00438, Treasure Discovery
Wang Ding was not in a hurry to arrange the payment, because it was already very late, and if she looked for Bi Yue at this time, she estimated that she would sleep and dream that she was playing.
"Come on, Brother Wu, go to your own house, sleep your own sleep, by the way, Ming'er, I'll go hunting, you can prepare two good guns for me."
"No problem," with a cooperative relationship, Wu Gang attaches more importance to Wang Ding.
Wang Ding stood up, patted the dirt on his buttocks, and turned to walk towards the wooden house where he was sleeping, and now he didn't plan to remind Wu Gang of the location of the jade vein.
After the contract is signed, Wang Ding will suggest that Wu Gang re-survey along the various mountains, but he will not give a specific direction, he would rather spend more money, Wang Ding is not willing to be the living immortal.
Just after six o'clock the next day, Wang Ding got up from the bed, walked out of the wooden house, and was immediately attracted by the scenery outside.
At the foot of the mountain, there was a white mist everywhere, shrouding the whole Savage Mountain in the morning mist, and the milky white fog was flowing and receding, and through the gaps in the clouds, the dark blue peaks and trees were faintly visible.
After about ten minutes, the fog gradually dissipated, the sky was blue, and you could see the undulating Savage Mountain, the rugged mountain road, the mountain was covered with clouds and mist, and it seemed so mysterious and unpredictable.
Some of the people in the mine guard team had already gotten up to make breakfast, and the smoke from the cooking stove was intertwined with the fog that had not yet dissipated, which was very much the atmosphere of rural life.
After breakfast, Wu Gang was ready to go up the mountain, but before going up the mountain, he had to arrange Wang Ding's hunting. If Wang Ding and Qian Le were allowed to go alone, then he would definitely not be at ease.
Wu Gang introduced a burly man in a dark green camouflage uniform to Wang Ding. Wang Ding knew that this person was the captain of the mine protection team, and he had a few words with him when he was drinking yesterday, and he was a master with three wives.
The captain took two new AK submachine guns of six or seven percent, as well as two heavy army-green bullet belts, and handed them to Wang Ding and Qian Le.
After Wang Ding put the bullet belt on his back, he jumped on the spot a few times, and it didn't feel like it affected his activities. In terms of physical fitness alone, he is probably stronger than Qian Le, after all, Wang Ding often has nothing to do. Using Reiki to help yourself comb your body is all a massage, and the feeling of Reiki entering the body is very comfortable.
Counting the magazines carried by the submachine gun itself. That's a total of five magazines. 150 rounds of 7.62 mm bullets, Wu Gang's shot is very generous, according to his thoughts, these bullets are enough for Wang Ding to get over the gun.
After explaining the work, he brought four people over, and the other mine guards all looked at them with envy, wanting to know. Hunting in the mountains is a good errand, much more comfortable than the boring guards here.
A group of five people walked along the foot of the mine. Walk towards Savage Mountain, which is located to the north.
As the old saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, Wang Ding didn't have this kind of experience before, but now he feels it, standing in the camp and looking at Savage Mountain, as if he was in front of him, but this time, he walked for nearly an hour before he came to the edge of Savage Mountain.
And the road that this hour was was only four or five miles away, and this was still without going up the mountain, and everyone quickened their pace.
Qian Le's face also became solemn at this time, and he found that his previous calculation was a little wrong.
According to Qian Le's calculations, there is still a distance of about 20 kilometers from here to the location of the treasure, and if this pedestrian wants to go, I am afraid that it will be a single trip, and it may not be possible to reach it in four or five hours.
In the morning, Wang Ding had already discussed with Qian Le, after entering the jungle, he would find an opportunity to get rid of the people who followed them, Wang Ding also knew in his heart that Wu Gang would not let the two of them enter the Savage Mountain, the legend here is not so beautiful.
Qian Le scratched his head a little, he thought that this trip was too simplistic, and he also made a common sense mistake, the distance on the scale on the map is very different from the reality, especially in the mountainous environment.
In the past, the Kuomintang always lost battles, and many of them were due to this, and that bald Chiang often did such things, sitting in the war room himself, pointing fingers at the map, and exhausting his troops.
It's just that Jiang doesn't know the way, and the straight-line distance on the map, in reality, there may be some mountains or rivers and streams, which are all obstacles to the rapid progress of the troops.
At this time, the six of them had already entered the forest, and the dense tropical jungle broad-leaved trees blocked most of the light from the sky, and as long as the sparse sunlight penetrated the branches, the stars shone on the ground
There was also a thick layer of fallen leaves and rotten branches on the ground, and it was not very strong to step on it, and there was a "rustling" sound.
The forest is very silent, except for the footsteps and conversations of a few people, there is no other sound, the captain of the mine guard is very familiar with this place, and now the place where Wang Ding and others are taken is actually a small road, in fact, it is not a road, but they often walk for a while.
After walking through the tall forest for more than half an hour, the captain of the mine guard stopped and said: "Let's go northwest, there is a mountain col in front of us, it is estimated that there will be some animals in it, and the wild boar yesterday was caught there......
"Ah, Captain Liu, you go over first, I really can't hold it anymore, I want to sit down and rest, and rush over immediately." Wang Ding and Qian Le made a panting appearance, the plane was about to breathe, the captain looked back, and couldn't help frowning, this is more than a little way, it has become like this.
"Okay, you take a break, Xiao Li, you accompany, let's go ahead to explore the way first."
Xiao Li stayed alone to accompany Wang Ding and Qian Le, but in fact, he didn't let them run around.
"Brother Xiao Li, what kind of animals are there in that mountain pass?"
Wang Ding will not be so panting anymore, ask.
"That's not for sure, last time I met two wild boars, and one ran away, and like a black bear, sometimes I would run over there to drink water, right. I saw a tiger once, but when we rushed to the place, the tiger ran away. It's a shame......"
Xiao Li They have been stationed here for almost half a year, and they often hunt on the edge of Savage Mountain, and they have been to that mountain col many times, and now they are like a treasure.
"Alas, it's all because the two of us are not in good health, and we can't breathe when we run this section, so be it. Brother Xiao Li, you can come with me, let's rest for a while and ......"
Wang Ding is now in a hurry to get this person away.
"That's not going to work. If you get lost, Boss Wu will pick my skin......" Xiao Li shook his head again and again,
"Brother Xiao Li, don't you look down on the two of us? We all have guns in our hands. You can still get lost. Well, every four or five trees you are at a distance of four or five trees, make a mark on the tree with a thorn, so that we don't know what to do......
Xiao Li's eyes lit up when he heard this, he picked up the military vehicle and cut it at a tree, saw a mark and white juice on the trunk, turned his head to Wang Ding and said, "Okay, your idea is good." Then you can find it according to this mark, in fact, it is okay not to make a mark. Just northwest ......"
Xiao Li is a bit of a rough brain, entering this forest full of towering trees, not an old horse or a specially trained person, the ghost knows which direction the northwest of the road is, just to find the sun to identify the direction, then you have to find a sparsely wooded hillside.
"Hurry up...... Xiao Li chased after the captain and the others, and shouted back to Wang Ding, his hands were not idle, and he slashed at the trees along the way with a military stab.
"Zhilu Dao, don't worry, I'll shoot if there's something......"
Wang Ding replied loudly, his body had already stood up, and Qian Le beside him had already taken out his knife and used the compass on the handle to identify the direction.
"Brother Ding, our direction is due north, go here......"
After Qian Le recognized the direction clearly, his body had already taken the lead in rushing out of the lun, and Wang Ding's body was like a nimble ape, running out of the lu in an instant, you must know that they want to get rid of the captain of the mine guard as soon as possible.
The two of them are very fast, in this dense forest full of towering trees, they can actually run, the two of them run a lot, but sometimes they can't hold their feet, and they often hit the trees in front of them, and it didn't take long for Wang Ding's camouflage uniform to be torn a few times, and his face was also scratched by a few blood marks on the branches.
While Qian Le and Wang Ding were running, the military thorns in their hands also made marks on the trees they came from from time to time, but the marks they made were extremely inconspicuous, and ordinary people would only recognize that the bark fell off naturally.
After running for more than ten minutes in a row, Wang Ding and Qian Le were relieved, which could be regarded as getting rid of the pursuit of the captain of the mine guard.
At this time, the trees in the forest have become more and more dense, and the originally flat ground has a slope, but it can't affect the speed of the two of them in the slightest, except for the breathing sound has become a little louder, the two of them are like a tired machine that doesn't know how to go, their legs are constantly swinging, like apes walking through the dense forest.
After Wang Ding hit the tree several times in a row, he also learned to be shrewd, and when he was running, he knew that he had spare strength.
After running a downhill road, Qian Le's body suddenly stopped, and Wang Ding stopped for a while and ran a few more steps forward.
"Look at the trees over there."
Qian Le originally noticed that the tree in front of him was not quite right.
Wang Ding looked at it for a long time, and found that the trees were not very tall, and they were a little sloping, and there seemed to be traces left by an explosion on them......"
Savage Mountain in the early days, belonged to China's cloud border, but later the British stepped in and assigned to Myanmar, and the name of Savage Mountain is because of the dense mountains and forests here, the miasma is rampant, it is said that there were originally wild people haunted, so this area of hundreds of miles of no man's land, is called "Savage Mountain".
In Burmese, Savage Mountain means "the place where the devil lives".
Deep in the Savage Mountains, with overlapping mountains, sea-like forests, swamps in the woods, dense river valleys, wolves and beasts, and the spread of malaria, both Myanmar and China regard this place as a very dangerous place.
The Savage Mountain was known to the world only after the program commemorating the expeditionary force's battle in Burma was broadcast on TV not long ago.
At that time, more than 10,000 people of the Fifth Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force climbed the mountains of cross-country people, but after arriving in India, there were only three or four thousand people left, less than a fraction, and more than 43 women who retreated with the army. Only 4 people survived.
Savage Mountain not only buried tens of thousands of Chinese, but the Japanese army did not please here, and 40,000 troops of three divisions of the Japanese army also disappeared here. Never left the mountain.
It can be said that in this mountain with a radius of hundreds of miles, it is full of white bones, and nearly 10,000 people have died here, so the two of them dare not take it lightly at all.
After checking around the neighborhood, the two of them relaxed their faces and went on. The speed of the two of them slowed down significantly, because when they arrived here, they had really entered the Savage Mountain. These places may not have been accessible for half a century, and the towering trees make the light in the dense forest extremely dark.
When the two of them continued to move forward, Qian Le had an extra long branch in his hand, and from time to time he explored the road in front. He was afraid that the dead branches accumulated over the years would form a swamp pit. And it also has the effect of scaring the snake.
Wang Ding saw that several times, under the plucking of the branches of the Qian Le tree, several snakes covered with patterns burrowed into the depths of the dense forest.
Due to the shade of dense trees, the air quality in the dense forest also became very poor, and after walking for another two or three kilometers, he took out a bottle from the pocket of his camouflage uniform, poured out two pills, and swallowed one himself. Then he handed it to Wang Ding.
"What kind of medicine is this?
After Wang Ding threw the pale yellow pill into his mouth, he asked Qian Le. The pill entered his mouth, and there was a bitter taste, Wang Ding hurriedly picked up the kettle and drank the water.
"Quinine tablets, anti-miasma. One-on-one-one'
In the jungle in front of Wang Ding and Qian Le, there was a faint mist, and because it was covered by the dense trees in the forest, these miasma persisted for years.
But it's good now, if it's in the rainy season, the heavy rain washes out the decay, then there is no way to stay in the rainforest.
"How far have we come?"
Wang Ding looked around, except that the trees seemed to be denser again, this jungle seemed to be no different from when he first entered the forest, let alone distinguish between southeast and northwest.
"There should be a distance of twelve or thirteen kilometers, but it must be difficult to walk behind here, Brother Ding, are you sure you have to move forward?"
Qian Le took out a map of Hpakant and looked at it for a while, his face was very solemn, because he found that the compass had lost its effect here, and if he went further, he would have to rely on the sun above his head that was blocked by trees to tell the direction.
"Go, why don't you go, they're all here......"
Wang Ding walked through this jungle for more than two hours, except for a few snakes, the so-called jackals, tigers and leopards, not even a shadow, there seemed to be no danger, which made Wang Ding's confidence greatly increased, and looking at the way this way, this must be inaccessible, maybe the batch of gold is really still in place.
The adventure factor in Wang Ding's body was also stimulated at this time, he grew up watching Robinson's adventures when he was a child, and now he can have such a good opportunity to go on a jungle adventure, how could Wang Ding give up, danger? It doesn't seem to have happened yet.
"Okay, Brother Ding, be careful on the road below......"
This is the skull of a dead man, and before he has gone far, Qian Le screamed.
At his feet, there was a dead man's skull, the bones at the chin were gone, only the Heavenly Spirit Cover and the two black hole hole eye sockets remained, in this gloomy environment, it looked extremely weird.
A snake with a triangular head and red, black, yellow, and white, about the thickness of a thumb, came out of that eye socket, and seemed to be dissatisfied with Qian Le's disturbance of its abode, raised its head, and stuck out its tongue at Qian Le's "hiss" before re-burrowing into the thick dead leaves and disappeared.
", scare the hell out of me......"
Qian Le's heart only felt a "dong dong" beating straight, fortunately he retreated quickly, otherwise he really didn't take a bite, maybe he would have lost his life.
"Be careful, Qian Le."
The further they went, the slower and slower the speed of the two of them, because the mountain gradually became steeper, and the number of snakes and insects increased suddenly, and from time to time on some low treetops you could see a colorful snake, and several times if it weren't for Qian Le's quick eyes, I am afraid that he would have been bitten by the way in front.
As for the bones of the dead, Wang Ding has seen a lot, and the bones of the dead can be seen in the grass from time to time, as for the clothes and other things have long been decayed, there is no way to identify their identities, I don't know if Lu Dao is a soldier of the expeditionary force back then, or a Japanese devil who disappeared in the Savage Mountain.
Along the way, Wang Ding finally believed the statement that he returned to the Savage Mountain to bury 100,000 bones, there were several places full of miasma, Wang Ding and Qian Le both wore gas masks, if it weren't for the equipment, I'm afraid there would really be two more people lying here.
"Brother Ding, take a break......
Qian Le looked at his watch, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and they had walked for more than four hours, and it should not be very far from the location of Maobao, there were still about two or three kilometers to go, but these two or three kilometers, it seemed that they would have to walk for more than an hour.
This trip to Savage Mountain is far from being as smooth as imagined, and I am afraid that I will have to spend the night in the mountains.
"Okay, let's have a bite to eat......"
Wang Ding looked left and right, this is a mountain col, about two or three hundred square meters in size, there is a forty or fifty square pond in the middle, there are steep rock walls on both sides, and there is only a narrow path leading to the unknown ahead.
Qian Le found a place close to the rock wall, cleaned up the weeds around him, and then beckoned Wang Ding to sit down, in order to hurry, they have not eaten anything from morning to now, and now the physical consumption is too great, and they must replenish it.
The food is very simple, it is a group rice steamed with glutinous rice, and the dish is also pickled cabbage and dried radish, which is not very particular. However, after eating and drinking a few sips of water, the spirits of the two people slowly recovered. (To be continued......)