One hundred and ninety-nine,

When everything was taken care of, the two of them came to the cave where they were resting.

Since it was only a temporary rest, there was no danger, so the people inside did not turn on all the lights, only a night light for camping.

With the help of the light, Li Jingfei took a look at the hole. This temporary rest cave may have been born for Qi Erbao. The stone tables, stone benches, and stone beds in the cave are all naturally formed, and there is no need for manual handling at all, although it is in the cave, the surrounding environment is not humid, which is suitable for storing food.

After resting for a while, everyone put on their equipment and continued to move forward led by Qi Erbao.

The cave is not a road to the end, there are many forks in the road, some are dead, and some go back.

Qi Erbao led the way, just to save time and leave here quickly. But Yu Hongmiao and Zou Song, who are in the same company, are like RPGs entering a maze, and they want to enter every fork, as if there is a treasure chest waiting for you to develop.

Every time they passed a fork, the two of them always had to ask a question, which made Qi Erbao upset, and said in his heart: You want to explore the labyrinth, wait for the next time you come by yourself, don't waste my time now.

But the other party was the owner of the money, so he had to be patient and tell the two that there was nothing in it.

It took half the time, and everyone finally walked out of the cave.

The moment they walked out of the cave, everyone was blinded by the sunlight in front of them, and hurriedly covered them with their hands.

After about ten seconds, the group's eyesight regained and they found that they were on a platform on the mountainside of the back mountain.

The platform is a protruding mountain with a relatively flat surface, with no plants growing and only a few small grasses growing on the edges.

Just now when I climbed the mountain and walked the cave, everyone sweated a lot. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and everyone couldn't help but feel refreshed, and they all had a sense of pleasure in climbing high and looking far away, and they unconsciously came to the edge of the platform.

When I looked down, I found that although it was the same mountain, there was a lot of difference between the front and back sides. The slope on the front is gentle, and there is no difficulty in going up and down, but on the back of the mountain, it is extremely steep.

"Everyone!" Just when everyone felt that the next road was not easy, Qi Erbao spoke again: "This road down the mountain is more difficult, everyone pay attention, if you feel unwell, say it immediately." ”

With that, he led the group to the side of the platform near the mountain wall.

There, there is a staircase that leads downwards. The steps are naturally formed, with no artificially constructed handrails. As soon as they walked up, the crowd was afraid.

In fact, this halfway up the mountain is not high, and the stairs are about as wide as the mountain path when they came, so that two people can walk side by side. But people's psychology is like this, and the mentality is immediately different when changing the environment.

"Professors, it's a long road, and there's no place to rest in between, so you'd better give us your equipment. "It was the porter Su Wen who spoke.

A few experts were right when they thought about it, anyway, when this road came to an end, there would be no place for research, so they simply gave them things on their backs, which was safer.

As the saying goes: it's easy to go up the mountain and hard to go down, especially the stairs of the cliff on one side, and it's highly tense to walk on it. The road under your feet is not so easy to walk, some places the stones are raised, and some places the gravel is loose, all of which torture everyone's nerves.

After walking more than half the distance, a few older people finally couldn't walk anymore, standing in place, resting against the mountain wall behind them.

As soon as they stopped, those who opened the way in front and those who followed behind could only stop. However, everyone was tired of carrying things, so no one complained.

After resting for a while, and when his breath had evened out, Shui Guanyu asked, "Master Qi, how far is it to get to the most serious place you said?" ”

"It's coming. Qi Dahai said while smoking: "Go down the mountain, walk forward for another hour or so, and go to the foot of another mountain, where the situation is more serious." ”

"Can you tell me what kind of serious law it is?" Bai Qilan heard that there was an area of animal abnormalities not far away, and she was also a little anxious to know what the difference was compared to just now.

"If you want me to say, it's not that it's just some pheasants and hares that have become stupid, but also some larger animals, such as hyenas, wolves, tigers, lions, etc. ”

"You mean to say that such large animals are stupid?"

"Yes. ”

Qi Erbao's words, the two experts naturally did not believe it, if it was really as he said, it was likely to be a disease, and it could be transmitted between birds and beasts. If this is the case, then no one can guarantee whether the disease is infectious. What is the infection? air, water, or wounds.

Bai Qilan and Shui Guanyu didn't talk about their complicated thoughts for the time being, but said that Zou Song and Yu Hongmiao were almost resting, so they said loudly: "Let's keep going, it's not a matter to stay here all the time, and then rest and have lunch when we get to the foot of that mountain." ”

So saying, the crowd went on.

When you put your feet on the ground and look back, it's a different story. The mountain is not so high, and the stairs are not so steep, under normal circumstances, it is no problem to walk in one go, but everyone dragged it on for so long.

The road between the two mountains is relatively flat, there are not as many ups and downs, and the surrounding vegetation has changed from tall trees to relatively dwarf shrubs.

Although the road is smoother, it is not so easy to walk. Raised rocks hidden by the grass, or holes made by underground creatures, are obstacles under everyone's feet.

However, the physique of their entire team is still good, even the sixty-year-old Yu Hongmiao has never mentioned resting again.

Originally, in this operation, Yu Hongmiao and Zou Song didn't plan to let them go because of their age. But they felt that they had organized the last test of the geological environment here, so this time they insisted on participating.

If this scientific exploration is repeatedly delayed because of their reasons, they will not be happy in their hearts. So although I was a little tired, I gritted my teeth and persevered.

Because the mountain is right in front of you, you only need to go straight forward, and you don't need to turn any forks, so you don't need Qi Erbao to lead the way.

Since he didn't have to worry about himself, Qi Erbao put down his steps and chatted with the others around him.

But those experts are so focused on scientific research that they don't care about chatting. Others of a similar age, who consider themselves highly educated, look down on this country hunter.

What's more, Qi Erbao hunts all year round, and there is an indescribable unpleasant smell on his body. At first, it was nothing, but after a long time, the strange smell mixed with the smell of sweat, everyone couldn't stand it, and they all vaguely avoided him.

Here, only Li Jingfei can talk to him.

"You said that these city people are really pampered, and they can't stand the slightest smell of animals. ”

Li Jingfei listened, and could only smile and not speak, in fact, years of city life made him a little unbearable to the taste, but it was better than others.

The two chatted about each sentence, and Li Jingfei realized that Qi Erbao was not very familiar with the situation on the mountain after this.

Qi Dahai's hunting range is the mountain behind him, and the farthest is to go to the foot of the mountain in front of him to play. Qi Erbao also found that the animals in the mountain were stupid, so he had the mentality of trying it out, and wanted to go to the mountain in front of him to pull a fierce beast back.

At that time, he really found a stupid tiger on the mountain, and he didn't go away when he beat it, and he didn't chase after the animals he saw, and he couldn't pull them. Before Qi Erbao could figure out how to bring the tiger home, his father found him secretly going up the mountain to hunt, and then Li Jingfeng returned to the village......

In other words, once he arrived at the mountain, Qi Erbao was the same as everyone else.

At this moment, Ge Huaiyi, who was walking in the front, suddenly pointed to the front not far ahead, and shouted to the people behind him: "Look!"

The crowd immediately stopped and looked ahead. Not far away, I saw a tall boulder, more than three meters high and more than two meters wide. In front of the boulder is a wooden house.

In the early years, I heard that Orion would build a hut in the middle of the mountain, and the door of the house would not be locked, so that if a hunter was tired of hunting in the mountains, he could go in and rest without knocking.

There are tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans in the house, and the firewood and rice for eating and drinking are provided by the hunters themselves. Those who leave will often put some firewood and rice to express their gratitude when they pass by there for the second time, and at the same time, it is also to prevent them from having nothing on their bodies when they pass by the next time, so that they can take care of their own food and clothing.

However, with the development of the aquaculture industry and the reduction of hunters, this kind of wooden house gradually lost its effect, and later the national environmental protection development and other projects demolished the wooden house that had been unused for a long time.

But the strange thing is that even if it is not demolished, this kind of log cabin is built on the mountain, how can it appear not far from the foot of the mountain.

Everyone was puzzled, so they turned their heads to Qi Erbao with an inquiring look.

Qi Erbao saw that the opportunity for his performance had come, so he was able to say: "That, it's the hut of the forest watcher." ”

The forest watchman, as the name suggests, is the person who guards the forest.

The mountain used to have a large timber processing plant, and a large amount of timber was cut down and transported to the base of the mountain every day. In order to prevent the smuggling of timber, a hut was built here, which was guarded by two able-bodied men at night.

Later, as the country became more environmentally conscious, the wood processing plant here was also ordered to stop. Later, many rare animals and plants were found in this large area of mountain forest, and in order to prevent theft, the state built small wooden houses at the entrance to these mountains and hired people to guard the mountain forest.

Among them, there is Yu Hongmiao's credit. At that time, he was still a hairy boy, younger than everyone present, and with a lot of enthusiasm, he followed the teacher to the mountains to do scientific research.

It's just that they went up the mountain from other places at that time, and there was no post to protect the mountain and cultivate forests at the mountain pass, and the investigation was not about the mountain in front of them. But it is precisely because of Mr. Yu Hongmiao's opinion that the state attaches so much importance to it.

It's just that at that time, Yu Hongmiao was focused on research, and he didn't care about the changes after that. After so many years in a blink of an eye, Yu Hongmiao had the opportunity to set foot in this continuous mountain range again.

So when he saw this cabin, the old professor didn't know what it was for.

Qi Erbao originally wanted to show off a few words, but as soon as Lin Ren's three words came out, everyone immediately understood what was going on.

"If there were people watching the forest, it would be easy to do. Shui Guanyu immediately said: "He lives in the mountains all the year round, and he must know what changes are in the mountains and forests." ”

"Yes," Xie Lian also responded: "We can ask the forest people to be guides, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort." ”

Qi Erbao on the side was not happy when he heard this: What, what! I have worked hard to bring you here, and I will have to change the guide. You are unloading the mill and killing the donkey, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, scolding the cook after eating, beating the monk after reciting the scriptures......

Qi Erbao was angry, but he wasn't worried at all.

The crowd didn't say anything more, and hurried to the hut one by one.

There were a few heavy slaps on the wooden door, and the wooden door creaked open.

There are no people in this mountain all year round, and there is nothing of value in the house, so the door does not need to be locked.

The one in front of me is a small wooden house, but it is also more than 100 square meters, which is larger than many commercial houses in the city now.

When I walked in, I found that the house was just a shell made of wood, and the walls inside were all masonry. The interior decoration is in the style of the 90s of the last century, which is much more modern than everyone imagined.

"Anyone......"

"See if Master Lin Ren is there......"

"Don't ask. Qi Erbao stood at the door and said, "No one lives here." ”

"How could it be. A few experts were a little unconvinced by the frivolous Orion's words.

"That's true. This time, security guard Xi Yan helped Qi Erbao and said: "I just took a look at the surrounding environment, and no one has lived here for almost a few months. ”

"Could it be that the foresters here have been transferred?"

"There's another possibility. Yun Fanmeng, the female team doctor, suddenly said: "That is, there is really some kind of disease on the mountain that can infect all animals, and the forester was infected and died when he went up the mountain to inspect a few months ago, so no one has lived here." ”

When he said this, everyone instantly got goosebumps, and a good scientific exploration was forcibly transformed into Resident Evil by her.

Hearing him say this, Qi Erbao was amused in his heart, and said in his heart: You city people are too imaginative.

"It's not as mysterious as you say. Qi Erbao explained: "Then the Lin people are indeed sick, but it is only because they are old and in poor health, so they retired a few months ago and went to a nursing home in the city to care for the elderly." ”

"Didn't you send anyone after that?" Xie Lian asked puzzled.

"I don't know about that, maybe the man will be here in a few days. ”