Chapter 32 Left to the North and the South
"Hui Ke is not a deity?" I was a little surprised.
"Hui Ke is just a skin." Lu Yan said, "I don't believe that there is a person who is born to know, he has shown too much!" ”
I was a little unaccustomed to hearing Lu Yan talk about this famous monk in history like a friend. Besides, I just asked about a one-armed Buddha master, but he put Hui Ke out, what does this have to do with him?
I felt that Lu Yan was deliberately messing with my thinking, but I couldn't think of a reason for him to do so, so I had to look up at the gap above my head, and Zhun Ben brushed up the matter from the beginning.
At this moment, a rope suddenly hung down from the gap overhead, and then its head peeked out from above.
I waved at her, but she ignored me and climbed down the cave wall with the rope in one hand.
Fixing the rope to the edge of the platform, I asked, "Where's Liu?" ”
He gave me a blank look, then turned his head to look behind him, and replied, "I haven't seen him." ”
"Haven't seen it?" I asked rhetorically, a little strange in my heart, after Xiao Ying left, Liu Shixi went out with him, and the two were at most ten minutes apart, how could they not see each other? Is it a fork in the road?
"What's out there?" I asked.
"I don't know, there are a lot of buildings." Xiao Ying couldn't say it, so she said it simply.
Building? I'm afraid to mumble in my heart, I haven't seen a lot of buildings along the way. But now that Ego has found our car, there will be no problem. It should be this building behind the mountain, we just didn't see it.
What I brought was my processed climbing rope, with a knot every half meter on it for easy climbing.
There is nothing to describe the process of climbing, anyway, climbing the inclined rope is much more difficult than the vertical rope, and by the time I finally climbed to the top, my gloves were already burning.
Outside is a ditch, and a small hillside next to it hides this crack very cleverly at the bottom, and you can't see it at all if you don't pay attention. I got out of the ditch, only to be stunned by what I saw.
Not far from the ditch is a snow-white stupa, standing alone on the cliff head, and almost face to face with it halfway up the mountainside, there is a very large Tibetan temple, in which there are magnificent, and some dilapidated, very harmoniously blended together.
Although it seems to be very close and within reach, it is on two separate mountains, and it is indispensable to walk through it for a day.
Faced with the rare sight in front of them, all the people were a little vaguely excited. But a very serious problem is in front of us, where did Liu Dongfu go?
Ying just said that she didn't know, and she didn't see the shadow of Liu from the time she got out of the hole to the time she got in the car and came back with the rope.
I think she's telling the truth, it's very difficult to walk from here to the car, and it takes at least an hour to walk through the binoculars. And it only took an hour for E to go back and forth, so it must not be slow, so the ten minutes between Liu Dongxi and E are not short, and it is reasonable that E did not see him.
But this statement in the past has to be based on the fact that Liu Dongxi and her are not on the same road, otherwise it would be a lie if he didn't see him. This location is very coincidental, and we can see our car without the help of any tools, so it is absolutely impossible for Liu Dongxi to make a mistake Wang Dake and Xiao Kan think so, but I don't think E's lying, she is worse than a child in this regard, and she can't tell such a lie so naturally.
I decided to go back to the car first, everyone needed to be resupplied right away, and there was a lot of important equipment still on the car.
The road here looks very old, and I can barely make out the general shape, and I don't know how long it has been since no one walked it. There are many ancient roads like this in some mountains, but they are formed by more people walking and compacting the soil, but they are not very easy to disappear into history.
Like the one beneath our feet, blurry on the hillside almost indistinguishable, but who would have imagined that so many half-human, half-beast monsters walked over it many years ago?
We walked and carefully searched for traces of Liu's things, but found nothing, this guy was as clean as if he had disappeared since he crawled out of the crack.
After walking for dozens of meters, the path turned sharply against the cliff wall, and a mountain crack cut it off.
This is probably the crack mentioned in the diary, and I glanced inside, and there were frozen and dying human-faced lizards everywhere.
"Would you like to go in and have a look?" Wang Dake asked me.
"It's dangerous, forget it!" I say.
"I think Liu stuff might go in." Wang Dake said, "This person is unreliable, he said to get a rope, and he probably went in because he was curious about this!" ”
Her analysis of Liu Dongxi's behavior is simply to the bone, just now I was still wondering what the Wang family's two houses are for, how come they can't see here. As soon as Wang Dake asked, he thought that she was also curious and wanted to go in and have a look, but he didn't want to find Liu Shi's stubble.
Not to mention anything else, Liu Dongxi must have this question in his heart, and this person's curiosity is stronger than ours, and it is simply certain that he turned in halfway to watch the excitement.
"Okay, let's take a look!" I looked at the stiff high-top hiking boots on everyone's feet, and I didn't forget to tell you to tie your shoes.
The human-faced lizards have been so dying from the cold that they will only lazily bite when their feet step in front of them, but they can't use their strength to bite through our shoes.
The glacier in the cave must have evaporated from the lava, and these lizards also survived the battle of ice and fire, but were doomed to die in the icy cold wind.
Turning a corner, I saw the path described in the diary, but it was far different from what was described in the diary, and we didn't see the other two houses, because the hole was filled with a thick mist that obscured everything in front of us.
The human-faced lizards on this road were obviously much more active, crawling densely all over the road, and from time to time a few were squeezed down the cliff and fell into the hot lava.
Seeing us suddenly appear around the corner, the human-faced lizards turned their heads one after another, and their inexplicable resentful eyes looked at us, as if they still carried the souls of the people they were parasitizing.
We don't think twice, we turn around and go. In this case, it is a miracle that Liu Dongxi can run over there, although I do not deny that a miracle will happen, but Liu Dongxi is not an idiot, he will not do this kind of thing.
Quickly ran out of the crack, turned around and shot a few shots to repel a few guys who crawled out to chase after us, and we were back on the trail.
Continuing down will bring you to the valley floor, which is less than ten miles down the road where we parked.
"Si'an, where do you think he will run to?" Wang Dake asked me.
I was a little confused, and coped: "I don't know, I don't think he's a person who runs around!" ”
"I have an idea...... Wang Dake's voice was a little small.
As soon as I saw her talking and watching her, I knew her suspicions in my heart, and I couldn't help but be a little angry: "You don't have to doubt others, I'll vouch for her!" ”
Wang Dake didn't expect me to be so excited, as if he was startled, he opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.
"Get in the car and see how it goes." I also felt that I had overreacted, so I quickly added a sentence.
Take this trip, even if it is a destination in the car, no matter what it is, you have to have an explanation of what is going on.
At the bottom of the valley, there is a river formed by melting snow and water, and judging from the rocky riverbed, the recent geological changes have not affected it, and the water in the knife-and-axe riverbed is blue.
The mountains on both sides are not much different from the Central Plains, although the altitude is high, the climate here is very close to the subtropical climate, and the vegetation in the mountains is also a mixed forest of coniferous and broad-leaved forests, which makes me look very friendly.
The canyon didn't fork and it was just a walk along the river to where we parked. As long as you don't particularly like going up the mountain, you shouldn't get lost here.
"I heard that this river is dozens of zhang deep, although there is no dragon, but it is a ten-meter-long big fish, manpower lies on the underwater stone wall of the river bank, as long as someone shows their head will be eaten!" Wang Dake walked next to me, and suddenly came out of nowhere.
It's terrifying to think about what she said, such a big fish grows in such a deep and narrow river, waiting for its prey in a human posture! But what does she mean by that?
"Don't worry! That guy doesn't know how to swim, and he has been bitten by a fish in the water, so he definitely doesn't dare to approach the water! I reluctantly smiled and explained to Wang Dake.
Wang Dake smiled and didn't speak. I felt as if everyone was suspicious of Xiao Yi, but out of respect for me, I didn't make it explicit. But I can't just be silent, if there is still no clue about Liu Dongxi in the end, I must have a decision.
Along the way, I paid attention to looking for the traces left by Liu Shi, but I never found it. Once you get to the bottom of the valley, it's all rocky, and it's hard to leave any traces. Halfway through the walk, I still didn't find anything.
At this moment, Wang Dake suddenly shouted in front, I hurriedly ran over, but saw her standing in front of a big stone, and on the big stone, there were two knife marks at the end, one end of the guide and the other end to the north, it seems that it is Liu Dongxi's effective technique!
My head was then stunned for a moment, this place is inaccessible at first glance, and there may be worshippers passing by in normal times, but now in this world, it is estimated that no one has walked here for a long time. Looking at the height of the knife marks, Liu Dongxi must be fighting with people here, but the situation here is clear, where else will there be anyone besides E?
With tears in his eyes, Wang Dake touched the knife marks on the stone and turned to me.
"Si'an, what do you think will happen?"
She said this very cleverly, and even said that she gave me face in front of everyone, I looked at her, and Xiao Kan, who stood next to her and comforted me at some point, was so confused that she couldn't speak.