Chapter 159: The Adventure King
He has traveled from south to north, through deserts, across the sea, to the North and South Poles, and to tropical primeval forests. For Hu Lao Liu, there is almost nothing he can't do, which also cultivates his strong sense of self-confidence.
This sense of self-confidence is contagious, and those who worship and support Hu also admire him, and even wrote an autobiography about exploration.
But I do vaguely remember my dad telling me in front of me that when he was younger, adventure was once very popular, but now it has become a niche hobby.
But at that time, the propaganda was in full swing, almost to the point that everyone wanted to go straight to the expedition with their bags on their backs. I hadn't lived in that era, so I didn't know what was going on, and I couldn't imagine it.
But now listening to Hu Laoliu's words, I think I can make some predictions. When Hu Lao Liu recalled the past, although the ending ended in tragedy, his eyes kept shining. I was quite emotional when I saw it.
Maybe when people get old, they can only live on the memories of their youth. When Hu Laoliu set off for Baiqun Mountain at that time, it is said that almost the entire people of Renzhen came to see him off.
And Hu Lao Liu, who left under the farewell of the villagers and elders, did not have the fear of Queen Mingjing in his heart at all, and even at that time, he didn't even read the legend of Queen Mingjing, but he just knew that there was such a thing.
To say that Hu Lao Liu is completely clear about the story of Queen Mingjing, it was after he came back alive by luck. After the departure, everything went very smoothly, although Bai Qunshan is a place where it is easy to get lost, but for Hu Lao Liu, it is nothing.
Hu Lao Liu first has a unique talent - his sense of smell is very sensitive, and he can even distinguish a lot of toxic gases by nature. Ordinary people will never smell any of these gases, and it is estimated that they feel like they are inhaling a breath of air.
Generally speaking, if you want to exercise this ability, you need to go through special training, and the training period will generally reach three ~ five years, but Hu Lao Liu was born with this magical ability.
In addition, he has traveled all over the world at a young age, and he already has rich experience in surviving in the wild, so even without the assistance of any instruments and equipment, Hu Lao Liu has never been hungry for a meal, and has arrived at the core area smoothly.
"Oh my God...... I didn't expect anyone to actually be in this heartland, I remember I just read an explorer in an American weekly who described the magic of the white mountains, what a surprise! ”
Listening to Hu Laoliu's memories at this moment, the most excited thing is not me, but Panhu. As soon as this kid was concerned with this matter, he almost fainted happily, and his whole face was red.
Hu Lao Liu looked at Panhu with a look of adoration, touched his paleness, smiled, and said, "It's all in the past...... However, even after decades, I still remember the core area of the White Mountains, that scene...... It's almost hell. ”
I was surprised to hear him say that. The scenery in the center of the White Mountains, that is, in the core, is actually hell? Hu Lao Liu shook his head, as if remembering the specific events that happened at that time, picked up the cigarette on the table, took it out and smoked one.
But I noticed that his hands were a little shaky, so I picked up a lighter and lit a cigarette for him, and Hu Lao Liu thanked him softly. And when he withdrew his hand, I realized that Hu Laoliu's left hand only had three fingers.
I didn't pay attention to it before, or maybe Hu Laoliu had been deliberately hiding it, so I didn't find it after reading it.
Hu Laoliu said that there is a clear division between the core area and the outside of Baiqun Mountain. Now, decades later, he can't assure me of what it has become. But what he saw at the time was a huge basin.
However, the lowest point of this basin, the gap between it and the outside world can reach nearly a thousand meters, which shows the depth of this basin. Also, when we talk about basins, our first reaction is to think of the beautiful rice terraces or the giant caves that look like sinkholes. But he saw something different.
It was a blood-red area, and in the middle of the basin, there was red gravel swept by the wind, and once you entered the core, everything began to change. Hu Laoliu said that although he did not dare to claim to be the number one in the world, he had been to many places anyway.
He had been to countless places of interest around the world, almost all of the well-known ones, but the strange scenery like the core area of the White Mountains was the first time he had seen it in his life. However, nothing had changed, and he had already arrived.
You can't retreat in this place, otherwise how will you explain to the villagers and elders when you go back? So at that time, his thoughts were also very simple, anyway, he had decided to contribute everything he had for the expedition, and he didn't care if he died.
So Hu Lao Liu dived all the way to the deepest part of the core basin, and when he went down, he found that he couldn't rely on the way down to go back, which was impossible to do, because after he slid down, just a day later, the hillside had disappeared.
As for the reason, Hu Lao Liu quickly figured it out, because the storm here was raging almost day and night, and the blood-red sand and gravel sank into the iron sand during the day, and almost nothing changed.
But at night, the scenery changes. The color of the sand will gradually turn purple, and the weight of this purple yarn is several times lighter than that of red sand. As a result, as soon as the wind blows, the terrain of the deepest part of the basin is changed.
This kind of change almost broke him down for Hu Lao Liu. He hadn't walked through the desert before, but it was the first time he had seen such a scene where the heavens and the earth had changed overnight.
What made him even more desperate was that if he wanted to escape from here, he would need to reach the edge of the basin, but at that time he had already reached the center of the basin, and it would take at least a whole day to reach the edge, even if he gritted his teeth and hurried desperately.
However, when he walked from the early morning of today to the early morning of another day, the gentle hillside that was intact yesterday became a relentless 90-degree sand wall, which was impossible to climb. That's a full 1,000 meters high.
So soon Hu Lao Liu realized that he was in a dilemma, in which he could neither leave nor find a way to continue to move deeper.
The area of the entire basin is not large, and when Hu Laoliu ate all the dry food, and then finally returned to the center of the basin because he did not find any passage, he was already in a desperate state. The sand here is so thick that it's almost impossible to dig out the bottom.
And at night, because of the sudden drop, there will be a lot of strange creatures coming out from under the sand to feed - when Hu Laoliu recalled this, he still said with some palpitations that he had lived for most of his life and had never seen that kind of strange creature.
He didn't even think it was alive when he saw it at first sight, but he was moving, looking for food, and he could only admit that he was a living thing. I still wanted to ask what that thing looked like, Hu Lao Liu just frowned and waved his hand, saying that it doesn't make sense for you to listen to it.
It's just going to make you feel more disgusting, trust me, if you don't know, you'd better never know what that thing looks like for the rest of your life, it's disgusting to look at.
I guess Hu Lao Liu was really disgusted by that thing, and the deep hatred on his face couldn't be deceived. Hu Lao Liu recalled that at that time, after he discovered those strange creatures at night, he had no choice but to choose a higher hill.
Or you can stay in a cave on a higher level, away from the sand, but sometimes you can't be at ease, because you can predict what will come out of the sand at night - a bunch of bats flying out of the sand in the middle of the night, can you imagine?
The more I listened, the more amazing I felt, first of all, I didn't know that there was a huge, sinkhole-like basin in the core of the Baiqun Mountains. And in the depths of this huge basin, there is actually a sea of blood-red sand......
Now, decades have passed, and Hu Lao Liu said that he himself has not heard of a guy who has managed to survive from the central zone. Panhu asked curiously, "Senior, how did you escape from this place so dangerous?"
Hu Lao Liu shook his head and said that he was actually desperate at that time. Mainly because the problem of diet and water cannot be solved. At that time, he had been living frugally in that basin for nearly two months. At that time, he was covered in wheat-colored tendon meat before he left.
But after two months, he was skinny and skinny, and he no longer had the slightest strength. However, after nearly two months of staying, he did not gain nothing - Hu Lao Liu said that he was almost sure that the answer was below the sea of sand.
No one knows how deep the sand sea will be, maybe another kilometer, or not, but it may be deeper. In short, there is a huge secret hidden in this sea of sand.
Because, according to Hu Laoliu's observation for two months, all new things are running out from below the sea of sand. In other words, there should be a passage connecting the land to the underground. And if you find this passage, it should be equivalent to finding Queen Mingjing.
However, no matter how Hu Lao Liu searched for him at that time, he did not find any clues. Even, he was forced to have no choice in the end, he used himself as a bait, and did not leave the sand in the middle of the night, and then a bunch of green scorpions appeared, and the hooks were blood-red and blood-red.
At first glance, there were huge scorpions, but at that time, Hu Lao Liu knew that his chances were running out, so he took a gamble, and when these scorpions kept coming out, he risked being stung to death, and frantically dug out part of the sand.
As a result, he saw an amazing sight—like the mouth of the abyss, a wriggling black passage from which scorpions crawled out in a steady stream, and as soon as he dug up the sand, the passage closed and dived deep into the sea of sand.
This means that his guess was correct, these creatures are all creatures from the underground world under the sandy seabed. He didn't know what kind of world it was, but Hu Lao Liu knew that there were creatures living there.
At least, it's much, much better than this hopelessly closed desert with no food, no water, not even a plant to see. Hu Lao Liu said that after he confirmed this matter, he gritted his teeth and worked hard for several days.