Chapter 23: Besieged
There is no word monument in the deep mountains and old forests
Want to find out about the dead man's circle
According to the map given to us by Bai Zixiong, Lishu Town is not too far from the Black Bear Forest, only about 40 kilometers away, although it is not too far from the distance, but because there is no formal urban and rural highway here, almost most of them are dirt roads filled in by the villagers themselves, not to mention the winding and rugged, the bumpy strength is even more to kill several of us. Fortunately, the fourth child did not drive his dilapidated Santana this time, but replaced it with a 02 Mitsubishi Pajero, although it is not very new, but at least Zhang Chengyong and I will not worry about the danger of scrapping the car halfway through and changing to 11 roads.
Our car sped along the road, kicking up a lot of dust and flying rocks, and provoking the animals that had originally inhabited the neighborhood to flee in all directions.
The road into the mountain is really rugged and bumpy, we originally expected an hour or so to be able to reach the road, and finally drove for nearly two hours, fortunately, although the mouth of the fourth is not very reliable, but the driving skills are really good, several extremely dangerous and extremely narrow places, he actually drove over steadily, and I and Zhang Chengyong were in a cold sweat, and then breathed a long sigh of relief.
In the end, after throwing up three times and banging our heads on the windows and backs of tables and chairs a dozen times, we finally stopped in front of a large rock.
"Hahaha! A few masters, we can only get here, there is really no way ahead! After Yu Laosi stopped the car, he looked at us with a smile and said.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm......mmmm
"The rest of the road can only bother you to open the eleventh road! Hahaha! Yu Laosi said with a smile.
"I didn't ...... No problem! Wait for us here! Zhang Chengyong vomited on the side for a while, then walked over and helped the car and said slowly. I said Xiaomei, where are we going? ”
"This ......" Xiaomei was the only one of the three of us who hadn't vomited before, and she couldn't stand it anymore at this time, so as soon as she opened her mouth, she immediately ran to the side to clean up the inventory in her stomach.
After a long while, Xiaomei walked back with her mouth covered, gasping and saying, "Go this way!" As she spoke, she pointed to the hill to the west. According to the map, we had to climb the hill before sunset to know where the entrance to the dungeon was. I had a conversation with Bai Lao last night after you had both slept, and he told me that they did not dig a robbery cave here, but found the entrance to the Yuk Tomb according to historical documents, but the entrance to the dungeon could only be seen at the last moment before the sun set. As she spoke, Xiaomei looked up at the fiery red sunset on the horizon, "It's not early now, we have to hurry." ”
"In that case, we'll have to go! It's too late! After saying that, several of us put on our equipment, stepped up our feet, and ran towards the hill to the west.
In the past, I didn't have much experience of the words "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse", but now when I start to climb towards the hill in earnest, I have seriously realized what it means to "follow it, and the road is long and obstructive." Tracing from it, it is like being in the middle of the water. ”
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Sunset, a beautiful sunset, the sunset on the horizon illuminates the whole land.
There were no clouds in the sky, and the breeze stirred the leaves and made a salsa sound, which sounded comfortable and pleasant.
There were birds chirping in the woods, and they were singing very beautifully; Some of them don't know what small animals are running, and they run very briskly; There is the fragrance of pine nuts wafting, and it is very wanton!
If you are a tourist and are in such an environment, then you must lean against a tree and close your eyes to feel the "beautiful music" of nature.
However, we are not tourists, so we naturally do not have the heart to enjoy the beautiful scenery here.
Although we are watching the sunset, although we also hope that it can stay a little longer, but we don't have the heart to appreciate it, or even appreciate it at all.
It is now like an hourglass of time for us, constantly urging us to move forward, keep moving forward.
"There is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it will naturally become a road!" It's a quote we learned in textbooks when we were kids, and it's a nonsense, but it's a very reasonable nonsense, because the three of us are doing this kind of thing right now.
Although many places in Changbai Mountain have been developed into tourist attractions, most of the entire mountain range is still in a state of primeval forest, and it is not possible for three people to step on a road in such a place.
Therefore, we have to waste a lot of effort and a lot of time before we go forward.
However, although this place struggles for us, it is an excellent place for dragons to sleep from a feng shui point of view. It is surrounded by mountains, although there is no water, but the absolute Tibetan wind is tolerant, even if the wind is strong outside, the forest can only vaguely feel the slightest breeze, in addition, the mountains around here are high and dangerous, straight and steep cliffs stand tall, giving people the feeling of being the back of a dragon, majestic and solemn, rugged and coiled, and the small hill we are going to is like a dragon's head, it is slightly raised, making people look as if they are going to rise up at any time, rushing to the clouds, not far from it A relatively gentle slope is the dragon's tail, The setting sun in the distance seems to be like a pearl hanging in the sky. According to the record of the word decision in the "Qin Dragon Secret Technique", this place is the best place for "Panlong to ascend to the sky", and the book says that "Panlong is not a mortal thing, and it will turn into a flood when it encounters a pearl"!
Looking at this feng shui treasure in front of me, I seemed to have a deeper understanding and awareness of some chapters in the Qin Dragon Secret Art in an instant.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to feel the breath of nature, but as soon as I closed my eyes, I heard a scolding.
"! What kind of tree is planted here? After the seventh cut in his clothes was scratched by a branch, Zhang Chengyong finally couldn't help scolding.
"Is this a tree, it's called a mountain dragon! You idiot! Xiaomei waved the tiger tooth in her hand and cut off the vine in front of her.
"Does it make a difference?" Although Zhang Chengyong was talking about it, his feet were not slow at all.
"Absolutely!" Xiaomei followed closely behind. In fact, as a girl who can walk for nearly forty minutes in such a mountain road without falling behind, to be honest, I admire Xiaomei's physical strength.
"That's it! Don't talk about it, save some energy! Let's ......"
"Wait! There seems to be something up ahead! Before I could finish my sentence, Zhang Chengyong interrupted me. And after he said this, he hurriedly ran a few steps forward and shouted: "Tianyi, there is a discovery!" Come and see! ”
Hearing Zhang Chengyong's shout, I was overjoyed, and I ran a few steps towards Zhang Chengyong's side. After a few more low bushes, I suddenly saw Zhang Chengyong and Xiaomei standing in front of a huge wordless stump.
This wordless stele is very large, nearly three meters high, about one meter five wide, the thickness is at least sixty centimeters up and down, due to the erosion of the years of wind and rain, the position of one-third of the top of the whole wordless stele has collapsed and broken, the broken part, now leaning obliquely on the side, the original wolf head totem at the top of the stele has already appeared dilapidated in the years. And the wolf is the god worshiped by the Huns back then, and it seems that we are very close to the ancient tomb of Yuk.
Compared to the first half, the inscription is very well preserved underneath the inscription, and the position of the base below is not carved in our traditional sense, but a fox with an extremely painful expression. This fox is carved from a whole stone, head and tail to the sky, four feet pointing to the south, south, north, west and four directions, chest up, waist down, giving people a visual sense as if this tablet just hit the fox on the waist, making people have a very uncomfortable feeling.
"What a good monument, not only did it not have a word, but it was still pressed on top of such a fox. What does this mean? Zhang Chengyong asked curiously.
"This is a wordless monument!" I said as I crouched down and looked at the fox on the pedestal. The carving of this fox is not very fine, it can only be said to be a general appearance, vaguely recognizable. Although the economic development of the Xiongnu in the two Jin Dynasty was still very backward, however, this kind of carving can only be regarded as inferior goods in which period, and what is the purpose of erecting such a wordless monument in front of the tomb of a prince, I really don't know for a while.
"No word? Why erect such a monument? Zhang Chengyong asked.
"I want to know too." I said lightly.
"Wu Zetian once set up a wordless stele, some people think that the meaning of her wordless stele is to explain that her achievements cannot be expressed in words, but the meaning of this stele I think may be ......" Xiaomei's words were halfway through, suddenly, a miserable scream came from not far to the west of us. The sound was not loud, but at this time, several of us heard it clearly.
"Someone!" Zhang Chengyong was startled, took out the black star pinned to his waist and was about to rush over. But he had barely taken two steps before I grabbed him.
"Shh I made a silent gesture to Zhang Chengyong, and then whispered: "As far as I know, most of the villagers in Lishu Town make a living from farming, and there are basically no hunters anymore. When we arrived, I was passing through the town and I saw four or five farms that raised wild game in the mountains. So, under normal circumstances, no one should come to this place! Take 10,000 steps back, even if a hunter comes here, it stands to reason that he won't go so deep, so let's be careful of deception! ”
"Hmmm! You're right! Zhang Chengyong obviously understood what I meant, "In this way, I will walk in front, Xiaomei will be in the middle, and you will break off Tianyi!" With that, he lowered the muzzle of his gun and cautiously walked in the direction from which the voice came.
The sound wasn't that far from us, and after a few of us had been walking for about ten minutes, we found the source behind a large rock.
However, instead of rushing out to see what was going on, we hid behind the rocks and cautiously poked our heads out. But at that moment, the scene we saw in front of us made several of us gasp.
I saw two extremely tall foreign men in black one-piece military uniforms, holding sabers in each other's chests, and the feeling was as if they had a hatred for killing their fathers and wives. And the bearded man on the left obviously had the upper hand, he attacked quickly and ruthlessly, although he was also stabbed seven or eight times in the chest, but he had already pierced the chest of the big man opposite into a broken balloon, and the miserable voice was made by the big man who shot slowly.
However, what surprised me was not the brutal hand-to-hand combat of this man, nor the blood of the place beneath the two of them. What surprised me was their already white and blue faces, shriveled and black veins, and their eyes that did not have a trace of blackness.
Dead person.
Two people who have long since died.
However, they are still moving, still attacking each other with all their might, leaving no room to attack each other's bodies.
Dead people fighting?
But how can the dead still fight?
And in this place, why is there a foreign army?
And why are they here?
Could it be that this place still harbors some untold secrets?
"This ...... What's going on? Tianyi, have you noticed? They ......"
"I noticed!" I didn't let Zhang Chengyong speak, so I interrupted him, "It is impossible for a dead person to move!" There must be something strange in this! "It's the first time I've seen anything like this, but I've tried to keep myself calm.
And at this time, Xiaomei, who had been silent, suddenly tugged at the corners of the clothes of the two of us, and then she put her index finger to her mouth and made a gesture to us not to speak.
The two of us didn't know why, so we went back to see Xiaomei together. I saw that Xiaomei's expression was nervous, her lips were tightly closed and she didn't speak, she stared at the bushes on her left, and even her breathing was so light that she could barely feel it. Although Zhang Chengyong and I didn't know what was going on, we all knew that Xiaomei had never been a timid and joking girl, so we quickly stopped talking.
After a while, Xiaomei looked around vigilantly, and then said in a low voice, "It seems that there are not only two of them who are dead in this vicinity. We...... We seem to be surrounded. ”
And at the moment when she finished speaking, the sound of branches being trampled and broken came from all around, and this sound was intermittent, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and from this footstep I could not tell that it was not some wild beast in the forest coming towards us. Since it is not a beast, then of course it is a human being, and the person who can make such a footstep sound is either seriously injured, but can only be a "dead man" like the two in front of him.
"We are surrounded!" Zhang Chengyong whispered as he listened to this voice.