death row

Chapter 206
Fountain of youth, what is this?
Just as attention turned to the man, there was another meow.

After hearing this meow, I vaguely felt that something was wrong. Although it is normal to have wild cats in the mountains and forests, this meow was very loud, so loud that it was ear-piercing.

But it was pitch black beyond the bonfire and we couldn't see anything.

Afterwards, the cat meowing never sounded again, and Xiaoliuzi and I babbled until dawn, but when there was light, we realized that something strange happened. The large pieces of snake meat that we cut before were packed in canvas bags, just because we were afraid of being caught by wild animals. It was ruined, so it was hung on a small tree. Unexpectedly, the side of the bag was torn, and two large pieces of snake meat were stolen from it.

Then we discovered that a lot of fruits and some canned vegetables that we took on the road had been stolen. These things were placed in tents. Even wild cats could not steal these things under our noses without After being discovered, could it be possible that there is still a thief lurking in the eerie mountains?

Although it is puzzling, it is not a big deal, so we continued to go deep into the mountain after breakfast.

Although a lot of food was lost, since wild animals are indispensable in the mountains, the one named Xie Chenglin among the three has no other skills. He is definitely a good hunter. He broke off a branch and tied it with a rope, then He also sharpened a branch, and with such a simple tool, he shot two rabbits and a pheasant.

We settled down in one place at noon, set up a pot and grilled the wild game and ate it. It tasted very delicious in our mouths, which was totally different from the taste of domestic animals fed with fodder.

As the route deepened, the trees in the mountains became more and more lush and thick. We walked until the evening and were discussing where to camp and rest. Suddenly, we saw a building similar to a thatched cottage in a bamboo forest in front of us.

"Look at the house there." Yu Qin said.

"Your eyes are blurred. It must be a withered bamboo leaf. How can there be a house in the deep mountains and old forests?" Xiao Liuzi said.

"Not necessarily, I think it is a thatched house." I am sure I am not mistaken.

"Stop arguing, just go over and see if it doesn't make a difference." It was still Liao Xingtian who settled the matter with one word.

"I think we need to be more careful about this matter. If there is really a house there, it must be abnormal." Xiao Liuzi said very calmly.

"We have so many people in broad daylight, what are you afraid of?" After I said this, I didn't give him a chance to refute, and strode away into the bamboo forest.

The people behind also followed immediately. After entering, there was a large open space in the forest. A house with a thatched roof and bamboo walls was about ten meters in front of us. However, there were four simple huge stones in the open space besides these. Standing on the left and right of the entrance and the left and right of the bamboo house, they form a square diagonal.

When I entered the room, I saw a pungent musty smell in the small space. It seemed that people had been living there for a long time. There was only a table, a bamboo bed, and a camphor wood box in the room.

Yu Qin said happily: "It's really great, I can finally sleep soundly."

Liao Xingtian asked Little Six in a low voice, "You have to see whether people can live here or not?"

Xiao Liuzi showed distress and said: "Mr. Liao, aren't you embarrassing me? I said I can live in case something happens?"

I laughed and said, "Then you just say you can't live there?"

"This beautiful woman wants to live here, so if I say I can't live here, I'm offending her." Everyone laughed at Xiao Liuzi's words, while Yu Qin blushed and said, "What crazy words are you talking about?"

In the end, we decided to live here. It seems that this house is just an ordinary house, and the open terrain in front of the door can be used as our base, so we started to clean the house, and it is not necessary to carry some burdens. The used items are temporarily stored in this room.

When everything came to an end for the time being, everyone's eyes focused on the camphor wood box in unison.

The wooden box is covered with dust, but you can vaguely see the pictures and texts of the dragon and tiger relief. The copper buckle on the yellow box is inserted with a bronze lock with a strange shape. The lock body is a bowed green dragon. From the dragon's tail to the dragon's head, the keyhole is at the dragon's mouth. The key should be cylindrical in shape.

Little Liu said: "I've never seen this kind of lock before, maybe it's an antique."

I said: "Maybe this box is full of antiques, you can only see a lock."

Little Six laughed and said, "That's right, otherwise we would have smashed the box."

"This lock can't be broken." Liao Xingtian walked around the box and said.

I looked at him and said, "Why?"

"Do you know who left the things in the deep mountains and old forests here? We may have violated a big taboo by unpacking them rashly. No one wants to make trouble for themselves, right?" Liao Xingtian said.

Xie Chenglin smiled and said, "Unfortunately, this box can only be seen from the outside?"

I said: "What else can I do except to see it? It's like Mr. Liao said that the money hasn't been dropped after knocking it open. It's really not worth the hell."

At night, we built a bonfire outside the house, because there were five or six candles in the house that were as thick as human arms. We took one of them and lit it for lighting in the house. A few people had nothing to do to brag around the bonfire in the wild force.

Liao Xingtian was as if he had been beaten to death. He talked about a lot of things about him when he was young, such as the funny stories of martial arts training, and the confrontation with brothers when they competed for interests. In short, it was some thrilling past events. Before we knew it, it was late at night, and when we were engrossed, a loud cat meowing came into the house clearly.

Liao Xingtian immediately stopped talking, and everyone turned their ears to the outside of the house.

Just as we were listening, the bonfire in front of us jumped up with a bang, and suddenly turned green. Although the candles in the house did not change color, they still illuminated the clear green of each of our faces. Each is like a ghost.

There was not even a wolf howling in the empty mountain, but there was a cat meowing, which was too weird, Xie Chenglin and the others immediately retreated into the house in fright.

As soon as I turned around to face the bamboo house, I saw a huge cat’s face appearing in the window at the back of the house. It looked at me with a half-smile on its face, and the pair of pupils shone with green light, which was the most unbelievable. The strange thing is that it actually has a human neck.

The house is made of bamboo except for the roof, and the builder dug a total of three window holes on both sides of the front door and at the back near the center of the house. Since the window holes are located high, only the position above the neck can be seen. , so it seems that it should have a human body.

(End of this chapter)