The strange old man was in the location just now, there was no one there.

It was like, he had never appeared before.

"Have you ever seen an old man with patches on his face and about 1.6 meters tall?"

Aoye asked Kaneshiro Taiichi.

"...... Old man? Have patches on his face?"

Looking at Jincheng Taiyi's confused expression, Ao's heart already had the answer.

But what's strange is that I didn't have any doubts or awareness just now?

Aoye touched his chin.

In his inspiration, the old man was just an ordinary human, neither a ghost nor a product of some kind of hallucination.

But even your own inspiration cannot be trusted 100%.

Just like what the eyes see, what the ears hear, what the nose smells... are not necessarily true. Inspiration is the same. It is just a more keen means of perception.

"Look at this."

Aoye handed the broken pottery piece to Taichi Kaneshiro while observing his expression reaction at this time.

"What's this?"

"It is said that the cultural relics excavated from Salin may be the fragments of the clay pots in the archaeological records."

"What!?"

Jin Chengtaichi's expression changed slightly, and of course he had read that archaeological record.

I am no stranger to the pottery films in it.

"Can you smell that strange smell?"

Aoye asked, Kaneshiro Taiichi's expression showed that he did not recognize it at the first time.

Taiyi Jincheng took the pottery slices, sniffed them carefully, but shook his head gently.

Looks puzzled.

"There is no smell recorded in the notes... Is it too long for me to be left?"

Aoye's eyes were slightly darker and he didn't say anything more.

Excessive inspiration always allows him to observe more existences that ordinary extraordinary people cannot discover.

Perhaps, it affected his thoughts and made him see the old man.

It was this inexplicably upset smell.

Aoye also found some randomly scribbled draft paper in this wooden house similar to the utility room, covered with dust.

When you take off the dust, it looks like lines that are randomly smeared, and you can't find any pattern.

But after watching it for a long time, it will only make people feel upset.

It can be imagined that this is obviously the paper left by Takaji Takeshi and his group.

In fact, they explored Salin more than once.

This is also recorded in archaeological notes.

[We carried bulky equipment on our backs and walked in the cave for a long time, for about an hour or two.]

[The key is that there are forks in the cave, and the inner outline is complex and changeable, like a maze located in the mountain. Even Taro Ishikami has only come to Salin and has never penetrated into such a cave.]

[Since we were standing still and going back and forth for a long time in the first place, but we didn't actually go much further.]

[And during this process, I heard that strange buzzing sound again, like hundreds of flies circling around my ears, which made me extremely irritated, but when I asked, "Have you heard strange sounds?" Miss Maruyama and the others all looked at me with surprise.]

[I had to find a bad excuse to temporarily hide my embarrassment.]

[Immediately afterwards, we heard a strange knocking sound. Following the direction of the sound, we actually found the missing Nakagawa Jun.]

[But, I don’t know how to describe it. At that time, Nakagawa Jun just looked like Nakagawa Jun, but inside seemed to have been filled with something strange.]

[When I first saw him, Nakagawa Jun's body was dirty and seemed to be rolling in the mud, but what could not be ignored was that on his face, there was a completely unfamiliar and incomprehensible expression on us. It seemed like he was laughing and crying, and when he turned his head to look at us, he was a little afraid.]

[And beside Nakagawa Jun is an extra flat rock wall.]

[There are some bright graphics on the rock wall. I just took a look and felt unprecedented shock. How can such a magnificent pattern exist in the caves in this mountain?]

【Miss Maruyama and the others were the same, so that we all ignored Nakagawa's abnormality. Taro Ishikawa's reaction was the most exaggerated. He fell to the rock wall again, praised the mountain god named "Crazy Sacrifice", and prayed to him to forgive our offense.】

[Rare, I had a similar impulse at that time, but I was a standard materialist scholar and I have never believed in the sayings of ghosts and gods. Now I think it is because those days of suffering from my spirit too seriously that I have such an abnormal psychology.]

[The beauty of the graphics cannot be described in words, so we quickly took out our camera to take a picture.]

【Taro Ishikami was frightened by the sound of the camera and quickly waved his hand to stop us, saying that this was a blasphemy against the mountain god.】

[We didn't think so, but later we found that all the photos taken at that time were unexpectedly distorted, as if they were covered with a layer of mosaic and could no longer be seen clearly.]

[What's even more strange is that the draft we draw in person has also become a line that we cannot understand, and seems to be drawn casually.]

This passage explains the origin of these seemingly useless drafts.

But at Aoye's moment, these lines have obvious extraordinary traces.

It is under the influence of some extraordinary force that they become this state.

Aoye observed for a moment and found that he could not get more information from it.

So he left the wooden house.

By the way, I asked the extraordinary person who stayed in the village about the situation, including the old man with patches.

As expected by Aoye, nothing was gained.

Aoye is not discouraged.

There may be a huge secret hidden in this mountain forest, and it is reasonable to be unable to discover it for the moment.

Aoye raised his head and looked at the tall mountains not far away, surrounded by green barriers.

The blood flowing in his blood vessels seemed to be cold all the time, as if it was a rare agitation because of the existence hidden here.

Body temperatures have risen slightly.

‘This must be very interesting, right?’

At an angle that Taiichi, Kanjo couldn't see, Aoye smiled.

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One pm.

After having lunch made of simple food, Aoye and his group set off again.

This time the destination is Salin.

There is no rain in the sky, but the water vapor content in the air is very high.

The sky was covered with a faint mist, and the mysterious mountains continued to rise and fall under the pale sunlight that penetrated through the mist.

This time the tour guide was a strong and dark-skinned middle-aged man.

He is over fifties, but he looks much younger than this age.

In fact, he was also the youngest villager left in Dongban Village, with only sixty or seventy years old left.

Because the Nagoya Rangers gave a considerable reward, the middle-aged man showed great enthusiasm.

"In advance, I am only responsible for bringing you to the destination. No matter what you encounter there, it has nothing to do with me."

Before leaving, the middle-aged man said to Aoye and others.

The villagers' simple view is likely to think that the people in the city are all cunning and do not want to take responsibility. This statement is very normal.

So people set out.

In addition to Aono and Kaneki Taichi, there are three local extraordinary people in Nagoya.

In fact, Aoye wanted to explore with Kaneko Taichi at the beginning, but this request was rejected.

It seems that they can always play some role.

The three of them are quite confident in their strength and insist on keeping up.

Aoye can only agree helplessly.

Now, looking at their expressions, although they were a little nervous, they were still more excited.

Even though people have read that note, in their opinion, it is the reaction of ordinary people in the face of strange things.

Even though the disappearance of two A-level extraordinary people later proved the danger of this incident.

But this aroused the impulse in their hearts even more.

As the saying goes - wealth and honor are in danger!

In terms of "profit", the Nagoya branch attaches great importance to this incident, and the rewards are naturally extremely generous. Not only can they be promoted to a position above the team leader in one fell swoop, but there will be a lot of resources to tilt.
To be continued...