Several people were exhausted except for Li Hao, including Zhou Yuanhang, although he did not go to the battlefield to fight, but his spirit has been in a state of tension, and his muscles are very tight, now that everyone is relaxed, the feeling of exhaustion immediately comes up, everyone feels pain all over their bodies, there are bruises everywhere, and they can't help it anymore after walking on the mountain road for an hour, it is worth stopping and resting.

The most seriously injured was Shangguan Feng, but no one had pity on him, the bullet was still embedded in the bones, and the pain tortured him all the time, Zhou Yuanhang just bandaged it briefly to stop the bleeding, and guaranteed that he could live before reaching his destination. Hadron was injured in the thigh, although it was not a serious injury, but after all, it brought trouble to walking, and finally vacated a mule for Hadron to ride on it, and he was not easy to shake it up, and his butt was in pain on the mule's back, and he decided to return to the mule's back after walking a few steps, after all, the pain was still bearable.

In this state, everyone could only come down to rest, as soon as they stopped, everyone lay on the ground, rested on the damp rocks full of rotten leaves, and it didn't take long for the sky to get dark, Zhou Yuanhang got up and built a bonfire, and everyone simply ate something and fell asleep.

I don't know what time it is at night, maybe it's already early in the morning, although the temperature in the mountains is slightly lower than during the day, but it is still very hot, Li Hao is not sleeping, there is a little movement outside the camp, at first he thought that there was some beast or snake and rat or something like that, and he knew that he heard the sound of hooves and rocks clattering when the mule walked on the mountain road, and then realized that someone was moving.

Li Hao opened his eyes vigilantly, and it was pitch black outside the camp tent at this moment. But this did not stump Li Hao, he clearly saw that the two people were pulling a mule and quietly leaving, judging from the shape and the way they walked. The two of them are the goshawk and the long-armed monkey Shangguan Feng, after a little thought, Li Hao understood what they were doing, and after the two walked a little farther, Li Hao immediately got up and walked to Luo Daxi's tent, waking him up who was still asleep, in the haze, Luo Daxi felt that he was shaking, opened his eyes and then saw Li Hao raising his index finger and making a silent gesture to himself.

saw Luo Daxi wake up. Li Hao lowered his voice and said in his ear: "Goshawk took Shangguan Feng to the destination, and wanted to get rid of us, I took the signal transmitter to chase after us." After dawn, you take care of Qiangzi and Zhou Yuanhang follow me, and I will mark the trees along the road. With that, he left the camp quickly and quietly followed behind the goshawk.

Sure enough, as Li Hao expected. The two of them kept walking along the rugged mountain road. It must be the destination of this operation, a few meters away, Li Hao used the machete in his hand to make a mark on the trunk, let Li Hao do strange things, they walked all the way, the weather was already in the second half of the night, but the temperature was getting higher and higher, in the middle of winter like this, the temperature at this moment was about to approach thirty degrees, where was this going? What is the purpose of the old man who pierces the mountain and Xu Jiufeng are fighting with heavy troops?

The three of them waited until dawn before stopping, after passing through the last jungle. In front of the three of them was a lake that was about to dry up, surrounded by mountains. There is a small amount of large stagnant water on the side of the lake near the mountain, the lake surface is already small and the size of a tennis court, the waterfall above is as slender as a silk stream, it is impossible to replenish the water that the lake evaporates and disappears in time, the dry place exposes the bottom of the lake, with the white lines like a bull's eye, this is a saltwater lake, the bottom of the lake is all the salt of flowers, indicating that the lake often dries up, and the evaporation is very large, there will be such a saltwater lake, you can see the saltwater lake here, Li Hao was surprised, according to common sense, Most of the salt water lakes in China are located in the northwest region, and the annual precipitation is less than 400 milliliters, which may be rain-rich in the dense forests of the south of the Yangtze River, and what kind of evaporation can lead to the emergence of salt water lakes.

Seeing the salt water lake in front of him, Li Hao heard the conversation between the goshawk and Shangguan Feng in his ears: "Is this it?" Are you sure? This is the goshawk asked Shangguan Feng again, and he heard a weak and blunt answer: "That's right, this is it, we have come to investigate many times before, the last time it was completely dried up was sixty years ago, and tomorrow this place will be completely dry, when the time comes, just find the entrance!" ”

"Where's the entrance? Tell me, and then you can go back! ”

"Tell you, hehe, don't say I don't know, even if I know I won't say it, I know that as long as I get here, I'll die, but I'm also worth it, I've done bad things all my life, I thought of such an ending a long time ago, but I never thought it would be so early!" Shangguan Feng also knew that his life was short at this time, but he looked away, lamented his life, and ended like this, and couldn't help laughing a few times, and there was a kind of desolation in the laughter.

Before his laughter ended, the goshawk said to Shangguan Feng: "Since you already know, then I will leave you a whole corpse, I hope there is a spirit underground, don't blame me!" As soon as the words fell, Li Hao saw that the goshawk's right hand was pinched on Shangguan Feng's neck, and after a slight click, Shangguan Feng's body fell to the ground softly, without struggling, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his throat had been crushed, and he died peacefully.

After knowing that the destination in front of him was the destination, Li Hao took out the electric shaver and pocket tape recorder modified by Zhou Yuanhang from his backpack, and after the shell was opened, the two were put together to become a small signal transmitter, according to the original agreement, Li Hao tapped the button and sent a signal for the people waiting in the capital thousands of miles away.

This is the result of Li Hao's discussion at Meng Fan's house in the middle of the night, when Li Hao said that there was something to ask Meng Fan to help, it turned out that Li Hao wanted to ask Meng Fan to take Zhou Yuanhang, Qiangzi and Luo Daxi's parents to the military compound to live for a few days, until the old man who crossed the mountain was eliminated, this matter was not a big deal for Meng Fan, a small matter, originally Luo Daxi and Li Hao belonged to active officers, it was easy to arrange these, and the difficulty was when to bring people into the compound.

If it is arranged too early for their families to live in the military compound, it will inevitably alarm the old man in the mountains, Li Hao doesn't want to alarm him too early, he has to wait until he sees the destination of this operation before he starts, once he knows the destination, he will send a signal to Meng Fan, and the soldiers who are responsible for secretly protecting their families will directly and quickly pick up their families into the military compound, even if the old man in the mountains is arrogant, he will not dare to arrest people from the military compound. As long as his family is safe, then Li Hao and a few people can show their strength here, no matter what kind of old man he wears through the mountains or a person in southern Xinjiang, it is nothing in the eyes of Li Hao and a few people, now that he knows the destination, Li Hao quickly sent out a signal, looking at the signal light on the circuit board flashing a few times regularly, Li Hao knew that this was the other party who received the signal and began to act according to the original plan! Now Li Hao has no worries at all.

After the goshawk got rid of Shangguan Feng, he took off the rucksack from the mule and carried it on his back, and when he took the rucksack, he also looked at the road when he came a few times, I don't know if he saw anything or simply not at ease, after a few glances, he stepped into the dry bottom bed of the lake step by step, stood on a piece of salt grains of flowers, and looked towards the only small pool of lake water, there was a hot vapor steaming on it, and the water vapor was floating into the air in large quantities, it seemed that it was really as Shangguan Feng said, and the whole lake would completely evaporate tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the eleventh day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, what will happen Li Hao is not clear at all, listening to what Shangguan Feng said just now, the last time it completely dried up was sixty years ago, what are they waiting for Sixty years, the old man who pierced the mountain sixty years ago was only about twenty years old, how old Xu Jiufeng is is still unclear, it is estimated that he is the same as the old man who is going to enter the coffin, is it that they knew what would happen here today sixty years ago? What the hell is it that almost came out of the nest this time?

Li Hao was not in a hurry to make a move, but ambushed in the dense forest and quietly monitored the goshawk's every move, he knew that the goshawk's eyesight was unusual, and he still tried not to disturb him until the mystery of the matter was completely revealed, to see what the goshawk was going to do at the bottom of the lake bed?

Li Hao leaned out and looked at the goshawk carefully, and saw that he retreated to the lake, took out a black lacquer-like thing like glasses from his backpack and put it on his head, stood up and turned around. Li Hao was shocked, and hurriedly shrank in the grass, he saw that the goshawk was wearing an infrared detector on his head, this thing was a high-tech, able to detect the infrared spectrum within a radius of one mile, if he saw his side, his body's body temperature was higher than the surrounding environment, and the shape of the human body would be shown on his mirror, so that he would be exposed.

Li Hao shrank his body, immediately held his breath, let his heartbeat slow down and slow down, almost stop beating, the body's body temperature dropped rapidly under his mediation, this is a very dangerous move, when the body temperature drops, the body's blood almost stops flowing, the body's perception and brain response come to a standstill, the various organs of the viscera and the brain fall into a state of lack of oxygen, but these Li Hao can all cope with it freely, he let his body temperature drop to about thirty degrees and then stabilized, In this way, the temperature of his surroundings is not much different, and it cannot be displayed on the infrared spectrum, even if it is a little abnormal, it will be regarded as the high temperature produced by rotting leaves.

Sure enough, Li Hao's adventure this time was successful, the goshawk wore an infrared detector and just looked around for a week, and didn't find anything special, maybe he didn't want to look at the things in the dense forest at all, but aimed the detector at the lake bed that had dried up, and searched carefully little by little, the lake in front of him was only twenty or thirty acres of water surface when it was full, and it was not big, so it didn't take long to detect, and after a while, the goshawk aimed the direction at the lake that had not dried up. (To be continued......)

PS: What will be found in such a strange place? Why is there such a large amount of evaporation? Does it have anything to do with the temperature of the mountain?