Chapter 417: Dispatch
In this extremely remote Bashu County, the clouds are thick, and the torrential rain has rained for several days, which has changed the simplicity and prosperity of the past.
The streets were covered with dark clouds that were flooding, as if some terrible natural disaster was brewing.
I couldn't help but stand on the balcony and smoke quietly, the money on my body in the past two days has been almost spent, if these second batch of people in black don't move.
I might really be going to sleep on the street.
The words that the old man had told me in the upstairs apartment still echoed in my mind, "A taboo is a taboo, don't touch it." ”
I took two puffs of the cigarette in my hand, and in order to monitor this group of men in black for the past two days, I have not slept well until I am a little sleepy on the windowsill.
Heavy rain has been sweeping away the houses for several days, but the weather is still a little sunny today.
Just then, the first plainly dressed man walked out of the hotel, followed by the second and third.
They were carrying a black umbrella in their hands and a huge travel package on their backs, and their eyes couldn't help but look around left and right, as if they were observing something.
I was refreshed all of a sudden, I didn't expect them to finally set off after waiting so long.
This was the first time I had seen these men in black come out in large numbers, and they were not yet masked on their faces, and I could see the faces and appearances of each of them clearly through the window.
Seeing this, I hurriedly got up and dressed, and stuffed the pile of equipment under the bed into a huge travel bag and carried it out of the apartment.
The roads on the side of the street are muddy and covered with sewage.
And if you want to go into the mountains through the county seat to find the relics of the ancient kingdom of Yoro, there is only one dirt road.
What I didn't expect was that they actually climbed over the steep rock wall by climbing on the side of the muddy dirt road.
This can greatly shorten the distance, but it is also very prone to various accidents and injuries.
I followed them not far behind, and I didn't expect that this team of fifty or sixty people would choose to climb the rock along the rock formation.
In desperation, I had to follow the dirt road, which was muddy and slippery, and the old injuries on my body recurred, but I still carried them hard.
Until night finally fell, I finally arrived in the mountains and forests before dark, which was still a long way from the real deep mountains of Bashu.
However, there are still many ancient towering trees, which are covered by dark clouds, giving people an invisible sense of oppression.
Through the footprints on the ground, I could almost guess that the second group of men in black had also passed through the over-the-top path and ran ahead of me.
However, this also has many advantages, that is, you can avoid getting lost in the mountains and forests, but you don't dare to fall too far behind.
The mountains here resemble a depression, and the soil still hides traces of rubble from time to time.
The night was unusually cold, and I couldn't help but shiver a little as I hid in my tent, and even this shelter was originally obtained by myself in the market through low-cost second-hand purchases.
I couldn't help but recall what the old man had said about getting lost with the expedition, but I didn't know how far it was from the ruins he had spoken.
I slept very cold and long that night, until I woke up and was completely stunned.
Because there was another rainstorm in the mountains and forests last night, which washed away all the footprints of the original man in black.
This will undoubtedly add insult to injury, and it will hit me hard.
And to make matters worse, the dirt road from which I came before had been completely covered by the collapse of the steep rock walls on both sides, and now there is no way back.
I was in a dilemma as I looked at the lush mountains and forests in front of me with my travel bag, but I didn't expect that something seemed to be shining under the hillside in front of me, which instantly caught my attention.
Seeing this, he hurriedly ran over, but he fell because of the muddy soil under his feet, and he couldn't resist the trend at all, and rolled down with the fallen leaves and the backpack on his body.
The wounds all over my body ached, and I gritted my teeth and struggled to stand up, my palms groping on the ground with nowhere to support.
Suddenly, I came across something very cold, with several holes and a row of artifacts resembling mandibles and teeth.
I froze in place, chuckling in my heart, and little by little pulled the things I touched in my hand out of the pile of fallen leaves.
What caught her eye was a skeleton, and she was dressed in modern clothes, and the metal buttons on her clothes were still shining.
The light I had seen on the hillside earlier was clearly the light reflected by the metal clasps on the corpse.
Approaching such a decaying corpse sent chills down my spine.
He hurriedly got up, but he didn't expect that there were such corpses everywhere around, and some of them had men and women whose cotton clothes had been corroded and tattered.
Eventually, I found seven of these skeletons in a ravine down the hillside, and by the adornment of their clothes and age.
I can't help but think back to the memories that the old man had told me when I was in the apartment.
If nothing else, these bodies are apparently left behind by the original expedition.
Nearly seven or eight people died on the first night of the expedition, and all the rest were missing, except for the old man, who had a disagreement with the rest of the group, survived.
I kept thinking back to what the old man had said, saying that they had already arrived at the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Yoro, and that they had found half a stone tablet in the soil.
But why are there no ancient remains or ruins in front of me, only the bodies of these seven people are buried in the soil.
Not to mention the eerie stone tablet engraved with inscriptions.
This is obviously a mysterious mystery, and I can't help but wonder about the old man's words.
But what happened next made me feel more and more creepy.
Just as I was about to leave the place after clearing the clues in the ravine, the dense mountains and forests around me gave me the illusion that I was lost.
There were yellow leaves and branches everywhere, and I could barely tell the direction I had accidentally rolled into the ravine.
It wasn't until I realized I was lost that I began a frenzied attempt to save myself, first carving marks with a knife in the woods and then tying strips of cloth to the branches.
But no matter how much he escapes from here, after wandering for a long time, he will eventually return to his position in the ravine.
It was like a huge labyrinth of woods, and I was completely disoriented in it, and I couldn't even see the north, south, west, and north.
Until the night of the second day of breaking into the mountains, I couldn't help but raise a fire in the ravine, and the scorching bonfire temporarily resisted some of the cold wind.
The seven bodies were quietly laid out not far from the tent.
At first, I still wanted to bury the dead with a folding shovel, but when I was left alone to do this, I definitely didn't have the strength to do it.