Chapter 7: Don't Believe Bart!
As soon as the day dawned, Naren called us up one by one, I didn't sleep all night last night, I walked out of the yurt in a huff, Naren had already saddled the horse, the horse looked like listless, as languishing as the night, this feeling is good, it seems that no one here has any spirit except Naren.
Bart came out of his bag and handed me a bowl of milk tea, and after drinking it, I felt that my sleepiness had faded a lot.
"A wind a year, blowing from west to east" is the best description of the grassland wind, the grassland is windy all year round, especially in early October, when the wind is the strongest, I feel that people are the same as paper paste, and can follow the sky.
Bart called for Naren to come over for a bite to eat as he handed me a cigarette.
"Fourth brother, I'm afraid I'm a little rushed today, and it will take the afternoon to hurry up to Nai Ri Cave, and then we will see whether we are camping outside or passing through Nai Ri Cave."
"Well, I don't have any problems, but is this horse okay?" I watched the three sleepy yawning horses beat a drum in my heart.
"These are all old horses, and every day it is like not waking up, but they are not much worse than young ones, and they know the way, and we will not be able to ride after we reach the Nari Cave, and they will wait for us to come out."
Barthes thinks he can score 10 points for this explanation, and it's also the most reliable I've felt since I met him.
"Brother, I'm full." Naren washed the pots and pans, we tied up the yurts together, and after checking the rations of the cattle and sheep at Bart Ranch, we patted the horses on the back and set off.
When I was at home, I thought Naren was a very docile little girl, and when I came out, I found out that she was a strong temper, and I had to listen to her how to go and where to go.
Naren's temper is a little bigger, but there are indeed two times, where there is a water source, where there is a dark ditch can be distinguished far away, and wolves, dogs, rats, rabbits, cows, horses can be distinguished through the indentation of the hoof prints in the grass, especially the distinction of wolves is particularly clear, which is not unrelated to Naren's life in the forest area since childhood.
Mongolians are natural hunters, in the birthplace of the Mongolian people in the mountains and forests of the Ergun River Basin, their ancestors have spent a long hunting career in the dense forest, in the past, the hunting time of the Mongolian people often began from the end of autumn and early winter until the early spring of the second year, "September fox October wolf", it is said that the animal skins hunted in the two months of September and October are of high quality, especially foxes, because fox fur is extremely precious, and the fox skins hunted during this period become "old sheepskins", which are not suitable for furs. So the skill of hunting has always flowed through the Mongolian bloodline, and almost every Mongol I have met has this talent.
The old horse is not fast, I took out the gloves left by my grandfather from my bag and put them on my hands, I never knew what the name of this glove was, and I thought of a lot of names on the way to come, what apocalypse gloves, gossip gloves, but I felt that it was too conventional, so I simply didn't choose a name.
This glove I later studied by myself, in the final analysis, it is worthy of the treasure of our ancestors, if there is no secretary "Wind and Water" this glove can only be used as an antique treasure in the hands of others, but in our hands it is very different, the glove palm of the "Heavenly Master unloads the armor, the mountains and rivers are useless" "Wind and Water" There has been a clear annotation, each word corresponds to a geographical location name, in order is "the top of the mountain, the school, the tomb, the battlefield, the mountains, the river, the grassland, the dense forest." For example, if you are in the middle of the mountains and rivers, you need to apply the feng shui of the mountains and rivers, and you need to use the feng shui of the tomb in the depths of the tomb, which is extremely complex and detailed. Now that you are in the grassland, you need to use the wordless formula in "Wind and Water" to correspond to the word "nothing" in the glove, that is, if there is no wind, no water and no mountains.
Bart was probably panicked and wanted to say a few words to me, but when he saw that I was distracted by the glove, he quickly stopped talking and continued to watch the horse.
"Huh? It's weird. Naren, who was leading in front, suddenly said something to break the silence.
"What's wrong?" I asked her curiously.
"Go." Naren whistled for us to stop, and she rolled over and dismounted, crouching on the ground as if to distinguish the footprints of some animal.
We also dismounted, and the footprints were very deep, and from the footprints it was supposed to be only two toes, and I always thought I had seen them somewhere, but I couldn't remember.
"Brother, I can't remember that there will be camels here." Naren turned her head to look at Bart.
Bart also stared at the footprints with a serious face, he grabbed a little of the footprint soil with his fingers, rubbed it and sniffed it, looked up and thought for a moment, and nodded.
"Well, it's indeed the footprints of camels, and they're very new, I should have passed here 2-3 days ago, and the hoof prints were also headed for Keshik, but camels are only available in Xilin Gol, and it's impossible to have camels here." Bart said with certainty.
"Xilin Gol?" I was stunned for a moment, this place is a little familiar.
"Yes, it's too far from here, Simon's side, so far that you need to take a plane, it's impossible for camels to come here, and it's even more impossible for people to be human, I didn't say that someone transported camels." Bart said.
Bart turned his head and caught a glimpse of me and Naren being slightly scared, and quickly added, "Forget it, maybe it's overthinking, maybe it's a king-sized yellow sheep." Bart stood up and clapped his hands, calmed us a little, and motioned for Naren to continue on his way, but I saw that both he and Naren had taken their guns out of their luggage and hung them on their horses. As soon as I saw this posture, I also took out the slingshot that Bart had bought from my pocket and hung it on the horse's ears.
"Fourth brother, believe me, this slingshot is really powerful."
After this incident, the speed of the head horse slowed down significantly, and Bart was no longer confused, and he was engrossed in observing the surrounding situation, paying attention to the footprints on the ground, and so he walked until the sun was about to set, and finally arrived at the border line of the Keshik steppe.
The topography here is no different from the grassland outside, but in fact, the dark swamp division under the skin, I don't know how many animal corpses are buried under this Nai Ri Cave, and the air blown by the wind has a faint smell of decay, and the origin of the name Nai Ri Cave has been impossible to verify, only know that "Nai Ri" is a special performance method that originated in the Yuan Dynasty.
Bart looked at the sky and said that today is not going to pass, can only camp in place, tomorrow through the Nai Ri Cave, we pile in situ and tie the horse to set up the tent, take out the jerky from the bag and eat while looking at the Nai Ri Cave, as the sky gets darker and darker, the rotten smell in the air is getting heavier and more disgusting, Bart motioned for me to go back to the tent to stay, I shook my head, now into the Keshik area, I first have to deduce what direction Kang Bao said about the Jinshan.
Bart was afraid that I would fall into the dark swamp because I was not familiar with the geographical environment, so he kept standing next to me, and Naren was also the first time to see this kind of metaphysical Dafa that existed in the novel, and he also stood behind me curiously to watch me break the landscape.
Although the underground water veins of the Keshik grassland are complicated, but the source is from the Derbul River, which should be connected by water and gas but is cut into a number of small undercurrents and tributaries in Keshik, and the momentum collapses and no longer has the ability to gather qi. I just can't see the Tianshu Star and the Shaking Light Star that are one end and one tail, which is like a dragon's severed head and tail, which is a natural place of death, but it is the same as the landscape I judged at the beginning to form yin and yang.
Since the Keshik grassland as a whole has become a fierce appearance, I took out the sign of Si Tianjian, took a flashlight to look at the direction of the stars against the seventy-two earth evil stars of the Big Dipper behind the board, and briefly analyzed the direction of the stars.
"Little Fourth Brother, how is it?" Bart looked at me curiously.
I told them about the analysis, and they nodded their heads in a fog.
I couldn't help but look up, "Do you understand?" ”
"Nope." That's all in unison.
"Forget it, it's okay anyway, it's all about looking outside now, and then you have to look at it in the depths of the grassland, the grassland is too big, I can only guess which way Kang Bao might go, forget it, rest first, and look at it tomorrow." I was also a little tired, and waved them into the tent.
Because of the camel print, the three of us discussed it and felt that it was safe to take turns keeping vigil. I volunteered to stay in the first shift, and they walked for a day and squinted for a while.
After the two of them went to sleep, I sat on the fire in a military coat, looking at the bonfire in a daze, and I was bored while sitting, so I took out my mobile phone to see if there was a signal, huh? This opening was shocking, why is it still full?
This deserted place where no smoke birds don't, a little signal is good, where is there such a strong signal, I took out a torch from the bonfire and stood up and looked around, it didn't look like there was a signal tower, I tried to recall that I didn't see the signal tower along the way, how could there be a signal?
I tried to open QQ and swiped the QQ space, not to mention that it was really brushed out in seconds, I shook my head, flipped through the recent space dynamics, and just saw that yesterday Yin He Sheng sent a dynamic, she was wrapped in thick clothes and stood on the grassland pretending to be handsome, Yin He Sheng was originally with a heroic spirit, and in the vast world of the grassland, I felt full of heroic and wild beauty, just as I was ready to click on her space with an appreciative attitude, I was a little bit more energetic, wait, I suddenly came back to my senses, Tsai carefully looked at the background behind Yin He Sheng, and then zoomed it out to identify it carefully.
"This... Is this the Nari Cave? "Even if I am wrapped in a thick military coat, my whole body is upside down, this, how is this possible?
Just when my jaw dropped.
"Xiao Linzi? Are you Kobayashi? Suddenly, a voice came from behind me, my conditioned reflex was so frightened that I instantly bounced up, almost fell into the fire, I subconsciously touched a torch and looked ahead, a strong figure like a bear in the dark, "Don't be afraid, it's me, I'm Congler." "The shadow tried to move closer to me, but it seemed to be held down by something, and it could only crouch on the ground.
"You're Kang Bao?" I asked tentatively.
"Yes, it's me, it's me," the voice choked.
"You're still coming to me, didn't I tell you not to come? If you come here, you can't get out. Kang Bao's voice became strange in the back, a feeling of not smiling but crying, like another person said, I heard my hair stand upside down, I held the torch tightly and took a deep breath, "Kang Bao, where are you now?" ”
"I'm in the Kashik steppe, I can't get out, I can't go out again, Linzi, you're here, stay with me for a while." After saying that, the figure in the darkness stood up suddenly, and after standing upright, it was almost two meters high, and I sat on the ground and looked at him as if I were looking at a hill, and then the black shadow reached out and grabbed me.
I can't dodge this distance at all, and my legs don't seem to be my own, I can't give any strength at all, I secretly shouted in my heart, "What a bullshit brand, I shouldn't have an accident today!" Just as the hand was about to touch me through the darkness, suddenly the glove in my right hand made a piercing "silk" sound like a sharpening knife, and the body began to tremble wildly in the darkness, and I fell to the ground with my eyes black and my head up, and I listened to the faint but hoarse roar of mosquitoes in a trance
"Don't believe Bart!"
I couldn't hold it anymore and closed my eyes completely.
"Little Fourth Brother! Little Fourth Brother! Naren bring the water! "In a trance, I seemed to hear Bart calling me, and I wanted to open my eyes but I couldn't lift my eyelids.
Just as I was struggling with myself, "Smack! "The left side of my face felt like it had been slapped by a steel plate, and I fainted completely.
"Brother! Why are you so ruthless! Don't smoke people to death! "After a long time, I seemed to hear Naren's voice again.
"Brother, put your hands down! Don't smoke it, you let me try. Naren's words scared my soul back, and I didn't know where the strength came from, so I struggled to sit up and subconsciously protected my face and looked at them.
"I'm finally awake." They sighed.
I looked up and saw that it was still dark, and then I looked at my watch, and it had only been less than two hours, but I felt like I had been in a daze for a few days.
"What about mobile phones? What about my phone? I hurriedly looked for my phone everywhere, Naren hurriedly handed it to me, I opened the phone and saw that there was no signal.
Is it a dream? How can it be so real? I dreamed of Kangbao's dream on the train, why did I dream it again? And why do you dream of yin and what is life? My mind is full of question marks, and I can't do it for a while.
"Don't believe Bart!" That sentence seemed to explode in my ears like a thunderstorm, I looked at Bart carefully, and my heart suddenly disappeared, indeed, I came here inexplicably, the more I thought about this kind of thing, the more panicked I became, I shook my head and stopped thinking about it, thinking about it day and night.
Later, I heard that Naren said that she was in the second shift, and when she came out, she saw me fall to the ground and convulsed, and she also panicked, and quickly called her brother to come over and wake me up together.
I was a little absent-minded, and didn't say a word about the dream, but said that I was too tired to adapt to the water and soil, so I took a sip of liquor and went to sleep.
"Don't believe Bart!" So who should I trust? Do you believe you? Kang Bao, you must have bad intentions when you grabbed me at the end, otherwise why would there be a knife sound in the gloves?
I fell asleep in a daze.