The northwest is vast and has no time to get out of the destination.

At noon, two cars drove off the road, parked and rested and settled for lunch.

There was heating equipment on the car, and he could actually bring out hot tin box vegetable rice, which was much better than dry food instant noodles or something. Jiang Lian ate the meal safely under the cover of the back of the car, and picked up his phone and looked at it.

There is still no signal. Sometimes there is, sometimes there is, sometimes there is no signal. Sometimes the signal appears and the car breaks out of the effective range again, which makes people anxious, but there is no way.

Kuang Meiying came to find Jiang Lian.

Along the way, the altitude was getting higher and higher, and the temperature was naturally getting lower and lower, but everyone else could adapt, but Meiying was weak and had already put on a thin cotton jacket, which made Jiang Lian feel more and more that it was not a wise decision to call her for help.

In the past two days, Kuang Meiying has been very calm when she should eat and play. Now that she has officially started, she finally shows a little nervousness.

She rolled up her sleeves and showed her arms to Jiang Lian: "When I get there, do I have to cut myself with a knife?"

“How long is the right wound to be cut?”

"Is it okay to just cut one? Or do you have to cut one after another? How far is this journey, one kilometer or two kilometers?"

It can be seen that she is thinking a lot.

Unfortunately, Jiang Lian couldn't answer anything: People can easily talk about war on paper, but when they really got to the ground, they realized that the idea was absurd. Not to mention anything else, Kunlun Mountain is not Mount Hua, Tai, you can climb to the top to watch the sunrise and take photos - they have heights, snow lines, snow peaks, and some hills, professional mountaineering team members are afraid, let alone Meiying... can they go up?

He said vaguely: "Just let it go, let's talk about it when you get there."

After sending Kuang Meiying, Jiang Lian went to find the charlatan.

The charlatan didn't get off the car, so he hid on the co-pilot and held the book "Peng Zu, the founder of Health Preservation", and read it with relish.

Jiang Lian held the car door and was very angry: Isn’t this a lie? It’s obvious that he reproduction is self-healing, but he still insists on health preservation.

The sun was so bright that he used his hand to cover his forehead with his eaves, and his eyes couldn't even open: "Kunlun Mountain is too big. I think our ideas don't work. We can't be aimless. There must be a clear clue."

The charlatan was just watching it, and his left ear came in and right ear came out, and he responded casually.

"Did you dream again?"

"without."

Before he did it, no one had hoped that he would dream. His dream came like diarrhea, but today he was urging him to dream, and he was still constipated in this dream.

Jiang Lian was restless and felt a little unhappy when he saw the charlatan's attitude: "It's so good-looking? Aren't this all made up by later generations?"

He picked up a book about ancient gods. Peng Zu had a special book, and Tao Tian thoughtfully posted a note on Peng Zu's chapter.

So Jiang Lian turned it into the main chapter after he turned it over.

His eyes were so clear that he was quickly stuck by one of the sentences: "Has Peng Zu actually married forty-nine wives?"

It can be seen that although this old man has accomplished his life, he is too unscrupulous in love.

The sage knew that Peng Zu married forty-nine wives. It was recorded in the "Biographies of Gods" in the Jin Dynasty and the "Taiping Guangji" in the Song Dynasty, saying that Peng Zu "lost forty-nine wives and lost fifty-four sons", probably to highlight Peng Zu's longevity.

He looked up at Jiang Lian: "Xiao Lianxian, look at your focus. I read this book to find out if there are any potential clues, but you only see that there are many wives."

Jiang Lian defended himself: "I am also looking for clues. He has so many wives and so many sons, and they are all ahead of him. This indirectly shows that he is reproductive by himself, and it also shows that the gap from God to man is huge. They are all their own sons and have no inherited his ability at all."

The charlatan's heart moved, and a ray of light flashed in his mind. Unfortunately, this brightness was too subtle and I didn't catch it.

However, Jiang Lian suddenly thought of something: "My son is walking in front of him, and he has grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Peng Zu is okay with his family. Forty-nine wife, that is forty-nine rooms. You can fight for eighty episodes with only three rooms. These forty-nine rooms..."

He looked at the charlatan strangely: "Forty-nine rooms, if they have reproduced to this day, they will be a huge family. The scale is not inferior to that of mountain ghosts and water ghosts. Why are you the only descendant left?"

The charlatan blurted out: "You can't generalize by any means. I am an exception. I was abandoned. I was thrown at the entrance of a small village."

The sound of the horn sounded, and it was time to go back to the road. Jiang Lian straightened up, closed the passenger's car door, and muttered: "If you don't throw it away, you will just throw it away. What kind of alien are you?"

The charlatan sat without moving, and his confused face was reflected on the brown car window.

***

In the afternoon, the altitude continued to rise and the temperature continued to drop, and everyone could not bear it. They put on their clothes and hats on their cars. By the end of the evening, there was no real road. The basis for the car was only the satellite positioning and the vague marks on the ground.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is outside, you will get tired of it, not to mention that the sky is getting darker and you can no longer see any scenery. Jiang Lian was napping in his seat. In a daze, he suddenly felt the speed of the car slow down, and then he paused and stopped.

Jiang Lian opened his eyes and asked subconsciously: "Here?"

Tao Tian accompanied Kuang Meiying to sit in the front seat and turned around after hearing this: "No, but the fourth aunt said, you and Mr. Shen may be interested in this place, so let it stop when you arrive."

interested?

Why was he interested in a certain part of this wilderness?

Jiang Lian looked forward.

You can vaguely see that there are several dilapidated tents there, which are shaking and floating by the wind, but there is no light or cooking fire, and it is obvious that no one lives there. The back of one tent has been torn and turned around by the wind, like a strange flag.

The charlatan reacted first: "Can it be that Ding Panling..."

Tao Tian nodded quickly: "Yes, that's what I told me, saying it was a place where I died, called Ding Panling."

That's a look. Shengang and Jiang Lian got out of the car and walked towards the tents. The two drivers were also a little tired and were smoking outside the car. However, Meiying heard that it was a place that was extremely dead, and she felt afraid and felt that it was cold outside, so she stayed in her seat and refused to move. Naturally, Wei Biao stayed to accompany her.

...

Not long after I walked, the tents were approaching.

Jiang Lian almost knew the experience of the water ghost.

The water ghost explored the drifting cave in the mid-1990s. That time, he suffered heavy losses and died of 100 people. Most of the people who died in the next twenty years were ill. They died one after another. The only one surviving now is probably Zong Hang’s girlfriend Yi Sa.

More than a year ago, the Water Ghost 2 drifted into the cave. Even though he prepared all equipment such as fire-breathing guns, the losses were still quite large, especially the leader Ding Panling.

The successor Ding Yudie has always been concerned about Ding Panling's life and death. He sent water ghosts one after another to pursue the Sanjiangyuan area in the name of geology. The tents in front of him were the camps of those water ghosts.

Then, overnight, the camp was gone, only a body was left, Ding Panling, who had been missing for more than a year.

He stabbed his throat with a knife, leaving three and a half words.

Looking for Water Ghost Bang.

***

Before entering the tent, Jiang Lian took a deep breath and turned on the flashlight. Tao Tian was like a competent guide, leading the way forward and introducing the two.

Jiang Lian saw the place where Ding Panling's body had fallen. Of course, the body had been moved away, but the place where the corpse was buried was sprinkled with white powder and had wooden branches inserted, which were still vaguely visible.

I also saw a small piece of land. At first glance, nothing special, but when I squatted down and looked carefully, I could find that the soil in that place was spiraled, as if it had been rotating and closed.

Jiang Lian and the sage looked at each other, and they all knew in their hearts: it is said that drifting cave requires breathing, and at night, an opening will appear on the ground, which is called "the door of the ground, the wind rushes toward the stars", but it will close after dawn. When it is closed, the ground at that place will show such a thread - this thread is also the only clue that the water ghosts can pursue the drifting cave.

Tao Tian's introduction also proved this: "Before Ding Panling died, there was a Tibetan named Danzeng nearby. In order to deliver mutton to friends in the camp, he had come here and said a few words to Ding Panling. According to his recollection, when he saw Ding Panling, Ding Panling was covering a piece of the ground with a carton shell, which was the one covering it..."

Before he finished speaking, the satellite phone behind his waist suddenly rang. Tao Tian was stunned and said "Sorry" to the two of them, and hurriedly came out to answer the phone.

Does Tao Tian actually have a satellite phone?

Jiang Lian took out his cell phone and looked at it. The signal was not really clean, so clean that he wanted to get started. He regretted that he had not thought enough and did not buy a satellite phone to bring it with him.

Since Tao Tian has it, can you borrow it from her or buy it? It is easier to contact Meng Qianzi.

He thought this in his heart, and he walked two steps towards the tent without realizing it. He heard Tao Tian's rising high, nervous voice that almost changed tone: "How is this possible? How can this happen? What should I do?"

Although he didn't hear the specific content, judging from Tao Tian's tone and voice, he felt that something must have happened.

After a while, Tao Tian came in.

Although she wanted to pretend to be calm, a girl of this age would not be able to calm down if she hadn't really experienced something. After a moment of looking at it, Jiang Lian could see that her hand holding the satellite phone was trembling slightly, and the frequency of licking her lips unconsciously became significantly higher.

Jiang Lian was not ready to be tactful, and went straight to the point: "What's wrong? Is something wrong?"

Tao Tian was caught off guard, said in a daze, and wanted to speak but stopped.

Jiang Lianchao's talisman winked.

The charlatan was so clear that he cleared his throat and asked her: "What happened? Do you need me to tell Miss Meng?"

The identity of the three-fold lotus petal is still very useful, and Tao Tian is incoherent: "No, no, the fourth aunt should be able to say it..."

She calmed down, and her voice was still a little trembling: "The fourth aunt and the others had already entered the mountain. There were more than 200 people, divided into more than 20 teams, searching for different locations, and they all went out early and returned late. They usually used walkie-talkies to contact the satellite phone. Every night, even if people didn't come back, they would definitely make a call to report on the progress of the day and the locations they searched for..."

"There is a small team, about eight people, who lost contact two days ago. My fourth aunt sent another team to find..."

The charlatan was nervous: "Is it missing again?"

Jiang Lian was so amused that he whispered: "Can you hope someone can be better?"

Tao Tian shook her head: "That's right, from morning to now, I've been looking for three bodies. My fourth aunt is going crazy and has rushed over with her. I don't know anything else, and everyone is talking about it, and they are still inquiring about it."

Jiang Lian said nothing.

From Liu Sheng’s incident, we can see that the mountain ghost cares a lot about human life. Meng Qianzi led the team and lost one Liu Sheng, he was already very guilty. The fourth aunt gave the bottom three lives this time. I still don’t know if the number of people will continue to rise - everyone will have to be crazy.

The charlatan swallowed: "Can it be an avalanche, a slippery slip or something?"

Tao Tian came back to his senses: "I don't think so. I haven't heard of an avalanche in the past two days. If it was a natural casualty, it would be impossible for all the people to lose contact, right? It must be that something big will happen, and the fourth aunt will rush over."

No matter what happens to it, it is definitely meaningless to stand here and guess. Jiang Lian pondered for a moment: "Let's go on the road as well. You will know what the specific situation is. Maybe you can help."

Tao Tian nodded quickly and almost trotted, and was the first to leave the tent.

Jiang Lian and the sage immediately followed out. The Tibetan area was long, but it was dark quickly. Only after checking in the tent, it was already completely dark outside. From a distance, you could see two cars with lights on. The light was squeezed by the darkness around you, weak and depressing.

After walking two steps, Jiang Lian suddenly turned around.
To be continued...