Chapter 18 Chapter 17 Qin Hai's Reasoning

"If the Fountain of Youth is really in the place where the Ghost Beast Master appeared, then based on our current direction, we should be going further and further away." Qin Hai's words made us, who were already in trouble, even more speechless.Mountains are no better than land roads. If we go wrong on one road, we just turn back at the next intersection, but this is not the case on mountain roads. If we don’t return at this time, we will only go further and further. If we continue to move forward, we are not absolutely sure that we can climb that cliff before the giant python exits the cave.

The cliff is at least 30 to 40 meters high. With our skills, it takes at least 15 to 20 minutes to climb up, and Jia Xiaobing's stature may not be able to climb it.If he climbed halfway up the mountain and was discovered by the giant python again, it would be death without a place to bury him. It turned out to be a dilemma, and everyone was frowning.After hesitating for a while, it was Qin Hai who encouraged everyone and said, "Anyway, there is no better way. Let's walk around this area, maybe we can find a way." There is no better way, everyone can only get up silently and embark on the journey again.

Compared with the places we visited before, the mountain and forest scenery here is finally normal. It has everything that should be there, and it is not weird.Wild fruits and flowers grow in large clusters in the mountains, and birds and beasts are busy looking for food.It also made us secretly relieved.But soon, we saw another scene of incomparable strangeness, and we were no longer surprised by it. It turned out that in front of the mountain road where we stood, there was a conical depression with a diameter of about fifteen meters. It was not deep, about half a person's height.The stone in the depression should be bluestone, and the surface has been polished like a mirror.Qin Hai squatted down, took a closer look, and asked, "Did you find anything strange?"

Lin Li said: "From the perspective of traceology, there are no traces of animals in the mountains deep in the dense forest. This is not normal in itself." Qin Hai nodded and said, "I'm 100% sure that there is another woman in this mountain." Having said that, he carefully checked the depression again, and then continued, "Let me boldly speculate that this woman is about forty years old." , should be a Taoist priest, and this place should be an altar." Ma Yifei frowned and asked, "Have you been here before, and now you are deliberately playing tricks with us?"

"Whether I've been here before, you know best in your heart. I used to be from the criminal police team of the Municipal Bureau, do you know what reasoning is? I'll open your eyes today. One more thing to add, this woman should have come here at night, We should find a place to hide and confirm what I said." I have read the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and I am no stranger to the detection skill of reasoning. I didn't expect Qin Hai to be able to do it.Both curious and not quite convinced. There are many hiding places in the mountains, so we randomly found a pile of rocks lined with strange rocks and hid there, waiting quietly.

I don’t know how long I’ve been waiting, staring at the treetops on the moon, waiting so that everyone feels hungry and cold. Before I can complain, I suddenly heard a stomach growling, several people couldn’t help laughing, old tofu He shouted: "Who? Hurry up and surrender." Qin Hai suddenly whispered: "Shut up! The people over there are coming." Following the direction of Qin Hai's finger, he saw a person in a white Taoist robe, a Taoist temple on his head, and cloud shoes on his feet, walking towards the depression . Sure enough, she was a Taoist priestess, she appeared to be in her early twenties at most, with long hair fluttering on her temples, and fair complexion.Although I didn't guess correctly in terms of age, but I can deduce it, which is already quite powerful. I can't help but look at Qin Hai with admiration.

The female Taoist priest put down the bamboo basket behind her, took out a clay pot from it, and poured out a stream of dark red liquid. Suddenly, there was a stench in the air, and I could smell it even in the hiding place. Smelling it made everyone frown. The liquid in the pot was finally poured out, but the Taoist nun stood there for a long time before turning around and walking deep into the forest.Seeing that she was gone, we walked out, and we could still smell a bad smell.I looked around the circle of bluestone, and saw that there was nothing on the stone surface.Everyone thought it was strange, ignored the smell, and squatted on the ground to check carefully, only to find that there was a very small round hole in the middle, and the liquid was poured in through this round hole.This is strange, what is under this round hole?And what does the liquid do?

Everyone was thinking about this, but Ma Yifei asked with a sly smile: "Don't you have seen this girl before? Are you pretending to be a ghost in front of us?" "She's a Taoist nun, don't talk nonsense. I've never been here before, so how could I know her?" Qin Hai said. "Then how do you know that the other party is a nun?" Ma Yifei asked. "The reason is very simple. There is a row of footprints on the muddy ground not far from this stone circle. It can be seen that the size is not large, and of course there will be no children to play here."

"Even if it's not a child, must it be a woman? Men also have small feet." Ma Yifei looked arrogant. Qin Hai smiled confidently: "This question is easy to answer. There is a piece of hung fabric in a small bush not far from the footprints. Judging from the broken position, the height is higher, so it can be concluded that this person is walking with a robe. Living in the barren mountains and wild mountains, he is so careful when walking. There is a high probability that he is a woman. Besides, the footprints left behind , the pattern on the sole of the shoe is very clear, indicating that the other party is not walking fast. I judged from these points, she should be not young, but it seems a bit sloppy. It is said that she is a Taoist priest because the cloth is similar to a Taoist robe, and because of this The terrain and landforms, including some of the environments, are so weird. Although there are giant pythons nearby, I guess that the possibility of a yin warlock is still greater than that of a dark wizard."

Qin Hai's conjectures were so detailed that I was amazed, and Ma Yifei finally had nothing to say.Yu Qiuzhen said: "I see that the identity of the other party is not important, the key is that we have to move on to the next step, can't we be neighbors with the boa constrictor here?" "Don't worry, everyone. Since there are yin-watching warlocks here, we can be sure that we are not far from the truth." When Qin Hai said this, his expression was very certain. Ma Yifei hesitated for a while, but still couldn't help asking: "What do you mean by that? Why are you so sure?"

"The reason is simple. If the evil-eyed Taoists in Wuliang Mountain really split into black wizards and yin-watching warlocks, then the yin-watching warlocks must be ruling this place now. There are many ghost caves in the deep mountains and old forests, and the yin-watching warlocks make good use of them." The terrain is harmful, and the mountain itself is their best weapon. This point can be imagined from the place where the ghost beast master lives. She needs to practice secret alchemy. The closer she is to the entrance, the greater the possibility of being disturbed. Except as a last resort, Naturally, she wouldn't choose to go to the mountains to practice and refine Gu." Qin Hai continued his detailed analysis. I noticed that Yu Qiuzhen seemed to be taken aback, but he returned to normal in an instant, nodded repeatedly and said: "What you said really makes sense." Qin Hai seemed a little proud: "If the Fountain of Youth really exists, it is of course an integral part of Wuliang Mountain's landform. It is a natural thing that a yin-watching warlock can use more easily than a black wizard. A black wizard can only use his own fear. The ability occupies the spring water, but the yin-watching warlock can disguise the spring water. This point can be known from the fact that the location of the fountain of youth is unknown, so as long as you can meet the yin-watching warlock, you should be able to know where the spring is." "Then, the possibility of women relying on the Fountain of Youth to maintain their appearance as we guessed before is not very high?" Lin Li asked.Lao Doufu subconsciously looked at Lin Li, then at Qin Hai, and the unhappiness on his face was undisguised. Qin Hai thought for a while and said, "We have to follow the past. There is no way out right now, so we can only take one step at a time." No one can deny the rationality of Qin Hai's deduction, so we took advantage of the night to catch up with the female Taoist priest.It was late at night, and only occasionally two night owls could be heard.There was nothing unusual about this journey, and I don't know how far it was. Lao Tofu suddenly said: "Let's rest, Lin Li seems to have a fever." Qin Hai immediately stopped in his tracks, turned around and asked Lin Li, "Are you all right?" His concern was beyond words. "It's all right, does it have anything to do with you?" Old Tofu said with a hostile face. Qin Hai also seemed to feel that he had lost his composure and blushed.Lao Tofu couldn't tell what Qin Hai did wrong, but he just gave him a hard look.At this moment, Qin Hai suddenly became nervous. He listened for a while, then lowered his voice and said, "Hurry up and hide, someone is coming this way." We avoided each other, and a group of people scattered.Sure enough, within a few minutes, there was a sound of footsteps in the woods, and it sounded like there was more than one person.I only heard one of them ask: "Do you think this is reliable?" "Haven't you seen Jiao Kui's appearance? You don't even know that the skin has been peeled off. Do you still need to doubt it?" "Jiao Kui is really miserable. I think of his appearance now, and his legs are still weak. Tell me, what made it?" "If I knew, I'd be talking nonsense to you here, and I'd have gone to watch the excitement." "Do you dare to join in the fun? I said, are you tired of working?" "Don't worry, sooner or later we will all have to pass, and you still expect to live in this mountain for the rest of your life? If you can't get over the hurdle, you will die. Remember this clearly." During the conversation, the voice changed from far to near, and I saw two young Taoist priests, one fat and one thin, walking slowly, each carrying a mahogany sword on their backs.The fat Taoist seemed to have thought of something again, frowned and shook his head and said: "It's still He Ziyun, an old bull-nosed thief, who ran away at this time. If you want me to say, Ma Xiangu must not let him go." The skinny Taoist grinned and said in surprise, "You don't know yet? He Ziyun ascended to heaven in Beishan. This old boy tricked someone into digging up Zhang Hongke's treasure, but he took it away." "Where is Yu Qiuzhen? I heard that the boy's body was not found. I guess he is still alive." Fatty's casual words shocked each of us, and we all looked at Yu Qiuzhen.In the darkness, his face was pale, with a guilty conscience.This is really Skynet's inexhaustibility. Two people who suddenly appeared irrelevantly can reveal the secret that one person tried hard to hide. "This kid is really a fucking thing. If you want me to say, he died early and reincarnated early." The thin man said bitterly. "You said the side of Beishan, is it the old dragon's nest?" "Yu Qiuzhen was the first to say this, but Ma Xiangu didn't believe it. It stands to reason that he is Ma Xiangu's favorite disciple and grandson. On this point, even Ma Xiangu denied it, of course not." "But I seem to have seen that thing. It's so big that it's frightening to death. It's in the cave. You didn't even see it. Are you a bunch of blind people?" "Actually, looking back now, if there really are gold and silver treasures in there, why didn't Ma Xiangu not take them? Yu Qiuzhen said that there are things there, it may not be groundless, maybe it is true, his master may not believe his words, That’s why it was punished.” "Maybe. There are too many things in this mountain. You and I can't figure it out. It's something that even Zhongyuan Taoist can't solve. What about us? So, let's go down the mountain with peace of mind. He Ziyun is I wanted to take advantage of this before I could make some money, and then run away, what happened, didn’t I still die in Beishan?” The two passed through our hiding place and gradually disappeared.As soon as we stood up, Ma Yifei put his hands on Yu Qiuzhen's neck and leaned against a tree next to him, almost roaring: "You boy, you better explain the ins and outs clearly, otherwise, I will make it today." kill you." Yu Qiuzhen seemed to have been prepared for a long time. Although his face was pale, he said calmly, "Let go. I won't hide what I have to say. Don't worry about that." Hearing what he said, Ma Yifei let go of his hand, and said fiercely: "You'd better tell us who you are honestly, otherwise, you will have to be shot." Yu Qiuzhen sighed, as if he felt sorry for himself, and said, "I have long said that I am a yin-watching warlock. I did not hide this from you, and I did not harm you. The reason why I will go out with my master is the fundamental reason. It is the master who wants to take the treasure, this is not what I want to do, so I can't tell you." Ma Yifei shouted at the top of his voice: "You fucking think we are idiots? If that treasure is really buried in a place that everyone knows, how can we wait until today?" Yu Qiuzhen said lightly: "Believe it or not. I tell you, but you don't believe it. What Lihao dug is the place where the treasure is buried. The news is true, but many people don't believe it. I said But, that place is the old dragon's nest, how can people enter the old dragon's nest? If you break in rashly, you will die. My master didn't believe what I said, so he died unexpectedly." Ma Yifei's brows became tighter and tighter: "So, there is no way for us to take out those treasures?" "Of course there is. Since Zhang Hongke can be buried in it, of course he can be taken out, but no one knows how he did it back then, including the Yin-watching magician." After Yu Qiuzhen finished speaking, he paused for a while, and then said, "Actually, I'm not interested in this money at all. It's my master who is going to dig out the treasure and leave Wuliang Mountain. I have no choice but to follow him." "You're pretty good at evading it. This matter has nothing to do with you?" Ma Yifei kept touching the pistol at his waist, as if he might take it out at any time. "I'm telling the truth. Even if my master took me to dig up these treasures, even if he did dig them out, they would definitely be his own. This matter has nothing to do with me. If it is said that the only thing I have done for you is What is concealed is the so-called Laolong crossing the catastrophe, which is called the lower hurdle in the lingo of the yin-watching warlocks." Seeing that we were all at a loss, Yu Qiuzhen hurriedly explained, "The shackles that the yin-watching warlocks talk about are definitely not what the public thinks. Downhill road, the descending ridge here is the most powerful ancient formation in the Feng Shui killing game, which is the "ghost look slope" I told you before. The skinned Jiao Kui entered the ghost look slope, That’s why it’s made like that.” "Then why didn't you remind us, are you going to watch us rush in and die? Just like we are doing engineering in the mountains?" Ma Yifei raised his eyebrows. "I have never been to the 'Ghost Watching Slope', but there is indeed this ancient formation in Wuliang Mountain. In order to prove their ability, the yin warlocks usually pass through the ancient formation in the middle of the night on the day when they are full of teachers. Generally speaking, there will be no major problems, but this year is the day when the old dragon crosses the catastrophe, and the ancient formations hidden in Wuliang Mountain seem to be a bit uneasy. As a top-level killing formation, 'Ghost Wangpo' is naturally seen Warlocks are strictly monitoring them, but Master still has to leave, so many people are afraid and want to slip away when they see the opportunity, and I am one of them. However, the difference between me and them is that Master took me and slipped away together." Yu Qiuzhen's explanation really had no flaws, so Lin Li said to everyone: "Okay, let's stop doubting each other. We must unite as one when facing danger. Daoist Yu was forcibly brought here by you." It's not that he wants to follow up on his own initiative, saying that he has ulterior motives, this crime was imposed on him by you." Ma Yifei was so speechless by what she said.Qin Hai pondered for a while and said: "You said that Jiao Kui's accident happened on the 'Ghost Wangpo', but you also said that you have never seen this ancient formation with your own eyes. Isn't this inconsistent?" "It's not contradictory at all. Although I haven't seen it, it doesn't mean I haven't heard of it. 'Ghost Watching Pole' is the most terrifying and vicious formation in the ancient formation. Anyone who is a yin-watching warlock basically knows it. , No one has ever been able to break it. The way of death of the victim is all kinds of strange. There should be two kinds of murderous things, one is the so-called yin woman, and the other is the so-called fierce ghost." After Yu Qiuzhen finished speaking, each of us looked at each other in blank dismay.Lin Li was a girl after all, her face turned pale with fright, Lao Tofu seized the opportunity to hold her hand to show his spiritual support.Unexpectedly, Qin Hai's expression changed, and he said angrily, "You kid, don't take the opportunity to eat tofu." Lao Doufu let go of his hand subconsciously, but quickly reacted, and said angrily, "Who are you, meddling in my business?" Seeing that a fight between the two was about to start again, Lin Li hurriedly pulled Lao Doufu away Said: "Save your energy, find a way to deal with the difficulties in front of you is the real thing." Qin Hai seemed to have accepted Lin Li's suggestion, so he turned his head and asked Yu Qiuzhen, "Who is Ma Xiangu?" "She is currently the leader of the group of yin-watching warlocks in Wuliang Mountain, and she can be regarded as the most capable one. Yin-watching warlocks are different from black wizards. They usually live in groups. The ones with the greatest skills speak the most usefully." "Can you think of a way to let us meet her?" Qin Hai's words shocked us all.Although we all come here for our own purposes, and the difficulty of completing these tasks is not small, but if we take the initiative to find the group of vicious yin-watching warlocks, isn't that going to go into the mouth of a tiger?Now, even Ma Yifei didn't agree, and was the first to say: "Old Qin, are you out of your mind? Why are you looking for them?" Qin Hai said seriously: "We are basically a group of powerless people here..." "It's because we don't have the strength to restrain the chickens, so we can't find them. That's tantamount to asking for a dead end." Ma Yifei said. "If there is no old dragon to cross the catastrophe, of course we shouldn't go to these yin warlocks. But if this year is really not peaceful, in this mountain, if there is no guidance from the natives, then there will be death and no life." Qin Hai seems to be very insisting on himself the opinion of. "You're worrying too much. It's not too late to say that." Ma Yifei's expression became more and more angry, as if he was very dissatisfied with Qin Hai's sudden whimsy. I couldn't help smoothing things over: "Brother Qin, Brother Ma, what you both said makes sense, but I think the troubles we have encountered are far more than that, so let's find a way to go back first." Jia Xiaobing immediately asked: "You all retreated, what should I do?" I hurriedly explained: "When I said retreat, I didn't mean retreat from the mountains, but retreat from the territory of this giant python." Hearing what I said, Jia Xiaobing's complexion is better.At this time, Qin Hai said again: "There is no way to turn back. We can only continue to move forward. Maybe we will meet a yin-watching warlock. This is something we all have to face." Hearing that we were going to move on, everyone felt a little sad, even Ma Yifei sighed, but he urged everyone urgently, "Don't think too much, let's keep going, let's go!" It doesn't matter where we go. Besides, there is a man with strong martial arts protecting us, and the matter is far from getting out of hand." That's right, the mysterious man who is good at throwing knives more than ten meters away has not shown up yet.He is very capable. In this kind of place, if he wants to harm us, I am afraid that none of these people will survive. Fortunately, he should not have any malice towards us.But now, can he still follow?Thinking of this, I can't help feeling a little discouraged.Of course he won't follow, so we're on our own. Everyone walked down all the way in the night, no one spoke anymore, and everyone was in a depressed mood.I don't know how long I walked, but the narrow mountain road gradually became wider.Along the way, apart from us, there was no one else.When the sky was getting darker, everyone felt extremely tired, so they found a relatively flat grassland, and Qin Hai stood guard, while the others laid down sleeping bags and began to rest. As soon as I closed my eyes, I quickly fell asleep. When I woke up, it was already afternoon.The watchman has been replaced by Lao Doufu, who is sitting on a rock full of energy and smoking a cigarette.I walked behind him and patted him on the shoulder: "Dude, give me a cigarette." When Lao Doufu turned around and handed me a cigarette, he saw his eyes were red and his expression was rather ferocious, so he asked, "Are you okay?" "What's the matter?" Lao Tofu looked a little puzzled, stared at me for a while and said, "Are you okay?" "You're fine, why are your eyes so red? Isn't it uncomfortable?" Hearing what I said, Lao Tofu hurriedly took out the dagger from me, took a long look at the blade, and then handed the dagger to me and said, "Your eyes are fine, aren't you?" After that, no matter what I said, he dismissed it Gu.At that time, I thought he had pink eye disease, and I didn't take it to heart, so I didn't mention it again. But after a while, when everyone got up, I realized that not only Lao Doufu, Ma Yifei, Qin Hai, and Jia Xiaobing's eyeballs were all red, but they didn't know it.When I said it, they looked at each other and started laughing at me for being suspicious.I knew there was trouble again, so I stopped talking about it.Soon, taking the opportunity of washing the vegetables, I asked Lin Li, "Can you see it?" Lin Li sighed and said, "So what if you see it? They don't believe it themselves." I was shocked by this line: "Since you can see it, why don't you prove what I said?" "There are four of them, and there are only two of us. Do you think they will believe it? So, just rest assured and understand. I guess this has something to do with Yu Qiuzhen. Let's keep calm and let him show up slowly." The truth, and then win it in one fell swoop. In our case analysis class, the teacher taught us many times that we must be calm and calm when encountering problems, otherwise the loss outweighs the gain.” I couldn't help being a little impressed by this girl who was two years older than me.Since entering the forest, she has shown her ability to deal with things beyond her age, much better than us.Thinking of this, I said sincerely: "You must have good grades in school, right?" Lin Li smiled: "Let's make do." When she said this, her expression seemed a little sad, and even her eye circles were red. At this moment, Lao Tofu came over carrying a rabbit that had been shot to death with a fishing gun, and asked, "What are you talking about?" This kid is very jealous, in order to avoid unreasonable revenge, I immediately replied: "I didn't say anything, just chatting." Lao Tofu stripped the rabbit's fur neatly, looked at the still steaming body and said, "Seeing this, I think of Jiao Kui, and I feel sick." Lin Li frowned and complained to him: "Can you stop talking about this matter, isn't Jiao Kui unlucky enough?" Yu Qiuzhen came up behind us at some point and said, "His unlucky situation is far beyond what you can imagine. The Jiao Kui we saw was actually not dead. I once had a Taoist brother who lived on the 'Ghost Watching Slope' ’ There was a trick there, that is, they were skinned alive, and it took us a long time to talk to understand, and then it hurt to death.” "How is it possible? You don't even know the skin has been peeled?" When I asked this question, I felt the hairs all over my body stand on end. "Do you think it's strange? But it happened like this. At that time, the yin warlock suddenly lost consciousness on the way through the formation. After he regained consciousness, the skin on his body was gone, but he hadn't It took him a long time to realize the painful feeling. I saw this terrible situation with my own eyes. Later, Ma Xiangu once told me that the vampires in "Ghost Watching Pole" specialize in skinning people. " Listening to these unbelievable words, Lin Li covered her mouth and trembled all over, and I also felt cold from the inside out.But the old Doufu smoked and said, "Don't think you can scare me by just saying that. I have never seen a yin woman, let alone be afraid of a yin woman." Yu Qiuzhen didn't say anything, turned and left. After finishing dinner, we had just eaten a few mouthfuls when Jia Xiaobing threw a rabbit leg to the ground, stomped on it a few times, and shouted: "The weak one is like boiled water, it's so damn unpalatable." Lao Tofu's expression changed immediately: "Who are you scolding?" Jia Xiaobing also stared: "I didn't scold anyone, so I'm happy with what I said?" The two glared at each other, as if they might fight at any moment, while Qin Hai and Ma Yifei watched all this gloatingly, with no intention of trying to persuade them to fight.Seeing this, I could only stop between the two of them and act as a peacemaker.But it seems that this matter is not so easy to settle. Before the meal was eaten, Jia Xiaobing and Lao Doufu were already full, their stomachs heaved violently, but they didn't move their chopsticks.I'm quite surprised, neither of these two people has a bad temper, and I don't understand why they quarreled so much over such a trivial matter. After dinner, we got up and continued on our way.As he was walking, Ma Yifei suddenly frowned and said, "I don't want to go any further, I want to go back and dig for treasure." "Dig a fart treasure. There are things to watch in there, and those who go there will die." Qin Hai said. "You don't fucking care about me. I was blinded by asking you to cooperate. If it weren't for you, I would have gone back to enjoy my happiness." "If it weren't for me, you would be dead by now. Think about it, can you not be so single-minded." "Fuck! I don't care about you." Ma Yifei almost growled. "I care about you. If you are willing to go back and feed the snakes, then you can do whatever you want. I will care whether you live or die." Ma Yifei roared and punched Qin Hai.These two people, one with a strong body and the other with professional training, fought together in a blink of an eye and could not be separated at all.Suddenly, Qin Hai made a negligence and was hugged by Ma Yifei. The two fell to the ground and became entangled.Although Qin Hai was agile, once he got close to him, his advantage was gone.After wrestling for a while, Ma Yifei held Qin Hai down and took out a pistol from his waist.I knew something was wrong, so I immediately touched a big rock with corners from the ground, and slammed it on Ma Yifei's head.Ma Yifei didn't even hum, he fell to the ground with a plop, blood streaming down his forehead. Fighting is a common occurrence for me, but it is the first time in my life to slap a desperado like Ma Yifei with a stone, and I only feel my heart beating wildly.Qin Hai stood up from the ground and patted me on the shoulder: "Thank you." Then, he searched out the guns, bullets, and switchblade that Ma Yifei was carrying, and took out a pair of handcuffs from his body, and put them on Ma Yifei's body. Ma Yifei handcuffed him behind his back, took a breath, and said to us, "I am a policeman."