"Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to harm you." The truck driver pointed to the front, the mountain road was winding ahead, and Badong Village was hidden in the depths of the mountain. "I just think you are very difficult."

Xie Jin took Jiu's hand and loosened it slightly. He stared at the simple and honest-looking dark man in front of him. This man had shown extraordinary concern twice, but now he told himself things he didn't know. Why is this?

Wouldn't it still come to Ji Duan? Xie Jin subconsciously covered the jade sign hidden in his clothes, and the driver of the truck could see the vigilance and preparedness on his face.

"Ha... I really didn't have any crooked thoughts. It's just that the way you came out of the mountain back then looked so much like my brother who went home in a state of despair."

The driver slowly stepped on the brakes, and the truck stopped steadily on the side of the road. He could now look at Xie Jin with confidence, "My brother went out to work, but he got money but got addicted to gambling. As a result, he owed a lot of money outside. Debt, because of fear of debt collection, and finally had to come back."

He lowered the car window and lit a cigarette again, and the icy, biting wind outside the window quickly tore the white smoke he exhaled and dissipated in the night that had completely sunk.

Turning his head to look at Xie Jin, the driver found that he was listening very seriously, so he smiled lightly and continued to speak, "Later, in order not to implicate us, he ran outside to hide himself, and was caught by the debt collector. One was right, and then was beaten to death."

Leaning heavily on the back of the seat behind him, the driver breathed out a long puff of smoke, as if he was sighing at the dead soul, "...that's why I asked you, have you offended anyone, I think those guys are not good people? ."

Xie Jin looked at the driver suspiciously, it didn't look like he was lying, so he put away his alert posture and returned to the sitting posture just now.

Not knowing what to say for a while, Xie Jin thought about it for a long time, and finally came out with a sentence: "No, I didn't cause trouble, and I probably know who did it."

He sat up straight, carefully folded the thin quilt with his own body temperature and placed it next to him, then glanced at the completely darkened sky, "Can you tell me how far it is from where I am going? distance?"

"It's almost two kilometers." Seeing Xie Jin pulling out his wallet from his backpack, the driver hurriedly refused, "Don't do this, last time you gave me 200, which is enough for the round-trip fare, stop! "

"Brother, this is all the cash I have on me." Xie Jin put the four red notes and a stack of change into the driver's hand, "If you handed me over to that person, I might not be able to return here. So you have to accept the money, just take it as my heart."

The driver was resolutely unwilling to accept it, and his attitude was also very tough: "No, why am I charging you so much money? Besides, what should you do when you come out, and what should you do if you have no money to go home?"

"I can do this myself." Xie Jin smiled lightly at the driver, then suddenly opened the car door, closing the door before he could put the money back in.

Xie Jin didn't stop too much, he ran to the roadside bushes before the driver got off the car, no matter how the driver yelled at him, he didn't look back.

As a local, I naturally know how dangerous mountains at night, especially uninhabited wild mountains, are.

Perhaps from the driver's point of view, urbanites like Xie Jin, whose thin skin and tender meat were blown away by the wind, could not survive a night in this virgin forest.

But Xie Jin clearly knew that in the depths of this forest, people were far more terrifying than beasts and natural disasters.

"Brother, thank you for taking care of me along the way, and we'll leave it now." After shouting to the driver behind him, Xie Jin rushed into the dense trees and disappeared into the dark night.

After walking a few dozen meters inside, Xie Jin released the Jiu in his pocket after making sure that he was completely away from the Panshan Highway.

This is not like a city with developed surveillance. No matter what happens here, no one will notice it. At most, they will think that it is the beast in the mountains.

"Chiu, please." Xie Jin stroked the chirp of the disguised black lion, it was sniffing carefully, recognizing the smell left by them, "Are there any traces? It's been a week, even if there is still smell left here. , I probably stayed a week ago."

Xie Jin turned on the searchlight, and it was easy for people to lose their way in the forest, not to mention that in the dark night, he could not recognize the direction of Badong Village from two kilometers away, so he had to go back to the original one that stopped abruptly. on the road.

"Tweet, the driver's brother should have left. Can you take me along this winding mountain road, there should still be a mark written by Wen Liang there."

The black lion nodded, and obediently let Xie Jin climb onto his back. In order to avoid meeting the driver, it carried Xie Jin through the woods, and returned to the asphalt road after advancing for a while.

With the wind under his feet, the black lion ran fast on the unobstructed asphalt road. Its strong and tall body ran fast like a heavy racing car.

The asphalt road soon came to an end, and the black lion stopped, looked at the road that stopped abruptly, and asked Xie Jin, "Jin, is this here?"

"Yes." Xie Jin jumped off its back and stepped on the grass with different heights to go deeper, "Wen Liang left a mark with a dagger before entering the village, as long as you follow the mark, you can return to Badong Village. "

"Perhaps you can also trust my nose." The black lion waggled its tail and leaned in. It sniffed around, suddenly looked up at the grass next to it, and grinned at the darkness behind it that could not be seen clearly.

Xie Jin didn't know what happened, but he approached the black lion immediately and faced that direction. He saw the grass swaying and the dense branches and leaves rustling, as if something was hiding inside.

Beast?

Xie Jin took out the fire ax from his bag, and he brought the ax out of the hospital in case of emergency, but he didn't expect it to come in handy.

There were bursts of low growls from the black lion's throat. It was threatening the things hiding in the grass with absolute power. Don't get close, or you will be shot and killed.

"Woo, woo."

Two shadows emerged from the grass. They lowered their heads and carefully appeared in Xie Jin's line of sight, but they did not approach, and their tails wagged cheerfully.

These were two dogs, Xie Jin had seen them before, and they even rescued him from gray wolves.

"Chirp, it's okay." Xie Jin patted Hei Shi's side face, and he knelt down to take care of the two dogs, "It's you guys, we meet again."

Two big tall and thin dogs immediately rubbed his trouser legs, and wagged their tails flying up, as if responding to Xie Jin's words, they even barked in reply.

"Jin, do you know them?" The black lion looked downcast, even though it couldn't make human expressions on its dark face, even if it did, it couldn't be seen clearly.

"They saved me. At that time, I was almost attacked by wolves in the mountains." Xie Jin had a rare smile on his face. The feeling of licking the palm of the dog's tongue was completely different from that of Jiu, it was slippery and itchy.

He stood up, drooling over his hands, and whispered to the two dogs, "Okay, we still have to hurry, it's getting late, you go, don't meet any other big beasts."

"Woof!" The black dog glanced at Xie Jin, and it suddenly stretched out and ran towards the woods, but it didn't go far, it just advanced a few steps and then stopped, turned its head and continued to look at Xie Jin.

"What are you doing...?" Xie Jin was a little puzzled. At this moment, the brown dog was biting the corner of his clothes with its teeth, trying to pull Xie Jin in the direction of the black dog.

"They seem to want to lead us the way." The black lion arched its head against Xie Jin's back angrily, and at the same time pawed at the brown dog holding Xie Jin with its huge paws, which made the dog let go immediately.

"Wow!" Seemingly confirming that it was right, the brown dog rushed to the black dog in two or three steps, and the two dogs looked back at Xie Jin at the same time. The scene was really indescribably weird.

"Okay, so that's how it is." Xie Jin climbed onto the back of the black lion, looked at the two dogs, and asked a little confused, "You can lead me to Badong Village, can't you?"