"Lao Wang, what do you want to say?" My scalp was tingling, and when I suddenly heard Lao Wang say such words at this time and place, I felt a chill on the soles of my feet.

"I know how I died, but I don't want to die like that, I died a miserable death...... Lao Wang burst into tears, stretched out a hand, and gestured at his waist: "My waist is broken, and I can't be saved directly, and I really died a miserable death......

After saying this, Lao Wang's sobbing seemed to be unbearable, and he held his throat and began to cry again, crying very desolately, and at the same time very mad. I tried to persuade me, but I didn't.

I don't know what happened to Lao Wang at all, but the four of them have just come to the periphery of Baklang, if Lao Wang is allowed to go crazy like this, once Ning Xiaomei and Zhang Momo know, then the consequences will be unimaginable, and it will definitely cause panic in the team. As soon as the people's hearts are scattered, the team will not be easy to lead.

"Don't cry yet, okay? What nonsense are you talking about here? ”

Lao Wang ignored me, buried his head and cried vigorously, and finally I was really a little upset, afraid that his cry would spread to the car next to me, waking up the sleeping Ning kitten and Zhang Momo. I grabbed Lao Wang by the collar and raised my hand to slap him. This slap was a bit heavy, and it directly stunned Lao Wang.

"Are you dreaming? Or what's wrong? I grabbed Lao Wang's collar and shook it twice: "We came here to survive, not to die, and now nothing has happened, you have a lot of snot and tears, how can you go back?" ”

"Yes, I shouldn't." Lao Wang snorted, and wiped his tears with his sleeve: "It's okay, I'm fine." ”

"That's right." I saw that Lao Wang had stopped crying, so I opened the window wider, and then handed him a cigarette. Although Lao Wang stopped crying, I don't think this matter is so simple, from the past few days of my contact with Lao Wang, he is a person who is a little greasy sometimes, in fact, he is quite a gentleman, I feel that he should not shed tears for no reason. Moreover, what he said just now was like a thorn, which pierced my heart and made me uncomfortable: "Lao Wang, why do you suddenly say anything about life and death?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just a dream just now, the dream is flustered, and I can't help but ......" Lao Wang's eyes were still red, and he smiled reluctantly: "Don't mention this matter again, don't let the kitten and Momo know." ”

After this incident, I couldn't sleep anymore, and Lao Wang couldn't sleep either, so we lay in the car smoking and chatting. We chatted until more than five o'clock in the morning, Zhang Momo and Ning Kitten woke up, we got something for breakfast, and after eating, we left on the road.

Lao Wang's crying was just an episode, the past was over, nothing happened along the way, and he arrived safely in the county seat. We first found a hotel, then bought some things, and asked someone for a guide. Coincidentally, a front desk in the hotel knew the guide and helped us make a call, and in less than half an hour, the guide introduced by the front desk rushed over.

The guide was a Mongolian named Hu Ritu, forty-five or sixteen years old, who had been living here for many years. He is very stocky, but he is slightly lame when he walks on one leg.

I chatted with Hu Ritu for a while, he used to be in the fruit peel and medicinal herb business, he had traveled a lot of places, and he was very familiar with Baklang's side.

Although Hu Ritu was a businessman in the past, he was honest by nature, not treacherous or oily, and the remuneration he asked for was also very reasonable.

"Are you familiar with all the places around Buckrang?"

"Friend, Hu Ritu never lies." Hu Ritu smiled innocently: "If I take the wrong road, you don't have to pay me." ”

"Then I'll tell you a place, you bring us over, and the reward will not be less."

"Say, do you want to go to Running Spring, or go to Sheep's Head Beach."

"It's not." I shook my head and said to Hu Ritu, "There is a place near Baklang called Danmeng, do you know? We're going to Danmeng. ”

"Dan Meng?" Hu Ritu was originally smiling, but as soon as he heard my words, his smile immediately froze on his face, and his eyes widened suddenly: "Are you going to Danmeng?" ”

"Yes, Dan Meng." I remained silent and continued to talk to Hu Ritu, but from his expression and tone, I already knew that this place should not be a good place.

"No, this won't work, absolutely not." Hu Ritu shook his head again and again: "Dan Meng can't go, except for Dan Meng, I can take you anywhere, only Dan Meng, you can't go." ”

"Why can't you go to Danmeng?"

"You can go, but if you go, you won't come back." Hu Ritu thought for a while and patted his slightly lame leg: "My leg was lost in Danmeng." ”

Hu Ritu is indeed more kind-hearted and tries his best to dissuade him. In order to let me know the cause and effect, he told me something.

Danmeng is a small basin that, long ago, had a surface water source and was a small oasis in the Gobi Desert, once inhabited. When the surface water stopped, the oasis disappeared, and so did the human population.

According to local legends, the deserted Danmeng is a dangerous place, and it is said that those who enter the Danmeng will be tempted by evil spirits and hang themselves in it.

When Hu Ritu first moved to the county seat, he heard this rumor. He had been to the outskirts of the Danmeng Basin, but he had not gone inside, but had looked outside.

Hu Ritu is not a native of the local aborigine, so he does not fully believe in the legend of Danmeng, but he has no need to enter Danmeng, and he has never set foot in it with the idea of causing less trouble.

It wasn't until five years ago that a friend of Hu Ritu's hometown who grew up together as a child found him.

The two of them had a drink, and then, the friend explained his intention, and he wanted to go to Danmeng to have a look. Hu Ritu told his friend what he heard about Dan Meng, but his friend didn't care and insisted that Hu Ritu lead the way. Hu Ritu was righteous, the other party said everything about this, and while he was drinking, Hu Ritu didn't shirk anymore and agreed.

On the third day, his friend came again, and brought five more people with him. The five men drove the car and brought a lot of backpacks.

Hu Ritu may not have dealt with the people of Guxing, so he doesn't know the details of those five people and the purpose of entering Danmeng, according to his account, I can judge that these five people should go to Danmeng to find goods. The Danmeng Basin was inhabited a long time ago, which is likely to leave ruins and cemeteries. The people in the mainland are not doing well, the supply is very tight, and most of them are like Blind San'er, and they have expanded their business area to the old and young and the poor areas. These five people, including Hu Ritu's friends, probably knew the history of the Danmeng Basin and wanted to try their luck.

A team of six people, plus Hu Ritu, set off from here and rushed to Danmeng. This section of the road needs a guide, mainly because there are many sections in the middle that cannot be driven by motor vehicles, and the role of the guide is to guide the team to avoid these areas.

Under the leadership of Hu Ritu, the team came to the periphery of the Danmeng Basin, and his friend left Hu Ritu to rest and rest and take care of the vehicle by the way.

Hu Ritu felt that this was a friend's kindness, but I felt like a mirror in my heart, Hu Ritu's friend, I didn't want him to know the true purpose of the team, let alone let him see what Cong Danmeng had found. The people of Gu Xing are like this, I am lucky, I met a blind San'er such a particular person, if someone else had found the earth cave tomb in Baklang, Bao Zhun would not even say a word to me.

The team of six people entered Danmeng, and for the first ten hours, Hu Ritu was relatively at ease, but after two days, the people who went in never came back, and Hu Ritu was a little panicked.

Until this time, the rumors he had heard about Dan Meng once again irrepressibly surfaced.

Hu Ritu was not sure, but he was too sincere, his friends told him to wait here, and he waited here for five days.

"You waited for five days and didn't see anyone come out?"

"See." Hu Ritu took out his tobacco, rolled a cigarette himself, lit it and took a puff: "Only one person came out." ”

"Only one of the six people came out, but what about the remaining five?"

"The remaining five ......" Hu Ritu frowned slightly, probably not wanting to recall that past, he spit out the tobacco in his mouth and said, "They were all hanged inside." ”