Shadow Code - C37
“Pock, when did this place have a castle?”
“This is the first time I know this. Before, it was all hunting here, so I just paid my respects by the lake and then hurried off. I’ve never been to Mt. Tuji before, but it seems to be quite some time. Should I take a look?”
“Little sister, did you lure that hairy man to this castle?”
“It’s possible. The plan might as well change. I saw smoke coming from inside. Maybe someone should go in and ask around!” As he spoke, the pockmark climbed up the mountain.
The smoke was coming out of the castle through a window in the second and third floor.
“To light a fire in the house? “Most of the materials in this castle are made of wood. Aren’t you afraid of fire?” I looked curiously at the pockmark.
“Why are you still so stupid? Don’t you need to think normally when things go wrong? Haven’t you figured it out in the past few days? Anything that fits with the norm won’t appear in this old forest. Here, why don’t you just come as you please? Go and have a look!” As he said this, he tightened his grip on the blowtorch around his waist and dove into the doorway.
He took off the lock, pushed open the door, and saw that the creaking old wood was making an ancient noise. The inside was simple and unadorned, and on the opposite side of the door was a small window, which should have been seen outside the castle earlier, a square table with a few memorial tablets on it. The dusty offerings were mountain grass, wild walnuts, and dates.
“Who are you people? How did you come in?”
“Uncle, I’m sorry. We were the last one to go hunting in the mountains. We lost our way because we were chasing an injured deer. We saw some blood on the snowy mountain just now, so we came looking for you!”
The old man looked at the guns on our bodies. It must be a letter. Furthermore, we are not lying. We are indeed hunters.
“Which way did you come from?” the old man asked again, standing on the spot.
“It’s a tree entrance on the right, from the frozen lake below!” We looked at each other, wondering what the old man was asking. Was there more than one door here?
” “Then follow me, don’t wander around in the village, every house here is independent, but they are all connected, if you randomly enter or move something, you might be trapped here!” The old man turned around.
” Great sir, you said the village just now? “Could this be a village?” Scabbers and I asked as we followed the old man out of the house and closed the door behind us.
“Of course, what do you think it is? A family? ”
” “There aren’t many people in that village. My lord, we are hunters in a village, but I’ve never heard of a village in this forest. May I ask, what is the name of the village?” The pockmarked old man and the old man slowly chatted, but they didn’t directly say that we were from Yanzi Village, so they were also on guard.
” Young people, don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask. If you say it out loud, I’m afraid that your hearts will not be happy! ” The old leader led us forward.
” If it’s not convenient to say it when I’m happy, just pretend that I didn’t ask, hehe! ” Ma Zi replied as he followed the old man, looking around everywhere. He couldn’t help but want to look at the details of every single place they went.
I wanted to find out if my little sister would be here, uninterested in this strange village castle.
” This village is called the La Moon Village, and it only exists during the La Moon Village. When the old man said this, I was stunned.
The village we see in front of us is so ingenious that it only appears in the last month of every year? The rest of the time? Where did that place go? How could there be such a village in this world? Could it be that he could move there? Impossible, it would be a joke if such a building, built on trees and trees, was removed.
“Great sir, what do you mean?” I tried to talk to him. The old man looked weird, afraid that he might say something that would make him unhappy.
” “Therefore, don’t stay here for the next month, it will disappear along with you, and will only appear again in the next year!”
” Gramps, ah no, Gramps, where did that vanished village go? Then he’s not a monkey? The summer turned into a cicada coming out one or two months later and then disappearing? ” He didn’t care if the old man was willing or not.
When the old man heard how he compared the villagers to Ma Hou, he was displeased. He turned around and used his finger to knock on the pockmarks on his forehead.
Hehe, old man, dinner, I’ll treat you to old age. No matter what, I’m still a junior, and as the old saying goes, we rely on the mountains to eat the seas and the seas to eat the seas. We are a family that relies on the forests to eat the seas and the oceans. The pockmark followed the old man with its thick face.
Walk around, we actually went down several floors of the corridor, it felt so damn good, not to take the stairs, not to take the elevator, but to go downstairs.
We must have reached the place where we had seen the smoke, because in front of the corridor there was a room with a door open and some smoke coming out of it.
” “Hey, you little bastard, why don’t you take the pine cone away, use your table legs!” The old man leaned against the door and was about to touch the boy with a field of chicken blankets when I saw, no, the boy was so naughty that he put a pile of pine cones on the floor to light a barbecue. When the child was almost done with cooking, he made sure that the entire table of legs was on fire, and the dozens of skewers of meat skewered on the corner of the table were pressed with one elbow. Hey, before the old man could raise the chicken blanket, he ran away and dropped all the meat skewers onto the ground.
“What a bastard!” The old man furiously ladled out a ladle of water to extinguish the burnt half of the table leg.
“Where is the child?” The room wasn’t big, so why did the naughty kid just now disappear just like that?
“This house is connected everywhere, I think it’s to another house!” He kept his eyes on the window curtain.
“Take a seat, it’s very stable!” The old man told me to sit down if I didn’t.
” You must be looking for someone! ” The old man spoke first.