Chapter 20: The Journey
Of course, it wasn't Mark who knocked me down, when I returned to the hotel, Mark, Zhao Dong, Bai Xue, and Ma Li were playing two upgrades, and he had never been out of the hotel at all.
The door of the phone booth was closed, the boss had run away, and I had to consider myself unlucky.
Just one day later, we each stood in front of the haunted house with a large waterproof marching bag on our backs.
The sun shone through the dead branches on everyone, and I looked left and right.
Lacey, Zhao Dong, Zhang San, Mark and I stood side by side at the front, Zhao Dong carried a double-horn cassette machine on his right shoulder, and went to the barber shop to get his hair styled, like a popular young man in the 80s.
Mike Jackson's beatit was loudly playing on the cassette player, and he said that in that dark place without music it was like stepping into his own grave. I couldn't agree more.
I looked at the watch that Lacey had given me, and the auspicious time had arrived, and it was finally time to go down to the Great Khan's Mausoleum.
Everyone put three sticks of incense on the outside of the door, and prayed to the gods to bless everything well and well, and I entered the door with Lacey, and according to the plan, we were to take the vanguard and go first.
Out of the stone trough, we quickly opened our backpacks and changed clothes, I put the cold rain on the magazine, closed the safety and pinned it in the back of the pants, and pulled down the T-shirt to cover it. Lacey had already set up a few camp lights on the platform.
The next work is particularly important, rubbing skin oil on the inner thighs and buttocks of the entire lower body, this is a continuous mountain, and the buttocks and thighs will be worn out if you walk for too long.
Then we lit the lantern and burned the brimstone, and I remembered the stone staircase and walked over to take a look.
There are no stone steps at all!
It's just a vertical cliff, like the stone steps have disappeared, as if there were never stone steps here, and there is no trace of it.
It seems that it was not our carelessness to come in for the first time and not see the stone steps, there is something strange here.
Trap or illusion? I don't have time to think about it for a while, as planned, 5 minutes after we came in, Bai Xue and Ma Li came in.
The smoke of the sulphur burning quickly dissipated, but still could not relax, so we made it with soda lime charcoal packed with cloth tape
The simple mask replaces the gas mask, and the mask is for girls, and Bai Xue is my key protected animal.
When Bai Xue and Ma Li came out of the water, I was almost stunned, and they came out of the water in their clothes.
Oh, by the way, they don't have a swimsuit, and Lacey doesn't have a wetsuit, so of course she has to go into the water with her clothes on, and she can't be naked.
The jeans and white shirt worn by Bai Xue were all soaked and stuck to her body, showing her bumpy figure, the white shirt was very transparent when wet, and the white underwear that Bai Xue was wearing clearly showed me, and I seemed to be able to see the body wrapped in the underwear.
My heart beat faster and I couldn't breathe, and when I handed them the gas mask, I quickly looked away, thinking about Bai Xue's body, although it was not plump, but it was even more heart-beating, and before I knew it, I had a little physiological reaction. I also felt fluid flowing down my nose, and I quickly turned my back, did I see that these people really had nosebleeds?
I wiped my lower nostril with my index finger, oh, runny nose.
I couldn't think about it anymore, I quickly shook my head and pinched my arm again, I must forcibly distract myself.
"It's disgusting here, where are we going to change our clothes?" , Bai Xue asked. "Let's turn our backs, and you guys will scream," Lacey said.
"This ,,,"
Lacey and I turned our backs, and the two women behind us hesitated for a moment, and after a whispered conversation, there was the sound of Suo Suo's change of clothes.
This voice is really terrible, I endure it, try not to think nonsense, but the more it goes like this, the more I can't control it, and the reaction below is even stronger.
"Okay", the sound of snow came from behind me, but how did I turn around like this.
Fortunately, I was quick-witted, squatted down and pretended to tie my shoes, and calmed down for a while before turning around.
Bai Xue had changed into a pair of cropped jeans to show off her white calves, and Ma Li lifted her gas mask and wiped her hair there.
After another five minutes, Zhao Dong and Mark began to transport equipment in, and Lacey and I responded, and we made five or six trips, and after everyone came in to gather, the stone steps still did not appear, and there was no other way out around.
Including the second senior brother, everyone fell silent.
This was the first problem we encountered in the Great Khan's Mausoleum, but we couldn't solve it.
"Senior brother", I pinned my hopes on the second senior brother.
The second senior brother looked at me and said, "In ancient times, the royal family had a method of keeping secrets, and the words written in a specially configured liquid were invisible to the naked eye, and could only be revealed after the sulfur had been smoked."
My eyes lit up, yes, the first time we burned the sulfur before we saw the stone steps, but just now we also burned the sulfur, is it not enough?
I glanced at Lacey, "Burn a little more brimstone"
Lacey grabbed a handful of brimstone and said to us, "Stand behind me, put on your mask, and close your eyes."
The large amount of sulfur burned and produced billowing white smoke, and even standing behind the headwind, the eyes were slightly stinging,
Finally, after the smoke was gone, we walked over quickly.
The mountain wall is still a mountain wall, and the stone steps are still unrevealed.
If it was invisible, the stone steps would have existed, but we couldn't see it, and I held the mountain wall with my right hand and stretched out my left foot.
In front of the emptiness, I stepped on the stone steps with my left foot.
"The stone steps are really here", I told everyone with some excitement.
"Stand up and take a look," Zhang San said behind him.
Even though I stepped on the stone steps with my left foot, it looked like a void, and I really didn't dare to move my weight to it.
"You come", I glanced at Zhang San with some anger, withdrew my left foot and stood aside.
Zhang San was also like me, he only stepped on it with his left foot and didn't dare to stand up.
Everyone came to try it, but no one dared to actually set foot on it.
In the end, Lacey stood up like a god, stepping on the void, really like a god, but my heart jumped violently, and I couldn't stand it and quickly pulled Lacey back.
"Once you get over the psychological barrier, you can get through," Lacey said calmly.
I shook my head, still in a state of panic.
"We can't wait here, we have to enter the mausoleum as soon as possible to complete the operation"
I still pulled Lacey and shook my head, "If you have a problem, solve it, in case the stone steps are broken."
"Then we'll climb down," Lacey said, pulling out her searchlight and charging it to shoot into the abyss below the platform.
"Can you see the bottom?" , Zhao Dong asked.
Lacey shook her head, "There are a few large rocks protruding in the middle blocking the view, this height is at least two hundred meters"
Then Lacey turned off the searchlight and said, "I'll go down and explore first."
That's all there is, "be careful", I told Lacey and put my hope on the second senior brother.
"Senior brother, use your eyes to see if it's an illusion."
"What kind of eye, phantom eye, remember clearly, also called phantom pupil, the pupil of the pupil, I've seen it a long time ago, if it's an illusion, there is always a way to break it, it's not a fucking spell, if the spell can still stump me......"
Let's go, the second senior brother kept muttering, it seems that the hot second senior brother is on his body.
I had to ignore him and go to see Lacey, who was already preparing to rappel with her headlamp on.
There was a sound of water, and there was a stirring in the stone trough, what's wrong!
Could it be that those two dead old men are here? Suddenly I felt a chill in my heart, don't be the master with water footprints yesterday.
We all fell silent and stared at the sink when suddenly an arrow spewed into my face, and a black shadow jumped out of the water.
At first, it scared me, it turned out to be the big yellow dog, it was estimated that it was also stunned to see so many people, and stood stunned and tilted its head to look at us.
After two seconds, the big yellow dog shook the water on his body and suddenly ran away quickly.
It ran past the stone slabs that looked like voids, and a fantastical scene unfolded before our eyes.
Where the big yellow dog ran, stone steps appeared out of thin air, and finally the dog turned around the corner of the mountain, and we came out in front of us
A complete stone staircase is now available.
When we were all stunned, the second senior brother suddenly realized, "So that's what happened."
Then he exclaimed, "Clever, clever,,,"
"What's wrong?" , I asked the second senior brother.
"Dogs are the key"
Needless to say, I also know that we saw the dog run over and the road came out, but the day before yesterday when Lacey and I came in to investigate, the dog ran over first, and we still didn't see the road.
"Dogs belong to yang, can overcome yin, can break spells,,,"
As soon as the second senior brother said this, Wan Tuo suddenly interjected, "It's still a spell."
"What are you talking about, if it's all spells, I can't see it?" , The second senior brother glared at Wan Camel angrily.
No one would feel comfortable being glared at by the second senior brother's slanted eyes, Wan Huo shut up, but this is exactly what I want to ask.
"Senior brother, are you saying that this dog broke the spell as soon as he ran over?" , I immediately asked the second senior brother, lest he continue to scold Wan Huo.
"The spell is a point, not the main thing, this dog has been fed medicine since he was a child, and there must be some medicine on the stone steps, when the dog runs over, the medicinal properties on the body and the stone steps are mutually restrictive, and the illusion is broken, revealing the stone steps"
"Oh", I seemed to understand, and suddenly I had a feeling in my heart that if the dog could show it if the dog ran over, then Lacey and I should have been able to see the stone steps when we came in the day before yesterday.
"Sure enough, it is a dog's guts, and it dares to jump on it in the void, and it is more daring than us," Zhao Dong said.
I thought about it for a moment and said, "That's not necessarily because it's bold, if you can make the way show up with drugs, you don't have to be so troublesome, it is estimated that the dog's eye can see the road, and there are some things that the human eye can't see, but the dog's eye can see."
"The second senior brother's eyes can't see it, but the dog's eyes can?" , Zhang San asked beside him.
I don't think well, how can you compare the eyes of the second senior brother with the eyes of a dog. Hurriedly diverted the conversation, "Sometimes dogs bark at open and empty places, that is, they see things that you can't see."
"Don't say it, this road will obviously appear and disappear, pack up and go", Lacey gave the order and everyone began to pack their backpacks.
I glanced around the corner, where Mark and Martin were silently cowering into a corner, and since discovering the entrance, the two of them had often been silent and uninvolved in the discussion, as if they didn't exist. It's a bit unusual, but don't let them do anything bad for you.
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