Chapter 7: The Endless Swamp

Now I'm a little dumbfounded, I didn't expect that there are such stone piles on these roads, just now we didn't look back at all, we didn't see it at all, could it be that the place I walked just now, there is also such a design?

Looking around, the route we were on was the same this time, and if it wasn't for the marking, we wouldn't know where we're going.

Brother Hong looked at the road, then at me, and then said, "What do you mean?" It's all the same. ”

I shook my head, muttering in my heart, "I don't know, whatever, go back first." ”

We immediately set out on the road and walked back along the road, because there was no danger along the way, so this time we walked very fast, and soon we saw a dark shadow in front of us.

This time, we all paid attention to both sides, and sure enough, there were two stone piles, and there was a red cloth strip on one of them, which was a mark we made.

On the other side, there are two piles of stones without red cloth strips, still a three-way intersection, and the scene around is almost the same, there is no reference at all, and it is difficult for us to see where we are now.

Brother Hong immediately took out the compass, but this time, the compass was no longer a compass, but kept rotating, as if he couldn't find the north and south poles.

I looked around and said; "Now that you can come back, how about it, to go or not to go?" At this time, I can only ask Brother Hong, after all, he brought us here.

Brother Hong thought for a while and said, "Let's go, we have to go inside, I'm not willing to get the treasure." And since we can come back, what are we afraid of, make a mark, and let's go. ”

"Cheng?" I look at the sky, fortunately the days are longer this season, otherwise it would have been dark at this time, and it would have been even more difficult to walk.

But no matter how you look at it, sleeping in the wild today is for sure.

"Looks like I'm going to have to sleep out today."

"It's fine." Brother Hong immediately said: "We have sleeping bags and smokeless stoves, don't worry, even if we spend the night here, we can survive it." ”

I didn't speak, which is true, but if you do camp like this, it will be quite troublesome, and it seems that you still have to find a way to find a place as soon as possible.

We turned around again, quickly walked to the spot we had just walked through, and then chose a direction, and this time we ran straight away, and soon there was a pile of rocks in front of us again, and we marked it again.

This time we were in a hurry, so we didn't go to any other places.

In this way, we walked through three or four groups of such stone piles, and we did not encounter anything along the way, but the physical strength of several of us was consumed very quickly, and by the time it was almost dark, we were already out of breath.

Brother Hong is already a little behind at this time, his physical strength is actually the worst among us, think about it, those little brothers usually do things and exercise regularly.

And I, who have been in prison for all these years, have to work every day, and of course I have also exercised myself.

Brother Hong, he has become the boss, of course, his physical strength is poor.

He grabbed me and said, "No, brother, we need to find a place to rest." ”

I looked around at the swamp and said, "Why do you have to go to the stone pile, there is a lot of space." ”

"Okay." Brother Hong was helpless, and followed us to walk forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, this time the speed was much slower, and it was dark, and we came to the three-way intersection.

Brother Hong sat on the ground, gasping for breath, and said: "Fuck, what kind of place is this, how big a swamp it must be, I haven't walked to the place for half a day, how can we go out of thirty or forty kilometers at this speed, why can't we see the head." ”

I scratched my head and said, "I don't know, this place is very evil." ”

Brother Hong looked around, not only was it dark at this time, but there was also fog, and said, "It can't be that you are going the wrong way." ”

"Possibly." I also sat down, took a long breath, and said, "This is a bad place, and it's normal to go wrong." ”

As he was talking, he heard a little brother over there shouting, "Come and see!" ”

Listening to that voice, it seems that something has happened, and it is not a trivial matter.

Brother Hong and I stood up and walked over there.

We looked at the flashlight, and saw that in front of us was a stone pile, and on top of the stone pile, there was a red cloth strip.

Brother Hong punched the little brother in the head and said, "What's the matter? Isn't it just to make a mark? ”

The little brother looked at Brother Hong with an aggrieved face and said, "Big brother, it's not like this, I want to come here to make a mark, but this ...... I didn't make this mark. ”

"You didn't do it." I was stunned for a moment, and looked at the strip of cloth, it should be a mark that we made, if it wasn't made by this little brother, could it be that the team that entered in front of me did it?

No, no matter how you say it, it's unlikely that it will come to mind with us.

The little brother rubbed his head and said, "I can't say that I didn't make it, this strip of cloth should be one of the marks I made before, I know." ”

I looked at the strip of cloth and then I realized, this time, we really have to walk back.

"Come and see here." Another little brother's voice came.

We immediately walked to the other side, only to see that the little brother was also shining a flashlight in front of us.

My heart "groaned", no, it's so amazing.

Following the flashlight, another stone pile was placed in front of him, and the stone pile was also an identical red cloth strip on top of it.

How is this possible, I immediately came up with two words in my heart, there are ghosts.

Take a look around, at this time, the yin wind is on the table, but it is only the humidity on the swamp, and the cold wind brought by it should not reach the point of ghosts.

The strip of red cloth fluttered slightly in the wind, which looked very eye-catching.

"There's one over there." I went, and the last thing I wanted would happen, and there was a cry on the other side.

I had forgotten my fatigue now, and I ran over to see that there was also a strip of red cloth on the rocks over there.

Hell, this time, there are red cloth strips on the three stone piles here, what is the situation?

Brother Hong couldn't hold on anymore at this time, sat on the ground with his ass, and said, "Damn, don't care, rest first, this fucking can tire people to death." ”

I looked at the strip of red cloth and my mind was spinning.

I remember that a few of us probably didn't go through the same road, except for one time in the middle of which we walked back for half a day, and the rest of the time we were moving forward here.

And along the way, I haven't repeated the mark of this red cloth, why are there all three stone piles here?

Brother Hong had already instructed the younger brothers to prepare dry food.

It was a tiring day—I sat down with it, stuffing something into my mouth, but my head was a mess of thoughts, and I couldn't think of any other possibilities for a while.

Brother Hong took two bites of something, probably to recover some strength, and then said, "Did you say it could be done by the team in front of us?" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, they arrived a day before us, they should have gone one step ahead of us, it's unlikely that they will appear behind us, even if they are ahead of us, if they make a mark, we should have seen them." ”

Brother Hong nodded, agreed with my point of view, and then frowned and said: "That's really weird, then who did you say got this thing for us, now it's okay, it's on three sides, we don't know where we came from." ”

I scratched my head, thought for a moment, and said, "Maybe there is another possibility, where we passed later, we didn't look either way, maybe at that time, we kept walking through these three routes repeatedly, and then made our own markings." ”

Brother Hong scratched his head and said: "It's not unreasonable for you to say that, but if you say this, it doesn't mean that we haven't made much progress this day." It's going around in circles right here. ”

I nodded and said, "It's not impossible.

In this way, let's not think so much, tomorrow morning, let's find a random way, and when we reach the next intersection, let's look at the three stone piles. ”

Brother Hong thought for a moment and said, "Is it any use?" ”

I said: "I roughly wrote it down today, we walked more than a dozen of these three-way intersections today, if there are still two or three strips of cloth at the intersection below, it means that we have gone in circles, but if there are not so many, it means that we just turned around in circles here, and we will go back a little bit and choose another way to walk." ”

Brother Hong nodded and said, "Brother, it makes sense, don't say it, your kid is still the same as before, it's good to have that bit of culture, and you can be a strategist." ”

I secretly smiled bitterly in my heart, this is all lost, and the strategist is a fart.

I wanted to think so, but I didn't dare to say it. We ate something and took out our sleeping bags to rest.

We slept soundly that night, but we didn't sleep well in this kind of wilderness, and as soon as it was light, we all woke up and looked at our watches, and it was only six o'clock in the morning.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he got up and patted Brother Hong, who was asleep on the side, and called him up.

Brother Hong shouted: "Get up, get up, the sun is all on your butt." ”

The little brothers slowly got up, and we all packed up our sleeping bags and put them back in our bags.

After I cleaned up, I glanced at the ground and found a sleeping bag lying on the ground, and there was no one inside.

Just when I was wondering, I heard a little brother say: "It's strange, where is Xiao Liu." ”

I looked at the deflated sleeping bag, and a chill rose in my heart, because from my point of view, the sleeping bag was not opened at all, it was completely pulled, and the person inside was gone, which was obviously a supernatural event.

At this time, the other people also saw this sleeping bag and stared at the sleeping bag in a daze.

Brother Hong stretched out his hand and took out the gun first, aiming at the sleeping bag, I don't know what he was nervous about, because there was obviously nothing there, and at this time, the sleeping bag actually moved.