Chapter 1: Lost
In the morning, Xu Zhengze woke up in a daze in the sound of gurgling water, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the blue and white sky, and at noon, the warm sun sprinkled overhead and shone into the valley, which was a good weather. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After waking up for a while, he was a little sluggish, but he wasn't stupid, and he reacted as soon as he woke up, I slept in my room last night! Could it be that the people in the small temple threw themselves out in the middle of the night? Damn, it's winter, Xu Zhengze scolded.
Staggered up, trying to find the owner of the temple and said, but after looking around a few times, he only felt like a hell, where is there a temple. At the mouth of the valley, on the high slope, there is nothing.
Obviously at the foot of the mountain, yesterday Saturday, I ran to the reservoir at the foot of the mountain to play, and at night I found a place to spend the night at the foot of the mountain, and spent 50 yuan. Xu Zhengze, who was a little confused, turned around, looking for a familiar imprint.
That's right, that's right, it's that valley! The lake surnamed Wu in the distance can also be seen clearly!
But, how?
Xu Zhengze looked up, and the valley should be a reservoir. Standing at the foot of the mountain, the barrage dozens of meters high hates to be conspicuous. But where are the traces of reinforced concrete dams now? Not far away, a pebble-ridden stream flowed happily, and the reservoir had been built, but the stream was cut off.
At the foot of the mountain, there should be a group of villas built in the past two years, scattered at the foot of the mountain. But where are they now? Since the lake surnamed Wu can be seen in the distance, there is no reason why the villas in front of you can't see it?
What made Xu Zhengze even more panicked was that the city at the foot of the mountain was gone. Originally, this should be a row of small high-rise buildings, horizontal and vertical like a chessboard asphalt road, standing on the hill, you can see the crawling vehicles like ants, now there are only a few small villages, where is this?
Xu Zhengze was at a loss, and when he encountered strange things that could not be explained, he was inevitably frightened and cranky. Otherwise, he was afraid that he would collapse. Through? It can't be, who has ever seen that thing. Alien? Have it? Demons? Xu Zhengze himself felt a little nonsensical. It's more likely that you've met the bad guys, right? It must be like this, he fucked me and threw me to a remote place. Aren't valleys and small lakes very common, China is so big, there is no place.
It's just that I don't seem to be missing anything, oh, why did I forget my phone? But when I took it out, there was no signal at all. What the hell is this place? Not even a signal.
Suppressing the ominous thoughts in his heart, Xu Zhengze wrapped up the down jacket on his body, put on a small backpack, and strode down, in the early winter, it was cold.
From the foot of the mountain, there is an obvious downhill, the plain area under the mountain, as far as the eye can see, there are a few small villages, Xu Zhengze decided to go over to take a look, found the crowd, and naturally asked for help.
The foot of the mountain is full of gravel and sand, and the land is barren, and there are not many people living in this kind of place, but this is not the case with the plains below. This is a large basin in the south of Shanxi Province, the terrain is flat, the land is also fertile, and it is an important commercial grain base of the country, but why is it sparsely populated?
Even if it was carried by aliens and flew far away, the plain at the foot of the mountain, or maybe the basin, should be densely populated, village after village. The flat land at the foot of the mountain is obviously not a desert, so it is natural that such a bleak scene is not right.
Xu Zhengze didn't know that something was wrong in the back.
The downhill road was fast, Xu Zhengze was also strong, he spent more than half an hour, crossed five or six miles of rotten dirt roads, and finally approached the nearest village about a mile away, and then he hesitated and did not dare to approach again.
The distance of about a mile was enough for him to see clearly. The houses in the distance showed strange shapes, ugly and simple, Xu Zhengze could see clearly, it was the earthy yellow walls.
Wall? Xu Zhengze's family is in the countryside and he grew up working in the county, but he only saw earthen walls when he was a child. Nowadays, the village mostly uses red brick houses and cement on the outside. The blue-gray concrete walls do not match the earthy yellow rammed earth walls at all.
Did you run to a primitive society? Why are they all earthen walls?
Xu Zhengze, who was chilling in his heart, sneakily looked around a few times, but there was no one, and then he ran into the dead grass on the side of the road, hiding there like a thief, and his heart was pounding.
The whole world seems to be left alone, the sun is still going west, the wind is still blowing, but there is still no breath of life. His forehead was covered with dense white hair, half a day passed, Xu Zhengze walked out cautiously, the sun set early in winter, and it was very cold at night in the wild, and he didn't want to be frozen to death at night, he had to enter the village.
After looking for a long time on the side of the road, he took a wooden stick more than two meters long, and his courage suddenly strengthened a little, and Xu Zhengze walked briskly to the village again.
As he got closer, Xu Zheng could clearly see the yellowed rammed earth wall, with dead grass swaying in the wind. The thatched roof that he had never seen before, and the simple wooden gate, at this moment, he couldn't hear any movement in the village, no dogs barked, and no fireworks, it was as quiet as a ghost, but he just saw that there were wheat seedlings planted in the ground, where did everyone go?
Through the low and mottled rammed earth walls and the tattered wooden gates, Xu Zheng carefully and curiously probed his brain, he wanted to find someone, but he did not dare to enter other people's houses, for fear of being beaten.
The village is not big, there are probably about 100 households, Xu Zhengze walked through the dirt alley, and no one found it, he was hairy in his heart, but it was not a "ghost town".
He changed a few alleys, carefully probed his brain, and still found nothing, even if he went down, the village went around, and Xu Zhengze, who couldn't help it anymore, shouted blankly: "Is there anyone?" ”
"Anyone?" Only the distant wall reflected his voice back as an answer.
Xu Zhengze felt that he might have to take a look in a certain courtyard, but after thinking about it, he couldn't help but dare not move, he was afraid that there were people inside who would beat him. Of course, if there was no living person inside, he would be even more afraid, under the fierce exchange of ideas, he started several times and raised his hand, but after all, he did not dare to push open the thin wooden gate.
Xu Zhengze, who was unwilling, decided to shout around the village again, and if there was no response after shouting, then he could only find a random room to enter.
In the end, when walking around the village for the second time, at a certain moment, Xu Zhengze suddenly felt that there was someone behind him, turned around, and suddenly saw the two of them, and screamed, which startled the two people who followed quietly, and subconsciously put the wooden stick in front of him.
These two guys, who were thin, short and thin, and couldn't tell whether they were men or women, originally wanted to sneak attack Xu Zhengze from behind, but Xu Zhengze, who was worried, was lucky to find them early. Then the three of them stared at each other in a confrontation.
In the end, Xu Zhengze decided to speak first, straightened his frightened arched back, held the long wooden stick in his hand, coughed unnaturally, and asked in the most standard Mandarin he could speak: "Cough, excuse me, this, ah, here, where is it?" ”
The two of them didn't speak, and they didn't even react, and Xu Zhengze's cheeks twitched. Although these two people look like they came out of the ground, they must be yellow people.
Could it be the Japanese? North Korean? Or someone else? I have been learning English for ten years, and now I remember a few words of Goodmanning. In Japanese, I only know Yaga and Missy, Oku, and Ya Butterfly. Korean, I'm Cao, I'm sure I can't do anything except Kangkang Smecta.
How can this be communicated?
The communication was not smooth, Xu Zhengze saw that the clothes of several people were also very rough, probably homespun cloth, very tattered, barely covering the body, and the hair was also very long, is it a woman?
In short, it looks very strange and unsettling.
At this moment, Xu Zhengze found that there were two more people behind him, and this was to outflank him.
Unfamiliar with life, and surrounded by people, Xu Zhengze was frightened, but fortunately, he was physically strong, tall and long-legged, and when he saw that it was wrong, he roared loudly, and subconsciously rushed forward.
The two people in front of them were caught off guard, and they only subconsciously blocked it with the hoe stick in their hands, and they were directly pushed down by Xu Zhengze, who was one head taller, and ran away.
The strange little village, the strange residents, the strange atmosphere, the dress, and the strange hostility, Xu Zhengze is really afraid that these people will catch him, and he doesn't know how to toss.
More and more people ran out, joined the ranks of encirclement and interception, and ran out all the way, and met a dozen or so people, all skinny and bone-covered, described as withered, and the force of these people was not as deterrent as their terrible description. Along the way, he encountered someone who wanted to come over to block him, so he took advantage of his height and long legs and easily threw himself away. There were a few times when he was blocked, and in a hurry, he was ruthless, and directly pushed the person aside, feeling like pushing a small cardboard box, the person flew out lightly, and once knocked down a person with a wooden stick.
In the face of danger, Xu Zhengze was like a rabbit, running and fighting all the way, and in a moment he had already run out of the village and into the wilderness, he turned to look at the village, and didn't want to leave.
Now that winter has just begun, the weather is cold, and the outside of the house is still freezing. Look at the sun, it is already forty-five degrees to the west, and it will be dark early, and it will be dark in an hour or two. So he really didn't want to run, and the situation in other places was not clear, this village was very good, there shouldn't be many people, and those people shouldn't be able to beat him, living here, the safety is more guaranteed.
Xu Zhengze, who made up his mind to find a house to rest, carried his wooden stick and went back, walked to the intersection, and saw a few cowering people, Xu Zhengze was not afraid of them, walked over and asked loudly: "Fellow, I'm lost, please make it convenient for me to rest here for one night." ”
There was no response, those people looked at him with a wary expression, as if they were facing a great enemy, Xu Zhengze was unwilling, and shouted twice, but there was still no response. The depressed Xu Zhengze didn't bother to say more, anyway, he couldn't sleep in the wilderness. Then he cried out, "Since you don't speak, then I will assume that you have agreed." ”
Xu Zhengze carried a wooden stick and walked towards the village in a majestic manner, anyway, there are so few people, there must be a vacant house, and besides, these people together can't beat themselves, I really don't understand, there is still such a poor place in the country, that is on the face, on the hands, only skin and bones are left, he can't describe it, it's just that it's scary to look at!
"Don't come in......"
Xu Zhengze heard it right, the people here are indeed speaking Chinese: "It turns out that you can speak Chinese."