But as I moved forward, I couldn't help feeling uneasy.

Not long after they walked, they came to a fork in the road.

Several people looked at Lin Wu in unison.

Just when Lin Wu was about to ask which way to go: "..."

Okay.

Lin Wu knew nothing about either side, but since someone had been there before, she tried to find some traces of their presence, so she told a few people to look for it together, as this way the chances of finding it would be greater.

I really found it! "Ms. Lin, come here quickly!" Bo Wu suddenly said excitedly.

Lin Wu turned his head.

Bo Wu squatted in front of the stone wall on the right, until he came to a recess.

They all went over and saw a faint cross mark made in the indentation with the tip of a knife.

"This is the mark that Master Jiu usually uses!" said Bo Wu.

Lin Wu's eyes lit up slightly, "You didn't make a mistake?"

Bo Wu nodded excitedly.

"Let's go!" Lin Wu took this road without hesitation.

Less than ten minutes later, they came to another fork in the road and found the same mark, so they followed it.

The place is so complicated that there are more and more forks in the road. Some intersections even have four or five different entrances. Halfway through the road, other entrances will appear on the stone wall, leading to other directions, like a honeycomb with many connections.

As more marks were found, You Yuan asked, "Did he anticipate that someone would come in to look for him, so he left those marks?"

Lin Wu thought without hesitation: "He is always cautious. Even if he can get out, he will leave a mark for the next time."

You Yuan asked suddenly: "Do you remember the way?"

Lin Wu paused.

"You didn't." You Yuan frowned. "Weren't you always very careful in the past, trying to remember where you had been just in case? This time, when you saw the mark left by that person, did you relax?"

Zheng Yuan, Bo Wu and the others glanced at Lin Wu.

Lin Wu took out a compass, "...I'll start remembering now." He then used a knife to make a mark on the wall.

You Yuan's brows were still furrowed.

Recalling his general impression of Bo Yuting along the way, he suddenly asked Bo Wu: "What kind of person is your master?"

Bo Wu was flattered.

This was the first time that You Er Dangjia had paid attention to him. He had to answer well! "My master is naturally wise and brave, one in a million, outstanding, and extremely smart..."

You Yuan said calmly: "It doesn't seem that good, so it needs so many adjectives to embellish it."

"?!!" Bo Wu said hurriedly, "No, no, no! My master is very kind, I am just short of words! But no matter what, there is one thing you can rest assured about, Second Master You. My master definitely cares a lot about Miss Lin, and he wanted to get her the first time he saw her. If Miss Lin wasn't still young, the master would definitely get the marriage certificate first..."

As a result, his words hit You Yuan's minefield.

You Yuan interrupted again coldly: "It's really not that good. Xiao Si is just a little old, but he actually... was attracted by her at first sight. How superficial."

Bo Wu: “?!!”

It's unfair! That's not what he meant! Zheng Yuan, Zhao Fang and Chen Qin lowered their heads quickly to avoid being seen holding back their laughter.

Lin Wu couldn't bear it any longer: "Second brother!"

You Yuan chuckled.

Lin Wu urged them to hurry up.

After what happened just now, the atmosphere became much lighter. The nerves of the few people, who had been tense because they had walked for too long and had not yet reached the end, relaxed a little and became more spirited.

However, they continued walking along the marks for more than three hours and still did not see the end. The marks seemed endless and they could never find them all.

The three of them even walked away hungry.

Lin Wu estimated the time and found that it was already morning, so he asked a few people to stop and rest on the spot, eat something, and recover their strength.

The place where they stopped was at an intersection.

Lin Wu looked at the mark he had just found, then looked at the compass whose direction had changed several times, and called Bo Wu over.

"Are you sure this is also a mark left by Bo Yuting?"

"Of course, Miss Lin, you see, the tail end is hooked and the mark is slightly deep. This is Jiu Ye's habit. One end of the stone is carved longer, which indicates the path Jiu Ye walked." Bo Wu said.

Lin Wu looked at him and thought, "But why do I feel that I have seen several marks exactly like this one not long ago, with the same size, length and grooves? Can Bo Yuting make sure that all the marks he draws are the same?"

Bo Wu thought without hesitation: "Yes, it is possible. Jiu Ye is familiar with this and can carve it with ease, so it is not surprising. Besides, the marks we found along the way are all in different positions on the stone wall. Even if we are looking for the same one in a circle, it is impossible for them to be in different positions."

Too.

But Lin Wu still found it strange when he thought about it carefully.

Because if the person who came in with Bo Yuting was Jian Chonghe, it was impossible for Jian Chonghe to stay here for too long, otherwise Bai Jing and Bai Ning who were in Zhangjia Village B&B at the time would have discovered that he was not there.

Judging from this, Jian Chonghe would not walk in these passages for so long.

So, something is still wrong.

Lin Wu thought about it for a while, then turned back and said to the others, "You guys rest here, I'll go check out another unmarked road."

You Yuan stood up, "I'll accompany you."

Zheng Yuan also stood up.

Lin Wu refused, "I won't be gone for too long, I'll be back soon."

"How about this? I suspect there's something strange here, so I went to explore the unmarked road. But I'm alone, so I can only go one way. Second brother, Zheng Yuan, you can go the other two ways respectively."

"Bo Wu, take Chen Qin and Zhao Fang and wait here."

"You have twenty minutes to get back together. If any of us don't come back by then, or if none of us come back, Bo Wu, you two can go find us separately. We'll leave a sign to show you the way."

After a pause, she added: "Don't get lost. If you encounter too many forks in the road and are not sure you can return the same way, just go back. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to find someone later, and you may even get into danger and never find them again."

You Yuan and Zheng Yuan nodded.

Bo Wu and the other two also responded.

Lin Wu propped himself up and the three of them entered different cave entrances respectively.

The stone paths here are all the same, quiet, dark, rugged and winding.

Lin Wu carefully looked around and arrived at the end in a few minutes. He saw a fork in the road with two branches.

Lin Wuge took a look and decided to go to the right.

But before going in, I took an inadvertent glance and saw that the forest fog suddenly stopped!

She quickly stepped back, and on the mountain wall below, a cross appeared, pointing the way she was going!

She looked at it according to what Bo Wu said and confirmed that it was Bo Yuting's mark.

However, Bo Yuting did not take this road at all. The last mark he left was the fourth road that no one had taken just now! So this mark was completely wrong!

But why did Bo Wu say that it was undoubtedly the mark left by Bo Yuting? Thinking back carefully to what I said before, the marks I saw from the beginning to now are almost the same, and they are indeed made by the same habits and marks.

But just as she had asked Bo Wu just now, she felt that the marks she had seen several times were exactly the same.

It's just a different location, so I didn't think much about it.

Lin Wu frowned, her thoughts racing, and an idea that shocked her suddenly popped up in her mind.

Could it be that... they have entered the area where alien creatures are lurking? ?

Maybe the marks seen at the beginning were real, and the marks that came later were illusions created by aliens based on the marks that had already appeared, but in different positions, to confuse them.

Is that why she thinks what she sees is better?

Lin Wu immediately turned around and went back.

She didn't walk far and soon reached the original cave entrance.

As soon as she went out, Lin Wu saw that there was no one there! She looked around.

Four roads are correct.

The markings for the fourth intersection are also correct.

Where is that person? ?

"Bo Wu? Chen Qin? Zhao Fang!"

Lin Wu called out a few times, but there was no response. Only her voice echoed in the stone path, and the silence was eerie.

It seemed as if at this moment, she was the only one left on the huge stone road of Blackback Mountain!

Lin Wu waited for a long time, but still no response.

Her heart sank.

We can't just wait here.

Lin Wu turned around and prepared to find You Yuan or Zheng Yuan first to see how they were doing.

However, Lin Wu had just taken half a step when an untimely sound of footsteps suddenly rang out in the empty and quiet stone road behind him!

Lin Wu paused, put his hand on the gun, and held the dagger tightly in the other hand.

The footsteps are getting closer.

Lin Wu closed his eyes and turned around.

I saw the person appearing in my sight at a glance.

But the situation was not as tense as he had imagined, and Lin Wu was stunned.

"How, how could it be... you..."

(End of this chapter)