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Two hours after he finished his meal, Old Man Liu returned to the stone house. Holding a wooden sabre, he looked at the sabre that his grandson had taken from him. It was still stuck in the ground, shiny under the sun. He thought to himself: Since my grandson is so unlucky, I have a pillar at home. I'm not afraid of being bullied by others anymore. He walked over and also put the blade into the bamboo basket on his back.

After cleaning up, the three of them hid themselves within the hidden bamboo doors. There was probably nothing of value for them to steal.

At this moment, Mrs Liu wanted to carry Liu Zhiqiang inside the basket. Liu Zhiqiang didn't want to do it anymore. He was a child now, so it was fine to act like a spoiled child. In short, he was a child, so who was he afraid of?

After going around two small hills, they finally arrived at a relatively high hill in the south. Mrs Liu was initially worried that Liu Zhiqiang wouldn't walk well, as she was usually the one carrying him into the mountain, but this brat not only had great strength, but he also walked faster than her father and daughter. When she realized that she couldn't catch up with him, she could only say angrily, "Wait for my lord."

It turned out he found this place was so familiar. He didn't bring it up from Gou Wa's memory, but from the mountain path he took on the last mission before the dream. Liu Zhiqiang only needed to climb this mountain to reach the valley of the cave.

When he heard Mrs Liu's shout, his heart softened and he stopped.

Suddenly, the sounds of crutches could be heard. More than ten people descended from the mountain waist down. The man in front was carrying a 300 kilogram tiger on his back. It seemed like the tiger had been dead for quite some time.

This group of people all had their hair in a bun, and only the one walking the closest, a 2m tall iron tower man, was left untied. The one walking the second path was obviously a very small and foolish one, only 1.7 + height and still very thin.

The big man walked with his hair in a bun and let his mane grow on his head. His chest was exposed and his chest muscles were full of black hair. From afar, he looked like a big black bear carrying a tiger.

Old Liu saw this group and thought: today is not a peaceful day. He didn't think Liu Zhiqiang could deal with these people. Yes, Liu Zhiqiang could deal with more than a dozen villagers, but the southerners were relatively short in height, so these people could easily tell that they were northerners.

Just when Old Man Liu wanted Mrs Liu to hurry up and run away, he heard the big tower-like man say with a northern accent, "Dry goods, no oil and water."

Old Man Liu was relieved when he heard this. He hadn't completely calmed down yet. He saw that the second monkey, with a pointy mouth and cheeks, was looking at his daughter. Not good, he thought. He could not help but tighten his grip on the wood chopping knife. In his nervousness, he forgot that there was an even better knife on his back.

The monkey-nosed man said to the iron tower man: "Boss, did you see that? That woman was the one I mentioned to you last time. She's pretty, isn't she?" He had a Shandong accent.

Tie Ta looked at Liu Zhiqiang, who was still in Mrs Liu's embrace, and said with dissatisfaction, "They have already been raised. What are you going to do with them? Go back."

However, the man with the monkey's sharp beak said, "Boss, I don't have a wife yet. I want a wife with a child too, and I'll take her as well."

Liu Zhiqiang, who was in Mrs Liu's arms, felt the uneasiness in her heart and thought, "If you dare to come, I can guarantee that you will have a slip of the tongue from now on."

Tie Ta then continued, "Didn't some of the villagers' women not get married yet? I'll help you propose. "

The man with the monkey's sharp beak said, "That's not the same. There's this pretty girl there, with her narrow shoulders and slender waist."

The towering giant continued, "Isn't it all the same to be a woman? If you rob her, what would happen if her man came? We do business here and we don't commit adultery. You do all these things to disgrace my reputation."

"I've seen this woman many times, but I've never seen a man with her either. It might be frostbite!" The man with the monkey's beak muttered to himself.

The big man didn't pay any attention to him. Carrying the tiger on his back, he started walking up the mountain. He made a donation and made a gesture that he thought was refined. He said: "Little girl, can you please come to our village and we will have a good relationship in the future. Not to mention that there are also the nearby villagers in our village who are here to escape the government tax. What do you think, are you interested?"

Seeing that Mrs Liu did not answer, the monkey-nosed man awkwardly faced the surrounding people who were still watching the show and said: "Looks like there's no hope, let's go!" Brothers, let's eat the big bugs! "

Liu Zhiqiang came down from Mrs Liu's arms. Looking at these bandits, he thought to himself: How can there be such moral bandits in this era. If there is, how do they survive?

Old Man Liu saw that the bandits had left, so he calmed down and said to his daughter, "The big bug is dead, this is an outsider. It's fine, let's all go to the mountainside. Maybe there's even a knot to be picked!"

The family stayed silent on the mountainside. They chopped firewood, picked knots, and Liu Zhiqiang, who caught rabbits as fast as he could.

The sun was about to set. Mrs Liu and her family went back the way they came from. Liu Zhiqiang returned to look at the distant mountain stream. He must check what was going on.

Old man Liu looked at the two rabbits in his grandson's hands. He had two baskets and his daughter had two baskets, so he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to catch this many rabbits in his lifetime. One must know that sometimes he had to set traps, and it was very difficult for these rabbits to fall for them.

When they got home, everyone in the house began to busy themselves. Some boiled water, some stirred the rabbit hair, some washed the mountain and some knotted it …

That night, Mrs Liu felt that she was so happy. Her son's silly illness had been cured, and he had caught six rabbits. Tonight, their family had started a fire, roasted three rabbits, and copied a big bowl of mountain knot. This was Mrs Liu's most sumptuous meal ever since she gave birth to Liu Zhiqiang.

It was Liu Zhiqiang's first time eating this kind of thing called the mountain knot. Although he had the memories of eating the mountain knot in his memory, it was still the first time that he tasted it personally.

He looked at the yellow crystal of a bowl that Mrs. Liu was sprinkling with her fingers when she was roasting the rabbit. She didn't want to waste any more of it, and this time she ate a dish called Plum Blossom. Mrs. Liu put it in a clay pot.

Liu Zhiqiang nearly fainted when he saw the yellow crystal asking him about it. Don't they know how to purify the refined salt?

Liu Zhiqiang still hadn't finished eating one roasted rabbit. He had also finished off half of the roasted rabbit that his mother and grandfather left him.

His original intention was to wait until his family was asleep before going to the valley to see if the cave was still there. He might be able to escape, but to escape was too real, and wouldn't that mean that he had returned to the state of death. He was a bit surprised, because this was something he hadn't had since he became a special forces soldier, and even if he lost his right hand, it didn't scare him at all when he saw Wen Shao's mutation or the weakness of his final death.

At this moment, Mrs Liu was carrying him into a basin of water. Looking at Mrs Liu constantly scrubbing his body clean, he suddenly found it unbearable. In reality, his mother was his father, who took care of him having a stroke.

In this dream, his mother had only been together with him for less than a day, but he felt reluctant to part with her. He was afraid that he would go back to the cave and that the kid would not be able to go back. But this was just a dream, why would he be worried?

He took a closer look at the stone house. There was a hall inside, the right entrance was the firewood stove, and the left was the hall with two wooden chairs, it was very small, it was where he took his bath, there were windows on the left and right, and there were two wooden doors in the hall, which could be closed well. They led to two rooms, the one on the right was Old Man Liu, and the one on the left was Mrs. Liu. They took baths in their own rooms, and the Southerners, unlike the Northerners, took baths every day, even when winter was cold, as captured in the memory of Doggie.

After about three hours, he looked at Mrs Liu, who was sleeping soundly beside him, and saw the happiness on her face. He could only silently say in his heart: Mother, my son is gone.

Liu Zhiqiang thought to himself as he walked out of the dream mirror. That stone mirror must be a dream!

Liu Zhiqiang got up carefully and slowly opened Mrs Liu's arms that were hugging him. He got off the bed, opened the door, closed the door, and opened the rotten door of the living room. This rotten door was the hardest one to open, making squeaking noises.

Finally, after more than ten minutes of hard work, he managed to keep the sound of the door opening and closing to a minimum.

Liu Zhiqiang's small body looked at the moon in the sky. It should be around 8 o'clock in the evening, he ran along the same path he took during the day up the mountain, this body's quality was very good, it was much better than his own body when he joined the special forces.

After only thirty minutes, they had reached the mountainside. After passing by the mountaintop, they were about to arrive at the ravine when they suddenly heard a "Ao Ao Ao" sound.

The sound was very soft, if he did not have the special forces training awareness, it would be very hard to hear. Listening carefully, he could still hear it clearly from the southwest, and then he would walk towards the direction of the sound, towards a thorny bush full of thorns, and the sound would become even more obvious, continuously pushing away the thorns and stabbing his body with bloody scars. Finally, he saw four little tigers in a pile of dry grass.

Liu Zhiqiang squatted down to take a look. The four little tigers had yet to open their eyes, and only one of them continued to bark, but the sound seemed to be faint. He touched the other three tigers who seemed to be asleep, and felt that they had already died a long time ago.

He didn't have any milk or water for it. Plus, he was going to find the cave, so he was going to die there too. That was why he turned around and wanted to leave.

Liu Zhiqiang turned around and picked up the little tiger, using his fingers to touch it.

Suddenly, a finger of his own slipped into the little tiger's mouth, and the little tiger simply tilted its head back and caught his finger. Suddenly, a finger of his own slipped into the little tiger's mouth, and the little tiger simply raised its head and caught his finger.

Liu Zhiqiang put the tiger aside and buried the three dead tigers in some dirt.

After dealing with it, Liu Zhiqiang carried the little tiger away and thought to himself, "If this tiger can drink blood, then I will give it rabbit blood."

Liu Zhiqiang walked out of the bramble forest, looking for a hare, but he didn't find any hare hair. Liu Zhiqiang walked out of the bramble forest, looking for a hare, but he didn't find any hare hair at all.

As a special forces soldier, Liu Zhiqiang had grabbed cobras with his bare hands during the special training and the king cobra never did. The two types of snakes were completely different, as they could spray out venom.

Liu Zhiqiang put the little tiger to the far side, picked up a long branch at the same time and cut off the branch. Then, he walked to a spot about 10 meters away from the snake, and used the wooden branch to twiddle his tail, his whole body tightly shut. At this time, the king cobra was already in an attacking state, the branch of the tree slowly attracted the king cobra's attack, and suddenly, it spat out venom. When it saw that the venom was useless on the branch, it decisively bit the snake, and Liu Zhiqiang placed his hand near its head to attack.

Liu Zhiqiang already knew that the snake was dead. He used his teeth and a clip to break its tail, put the tail into the little tiger's mouth, squeezed the snake's body part, and squeezed the snake blood into the little tiger's mouth. The little tiger sucked in the snake's blood and stopped crying.

The surrounding environment was completely different from last time. There was more bamboo forest, and at this time, the little tiger was still trying to suck the snake's blood, but the snake didn't seem to have any reactions.

Liu Zhiqiang did not dare to relax his control of the snake head and walked into the cave. This time, he did not have the flashlight, so he thought back to the last time he came in, carrying the little tiger and the snake head. Luckily, he was still a child now, so his advance was steady and there wasn't too much of a collision.

Liu Zhiqiang was overjoyed. He finally knew what was going on. He looked at the little tiger and saw that it was no longer sucking on the snake's tail. Then, he quickly threw the snake head away.

As the saying goes, happiness breeds sorrow. Throwing snakes like this in normal times is relatively safe. The snake that was about to die struck the stalagmite wall, and the head of the snake bounced right into the back of Liu Zhiqiang's neck as he thought, "Not good." He used all his strength to push the snake's head away from his bite.

This was exactly what Liu Zhiqiang deserved. A good snake was taking advantage of the cold, telling you to kill it. In any case, evil people would have evil people grind about it.

At this moment, Liu Zhiqiang looked at the tiger cub in his arms with sorrow in his heart. Now he felt a little pain and numbness in the back of his neck and found it hard to breathe.

If it wasn't for his powerful body, he might have fallen.

Entering the inner door while enduring the pain, he found that only one flashlight was still lit, and the surroundings were still littered with corpses, some of which had already turned blue. Looking at the situation inside the door, it was probably the same flashlight he had brought in.

Even though he was about to die after being poisoned by the snake's poison, he still wanted to know what was going on with this Mirror of Dreams.

He slowly walked in and saw a corpse with no right hand and a left hand pressed on the slightly lit stone mirror. The head was still in the mirror and the eyes were still open. Liu Zhiqiang looked at his dead body staring at his current self with a miserable panicked feeling. He had seen many dead people, some of them killed by themselves, but when he looked at his dead body, he was still a little frightened.

Liu Zhiqiang looked at the mirror again and saw that the blood stains on the mirror were already gone. To prevent himself from seeing the flowers in the dark or after he was poisoned, he put the little tiger to the side and checked the powerful light that was falling on the ground.

Liu Zhiqiang pressed on the mirror again. This time, some strange red text appeared on the mirror.

Alas, he was surprised and moved his dead self to the other side.

He opened his eyes wide and saw words that he had never seen before. He used his finger to lightly point at the words, and while pointing at the words, he accidentally pressed on the stone mirror. The words on the stone mirror immediately shifted to the left, and a row of words appeared on the right.