Chapter 364: Expedition (Part II)
"I mean......" Wang Xingguo still wanted to dissuade him, but was interrupted by Xia Ruobing: "It's just a five-day trip at most, if we cooperate well......"
"I'm just worried about Dick'......" Wang Xingguo was about to say, but was interrupted again: "This is a milestone in the academic world!" Wang Xingguo! ”
Pan Di heard Wang Xingguo and Xia Ruobing arguing in a low voice, and whispered to Tchaikov: "This little lover is a little bad, not good......"
"Hah...... Compared to the fire storm of you and your wife, this is all trivial. Tchaikov grinned, in his opinion, disputes between lovers are a lubricant that strengthens feelings.
After packing up the camp, everyone moved some stones to block the entrance of the cave to protect the remains inside, the horses were familiar with the bad smell of the night, and they were more accustomed to it at this time, so they obediently asked everyone to put the supplies on horseback, everyone was ready to go, Wang Xingguo finally checked the camp and saw the broken small clay bottle next to the black stone.
This is what the high priest gave to Chen Badai! Wang Xingguo squatted down, the pottery bottle was trampled on, and most of the blood-red pills were also trampled and crushed, mixed in the black soil, Wang Xingguo saw that there were still a few complete pills scattered in the stone cracks, he picked them up and put them in the small medicine bottle of the first aid kit.
“OK! To the East! Advance! Pandey took the reins and shouted, and the horse hesitated as he looked at the ghost-faced skeletons that dotted the valley before finally stepping away.
"Poof...... Poof......" Several ghost-faced skeletons exploded, throwing bursts of gray-green smoke into the air, and in Chen Badai's eyes, these smokes turned into several ghosts, who were talking to each other and whispering, "Hey...... That hemp eagle is going to fly with the eagle......"
"Hee-hee...... He's just a shelf eagle, and no eagle ever flies high......"
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Chen Badai's head began to hurt again, he stopped, Pan Dey followed from behind him, saw him blocking the way, led the horse past him, and covered his nose: "Hey! Hurry up, it doesn't smell good! ”
Pan Dee's voice brought Chen Badai back to reality, his headache had been getting worse and worse recently, and he was taking a closer look, the smoke was slowly drifting to the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of rancidity.
Chen Badai took out the headache pills from his pocket, although he knew that these pills wouldn't last long, but now he needed something to suppress this damn headache!
Chen Badaigan swallowed two pills, and after more than ten minutes, the symptoms of the headache began to slowly ease.
It was more important to be careful to pass through the canyon full of ghost-faced skeletons, not because the road was rougher, but because if you accidentally shake, the ghost-faced skeletons would release gray-green smoke and the foul-smelling gas, and the horses became more and more uneasy, and Pandey had to choose a careful route to keep the horses as far away from the ghost-faced skeletons as possible so as not to touch them.
Under the "farewell" of the ghost-faced skeleton, the expedition team finally came to a normal place, Wang Xingguo asked everyone to rest for a while, and he went to the front to explore the way first. Pandey was already sweating profusely to control the horse, so he removed the water bladder from the horse's back, opened the stopper, and poured a few sips of raspberry wine into his throat first.
Although the raspberry wine was not as strong as the vodka, the enthusiastic General Gorg had a lot to prepare for them, and the raspberry wine's just the right amount of alcohol to quench thirst and make people feel high, Pandey felt that he was about to fall in love with this all-purpose drink.
For Tchaikov, vodka is the best choice, he unscrewed the small flask he carried with him, and took a sip beautifully, this sip of wine washed away the fatigue along the way, he raised his armpit and sniffed it, just now he accidentally stepped on a ghost-faced skeleton, and the rancid smell on his body followed all the way, Tchaikov thought about it, and poured some vodka on his clothes, which finally made people feel better.
"Hey, Wang, what's going on?" Tchaikov unscrewed the lid of the flask, picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.
"Luckily, this section is fairly flat...... Well, it looks like I saw a stone tablet......" Wang Xingguo said on the walkie-talkie.
"The stele?" Xia Ruobing grabbed the walkie-talkie.
"Ruobing, come and take a look, it should be Lu Wen!" Wang Xingguo saw a very flat stone, right next to the river, the river slightly overflowed the stone, and the characters depicted on it were incomplete, but it looked like Lu Wen.
The team rushed up, Xia Ruobing went to see the stone for the first time, it was indeed a stone tablet, but I don't know why it was lying in the water, most of the handwriting on it was blurred by the erosion of 2000, but it was still barely distinguishable.
"Look around again...... There may still be. Xia Ruobing said, in ancient times, the things that can be recorded with the stele prove that the seal carver hopes that it can be preserved forever, and the stele is also an important material for the study of ancient culture, the ancients believed that the stele is a very serious matter, and there is no room for sloppiness, so usually the records on the stele are more objective.
Wang Xingguo and others found some traces of excavation on the stone wall, and people had chiseled some stone walls flat and carved words on them, but the fire even burned the stones, and the invasion of the years in 2000, some of the characters that were finally found were incomplete.
Wang Xingguo saw Chen Badai quietly walking to the side alone, reaching out to take something out of his pocket, he leaned over: "Baredan......"
Chen Badai looked a little flustered, and wanted to hide the things in his hand, but he was still a step too late, and Wang Xingguo saw the medicine bottle in his hand.
"How long have you been taking this medicine?" Wang Xingguo asked, this headache medicine has a strong analgesic effect, in order to enhance the therapeutic effect, it is also mixed with a small amount of sleeping ingredients, and in alpine expeditions, any drug with sleeping ingredients is regarded as a safety hazard.
Usually this headache medicine is half a pill at a time, and the analgesic time lasts for 12 hours, but now this dose is no longer enough to suppress Chen Badai's headache, he took two pills this morning, but it has not been 6 hours now, and he feels that the murmur in his head is beginning to torment him again.
"Don't speak to me in a questioning tone." Chen Badai didn't want to explain too much to Wang Xingguo.
"But ......"
"You're afraid of the mountains, but I'm not afraid!" Chen Badai unscrewed the cap of the medicine bottle, poured out two pills and put them into his mouth.
Wang Xingguo's eyes widened, this was already more than twice the maximum dose! When did Chen Badai start relying on headache medicine?
Wang Xingguo remembered the small pills he picked up in the crack of the stone in the morning, if he had to take the medicine, Wang Xingguo felt that the pill was more suitable, but he just wanted to speak, Chen Badai interrupted him again: "Don't worry, I won't kill you on it." ”
Pan Dey and Sherpa helped to lift the stele out of the water, Xia Ruobing carefully checked the stele, it was a pity that those Lu Wen could not form words, or even complete words, Xia Ruobing looked at the time, and felt that there was no need to waste time for this stele, she made a mark on the map of the location of the stele, and prepared to continue to set off.
Wang Xingguo was a little hesitant, he didn't know whether to tell Xia Ruobing about Chen Badai's taking headache medicine, he felt that Xia Ruobing was now only thinking about finding the scepter and finding Loulan's secret, ignoring other risks, even if he told Xia Ruobing, he was almost certain that Xia Ruobing would move on.
Without Chen Badai's help, Wang Xingguo would not have a bottom on whether he could cross the two platforms, not because of Wang Xingguo's technical level, but because Wang Xingguo had a sense of fear of the mountains......