Chapter 11 Chapter 8 Departure

Some psychologists have done an experiment in changing titles to publish academic papers.They collected 12 papers written by scholars from famous universities published in the past year, changed the author's name, and changed the work unit to an unknown one, and then resubmitted these papers in the form of manuscripts To the journals that published these articles. Nine of these articles were not recognized and entered the review process. The most ironic thing is that eight of them were rejected by the reviewers as unqualified, and when the authors of these articles were famous university scholars, these articles were It was accepted by the journal and published.

This experiment speaks volumes about the importance of titles. In fact, human beings tend to fall into the logical trap of "authority" and are replaced by the concept unconsciously. For example, if A is the authority in field B, it is easy for people to believe that everything A says about field B is correct. , even what A said about the field of c is correct. So things like authority are inherently confusing.For example, the expedition team in front of them was fooled by Chuncheng's authority. It has only been more than ten years since Shipusa Village was wiped out, but no local authority knows where it is, which is simply unscientific.

It can be seen from the side that Yaxin's organization manipulated the so-called authority in some way, allowing the land exploration and even drawing the map to deliberately erase the location of that village.To be able to achieve such a level, their power is really not to be underestimated. "Mr. Ye, since I got the materials, I have searched everywhere for information about Stone Bodhisattva Village, but found nothing. I even found nearby geological authorities, but none of them have heard of the place name of Stone Bodhisattva Village." The captain hesitated, "I wonder if the information is wrong?"!

I shook my head, and took out the old map given by Bu Shuanzi, "This map has the specific location of Shipusa Village, I don't care about anything else, just help me get here first." The captain looked at the map carefully, and then his whole body became stiff. "How is this possible? I have been doing exploration for many years, and I am very familiar with the surrounding area. There is still a blank space in this blank area." "blank?" I froze, "What do you mean?" "Handsome, blank area is our jargon, which means no man's land."

Zizhu interjected with a smile, his eyes scanned the map, and his face was a little dignified, "Your destination is 20 kilometers southwest of Lingyan Village and Guxian Cave. There should be nothing in that place! Yes, I went there last year .After Lingyan Mountain is the primeval forest, there is no road, no trace of people, nothing, how could another village pop up out of nowhere." Han Dian also expressed his opinion. "You don't have to worry about it, let's go to Lingyan Village today." The early morning sun revealed a trace of redness on his face, but when it shone on his body, he felt a gloomy and cold feeling.I don't want to procrastinate any longer, for some reason, every second I stay in Chuncheng, there will be a sense of naked danger that makes my hair stand on end, as if there are predators staring at me and peeping at my flesh and blood.

The strong sense of crisis made me break out in cold sweat all over my body. Seeing my tough tone, the expedition team didn't say anything more, and arranged Gong Ruya and me on the off-road vehicle in the middle, and the whole convoy set off.Detour into the expressway, pass by Guan County, and finally drive on the Panshan Highway, heading all the way to the ridge of Lingyan Mountain. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when we arrived near Lingyan Village, there was a heavy rain, thunder and lightning kept rumbling, and we had no way to continue our journey, so we had to find a hotel to stay.

Gong Ruya was very excited along the way, maybe it was because she hadn't been out of Spring City for a long time, she was very curious about everything, once she changed her cold face, even her personality became cheerful.Living in this country hotel, twittering like a sparrow: "Is this a hotel? Wow, I've never stayed in it." "It's very novel." I pouted. "Well, Miss Ben has lived at home since she was a child, then entered a military academy, and became a policeman after she came out. She never had time to travel, let alone stay in a hotel." The girl picked up and put back the cheap toothbrush in the hotel several times.

I ignored her, just looked out the window, a little dazed. What happened in Stone Bodhisattva Village back then, and why did the mysterious organization take so much effort to erase it from the map?Could that tomb-robbing professor named Kong Shihui be a member of that organization?Otherwise, what a coincidence, we must go to Shipusa Village to dig a hole, and finally dug out the weird ancient pit. What happened to the Blood Bodhisattva that Li Ming was talking about? What was it?Why did Li Ming's grandfather let him run away without looking back, out of Stone Bodhisattva Village, and never go back?

There were so many mysteries, and I didn't have a clue about each of them. I simply had dinner in this simple hotel, discussed the itinerary with the team leader, and we each went back to our rooms. The night gradually darkened, Gong Ruya's excitement also passed, and she gradually began to worry about her family's affairs.Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw me still sitting under the window in a daze, and immediately became dissatisfied, "Hey, come to think of it, why are you staying in my room all the time?" I blinked innocently, but didn't speak. "Lonely men and widows, it's so ugly to say it out, you should go out too!"

With a cold face, she issued an order to evict the guest. "Excuse me, this is my room." I scratched my nose. Gong Ruya suddenly collapsed, her black and white eyes were wide open, she looked unbelievable, "This is obviously my room, do you mean that Miss Ben went to the wrong place?" "You didn't go wrong." I smiled. "Since it's my room, let me out." The girl's head obviously couldn't react.This stupid woman, no matter in terms of brain size or breasts, doesn't look like she used to be smart. "This is our room."

I was grinning, with an unscrupulous look on my face, "This hotel is very small, there are only two rooms left. Five of Lao Qiang and the others took up one room, so we had to make do with it." "You don't have bad intentions, do you? Why don't you squeeze with those stinky men and let Zizhu and I share a room?" Gong Ruya reacted quickly. "You call him a stinky man, I'm not used to staying with stinky creatures." I collapsed on one of the beds, "Why don't you discuss it with Lao Qiang and let them live here." "Just go." Gong Ruya stomped her feet and went out angrily. I secretly chuckled. To be honest, this little girl's character is really confusing, at least I haven't figured it out yet.Let's say she is domineering and aggressive, sometimes she is very understanding, let's say she is gentle, but she has a fierce and unscrupulous side when she has nothing to do. Moreover, I still don't trust her.Living with her also specially greeted Lao Qiang, in fact, it was just for monitoring, to see if he could find out the clues. Sure enough, not long after, Gong Ruya came back angrily.She closed the door heavily, went to the toilet to wash up without saying a word, and then lay down on another bed with all her clothes, feeling depressed all by herself. I didn't care about her, I just took out my mobile phone and sent a few emails to the old man Yang Junfei and Bu Shuanzi while there was still a signal.Let them help me thoroughly check Kong Shihui's information, especially what he did before he went to Dongyi Mine. Spend the night quietly without words. The next morning was a rare sunny day, the sky was cloudless, and the originally heavy heart became cheerful. After breakfast, Lao Gun and I studied the old map.He spread out the map on the dining table and compared the positioning direction with GPS. "According to the direction of the map, starting from Lingyan Village, you can drive north to the Ancient Immortal Cave. After passing the Ancient Immortal Cave, there is a virgin forest, and basically no one lives there. If you go 20 kilometers southwest, you will be the destination Stone Bodhisattva Village. .” Lao Qiang frowned, still very concerned that there was no such thing as Shipusa Village on his precise GPS map, "Tu Mao, as a living map, what do you think?" Tumao is in charge of finding the way. This job requires a person's sense of direction and memory to be very good. Once he gets lost in the mountains, the GPS fails, and the map is useless, he can only rely on his sixth sense. "I have never heard of Shipusa Village. But it is said that a terrible thing happened nearby more than ten years ago. Most of the local people died, and the current villagers have all migrated from other places." Tu Mao still had a cheeky smile on his cheap expression, and he answered with a sharp sting. "Is it '95?" I glanced at him. "It should be. My hometown is near Qingcheng Mountain, so I know a little bit about it. It is said that there are zombies or something. Some people who have been attacked by zombies have also turned into walking corpses like in movies, biting people everywhere. Some even ran away. After entering Spring City, several schools in the suburbs were affected." The soil cap pouted. Zizhu was happy to hear that, "The 95th zombie incident is an urban legend, even my hometown Chongqing has heard about it. In the end, under the false rumors, the news of zombies was also spread in Chongqing, which scared us so much that we dare not be alone Go to the bathroom." "Okay, let's talk about business." Lao Qiang interrupted their esoteric conversation and looked at me, "Mr. Ye, the route has basically been decided. Go to the Ancient Immortal Cave first, and then find the way to Stone Bodhisattva Village. Let's leave the mountain now, ok?" "Are the supplies and survival supplies all right?" I asked casually. "Of course, our Wolf Howl is a professional expedition team." Lao Qiang proudly puffed out his chest. "Then I have no objection." I nodded absently, "Let's go." Everyone drove towards the north in a noisy manner. Since they bypassed the main road and took all the inaccessible mountain trails, the road conditions were naturally very bad, and even several sections were all dirt roads.Even if the performance of the off-road vehicle is not bad, it can reach the area near Guxian Cave in just a few tens of kilometers, and it takes a full six hours to drive. Along the way, I just looked at the scenery outside the window, chatted with Zizhu who was driving, and my mind kept spinning, trying to digest the doubts I had accumulated recently. The 1995 zombie incident is well known in Spring City, and even in the whole of Sichuan, and few people don't know about it.It is all groundless, but it turns out that many so-called news and legends are not completely without reason, but this is not the focus of my concern. After leaving Chuncheng, the sense of crisis in my heart did not subside, but became more intense. Although the road conditions are not good and the shaking is uncomfortable, the scenery is indeed excellent. The forests on both sides of the road are secluded and verdant, the wild birds are singing out of tune love songs, and the animals that run from one side of the road to the other side of the road from time to time , Gong Ruya smiled happily. She was lying on the car door, with the window wide open, her chin resting on the window sill.People who don't know her will almost regard her as a pure adolescent girl without any threat. Only I know her character that will explode like a powder keg. Zizhu is very talented in chatting, and often tells some cold jokes to reconcile the boring schedule, making Gong Ruya laugh even more happily.This heartless, stupid woman. I glanced at her and shook my head.There is a possibility that there is a big problem in the Gong family, but this guy doesn't fully know about it, at least from the fact that she basically didn't come over with a sad face, it is clear that Gong Xiong has concealed everything from her.If the Gong family is really one of the forces of that organization as I guessed, then the situation is definitely not optimistic. Why did the forces of the Gong family and Yaxin turn against each other?Or is there any contradiction?Is this another conspiracy, a big conspiracy to use the ignorant girl and me to achieve a certain purpose?Cousin Yefeng and Gong Ruya's sister, what happened between them? These mysteries that can determine my life and death on this trip are urgent and need to be dealt with first. "What's your sister's name?" I sorted out my thoughts and suddenly asked Gong Ruya. "Didn't Ye Feng tell you?" The girl was stunned. "To be honest, I'm not familiar with my cousin, and I haven't seen him for several years." I half-truthfully said, "I don't know anything about the relationship between them. If Yefeng is really sorry for your sister, next time I meet him, I will beat him up for you." "Beat him, I'm afraid it's too easy." Gong Ruya, who was in a good mood at first, mentioned her sister, her face became extremely gloomy. "Gong Ruqin, my sister's name is Gong Ruqin. When I was in the police academy, my sister fell in love with Ye Feng at first sight. The two of them fell in love very quickly, but Ye Feng, a bastard who was always cheating on others, soon had an affair. He I met a woman from a noble family and a much stronger background than my sister, and for the sake of my own future, I dumped my sister without hesitation, causing my sister to die of pain. Hmph, you Ye family, there is nothing good." "It's too bloody." I scratch my head. "It's not an eight o'clock series." "This is a fact." Gong Ruya stared at me. "But as far as I know, your Gong family's power in Spring City is incomparable. It's really not easy to find a family that is stronger than your family." I couldn't laugh or cry, "What's more, my current sister-in-law's family background is average, and her parents are ordinary people, she is content with the ordinary one." "Don't argue for him anymore. Facts speak louder than words. Without the support of women, your cousin can rise to the top and nominate the deputy director at once?" Gong Ruya snorted coldly with disdain, "After I graduated from the military academy, I entered the police station just to avenge that evildoer. I didn't expect that something happened in that police station a few years ago, and most of the people died. One of them is still alive. Your cousin, a coward, was too scared to be a policeman again, and he completely disappeared from the world." It's not easy for the naked prejudice to be as extreme as Gong Ruya's, but when I think about it, it's not an exaggeration for my cousin Ye Feng's behavior to be seen as running away.He left his sister-in-law and son at home and embarked on the road of revenge, but he couldn't tell anyone. (See Ye Buyu's Mysterious Files, Part 1 for details. Perhaps the circumstances that made him make up his mind were not only the death of his colleagues in the police station, but also other circumstances. Could Gong Ruya's sister, Gong Ruqin, be one of them? What about one? Cousin never explained what he did, so I can only guess and guess again. "Your sister, how is it now?" I asked. "how was it?" Gong Ruya paused all over, showing a grief-stricken expression, "Let's go. Ever since she was abandoned by Ye Feng, who killed thousands of swords, she shed tears every day. Even when she saw me, she didn't speak. She only knew how to cry. I locked myself in the house and cried, and didn't go out for half a year. In the end, I heard the news that Yefeng was going to get married from some servant, and sent her an invitation. My sister committed suicide that night, using a fruit knife Cut your own throat!" The surrounding atmosphere became oppressive during the girl's narration, all she exuded was pain and loss, as well as gritted resentment towards the entire Ye family. I didn't know what to say, and after being dumb for a long time, I finally turned my head away.No wonder she targeted me so much when we first met, it turns out that Yefeng forced her sister to death.But from the girl's narration, I smelled a hint of conspiracy. With Ye Feng's character, it is impossible to send invitations to Gong Ruqin even if they get married.The members of the Ye family dare to act and act, although they have a dark belly, they never have a dark heart. The invitation should be sent by someone else with a heart. Even the servant who delivered the message might have problems.Any servant with a little brain should be aware of the consequences of doing so, but that servant just passed the news of Ye Feng's marriage to Gong Ruqin. Why do you do this?Let the Ye family and the Gong family be at odds, or even die? If the Gong family is a member of the Yaxin organization, then the servant who delivered the information probably came from another force.After all, the Ye family has never been threatened. Even if Yaxin's organization wants to get something from the Ye family, it only needs to let Gong Ruqin approach Ye Feng. It would not do them any good to force Gong Ruqin to death. However, Gong Ruqin was forced to death, and the Gong family did not take the opportunity to suppress the Ye family, but just cut off contact.Who wanted the Ye family to break up with the Gong family?Why do you want to do this?what is the benefit?Gong Ruya's impression of Ye Feng became more and more distorted in Taoist stories, which meant that everything she knew was spread and distorted deliberately by the Gong family.Since the Gong family did not suppress the Ye family, why did they bury the truth? Thinking of this, my head suddenly got bigger. At 2:30 in the afternoon, the expedition team finally arrived at Guxian Cave.But the dirt road, which was already rough, completely disappeared here. The seven of us got out of the car and looked at the end of the dirt road with a headache. "According to the map, we're heading southwest from this position." Lao Qiang checked the situation in the southwest direction, and all he could see was woods and vines, making it difficult to pass, "I can't drive through it at all, so I can only walk." I looked around and frowned slightly. The dense forest belt around me was so vast that I couldn't see the end at a glance. There are few people here, and there are towering ancient trees unique to the Qingcheng Mountains. These trees are often 20 to 30 meters high, covering 80% of the originally bright sunlight. A little cold. The old map obviously does not show that there is a dirt road leading to Shipusa Village nearby, and since it has the function of transporting coal, the dirt road cannot be small, but I can't find any clues. Most of the surrounding trees are more than a hundred years old. If someone has planted other trees to cover the road, those newly planted trees should not be more than ten years old, and they can be distinguished at a glance. This means that the end of the dirt road is really the end.Where is the main road leading to Shipusa Village? "Southwest, southwest." After getting off the car, Tumao, who was in charge of exploring the road, restrained his cynical character. He marked the direction with a compass, made a mark, and then began to use his brain to memorize nearby locations and geographical features. The terrain returns to where it started. Lao Qiang ordered the remaining three regiment members to pack up their equipment.In fact, he had already analyzed the possibility of hiking before he set off, and the current situation is much better than when he first considered it. I also took out the high-precision GPS that the old man Yang Junfei stuffed into me, set the track record, and then unloaded the luggage from the off-road vehicle.The stuffed mountaineering bag weighs a full 20 kilograms, and the contents inside are enough for me to survive alone for more than ten days even if I leave the team. Gong Ruya has studied in military academy, so survival in the wild is no problem, she tidies up more neatly than me.But maybe because of the conversation in the car, she was very depressed, and she didn't know how to face me.Do you want to hate me, or vent your anger, or just deal with people?The girl who didn't have much experience in dealing with people was at a loss and had to remain silent. I have always wondered, this stupid woman is not always stupid, in fact she is smarter than the average person, I don't believe that she didn't investigate Yefeng's matter alone, but she still hates Yefeng so much... which means , the results of the investigation ended without cause for some reason? Alas, the more I think about it, the more I can't figure it out, and I can't help feeling upset. Competent in the business of hiring adventurers, there are no pretentious people, and everyone carried their luggage and equipment without saying a word, and went into the mountains and prepared to walk the remaining 20 kilometers. At the beginning, everyone was full of confidence and followed the direction of Shipusa Village marked on the old map. If everything goes well, we will arrive at noon tomorrow. But since entering the primeval forest, everything has not gone well. The GPS didn't fail, and it was always heading in the right direction, and Tumao's sense of direction was also correct, but the short 20 kilometers seemed like a natural danger, so close to the end of the world.No matter how you go, you can't finish it. Two days later, everyone sat down under a nearby naked tree.Everyone is arguing about the way forward, thinking that we have gone in the wrong direction from the beginning. I remained calm, not letting their emotions affect me, and looked around carefully.Suddenly, on a piece of flat ground, due to the sparse trees, a few rays of sunlight penetrated through layers of shade and sprinkled among the fallen leaves. The inconspicuous reflection came into my eyes, I got up immediately, walked over a few steps, pushed aside the fallen leaves above, and a warning monument was exposed.