Chasing the rut marks left by Xiao Ran and the three of them, Xiao Nan continued to walk along the machine farming road, and when she passed through the gloomy poplar forest, a large cemetery in the forest saw that she and Han Zheng's scalps were numb and their hairs stood on end, and they couldn't help but increase the throttle to pass quickly. Fortunately, although the path in the forest was soaked and soft by the rain, it was paved with a thick layer of fallen leaves on the surface, and the wheels were pressed and did not immediately sink into the ground, allowing Xiao Nan and Han Zheng to quickly escape.

Out of the poplar forest, Xiao Nan saw a towering tree standing in front of him from a distance, and a small half of the towering canopy was hidden in the clouds and mist in the mountains. When I got close to Xiao Nan, I found that there was a small stone shrine under the tree, and the shrine was facing away from the direction of the village.

Xiao Nan stopped the car and walked to the front of the shrine to take a closer look, only to see a broken clay pot in front of the dilapidated shrine as an incense burner, and there was a statue of the god who had long been unable to see clearly, and the door hole of the shrine was engraved with the words "the position of the mountain god".

Xiao Nan immediately took two steps back and stood still, bowed three times to the rules of the shrine with a solemn expression, and then turned back to the off-road side bucket and turned over and got into the car. Han Zheng asked her with some curiosity: "Xiao Cheng, can't you see that you believe this?"

"No, I don't believe in God. Xiao Nan said with a smile. "Those of us who like to run into the mountains all day long are people who love the mountains in their hearts, this mountain god is the incarnation of Taihang Mountain, I worship him only because I love the mountains and fear the mountains, but I don't ask the gods for blessings. ”

"Oh...... That's the case......" Han Zheng suddenly realized. So he also drew the gourd in the same way, jumped out of the car and bowed with his hands together in front of the shrine, but he couldn't help but pray a few words in his heart.

Han Zheng got back in the car and set off, and after a few steps, Xiao Nan's worst fear still happened-the road in front of him gradually changed from a gravel road to a gravel road, and then from a gravel road to a red dirt road, and finally from a red dirt road to a sticky and soft loess road. The three wheels of the off-road bipolar motorcycle are deeply immersed in the mud half a foot deep, and if it were not for the large-toothed mud off-road tires installed on the car, it would be difficult to get in and out.

Although it can barely walk, the speed of the car has been greatly affected, and it can only go slowly with the throttle in first gear. The crooked rut marks on the road show that Xiao Ran and the others were not loose when they ran this road.

Worse still, as they passed through a large area of bush, the road suddenly branched out, and one road became two, and even worse, one of the roads branched off within visual distance to the bottom of the ravine and the edge of the abandoned terraces, each of which was full of fresh ruts, and it seemed that they had lost their way in this area, and went round and round again.

"We can't move forward rashly, otherwise I'm afraid we'll get lost like Xiao Ran and them. Xiao Nan stopped the off-road side bucket at the fork in the road with a foot brake, took out the plastic map from his pocket, and positioned himself according to the terrain in front of him.

Lao Zhang's hand-drawn contour map is based on modern high-definition satellite maps, and at the same time refers to the data of large-scale military maps in the 70s, and draws it with a pen with his bare hands with the military surveying and mapping techniques he learned when he was a scout in the unit. The high-definition satellite maps he consulted were taken in winter, and the topography was very different from the summer, and the data and landmarks of the 70s have changed dramatically in the 21st century, which has led to many of his maps not being related to the actual landforms.

Xiao Nan didn't dare to be completely sure how to go on these roads in front of him for a long time, so he had to use Lao Zhang's method to first use the radio connection to Xiao Ran, through Xiao Ran to describe the most obvious landmarks around him, and then connect the map to determine the location.

"Xiao Ran, this is Cheng Xiaonan, can you hear my voice?"

"Sister Xiao Nan, you are here!" Xiao Ran pretended to cry and wailed on the radio. "If you don't come again, our brothers will really be the husbands of the female boar tonight!"

"Can you be serious?" Xiao Nan said angrily. "When is it still making trouble...... Tell me, are there any landmarks that stand out in your area, such as houses, ponds, terraces, or livestock pens...... I'm good to give you the location on the map. ”

"Oh...... I'll take a look~" Xiao Ran quickly put away his hippie smile and seemed to be looking around. "Hmm...... Not far from the place we were staying was a two-story adobe house with an almost completely collapsed roof...... ...... in front of the room There is a large pool in front of the house...... Behind the house is a very steep slope and full of pine trees......"

"You wait for me to look at the map......" Xiao Nan's eyes quickly scanned the map, looking for the most similar locations on it...... Finally, near the edge of the map, on the edge of a canyon, she found a small village hidden in the jungle on the hillside, with only about three or two families, not far from her location, only about a kilometer away in a straight line.

But the key point is that looking at the contour data marked on the map, the height difference between the two places is as much as several hundred meters, and you can imagine how bad the road conditions must be.

"Is there a deep stream twenty meters to the west?" Xiao Nan asked. Map work must not be sloppy and must be confirmed again and again.

"Which side is the west?" Xiao Ran's answer made Xiao Nan cry and laugh. "But there was a mountain stream not far behind me, very deep, very deep...... You don't have to stand in front of you to hear the water inside, it's so loud, it's deafening, it's scary, and none of us dare to look closer......"

"I see...... Xiao Ran, I have now determined your location, now you listen carefully to me, there is a road behind the collapsed house, you can climb up the hillside through the pine forest, you just need to go up from there, you can go back to the fork in the road above, can you understand what I said?"

"Oh, I understand, but what about ......" Xiao Ran said helplessly: "It's useless, our brothers came down from there, and the road was washed away by the water half an hour ago, not to mention that we can't go up on a motorcycle, even if we don't want a motorcycle on foot, we can't climb up......"

"Ah......h ”

"Don't be in a hurry, it's already like this anyway, the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water!Sister Xiaocheng, you don't have to panic, look at the map slowly, there is no endless road!" Xiao Ran looked like an old god.

Xiao Nan calmed down and looked at the map carefully, but the hand-drawn map that Lao Zhang gave her was very small, and Xiao Ran's location was already on the edge of the map, and the road that could be seen on the map was only that, and now it was cut off by water, if you wanted to go around, you could only find a way to go around from outside the map range.

"Master Zhang, this is Cheng Xiaonan, can you copy it?"

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