Lin Shuo smoked a cigarette, and his face regained some color, but his expression was still hesitating, as if he was considering whether he should say this matter or not.
After a long time, he finally opened his mouth and said, "The keel finger actually disappeared twenty-five years ago."
"Huh?" Anne looked surprised, "Missing?"
"To be exact, it was stolen." Lin Shuo sighed.
"How could someone steal the keel finger from the Lin family?"
"Of course ordinary people can't." Lin Shuo shook his head, "But the one who stole this finger is my mother."
Anne's heart skipped a beat, her face full of astonishment.
Lin Shuo continued, "Six years ago, it was reported that the keel finger was located in Kunlun Mountain. So, my father took me with him and called a few capable insiders. These people have their own secret skills in the mountains and forests. , my father promised them that whoever finds the keel finger will be theirs."
Speaking of this, Lin Shuo looked at the expression on Anne's face and explained: "Of course I know that the keel finger pull is of great significance, but for me and my father, it is an ancestral thing, a memory left by our ancestors. I think it is very precious, but after all it is not comparable to relatives.
My mother disappeared with things for nineteen years, and my father never blamed her, just wanted to find her.
In order to find her, it is worthwhile even if you give up your keel and pull your fingers.
We thought we would know her whereabouts if we found the Keel Finger.
But I didn't expect that it was a game.
Using the hook to cross the robbery, the keel to pull the finger, and the whereabouts of my mother, the triple bait was used to set up a murderous situation. "
Lin Shuo's words were like thunder in Anne's heart.
She curled up all over, hugged her knees with her hands, lowered her head and pursed her lips, listening quietly.
At this time, Lin Shuo's words stopped, and Anne couldn't help but raised her head and asked, "Who would set up such a murderous situation?"
"I don't know." Lin Shuo shook his head, "Actually, I know that it was a killing game, and it's also the conclusion I slowly came to by constantly recalling what happened at that time in my mind during the past six years.
Because there are just too many coincidences and anomalies. The hooked snake hadn't crossed the catastrophe for more than six hundred years, but at that time it said it was going to cross the catastrophe. Dragon Bone Finger and my mother have been missing for nineteen years. With my father's contacts, there is no news at all, but there was news suddenly at that time. Moreover, it was a team of hunters that was impossible to have an accident, and an accident happened. "
"Mr. Lin, I still can't believe it." Anne sighed softly, "An accident would happen to such a team of hunters. Is that hooked snake really that powerful?"
"This beast is as strong as it is strong. With our team configuration six years ago, it is not difficult to kill it." Lin Shuo shook his head, "However, we did not target it when we went up the mountain. After all these years, this beast The reputation is good. So we searched on Kunlun Mountain for more than a month, and finally entered its territory. As a result, it passed the catastrophe on the first night we entered its territory."
"What? It really passed the catastrophe?" Anne's eyes widened.
"At least, it looks like it." Lin Shuo said, "It didn't succeed at the time, and it was finally struck to death by lightning."
"died?"
"died."
"Then here now..."
"I don't know either." Lin Shuo shook his head, "There were too many weird things that night, and there were no clues at all. Therefore, this hooked snake came back from the dead and appeared in the Waixing'an Mountains. It is the only one I have so far. Clues that can be grasped."
"Oh. So that's the case." Anne nodded slightly, and then asked, "Then how did these senior hunters die?"
As soon as Anne asked this sentence, she regretted it.
Because she saw that Lin Shuo's face quickly turned pale, and her fingers began to tremble violently.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked." Anne immediately apologized.
Today, Lin Shuo has said enough. Judging from his usual performance, Anne can fully imagine the pain he endured when he said those words just now.
So she suppressed her curiosity, and said softly: "Mr. Lin, thank you for your trust in me. This matter will end here today, please stop talking about it."
Lin Shuo nodded with his eyes closed, and said softly, "Yes, it's better not to say anything."
Anne was slightly taken aback, she didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.
At this moment, a black shadow emerged from the rain curtain and landed in front of Lin Shuo.
Xiaoba is back.
"Brother Shuo, there is something wrong with the camp." Mynah shook the rain from all over his body, and said, "Go and have a look."
…
Despite the heavy rain in the sky, the mountain road at this moment is even more muddy and difficult to walk. But it didn't bother Lin Shuo and Anne, they galloped through the forest.
Xiao Ba stopped on Lin Shuo's shoulder and introduced what he had learned before:
"Brother Shuo, you shouldn't have brought those two scholars with you, have you caused trouble?"
"This morning, they went to the riverside secretly. Brother Shuo, you didn't find it normal. These two guys are with us and know your specialties. They hide from us at the back of the wind, and the smell can't pass through."
"Guess what, Yang Tuo, that idiot, climbed a tree and fell from it, breaking his leg."
"The place where he broke his leg is the place where the villagers must pass through on their way back."
"The villagers looked, yo, there was a man lying on the ground, and there was an old man He Zihong next to him. The man on the ground knew the old Orion, and he had been to his house, but the old man He Zihong didn't know him. This question, yes, these two nerds, Expose our camp."
"We have a group of big soldiers in our camp, all of them are armed with guns, they are standard weapons!"
"The villagers rushed to carry Yang Tuo back to the camp. When they saw the gun, they thought we were sent by the Russian government to deal with the Black Water Dragon King."
"Then let's stop cooking. I just paid homage to Lord Dragon, don't do it!"
"Hey, don't tell me, the folk customs here are really fierce! Two hundred people, armed with shotguns, surrounded our camp. Look at that posture, either you die or I live!"
"Brother Shuo, this matter is going to be difficult, Wei Xingshan's big fool is completely dumbfounded."
Mynah chattered all the way, vividly.
Lin Shuo and Anne listened to the scene while they were on their way, and they had a good idea of the scene they were about to face.
After turning over two hills, the temporary camp is on the opposite mountainside.
After several days of continuous construction, the current temporary camp has become a scale.
Before, everyone traveled lightly, and more than half of the logistics supplies were left in Jia Linda.
After confirming that the target of this trip was nearby, Wei Xingshan sent a small team to transport supplies from Jialinda along the waterway yesterday.
The current temporary camp is just like a temporary command post, with seven big tents, six outside and one inside, presenting a layout of stars holding the moon.
The camp cannot be too far from the water source, so it is only two hills away from the village, and sooner or later the locals will discover it.
But everyone didn't care about this before, after all, he had a guy in his hand and he was confident.
Just in case, Wei Xingshan brought ammunition boxes and sacks with him these two days, and built a circle of fortifications around the tent. He didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.
Now just outside this temporary camp, local villagers have already surrounded it.
At this time, the rain has lightened a little, and the visibility is not bad. When Lin Shuo saw the posture on the opposite side, he felt inexplicably familiar.
He remembered that in the book "Kyushu Foreign Objects" at home, there was a "Surrounding Mountain Picture" from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which was a scene of hunters besieging mountains and hunting tigers.
At that time, hunters were not as rare as they are now. They were still a common industry, and most of them were ordinary people.
This is what Lin Shuo saw right now. The villagers surrounding the mountain were positioned very similar to the "Picture of Surrounding the Mountain".
The difference is that in their hands, it is no longer a U-shaped beast fork, but a double-barreled shotgun.
In the camp, Wei Xingshan was the only big and eye-catching guy, holding a walkie-talkie in his hand, talking nervously.
Lin Shuo turned his angle of view and looked at the opposite valley. He soon found that Wang Yong was quietly touching the mountain with three mercenaries. It seems that they want to clear a passage for the camp from the outside.
However, Wang Yong and the others stopped at a distance of more than 20 meters behind the villagers, did not act rashly, but lurked down.
"You still have some brains." Anne saw all this in her eyes, and said softly, "If you really do something, the situation will be out of control."
"Let's go and have a look." Lin Shuo waved his hand and walked quickly down the mountain.