Chapter 1: The Return
In the depths of Taihang at night, the steepness of the cliffs is completely hidden in the darkness, and in the dead silence of the Grand Canyon, only by looking up can you see a line of night sky, and the rolling dark clouds are rolling away, leaving countless twinkling stars.
In this dead darkness, the only light was a small gas station with only one gas dispenser.
A gas worker in overalls walked out of the convenience store at the gas station, walked to the edge of the gas station greenhouse with his neck bent, stretched out his arms and palms upward, and shook in the air a few times - it had rained for a whole day, and I don't know when it had quietly stopped.
The gas-filler yawned, stretched comfortably, and turned his head to look at the electronic clock hanging on the wall of the convenience store, the time was already eight o'clock in the night, and at this time, I was afraid that there would be no more vehicles passing by this long-abandoned old provincial road.
The gasman sighed, put his hand in the pocket of his uniform, turned and walked back, and had not taken a few steps before he suddenly stopped, turned back and looked at the sides of the road, and everywhere he could see was a deep black, and he could not see anything.
But there seemed to be something near and far in the silent valley, and the oiler held his breath behind his ears and listened carefully, until at last he heard a strange sound, which was fast and slow, sometimes soothingly, sometimes squealing wildly—how did it sound like the sound of a two-stroke engine?
The refueler followed the sound source and looked into the distance, and finally found a small dim light on the cliff wall dozens of feet high on the opposite side. The glow of light, like a firefly, flickered and twisted on the almost vertical cliff face, apparently descending the mountain along the ladder with nine twists and eighteen bends.
Seeing this scene, the refueling workers can't help but secretly feel frightened, the ladder hanging wall path is the opposite of the dozens of families on the top of the mountain, the only way down the mountain before the provincial highway is repaired, the width is only allowed to allow a three-wheeled tractor to barely pass, the slope is steep and full of gravel, it is already extremely difficult to walk, after the provincial highway is repaired, there are few people; , I really don't know which guy who ate the bear's heart and leopard gall is living impatiently......
The refueler was surprised and curious, so he stood under the greenhouse and looked up, but saw the bright light on the opposite side tossing and turning on the steep mountain wall, and walked out of one continuous Z-shape after another along the wall-hanging path, but the work of a meal had already descended from the halfway up the mountain to the bottom of the valley, and it was only a hundred and ten meters away from his gas station.
It's amazing...... What the hell is this sacred? The more curious the refueler became, he looked at the light on the other side and hurriedly leaned over to let him see what was going on.
The sky was as one wished, and the light was getting closer and closer with the exhaust sound of the two-stroke engine, and sure enough, it was coming in the direction of the gas station. By the light of the gas station, the gas worker found that it was a very small women's scooter, the driver was wearing a raincoat and a full helmet, and the mist in the canyon after the rain was so thick that he couldn't see the person's face at all.
The women's scooter came to a stop under the canopy of the gas station with a "squeak", and the rider jumped out of the car and lifted the mask on the helmet with a "swish" with a raised hand. "90# gasoline, fill up. The rider said.
It was the voice of a young girl, pure and delicate, like gently plucking a taut string in the silence of the night.
Hearing the driver's voice, the refueler couldn't help but be stunned, he always thought that the person who could drive the locomotive down from the abandoned wall-hanging road on the night after the rain, even if he was not an outdoor crossing master who drove a professional off-road vehicle, must be a medicine collector who traveled through thousands of ravines in Taihang Mountain, and he could never imagine that this driver was a girl.
His curiosity was immediately ignited, you must know that this area is a no-man's land within a radius of ten miles, and a lone girl drove a women's scooter alone through the extremely dangerous cliff in this night when she couldn't see her fingers, and came to the steep canyon between these two mountains, which can be regarded as a legend.
Although there are no people in this area, so there is no need to worry about encountering bad people or anything like that, but wild boars and leopards are used to being infested in this barren mountain range, and even the men in the mountains will not easily take risks, let alone a young and delicate girl?
The refueler looked up and down, but saw that the girl was wearing a full helmet on her head, and her body was covered with an old army-green poncho, and her whole body was covered tightly, and she really couldn't see what her appearance and figure were, only a pair of eyes emerged from the helmet with the mask lifted, it was a pair of big almond eyes, long eyelashes flickering, pupils were as clear and deep as a lake in late autumn, and there was an indescribable poignancy in her expression.
The girl also glanced up at the gaser, pulled out the car keys, opened the seat cushion of the locomotive, unscrewed the fuel tank cap, and took out a small metal oil can from the storage box under the seat and handed it over, which seemed to hold about four liters of gasoline. "Please fill this up as well, thanks. ”
"Okay. The refueler didn't dare to look more, so he promised to turn around and take off the fuel gun to operate the refueling machine. The girl looked up at the sky, and the night sky above her head was rolling like the ebb tide of the sea, leaving countless stars twinkling, and after looking at it for a long time, she sighed softly.
"Is there any smoke in the store?" asked the girl, pointing to the small convenience store at the gas station.
This little girl is still smoking, it seems that she is really unseemly...... "Yes, there is not much excess, there is no good smoke......" The refueler turned his head to look at the girl, but he said to her with some inexplicable regret in his heart: "What brand do you want, find it yourself." ”
The girl nodded silently and walked into the convenience store, and after a while, she walked out with a pack of cigarettes, tearing the wrapping paper of the cigarette box as she walked.
"Girl, you can't smoke in the gas station!" the gas worker quickly reminded when he saw it.
The girl was stunned for a moment, looked left and right, and stared at the refueler for a few seconds, before finally confirming that the refueler was talking to her, her slender brows frowned slightly, and she sighed lightly and said, "Don't worry, I know the rules......" After speaking, he pinched the cigarette box and went straight out of the greenhouse of the gas station, stood on the curb of the abandoned provincial road, very skillfully tore the cigarette box open a small opening, shook it lightly, threw out a cigarette from it, and lowered his head to hold it with his mouth, only then did he find that he was still wearing a full helmet, and quickly took off the helmet, and his long black waist-length hair sprinkled down his shoulders like a waterfall, shining with satin-like luster under the reflection of the lights of the gas station, he almost spilled the gasoline when he saw a refueling worker, and quickly turned off the oil gun, and inserted the gun head into the small oil pot.
As soon as he lowered his head, he heard the girl cough violently, and the gaseer hurriedly looked up at her, but saw that the girl was coughing and slapping her chest vigorously, and the cigarette was thrown to the ground at her feet.
"If you can't smoke, don't force it!" The gastron couldn't help but laugh secretly, and said to the girl: "If you want to relieve the fatigue of the coffee-flavored chewing gum in my store, the effect is also quite good, you can try it." ”
The girl coughed for a long time before it gradually stopped, she stared blankly at the cigarette on the ground that still had a trace of fire, and suddenly raised her foot viciously and stepped on it fiercely, looking crazy, and the gastron was confused.
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On the dark highway in the Taihang Mountains, there is a small green light point that keeps flashing, like a small firefly, accompanied by the unique screaming sound of the two-stroke motorcycle engine at high rpm, turning into a small meteor, leaving a perfect and smooth trail on the corner, and disappearing at the end of the curve with a whoosh.
It's 9 o'clock at night, and on the asphalt road leading from the mountains to the city, there is only a small two-stroke scooter that is as broken as garbage, full of throttle and speeding towards the far other end of the road, the red tail lights of the small pedal motorcycle seem to be performing a wonderful ice dance, drawing elegant and beautiful arcs one after another on every bend of the road.
The winding mountain road stretches all the way south until it disappears into the dark night, and the peaks of the mountains can be seen dozens of kilometers away in the sky, and a large area of the night sky is dyed orange, which is a bustling and noisy modern city.
The dark clouds had long been driven to the edge of the sky by the strong wind, the starry night sky was split in half by a galaxy, and on the road under the starry sky, this small scooter had headlights that were not much brighter than candles, and the back shelves were tied with rubber ropes with high stacks of camping equipment.
The driver was a slender girl wearing a glossy black all-inclusive sports helmet whose deceleration mirror reflected so strongly from the headlights of the oncoming vehicle that her face was completely unrecognizable.
The clothes worn by the girl seemed to be very ill-fitting, the sleeves and trousers that were already very fat, in the wind pressure of sixty kilometers per hour, hula lala fluttered in the wind, and the back of the jacket was full of wind, puffing up like carrying a big turtle shell.
On the back of her glossy black helmet was a reflective sticker of a pea warrior that glows at night, and her long, waterfall hair spilled down the hem of the helmet like flowing water, and was blown into a thousand flying strands in the wind. There is a small green LED light on the side of the girl's helmet that is flashing rhythmically, which is the Bluetooth headphone system installed on the helmet playing MP3 music.
“…… Let's go, don't ask where the road is?
Facing the wind is the only way to go......
…… When the car rumbled, the dream began to be in labor
It rolls up the wind and re-sculpts each face
The night fog is so thick and open and turbulent
There is a hunch that the end of the road is a labyrinth......"
The two-stroke engine of the small scooter roared hysterically, and after a difficult and long climb, it finally climbed a mountain pass, and the moment it reached the commanding height, a brightly lit city suddenly appeared in the far black field.
The girl slammed the brakes and set the small pedal at the top of the slope, and the neon lights of the distant city reflected on the helmet's deceleration mirror, constantly changing dreamlike colors.
As soon as you turn the car key and turn off the engine, the world suddenly falls into endless silence. The girl lifted the mask of her helmet with a "sigh", revealing her big melancholy eyes, staring blankly at the distant city, her eyes were full of deep confusion and helplessness, and finally let out a long sigh.
After all, she still has to return to this city, she doesn't know what fate awaits her there, and she doesn't know how she will go on in the future, but she has no choice - she made that decision that she cannot regret, and now everything is doomed from then on, she has no choice, no way to retreat, only to move forward......