86_86324The road surface under the wheel of the car has been replaced with asphalt road, and there are no more annoying bumps.

Opening my eyes to the concrete buildings, I sat up and took a closer look at the surrounding streetscape. The street is lined with colorful shop signs, and it looks like the city is well built, no different from where I live. It should also be a dead city, with the same empty streets and the same rancid air.

"Where?" I cleared my throat and asked Uncle Wang.

The electronic music in the car had been turned off, and Zhou Zhihong was looking around through the window.

"Wanzhou City." Uncle Wang replied.

"Not long ago, I was passing by here." Zhou Zhihong said with some pride, "Don't look at this city is quite big, I haven't met anyone." ”

Duan Ke was woken up by our conversation, and as soon as he woke up, he yelled to go to the bathroom. Fortunately, it didn't take long for us to meet a gas station, which solved her urgent needs.

The pickup truck circled around the city for a few minutes before landing on a bridge. Uncle Wang smiled and looked out the window, then stopped the car and said, "Get out of the car and smoke a cigarette." ”

The four of us walked to the edge of the bridge, holding on to the guardrail, and enjoying the scenery under the bridge. The bridge is an arched structure, and the bridge deck is seven or eight hundred meters long, which is very wide. However, looking at the old traces on the bridge, this bridge should be some years old. The river under the bridge is very wide, and you can see that many cargo ships are still staying on the riverside, rippling with the waves. The river is green, and I don't know what the water quality is.

"Below here, it's the Yangtze River." Uncle Wang gave me a cigarette and pointed to the river under the bridge.

"The last time I came here, there were no buildings over there, it was all old woods." He continued, pointing to the right side of the bridge as he spoke.

The three of us followed his gesture and looked over, and on the other side of the bridge, we were all crowded with buildings. The pile of buildings was built against the mountain, and it looked imposing under the gloomy sky. Uncle Wang squinted at the houses, not knowing what he was thinking.

The wind on the bridge was so strong that it kept blowing towards us, and it was so cold that I didn't even have a cigarette*.

Zhou Zhihong leaned on the lamppole, crossed his hands on his chest, and asked us: "It's almost dark this day, will we live in this city tonight?" ”

"Nope." I immediately shook my head in refusal, and for some reason, the thought of living in the city now gives me a sense of rejection. Perhaps because of the strong smell of rancidity, I would rather sleep on a grave in the mountains than live in a city full of dead people.

Uncle Wang may have seen my thoughts, and answered: "There is still a period of time before dark, let's continue to drive, and let's drive wherever we want." ”

"Well, it's a big deal to sleep in the car." I added.

Zhou Zhihong shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't care, you decide." ”

Along the national highway, the car drove out of Wanzhou City after a while. The winter solstice is approaching, and it gets dark very early. Not long after leaving Wanzhou City, there was no light source around. Uncle Wang turned on the headlights and drove cautiously on the road. It didn't take long for a national highway toll booth to appear under the beam of the headlights.

The toll booth looks dilapidated under the headlights, it should be abandoned for a long time, and there is nothing empty. Uncle Wang parked the car in the toll booth and said, "That's it, don't go, it's dangerous to drive at night." ”

After saying that, he got out of the car and swept around outside with a flashlight.

"You wait here for me, and I'll find out if there's a place to live." Uncle Wang turned back to us and walked into the darkness by the roadside.

Zhou Zhihong looked at the flashlight outside the car that was gradually getting farther away, and asked, "Can he just go alone?" ”

"Well," I said, looking out the window, "he's doing things alone, and I'm a little more relieved." ”

"I think Uncle Wang is very good, but he doesn't like to talk." Zhou Zhihong said.

"People with stories are like that." I say.

Within a few minutes, Uncle Wang returned. He knocked on the window and said, "Found it, Lou Li, bring the gun." ”

I handed him Qijiu Chong, then put on my five or six styles and walked out of the car. In the dark, Uncle Wang walked in front with a flashlight and led the way for us, Zhou Zhihong picked up his big backpack and followed Uncle Wang, and I took Duan Ke and walked at the back.

I don't know if Uncle Wang, out of the professional habits of scouts, led us into the grass. The light source is at the front, and I can't see anything clearly here, so I can only follow Zhou Zhihong's back. If you step down, you will be kicked if you don't pay attention. I walked on the rugged road in the weeds with a gun in my hand, and perhaps Uncle Wang was on a mission in Vietnam in the same way as he is now.

Zhou Zhihong was carrying a big bag, and he flipped over several times because he didn't step on his feet. Uncle Wang only needed a few minutes to walk back and forth by himself, but the four of us walked for about ten minutes.

The place Uncle Wang found was a farmer's compound, and when he walked into the dam, he couldn't smell the rancid smell coming from his nose, and no one should have died in it. Uncle Wang called the flashlight to focus on the door of this farmhouse, and I could see that it was a metal security door. Anti-theft door, it turns out that the current countryside also has to use this kind of thing to isolate people. There was no way we could open the security door, so we walked around the farmhouse to see if we could find another entrance.

Maybe it's because the house is built on the side of the road, the owner has a strong sense of anti-theft, we turned around, and we didn't find any other entrances, and even the windows were installed with iron bars. On the wall on the side of the farmhouse there is an interesting slogan: robbing the breadwinner, sooner or later you will be caught.

"I can't get in," Uncle Wang said, "and I can only sleep in the courtyard." ”

"Okay, I have a sleeping bag in my bag, so I can sleep anywhere." Zhou Zhihong said, "But there is only one." ”

I glanced at Zhou Zhihong in the dark, and said in my heart, didn't you say this.

"Sleep here?" I was surprised, "Won't it be cold?" ”

Uncle Wang walked to the security door, pulled out a handful of dry firewood piled next to the door, threw it on the ground, and said, "Just make a fire." ”

But I still didn't really want to sleep in the open dam, so I asked Duan Ke if she felt cold and we could go back to sleep in the car.

Unexpectedly, Duan Ke rejected me. He said that once she went out on a road trip with her family, she slept in the car once, and woke up feeling unwell and the air in the car could not be breathed smoothly. She said she would like to experience the feeling of "having a night above her head and a campfire."

When she said this, I remembered that when I used to play games all night in an Internet café, I couldn't stand it in the early hours of the morning, so I slept on the chair. It's really uncomfortable to sleep in a chair in an enclosed space. Duan Ke insisted on staying here, so I had to stay with her.

Uncle Wang pushed all the dry firewood away and cleared out an area. Only then did I realize that the second floor of the farmhouse was partly protruding from the building, so there was a fairly flat space at the entrance. Well, if you lie in this space and regenerate a fire, it shouldn't be too cold.

Duan and I sat on the wall and talked about the things we used to do at school. Zhou Zhihong and Uncle Wang ignored us and began to collect firewood and make a fire. I looked up at the sky, and although there was a thick layer of clouds, there were still several stars that showed their heads through the gaps in the clouds.

It is said that the first step for human beings to become wise is to start by looking up at the starry sky and learning to think about themselves. I don't know if there is another pair of eyes staring at the night sky and thinking the same thing as me now, I mean the whole China, the whole world.

In my thoughts, the fire was already lit. The dancing flames immediately lit up a large area. Uncle Wang and Zhou Zhihong's faces were red by the firelight, and Zhou Zhihong looked at the flames that were born, and an innocent and childish smile appeared on his face. Uncle Wang took out a cigarette and stretched it out into the fire to light it, and when he saw Zhou Zhihong's smile, he laughed unconsciously. Duan Ke saw the fire, and also stopped talking to me, and jumped to the fire, stretching out his hand to bake the fire.

This is the power of nature, I sighed, a few modern people, seeing the fire that was lit, actually revealed the emotions of primitive people.

Okay, I said to myself, and I'm going to go over and make a fire. However, as soon as I took a step, I saw a few points reflecting the light a few meters away from the fire.

When I looked closer, I saw that it wasn't a point of light, but a few pairs of shining eyes.

My scalp exploded, and I subconsciously shouted to them, "Come back!" ”。