Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

We continued to sit in front of the river for a while and then started walking back. When I arrived in front of the motel, I saw a few more cars parked in the open space. I really thought that Cao Cao Cao Cao was here. Someone from the cable station came to visit Channel Nine. Two bitchy girls were standing in the sun chatting. When they saw me holding a paper beer cup in my hand, Rosa didn't show any signs of it. She reached out and took it and drank it down.

"Is that okay if I get drunk in the morning? I remember your name was Alex? Hello, my name is Rosa."She put her arm around my shoulders, hugged me hard, and said with a smile:"You were really famous yesterday. We were talking about you all night. By the way, Alex, can you give me and Dixie some space? We still have some work matters to discuss."

Dixie nodded, pursed her lips toward Lao Dai's guest room, and signaled me to stay away first. He had been looking for me all morning.

When we entered the room, Lao Dai and Paco were packing their luggage, and I found a chair and sat down. , asked him if he planned to go to Peachtree Corner with the national detective? He nodded, and then told a trivial matter that had nothing to do with it, that is, in the middle of the night last night, the nurse of Lao Qian's family called him at around three o'clock. My heart tightened, could it be that man and woman showed up again?

"No, it didn't show up, it's still the same. But she seemed a little anxious and asked me if there would be any problems."

It turns out that after we left Durham, we started to smoke money again a few days ago, and we moved back to the study to live alone. We were still eating two bags a day, which made the whole house feel like it was being roasted. Night care Lenovo Thinking of his past appearance, I couldn't help but feel frightened, so I talked to Lao Dai privately on the phone, a little worried that yesterday would happen again.

"So what do you mean now? Are you planning to go back to Ou Shizhu Street to see what’s going on? Or is this over?"I put my hand in and asked

"How is it possible? Now we are entering the most interesting part, no one will quit at this time. This morning I arranged for a large group of national detectives to go to Peachtree Corners first, and the luggage was packed for Paco. After all, in terms of ability to do things, no one here can do it better than him. But I will go there sooner or later, but not today. He called me into the bathroom and whispered:"When there are many people, there are many people talking. Do you know why the cable TV station came here today?" What you were doing secretly last night was watched by the townspeople they bribed."

"What? This rabbit wanted me to keep my secret in my heart and not tell anyone about it, but he told it to everyone!"

"Of course he wants to communicate with me and the leader of the Ram. What kind of sect are you? What can be accomplished? I want to ask you, do you know how to distinguish the Nine Yin Bureaus or are you familiar with the Lower Nine Yins? Since you don't know anything, you shouldn't accept Dixie's instigation and hide this from everyone."

After being scolded by Lao Dai, I had no choice but to exit the door. I saw Sister Di and Rosa sitting in the sun and chatting. Their faces were as tense as before, and they were as close as sisters. The world of women is too difficult to understand. The world of women in their thirties is as full of mysteries as the vast universe. When the two big girls saw me staring at them in surprise, they raised their hands and motioned for me to come over and sit down.

"Such a young boyfriend? God has favored Dixie so much. It’s like an old cow eating young grass. Rosa looked at me lustfully, flicked her hair back, and deliberately asked her:"You don't think I have any taboos, do you?""

"What kind of boyfriend? It's just that we are relatively close and work together."Sister Di lowered her head, looked at her shoes, winked at me, and said with a smile:"Rosa is very interested in you. She has been talking about you just now, why don't you give her a gift."

I felt like a monkey who had been fooled, and I was a little red-faced. Rosa was about to go back, so she took my arm, came to the open space, and introduced her colleagues to me one by one. After that, they all got in the car. We left Black Maple Town laughing and joking.

It turned out that the crackling sound of bicycles that Rabbit heard last night was caused by the cable TV station that bribed the teenagers in the town. Everyone's every move was secretly monitored by others. They always felt that we were hiding something, so After receiving the message, she hurried over and planned to interrogate Sister Di about the reason. The two were very unhappy at first, so Rosa threatened that if she did not cooperate, she would ask the local law enforcement agency to seal the tunnel. Cable Channel 9 couldn't get it, and Channel 9 didn't want to monopolize the victory. So after some negotiations, Sister Di gave in and said she could accept her suggestion. Anyway, they were all working on the same thing, so there was no need to fight.

"Sometimes I really want to trick them into cheating. I'm sorry, I lost my temper."Sister Di dug her nails into the flesh with great force. When she saw that my face was ashen, she hurriedly let go and sighed:"Generally speaking, Ajia doesn't object, so let's do it."

I don't care about the bullshit between their work gang and the cable station. I will never be the one who makes money in the end. I don't like to be used as a tool by others, and I don't want to be the object of others' fun. Even for a moment. Before the hour, I was still trying my best to defend her, but all Dixie could think about was herself. I couldn't help but feel chilled, I threw her hand away and angrily walked into Soul Sickle's guest room.

"This is the most boring dispute in the world. Power and money, sex and profit, have been like this for thousands of years."Eubisio was sitting upright on the leather armchair, holding the ring with his fingertips and looking at it. The sunlight hit the pure gold surface and reflected a dazzling light, just like a soul scythe holding a ball of fire in his hand. At the same time, the stone brought out from the cave White high heels were also placed on top of the TV set nearby. Krys was describing the experience to him vividly. He watched me walk into the room with an annoyed look on his face, and at the same time made a few dry laughs.

"This ring may belong to Lao Qian." After a long time, Soul Sickle handed the ring to Krys and asked her to go out and return it to Sister Di. He said lightly:"I saw it in the frame on the wall of his house, but it was not a wedding ring. , and hung around his neck"

"What about this shoe? How much do you think it would be worth if you put it all together?"Krys turned around and quickly went out and then came back quickly. He picked up the white high-heeled shoes and said,"I think the other one must be somewhere deeper. If I have more time, I will find it.""

"I'm afraid it's worthless, or priceless."The soul sickle glanced at it and did not reach out to pick it up. Instead, he reached out and took out a cigarette to light it. He said indifferently:"It is a shoe worn by sacrifices in the ceremony. It is not for sale to the person who owns it."

"It is so beautifully made and inlaid with diamonds and treasures. It is very similar to what the ancients wore in palace TV dramas. It is really a pity to use it as a prop in a ceremony. But how did you tell?"I was slightly surprised, took a step forward and asked

"I just inferred, not said it is, the reason is these few things. Eubisio tipped the shoe over and rolled out a few blue berries from the root. He picked one up and shook it in front of our eyes, asking:"Do you know what it is?""

Looking at this kind of thing, the two of us made many general guesses, but most of them revolved around fruits, grapes? cherries? Or some kind of apricots? After Soul Scythe finished smoking, he slowly revealed the answer, An answer that cannot be guessed no matter how hard you guess.

"This thing looks like a berry but is not a fruit. It is actually fish eggs, eggs laid by a kind of flying fish called anchovy."Facing rookies like us, it always gives Eubisio a lot of psychological superiority. He narrowed his eyes and said calmly:"There is a reason for this."

"This, this thing is a fish egg?"Krys's eyes widened, as shocked as when we first came into contact with these weirdos.

"Incredible, right? We usually call it Yin Loquat or Siren's Golden Belly. Let me tell you slowly."

In the northeastern United States, every year when salmon return in large numbers, locals will go to the forest to cut down whole fir trees, and then insert them upside down along the docks and soak them in sea water. When the breeding season is over, people will When the fir trees are salvaged, you will see layers of golden fish roe between the branches and leaves. They are then sent to the processing factory and packaged, and become delicacies on our tables. For hundreds of years, this cost-free The fishing industry has been passed down from generation to generation and is valued by the locals as an industry.

At first, I thought that the blue berries grew naturally from the dead lichen. In fact, it was not the case. It was the roe produced by the magical burrowing flying fish..According to legend, this kind of fish called squid is an amphibian. It can glide in the air with its super jumping power, so people mistakenly think that they can fly. The form of their eggs is similar to that of salmon, and they will choose the roots around the cave wall. Ovulation is concentrated in the whiskers. Even if you place a broom, they will cling to it. Therefore, the appearance of the Kraken's golden belly is like grapes on the vine, making people mistakenly think that they are some kind of plant. And the flying fish produce After the eggs are laid, life slowly begins to count down. At the end, they will burrow into the wet mud and sleep. After a while, they will die in large numbers and become nutrients for the fungi and vegetation in the wet caves.

Because the eggs of this fish are plump and huge, they are very tall. It is comparable to sheep's eye grapes, but does not enter the sea and rivers, so it does not have any fishy smell. In addition, the capsules are rich in brain squamous lipids and globulin, especially a special kind of ribonuclein, so the taste is quite close to that of fruit. Eat them It can make people see clearly in the dark in a very short time, so it is called the golden belly of the siren, which means that the gloomy loquat fruits born by the sirens will be collected by those who plan to go into the crypt. Utilization, hence the name.

However, the shade loquat is very difficult to find. It is usually buried in the mud layer at a depth of more than fifty meters underground. In addition, it also requires many special conditions. For example, a humid environment, stable temperature, and Naturally generated underground airflow. This kind of thing is often discovered by people inadvertently along with the special geography created by mountain hunters when they escape. Sister Di and I have seen them in the past, and it is exactly this principle.

Therefore, there is a place with the golden belly of the Kraken , are often excellent medicinal fields and large water holes. You can see huge Ganoderma millstones and water plants everywhere, and there may be hot springs around. It is hard to imagine that there is such a thing under a tunnel mountain away from the mine.

"After Logan talked about it in the morning, I was also surprised. I thought it was really impossible, so I asked her to argue with me. It now appears that the crypt path is an unrecovered underground bubble that has not been restored by mountain hunting. It may have existed longer than human history. In this case, why does it become a cage for Suhun and a wind alley where people exchange information with them? It becomes much easier to understand."Eupisio saw that Krys and I couldn't help but want to swallow it again, so he stopped us in a hurry and said:"You can't eat it like a grape. Yin fruit is mostly poisonous. It is a medicinal material and can only be used to make the eyes bright. Convenience. Otherwise, people will feel hot and unbearable, especially young men and women like you, so be sure to use it with caution."

The meaning of Soul Scythe is that eating too much of this kind of food can easily make people confused and infatuated. They cannot suppress their nature in a short period of time and will become no different from animals. When you wake up, the big mistake has been made. Don't regret it then. That's it. Now that the Kraken's Golden Belly has been explained, the topic naturally falls on the weird high-heeled shoes, about which Eubisio has another profound heretical theory

"Take a look, do you see any difference? Seeing our eyes widening in anticipation of his extraordinary speech, Soul Scythe laughed a few times, then took it from Krys's hand and said,"Maybe you cleaned the shoes after returning to the hotel to wash away the dirt and dirt, but There’s no reason to wash the bag or rag it’s wrapped in, right? Then you might as well put it on and walk a few steps in the open space and then come back to see if it will be stained with dirt. I say it is a sacrificial tribute in the ceremony, because it is not a shoe. If the deer is walking around, that stinky bitch will be able to see the clues. This thing neither collects dust nor leaves footprints. It is worn by special people to commit theft."

These remarks caused Krys to hurriedly put on her left foot. In fact, she had already had the idea of ​​stealing it for herself. She was worried that she couldn't find a reason, so she took a few steps awkwardly, then ran outside the house and jogged a few laps back. Again. After taking a closer look, it turned out to be as white as a flaw, with not a single mark left. She was so happy when she saw it, she took it back to the guest room as a treasure, closed the door and never opened it.

"I still remember that when I first arrived at Lao Qian’s house, I stayed outside the door and didn’t go in. I told you at that time that you could see the dark clouds just by looking at the outside of the house., is it so evil? Yes, this secluded path may be the final answer to all problems, and it is not something that just a few of us can handle. Eubisio pointed to another empty bed in the guest room and said,"I asked Shao Shao to go out to do some business this morning. I have to call a few more people to come over and help." In fact, I have long lost interest in solving the mystery of Lao Qian's disaster, and I want to know what secrets are buried deep in this bubble. Therefore, I give you a day off today, and wait until the good guys and other helpers are in place before you can go and have a go. This matter is extremely dangerous. You must keep it secret and don't let a few girls on the TV station instigate you into it. As for when to go, I will let you know then."

Later that day, everyone began to divide their forces. Paco took most of the national detectives to leave Black Maple Town and went to Peachtree Corners, while Ruddock Razor and the remaining few people returned from Fairmount and brought back Eleven rams and several familiar faces were gathered. When a giant man nearly two meters tall and covered in scars came over with heavy steps and the ground trembled, he frightened the work gang and fled into the guest room. She didn't dare to come out. Sister Di stood in the open space, looking at him with trembling legs, and stretched out a friendly hand.

Then another familiar face got off Lao Dai's station wagon. She was a thin old woman. They led by each other brought more than ten people, quickly filled a large number of vacant rooms, and booked the entire motel. This group of people is the Children of the World

"The perfect husband? The boxing champion looked around and asked angrily:"Where are the other hooligans?" Why are you the only one here?"

And the widows holding lamps were also looking for the person they cared about most in the sparse crowd - Miss Lycugu. After my explanation, she did not strike up a conversation and walked directly into Eubisio's guest room and closed the door to hold a meeting..

The Tieblich Brotherhood has almost never set foot in North America. Here they only know the Children of the World. As fellow sufferers who also suffered a great loss in Lycu's ancient underworld, they have already formed a precious revolutionary friendship. Therefore, Soul Scythe mentioned it to the little old man. , he didn’t say anything, and immediately sent more than a dozen of his men to Georgia to join us.

Soon after, the time to start work was decided, and it was scheduled to start at eight o’clock tomorrow night. According to Gongyang Singtianting The message comes that this period is the moment of peace when all ghosts avoid it, which happens to be the opposite of the eclipse night. It will greatly protect the safety of those who go deep into the Kongdia Stone Gorge. In short, a battle with an unknown type of underground The final battle between ghosts is imminent!

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Path of the Dead prequel Wings of Silver Root explanation:

Condia Stone Gorge: the path hidden behind the Cosita totem, the place where the Georgia War took place.

A ring with a smooth surface and no decoration: significant Physical evidence.

Gibson: Fan Pangmaluo's hometown.

Amphibian: an amphibian, a catfish that breathes with alveoli.

Siren's Golden Belly: also called Yin Loquat, first appeared in the cave under the waterfall.

Langmu: clear eyes.

The moment of peace: some kind of celestial phenomenon.

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