Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Bone Groove (2)
Among the piles of corpses, most of them were white bones. At the beginning, Tang Yi and I thought it was incredible.
Because, the snow in the depths of this snow-capped mountain does not melt all year round, and neither people nor animals should be so thoroughly corrupted.
However, the old slippery head's later words made everyone unaware.
He told us that although this mountain cliff is wild and nameless, it has only one title in the treasure industry, which is called Tibetan Bone Valley.
Because of the special terrain, both people and beasts are often confused by the surface, and if they fall off the cliff, they may not be able to fall to death, but most of the white bones piled up under the cliff are uneven, if there is no great luck, if you fall off the cliff, eight or nine times out of ten will be pierced by the bones. At that time, it is really called that the heavens should not be called the earth and the earth, but only the life and death.
We didn't have to go through this bone ditch to go to Siling Town, but our group was short of supplies, so he had to take us around here to replenish supplies.
When he said this, I was still very puzzled, but according to what he said, I went down from the side to the bottom of the cliff and saw the situation clearly, so I knew what he was thinking.
The bones in the bone ditch are indeed piled up, but looking at the surface, it is not caused by decay, but there are obvious traces of gnawing.
I think that the creatures who were initially cornered by the traps set by nature may have been seriously injured and not killed at that time, but they attracted other wild beasts in the mountains, and they were gnawed away, and finally only bare bones remained.
I don't know how many times this happened here, but over and over again, the gnawed corpses became part of the 'trap', and any subsequent fall of man or animal was pierced through the stomach by the thorns, and became the food of the rest of the beasts.
When we came down, there were still a few beasts on the mountain of bones that looked like they had just fallen. Most of them had been covered by snow, and the corpses were frozen as much as ice.
The old slippery head asked us to take a detour to this bone ditch, so that we could get the corpse of this trapped beast as food to replenish our strength without deliberately hunting.
The dry food that Vedana had prepared for us was abundant at first, but by the time we encountered the crows, some of them had already been lost. Moreover, traveling in the cold snow-capped mountains, the physical strength required is far more than the usual need to replenish it, so foraging for food on this mountain of bones like a scavenging beast sounds disgusting, but it is a last resort.
Dou Dabao and I helped each other climb to the top of the Bone Mountain, and unexpectedly found a green sheep that had not yet died.
The green sheep was pierced through the neck and belly by two vertical animal bones, and the tragic situation was mentioned. Even if it can't speak, just by looking at the sadness in its eyes, you can feel that it just wants to die as soon as possible.
We helped free the struggling green sheep, and before we went down, we brought an equally unlucky chick. When he went down to the bottom of the ditch, he saw that Tang Yi, who was answering, had an extra iron knife in his hand.
The style of the knife was very quaint, it did not look like a product of modern and modern times, and perhaps because of the climate, it did not rust much.
Tang Yi said that this was accidentally discovered from the pile of bones when he was waiting below.
The old slippery head didn't seem to be interested in the knife, but after only two glances, he said that the knife was some years old, and it was probably dug out of the grave by some unlucky ground mouse (tomb robber) to accompany the burial. To be able to bury such a treasure knife, there should be other valuable things in the tomb, but the mouse did not have the life to make a windfall, and before he could take the things out, he fell into the bone ditch.
Dou Dabao was a little excited when he heard this, saying that the treasure knife was not buried deeply, and the rest of the artifacts from the unlucky tomb robber should also be around here. It's better to look carefully, find it, take it back and sell it, and our brothers can also buy a house and land, and become rich people who eat tiles (collect rent).
I almost didn't twist his scalp with bloody tendons, even if this kid doesn't usually pay much attention, he still wants to make a windfall at this time. The old slippery head is a shepherd who holds back the treasure, and he is also a thief, but he has the taboo of 'leading the sheep and not falling down'. I don't think he's a rule-abiding person, but he doesn't have any intention of getting rich, which means that even if there is something valuable at the bottom of the mountain of bones, it is not easy to get it for nothing.
Tang Yi was already lucky to get such a big knife, and he was still thinking about the underworld weapon...... According to the words of the old slippery head, he is glaring at Lord Yama and twisting Lord Yama's nose to provoke trouble.
Qingyang is not very big, and after being thrown down from the mountain of bones, he has not lost his breath.
The old slippery head was not interested in the knife, but when he saw this green sheep, his eyes were shining. Pumped out the leather rope, dragged the green sheep to him, opened his mouth and bit the green sheep's neck, and sucked the blood with his cheeks.
It was disgusting to watch, but I knew that with his current physical condition, the hot goat blood could make him replenish it quickly.
However, during the time he was sucking sheep's blood, I discovered a detail that the rest of the people did not notice. That is, in our motley team, there is a pair of eyes secretly hating the throat of the old slippery head constantly agitating!
After that, the old slippery head asked us to divide the sheep and peel the skin, the sheepskin was used as clothing to keep out the cold, and the mutton was only picked up and brought on the fat belt. He just asked the chick over, and carefully wrapped it, but even stuffed it into his own leather jacket.
At the time, I thought he was just greedy for food, but later I learned that everything he did from Horsewhip Gully again, no matter how big or small, had ulterior motives.
When we detoured to the Tibetan bone ditch, it was already the fifth day of entering the mountain, and seeing that it was getting late, the old slippery head seemed to be a little breathless, and kept urging us to speed up.
happened to rotate Dou Dabao to pull him, and he was in a hurry, so he wanted to turn his face.
I hurriedly stopped him, grabbed Dou Dabao's shoulders while taking the rope, and whispered to him not to make a mistake. Not to mention that we have to count on this old man in the future, just now that we are in the same boat, we have to not abandon or give up, let alone speak ill of our teammates.
The old slippery head listened to it in his ears, and said that it was still the master who was sensible. said that he didn't want to rush us, but in the past two days and two nights, we either rested in the snow nest, or spent the night in the tree cave and the mountain, and we couldn't eat or sleep warmly. He knew there was a place ahead of him that would provide shelter from the wind and snow. If we can get there before dark, we can get some rest, but if we don't, as soon as it gets dark, we will have to camp in the snow.
In such a hurry, I finally arrived at the place where the old slippery head said. When I went up to a high hill, I looked at the col below, and there was a lonely room standing in the col below.
Dou Dabao cheered, and ran down first.
I wanted to stop him, but the old slippery head smiled and said to me, "It's okay, let him go over and do some things first." ”
I turned my face and asked him, "How can there be a house in this place?" ”
Before he could finish speaking, he heard someone next to him whisper, "Why do I seem to have been here......"