Chapter 8: The Cave Eye

Today's spirit is exceptionally good, I drank some wine, and I am really tired for the past two days, and my spirit has been in a tense state, and last night's incident was completely crushed for me, and I urgently need a good rest and buffer.

Out of the tent, Bart was boiling milk tea with Naren, and when he saw me coming out, he shouted, "Fourth brother, do you feel better?" ”

I don't know what to reply to, yesterday's illusion that was so real that it couldn't be real was really successful in making me a little wary of Bart, I patted my head and scolded myself secretly, "Lin Changqing, what are you thinking about every day, have you watched too many ghost movies?" ”

"I feel much better when I get some sleep, did you two rest well yesterday."

"My brother was worried about you yesterday, and he didn't sleep at night, and he saw you several times in the middle, and you slept soundly." Naren pursed her lips.

I filled a bowl of milk tea and patted Naren's little head, "Go back, brother, please go to the Mengbin Hotel to eat shabu-shabu." ”

As soon as Naren heard that she was going to eat shabu shabu in the Mengmeng Hotel, she immediately smiled, the mutton shabu in the Hailarmont Hotel is famous, the meat is good and the soup is fresh, and the ingredients used are all good materials, even the people in Yakeshi and Manchuria will come to eat, for a little girl like Naren, this is a huge temptation.

Bart laughed and tapped Naren on the head, "It's your gluttony." After taking a big sip of milk tea, picking up half a steamed bun and tethering the horses, Bart untied the horse's rope and hugged the horse's head and said a lot to each of them, and the horses nodded frequently as if they understood, and gently rubbed Bart's cheek with their heads from time to time.

The feelings of the grassland people for the horse are difficult to describe in words, in the long history, people and horses depend on each other, and have spent a lot of difficult and dangerous years together, and the horse has also carved an indelible memory in the hearts of the grassland people, and people have buried an inseparable gratitude to the horse from the heart.

Bart lowered his head and muttered for a while, untied the bridle, and said a few words to the horse in Mongolian, I didn't understand Mongolian and turned back to ask Naren Bart what he said.

Naren told me that untying the bridle meant that the horse was like a retired horse and could live an old age, and Bart was very grateful for their hard work and dedication for so many years, and promised that they would definitely come back from here and take them home to live out their old age, and if they really couldn't come back, they would go to live freely.

Bart turned around and told us we could pack up our tents and get ready to go.

There are a lot of dark swamps in the cave of Nairi, some of the dark swamps are not even big feet, but because they are small, it is more difficult to judge the scope of the dark swamp, some of the dark swamps are under the hole eye, and if they fall deep, they will fall into the hole and can't climb out, and the hole eye on the bright side will see one for ten meters, some are big and some are small, I can't see anything clearly along the hole eye to look down at the black rumbling dong, and I don't know how deep it is, Bart walks in the front of the heaviest, I walk in the middle, after Naren breaks, although there is no accident on the road taken, but it is also a step by step, walking inside.

I looked around, here a horse Pingchuan except weeds are weeds, there is no reference, the swamp environment makes this a paradise for voles and muskrats, I have never seen so many rats, and one is bigger than the other, like a smaller cat, and not afraid of people at all, scurrying between the soil, rats are born like yin, the more yin is the place where the rat likes to drill, the mountain belongs to yang, and the environment here is even more incompatible, it is difficult to imagine what mountains will be here.

Walked carefully all the way for a few hours before you got out of the Nairi Cave and really entered the Keshik Grassland, with the protection of the Nai Ri Cave, the Keshik Grassland is almost isolated from the outside world and has its own system, the grassland is overgrown with weeds, the stream is chaotic, and occasionally you will see some cattle and horses, but they are all wild and untamed animals, and it is completely an uncivilized wilderness.

We rested for a moment after Naren marked the exit, and I looked at Bart from time to time with some concern, since he had entered the Kashik steppe, he had been silent and silent, and had been paying attention to his surroundings, observing the traces of soil on the ground from time to time, and trying to find clues to Kangbao's walk. I'm always afraid that he will be too attentive and the end result will be difficult for him to accept.

After entering the grassland, I took out "The Wind and the Water" and read it silently, and when I entered the grassland, I could no longer walk by feeling like a headless fly, and I had to know the general direction. China's geographical situation every 8 degrees or so will have a large junction structure, also known as the leyline, the examination of the work has written "the trend of the world, between the two mountains must be Chuanying." There must be a way on the river. "The current conditions are difficult to confirm the traces of the mountains, we can only judge the direction of the leyline, the mountains and rivers are along the leyline to the branch, determine the branch of the leyline to determine the next direction.

The Chinese divide the mountains and rivers into four columns and nine mountains, and the east is the head, the ancients sit, to the east as the respect, the same is true of the earth's veins, if all things have spirit gold and silver mountains are really covered with gold and silver, it is very likely to belong to the honorable position, only the mountain is located in the east to look down on the earth, and it is impossible for the mountain to be located in the west, blocking the view of the east, so the general direction of the next step should be to go east, and the earth veins are affected by the water and pull each other, I walked along the stream for a while and then squatted down to observe the direction of the stream, it is from the northeast to the southwest, and the northeast has the largest vein in the north, Xing'an Ridge, After scrutinizing with each other, I roughly drew a simple road map, northeast.

Bart nodded frequently, indicating that he should hurry up and set off without further ado.

We nodded, trimmed for a moment, and then groped our way down the stream to the northeast.

After entering the Kashik steppe, there were much less dark swamps, no more complicated than the swamps of the Nari caves, and the road was much smoother, so I chewed on Sparley and asked Bart if he had seen the camel's footprints again.

"Little fourth brother, don't you don't open any pot and mention which pot, it's best not to touch it." Naren quickly interrupted me, and I smiled, "Don't worry, even if I touch it, I'll lower it and make a roasted hump to eat." ”

As soon as she heard that Naren was eating, she was energetic again: "Isn't that thing delicious?" ”

"It's delicious, once we were talking about forage in Huhe, and the boss gave us a whole meal, but it was chewy." Bart accosted a sentence in front.

"Then why don't you bring me some?" Naren became angry when she heard this.

"Then I'm old, why don't you want to bring it back, besides, your brother and I are going to talk about business, how can I pack it after eating" Bart pouted.

"Brother, you're too bad, I'm going to talk to you about business in the future."

"Okay, okay, my brother will take you wherever he goes in the future. Your fourth brother eats the most, and the hot dry noodles in Hubei are always delicious. "Bart hurried and kicked the ball to me.

"It's not delicious, it's not delicious, but it's dry, and I can't eat it." I quickly replied.

"I don't believe it, little fourth brother, you will take me to eat hot dry noodles in the future." Naren looked at me with a pretended innocent face.

"Okay, good, and Wuhan's crayfish, it's enough."

After a few words, the atmosphere was obviously much more lively, not as depressing as when I first came in.

Suddenly, Bart waved his hand and made a fist gesture, which was a tactical body movement that told us that there was a situation. Naren reacted the fastest, instantly kneeling on one knee, holding the gun in his left hand and always ready to pull the rifle on the leash with his right hand, I reacted a little slower and took off the slingshot from the waistband of Naren's pants, grabbed the slingshot with my right hand and grabbed the slingshot with my left hand in my pocket.

Naren has a good nose and keeps sniffing at the air. Then he whispered to me, "It smells of blood." ”

Bart motioned for us to lean over, and then pointed not far away, and we looked down, and there was a cow half-kneeling on the ground, with a high buttocks, as if to make a move, and I looked closely, and the cow seemed to be dead, and Bart said that there was something wrong with the cow, and let me shoot it with a slingshot.

I pulled up the slingshot and shot at the cow, the cow did not move, it seemed to be dead, we slowly touched it, the closer we got to the cow, the stronger the smell of blood, Bart looked around the cow, and hit the cow with the butt of the gun, and the whole cow fell to the ground on its back, so that it could hang for me to spit out.

The cow was torn open from the neck to the back mound, and the inside of the belly was hollowed out, and only a few pieces of intestines hung on it.

"This is wolf food?" I looked at Naren suspiciously.

Naren squatted and looked at it for a long time and shook his head, the wolf can even clean the bones when he eats, he will not be so extravagant and only eat internal organs, and the crack on the stomach should be caused by a very large creature, the wolf does not have such a big bite force to tear open the belly of the whole cow, the strangest thing is the posture of this cow, if it is a very large animal, it is impossible to eat the internal organs, it should also be placed like this in the later stage.

"Little sister, you look at the eyes of the cow, there is no panic at all, it should be dead in an instant, there is no animal on the grassland that can make the cow die in an instant."

Naren nodded, took off her gloves and took out a small piece of intestines from the cow's belly, and looked at it for a while, "This cow hasn't been dead for long, you can see that the bite marks on this intestine are still very clear, and they are well preserved by the heavy snow." ”

"This bite mark is either a blind bear or a Siberian tiger." Bart thought for a long time and said with certainty.

But neither of these could be grassland creatures, and it's all more and more confusing. Bart stood up and said to me and Naren slowly, "Little fourth brother, Xiao Na, you two go back along the road, you can't stay here for a long time, I'll go in by myself." ”

"You're not kidding, if you come in, you have to go out together." Actually, I'm scared too, but I wouldn't hesitate to choose the former in the face of my brother and fear.

"I'm telling the truth, in fact, from the moment I came in, I always felt unsure, when I walked through the Nairi Cave, I felt that Kang Bao might not have been here at all, but since I came in, I also have to look around, you don't have to follow me to gamble with your life."

"Brother, I'll be where you are." Naren said firmly.

"Yes, so do I." After saying this, I suddenly had a tragic feeling, like a strong man is gone.

Bart is not a hypocritical person, and he hammered me in the chest, "Good brother." ”

"Good brother." I also felt my blood boiling, hahaha.

Bart grabbed the gun, took out a sip of wine, took two more sips for Naren and me, and returned to the road with his bags.

Bart turned around and told Naren to prepare her gun as she walked, and as she spoke, there was a sudden "clang", and the ground under her feet cracked and the whole person fell.

"Brother!"

"Bart!" Naren shouted to me, and quickly crouched down to look, the hole was pitch black, and I didn't know how deep the bottom was, I tried to call Bart, but there was no reply at all.

Naren panicked at the time, and was about to jump down when she got up, so I hurriedly hugged her, "Don't worry, Naren, don't worry, don't worry, this hole is not deep, it will be fine." ”

I was comforted and quickly opened my backpack to find the trekking line and searchlight, and Naren sat sluggishly for a while to regain consciousness and hurried over to help me.

I hung up the carabiner, put the rope frame to make sure I grasped it, and then nailed all the way down to the cave.

Halfway down, there was a sudden pause in the darkness and Barth's frightened voice.

"What's that?"