There was a vast white area around, and I couldn't see my fingers. The entire water pond was covered with thick fog.

The valleys in winter are indeed prone to fog, but the fog is so thick that it can hardly melt. It is very strange. I have never seen such a thick fog before when I grow up so big.

I was holding up the oil lamp and could barely illuminate the range of two or three meters.

With such a thick fog, it seems that I can't continue to move forward tonight. Walking around in the fog will easily lose your direction. If you get lost, you will be troublesome.

So I said to Lei Zi and the others: "The fog is too big and I can't rush to the road. Everyone first go back to the place where the coffin was just put. It's really not possible. Only when it's dawn and the thick fog dissipates can we continue on the road!"

I looked up and couldn't see the sky at all. The twinkling stars before, and I don't know where they had gone.

My intuition told me that the fog came a little abnormally.

We walked around the weeds and returned to the place where we had just rested.

how so?

Where is the coffin?

Why did the big red coffin that was originally placed here disappear?

We stood there in a daze, staring at the empty weeds in front of us.

My heart twitched again and again. What's going on? What about the coffin? I clearly remember that the coffin is here? But now, why is the coffin missing?

We looked around in panic, and there was a vast white area everywhere, and there was no trace of the coffin at all.

Not only was the coffin missing, but even the two long stools that had been placed on the coffin disappeared.

A cold chill rose from the bottom of my heart, and I shivered hard, but something happened in the end!

Seeing that there was still one day to get the big red coffin safely to Youshui Wharf, I kept praying in my heart that there would be no accidents. Unexpectedly, at this last moment, an accident still occurred!

The coffin is not a living thing, how could it leave on its own?

Could it be that someone carried the coffin away?

It seems that it doesn't make sense. Who would carry the coffin away? What is the purpose of carrying the coffin away?

My heart suddenly broke out, and I suddenly thought about the PLA soldiers mentioned by Xiaofei just now. Will this coffin be carried away by the PLA soldiers?

It makes no sense. If they were really PLA soldiers, what would they do to carry the coffin away?

My mind was full of question marks. Not long after I entered this water pond, strange things happened one after another. This water pond seemed a little uneasy!

The mysterious PLA soldiers, the strange fog, and the missing coffin appeared, seemed to be trapped in a strange world. The most terrifying thing is that we know nothing about this world.

"Where is the coffin? Where did the coffin go?" Lei Zi widened his eyes and shouted in anger.

Lei Zi insisted on taking over this business. Once something happened, Lei Zi was naturally the person who was most anxious.

"Did we go to the wrong place?" said Matchstick.

I shook my head: "Impossible! I remember it very clearly. We were here to rest just now!"

Lao Huang squatted down and observed on the ground for a while: "There are eight square pits on the ground, which coincide with the feet of the two long benches, so there must have been two long benches in this place just now, which means that the big red coffin was indeed here just now!"

"Then, where did the coffin go now? Could it be that it has grown legs and can't it run by itself?" The second brother's face became very ugly.

Lao Huang said: "How can a coffin have long legs? The only possibility is that the coffin was carried away!"

Lei Zi said with a gloomy face: "Our people were together just now, who will carry the coffin away?"

Xiaofei said stutteringly: "People's Liberation Army...will it be carried away by PLA soldiers?"

Leizi said: "Didn't you just see a PLA soldier? A PLA soldier can't carry this coffin at all!"

"What about two? What about four? What about a team of PLA soldiers?" I interrupted.

Lei Zi frowned: "I still don't believe it. If it were really the People's Liberation Army, why didn't we see it? Besides, they had no reason to carry the coffin away? What did they do to carry the coffin? Is it for burning fire?"

The second brother said: "There is no need to guess these useless things now. Our top priority is to retrieve the coffin. Youshui Wharf cannot be thrown away. How can we go to Youshui Wharf to report? If this matter is spread and the coffin carries the coffin, our sign will be completely smashed! So I personally think it is better to retrieve the coffin as soon as possible!"

What my second brother said is indeed very reasonable, but now there is such a heavy fog, where can I find the coffin?

I thought about it and thought, "The coffin was lost, everyone is anxious. It is our negligence to find it! But now the thick fog that covers the sky and the moon, I suggest that we do not act rashly, stand by on standby, and make plans when the fog dissipates. If we go looking for the coffin now, maybe we will not find the coffin and we will be separated by ourselves!"

Lei Zi lit a cigarette and raised his arms and said, "What Master Jiu said makes sense. Let's just listen to Master Jiu. If the coffin is not found and he loses direction, it will be troublesome! Let's rest on the spot. I believe that even if the coffin grows feet, it will definitely not run far!"

Everyone had no objection, so they decided to stay wherever they were and waited for the thick fog to dissipate before making plans.

This is probably the most depressing business we did. We helped people transport coffins, but ended up losing the coffin. If this matter spreads, we will never expect to receive business in the future.

The winter nights are very cold, and this place was originally a cold valley, and it was a water pond. It was not visible all year round. It was already cold. Now the thick fog is even more chilly. If we sit here for dawn, we will probably be frozen into stiff stones.

Fortunately, weeds are everywhere here, which is a good fuel for making fires.

We dug a hole in the ground, stuffed some weeds into it, and created a bonfire.

We sat together around the fire and felt much warmer.

However, in this thick fog, the fire seemed extremely lonely and insignificant.

No one spoke, and I don’t know if it was depressed or afraid. After all, now that the coffin is lost, everyone is not feeling well.

Lei Zi coughed twice and said, "Actually, uh, you don't have to be like this. If something really happens, I'll take responsibility!"

Speaking of this, Lei Zi turned his head and looked at me: "Jiu Jizi, I know that I didn't listen to your advice. I will carry it down. I have no relationship with you and all brothers!"

I shook my head: "Why are you talking about this? We are a team. Let's take care of it together! Besides, don't be so pessimistic. Isn't something wrong yet?"

In fact, what I said is to comfort Leizi on the one hand and comfort myself on the other hand.

"Yes! We are a team, we are all brothers, and we share the same blessings and difficulties. If something really happens, let's carry it together!" The brothers agreed.

Lei Zi nodded, spitting out the smoke ring and saying, "Thank you everyone, thank you everyone, I didn't give you brothers in vain!"

Lao Huang added a handful of dry grass to the pit and said with a slight : "Have you ever thought about it? Maybe... well, maybe it's not that there is something wrong with the coffin itself, maybe it's this water pond, it's a bit strange!"

The fire reflected Lao Huang's face, and it was light and dark.

In fact, what Lao Huang said is similar to what I thought before. Perhaps this water pond itself has unknown secrets.

"Lao Huang, what do you mean?" Lei Zi spitted out smoke rings and looked at Lao Huang.

Lao Huang said slowly: "Have you heard of rumors about the Misty Tang?"

Misty Pond?!

Look at me, I look at you, everyone shook their heads.

Lao Huang said: "Yes, you are not old and it is normal that you have never heard of it! That's right. Didn't there be many PLAs when Xiangxi suppressed bandits? At that time, in order to get a hidden bandit nest, the PLA decided to send a suicide squad to raid the bandit nest from a shortcut. Later, this suicide squad passed a water pond on the way to the bandit nest!"

"Shuitang? What happened later?" we asked curiously.

Lao Huang sighed: "Later? After entering the Shuitang, all of the suicide squad disappeared. As for whether they were alive or dead, no one knew!"

"How many people are there in that suicide squad?" I asked.

Lao Huang said: "It seems that there are twenty or thirty people!"

I was secretly shocked when I heard this. After entering a water pond, all the suicide squads of twenty or thirty people disappeared? No one could come out alive to inform me?

"Have you looked for that suicide squad later?" Leizi asked.

Lao Huang shook his head: "No! The commander at that time was originally planning to send troops to search, so many young and promising soldiers disappeared if they were not seen. The commander issued an order to "see people alive and see corpses alive." However, later, the search operation was dissuaded by a local Miao village chief.

The Miao village chief told the commander that in the mountains in western Hunan, there are terrifying marvels everywhere. I don’t know why. Any animal or human who accidentally entered the marvels could not come out alive in the end. Even birds flying over the marvels would be lost and they would not fly out of the marvels until death!”

"So, that PLA team should have entered the Misty Pond, so they were trapped inside!" said Matchstick.

"Old Huang, how do you know these things?" asked the second brother.

Lao Huang said: "I have an older brother who was the captain of the militia before. He participated in the bandit suppression operation with the People's Liberation Army. He was also present in that operation and was a good friend to the commander!"

The Misty Pond... The Misty Pond that cannot be walked out of...

My heart trembled violently, and I suddenly looked at Lao Huang, and my face turned pale: "Lao Huang, what do you mean...we... have we also walked into the Misty Tower?"
Chapter completed!