Chapter 10: The Salamander's Sleeping Place
We walked along the mountain path in the mountains, saying that it was a path, but in fact it was just a village hunter stepping on the edge of the mountain with his feet, a heavy rain passed, and the grass grew, but I was afraid that it would not be visible. www.biquge.info I don't know if it's a psychological effect, we walked for at least two or three hours, but I still feel like I just set off, even the grass and trees grow exactly the same, the sky is so deep that it is about to collapse, the water in the air is so much that it drips when you twist it, and the sweat on the body is extremely uncomfortable.
I glanced at the mango head who had been following me, his face was constantly dripping with sweat, the whole person seemed to be fished out of the water, he was short and fat, but fortunately he grew up in the countryside, and he was used to running in the mountains, and he could keep up with everyone's footsteps; In contrast, the surveyor named Bai Bai's face was pale, his eyes turned upward, and he followed everyone step by step, looking at it like that, he was afraid that if he took two more steps, he would have to fall down.
At this time, Professor Jia happened to walk up to me and said to me, "Young man, your physical strength is good, and I haven't seen you sweat after walking for so long." ”
My sweat was about to soak both clothes, and I didn't know where his eyes were, and at this time I still had the heart to laugh at others, so I reversed my lips and said: "Let you laugh, it is said that your physical strength is really good, and I haven't seen you panting after walking for so long." ”
He laughed twice, shook his fat hands, and said, "Yo, young man, I really can't see it, if I don't gasp, I won't be a dead man." ”
I laughed twice and hurriedly said that I made a slip of the tongue, and then took the opportunity to say that everyone had been gone for so long, should we find a place to rest, lest we have not saved anyone, but someone else has to save them. He looked at the team, and then looked at the day walking at the end of the team, shook his head and said that some people have not seen ghosts and are not afraid of the dark, so they want him to know that they are afraid, and immediately ordered everyone to rest in place.
When the people heard this, if they were granted amnesty, they sat down on the ground during the day, gasping for air. I took a sip of water and found that two of the four foreign experts had only drunk some water, and then they did not sit down, holding the submachine gun that had been carried behind their backs in their hands, and carefully guarding the patrol.
Looking at their posture, it was very professional, I felt strange in my heart, so I looked at it twice, but at this time, Professor Jia, who was sitting next to me, suddenly said: "Young man, where did you study in college?" ”
I smiled and replied that my school is just like that, and I'm afraid you won't know it, so since the conversation started, I pointed to the two foreigners and said, "Professor Jia, why are foreign archaeologists so good at marching and fighting?" ”
Professor Jia smiled and said, "Young man, it seems that you don't understand archaeology at all. Those few are just professional bodyguards invited by foreign experts, archaeology in the field is not as simple as lip service, pay attention to everything, otherwise your life will be in danger every minute, don't be me bluffing you. ”
I nodded, and at this moment, the guide of Yueren Village, who had just walked away, shouted loudly for us to pass, and when everyone got closer, they saw him pointing to a carbon pile and saying something in the local language. Professor Jia squatted down and flipped through it, saying that this was not left by Captain Luo and them, looking at the traces left by this charcoal fire, it must have been more than five or six days, and Captain Luo They only left four days ago.
Mango Head looked strange and asked How do you know?
I slapped him on the back of the head, and said that there was a rain a few days ago, and the charcoal fire and the mud underneath were wet, and it was not obvious? If it was Luo Da Scar, it would not have been so wet.
Professor Jia gave me another ecstatic look to express his appreciation, which made me feel a chill in my heart, goosebumps, and hurriedly walked away two steps to avoid any movement from him. He stood up and said that although he didn't know who left it, but looking at the traces on the ground, Captain Luo They had walked here, and now that they are in danger, we have rested enough, so let's set off quickly. However, there is no road behind, and it is still too late for those who want to quit to quit quickly.
During the day, his face was blue and white, and he lowered his head but didn't say a word. Professor Jia saw that everyone did not speak, and as soon as he gave the order, we took our backpacks and walked down the path to the depths of the mountains.
This walk turned out to be another day, during which in addition to stopping to rest and eat dry food, where I walked, there was really no road, often need to cut through thorns and thorns, cut down the low trees and tall grass that blocked the way, only to recognize the direction ahead, but walked slower and slower. I felt strange in my heart, it is said that the place where Luo Dascar and they walked, as long as we look carefully, we can naturally find some traces, how could we come to such a place.
Just wanted to tell Professor Jia what was in his heart, who knew what Professor Jia was arguing with the hunter guide, a foreign bodyguard stood behind Professor Jia, glaring angrily at the guide, plus the guy in his hand, just the situation had scared the guide so much that he didn't dare to speak.
I walked over and asked what was going on.
Professor Jia glanced at me and said that this person is greedy for money, but he doesn't know much about the terrain of this place, so he led us astray.
As soon as I heard about it, before I could speak, the guide cried and said intermittently in not very standard Mandarin: "No, I have been to this place a few times, and Captain Luo and they just entered the mountain in front of me...... As he spoke, he kept moving forward, and there was smoke in front of him, and he couldn't see if there was really a mountain, and said: "There is obviously a valley down here, as long as you pass through, you will arrive immediately, but this, maybe a landslide a few years ago, filled in the valley." ”
Professor Jia said to me, "Xiao Huang, what do you think you should do?" ”
I know that the situation is not optimistic at this time, Luo Dascar and they are still waiting for us to save their lives, and if they arrive a second earlier, they will have a little more hope, and they can no longer care about modesty, and then said: "Since we are in the wrong place, I think we should go up and find the right route from the high point." ”
Professor Jia nodded, and said I think so too, so he called everyone over, explained the situation, and asked the guide to re-recognize the way and go up. Looking at the mountain and running dead horses, this one seems not far away, but it took us half a day. Thankfully, I didn't encounter any ferocious beasts along the way, except for a few wild dogs, which I didn't expect.
Who knew that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and just walked along the dense forest to the mountainside, it actually rained, and the thunder roared, but the more it fell, the heavier it became. There is no place in front of the village, no shop in the back, and there is not even a place to hide from the rain, so everyone can only hold their backpacks on their heads, curl up as much as possible and follow the people in front of them step by step. But once a person has been in the rain for a long time, the temperature of his body plummets, and the cold seems to enter the bone marrow, and even his teeth tremble up and down.
"Boom!" Another muffled thunder flashed, and the guide of Yueren Village, who was originally leading the way in front, suddenly shouted, and he didn't know what he was shouting, so he ran forward with a shout, screaming as he ran, like crazy.
I walked not far behind him, and the rain was so heavy that it was so dark and invisible a few meters away, and he ran out, even if he didn't get lost and starved to death, he would let the rain drench him to death. I chased after him in two or three steps, grabbed him by the shoulder, but I slipped my hand, but I didn't catch it. He was small in stature, and he ran fast in the rain, and in a flash, only a dark shadow remained.
I shouted his name, and chased a little more, and suddenly there seemed to be the sound of the rain and my lonely figure left in the heavens and the earth, and the guide ran away without a trace. I was shocked, such a heavy rain, extremely poor vision, he ran so fast, he should not have fallen into some potholes.
Suddenly, I heard someone calling my name behind me, and I saw a string of black shadows coming this way, and I knew that it was Professor Jia and they were following, so I shouted "I'm here" and continued to look for the guide, running and continuing to shout, so that the mango head could follow the sound.
I chased forward for a while, and then the rain seemed to be a little lighter, and the thunder was not so frequent, and my vision was naturally better, and vaguely, I saw a black figure kneeling on the ground not far away, but it was not the guide. I ran over and said loudly, "What's wrong with you, looking for death?" It's raining so heavily, just run. "Who knew that no matter what I said, he just knelt with his hands folded and kept whispering in his mouth, even if the rain fell on his head.
I wondered in my heart, and looked in the direction he knelt, and saw that the dense forest had come to an end here, but in front of it was a cliff, and I don't know how wide, but there was a slanting hole, cracked at the bottom of the cliff. At this time, Professor Jia and the others in the back rushed over and asked loudly what happened? I shook my head to show that I didn't know, and then pointed to the crack in the cliff in front of me, which seemed to have shelter from the rain.
Although the crack was not particularly huge, it was more than enough for the eleven of us to shelter from the rain, and even two foreigners carefully probed it, and found that there was no problem and waved our hands to let us in. When I had walked two steps, I found that the guide was still kneeling on the ground, and kept worshipping, and I was afraid that I would have to be sick in the rain, so I lifted him up from the ground and pulled him into the crevice of the mountain.
As soon as everyone entered the crack in the mountain, they immediately took off the wet clothes on their bodies and wrung them out, anyway, they were all big men here, so they simply took off their outer pants and twisted them, otherwise they would hang on their bodies with wetness, not to mention how uncomfortable it was. With such a heavy rain, if you want to make a fire or something, I'm afraid it's delusional, so I can only keep rubbing my hands and stepping in place to warm my body.
After a while, my body slowly warmed up, I turned my head to look, but saw Professor Jia and their archaeological team were discussing something with a few foreigners, and as soon as I approached, they stopped talking and turned their heads to look at me. I was a little embarrassed, after all, I was not one of them, so I immediately smiled and said, Professor Jia, the guide is like a ghost, just bowing his head and reading something, no matter how he asks, he doesn't speak, what do you think next?
Professor Jia glanced at my bare arms, which made me instantly shrink the pores of my whole body, and hurriedly put on my clothes, he smiled and said, "According to the map, according to our itinerary, I'm afraid that Captain Luo and they should also be around here, but the rain outside is too heavy, so we can only wait for the rain to stop before making plans." ”
I said "oh", turned my head to look outside the mountain crack, only to see that the rain was still like a curtain with broken threads, falling one by one, and I could faintly hear the thunder, it seemed that the rain would have to fall for a while, and I was about to beckon Mango Head to take something out of the backpack, but I heard a foreigner behind me shouting in English.
I was startled, and hurriedly turned around and walked in, but at some point, the foreigner had lit a torch in his hand, and he was holding the torch and pointing at a crack half a man wide behind the mountain wall. Professor Jia's fat face leaned in front of the crack and put the torch inside, only to see that the back of the crack was dark, and nothing could be seen clearly, the light of the torch could not shine far, and the stairs with artificial traces could be faintly seen, going down the mountain wall.
"It's here! This must be the place we are looking for. Professor Jia's round eyes were squeezed into a slit with joy, and he turned to say a few words in English to a few foreigners from the archaeological team.
But at this time, suddenly the guide of Yueren Village, who had been kneeling on the ground, suddenly jumped up, ran to the front of everyone and blocked the crack with his body, stretched out his hands to stop him: "You can't go in, here, this is the sleeping place of the salamander god, and the proximity has already made the salamander god angry." If you go in, you will, you will be punished by heaven, and the entire Yueren village will be punished by the salamander god. ”
There was no need for Professor Jia to speak, and the two foreigners immediately set the guide out, the guide was short in stature, and was thrown away by the two tall foreigners, lying on the ground like a dead dog and unable to get up. Although this guide was crazy, I was a little unbearable to be treated like this, and I just wanted to walk over and help the guide up, but I heard Professor Jia say to me: "Brother Huang, Captain Luo, the exploration map in their hands is the same as mine, they have lost contact, and they are afraid that they will encounter danger when they enter the underground, and if they drag it on, they will die." ”
I was stunned, then looked at the guide, and said what should I do with him, he is crazy now, and I can't leave him alone.
Professor Jia said with a cold face, saying that his mission has been completed, and besides, he is not suitable to go with us to save people, just leave him here and take him back when we come back.
I felt a chill in my heart, although I didn't agree with Professor Jia's approach, but as he said, Luo Dascar and they are waiting for us to rescue, and they are finally finding a way, and if they drag on, they may encounter some danger.
In desperation, I asked Mango Head to leave some food and water for him, turned around and followed Professor Jia and they got into the crack, but after getting in, I suddenly turned my head and saw that the Yue guide was still kneeling on the ground, and kept chanting: "Offend Shenwei, the sky will fall apart!" The sky is falling apart! Lord Salamander God, I have no intention of offending the Salamander God Mountain, please don't condemn it, please don't condemn it......"