Chapter 11: The Shadow of the Light
Strange to say, I didn't see anyone else until we left the village and went up the mountain. The people in the village seem to have left, and I don't know if they went to the excavation site.
Originally, Boss Ye also proposed to go to the excavation site to have a look, but when we were at the foot of the mountain, we didn't know how to go, so we had to move slowly up the mountain.
When we went up the hill and went to see the excavation site, we found that there were several large plastic sheds set up there. These plastic sheds were so tightly packed that they surrounded the excavation site, and there was no way to see what was going on inside.
Boss Ye and I didn't want to startle the snake, so we rushed into the excavation site and simply left here.
After that, I was familiar with the road conditions, and after returning to the village all the way, Boss Ye and I were a little full of pace.
At this point, I don't know I've overlooked one thing. It wasn't until I heard Boss Ye mutter, "I'm hungry", that I suddenly reacted. Looking at the time, it was less than half an hour before the sun set.
In the spirit of fearing the ghost gate after sunset, I urged Boss Ye to speed up his pace. Finally, I arrived at the Ghost Gate Pass just before sunset.
Unlike the mess outside the Ghost Gate, the inside of the Ghost Gate Pass still maintains its original appearance. I was relieved to see this. Presumably, those people saw that this place was located on flat ground, so they simply had no intention of building and reinforcing here.
It's good to do that, at least the cave won't be discovered by them.
However, I still thought wrong......
After seeing the roadside of the hillside full of tools used to strengthen the torrent, I still dismissed the idea that the cave had not been discovered.
At this time, the sun has set, and the temperature difference caused by the drop in temperature causes the mountain fog to rise again. Moreover, the mountain fog was obviously much more ferocious than before, and after a few more steps, I could no longer see the road.
I had no choice but to light the lantern given by Miss Jiang and hold it in front of me, so that I could see it a little more clearly.
After walking for a short while, Boss Ye suddenly stopped me inexplicably: "Wait......"
I was puzzled, and turned my head to give him a puzzled look, only to see Boss Ye blinking, rubbing his eyes while looking ahead.
"Maybe I'm wrong, you keep walking." Boss Ye said embarrassedly.
After hitting the road again, I deliberately slowed down my pace and asked Boss Ye in a low voice, "What did you just see?" ”
"It's nothing, I just feel like there are a few figures in front of me."
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. I felt a chill on my back. Moreover, when Boss Ye said this, I felt that a shadowy figure appeared in front of my eyes.
Seeing that I was hallucinating, I quickly blinked my eyes. When I looked back at the front again, the figure was gone.
I breathed a sigh of relief, comforting myself that I was hallucinating. Clinker, after walking for a while, a figure appeared in front of him again, this time the figure was not as visible as before, but became clearer and clearer.
I blinked my eyes repeatedly, understanding that this time it was really not an illusion, so I hurriedly pulled Boss Ye, pointed to the front and said, "Boss Ye, Boss Ye, have you seen it, the figure in front of you!" ”
"I saw it clearly, and I just wanted to tell you...... But did you notice, those figures seem to have been ahead of us all along. It stands to reason that they must have noticed that we have such a big lantern here, but why do we keep seeing their shadows? ”
Hearing what Boss Ye said, I calmed down a little: "Is it a mirage?" ”
But as soon as these words came out, I regretted it a little, this is not a desert, and it is night, what kind of mirage is it?
"You put out the lantern and take a look." Boss Ye touched me with his elbow.
I said "uh-huh" twice, and as Boss Ye said, I extinguished the lantern.
When the lantern was extinguished, darkness returned to the surroundings. Now, not to mention the figure in front of me, I can't even see my own hand clearly.
Just as I was hesitating whether to relight the lantern, Boss Ye spoke again: "Don't order it yet, let's go over and have a look." Then he pulled me forward.
When the two of us walked to the place where we had seen the figure before, Boss Ye asked me to stop again.
"Don't light the lantern, I'll take another look." Boss Ye said as he took out a lighter from his arms. After playing, he bent down and looked at the ground.
"How so?" Boss Ye muttered, held the lighter, and looked around again.
"How? Did you find anything? "I touched him, and it happened that a mountain wind blew, and I shivered. And the flame of Boss Ye's lighter also swayed in the wind until it was extinguished......
The mountain wind blew for a long time, and it blew so hard that Boss Ye and I shrank together. After the mountain wind passed, with a "click", Boss Ye's lighter ignited again.
Out of nowhere, he pulled out a cigarette, stuffed one in his mouth, took a puff, and said, "You can light the lantern." That, I'll just say it, first, there are no footprints here, and there's no movement around, right? ”
While he was talking, I lit the lantern again, and the light around me was restored.
"yes, there's no movement." I complied and lifted the lantern. Subconsciously glanced at the front of the lantern again, and there was no figure......
"I've seen this introduction in a book, about lanterns. It is said that there was such a lantern in ancient times, called, Tai Sui Lamp, as the name suggests, he was made of Tai Sui skin, in a place where the yin qi is extremely heavy, it can form what the lamp maker wants to see in his heart, and it is a truthful restoration of the scene that happened here before. ”
Boss Ye said, and looked up at me: "Think about it, what did you think about along the way?"
Hearing this, I reminisced for a moment and said, "Thinking about what happened here before, just what my grandfather did here." "Indeed, ever since I first came in, I've been guessing in my mind about what my grandfather had done here. If anything, I guessed what the expeditions were doing here. I also told the truth about what I guessed later.
After hearing this, Boss Ye nodded: "Then I know, those figures are either your grandfather's shadows, or those expeditions." ”
Grandpa's shadow? Or the shadow of the expedition? So, what we just saw is similar to the footage they walked through here before? I pondered, and turned my head again to look ahead of the lantern. Unexpectedly, those figures appeared again!
I was about to say when I found that Boss Ye was also staring at those figures intently.
"What's on your mind right now?" He asked about me.
"Expedition, it's an expedition." When I said it for sure, I suddenly noticed that there was some movement in the figures. The image of the person is running in a certain direction, waving his arms.
"Let's take a look!"
Boss Ye pushed me......