong physique. On the contrary, his elder nephew Wan Yong was panting and tortured by the mud along the way. Wan Yong was old. Over fifty; but Wan Chaoxin and Wan Chaodong, the two grandsons of Mr. Wan Sanye, one in his thirties and the other in his twenties, both in their prime, were too tired to get up on the ground.

They are all men who are used to running in the mountains, which shows how difficult the mountain road after the torrential rain is. It would be extremely difficult to find the missing Wan Chaoan under such circumstances, unless the kid escaped by himself. Leaning on a wooden stick, Wan Sanye planed the grass nearby, and then stared at the ground, trying to find some remaining traces, but there were no traces, which made him a little puzzled.Wan Chaodong, who was squatting on the ground, pointed to the mountain road on the side of Wan Sanye and said, "Third Grandfather, the humidity is heavy these days, and the goats are afraid of slippery hooves, so they will definitely not slip into this black bamboo ditch. , I'm afraid that Xiao Anzi chased him to the side of the parasol slope?"

Wan Sanye ignored him, twitched his beard and thought for a while, then squatted down, untied his raincoat, and took out two copper coins from his pocket. After closing his hands, he prayed silently and threw it on the ground. After others saw it clearly, he put away the copper coins, got up and said let's go, let's go down. After finishing speaking, he took the lead to go down. Zhao Zhonghua and several of his juniors carefully followed along the zigzag stone path. Just as we were about to follow, the tiger cat cruising in the sky flew down, stood on the arm of the miscellaneous hair, shook his body, and shot water beads on our faces, I was about to scold this damn fat mother Chicken, but heard it tell us in a lower voice than usual that there is something strange in this ditch.

I smiled and said that this ditch is naturally weird, otherwise those people who disappeared or died before were sacrificed in vain? Mr. Tiger Cat pointed to the ditch at the foot of the slope, and said: "Not only is there a strong yin, but there seems to be the shadow of a magic circle. I'm afraid that many people died in Heizhugou in the past because they were fascinated by the magic circle." , can’t come out... But, I’m here with adults, so if you want to go in, you don’t have to worry about it.” Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao and I quickly flattered it, saying yes, yes, it’s all up to adults to take care of it.

Hearing the praise, the fellow immediately got up in a high spirits and said, "Little poison, if you betroth your good daughter to me, I will guarantee that you can come and go freely, how about it?" The shopkeeper’s shout came from down the slope, I gave the toad who wanted to eat swan meat a mouthful, and walked down the slope with a wooden stick, when the tiger cat’s angry voice came from behind: “You bastard, you are If you are trapped to death, I will not save you, my lord!" I laughed loudly: "Isn't Duo Duo unable to come out?" Master Tiger Cat: "You..."

I went down to the bottom of the ditch along the slate rocks, and found that the torrential rain yesterday poured water into the creek in the distance.However, the bottom of the ditch is wide and the land is less than half a mile, so we naturally choose places with higher terrain for walking.The white mist in the ditch seemed dense from above, but it was nothing when it got down to the bottom of the valley. Looking up, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery within tens of meters. Wan Sanye's eyes were very vicious, and after a while, he found evidence that Wan Chao'an had been here in front of a nest of grass.

Looking at the black button on the old man's hand, Wan Yong also confirmed that it should be the button on Chao Anna's bastard's jacket. Now that we had clues, we naturally searched beside Mizoguchi.But others are looking for traces of people, but most of my attention is looking for the flowers and plants around me——Before departure, Wan Sanye told me the appearance of Haodi Xuedan, let me know Be careful when entering the mountains.It was a matter of life, so I naturally took the trouble to look around. After searching for a while like pulling a fishing net, we didn't see any more clues, so we walked deep into the canyon.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seem to find a black shadow on the top of the skateboard rock slope in the corner of my eye, but when I look carefully, it disappears.I pulled Wan Chaodong who was next to me, and asked him if we were the only ones going into the mountain today, no one else would follow, right?When Wan Chaodong came down, he fell several times, his hands were covered with mud, and he looked unhappy. When I asked this, he laughed, saying that it was a rainy day, who would come to this mountain without incident?are you crazy! I stopped talking, looked back at the top of the slope in doubt, and continued to walk in.

There are many rocky places at the bottom of the ravine. Although there is also stagnant water, it is much easier to walk than the mountain road when we came.There was no mud, we moved forward carefully, and felt that our steps were much lighter.Zamao Xiaodao and I were at the tail of the team, and we took turns calling the name "Wan Chaoan" constantly, hoping that the daredevil would come out as soon as he heard it. After walking for about a few miles, several forked roads suddenly diverged in front of us. There was a wild beast path leading to the dense forest, a straight stone path, and a muddy path along the stream.

This valley is wide, and there are only seven of us, so it is naturally impossible to divide the army into several groups.Wan Sanye squatted on the ground, asked the way with a copper coin, and finally chose the path stepped by the beast on the left.We brought two three-barreled shotguns (three bursts) on this trip, respectively carried by Wan Yong and Wan Chaoxin to guard against wild animals. Wan Chaoxin is the captain of the militia in the village, and he often goes hunting in the mountains on weekdays. Let him take the lead and go all the way forward. I'm still at the end.After walking for a while, I suddenly saw several plants with dark green broad leaves in the bushes of thorns not far away. The stems and branches were long and thick, the hairs were sparse and short, and the edges and center of the vines were densely covered with papillae. There are some obovate-shaped white fruits dotted among them. Look at this shape, could it be the Artemisia japonica I am looking for? I was overjoyed, and hurried over, wanting to take a close look, but I didn't know that I didn't walk a few steps, and there was no sense of force on the grass-like ground in front of me, and I fell down when my feet were empty. The moment my body lost balance, all the muscles in my body tensed up immediately, I twisted my waist, and reached out to grab a few weeds. what-- Where could the wild grass be able to bear my weight, it immediately broke away from the soil and fell down with me.I was flustered, but before I could react, my feet hit the ground.I squatted halfway, buffering the potential energy of the fall, and looked around with the help of the light cast from above, and found that I fell into a long and narrow pit, because the grass above it grew obliquely and there was a layer of floating soil, which led me to think it was Flat ground, fell into it. "Little poison, little poison..." Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao called anxiously from above, and then the light dimmed, and the space above was blocked by a figure. The pit was three or four meters high, and I was afraid that he would fall, so I quickly said it was all right.He scolded angrily, and said, "You bastard, why don't you run over here for nothing, come up quickly." It was dark in the pit, so I took out the flashlight and prepared to find a place to climb up under pressure, but As soon as I turned on the flashlight, when it shone on the wall of the pit, it made my heart tremble faster. I wipe... On the entire mud wall, there are many white dead bones inlaid densely. The bones include thigh bones, ribs, and bones that are too small to be broken. What is even more shocking is the skulls mixed in it. , white and gray, covered with slippery moss.Suddenly seeing it made my tongue numb and my whole body stiff. The flashlight shone everywhere, and I saw corpses on all sides of the long pit, including under my feet. There was a rope hanging down from the top, I immediately grabbed it, and climbed up on hands and feet. Seeing me, Zhamao Xiaodao looked terrified and asked what was wrong?I said shit, the bottom is full of dead bones. The shopkeeper said that this is an ancient battlefield, and it is true. Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao scoffed, saying that two thousand years have passed, so where are the bones? Are your eyes dazzled? Seeing that he didn't believe it, I urged him to go down and take a look, but he didn't want to, so he raised his legs and wanted to leave, saying that there was something wrong ahead, everyone passed by, hurry up.I said wait, walked around the pit, and picked the suspected Artemisia japonica from the thorny bushes.Looking at the spindle-shaped ginkgo fruit in my hand, Zamao Xiaodao said suspiciously: "Could it be that this thing is the Artemisia spp.?" I said yes, but I still need to ask Wan Sanye to confirm it personally... Hey, where are they? ——I looked around, and there was no one in sight. Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao said: "Wan Chaoxin found a rainproof tent at the front corner, and everyone ran over. If it wasn't for Lao Xiao and I looked at you, you would just stay in that pit and wait to die." Followed me to run forward, we turned around a wild peach grove, and saw a big blue tent on the meadow in front, and there were many stoves, benches and ropes around. I looked around, but didn't see anyone else. When we approached Caodianzi, a black figure suddenly ran out of the woods, holding a gun tightly in his hand, and yelled at us loudly.