Volume 1: The Candle Dragon of the South China Sea Chapter 22: The First Entry into the Barren Mountain
"Give you ten minutes, you three think about it, if it is done, the money will not be less, if you don't agree."
After Brother Wang finished speaking, he made a gesture with his hand to wipe his neck, and then got up and left alone.
Seeing that Brother Wang was finally gone, he sighed and relaxed his guard, but the three of us were really stunned by Brother Wang's words, how could the dragon candle still have something to do with Qin Shi Huang, but I carefully analyzed, the name of the mountain Candle Dragon Ridge has a certain meaning, and the stone into gold is exactly the same as the description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, think about it carefully, when I collected antiques, I also heard a few tomb robbers say that there is an eternal fire in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, these clues all add up, what Brother Wang said is not unreasonable.
The fat man next to him also ate almost, and I saw that he said angrily: "I didn't choke you to death, fat man, do you accept this business or not?" β
The fat man wiped his mouth and said, "Fat man, I was beaten like this by those mud legs, do you think I don't want to eat more meat to make up for this injury?" If you want to die, you can't die as a starving ghost. β
"Holy shit! You're such a cow, you're not afraid of being poisoned to death! Looking at the fat man, I felt a little funny in my heart.
"Okay, you two don't quarrel, they will definitely not let us go so easily, we can only agree first, let's take one step at a time." Chen Haoyue lowered her head and whispered to us.
After the three of them finished discussing, I walked over to Brother Wang, who was standing not far away, and said respectfully: "Brother Wang, the three of us have discussed and decided to help you find the dragon candle, but I have a small condition. β
"Oh? What are the conditions, let's hear it? Brother Wang snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, turned to me and sneered.
"The condition is to let the three of us go first." I made a respectful look and said to Brother Wang.
"Humph! Want to be clever again? You have only two conditions: first, death! Second, take us to find the Dragon Candle. After Brother Wang finished speaking, his eyes stared at me deadly.
I was too scared to look up, so I had to whisper, "Okay, I'll take you to find the dragon candle, but you have to promise not to touch that girl." β
"Don't worry about this, no matter how bold Ma San is, they all have to obey my command, the three of you will rest here for one night today, and set off the next day, if you still want to play any tricks, then don't blame me for being embarrassed!"
After Brother Wang finished speaking, he punched the wooden stake, and then the wooden stake snapped.
I saw goosebumps on my body, it seems that we are really just a chess piece, as for how to play this game of chess, we have to be extremely careful, if there is a wrong move, then the result is like this stake, no matter how strong it is, then the end is a dead end!
At night, the three mud legs took us into a mud house, the walls were all pasted with mud, which looked dilapidated, and a lot of dust fell from the roof, Chen Haoyue looked disgusted and had to go outside to set up a tent for the night, but Brother Wang arranged for Ma San and a few of them to guard us to the death, plus maybe there were some monitors hidden in the house, so I could only let Chen Haoyue agree.
The three of us slept at all this night, the three of us didn't say a word, all with eye contact, until about the early hours of the morning barely fell asleep, but the next day just dawn, Ma San they walked in to wake us up, the fat man looked impatient and wanted to sleep again, but in the end was woken up by a few mud legs.
Brother Wang changed into a military camouflage uniform, and also took a few and threw them at us, which means that let us change into this clothes, I took the clothes with a wry smile, and when the change of clothes came out, Ma San's mud legs were also neat.
Brother Wang coughed his throat and said to a few of us: "This time the mountain is a secret operation, although the mountain is deserted, but there may be villagers living there, if someone asks us what we are doing, you will say that the forest armed police are here to protect wild animals, do you hear?" After Brother Wang finished speaking, his eyes swept over several of us like knives.
I nodded towards Brother Wang, and sneered in my heart: "It's also a forest armed policeman, cut!" It's just a few tomb robbers, and this brother Wang is quite good at pretending.
Brother Wang also instructed Ma San to bring dry food and water, I can't say how long it will take, and when Ma San and a few are carrying heavy luggage, I was stunned for a moment, only to see Ma San and those mud legs carrying a large bag of luggage on their backs.
It seems that although the person is thin and small, he does have some physical strength.
But what surprised me even more was that there was an iron pot tied to Ma San's legs, and now Chen Haoyue couldn't help laughing and asked: "Why do you go up the mountain with an iron pot, and you don't go to war." β
Ma San smiled and said: "It's autumn, don't look at the heat during the day, but the temperature will drop at night, we are all in a hurry during the day, rest at night, bring a pot and cook something hot to eat." β
"Then you really have a lot of strength and it's useless." Chen Haoyue said with a smile.
"Heh, don't get complacent too early, I'll let you carry it halfway through." Ma San spat and said.
The fat man looked around with some doubts, scratched his head and asked: "This mountain is deserted, and it is almost half of the primeval forest, and there must be a lot of jackals, tigers and leopards on the mountain, so you didn't bring a gun to defend yourself?" Even if you meet the jackal, tiger and leopard, you can have a roundabout. β
"You don't have to worry about this, let's take your way." As soon as Brother Wang finished speaking, the lynx and the second dog came from not far away, each carrying a heavy gun on their shoulders.
I carefully looked at the guns in the hands of the bobcat and the second dog, if my guess was correct, it should be a Russian-made AK47 automatic rifle, which is extremely lethal and can only be equipped by the army.
I looked back and cursed in my heart: this fat man who killed him is really a crow's mouth, if they have a gun in their hands, then our chances of escaping are even lower, maybe after this is done, each of the three of us will eat a gun, and we may be buried in a pit.
"Let's go, by the way, bring your own luggage. We don't have anyone to help you! Ma San kicked the luggage on the ground, the fat man and I had to stiffen our backs, and when we took it away, the fat man glared at Ma San coldly, it seems that Ma San was beaten yesterday really not lightly.
Along the way, the autumn is high and crisp, the rolling mountains are one after another, and one or two wolf howls can occasionally be heard in the distance. The mountain roads are all paved with stones, and it is very difficult to walk, and when we enter the depths of the mountains, there is a dense bush and jungle, and the fat man and I are even more miserable along the way.
"It's only been half a day to walk the mountain road and I'm tired like this, isn't it the first time I've been upside down?" Brother Wang asked me as he walked, like a teacher asking his students, such as why are they late today? Didn't hand in your homework so much?
"I can't count the numbers, but this isn't the first time." I shook my head and smiled wryly, naturally I had to lie to him.
"The kid can't see it when he's young, by the way, is the girl next to him your daughter-in-law?" Brother Wang then asked me.
"Yes, yes, it's my fiancΓ©e, there's no way, the poor can't open the pot, so I can only do this tomb robbery and digging coffins, so I can make some money to marry her home." I said respectfully to Brother Wang.
After speaking, Brother Wang looked at Chen Haoyue, I was afraid that Chen Haoyue would show her stuff again, but to my surprise, Chen Haoyue also nodded in agreement, and I was relieved.
Although we were wearing camouflage uniforms, several of us were bitten by mosquitoes everywhere, and some small ants even turned into our clothes and bit some large and small bumps.
The fat man walked and stopped along the way, reciting the dragon point in his mouth, and looked around in the jungle with a compass and a map as he went.
Ma San next to him said impatiently: "I said fatty, what are you doing with a compass to wander around?" When will I be able to get to Candle Dragon Ridge? β
"It's called a feng shui compass, you fucking know a fart! This is the housekeeping skill of Captain Jin, if you want to say that I can't beat people, I can't compare to you, but this dragon point, you all have to listen to your fat master and me. The fat man straightened his chest and said with an arrogant face.
"! You fucking fat man, did I give you a fucking face..."Before Ma San finished speaking, he was glared at by Brother Wang, and immediately shut his mouth.
"Okay, fat man, don't meet Ma San, how did you find the dragon?" Brother Wang raised his hand to signal us to stop, and turned his head to ask the fat man.
The fat man sat on the ground, lit a cigarette, gasped and said, "It's getting dark, rest first, this dragon search is brain-consuming and laborious, first raise your spirit and then look for it." β
"Okay, then I'll go to the creek in front of me tonight to rest, and continue my journey tomorrow." Brother Wang also sat down and said.
After the group walked for a while, the sky gradually darkened, and when they arrived at a small river, Brother Wang motioned for everyone to stop and spend the night here. Brother Wang instructed a few mud legs to assemble the tent together, and set up the iron pot, and after arranging all this, several people were even more tired and lay on the ground with their backs to the sky.
Ma San went to the river to pick up some water and poured it into the cauldron, and took out a handful of dried noodles from his bag and began to cook them. The fat man walked closer and his eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "After walking such a long mountain road, you will give us this?" β
"It's already in the depths of the mountains, and there are no people around, it's good to have a stutter, don't eat if you don't want to eat, no one will stop you." Ma San said with a white look at the fat man.
"Fat man, I really don't eat it!" The fat man turned away, sat down on the ground and smoked a cigarette.
If so many of us only eat these clear soup noodles, it is naturally a little too shabby, looking at the side, Brother Wang is writing something in a notebook, not paying attention to the noise on our side at all, and there is quite an archaeologist's demeanor.
At this time, the fat man suddenly muttered to himself, and said: "I said that there are no people living on this mountain, and they are about to catch up with half of the primeval forest, as the saying goes, the mountain eats the mountain, I estimate that there must be a lot of game on the mountain, and the game in the primeval jungle is called delicious in the world." In the early years, I followed my second uncle to Inner Mongolia to rob the tomb, and we didn't bring anything along the way, so we brought some spices, all by catching the pheasants and hares to satisfy our hunger, finding a few wooden sticks to skewer the meat, and then roasting it with pine branches, and finally sprinkling a handful of cumin and pepper and salt, the taste was simply amazing! can summon that lonely soul and wild ghost. β
After the fat man finished speaking, Ma San and the others also seemed to drool, and hurriedly asked: "Fat man, what you said is so powerful, why don't you go and catch a few pheasants and come back for us to taste, don't fucking brag here without a draft." β