Chapter 30 Night Journey

Everyone dug at the mud from the soles of their shoes and traced the past with high spirits along the north-northwest direction where the purple-red smoke drifted.

We originally thought that hope was ahead, but more than ten minutes passed and we still couldn't find the big stove for burning incense.

This mountain road is too long. After escaping from the wine cellar, I felt that we had almost walked around the mountain twice, but we never saw the Si family’s bamboo huts or any trace of anyone. Morning

Knowing this, it is better to go down the mountain and observe before the fog rises!

The purple-red smoke, although it became thicker and thicker the more we followed it at first, seemed to let us find its source, but after a few more steps, it actually gradually dissipated! We seemed to be stuck in a cycle: following the smoke

If you want to walk, you must turn back and follow the direction of the guide. You will always be on the mountain path.

The young prince checked Master Dong's watch several times along the way. The compass on it had not been dropped, so it couldn't be broken!

Mr. Dong asked us all to hold a rope and walk for a while. He sighed and said, "We are really lost this time. We have never been on the right path since we came out!"

Mr. Dong said that this was a multiple protection for Yu Ling: firstly, no one could track the whereabouts of the Si family; secondly, the mountain fog at night would take away the vision of people outside the mountain. The purple-red smoke was not burning incense, but misleading.

There are facilities for people to run around in circles, and even the mountain road we are walking on has been tampered with.

Even if we think we can go straight out by following the north-northwest direction of the compass, the undulating road surface on this mountain and the arrangement of trees are somewhat similar to the ever-bright lamps and strange slopes on the corridor in Overlord's Treasure. Once they are formed

Specific arrangement patterns will interfere with people's sight and form a natural ** array.

When the fog came in at night, we lost other reference points and could only look at the distance of about 100 meters in front of us. We wanted to go straight north, but our feet and the road under our feet were already tilted to the east.

The son is gone!

Sister Qingmei said that a group of developers came to the mountain before to discuss the development of Yuling with the Si family, but they almost never left the mountain again! At present, it seems that they encountered the same situation as us!

It had just fallen into the night, and the fog would definitely not dissipate within a few hours. The temperature difference was huge at high altitudes, and our wet clothes felt cold against our skin. I couldn’t help it.

After sneezing several times, the young prince reflexively said "one hundred years old", as if Er Maozi was still in our team.

Everyone was silent for a few minutes, and then Brother Mouse casually told a joke that was not funny at all, covering up his lonely look.

There are a lot of crows on the mountain, and their intrusive cries annoy and scare me. After all, our purpose is not very glorious. Although we say it is to implement the jade certificate of creation, to put it bluntly, we have to complete this task.

The first step is to dig up Dayu’s grave!

This mountain is someone else's territory, he can't be angry with us... Sister Qingmei even said that he is a god...

We no longer relied on the compass to move forward. The mouse gave us the rope around his waist to hold. He ran out of the yard first, and then tied the weirdo. We divided the rope into three and two sections, and when the two sections could form a

When we were almost in a straight line, the few of us behind us first caught up with the weirdo, and then joined up with the pioneers.

After walking a few straight lines like this, we all got deep into the weeds that were more than one meter high! The mountain road outside was indeed pointing elsewhere in an arc. I was only twenty or thirty centimeters taller than the weeds.

I had to pull hard to both sides and cover my neck while moving forward. Those rough grass tips brushed against the little prince's elbow and passed by. When they came to me, they pricked my neck and itched to death!

"There's a show, the lights Xiao Liuyi said are here!"

Brother Mouse roared in front, and when he looked up, in the purple haze, there was indeed a bit of orange revealed!

"Come on, it looks like we'll be there in just 5 minutes!"

The mouse was eager to pounce on it, but Mr. Dong grabbed the rope and said, "That light does not belong to the Si family."

"Why not?"

"In their little shabby house, do you need to look up to see the lights?"

When I thought about it, there were no street lights on Si's land, and their house couldn't reach the height of the orange bright spot not far away!

"If it's not Si's lamp, what could it be?" Mouse still wanted to rush over to see what happened, "Anyway, if there is a lamp, there will be people... It's good for everyone, let me confirm first whether we are still alive!"

As he said that, he continued to move forward. We relaxed the rope in our hands a little and watched his figure gradually become blurry——

"**! Fuck! Pull me back!"

There was only a sound of gravel rolling down, the mouse cursed loudly, and the rope was immediately tightened, almost pulling Mr. Dong down!

We hurriedly held the rope steady and pulled back. At this time, I saw that about three meters next to the light, an orange light actually lit up again!

A small cut was made on the mouse's calf by rocks and branches. He wiped it randomly and cursed: "**, what the hell is going on? There is a cliff ahead!"

Cliff? How can lights appear above the cliff?!

"I can't see anything. I just looked up at the light and missed the point! If it weren't for this rope, you would have waited to go to the bottom of the mountain to collect my body!"

"Three... four... more and more." The weirdo counted the surroundings and reported to us.

Orange-yellow lights were scattered in the mountains, and purple-red smoke curled upwards. This scene was exactly the same as what I saw in the awning boat.

But what about the people? The Si family seems to have evaporated from Kuaiji Mountain.

We walked almost all the hills here, regardless of whether it was the wrong way or the right way, but we still found nothing.

There were several broken wooden boards scattered on the ground, and among the moist and hidden grass, a decayed corpse of an unknown animal could be found.

"Mr. Dong, do you think we encountered a ghost?" I said the word with a tight throat, "Is it possible that all of Si's family members have died a long time ago and what we saw were a group of ghosts?"

"It's impossible..." the young prince consoled him, but he also swallowed dryly, "Did the little scissors also die?"

Tomb guard, called mountain spirit, ghost road guide, wreath, the more I think about the words I have come across in the past two days, the more I feel butterflies in my heart, scissors... scissors also crawled out of the coffin wearing the clothes of the dead...

Could it be...

My head hurts. The yin energy in Kuaiji Mountain is really too strong. Can we still live to see the sun tomorrow?

"These lights may be mirages..." Mr. Dong handed the alcohol cotton ball to the mouse, "Something like the reflection of light reflected on the fog. Dongdong, this melon, said before that he..."

Mr. Dong quickly shut his mouth, and we felt sad. I almost forgot the damn fact that Brother Glasses is no longer one of ours.

Ermao cannot be mentioned, Wang Liang cannot be mentioned, and Dongdong cannot be mentioned. I cannot understand how sad the three people in the team are feeling under the forced smiles on their faces. I think I am still lucky, at least I am a woman.

Children, when I'm sad, I can cry my whole life, but they can't.

"I think we can't catch up." The young prince glanced at Mr. Dong's watch, "Regardless of whether it's a human or a ghost, Si Jianlan won't wait for us. Counting the time, it's been a long time since nightfall. He should be there at this time.

You’ve already set off with the Ghost Road Guide.”

The mouse hissed, and his wound was in severe pain under the stimulation of alcohol: "Hey... Is it possible to just stay here and wait until dawn and the fog clears? I just can't figure it out, they are a bunch of ghosts.

How do you know the road? Even if you are familiar with the mountain road, it is not reliable to go into the forest without seeing anything!"

"So the third child has taken advantage of Gui Luyin!" Mr. Dong sat helplessly on the grass, suddenly jumped up again, shook the weirdo's shoulders and asked, "Brother Dao, your master and you

Have you ever told me how to use that baby?"

The weirdo scratched his head and said: "He won't let me do his job. I only know that the ghost trail can be used on a moonlit night, and it has to be in an unpopular place, otherwise the ghost trail will be seen by other things.

.”

"...So mysterious?" Mr. Dong rubbed his chin and said, "Since we want to 'avoid human traffic,' it means that the ghost path will actually appear and can be seen by 'things' other than the user, right?"

"And 'can only be used at night when there is a moon'..." The young prince was also thinking about the weirdo's words and analyzed, "The moon at night is for lighting. If it must be used under these conditions, it is

Doesn’t it mean that you have to use moonlight to use the ghost guide?”

"It means that if you hold this ghost path guide and stand under the moonlight, a ghost path visible to the naked eye will automatically appear in front of you?" Mouse concluded.

I thought what a coincidence. Yesterday was the 15th day of the lunar calendar, and they were preparing to worship their ancestors. Today is the 16th day of the lunar calendar, and it was so sunny during the day. As the saying goes, the moon on the 15th day of the lunar calendar is sixteen round. Si Laosan rushed to use the ghost road tonight.

What a perfect time, place and people!

No matter how our direction changes, no matter how many times we go around the eighteen bends of the mountain road, celestial bodies like the moon will not be affected in any way and will always hang high in the sky.

The beautiful view of the moon viewing last night came to my mind: at first the moon hung high on the other side of the river. As time went by, it would slowly move to the direction of Kuaiji Mountain, and then be blocked by the mountain.

, dyed purple by the smoke!

The weirdo also realized something. He raised his head and looked at the sky. I followed his example and looked up, but found that I couldn't see anything. It was pitch black now! Even if I used a flashlight to shine a beam of light, I could only see

There were layers of thick fog, and the moonlight could not penetrate.

Suddenly I had a flash of inspiration. If Si Jianlan wanted to use the ghost road to guide him, he would have to use the moon. But now the fog is so thick that the moonlight cannot penetrate.

So, if he is sure that the ghost guide can be used tonight, then the only chance to see the moonlight is to wait until the time when we toasted last night, when the moon is almost shining directly on the top of Kuaiji Mountain!
Chapter completed!