Bizarre Ciphertext

  He suddenly pulled my hand and gestured with his eyes for me to look down, discovering that the bottom of the iron net was inserted into the mud, and there seemed to be thin iron wires exposed outside. He looked up at the house and immediately said, "Be careful, don't touch this net, it may be electrified."

  Is this a power grid? But I didn't see any utility poles or anything, so if there's electricity here, doesn't that mean the government knows about this place deep in Hei Zhu Gou and can supply it with power? I thought of ways to explain it, but one by one, I shook my head in denial: "No way, if this place really has electricity, then it must be self-generated. This place is absolutely mysterious and hidden, unknown to the outside world."

  It makes sense, but behind this meaning lies a severe situation. In the depths of the mountain valley, there is a group of people who have their own houses and self-generated power sources. They abduct batch after batch of tourists who venture into the valley, deliberately creating a reputation that the valley is a "Valley of Death". If there isn't an extremely large purpose behind this, it can't be justified.

  Carefully avoiding the path, we continued to use our original method to navigate through the dense forest, finally circling around to the back of the house. The two of us decided to temporarily hide our backpacks in the underbrush, only bringing essentials and self-defense weapons. Otherwise, if there was an emergency later, it would be difficult to run with such heavy packs. As I turned around after reorganizing my things, I saw that Lu Xun had already changed into a new set of clothes, all black from head to toe, with a loose-fitting jacket. I couldn't help but twitch the corner of my eye - his outfit looked puffy and lumpy, with many hidden items inside. He said he wanted to travel light, but this was not traveling light at all! And to top it off, he was dressed all in black, looking like a cool guy. I was truly impressed by him.

  Didn't have the nerve to say it, just urged verbally: "Is it done yet?"

  "He searched up and down before saying, 'Alright, let's go.' The two of them emerged from the thicket, first quietly hiding behind a house to listen carefully. There was no sound. They walked past several houses, seemingly empty, but they didn't let their guard down, continuing to hide until the last one. After confirming there was no noise, they went around to the front and headed up the mountain path."

  As I walked, I analyzed the current situation in my mind: The five or six houses at the foot of the mountain seemed to be uninhabited, and there were two possibilities. One was that they had really discovered the tracker and had already transferred all the people, and the other was that this was just one of their strongholds, and for some reason, everyone had gone out early in the morning.

  Since there are only two roads in this place, one is the tree thicket passage leading out, and the other is going up the mountain, we can only choose this one. Moreover, just now we saw from a distance that the three madmen appeared on the halfway of this mountain road.

  Every moment, observe the movement on both sides, knowing that we are now treading on a needle tip. If someone comes down from above, it will be a head-on collision. Can only pray that luck is not so bad. Suddenly, a strange bird call came from the left side of the forest, and I instinctively stopped in my tracks. Lian also stopped and listened carefully with his ears perked up. When the bird called for the third time, Lian suddenly put his hand to his mouth and made the same strange call.

  He stared at me with wide eyes, and after making three sounds, he even gave a shy smile. Then, the rustling sound came from the left, and when I turned my gaze, I saw that the dense foliage was shaking, but no one was visible, only the voice could be heard: "Little Lu Zi, come over quickly."

  Uh, it's indeed the weird quacking sound of San Feng Zi. So, it can be confirmed that the strange bird call just now was their secret signal. Honestly... it makes one's forehead sweat. When we saw San Feng Zi's disguised appearance clearly, there was a feeling of not daring to look straight at him.

  "Madman, what are you doing?"