Chapter 108: Wolf Creek (Xin)
If a person is able to predict the outcome of events, then he will definitely do half less in his life, but at the same time lose all pleasure. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I had no idea that this underground jigsaw puzzle would be such a daunting challenge, from energy to stamina to patience. And I pulled Zeng Qian to the puzzle, probably the wisest decision of my life. Zeng Qian is different from me in that the more difficult and seemingly impossible things are, the more excited, dedicated, and persistent she is.
We picked up the broken bricks that were still intact from the piles of collapsed materials, brushed off the dust, and took them to the center of the hall, where we began to guess the location based on the faint patterns on the masonry. But we don't have a blueprint for the whole graphic, and we start with a lot of deception, and then it's a process of self-denial and starting over.
In just one day, I already had a sore back and legs, and it was a little difficult to move. Zeng Qian looked at me panting, and didn't forget that I was laughing, "Uncle Chang, you used to be an omnipotent perfect person in my mind, but now I know that the stronger the ability, the more prominent the weakness." I only smiled bitterly and said: "Xiao Zeng, I didn't admit that I was perfect before, but when you say this, maybe I'm still really, almost finished." ”
This whim project on the second day, we all understand that this is not something that we can accomplish as the old, weak, sick and disabled, Zeng Qian went to call Xiao Li, I thought that Xiao Li would prefer to go to the grassland to fight wolves, but I didn't expect him to stumble and not fight, and immediately ran to the Cao team to ask for leave, and the Cao team is even more as long as we don't go out of the mine, what we want to give, what to ask for and what to satisfy. In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Li followed Zeng Qian down the mine, and Lao Bao was also afraid that we would encounter the danger of collapse when cleaning up the masonry, so he arranged a small section of miners to support.
Xiao Duan is really experienced in the underground, he first used wooden piles to make some supports, and then used a trolley to clean out the muck, sifting the soil outside to take stones, and the soil was piled up in the corner of the hall, the benefits of this are obvious, there are fewer omissions, and the cleaning efficiency is higher.
With the addition of two new forces, our progress has obviously accelerated, Xiao Li Xiaoduan is responsible for cleaning the muck and picking up broken bricks, I am responsible for wiping clean and doing a preliminary classification, and Zeng Qian is responsible for the puzzle. Downstairs, we had no sense of time at all, so when we were hungry, we took out the lunch box we brought, ate a few bites, and when we were tired, we stopped working, leaned on the pillar, and smoked a cigarette. But Zeng Qian rarely gets tired, she wraps a towel around her head, ties her coat around her waist, and compares with broken bricks while walking around to choose a position, every time she finds a suitable position, she will giggle, and I don't know whether to show off to us, or to be happy and relieve boredom.
But in short, we all know that the most effective way to relieve fatigue is to watch a girl work selflessly.
This work is five days, and during the five days, I met the Cao team twice in the cafeteria at dinner, and seeing that the Cao team was not in a good mood, I knew that their work was not going well. When I asked, I found out that they were in the grassland these days, the wolves and them started a guerrilla war, relying on the forest of Dagai Mountain, constantly going around in circles, and spending a lot of gasoline, in total, Cao team They only killed three wolves, but they didn't even see the shadow of the wolf king.
On the evening of the sixth day, when we came out of the mine, outside the door of the canteen, we saw that the Cao team seemed to be arguing fiercely with Mine Manager Li. I dragged Team Cao into the cafeteria, took a few bottles of beer from the commissary, asked for a few side dishes, and chatted with Team Cao while eating.
It turned out that this afternoon, the Cao team divided the wolf fighting team into four groups, each group of five people, along the foot of Dagai Mountain, parallel to the north, each team separated by half a mile, hoping to find a large group of wolves by widening the search area. But after advancing forty or fifty kilometers, I didn't even see a wolf shadow. There was a young mine policeman in the group closest to Dagai Mountain, his stomach suddenly felt uncomfortable, and he hurriedly ran to the forest to relieve his hands, and he didn't come back for half a day. The people of this group searched around, but they didn't see anyone, and they knew that something was wrong, so they hurriedly notified the other groups, and when everyone rushed back, they began to search along the bloodstains into the mountains.
After walking about a kilometer into the mountains, Cao's team found a white circle again, in a clearing in the forest. In the white circle is the relics of the mine policeman, robbery, hat, backpack, but there is no trace of the body. The quarrel between Team Cao and Mine Manager Li just now was that Mine Manager Li hoped that Team Cao would stop large-scale search and suppress and withdraw to the mine first, after all, the enemy was dark and I was afraid that accidents would continue to happen.
Team Cao and I each poured a bottle in one go, Team Cao borrowed wine to drown their sorrows, and I was very thirsty because I had been squatting in the mine for a long time. Unexpectedly, the Cao team, who usually has a lot of alcohol, fell into a bottle of beer, his face became red, and his mouth began to hum the singing of Peking Opera, "It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, and I have to go to Liangshan in the wind and snow." Singing and singing, he picked up another bottle and poured it into his stomach in one gulp.
I patted Team Cao on the shoulder: "Team Cao, don't be too anxious, fight wits and courage in this matter, if you are in a hurry, you will make mistakes." The wolf pack's activity seems evil, but there must be a pattern to follow, but we haven't noticed it yet. Team Cao sighed, "I have all the strength to let the wolves play around, my brain is not enough, Chang, it seems that you can't do it without you, go out with us tomorrow to fight wolves." ”
I drank two sips with him, and said to him with a smile: "You, you are just smart and confused for a while, and you don't need to be an expert who has the most research on wolves, and you bump outside all day long, do you think it's to buy lottery tickets?" Lao Cao nodded, even his eyes were red at this time, and he muttered in a low voice, "I don't know if the little girl is willing?" After all, I had a big temper that day, and I didn't communicate with her before voting, so I directly rejected her suggestion, for fear that she wouldn't be able to turn around and make her mood. ”
Looking at his expression like a schoolboy making a mistake, I smiled in my heart, it was really a thing to a thing, but I said: "In two days, we are studying the tunnel of the Yuan Dynasty underground, which may have something to do with the wolves." Don't worry, anyway, Mine Chief Li is also afraid of another accident, so just rest for two days, I will find an opportunity to persuade Xiao Zeng, after all, we are a gang, right? I believe Zeng Qian is a comrade with a sense of the overall situation. Then I told Team Cao about what we had found in the mines these days, but before I could finish the story, Team Cao was already lying on the table and falling asleep.
The next morning, the Cao team did not go to search for the wolves, but when a few of us were playing puzzles under the mine, Lao Bao hurriedly ran in and told us that something might have happened again, and Mine Manager Li was anxious to let us go to the conference room for a meeting.
When we arrived at the conference room, we found that the atmosphere inside was very solemn, everyone was smoking with their heads down, and no one was talking. The smoke in the room was like being in a sauna, and the people on the other side were a little blurry, and it was clear that there had been a heated argument here before we arrived.
I sat down next to the detective Xiao Lei and asked him in a low voice what had happened, only to learn that just this morning, two trucks carrying supplies to the mine were attacked by wolves on a meadow dozens of kilometers away from the mine. Including the driver, a total of four people were missing, presumably due to bad luck, and the pork transported by the car was looted, the rice was gone, and the vegetables and fruits were all destroyed by the wolves.
At that time, one wheel of the preceding car, which was supposed to be in front, got stuck in the mud, and the drivers were about to drag it with the rear car, when they were suddenly attacked by wolves that were lying in ambush nearby. Like the time at Lake Gone, it seems that a wolf bit four people to death in a short period of time, and although some people wore guns, they didn't have time to release them, and they suffered accidents.
"Captain Cao, whether you agree or not, I have already asked the department, I just called the border garrison, they will send a squad of soldiers to help us kill wolves, more manpower, the hope of success will be greater. Mine Chief Li extinguished the cigarette in his hand.
Team Cao didn't speak, but Lao Qin stood up, "Mine Chief Li, this wolf pack is extraordinary, sometimes I think it's people in command, not the wolf king, how do they know the route of the transport trucks? How can they set up an ambush and let the convoy driver be fooled? Of course, it's good to increase people, but the key is that we still have to make a careful plan to catch the wolf king in order to solve the problem fundamentally." ”
"Lao Qin, I agree with what you said, but when can a plan be drawn up, and will the plan work? It's been more than a month, there were more than a dozen hunting dogs in the mine, and now most of them have been bitten to death by wolves, and they are now starting to attack the transport trucks, I don't know when, they will attack our trucks again, at that time, I can only let the factory temporarily stop production. Mine Chief Li kept pacing in the conference room. I understand that the choice between suspension and death is easy for Mine Manager Li to make, but he has always been reluctant to choose.
Zeng Qian quietly sat down next to me at this time, her expression obviously hesitant. I whispered something to her, and she wrote a few words in her notebook and handed it to me. "If you don't catch the wolf king, the wolves will be killed, won't they?" I looked at her delicate little words, understood the contradiction in her heart, nodded to her, and slowly replied to the notebook, "Everything is destined, the wolf king himself should understand the final result", and then returned the notebook to her.
Zeng Qian read my message, lowered her head and thought for a while, then turned her head to look at me again, I knew that she had made up her mind.
"Captain Cao, I have a way to trap the Wolf King. Zeng Qian stood up from the corner of the conference room, her voice was not loud, but every word was like a thunderbolt falling in the conference room. Everyone's shocked eyes fell on Zeng Qian.
"Captain Cao, do you remember that on our way to the mine, we passed by a small river, and on the meadow next to the river valley, we found a wild smoke, which is a poppy?" As soon as Zeng Qian's words came out, Team Cao slapped his head suddenly, and his eyes suddenly brightened.
"Many of the big tobacco shells in that field have been bitten by wolves, which means that the wolf king knows how to use big tobacco shells to cure diseases, and in addition, I have read in a book that after chewing tobacco ointment, people will not feel hungry, and the wolves will also know it? So, that big smoke field is where wolves go most often. I also read that the book said that Dayan was originally made into the shape of a pill, which was taken internally, not smoked, and the first person to take the tobacco paste was actually the Fang Shi, who thought they had found the elixir of becoming immortals. ”
Zeng Qian's previous words shocked the Cao team and their meditative thoughts, looking for a way to hunt wolves, and the last few sentences really shocked me, it seems that she also said to me, although in all the books, there is a lack of research on the reasons and methods of animal immortal cultivation, so that we all think that it is "the aura of heaven and earth, the brilliance of the sun and the moon", but it must not be simple, but no one has observed, obviously, Zeng Qian's thinking in just a few days is much deeper than ours.
"Xiao Zeng is a person who woke up from his dream with a word, how can we forget this detail?" Team Cao looked very excited and stood up from his chair.
"Xiao Zeng has a point, we have insufficient manpower for large-scale search and suppression, and it is easy to be exploited by the wolf king when we disperse, so it is better to squat and guard. Director Tian obviously also supported Zeng Qian's thinking.
"The solution is feasible, it's just that the wolves just robbed our transport truck, and we have food, I wonder if we will go to the big tobacco field again?" Among all the people, only Lao Qin was a little worried.
"After all, there are more than a hundred wolves, and those pork will be eaten soon, so it's a big deal that we'll wait there for a few more days. With a wave of his hand, Team Cao made a decision.
The direction was there, and the plan for the entrapment was naturally formulated quickly, and the Cao team decided to prepare for a day, starting the night after tomorrow, bring enough warm equipment, and squat by the river, in order not to alarm the wolves, the only people who squatted and guarded were Cao Team, Director Tian, Xiao Lei, Lao Qin, me and three other security officers, and the other twenty people, who were in ambush one mile away from the squatting point, and rushed over to support after the gunshot.
The mood of the Cao team was much better, and the next morning, at his insistence, he went down the well with us and did a day of moving bricks. But obviously Zeng Qian's mood was depressed again, I don't know if it was because of the wolf king's guilt, only when the puzzle was made, did she return to her previous appearance.
In the evening, when we came up from the well, in the clattering elevator, Zeng Qian suddenly said a sentence, "Team Cao, try not to kill the wolf king when you hunt it, and don't kill other wolves?" Team Cao didn't think about it this time, and nodded heavily.
But on the night of this day, the howling of the wolves in Dagai Mountain continued one after another, and it did not stop for the whole night, I wonder if it was a sign that something was about to happen.
(I have the Three Jewels, hold on to them.) One is kindness, the second is thrifty, and the third is not daring to be the first in the world. Kindness can be brave, thrift can be wide, dare not be the first in the world, so can become a long. Now we are merciful and courageous, we are thrifty and broad, we are the first to be the last, and we are dead! Heaven will save it and defend it with mercy. --Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching) (To be continued.) )