It was raining on the river, and the mountains were naturally not immune.
Fortunately, Lin Shuo and Anne found a cave.
This cave, which seems to be a temporary residence for the loggers here, was carved out of the cliff, with a height and depth of about two meters.
The wooden ladder under the cave had long been rotten, but it didn't bother Lin Shuo and Anne.
Lin Shuo jumped up and grabbed the bottom of the cave. With a vigorous effort on his fingers, he straightened his waist and jumped up.
Looking back at Anne, the girl was already standing behind him, and her climbing movements were no slower than Lin Shuo's.
Xiao Ba bounced around in the cave for a while, and said, "Brother Shuo, it's nice here, it's quite spacious."
"En." Lin Shuo nodded, leaning the recurve bow and quiver behind him against the cave wall, and sat down by himself.
"Brother Shuo. Before, we thought there was nothing else here, just a word, do it!" Xiao Ba said, "But now it seems that things are not so simple."
Lin Shuo glanced at his own bird, and asked, "Just tell me, what do you want?"
"I want to go out for a walk." Xiaoba said, "You see, as soon as we get here, we look like a bunch of blind people. This is not a problem."
"It makes sense. But..." Lin Shuo agreed with Xiao Ba's statement, and then asked suspiciously, "Are you sure you're looking for news, not dating girls?"
Anne was overjoyed when she heard this question, and she didn't interrupt, looking at Xiao Ba with a pair of beautiful eyes.
"Brother Shuo, people communicate with others, and birds have their own ways." Xiaoba glanced at Anne and said, "Birds are different from people. They are stupid. They only care about two things in their lives, eating and sleeping. For me In other words, sleeping with them is indeed easier than finding food for them. Don't we have to pay attention to efficiency when we do things?"
After hearing this, Anne struggled to hold back her laughter, and rubbed her face while saying, "Baye, you've worked hard."
"Who says it's not." Xiao Ba lowered his head, but secretly glanced at Lin Shuo with his small eyes, "Brother Shuo, please nod."
"Get lost!" Lin Shuo waved his hands impatiently with a look of disgust.
"Okay!" The mynah fluttered its wings and crashed into the heavy rain outside, and within a few seconds, it came back again.
"Brother Shuo, I've made room for you, buddy, I can only help you so much. I'll take care of the mother bird, mother-in-law, then you have to come in person."
Throwing this sentence, the starling bird crashed into the rain again.
Then it let out a few screams, the sound became farther and farther away, and a few black feathers floated from the hole.
Lin Shuo withdrew the hand that threw the stone, with a gloomy expression on his face.
"Baye is so funny." Anne looked at Lin Shuo who was sitting opposite, a blush flashed across her face.
"No matter how smart this bird is, its heart is still like a child's. It doesn't speak properly. Don't be offended."
While talking in a low voice, Lin Shuo picked up the hay on the ground and pulled out strands of fiber.
The firewood left by the lumberjacks was piled in the hole. It had been dry for an unknown number of years.
There was no shortage of tinder and firewood here, and soon Lin Shuo lit a fire.
Although the two of them quickly found the cave just now, their clothes were already drenched.
Seeing that the bonfire was ready, Anne simply took off her coat, set it up with branches, and roasted it by the fire.
After taking off her coat, she was only wearing a black tube top, revealing her white body, without a trace of fat around her waist, and her chest was even more spectacular.
Lin Shuo turned slightly sideways and looked outside the cave entrance.
Anne also seemed to feel a little awkward, and changed the subject:
"Mr. Lin, can you tell me about what happened on Kunlun Mountain? Actually, I have always been very surprised. It stands to reason that the team that went to Kunlun six years ago was the strongest in the past few hundred years of Liemen. How could it lose? How big is it? Is that strange creature on Kunlun Mountain really that powerful
Since I have confessed my identity to you, you should know that I am not an outsider. Since we are dealing with this strange creature together this time, you should be able to disclose some things, right? "
Lin Shuo was startled when he heard the words, then he lowered his head and said nothing.
Anne noticed that Lin Shuo's complexion was a bit unsightly.
She quickly opened her handbag and handed over a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes in it.
Lin Shuo took the cigarette, lit one, and smoked silently.
Seeing Lin Shuo's actions, Anne was calm on the surface, but actually felt a little sympathy in her heart.
The hunter team six years ago, judging from the few words Lin Shuo revealed before, was actually very powerful.
Among them are Lin Shuo and his son who are respected as the head of the six Liemen families, and Zhang Lianhai, the head of the Zhang family among the six families.
As far as she knew, there were also six hunters from the Su family in this team.
Jiangnan Lin, Saibeizhang, Qiangdisu. In Kunlun Mountains six years ago, three of the six hunters came out.
Such a team of hunters can almost save the world from extinction. But when they went up to Kunlun Mountain, only Lin Shuo was the last one to come down, and almost the whole army was wiped out.
One can imagine how tragic the battle was at that time!
Although Lin Shuo is the current leader of Liemen, his strength is also unfathomable.
But in the end, he was just a young man of twenty.
No one knows what he faced six years ago.
Whenever Anne mentioned the Kunlun Mountains six years ago, or Lin Shuo himself discovered the traces of the strange creatures on the Kunlun Mountains, Lin Shuo's abnormality might not be noticed by others, but Anne could see it.
Anne herself has no parents, but her parents passed away before she could remember anything. The death of both parents brought her more loneliness and loss.
But if her father was killed by a powerful creature, and all this happened in front of her eyes, just thinking about that scene, Anne felt that her heart was being torn apart.
Lin Shuo, who was sitting across from him at the moment, had undoubtedly experienced all of this.
That night six years ago left a terrible wound in the depths of his soul, and six years later, this wound is still bleeding.
Perhaps, this is the reason why he has been living in seclusion for the past six years.
Thinking of this, Anne's heart softened, and she said softly, "Mr. Lin, I'm sorry. If you don't want to say it, I can understand."
"It doesn't matter. In order to prevent more people from dying at the hands of that beast, I can say something." Lin Shuo coughed softly, and said in a low voice: "Our Liemen has passed down several books since ancient times, called " "Kyushu Foreign Objects", each of the six of us has a copy, you should have heard of it?"
"En." Anne nodded, "There are nine volumes in this book, which record the strange creatures discovered by hunters since ancient times. It was jointly written and preserved by the nine masters of Liemen in ancient times.
However, the nine families have been passed down to the present, and three of them have become extinct. The three volumes of "Kyushu Foreign Objects" gradually scattered among the people as the three masters had no successors, and have now been lost.
We, the International Biological Research Association, believe that the strange creatures recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing" were copied from these three volumes of "Kyushu Foreign Objects". "
"You're not entirely right." Lin Shuo said, "These three volumes of "Nine Provinces of Foreign Objects" have not been lost, and the six of us have already left copies. This beast on Kunlun Mountain was also very famous in ancient times. Its name in "Kyushu Foreign Objects" is called hook snake."
"Hooked snake?" Anne lowered her head and thought for a while, then said, "It's also recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing."
"Yes." Lin Shuo said, "In ancient times, there were quite a few of these things, and they were slaughtered by hunters one after another. In the end, only this one on Kunlun Mountain remained."
"Then why not kill them all?"
"Because this beast was not harmful to people at that time." Lin Shuo said, "Besides, Kunlun is the ancestor of Chinese dragon veins. When this hooked snake was discovered, its lifespan had exceeded a thousand years. At that time, our ancestors believed that it had the dragon It was a sign, so I didn't move it.
The Su family, one of the six families of Liemen, originally lived in Xiangyang, so they moved north to the vicinity of Kunlun to keep an eye on this hooked snake, waiting for the day when it will cross the catastrophe and transform into a dragon.
After staring at it for another six hundred years. Dozens of generations of the Su family guarded the snake in the Qiang area, so it was called Qiang area Su within the Liemen.
Ten years ago, among the six families of Liemen, rumors began to spread about the hooked snake crossing the catastrophe. This story became more and more true. Six years ago, there was news that the hooked snake was about to cross the catastrophe and transform into a dragon. "
"So, the elite hunters headed by your father from the six families of Liemen went to Kunlun Mountain just to stare at this hooked snake?" Anne asked.
"Of course not." Lin Shuo shook his head. "It's so old. Other hunters may still believe in the story of crossing calamities and transforming into dragons, but my father and I don't."
"Why is that?"
"Because the keel pulls the finger."
Anne's heart tightened when she heard the words keel pull finger.
Anne learned from the information of the International Biological Research Association that the keel finger is a token of the leader of the hunting gate.
The origin of the inheritance of Liemen was before the appearance of writing, almost at the same time as the origin of human civilization, and it is one of the longest inheritances of human beings.
Although the current six families are relatively closed and their behavior is extremely conservative, the other families of Liemen have already spread their branches at home and abroad. Now these families are extremely powerful, and some even control the country where they are located.
Whoever owns the keel finger has huge network resources and financial resources. In the eyes of ordinary people, this thing is naturally a priceless treasure.
It's just that the Lin family, who was promoted as the head of the hunting gate and in charge of the keel finger, didn't seem to care much about this point, and never cashed in on this value.
Anne mentioned the keel wrench earlier.
She originally wanted to remind Lin Shuo to use this thing to order the hunting gate, so as to add some help to the trip to the outer Xing'an Mountains.
Unexpectedly, Lin Shuo immediately turned his face, it seemed that Anne had mentioned something taboo. Seeing this, Anne could only suppress the curiosity in her heart and never mentioned it again.
Now that Lin Shuo took the initiative to mention this thing, and at this juncture, Anne was secretly surprised.
But she couldn't show anything on her face, so she could only wait quietly for him to speak.