Chapter 5 Map and Purpose

The rugged mountain road in the Bear Demon Ridge is not easy to walk, most of the trees are squeezed out of the cracks of the rocks, but fortunately, most of the time in this radius is smooth, and life always has a way to survive, especially the life of various flowers and weeds is particularly tenacious. This also provides food for the herbivores in the mountains, which naturally attract many carnivores, such as the gray wolves and tigers that often haunt the mountains.

Looking around, Hu Bat felt a lot more relieved, "It seems that the operation two years ago has paid off, and I haven't seen any tigers or gray wolves on the way, at least I don't have to worry about being surrounded by wolves," he thought, and he didn't seem to be worried about being attacked by a lone tiger or gray wolf.

However, one thing struck him as a little strange, it stands to reason that if the number of gray wolves and tigers decreased, then the number of herbivores should increase accordingly, but not only did he not see any tigers and gray wolves along the way, but he also did not see any traces of the herbivores that used to hide in the mountains.

"Maybe that's the reason why the villagers of Bear Demon Village disappeared!" he comforted himself in his heart, "After all, people also need food to survive, maybe the animals here have been hunted by these villagers who don't know the depths, and there is no food to live on, so they have to choose to leave here and go to other places to make a living." It seems that although gray wolves and tigers are the natural enemies of these herbivores, they are also protecting herbivores from being arbitrarily killed by humans. “

Qin Yu walked hobbly, as yesterday, Hu Lai always followed him, but at this time, Hu Lai's hand did not know when there was an extra wooden bar, and from time to time he beckoned to his body, his hands were still tightly tied, and his wrists had been purple with hemp rope, accompanied by the rumbling sound of his stomach from time to time, fatigue would also come to him, sometimes he had no time to care about the pain when he was drawn by the wooden bar, and now he just wanted to find a place to rest. However, whenever he put it into action, he immediately attracted a severe beating from Hulai.

A hill lies in front of everyone's eyes, fortunately, this hill is not steep, there are all kinds of strange boulders erected everywhere, some are angular, and some are covered with strange lines, and the amazing thing is that there is almost no vegetation cover on the whole hill, which is the biggest difference between the hill and other places in the Bear Demon Ridge.

At this moment, Hu Bat raised his hand, signaled everyone to stop, and then groped out a small roll of something wrapped in a yellow silk scarf from his arms, only to see that he carefully untied a thin rope tied in the middle of the silk scarf, and opened it to see that it turned out to be a yellowed map.

Hu Bat unfolded the map very carefully, and seeing this, Hu Lai and Ximen Yu hurried over, and it could be seen that it was the first time they had seen the map that Hu Bat had taken out.

Seeing this, Hu Lai asked urgently: "Brother Bat, could this be the map that the old man you said last time sold you?"

Hu Bat did not answer, but rarely put away the smile on his face, frowned, and carefully observed the map in his hand with a serious face, and every time he looked at it, he would raise his head and look around, as if he was sure of something. After a while, he put away the map in his hand again, glanced at Hulai, and said, "You wait here first!" After speaking, he didn't talk nonsense, walked up the hill in front of him alone, walked quickly, first from the foot of the mountain, from left to right carefully looked at these boulders one by one, it took a long time to finally see him stop in front of a boulder only ten meters away from the top of the mountain, the moment he saw this boulder, Hu Ba's originally serious face once again leaked a smile, but this time, even Qin Yu felt his heartfelt smile.

On this hill with an unobstructed view, there is nothing special about the stone in front of Hu Ba's eyes, and it is even much smaller than the other boulders on the hill. It wasn't until Qin Yu was dragged by Hu Lai until he was dragged to the boulder that he understood why Hu Bat smiled after seeing the boulder in front of him.

The stones were marked with strange markings, as if some kind of writing were arranged together, but perhaps after a long period of wind erosion, these strange marks were only vague outlines.

Seeing Hu Ba's expression, even Ximen Qu, who was originally expressionless and taciturn, began to carefully look at the stone in front of him, although he still couldn't see anything from his face, but there were some inexplicable emotions in his eyes, there were incredible excitement and surprises.

"I didn't expect what Ah Bat said to be true, this place is hard to be true and buried treasures. “

As soon as Ximen Qu finished speaking, he turned around and saw Hu Bat muttering silently: "One... Two... Three—" as he walked about, he heard his count until the twelfth, and then he stopped again in front of a boulder, much larger than the one with many strange symbols, and was outstanding even among the many stones on the hill.

"According to the map, starting from a boulder with strange characters, counting to the left and counting until the twelfth boulder, there is a map of the so-called Immortal Cave, and if I count correctly, it should be this boulder. Let's find out!"

I saw Hu Bat turn around and say loudly.

When Hu Lai heard this, he didn't look as eager as Ximen Qu, only to hear his stomach growl at this time, he hadn't eaten for a day, according to Hu Ba's original plan to spend the night in Bear Demon Village, the village chief could treat them for a night for the sake of their previous friendship. In their thoughts, it was a big deal to give this old guy some money, but who expected that the people in this Bear Demon Village would disappear as if they had seen a ghost, and there was a trace of strangeness everywhere in the Bear Demon Village at night, which scared everyone a lot, especially the strange bird cry like a baby last night, and I don't know when it disappeared. Now the money is not less, but the money in the barren mountains and mountains can't be spent, if you say that you can do it yourself, even if you give them ready-made ingredients and utensils, there are not necessarily a few people who can make up anything, although the three of them are scoundrels, but the family is a rich and powerful family in Qingfeng Town, and they have always opened their mouths and stretched out their hands for food, and no one wants to spend the night on this Bear Demon Ridge, although two years have passed since the haunted thing on the Bear Demon Ridge, and it has been confirmed as a rumor, but the hundreds of people who disappeared for no reason have not even found a corpse, and this matter has made everyone nearby panic until today。

However, Hu Lai obviously didn't dare to be lazy at this time, but he took measures in an instant, looked at the wooden strip in his hand, and without thinking about it, he swiped it towards Qin Yu's face, and scolded in a piercing voice: "You little ghost, if it weren't for us, you would have starved to death, now Lao Tzu can do whatever he wants, do you hear..."

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Qin Yu's right eye was instantly drawn out of a bloody mark, but fortunately, he quickly closed his eyes without hurting his eyes. Although the right side of his face was pumped in pain, Qin Yu still endured the pain and said nothing.

But Qin Yu didn't know that the more he endured and kept silent like this, it aroused the anger in Hu Lai's heart, "Fuck, tell you to keep quiet, do you hear... Do you hear that..."I saw the wooden stick in his hand fall on Qin Yu's face with his scolding like a male duck...

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"Okay, you useless bitch, do you want to stay here for the night?"

Hearing Hu Bat's scolding, Hu Lai put down the wooden strip that had been torn off in his hand, and his expression became more and more like a vicious dog that had gone crazy, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny.

Looking at the boy in front of him whose face had not changed from beginning to end, there was a subtle change in his heart, but he couldn't say what it was, he suddenly remembered a person, it was the Hu Bat who had just scolded him, the guy who was the best at hiding his heart, always with a kind smile on his face.

But looking at the boy in front of him, he suddenly found that his cousin was not as good as the boy in front of him in this regard, after all, people who knew Hu Bat still gave him the nickname of the blood bat that changed his face, which shows that people know that there is always an unknown poisonous heart hidden under his smiling face, and once the time comes, he is afraid that he will turn his face faster than turning a book. But the boy in front of him never said a word, and even his face never changed. This reminded him of Ximenqu, a guy who was neither male nor female, and he was afraid that he was not as good as the boy in front of him in this regard. What's even more incredible to him is that he tortured this little ghost all kinds of things along the way, torturing people is one of the greatest pleasures of his life, naturally he has done this kind of thing more than once, but those who have been tortured by him in the past, whether adults or children, most of them have been scared before he can do it, either begging grandpa or suing grandma, but this little ghost in front of him don't say anything about begging him, and he didn't even say a word.

This feeling made him extremely uncomfortable, and he always felt as if he was being targeted by something, but he couldn't say it. This made him suddenly have the idea of killing people in his heart, but thinking that this little ghost was still useful to them, he simply forced himself to suppress this thought.