Section 2 Time and Space Tunnel

The next day, we boarded the plane and headed for our dreams. Everyone was so excited that it then permeated the whole body, so much so that the next 6 hours of the flight did not tire us out at all. It's just that the cumbersome transfer procedures make each of us feel like a fire. "Hurry, hurry!" We are urging in our hearts.

After getting off the plane, the person sent by Lao Yang to greet us had been waiting for a long time, and I spent 1 hour checking my luggage despite their urging. Just kidding, if it weren't for the fact that before leaving, I checked their luggage one by one, I wouldn't have found that Zhou Yi privately lent his laptop computer to his nephew, and his nephew actually walked around the school every day with his hands behind his back, and after the teacher knew that the laptop worth more than 40,000 yuan was the most advanced at that time, he immediately borrowed it for "research and research", and the embarrassed Zhou Yi had to keep quiet. At the same time, I hope I can forget about asking him to bring a computer.

When I found out, I was furious. Yin Dong and Gao Shan also accused Zhou Yi together, you must know that his laptop is installed with "Flora", without it, we went to Shennongjia to see what flowers and plants, so a few of us picked up his nephew in the middle of the night, and drove his nephew to the teacher's house, lost all the smiles, and said all the reasons, before asking for the handbag from the unhappy teacher.

What's even more annoying is that their teacher probably thought that there was too much software installed in the hand, so he actually deleted the "Flora" we installed, and then installed a set of all mathematics, physics and chemistry question banks from elementary school to high school. Gao Shan, who was thunderous, immediately went to their teacher to theorize, if I hadn't persuaded him in the dead of night and paying attention to the effects. Their teacher must have been trained for this behavior, and Takayama has been training for three years.

In my frustration, I had to work overtime all night to reinstall Flora. At Zhou Yi's repeated requests, considering his nephew's future, and also for the sake of the flowers of the motherland not being destroyed by our peers, I kept the question bank installed by their teacher. Of course, in order to ensure that our software can run well, we have to delete the GPS global positioning software.

After all this, it was dawn. I picked up Zhou Yisai and gave him a copper whistle, and said to him viciously: "You don't have GPS anymore, you have to use a sextant to locate in the future, rely on this copper whistle to let us know where you are, pray for you." ”

Because of this foreshadowing, although several of them were dissatisfied, when I checked my luggage, they only dared to ask me in a concerned tone: "You didn't sleep all night last night, are you tired?" "But there can be no complaints.

After checking the luggage, it was getting dark. At sunset, a few of us got into the car and headed for the village in the mountains. In the darkness of the night, I kept seeing the new holiday homes on the roadside, which were built by the local government to develop tourism resources. From time to time, we also saw some large trees lodging on the roadside, covered with green moss and fungi. At this moment, they are peaceful and quiet, and the noise and glory of the world have left them.

Looking at these noisy lives and tragic deaths, I seem to be able to hear the painful groans of nature fighting and strangling for the survival of the fittest...... I couldn't help but feel a little sad: in a few centuries, hundreds of centuries, when the next ice age of the earth comes, will Shennongjia still be a refuge for living things?

I was sleepy, and as the body shook, I gradually fell asleep. In my dreams I heard the cries of the mountains and forests, in my dreams I heard the call of the ancestors, and in my dreams I seemed to hear the whimpering of flowers and birds......

After a few days of rest and preparation, we walked into the mountains with our guide. Before leaving, I solemnly announced a few disciplines in front of the mountain people who had come to see them off: "Never leave a piece of garbage behind, and we will take nothing with us except the scenery." ”

This is not only to reassure the mountain people not to disturb our investigation, but also to wind up those guys, so that they don't do anything that disturbs the villagers.

We walked into the mountains, we walked into the forest. I saw that the Qinling fir trees were straight into the clouds, and they were born side by side with the local unique arrows and bamboos, without the slightest hesitation; The swaying branches, about 10 meters above the ground, are stacked vertically and horizontally, covering the sky and the sun, without the slightest leisurely wandering ambition; All kinds of lianas twist, entangle, and cling like snakes, some of them rise along the 20-meter-high and 30-meter-high fir, and some of them embed their bodies deeply into the body of the fir, and the hanged fir will collapse one day, which is natural selection.

What I will never forget for a long time is the Solo tree, which rises to the sky and flourishes. The Thoreau tree is known as the "fairy tree" and appears from time to time in many mythological novels. Legend has it that the tree in the Moon Palace is the Solo tree, and some people say that whoever paints the painting of the Queen Mother will paint the Solo tree behind him and so on. Solo leaves such as palms, flowers such as hammers, fruit such as eggs, real umbilicus, with extraordinary vitality, it has survived thousands of years without dying, the ancient Shennongjia has become its home. Looking at it, I feel the greatness of life, and I am filled with awe.

At the same time, I was amazed by another wonder, the majestic mountains and vast forests of Shennongjia, which hide tens of thousands of caves, which attract people with endless mysteries. It is these mysterious underground caves that begin to gush out a large number of fish after the first spring thunder of the year. Out of the fishing season, only to see the river near the cave ditch stream silver stream glittering, up and down the river, the crowd of people watching fish and fishing for fish is boiling, the noise is noisy. Where these fish come from and where they usually live is still a mystery. One of the most famous is the official seal fish cave introduced to me by the mountain people before.

The official seal fish cave is hidden in the green trees and grass shrubs of Shennongjia, and it is not easy for people to find it. Legend has it that in ancient times, in order to relieve the suffering of the people, Emperor Yan Shennong set up a frame in Shennongjia to collect medicine, and knotted ropes for ladders to taste all kinds of herbs. He once slashed a poisonous demon dragon in the Black Dragon Cave not far from the Fish Cave. Shennong's crushed the keel meat into fish roe, put it in the underground river in winter to raise, in the spring famine, thousands of fish roe have grown into thousands of small fish, small fish swim out of the hole to relieve the famine for the people. As for the fish lice, it was transformed by the fragments of the heart and liver of the poisonous dragon, and the Shennong clan asked it to fight the poison with poison and treat the people with diseases.

As for the origin of the scaleless and armorless, the general size, the local people explained: in ancient times, there were constant incidents of fighting and injuries for fishing, and the official ordered the stonemason to make a grinding disc with more than one abbot, and blocked the entrance of the cave, leaving only a small mouth like a round grinding eye in the center of the grinding disc, so that the water could flow from the cave to the outside. This is the origin of the name of the official seal fish cave. Subsequently, every year, when the fish were squeezing and grinding their eyes, all the scales were scraped off, and the blood was drenched. Over time, the schools of fish gradually changed from different sizes to eye-catching individuals......

When we came, it was past the fish season, and we couldn't see the scene of thousands of fish rushing out, so we had to stand in the official fish cave for a long time, listen to the local residents tell us about the magic of the official fish hole, and by the way, sell us the fish lice in the official fish hole. Of course, in order to live up to their kindness, we bought some fish lice, after all, they also explained to us for a long time, and we were embarrassed not to pay any remuneration.

We kept walking through the caves under the guidance of our guides, and we wanted to explore all the caves, but everyone knew it was impossible. So we had to pick up the most famous and hidden caves to explore, and it was disappointing that we managed to explore these caves, but nothing exciting happened, we didn't find a wild man's nest, we didn't find a camp for rare animals, not even snakes, no monkeys, no tigers, only human footprints.

In desperation, we began to march towards the top of Shennongjia, the main peak of Shennongjia. It's just a pity that the folding wire crossbow we brought with us was useless during our expedition. Let's defend ourselves, we didn't encounter a single beast on the road, and occasionally one or two carnivores ran away when they saw us. Perhaps, the most terrifying animal in the world is man. If it weren't for the kind kind consent of the mountain people that we could collect some plant specimens, I think our expedition would have been extremely tedious.

Two guides carried our food on their backs and the specimens we had collected at the forefront, both surnamed Chen, at first we called the older guide Da Chen, and the younger one Xiao Chen. But as soon as this name came out, the old guide said that he didn't dare, and the younger one was full of displeasure. After inquiry, we learned that the two guides were related, and the younger one was actually the uncle of the other guide, no wonder this title made them dissatisfied. Knowing this situation, we adjusted the name, the older ones are called Lao Chen, and the younger ones are called Da Chen. Everyone was happy.

Shennongding is 3105 meters above sea level, the temperature here drops significantly, a gust of wind blows, there is a bone-chilling cold, and the sky is sparsely snowflaked. We came to the scenery under the top of Shennong, only to see the dense fog under the cliff is rolling around, and the thousands of peaks and ravines under the cliff suddenly appear thrilling and hideous. Da Chen is clearly an educated person. He told us that we were lucky to see the fog. Because the fog in this cliff canyon is fleeting, it is generally not easy to see.

I stood on the edge of the cliff and suddenly felt the fear of falling into the sea of fog. The fog tumbled up from the valley floor, crashing against the cliffs like waves, and you could hear the whirring tsunami, as if the "wild man" was "hehe" tearing through the thick fog and drifting in.

Da Chen said that in this area, "wild people" have been found many times, and the footprints, hair, and feces of "wild people" have been found, and golden snub-nosed monkeys are often found to haunt in groups, which is probably because the arrow bamboo on the top of Shennong is the food of "wild people" and golden snub-nosed monkeys! In the 70s of the last century, the field expedition team members found a wonderful "nest" twice in the arrow bamboo forest, the "nest" was made of 18 arrow bamboos twisted, each arrow bamboo asked a distance of about 50 centimeters, and there were two vaguely recognizable stools containing arrow bamboo and small animal limb remains outside the nest. According to analysis, this is by no means human, and the stupid bear can't do it, and the dexterous monkey is not so smart. Whose masterpiece is this?

So far, more than 300 people have found different traces of "wild people" in different locations in Shennongjia and Fang County in northwestern Hubei Province, but no one has really captured a "wild man" so far. Where are the "savages"? Was it the sound of the cannon in the 60s of the last century that frightened their souls? Or did the sound of the 70s ruin their peace? Or was it the 80's over-logging that destroyed their homes, or the 90's crowd scarring them away. Now, where do they inhabit the shiver of time? They have lived on this land for centuries and centuries, and now, how long can they survive here? Standing here, looking at the vast bamboo forest, I was gloomy for a while......

Turning around from the scenery, I saw the boundless arrows and bamboos trembling in the autumn wind. In August, the arrows and bamboo poles have begun to turn yellow. The arrow bamboo poles with a thickness of only 1 cm and a height of no more than 1.5 meters are all oily yellow-red, and they are close to each other, and there is a tendency that the needles cannot penetrate and the water cannot be splashed into the copper wall. Tens of millions of acres of arrows and bamboos are lined up in thousands of phalanxes, as majestic as a barracks!

It is said that it was home to giant pandas a long time ago. But I don't know when and for what reason, the giant pandas all disappeared from here......

It is said that arrow bamboo is an excellent material for papermaking, and many people have suggested scientific development for papermaking. If it is really to be developed, what will happen to the golden snub-nosed monkeys, "wild people" who have lived here for generations, and the giant pandas that migrate back in the future?

"At the beginning of the day was just a cloud of gas, a chaos, filled with darkness. At first, there was no water, but after the efforts of many generations of gods, a man named "Jianggu" appeared to create water.

At that time, the heavens sprouted, and a drop of dew grew, but the drop of dew was swallowed up by a god named "The Prodigal." The "prodigal" died after swallowing the dew drops in one gulp, and his body was split into five pieces. Since then, there have been the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and there have been entities on the earth, oceans, and Kunlun Mountain.

Kunlun Mountain spits blood and gives birth to Pangu. Pangu invited the sun and the moon to open up the world, and finally Pangu was incarnated when he was dying, and his torso turned into everything on the earth: Wuyue Mountains, the sun, moon and stars, rivers, lakes and seas, grass, trees and forests, etc.

After Pangu died, the gold, stones, plants, birds, and beasts on the earth turned into various gods, and there were no real human beings at that time. The gods fought with each other and made a noise until the flood overwhelmed sin.

In the flood, there was a fight between the Yellow Dragon and the Black Dragon, and a god named Our Lady of Wu Tian came and helped the Yellow Dragon defeat the Black Dragon. Huanglong laid eggs and thanked each other. Our Lady of Wu Tian swallowed the dragon egg and gave birth to three gods: one Lord Heaven, one Lord Earth, and one Lord Hades.

In the flood, five dragons floated in the East China Sea with a large gourd. Our Lady opened the gourd and saw that there was a brother and sister Fuxi and Nuwa inside, so she persuaded them to get married, and then gave birth to the gods who created the world, and it was only then that flesh and blood human beings were born. ”

I silently recited in my heart the synopsis of the Han nation's only creation epic, "The Legend of Darkness", people, do you really have to have another flood to wash away your sins?

At this moment, the green mountains on all sides of Shennongjia look even more reckless and blue in the night, and it is so dark that there is no end...

After setting up camp in Shennongya, we revisited our previous expedition. We've been exploring caves that we've walked through, and of course we won't find anything. This time we are going to explore the thousands of peaks and ravines under the cliff of Shennongya, which no one has ever walked on, and we don't have to worry about the two guides, because they are all helpers invited by my business partners, so they will not stop us from going down to the cliff.

On the other hand, I insisted earlier that I pay all their wages these days, and if they take my money, can they not listen to me? Especially when they learned that I was the big boss who bought their mountain goods behind the scenes, they already called me "boss" and began to explore the possibility of delivering goods directly to me in the future. When they heard that we were going down into the ravine, they could only be encouraged that I could use them. In the way they looked at me, I could already see countless renminbi flying.

After several days of non-stop laying of the climbing ropes, we have carved a way down into the ravine. Today we will all move to camp in the ravine. Somehow, a whispered voice began in my heart again: "It's time, are you ready?" ”

I turned back to my companions who were about to follow me down the cliff and said, 'Have you informed your family of this expedition?' ‘

After receiving an affirmative answer, in order not to scare the two mountain people, I tried to say in a joking tone: "Have you made a will?" ”

The answer I got was a kick in the face......

Descending the mountain, I turned and walked to the bottom of the cliff. When we first planted the climbing ropes, we traveled lightly, but this time we went down the cliff with equipment on our backs. In order to make sure that the rope could bear the weight of the six of us and our guides, we decided to keep the distance between the groups as much as possible, so that everyone was not on the same rope. Only one person is allowed to move at a time, and the rest remain stationary, and so on.

Slowly we approached the valley, and then the fog started, and I thought that this might be the cause of our accident. The fog was so thick that it gradually swallowed up our figures, and even two people next to each other could not see each other. Maybe I was afraid of falling behind, but everyone got closer and closer, and finally something happened when I stepped on the air.

Afterwards, we recalled the scene countless times, but everyone has different opinions about the scene at that time, but everyone has the same opinion: I stepped on the mouth of a cave that had been buried for thousands of years, and six people tied to a rope fell into the cave, and Da Chen, who finally came in, was stuck at the entrance of the cave because the food bag he was carrying was too large, and then he was buried by the collapsed earth and rock. The five of us fell into a dark tunnel, smooth and seemingly dry for thousands of years. We glided uncontrollably through the tunnel, eventually falling into a six-pointed star-shaped clearing, and after experiencing tearing pain, we fainted.

As for the hole, I think it will disappear for another thousand years under the gravel......