When news of Su Zonghan's disappearance reached the Amazon rainforest, Lin Shuo was grilling crocodiles.
The sons-in-law are too filial, not only take turns to follow him, but also go ashore to send things over. This crocodile weighs almost three tons.
It was Su Nianqiu who called, and Mrs. Lin was in a panic.
On the contrary, Lin Shuo was very calm. Ever since Lin Yingyue suddenly appeared on the surface of the East China Sea, he knew that his second son, Su Zonghan, might also make such an appearance.
It's just that he was calm and calm, and his heart was still extremely heavy.
It is said that the son was a creditor in the previous life, and he was reincarnated in this life to collect debts. Lin Shuo knew this well from Lin Jixian, and he had nothing left to worry about every day.
I am not a narrow-minded person, but in the face of these three sons, I am often so angry that my liver hurts.
As for the second son, Su Zonghan, he did not come to collect debts in his life, but to pay off debts.
He is very sensible and has never let Lin Shuo worry about him. Not only does he not need to worry about his father, but he also helps to worry about the family affairs.
If there is a small awkwardness among the women, he will mediate it and say something reassuring.
If the elder sister beats the younger brother, he will know right from wrong. If the beating was right, he would pass the stick to the side; if the beating was wrong, he would lie on his younger brother to block his sister's fists and feet.
When I have nothing to do, I either read a book quietly, or help take care of my younger sister Lin Yingyue.
It's a pity that only children who can bark have milk, and the other three children are aggressive, mischievous, and young. Lin Shuo's energy is often focused on the three of them. On the contrary, Su Zonghan, who is the most sensible, cares less .
Now that he heard that his second son was missing, Lin Shuo could vaguely guess what was going on.
After all, the eldest and second child were born together.
It's just that I don't know if this father-son relationship can continue in this life.
While cooking, Lin Shuo unknowingly shed tears on his face.
The leader of Liemen wiped his tears, and said in his mouth: "Wei Xingshan, why don't you pick enough firewood, it's so smoky, my tears are all smoked out."
There is nothing to say about Lin Shuo's cooking skills. At the moment, the other three people are waiting to eat around the campfire. Seeing Lin Shuo cooking, they shed tears, and they all understand it in their hearts. It's about the phone call just now.
Miao Chengyun and Chu Hongyi heard what was going on, but Wei Xingshan didn't know.
It was inconvenient for him to ask clearly, and firewood is what he did, so he didn't want to take the blame, so he said: "Old Lin, it's not impossible, there are horses who stumble and people stumble, no matter how unpalatable you are, you can't bear it." Don't feel so guilty, I can eat, I'm really hungry right now."
Lin Shuo rolled his eyes at this man, and threw the grilled crocodile meat over, "Shut your mouth."
Miao Chengyun said from the side: "I used to look at these children of your family. I was really envious. If my family, Miao Long and Miao Feng, had their qualifications, I would be able to wake up with a smile in my dreams. Looking at it now, I am better than you in this respect." You are lucky. You children are too big, you may not be able to handle it as a father. "
"I can't help myself, I'm their father too." Lin Shuo sighed, "Actually, I should have realized that, among the children, Lin Jixian is said to be the most disgusting. But my mother doesn't care about this third grandson. , I love them very much, and I will give them whatever they want. My mother doesn’t pay much attention to the other three children. This hint is already obvious, and I’m to blame for being late.”
"Then she can't tell you clearly that these children of yours are related to the daughters-in-law in your family. Even if you are a henpecked guy, our mother can't afford to provoke them." Miao Chengyun said, " Especially Di Lan, who is Lin Yingxue's biological mother."
"I think this is secondary." Chu Hongyi said, "Senior Yun probably couldn't bear to tell the chief executive these things."
Wei Xingshan saw that even Chu Hongyi basically understood, so he stopped pretending and said, "Old Lin, no matter what, this is my own child. Don't do such things as killing relatives righteously. If it is really impossible ,give it to me."
Miao Chengyun rolled his eyes: "Just you, you can beat even Lin Jixian now, are you sure you didn't go up and get killed, and then strengthen Lin Shuo's determination to kill relatives righteously?"
"That's fine too." Wei Xingshan could think about it, "Anyway, even if I can beat it, I won't be able to make that move."
"Hey, you guys, if you don't know how to persuade people, don't persuade them. This is not persuading people. If I'm narrow-minded, I should jump into the river and commit suicide right now." Lin Shuo said helplessly, "What the hell happened to the three of them? Things, we can only guess now. Things may not be so bad, let's take a step and see."
This meal of crocodile meat is everyone's dinner. The four of them have been searching around here for a day. It was a veritable carpet search, and they did not find any trace of the temple.
After excluding this place, there is only one place left, and that place is very far away, according to which the straight-line distance is more than a thousand kilometers.
It was getting dark now, Lin Shuo planned to let everyone eat and drink enough before going to sleep, and then jump over in the morning.
At the same time, a bunch of bonfires were born here, so that Xiao Ba in the sky could find him easily. Lin Shuo left a small piece of crocodile tail for it.
Xiaoba's appetite has decreased a lot recently, and this little meat is enough for him to eat.
The four members of the hunting team were all in a heavy mood at this time, and the conversation they had just forced to smile ended in failure, so they kept silent. After dinner in silence, they planned to go to bed early, and Lin Shuo kept vigil tonight.
At midnight, only Lin Shuo was awake in the camp. There was a flutter of wings, and Lin Xiaoba appeared on Lin Shuo's shoulder.
"I left a piece of meat for you, eat it." Lin Shuo said.
"Brother Shuo, I've already eaten." Lin Xiaoba said, "Let's talk about the business."
Lin Shuo was a little surprised, because according to Lin Xiaoba's previous approach, he would definitely comment on how the female bird here is.
When this starling bird first started to fly, it only knew that picking up girls would delay work, but when it grew up, it could barely work and pick up girls.
Now that I'm older, I'm more concerned.
Lin Shuo asked, "Did you find him?"
"Well, I found it." Xiao Ba said, "It's just to the southwest, about a thousand kilometers away."
Lin Shuo's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he thought to himself, isn't it a coincidence that the place where his group is going tomorrow, the last possible place where the hidden temple might exist, is there.
On second thought, maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
The so-called hidden temple is a place where the light cannot be seen. It makes sense for those people to live in that kind of place.
I only heard Xiao Ba continue to say: "Brother Shuo, let's go this time, I advise you to be more cautious.
That place is a hidden cave, and it's hard to find outside.
Then there are quite a few people in this group, a large gathering area, I think the population can be in the tens of thousands.
And ah, they move very fast, and they not only have cultivation bases, but also guns.
I heard before that you and Miao Chengyun teamed up to deal with the aborigines here, but Miao Chengyun was shot down by them.
This group of people must be stronger, so don't capsize in the gutter again. "
After Xiaoba finished speaking, Miao Chengyun sat up and stayed awake.
He was already feeling short now, and two hours of sleep a night was enough, but now he woke up and squinted his eyes to rest his mind, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but feel angry: "Xiaoba, don't blame me for that, it's Lin Shuo who dragged it down. My hind legs…”
"Why didn't the gun hit him?" Xiao Ba asked back.
"This..." Miao Chengyun rolled his eyes, "Hey, I can't tell you a bird."
While speaking, Miao Chengyun began to rummage through his backpack, then took out a sealed plastic bag, and shook the contents inside: "Come on, Lin Shuo, take a look, what does it mean to be prepared?"
When Lin Shuo saw that Miao Chengyun had woken up, he started to feel drowsy. It was agreed that the two of them would take turns to watch the night, but now he rubbed his eyes and looked at the plastic bag in Miao Chengyun's hand by the light of the bonfire. , a little dazed: "What is this?"
"I've already expected that the things here might be done by humans." Miao Chengyun smiled, "We are professional in dealing with beasts and alien species, but when dealing with humans, each one is softer than the other, which is easy to cause bad things. So I prepared this thing in advance, you should actually know it.”
While speaking, Miao Chengyun opened the seal on the plastic bag, and the smell inside was released.
Lin Shuo didn't recognize it when he saw it, but he recognized it when he smelled it.
This is the wick of the Zombie Oil Lamp.
The first business he had cooperated with Su Nianqiu and Wei Xingshan before was the Heishuilong City under the Outer Xing'an Mountains. The zombie oil lamps inside once put the hunting team in a desperate situation.
Especially Wei Xingshan, who was ready to make a heroic sacrifice.
Fortunately, the deal was actually Miao Guangqi who wanted Ye Luo to return to his country. He wanted to get the cultural relics inside Dragon City and return them to the country. He also arranged an assessment for Lin Shuo to remind this kid to come out to find his mother.
Therefore, the use of the zombie oil lamp was not so insidious, and it gave Lin Shuo sufficient information buffer and preparation time, otherwise, this thing alone would have wiped out the entire hunting team at that time.
Miao Chengyun looked at the thing in his hand and said with emotion: "As soon as I saw this thing, I thought of Nie Xuan. Hey, life is just standing at the intersection of four forks and doing multiple-choice questions. Many times, you can't help yourself. Who would have thought of Nie Xuan?" A few years from now, I will call the person who killed Nie Xuan a brother and brother, like brother and sister? Now I know that she is buried in Altai Mountain, and I feel embarrassed to visit the tomb every Qingming."
"You're wrong. What does it mean to be brothers and sisters? We are brothers in the first place." Lin Shuo said, "If you don't visit the grave, don't go. There are people taking care of her tomb, and Nian Qiu will go there every year."
"Hey, my little junior sister." Miao Chengyun shook his head and said, "Okay, let's not mention her, just talk about this zombie oil lamp.
This thing is useless against unarmed ordinary people, but it will strengthen their combat effectiveness.
But for the kind of practitioners who don't cultivate gods, it is best to hold a gun, and it will be very effective.
At one point, people become walking dead. Although they can also be aggressive, they lose their tricks and don't know how to use guns, so they are much easier to deal with.
This trip I also took An Shen Ding Hu San, Lao Wei and Lao Chu each took a mouthful, steady. "
"Okay." Lin Shuo nodded, "Then we will set off early tomorrow morning."
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At dawn the next day, Miao Chengyun first used the wind-fire leap to reach the vicinity of the destination, and then Xun Fengfei observed it from a high altitude, and determined the other three people's foothold.
Then he and Lin Shuo built a wind-fire transition tunnel a thousand kilometers apart, and brought Wei Xingshan and Chu Hongyi over.
Xiao Ba was carried in Lin Shuo's arms, and when he got there, he went to the sky to watch him. If there was any trouble, he hurried down to report.
The people's foothold was halfway up a mountain. Walk forward for a while and turn over two hills. When you reach the top of the third hill, you can see the village at the bottom of the hill.
The person to be dealt with this time has a cultivation base, so the distance should be opened, so sneak in carefully.
It took more than half an hour, and the four of them walked fast and steadily. After touching three high-altitude warning posts, they finally lay down on the top of the mountain and observed the situation down the mountain.
Indeed, as Xiaoba said, there are quite a few people.
This is a large cottage, surrounded by mountains in the depths of the forest, and the area surrounded by wooden fences is very wide. The overall structure is a large circle surrounded by many small circles.
Inside the outer wall, there are circular wooden buildings surrounded by circles. The wooden buildings are tall and short, and the yards are also large and small.
It was just dawn in the morning, and people inside got up one after another. It was the busiest time of the day in the cottage.
They are basically cooking, and the smoke is billowing from the kitchen. However, it seems that they are not all cooking in a single household with the door closed. Most of them share a firepit with several households.
A bonfire was lit in the yard surrounded by a circle of wooden buildings, and several families were busy around the bonfire.
And on the edge of these fire ponds, there is a stone statue standing.
Right now, Lin Shuo and the others were far away, and it was so smoky that they couldn't tell what kind of stone statue it was, but it felt like the stone statue they saw in the crypt before, similar with minor differences.
In addition to these ring-shaped buildings, the wooden building in the middle of the cottage seems to be a detached villa, one after another, arranged in a row, and the overall height is higher, and the last one has to be a two-story small building. building.
And the people who go in and out of these single-family wooden buildings feel different from other people in the cottage.
They are basically young and middle-aged, with vigorous feet and quick movements.
Miao Chengyun looked at it for a while, and said: "We found the person, but what about the temple? It seems that there is no one here."
Lin Shuo's sense of smell is keen, but his eyes are not as good as Miao Chengyun's and Chu Hongyi's. In his eyes, just like what Miao Chengyun said, although the buildings in the cottage are not very clear from a distance, they can still be seen at a glance.
Mayan temples or altars, there is not even a shadow.
Chu Hongyi is obviously in a low mood at the moment, because this is the last possibility, if there is no trace of that hidden temple, there will be no further traces.
But Lin Shuo said at this time: "The temple is here."
"Did you smell it?" Miao Chengyun asked curiously, "What does the temple smell like?"
"You treat me like a god, I can still smell the temple when it's so smoky." Lin Shuo said softly, "I can see it."
"How do you tell?" Wei Xingshan also asked.
"Look, these buildings are all made of wood, and the outer walls are also wooden fences, but the ground inside the cottage is paved with stone bricks, and the stone bricks are not small, and the level of craftsmanship is not low." Lin Shuo said, "This is too disharmonious."
"What does that represent?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"The building is a shelter, and the wall is the most important defensive barrier. If they have the ability or the consciousness to lay such a good stone brick floor, not to mention the building, at least the outer wall must be built with stones." Lin Shuo said.
"You mean, they didn't lay these stone bricks?" Miao Chengyun asked.
"Yes, these stone bricks should have existed in the first place, older than their village." Lin Shuo said.
"That's why they demolished the temple, leaving only the stone brick floor of the temple?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"If you have the time to demolish it, wouldn't it be good to live in the temple? Even if it can't accommodate so many people, how about building a head office with the demolished stones?" Lin Shuo rolled his eyes.
"Where did the temple go?"
"It's just underground." Lin Shuo said, "They built a cottage here, and they should be protecting the entrance of the temple."
"Where is the entrance?"
"I don't know where to go. I'll go into the stockade and look for it later."
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