Chapter 20: The Garden of Eden on the Mountaintop
The grass in the distance shook for a moment, and the figure of an "animal" flashed, and quickly everything returned to calm.
Yu Songyuan and Liu Guodong glanced at each other, "Shisharma, all lie down and hide!" Yu Songyuan said, and he and Liu Guodong outflanked the grass from both sides. Hay is chest-deep, and if a person hides in the grass, he will not be able to detect it at all. The two walked to the bushes where they had just found their target, but the target was gone.
Although the target was gone, a hidden defense device left by the man still exposed him. With the help of the shrubs underground, he made a trigger bow and arrow, and the technique was so professional that it was impossible to see it without looking closely.
Liu Guodong looked around and carefully dismantled the device.
Although the marks on the snow are not shoe prints, it is still clearly distinguishable that it is a person's footprint. The small landlord sniffed on the snow and wanted to chase it, but was stopped by Yu Songyuan.
"Who could it be?"
Liu Guodong was puzzled, on this alpine meadow, it has entered the winter mountain closure season, and it is inaccessible, will there be hunters who can't go into the mountains to hunt in winter?
"It won't be a hunter, but it doesn't look like a threat. If my judgment is correct, it should be a person from Yamashita, who ran here to hide in order to avoid the war. ”
Yu Song looked around from afar, such a large area, artemisia grass, thatch, dwarf cypress trees connected into patches of shrubs, to find the people hiding in it, how difficult it is to find the people hiding in it. But now that his whereabouts have been exposed, he must be found. He made a gesture, separated fifty or sixty meters from Liu Guodong and the two, and began to search.
The small landlord led the way, and the three of them circled around the alpine glacial lake in two or three large circles in the meadow, but there was no trace. The animals in the meadows, especially various alpine sheep, argali, rock sheep, etc., are divided into several groups, and there are hundreds of them, and they are driven to run around. The two mountain turkeys were startled away, and their cooing sounds were crisp and pleasant.
This is really a paradise for animals, in addition to sheep, there are plateau marmots, rabbits, pheasants, mice, etc., a few turns, the only thing that did not see the shadow of the plateau snow wolf and snow leopard. According to the information they had read when they were in Xiao Garden, there should be a small number of brown bears, snow leopards and plateau snow wolves in the plateau snow mountain meadows. Brown bears hibernate, why are snow leopards and highland snow wolves missing?
There are too many sheep of all kinds here, and they are not afraid of people. If there are no natural enemies, wouldn't it be a disaster?
To the edge of the meadow, Yu Songyuan suddenly found a sheepskin spread on the hill, walked over to look, and couldn't help but wonder, there were two or three ewes in the lactation period, tied to the trunk of the small cypress tree into a sheepfold, a few lambs were only drinking milk.
Yu Songyuan understood that the life of this dog day was nourishing, and it was to eat the milk of the mother sheep with the little sheep.
These three sheep mothers are well-trained, and when they saw Yu Songyuan coming over, they either held their heads high and did not move, or they fed as if no one was around, or they were concentrating on chewing the forage, which was waiting for Yu Songyuan to go and eat their milk. If you look closely, the three sheep turned out to be a goat, an argali, and a rock goat.
The shrubs here are both creeping juniper and Mongolian oak, both deciduous trees. The forest is at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and it has long since come to an abrupt end. Unfortunately, the magnificent scenery and geographical wonders of the forest and snow line are impossible to see here. Because the plateau is too high, and it is the southern slope of the Hindu Kush Mountains, the snow line is high. Forests are only found on the edge of the plateau, and further up, there is only the snow line.
Between the bushes and the low trees, at intervals, there are some defenses. For example, a set of rope made of fine rattan bark is a set of wild beasts. A hidden bow made of rattan is one well-concealed trap after another. These defenses only exist in this area, could it be that this is the lair?
At the edge of the meadow is a big mountain, behind a cluster of oak trees, and if you look closely, you will find a very strange and hidden small cave.
On the edge of the cave are wolf skins and sheepskins that have not yet been dried, and a large pile of animal bones is piled up like a small mountain, showing how precious and luxurious this person's living conditions are.
The entrance to the cave is small and hidden. Yu Songyuan went in and took a look, there were embers in the cave, and there was temperature. A rack for grilling food and place it aside. Not far away, covered with sheepskin and a leopard skin, it became a very warm and atmospheric bunk. On the wall of the cave, there hung a self-made bow, and the string was actually twisted from wolf skin. Inside a bag made of animal skins were twenty or thirty arrows.
In the middle of the cave, there are some mutton and wolf meat that are quickly sealed and dried. Next to the couch is a hill of neatly stacked animal skins. What is shocking is that there are nearly a hundred thick dried sheepskins, thirty or forty dried wolf skins, one snow leopard skin, more than a dozen marmot skins, and more than a dozen rabbit skins, all rolled together.
How many years does this thing have to be eaten by one person to eat so many beasts!
Yu Songyuan sighed very much, and he also understood that here and the meadow below were not without wolves and snow leopards. Rather, the wolf and the snow leopard had been driven away or eaten by the man, and both meadows became the man's private domain.
On the other side of the bed, there is a large stone trough, two or three square large. It was filled with dried red fruits that looked like walnuts, all shaped like walnuts. Yu Songyuan picked one up, crushed it and took out the nuts, put it in his mouth and ate it, it was salty, fragrant, the taste was excellent, and the taste was great. This is clearly a wild walnut, which is extremely salty and sugary.
Liu Guodong also walked in, and after watching the big music, the two couldn't help it, and looked at each other and laughed.
"This dog day really chooses a place, it's really a paradise. On the top of this big mountain, there will definitely be no shortage of meadows and alpine glacial lakes like this, and one person will not starve to death. Eating mutton, wolf meat, fish, wild fruits, and drinking fresh goat's milk, the small life is quite refreshing. However, since he can kill wolves and leopards with a bow, this man is not simple, and he is certainly not an ordinary hunter. Liu Guodong judged.
"Your judgment?"
"Router, very powerful router! He must have been driven to the mountain, and had to fall into the grass, or maybe he stayed down after being wounded. There is a war under the mountain, and people die every day. There is meat to eat, milk to drink, wild fruits to eat, and there is no war, so this dog's day will simply not leave. ”
"In that case, let's not bother him."
Yu Songyuan said, doing his best to take a large roll of dried animal skins. Liu Guodong took out a large piece of plastic canvas from his backpack and wrapped a large bag of wild walnuts into the backpack. And also took a large ball of animal skins, the two walked out of the cave, returned to the hidden place of the "Plateau Wolf Squad", distributed the animal skins to everyone to carry, and continued to walk towards the snow line of the Great Snow Mountain.
When the little landlord saw that Yu Songyuan had given up the pursuit, he was very unhappy, and hummed a few times in his throat in protest. Seeing that Yu Songyuan ignored its anger, he walked to Liu Guodong's side and ignored Yu Songyuan.
In the distance, several highland goats and rock goats are foraging in the snowflakes. The little landlord turned a blind eye, jumped on Liu Guodong's equipment bag, and fell asleep while marching.
"Puppy day, this will sleep on the boss, why do you always let me hunch?!"
Liu Guodong scolded while reaching out to the back of his neck and touching its head to show condolences. On the other hand, he also beat three wild sheep with crossbow guns, and let the team members carry them on their backs to fill the night's rations.
The further you go in, the higher the mountain, the heavier the wind and snow, and the lower the temperature. By the time the Kunar River was crossed, the temperature was only a few degrees below zero. On the top of the high mountain, the temperature has dropped sharply to more than ten degrees below zero, which is frightening. In the evening of the same day, they crossed an icy Osaka, and then managed to find a slightly larger cave and camp temporarily.
At night, Yu Songyuan and Liu Guodong really felt the danger. There is already a small detachment, tracking up the mountain. But they all have feelings, and it's not like Spetsnaz. Both of them are thinking in their hearts, unrelenting, and entangled, which force will this tracker be? Is there any end to it?
The next day, they hurried to march. The "tail" in the back has been following far behind. They had no choice but to continue walking up the mountain, only to climb a snow-capped mountain more than 4,500 meters high at noon three days later.
Before walking out of the alpine meadow, Yu Songyuan ordered each person to fold a large bundle of dry branches on their backs and use them as firewood after going up the mountain.
It is located dozens of kilometers away from the Kunar Valley, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountain range. It is also an extremely cold area, and it is difficult for the team to reach it in the snowy mountains. Liu Guodong said, "Boss, you can find a campsite, it is relatively safe, easy to defend and difficult to attack." ”
Yu Song took a look from afar, and a little further up here, there was a thousand-year-old snow-capped mountain more than 6,000 meters high. The snowy peaks form one with the heavy dark clouds. It's a veritable off-limits zone, and Spatesnaz would never have thought they'd hide here. A little further down is the alpine meadows with abundant food. You can attack, you can retreat, and it's easy to escape to the mountains, so it's best to hide here.
"Find the right cave, we'll hide here." He gave instructions to Liu Guodong.
There are many caves here, and under a large cliff, on the back of a huge rock, Liu Guodong found a deep hole. Entering the cave, the players were very happy. The cave is very hidden, with an area of 100 square meters. What's particularly amazing is that inside the big hole, there is also a small hole. It was snowing heavily outside, but it was dry inside, which made the team very excited.
Everyone entered the big hole, and there was a slightly smaller hole at the bottom of the big hole, and after a big bend was turned, the space in the small hole was quite large. But one of the team members who first entered the depths of the cave suddenly screamed in panic, accompanied by the low roar of the big animal, and the sound of violent tearing. The others were so frightened that they fled for their lives amid the screams of the team members.
It turned out that this Nima was a bear cave, a plateau brown bear of the Mountain People Islamic Republic, hibernating.