"Let's go, don't hang around. If the eldest sister doesn't want to talk about things, you won't tell her if you ask her."
"By the way, did you do anything inappropriate to my eldest sister yesterday?"
I pushed Li Dabao and said, "What are you talking about? Do you think I am you? There are only women and ghosts in your mind."
Li Dabao led the mule and said, "You can pull him down. You are so hypocritical."
"If you didn't do anything inappropriate to my eldest sister, why did you sleep for a month while you were dreaming?"
"Eh...it's so disgusting to me. My girlfriends and I have never yelled like that before."
"I……"
I want to say that I didn’t, but in the dream, it seemed that I really screamed shamelessly.
Then I ignored Li Dabao and walked forward behind Leng Yue.
But before leaving, we left some simple and unnecessary equipment and the individually packed food in the mountain temple.
This is to prevent us from starving to death if there is no food when we come out.
We continued walking along the human-faced ghost tree. During this period, I remembered what Leng Yue said yesterday when she was fending off those underworld birds alone.
Then he asked Li Dabao.
"Dabao, how did Miss Leng know that there was a mountain temple in front of us in such a dark night yesterday?"
"Could it be that she has been here before...?"
Li Dabao thought that things were relatively simple. After hearing my question, he said: "This is not simple. Where can the human-faced ghost tree point us?"
"Didn't Grandma Ka of Sanmiao Village also say that this ghost tree with a human face is their mountain god? Where can this mountain god go if he doesn't go to the mountain temple?"
"But, now that we have come out of the mountain temple, why are there still people-faced ghost trees nearby, although there are not many..."
Li Dabao thought for a while and said, "Well, maybe the people in Twelve Cave had finished worshiping the mountain gods and were afraid that they would not be able to find their way home, so they bought more."
"But if the Yellow Spring Bird pattern on the stone tablet is the totem of the Twelvedong people, then why are there hundreds of mountain temples?"
"Also, why is there a bald old man in the mountain temple? Is this the incarnation of the mountain god?"
My series of questions can't be answered directly by Li Dabao.
The latter quickly asked me to stop.
"I said, Chen Jiuri, why are you giving me a hundred thousand reasons? If I knew everything, how would I fight? It would be great to just set up a street stall in Panjiayuan and sell stories."
"Also, aren't you quite capable of thinking? You can think for yourself. When you think clearly, you can tell me and let me gain insights."
Seeing that Li Dabao was impatient again, I simply stopped asking.
But while walking, Leng Yue stopped again.
Seeing Leng Yue stop me, I was startled and thought, isn't it? Something went wrong again?
Li Dabao was also a little depressed and asked.
"Sister, don't tell me that someone shows up again?"
Leng Yue shook her head and said: "It's over, the human-faced ghost tree is gone too!"
I ran over to take a look and found that where we were now was a cliff.
There is a spacious stream below, which should be a surface tributary of the underground river. If we choose to take a detour from here, we will probably go a long way, and we don't have much time.
The peaks here are not the highest, and there is no pattern of trapped dragons around. The surrounding mountains are all chaotic, and occasionally some dragon veins can be seen, but they are just broken branches and leaves.
I looked at Leng Yue and said, "We don't have much time. If it were me, I would choose to hang down from here. Look over there..."
I turned on the flashlight, shined the light of the flashlight on a place opposite the bottom and said, "This should be a passage. It should save us a lot of time if we go through here."
"Although it is still early in the day, if we take a detour, we may be targeted by those underworld birds before we can find a rest."
"And, did you find a problem?"
Li Dabao said: "Chen Jiuri, can you not ask me anything? We are not an encyclopedia of knowledge. You can just tell us."
I glanced at Li Dabao and said, "Li Dabao, you have taken some medicine. Are you so angry today?"
"I...do I?"
Seeing that Li Dabao stopped talking, I said, "It's been two days since we came in. Although we have encountered some troubles, don't you think this primeval forest is a little too clean?"
Leng Yue frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
I said: "How could there be no snakes in a primeval forest like this?"
"I heard before I came here that there are many pythons here, especially in a place like this that is almost a tropical rain forest. Logically speaking, there should be snakes here."
"Why didn't we see any?"
When I said this, Li Dabao was completely unhappy.
He directly spoke to me and said, "Hey, Chen Jiuri, I'm afraid there's something wrong with you."
"Isn't it okay if there are no snakes? You have to expect a bunch of king cobras to come out, so you will think this place is normal, right?"
I don't know why Li Dabao's temper exploded so easily today, but after being squeezed by him so many times, an unknown fire surged in his heart.
"Li Dabao, if you can speak, please speak up. I am analyzing the unusual aspects of the matter now. If you are angry, there is a puddle at our feet. Jump in and take a good bath..."
"Hey...Chen Jiuri, you really deserve a beating, right?"
"Who do you think deserves a beating?"
Li Dabao and I started to have a tit-for-tat confrontation. Especially when I was staring at Li Dabao, I was very rational in my heart.
But his physical behavior is quite impulsive. According to my past understanding of Li Dabao, he shouldn't be like this.
And there seems to be something wrong with me myself.
To say that it is slightly normal, it might be Leng Yue.
Just when Li Dabao and I were about to start a fight at any time, Leng Yue stood in front of us.
Then he stretched out his white palm and said: "Take this pill. If you keep arguing, I will throw you both down..."
Li Dabao glanced at me, snorted and took a small dark red pill from Leng Yue's hand.
"For the sake of my eldest sister, Master Bao, I don't have the same experience as you..."
I looked at the pill in Lengyue's palm and found that this pill was much smaller than the Huoshendan I had taken before. I picked it up and smelled it and found no peculiar smell.
Then he stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it directly.
He didn't even ask Leng Yue what the pill was.
Seeing that both of us had taken the pills, Leng Yue said, "Just go down from here, little fat guy, and you go hammer in the pitons."
Li Dabao did not speak, but nodded and took off the backpack from the mule.
Then I took out the tools and ropes, found a suitable place for rappelling, and started working.
At this time, Leng Yue looked at me and said, "Can't you feel that something is wrong between you two?"
I frowned and said, "What do you mean?"
Leng Yue said: "I guess it has something to do with the crow yesterday. Although the flower branch can detoxify, it will affect certain behaviors of people."
"This Restoration Pill was originally used to fake death, but I made the portion much smaller. How do you feel?"
I spread my hands and said, "I don't feel anything, everything is fine."
Leng Yue thought for a while and then said: "Go and apologize to Li Dabao..."
I groaned and was about to retort.
But he saw that Leng Yue's eyes were full of seriousness.
It's like if I don't apologize to Li Dabao, with our current positions, she only needs to kick me off the cliff.
Thinking of this, I nodded, came to Li Dabao, picked up the rope from the ground and helped get the safety buckle.
At the same time, he said to Li Dabao: "Dabao, it was me who was wrong just now. It was all the old men. Don't be as knowledgeable as me."
But at this time, Li Dabao had no intention of talking to me.
Instead, he lay on the edge of the cliff driving pitons with his back to me.
I waited for a while to see Li Dabao but still ignored me.
Then he said: "Okay, Dabao, you are not a stingy person. Aren't you Northeasterners the least likely to do anything wrong? You won't be like this if we just talk about it."
As I said that, I pushed Li Dabao.
As a result, I noticed something was wrong with this push. Li Dabao's legs were shaking.
"Dabao...?"
"Dabao...?"
I shouted twice, but Li Dabao still didn't respond, and his body was shaking even more.
Then he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Li Dabao up.
This glance was not serious, Li Dabao opened his mouth wide, and his small eyes were wide open at this moment.
His face was covered in foul-smelling black water...!
