The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

The anonymous letter Qin Xiu received revealed that the location of the Golden Lake was in Hualian City, which was why Wang Ziqiong felt that the letter was unreliable. It's a mysterious place that is inaccessible. If it's really in China, it doesn't make sense that no one has discovered it for so many years, right?

But when I actually arrived at Niujiao Village mentioned in the anonymous letter, I found that everything is possible.

He and Qin Xiu got lost.

They are currently located in the deep mountain forest behind Niujiao Village. They say it is a deep mountain forest, but the forest actually looks very harmless, the sun is shining through, and the trees are full of shade. It may be because the forest looks so deceptive. He and Qin Xiu underestimated its danger.

Archer couldn't help regretting what the tour guide brother said when they went to Niujiao Village.

"The forest is impossible to go to. It's very weird. Just the year before last, a geological survey team came to investigate. The whole team went in, but the last one didn't come out."

Niujiao Village is where the Hualian aborigines live. The people in the village are very simple, and they are very easy to believe in these ghost stories. Speaking of them, the eyes are cold and cold, which makes people shudder.

Qin Xiu sat cross-legged on the blanket and took a sip of tea. Out of politeness, he just listened and remained silent, but Archer could see that he didn't believe it.The tour guide brother obviously didn't want to set foot in the forest. He didn't want to lead the way no matter how much Qin Xiu offered, saying that he was afraid of losing his life and couldn't pay the responsibility.

This is only the first reason, and the second is because no one in this village has ever heard of lakes nearby. There are many springs, streams, waterfalls, and ponds. I have seen strange lights in the direction of the forest.The entrance to the Golden Lake indicated on the map in the anonymous letter was in the woods, so he and Qin Xiu would be more numerous, no matter how strange the woods were, they had to go there.

They split up and went door to door in the village to find a brave man willing to lead the way. When they finally met in the small square in the center of the village, they still found nothing.Qin Xiu glanced at the houses around the square, and Archer heard the sound of windows being closed continuously.

Rarely, the polar bear also had a bit of a headache. Sitting on the stone steps of the assembly square, he rested his forehead with one hand and said nothing for a long time, but his eyes still couldn't reach Huang He's heart.Archer was about to say that we should be self-reliant, when his eyes suddenly paused, and a window on a stilted building not far from the square was still open.

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was visiting at the window, and Archer turned his head to follow the girl's slightly obsessed gaze.That's right, that gaze fell on Qin Xiu with perfect accuracy.

The little girl's name is Xiao Miao, and she is the daughter of the Orion in the village. She wears the unique costume of the aborigines and has a small machete pinned to her waist. When she trots down the square, the silver ornaments on her wrist and neck are tinkling. She is very clever at first glance. .Qin Xiu didn't treat her badly, and gave Xiao Miao a thick circle of RMB, but Archer saw Xiao Miao sitting on the side of the road resting while helping them lead the way, so he used the RMB to origami cranes boredly.

Xiao Miao took them over mountains and mountains, and arrived at the border of Niujiao Village. A group of people suddenly saw a waterfall falling from the mountain stream. Archer looked at this rare and beautiful depression in the mountains, and felt that the tour guide brother was too exaggerated. Xiao Miao told them that the expedition team was here to study this area, and said it was called a funnel...

"Karst funnel." Qin repaired her.

"Yes, this is it!" The little girl said straight.

Archer was curious: "What is the origin of this terrain?"

Qin Xiu said as he walked: "Karst landform is simply a landform with gullies and gullies formed after rocks are eroded by water. The so-called karst funnel means that the surface has been eroded by underground rivers for a long time, forming a collapse, and there is such a funnel-shaped landform..."

Xiao Miao raised his head and looked at Qin Xiu with shy and admiring eyes. Archer glanced at Qin Xiu's back. The whole tall and handsome appearance was in line with the girls' imagination of Prince Charming. He secretly smiled behind him, feeling that Xiao Miao Qin Xiu, who maintained the iceberg shape in front of the girl, and couldn't let go, looked especially cute.

When they reached the border of the forest, Xiao Miao volunteered to lead them to go further, but Qin Xiu refused.At such times, Qin Xiu could always refuse very coldly.Reluctantly, Xiao Miao turned around and left, and looked back a few times halfway. Qin Xiu kept his eyes on the little girl until the other party walked away in a regular manner, and then they set off into the woods.

Qin Xiu led the way, and Archer looked around. The forest was not at all as spooky as the villagers described, and the sunlight was very transparent. It looked no different from an ordinary protected forest area, but after walking for an hour, He always felt that something was wrong: "We won't get lost, right?"

Qin Xiu walked ahead without turning his head: "As long as you can see the sun, you can't get lost."

"The sun is gone?"

"If the sun is gone and there are stars, then it is even more impossible to get lost."

"I saw that the moon was very big last night, can you see the stars?" Anyway, I can't...

"Even if we can't see the stars, we still have a compass." Qin Xiu took out the compass and looked at it while walking. It is ten o'clock in the morning. Of course, the pointer of the compass always points to the south, so according to the compass, the position of the sun should be In the... southwest?He cursed "profiteer" in a low voice, and sealed the compass into his backpack.

"Qin Xiu..." Shen Che's voice came from behind.

"So what?" Qin Xiu frowned and turned around, seeing the curly-haired young man squatting on the ground, looking up at him in horror.

He turned back and looked down, there was a series of footprints on the ground, it would be bad to just take a look at his whole body - it was their footprints.

Footprints appeared in this place, indicating that they have been circling in situ, and there is indeed a problem in this forest.Qin Xiu looked around and made a decisive decision: "Let's go out first."

It is reasonable to say that there are footprints and they can at least return along the road, but the blame is here. When they tried to turn back along the footprints, they found that the footprints were inexplicably broken, or it should be said, from the footprints, it seems that they did not enter from the forest The ditch came in, but suddenly dropped into the middle of the forest.

Dark clouds drifted over, and Archer began to feel a little creepy.

Qin Xiu knelt down to look carefully at the footprints on the ground, stood up, examined the footprints and said, "It doesn't matter, there must be a reason for this. I never believe that there are any monsters and ghosts in this world."

The young dog monster shook his ears: "..."

Just when they were trapped in the forest and couldn't advance or retreat, it rained unhappily, and the two had to take shelter under the tree first. Qin Xiu habitually took pictures of the surroundings with his camera, hoping to find some clues.Just then, something even weirder happened.

Seeing Qin Xiu looking down at the photo, Archer suddenly raised his head to look forward, and then lowered his head again as if confirming it. His expression was like seeing a ghost.Just as he was about to ask what was wrong, Qin Xiu raised his camera and took a few shots in the same direction.

Archer leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help gasping: "Where's that tree?!" The huge pagoda tree right in front of them didn't even exist in the photo!

The two were shocked for a while, but neither made a sound.But Qin Xiu quickly calmed down, and glanced at the stunned curly-haired young man beside him: "What's wrong? Are you scared?"

Archer frowned tightly: "This is too unreasonable..."

"I can understand what other people say. What qualifications do you have to make such an expression?" Qin Xiu didn't care at all, and raised his eyebrows lightly, "Aren't you an unreasonable existence yourself?" After finishing speaking, Chao Yi The young dog with an expression of "That's right" raised the SLR camera in his hand, "Since digital products are more real than human eyes, there is a way."

Using the camera to find the way is very effective, at least they didn't take the repeated route, but the speed of finding the way in this way is limited after all.After nightfall, Archer chose an open space to pitch his tent, and Qin Xiu sat alone on a big rock not far away, as if he was deep in thought, and the rain quickly drenched him.

The tent is lightweight, mainly for carrying it behind the back. Naturally, it cannot be compared with the comfortable big tent used in the Serengeti. Two people squeezed inside to eat compressed biscuits, and they couldn't stretch their arms.

Archer turned around with great difficulty, and asked Qin Xiu, "What were you thinking about just now...Wow!"

A large cloud of white smoke poured out from under the tent.Qin Xiu turned his head and glanced over his shoulder at poor Bala's big golden retriever in the pile of clothes behind him: "This is what I was thinking about." After speaking, he sat up and moved his sleeping bag to the center of the cramped tent, "But at least I can Sleep better."

Archer saw Qin Xiu lying down on his own, with his hands behind his head, sleeping very stretched out, and then he looked at his sleeping bag squeezed into a corner...

Qin Xiu felt his waist sink, he half propped himself up and looked at the dog with his chin resting on his waist: "Go sleep in your sleeping bag."

The big golden retriever didn't move, and the two dog eyes looked at him resentfully.

Unexpectedly...cute...Qin Xiu coughed: "How can I turn around at night when you are like this?"

Only then did the big golden retriever lift its chin, and Qin Xiuxiu wanted to say "Good boy", when the big curly-haired dog approached him and lay down again, this time with both paws on his waist, with his tongue hanging out, "Then how about you?" Don't turn over" with a cheap look.

It's really cheap, but, how should I put it... Oh, forget it, Qin Xiu lay back again, enduring the hot and heavy lump on his stomach, this is the privilege of pets.

Archer lay on Qin Xiu's body, still suffering from insomnia for nearly 10 minutes.Although they barely found a way to explore the way, they were still trapped and there was no water in the woods. If this continued for a long time, he would not be able to maintain his human form.Qin Xiu tried to use a portable water bag to hold rainwater, and Archer ran out of the tent early the next morning, jumped up and bit off the portable water bag hanging on the tree, and looked inside excitedly.

The two bowls of water shaking in the water bag silently reflected the big golden retriever's bitter face.

In this way, he can only go on the road with Qin Xiu in the form of a dog for the time being.The second day was generally smooth, the sky cleared, and it felt as if we had gone all the way to the hinterland; the third day the weather continued to improve, but unfortunately we still couldn't find the creek marked on the map, and Archer couldn't help but began to wonder how big the forest was; On the fourth day, the SLR camera finally began to indicate that the battery was low, and the food and water they brought were almost exhausted...

The camera ran out of battery, so Qin Xiu had to rely on the camera function of his mobile phone to find the way, and the battery stopped working after twelve hours.Qin Xiu looked at the phone with the battery running out and shook his head, when Juan Er suddenly raised his head and shouted excitedly at him.

Qin Xiu was a little puzzled at first. Seeing Juan [-] with his ears raised to show him, he immediately understood and listened carefully for a while. There was the sound of gurgling water in the depths of the forest.

"That's right, since the eyes are unreliable, maybe the ears and the nose can do it." After finding a way to save electricity, Qin Xiu's face rarely brightened, squatted down and rubbed the big golden hair, "It's up to you to lead the way."

The curly-haired dog turned around and ran into the woods.

He clearly heard the sound of water nearby, but turning around was always so close, Archer himself didn't understand, he stopped panting and looked left and right.

Qin Xiu came up, stood beside him and looked around the forest, then lowered his head and said to him, "Maybe it's because you can still see, so you are easily confused by the forest, or try to close your eyes?"

It made sense for Archer to think about it. As soon as he closed his eyes, he felt something tied to his eyes. Qin Xiu actually covered his eyes, and the big golden retriever jumped twice in protest. This is too distrustful of people!

"It's not that I don't trust you, I'm just afraid that you will subconsciously open your eyes, and all previous efforts will be wasted." Qin Xiu supported the big golden retriever's head, kissed the angry dog's mouth, "I love you."

Although the words before and after the words are not right, the quality of the "I love you" is undoubtedly invincible and sexy, and Shen Ergou was instantly fooled.

Qin Xiu got up with a smile and said, "I'll help you see the way from behind, no snake will dare to touch you."

Archer started looking for his way as if he was walking on clouds.But Qin Xiu's so-called promise to help him see the road was really unreliable. After walking for a while, he bumped his head against the tree trunk and turned his head to protest: "Didn't you say to help me see the road? What are you talking about?" I, I shouldn't have believed your sweet words!"

Qin Xiu had a lot of reason: "Because I can't be sure that it is a tree, in case you go through it. I just want to help you see the snake."

"Wow woof woof woof woof!"

After barking for a long time, Qin Xiu said in a tone of great concession: "Okay, next time there is a tree, I will touch it first."

He said he would touch it first, but it was not reliable!Archer still touched the wall several times, and every time he questioned Qin Xiu, the guy said that he hadn't had time to touch it, watching him poking the dog's nose into the tree again and again, watching him scratching the mud and ants on his nose with his paws, that Guy must be having fun!

Archer had to slow down and sniff bit by bit, carefully avoiding the trees.The sound of running water was getting closer and closer. When he raised his nose, he finally smelled the clear breath of spring water head-on.