Chapter 9: Changes in the Mountains
After taking out these necessary equipment, Han Du looked at his phone again, and the time was already 1:53 a.m.
At this time, he felt a little hungry and realized that he had not eaten in the evening.
Sitting on the ground, he turned out some food from his military backpack and piled it in front of him, including wafer biscuits, pickled pepper phoenix feet, crispy noodles, cola, and of course, spicy noodles that rushed out of the country and went to the world.
He first ate a pack of spicy strips three times and five divided by two, and then opened a pack of pickled pepper phoenix feet and chewed it, halfway through the chew, he felt so spicy that his forehead sweated, so he quickly opened the coke and drank half a bottle of coke.
Refreshing!
After such a overeating, Han Du hiccuped, and there was only this word in his mind.
Next, Han Du ate the wafer biscuits and crispy noodles again, and the remaining half bottle of Coke was also drunk by him, and the whole process was extremely fast, like a whirlwind cloud.
It seemed that he was really hungry, and the consumption earlier tonight was not ordinarily large, so he was even more determined to eat more food.
When he continued to rummage in the military backpack to see if he could find another pack of pickled pepper phoenix feet or spicy strips, the system's voice sounded in his head: "Two o'clock in the middle of the night has arrived, the mission of the Barren Mountain Ancient Temple has officially begun, please enter Huangming Mountain immediately!" ”
Han Du didn't dare to delay, immediately gave up looking for food, inserted the double-barreled shotgun into the long pocket on the side of the backpack, and then picked up the still bulging military backpack, and rushed into Huangming Mountain under the bright moonlight.
There was a forest in front of him, and as soon as he entered, he pressed the headlamp on his black steel helmet, and the trees in front of him were illuminated, and then he took out the silver-white sharp knife hanging from his waist and held it in his hand.
There are mostly pine trees on this Huangming Mountain, as well as a small number of maple trees and thorn cedars, most of which are also as thick as adult thighs, and there are thick dead branches and rotten leaves on the ground.
Han Du stepped on the ground, soft and floppy, and with the help of the bright light of his headlamp, he chopped the thorns that blocked his progress while paying attention to the movement in the darkness around him.
During this period, he kept hearing the knocking sound of "dong dong" coming from the dark mountains and forests nearby, and he didn't know what was going on, as well as the strange sound of rumbling and rumbling intermittently, and of course, the night wind blowing from strength to weakness, which made people feel uneasy.
Han Du didn't know much about the situation on the mountain, didn't want to think about it, and kept hurrying by himself. He chose to go up first, the ruins of the Burning Demon Temple were unlikely to be at the foot of the mountain.
According to the usual situation, a temple is either built on the mountainside or above, and may even be built on the top of the mountain, but Han Du considered that the information provided by the system said that the Burning Demon Temple was buried underground, so the temple ruins should be on the mountainside or above, and it is unlikely that it will be on the top of the mountain.
With such a general judgment, Han Du's steps up the mountain became more and more firm. Along the way, he encountered thorns in front of him and used a silver-white sharp knife to open the way, the sharp blade slashed, and those spiky plants were cut to the ground in a few strokes, plus he was also wearing long black rain boots, it was not a matter to step directly on them.
Han Du crossed the big trees with the help of headlamps along the way, and after walking for about 200 meters, he was tired and sweaty, and his clothes and pants were also wet with sweat.
After all, this is climbing the mountain, and Han Du is still carrying a huge backpack, which is still very difficult, but Han Du cherishes this experience very much, and it should be to do more grinding in the future.
He continued to climb like this, but at last he could no longer walk, so he leaned back against a large pine tree next to him to breathe a sigh of relief.
He also touched his body and took out a pack of flattened soft-packaged cigarettes from the pocket behind his buttocks, which was a pack of "Dance of Fire" for ten yuan, which belonged to the public cigarettes, and Han Du used to smoke two or three cigarettes when he used to code words, so he carried these things with him.
Han Du took out a squeezed and curved cigarette from the flattened cigarette case and lit it, and in the dark mountain forest, the faint flame on the cigarette flickered and flickered.
Han Du leaned on the big pine tree and swallowed the smoke rings, the fatigue of mountaineering was reduced a lot, and he suddenly felt that it was really a little lonely to go out to climb the mountain alone, if there were team members, it would not be boring to perform such a task in the future, and there would not be those uneasy feelings that could not be eliminated in his heart.
Thinking like this, he inhaled the cigarette in his mouth harder and harder, and before he could take a few more puffs, a strange figure suddenly jumped through the woods next to him, and suddenly drew his attention away.
He immediately became alert, now it was not at the foot of the mountain, the trees here were bigger and denser, and all kinds of dangers were increasing, so he immediately threw the cigarette that could still be smoked twice on the ground, and stepped on it with his foot to prevent the mountain fire, and then he extinguished the headlamp, inserted the sharp knife in his hand back into the holster, and then took out the double-barreled shotgun and held it in his hand, and now he was almost on the mountainside, and he could take out the shotgun for self-defense.
With the help of the moonlight, he cautiously approached the place where the dark shadow flashed next to him, and along the way, he also used the large trees as cover, hiding behind the trunks of the trees to peek at the situation in front of him for a few moments before continuing to get closer.
Finally arrived at the location where the black shadow flashed, Han Du took out the spare small flashlight in his pocket, squatted down and shone on the surrounding trees and ground, but found nothing.
When he thought that maybe he had just seen it wrong, he suddenly turned off the small flashlight, and looked at a long and big boulder opposite him with alert eyes.
With such a bouncing power, it means that it may be a dangerous animal with great strength, Han Du grabbed the shotgun in his hand and quietly approached in the dark, he hid in front of the long boulder, and the boulder was a head taller than him, enough to cover him.
He secretly looked to the outside of the long boulder, and found that behind the long boulder was a steep cliff, and there was some empty space on it, full of uneven stone faces, on which only a few plants grew.
However, Han Du was still surprised by the scene in front of him, not because of how strange this cliff was, but because on the uneven cliff stone face, there was actually a group of animals with gray fur and a pair of sharp horns, looking at the number, there were twenty or thirty of them.
Han Du's pupils flashed with surprise, this was the first time he had seen so many wild animals up close, and according to his judgment of the appearance of this group of animals, it should be a herd of wild goats. They are sturdy, the largest one, seems to be more than a meter tall, and the weight is estimated to be 200 catties, which is equivalent to a fattened pig.
In his memory, there were only sporadic wild goats around Guqing City before, and it was the first time he saw wild goats in such a herd and growing well, and he didn't know if he was the first witness.
In order to leave this precious scene, Han Du took out his mobile phone and wanted to record this scene in the night photo mode, but he suddenly changed his mind and chose to quietly record the group of wild goats, which was more vivid and vivid.
With the bright moonlight and the good video recording function of the mobile phone, he held the mobile phone horizontally in one hand, aimed the picture at the wild goat herd, and saw some goats jumping on the cliff, which was very cheerful; Some goats nibble on a few piles of weeds growing on them; Some are resting in a gentle position, but their mouths are chewing non-stop, and they don't know what they are eating.
The video time on the mobile phone moves forward second by second, and these precious images are recorded. Han Du also began to move the position of his mobile phone, recording several wild goats on the side of the cliff that did not enter the camera of the mobile phone.
A few wild goats here are the most robust, and they are estimated to be the backbone of the goat group, Han Du looked at them one by one, and felt that such animals were really the most attractive when they lived in the wild, and if they were forcibly kept in captivity, they would be much less wild.
Just as Han Du was moving his mobile phone while recording these goats, he suddenly saw a shadow emerging from the bottom of the cliff at the edge of the video screen, but it only stayed for two seconds before retracting under the cliff, which was very strange.
Han Du kept staring at the edge of the video screen, although he only saw it by accident, he felt that what came out of the cliff should be a person's head, which looked like it was sparse hair, with a withered yellow face, and was almost fifty years old.