This morning, Yang Tuo escaped from his continuous scientific research work and gave himself a day off.
He took a shower first, had a good meal, and then took out a brand new Chinese tunic suit from the bottom layer of the large suitcase he brought on the trip.
This is the new clothes that Yang Tuo made when he was the director of Lanzhou Institute of Biology. His girlfriend made a handmade dress from a big tailor in Toland State, and never wore it since.
Now that it has been pressed under the box for a long time, the cotton and linen blended fabric will inevitably become a little wrinkled.
Asking Suheba beast to borrow an ironing board and an iron, Yang Tuo spent more than half an hour carefully ironing every wrinkle in the suit.
Putting on the Chinese tunic suit in front of the mirror, Yang Tuo took off the electronic watch on his wrist and threw it into the leather case, and took out a mechanical watch from the interlayer of the leather case.
This watch was a gift from his doctoral supervisor He Zihong when he graduated with a Ph.D. He regarded it as a treasure, but he didn't usually wear it.
Because the mechanical watch is not as accurate as the electronic watch after all, and it is not so reliable when working.
The pure metal chain of this watch feels cold to the touch after wearing it.
Yang Tuo held the cuffs of the brand-new Chinese tunic suit with his hands, covered them for a while, warmed the chain with his body temperature, and then put down his hands.
After tidying up his neckline in front of the mirror, Yang Tuo took off his glasses, soaked them in the solution he prepared, and then wiped them carefully with lens cleaning paper.
Putting on his glasses again, he returned to his desk, sat down, and picked up the phone on the desk.
After dialing a few numbers and waiting for a while, Yang Tuo said into the microphone:
"Director Aruna, starting this afternoon, all personnel in the police station will go home on vacation. No one is allowed in the police station except me. When the vacation ends, I will inform you later."
After saying this, Yang Tuo hung up the phone, then looked at Xiao Ba on the table, and smiled: "My treatment for you has ended, and now you have no problems, whether it is physical or mental, Don't stay here with me, go find Lin Shuo."
"Yang Tuo, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?" Xiao Ba tilted his head, seemingly puzzled by Yang Tuo's actions.
"Don't ask." Yang Tuo stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Ba's head, "Go."
"No." Xiao Ba shook his head, "You have to make it clear, otherwise I won't leave at ease."
"It's okay." Yang Tuo said, "I want to wait for someone to come over and have a long conversation without being interrupted. Don't get in the way here."
"Yang Tuo, although my eighth master is a bird, he has also watched TV dramas. Before some characters die, they often come out like this. Dress neatly, set up a style first, and then die heroically. "Xiao Ba said, "Yang Tuo is a scientist, so you shouldn't be so clichéd?"
"Xiao Ba, Ba Ye." Yang Tuo said helplessly, "I, Yang Tuo, have only been so handsome once in my life, can you not tell me the truth?"
"No way, Master Ba, I just like to watch the excitement." Xiao Ba said, "Since you want to die, how can I miss such a big excitement. No, I have to watch you die."
"It's really a bird's beak that can't spit out ivory."
"Are you waiting for Dylan?"
"Um."
"I heard Brother Shuo say on the phone that she is actually a man-made mountain Hades, right?"
"Roughly the same."
"Then how do you know that she will come to you?"
"Since she knows that I have guessed her situation, she will definitely come." Yang Tuo said, "She knows me well. Since I, Yang Tuo, have already set my sights on her, then my side is not settled, and she will never have peace in the future. .”
"Then you just wait to be silenced by her without struggling?"
"Since Lin Shuo didn't keep her, no matter how many lives I fill in, it's useless. It's just a pointless sacrifice." Yang Tuo pointed to his head, "The only thing we can count on at this time is here."
"May I help you?"
"Can't help." Yang Tuo shook his head, "Unless Lin Shuo is here, no one can help."
"Well, I'll keep an eye on it not far away." Xiao Ba said, "I'll tell Brother Shuo about your life or death."
"Can."
…
In the northern part of the Altai Mountains, deep in the geothermal forest.
The smell information around Lin Shuo kept hitting his nose, and he knew that if he went further north, the forest was almost at the end.
Lin Shuo and his party have almost crossed the forest.
Everyone knows that this forest is abnormal, but along the way, it is difficult to find anything abnormal with the naked eye.
Because the abnormalities that Xiaoba mentioned before cannot be seen at a glance in a short period of time, which requires long-term observation.
And Yama Yama himself is also a mysterious and mysterious existence.
For a while, it seemed to be everywhere, and now, it seems to be imprisoned.
Di Lan's sudden departure confused Lin Shuo.
In fact, for a long time, everyone's understanding of the King of Hades was almost established by this woman.
This woman is very strange.
Recalling what she had said, she exaggerated the mountain king, which hurt the morale of the team at that time. At the same time, she used biological samples, which slowed down the team's journey to a certain extent.
This kind of slowdown seems to be unfavorable to the situation, but objectively, it is beneficial.
It happened to be in the critical period of Shanyan Wang's self-growth, and at the same time, it gave Lin Shuo enough time to sort out his thoughts and deduce the information about the parasitism of the beast.
So until now, Lin Shuo has no idea what this woman's motive is.
She seemed to know the Yama King very well, and kept abreast of the progress of the hunting team. When everything was ready, she floated away, leaving the last fruit to Lin Shuo and the others to pick.
But from another angle, she seems to worship Shan Yan Wang very much. She doesn't want the hunting team to complete the hunt smoothly, so she does everything possible to obstruct it. It was only when the King of Yama parasitized the beast and became the strongest form, and at the same time, she herself was suspected by Yang Tuo that she couldn't continue to hide, so she left.
Both scenarios are possible, so this woman is still a mystery to Lin Shuo.
With Lin Shuo's mind, he can naturally think that Di Lan should have a showdown with Yang Tuo when he leaves at this time.
Because here, currently only Yang Tuo can contact the outside world.
As for Yang Tuo, Liu Qing and Suheba are not enough to fight against Di Lan. There is only one Aruna.
It's hard to say whether Yang Tuo can survive.
But Lin Shuo can't worry about this for the time being, because everyone has already entered the territory of the beast.
The beast's breath is already very obvious here, and there are residues everywhere.
At this time, the smell information is extremely precious.
Because if you go any further, you will soon be out of the forest.
Right now is the period when the northwest monsoon is active, a gust of wind blows across the prairie, and there is no smell left, so it will be very difficult to use the smell to lock the beast.
And judging from the freshness of the beast smell in the forest, this thing should be nearby.
At this time, under the feet of everyone is the uphill road of a mountain peak, which is almost reaching the ridge.
At this time, no matter the line of sight or the direction of the wind was blocked by the ridge, everyone's eyes and Lin Shuo's nose were not so easy to use.
Anne stopped suddenly and gave a stop gesture.
Then she quickly lay down on the ground, quietly listening to the movements of the rock formations in the mountains.
After a while, Anne raised her head and said, "Mr. Lin, you should be right in front, the footsteps are muffled, he's a big guy."
"Can you confirm?" Lin Shuo asked.
"I can't." Anne shook her head, "It's too far away, I can't hear it clearly. And I haven't experienced the footsteps of the beast before."
Lin Shuo nodded, and ordered softly, "Get down on the ground, crawl forward, and go to the ridge to observe."
Everyone hurriedly acted according to their words, but after the great white wolf Lao Bai got down on the ground, he rolled to the side and showed his belly to Lin Shuo.
A canine like a wolf is born to recognize the alpha wolf, and will only show its belly to show weakness to the alpha wolf in its pack.
Lin Shuo knew that this big guy was acting like a spoiled child to him, so he touched Lao Bai's belly with his hand, and told him, "Old Bai, you have a big head, so don't show your head on the ridge, it's easy to be spotted. You are right here Don't move, if it runs here in the end, you can just stop it, don't try your best, you know?"
Although Lao Bai can't speak human words like Xiao Ba, he can understand human words.
After ordering Lao Bai, Lin Shuo, Anne and Zhang Jin all got down on the stomach, and crawled lightly for five or six meters, and there was a mountain ridge in front of them.
This ridge is very narrow. Compared with the whole mountain, it is almost like a blade standing upright, three or four meters wide.
The three of them each found an observation position, and looked down the mountain through the grass and rocks.
These days, I am used to seeing trees and rocks. The only man-made structure is the stone pillar, which looks similar to a tree.
So the scene under the mountain at this time is very eye-catching.
Although it has been eroded by the years, the three can still recognize that this is an ancient city that has been abandoned for a long time.
The surrounding stone walls have already collapsed, but the foundation of the wall is still there, and the general outline of the city can be seen.
The buildings in the city were obviously made of stones, and most of them collapsed into a messy pile.
The most striking thing is the stone pillar in the middle.
This kind of stone pillar, everyone has seen a similar one before, but it is not as big as this pillar.
Moreover, on this stone pillar in the center of the city, there is an animal head carved on the top, which is now covered with a thick layer of moss, blurring the edges and corners, making it impossible to see what it is.
Around the stone pillars, there is a block protruding squarely, which is probably an altar.
Judging by current standards, this city is not big, with a radius of just over a mile, more like a village.
But if combined with history, there is a small city of such a large scale in the northern mountainous area of the Altai Mountains, which is of great significance.
Because the Altai Mountains is one of the birthplaces of human nomadic civilization.
This conclusion is inferred based on the historical data of other farming civilizations in the surrounding area. True archaeological evidence, so far, is scarce.
And the ruins of this city hidden among the mountains seem to be a favorable evidence for this conclusion.
Of course, the specific excavation work has nothing to do with Lin Shuo and his group, they are not in this business.
However, seeing such a piece of historic site, Lin Shuo was still very emotional.
Because although the currently announced archaeological results do not include this place, it is recorded in Liemen's "Kyushu Foreign Objects".
This place should be the Canglang Historic Site.
It is the third time for human beings to go out of Africa, firstly in the Fertile Crescent of the Mesopotamia, a bright flower of civilization has been born. Sumerian civilization, more than 7,000 years ago.
Then humans continue to move eastward, and the Altai Mountains are one of the transit points.
Here, human beings are divided into two groups, one group goes east and the other goes south.
The group of people heading east entered the Mongolian plateau and gradually evolved into various nomadic peoples that were active in history.
The group of people who went south went to the Kunlun Mountains and gradually evolved into the ancient Qiang people. The ancient Qiang people are the common ancestors of the Han, Qiang and Tibetan peoples today.
Tracing back to the source, this ancient site of Canglang is one of the places where these two groups of people separated.
According to the records in "Kyushu Foreign Objects", when the ancestors in the Canglang Ancient Site were separated due to natural disasters, there were two kinds of totems they believed in.
The totem of the one that goes east is a wolf.
The one going south, the totem is refuting.
Because here, the wolf is their main enemy, and by believing in the enemy, they can sharpen themselves.
At the same time, refu is their guardian beast, and if they believe in the beast, the beast will continue to protect them.
It's a pity that at that time, he didn't follow people eastward or southward.
They survived the natural disaster, and their numbers became increasingly rare.
Thousands of years have passed, and now there is only one refutation left in this world.
This head, at this very moment, was standing on the hill opposite Lin Shuo and the others.
It held its head high, looked vigilantly at the three heads protruding from the opposite mountain peak, and roared like thunder.
"You two, start outflanking from the two wings." Lin Shuo also stared at this side, and said in a deep voice, "Remember, you have to live!"