Stone Man of the Western Regions Stone Man of the Western Regions Chapter 5: Chase
The temperature in Xinjiang this season is changeable, and Altay in the early morning is even more chilly, such a temperature, coupled with Ah Jin's strange behavior, makes me feel a trace of sweat hair standing up in the cold.
At this moment, I was standing not far below our camp on the mountainside, and I was only less than fifty meters away from Akin.
From the time I spotted him, his posture changed several times, from his initial stiff body, to leaning over and approaching the river, to his current full squat. Although the movements and postures have been changing, the murmuring towards the river has continued.
I didn't make any further movements, and my experience told me that Ah Jin in front of me should be hallucinating or tempted by something. It's similar to the problem when I was stimulated by the flowers on the cliff wall, and I was in the same hallucinatory state as when I first saw the fat man.
I suddenly remembered what the fat man had said last night before we went to bed, that this was in the confines of a certain tomb, and that all sorts of strange things could happen here.
And when the fat man sprinkled the glutinous rice on Ah Jin's hand, I vaguely saw that Ah Jin was a little resistant. When I returned to the tent, I didn't see him putting the sticky rice next to me. Perhaps it was this rejection that caused him to be disturbed by some kind of unknown?
At the moment, I can only judge and speculate on all this.
If Ah Jin's state is similar to ours at that time, then the world he sees now must be different from the world I see now. Even if I were to go to him now, he would think of me as if I were another person or even a human being, just as the fat man did when he saw me in a hallucination in the dungeon.
Originally, the distance between Xinjiang cities and scenic spots is very long, and it often takes several hours to drive. The straight road and the landscape on both sides barely changed, making me feel as if we were in a no-man's land.
This feeling was especially strong when I hid behind a rock and quietly watched Ah Jin's movements.
At that time, there was a kind of silence beyond the soul, and at that moment, as long as you quietly observed the surroundings, you could hear the original sound of the world.
And what I heard was not only the sound of the world itself, but also the snoring and "talking" of the fat man and the scorpion in the tent not far above me, and the murmur of Ah Jin by the river below me.
Ah Jin's murmur is a bit like a snake spitting out a letter, and some is like some animal imitating human voices, and that murmur makes me sound extremely uncomfortable.
I pricked up my ears to block out the snoring of the fat man and the scorpion, and tried to listen to what Ah Jin was whispering. But at this moment, Ah Jin, who was squatting, suddenly got up! His body was no longer facing the river, but in the direction where I was hiding!
His movements immediately stirred up my nervousness. I'm sure I didn't peek out of any part of my body from behind the rock, and I can confidently say that I couldn't see from where he was standing. If he turned around because he had spotted me, the only possibility was that the sound had caught his attention when I had just descended the mountainside.
But this inference is a bit counterintuitive, and if he had sensed my presence at that time, he would have turned to look at my position. During this time, he kept making various poses and muttering to the river. I made it to the point where he was looking, not where I was, but the mountains behind me, which I judged from the way he looked up.
"Su Mo, what are you doing here?"
Just as I was nervously staring at Ah Jin's movements, Yiyi's voice suddenly came from behind me. Although her voice was faint from getting up after a break, and was muffled by the snoring of fat men and scorpions, her voice was unusually clear in this quieter place than anywhere else in the world.
After Yiyi's voice sounded, I chuckled in my heart and said in my heart: It's broken!
Sure enough, Ah Jin also heard Yiyi's voice. He immediately let out an inhuman hiss, and then quickly ran towards the upper reaches of the river, twice as fast as the fat man in the hallucinatory dungeon! There are even some speeds that are beyond the limits of the human body!
"Ahh
Yiyi screamed in shock after hearing Ah Jin's strange scream.
When I saw Ah Jin running upstream, I immediately rushed out of the hiding rock, and he chased after him!
As I caught up, I glanced back at Yiyi, only to see that she was so stunned and frozen, motionless!
In this secluded night, this strange scene made this little girl who had never been exposed to strange events panic immediately!
"Go and call the fat man!"
After shouting at her, I chased after Ah Jin's running route with all my might. At this moment, I don't care about what caused Ah Jin's state, I just think that this is the second uncle's team, the second uncle is no more, I want to protect them!
Although I am confident, my speed is not slow, and my physical strength is okay. But compared to Ah Jin in front of me, I found that the gap between us was like a race between a college student and a primary school student.
Of course, I was that elementary school student.
Soon, I was thrown a long distance away by him. Fortunately, in this part of Xinjiang, most of the scenery is straight, and there are no forks in the road.
Ah Jin left me behind, but I could still see the shadow running in front of me.
To my surprise, Ah Jin didn't seem to be trying to get rid of me, as if he was guiding me somewhere.
It wasn't hard to get rid of me on such a straight route, and to my left was the forest we were passing through. At his speed, as long as he plunged headlong into the woods, and then ran deeper into the woods, a few back and forth, I would be thrown away.
And Ah Jin in front of me didn't mean this at all, he was always on the same route, not even the slightest deviation from the running route.
Under my desperate pursuit, my body is no longer as cold as it was at the beginning.
During this time, my body has adapted to this high-intensity exercise. Ah Jin has always kept a distance of fifty meters from me, but because of his tall and heavy body, he was also very loud all the way he ran, and that sound was more like intentional, afraid that I would not be able to keep up.
I don't know how far I ran, how many kilometers from our campsite. And without the temptation of food, the fat man can not wake up. None of this is something I'm blind to care about.
What worries me right now is that the sound of Ah Jin running in front of me suddenly disappeared! As I pursued, I kept distancing myself from him, and later, my pace of chasing was completely controlled by my hearing.
But the sound that led me to catch up suddenly disappeared out of thin air!
This sudden shift made me lose my bearings all of a sudden, and I had to stop catching up. Standing in place with my hands on my knees and panting for breath, no matter how good my physical strength was, this kind of high-intensity running was unbearable. My back clothes were already wet with sweat, and the cool breeze made me feel a biting feeling.
The forest on my left was the same as I had seen when I camped, a Siberian fir tree that was extremely hardy. Even with such a large temperature difference here, they still flourish.
The mountains to my right, on the other hand, have changed. It felt much thicker than the mountain range I was chasing, and if we were camping in the belly of a dragon, the mountain in front of me would look like a dragon's head.
The turning route that also appeared in front of me, this kind of peak and loop turn, should be the only way to turn the back of the mountain range and go to the vast prairie as the scorpion said.
Ah Jin disappeared from my sight out of thin air, and for a moment my world became quiet again.
Just as I looked around and wondered whether to continue to look for Ah Jin's figure, or go back the same way to find the fat man, and then make a decision.
A voice came from the mountain in the shape of a "dragon's head" to my right! The moment I heard that loud voice, my heart beat faster, and my hairs stood on end.
The sound was the same sound that Ah Jin made before he ran away when he heard Yiyi call me.
At the same time, I saw a shadow on the high ground in a col to my right, staring at me coldly!
Although the line of sight is not very good, I can be sure that the shadow is Ah Jin!
When Ah Jin saw that I had found him, he immediately flashed down the col towards the depths of the "dragon head", and I immediately followed, and I was not allowed to think much about it for a moment.
I can now be sure that Akin's performances must be leading me somewhere.
The col where Akin disappeared is not very high, in fact, the entire mountain range we see is not particularly high. Especially when it comes to the position of this "dragon head", the mountain level suddenly reaches the lowest. It's like a dragon falling from the sky, trying to plunge its "dragon head" deep into the earth's crust. Later, I listened to the fat man's introduction, this is the typical "flat dragon" dragon vein trend, the reason why it is called "flat dragon" is because its "dragon head" finally fell to the ground, and the body opened a gap.
As I stood where Ah Jin had just stood, I was a little surprised by what was happening behind the col.
I saw that the back of the col, which is the direction close to the Altay steppe as the scorpion said, is full of large and small hills, high and low. These hills are covered with many wild bell thorns. There are many holes on these hills that are only one person wide hidden between the bells, and the view at night is not good, and even the trance of a flashlight cannot see the whole of the hills.
I think if it were daytime, what I saw in front of me would be about the same shape as honeycomb coal!
Just as I was using my flashlight to look at the holes, Akin's uncomfortable hiss reappeared!
The sound came in the direction of a hole between the bells on a hill not far in front of me!