82. The Hidden Past (2)
The mountain that was chiseled is a hundred meters away in front of us, is it true that the treasure hidden in the mountain was not made up in the first place, but is true? Or was the thief aware of some secrets about the mountain that even the natives didn't know? So he spent a year making a comeback, without revenge or killing, for the sake of wealth.
In 1951, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was in full swing outside the mountain, and the indigenous people in the mountain entered the most gloomy era of life and death. Due to geographical limitations and the effective suppression of the bandits, they did not even have the slightest ability to resist. As the years of the long repression grew, the indigenous people gradually accepted the reality that working day and night became the center of their lives.
Except for the lack of freedom, basically the food and clothing in the mountains can barely make up for it, and the natural disasters have been very difficult in the past few years, but the vast majority of people have survived.
This lasted for nearly thirty years, and by the eighties, the bandit leader finally left the mountain bend, but it did not mean that it was over, and a new group of people were stationed. In the past 30 years, the two sides have also run in relatively, no longer hostages of children and old people as they did at the beginning, and have changed to a more gentle way - pollen, which is the black flower that the women planted outside.
The flower has a name called Hell Star, and when a small amount of pollen is inhaled, the skin will be blackened at most, and there will be no harm to the body. But when the intake is large, that person will be worse than death, as for how life is worse than death, the indigenous man can't tell, to be precise, he should not have really seen it, and he also knew it from his father. In short, if someone resists or flees, the end will be very miserable.
Asking what they were digging in the mountains, the man gestured that it was an ore with golden stone powder on the surface and a pure white and very hard bottom layer. It is not found all over the mountain, and the outer layer of volcanic rock is chiseled with various tools such as pinnacles and axes, and then the ore is trapped in it. In the case of large areas, it is impossible to chisel off the entire surface, so a special liquid needs to be applied to it, and even then, the process is still slow due to its sturdiness.
Basically, with the amount of work per day now, one person can dig up two ores, which is already a good harvest.
As for the specific use of these ores, the indigenous men do not know, in short, every time a certain amount is excavated, someone will collect it, and will not let this ore stay overnight on the construction site.
I'm concerned about another thing, where do those people take their children under the age of five? The indigenous men said they did not know, because this rule was enforced at first, and only occasionally one or two newborn children were picked up and taken away, and most of them were left in the bends of the mountain to be fed by women who were dedicated to carrying children. Some people have also asked in private, saying that they took the children out of the mountains and gave them to wealthy families to raise, because there are more children to raise, and they have to work, and they have no time to take care of the children, so they are very happy to hear that there are wealthy families who can raise them.
Two words crossed my mind: foolishness. Geographical restrictions and lack of knowledge make them not know that this is human trafficking and is illegal, and that group of people is fooling this group of people with a disguised face of charity in order to seek profits. But this is by no means the only way for them to seek power and profit, in fact, the total population of the Communist Party of China, children cannot be born every day, and the indigenous men also said that they occasionally take one or two, so this is not a human trafficking gang.
It was confirmed from the men's mouths that basically the boys who were picked up were all boys, and the girls were all left behind, and their status was low, and they began to go to the fields at the age of about ten years.
Suddenly, there was an intuition that the children who were taken away might not have been sold, but had been used for other purposes, such as ......
Aman.
Could it be that Aman is actually the child of one of these natives, raised in some "unique" way, and then became the person who is not like a human being, and an animal is not like an animal. The most difficult thing to explain is why the fur on his body is longer than that of ordinary people, and the hair on his face, can I think that in fact, his face is like this at the beginning, but in some cases, those hairs fall off naturally, or they are plucked out by Aman, and then glued to it in order to hide people's eyes and ears?
As soon as my mind turned around, as if I had seen my thoughts, I opened my mouth to inquire about the savages. At first, the two didn't understand the meaning of "savage", and described Aman's appearance, and they suddenly realized: "You are talking about wolf monsters, those are the products of the combination of wild wolves and orangutans in the mountains and forests, and there are ways to tame them, but many of them have been bitten to death by wild beasts." ”
"Those? There are a lot of meanings like Aman? He asked again and again.
The indigenous man shook his head, "It's not much, it's called a wolf monster because it's the most powerful one, with strong attack power, and normal people can't beat it together, and it's very powerful, and it has also driven it into the beast field, and when everyone thought it couldn't come back alive, it came out, and it also carried a leopard on its shoulder." You must know that the leopard may not be the most ferocious of the beasts, but it is the fastest, and it can also be killed. Most of the rest were unresponsive, and some of them were as tall as wolf monsters, but they could be put into the beast field and torn apart. ”
Listening to him mention the Colosseum twice in his statement, I couldn't help but ask, "Are there a lot of beasts in this forest?" Isn't it dangerous for you to live here? The answer given by the indigenous man was shocking, he said that in the first 30 years, wild tigers and lions were brought in to the mountains and put into the forest areas with iron nets.
Later, a group of wolves and other animals were brought in and kept in the cave. It was a forbidden place, and no one was allowed to enter it.
I can't imagine the motives of this group of people, digging mountains to dig ores that resemble gold mines, growing hellish stars for other purposes, selling babies, and even creating a "safari park" here. In the early years, the state's protection of wild animals was not as strict as it is now, so this group of people took advantage of the loopholes and quietly moved batches of juvenile beasts into the mountains. Even if it's just captivity, if the quantity reaches a certain level, the sale of fur is worth a lot of money.
At the same time, it is equivalent to a domestication field, and it is bold to guess that the place that is listed as a forbidden place may be the place where Ah Man grew up, and his ability is not innate, but through continuous domestication, he has become what he is today.
Fortunately, the indigenous man said that there is only one Aman, and if there are a few more, I am afraid that they will be the new force under the hands of this group of people.
In this way, in fact, the scale of this gang is not small, and it requires a lot of manpower to manage and control it, and it is not just a labor force, which involves experts in certain fields. Therefore, batches of people come in, and batches of deaths and disappearances are not only to create the reputation of the "Valley of Death", but also to bring in usable "talents".
After a moment of silence, he found that his feet were constantly exchanging feet one after another, as if he was a little anxious, and he looked sideways slightly, and saw that he lowered his eyes and landed on the walkie-talkie in his hand. Suddenly woke up, after a long conversation, time passed minute by minute, the sky was almost dusk, and the dense fog in the mountains rose quickly, but there was no news from Brother Liang's side.
At this time, when I looked at the entrance of the cave a hundred meters away, it was already foggy and obscured by fog, and it would not be long before visibility would be reduced to a minimum. The two men in front of them obviously didn't know what we were worried about, and when they saw that we didn't ask any more questions, they just sat there and didn't move.
I don't know how to get them to say this, but the two of them look dull and numb. It was the environment that had kept the sandy woodlands for many years, or maybe it was the pollen of the Hell Star that caused them to become like this.
Wait a minute, since this place was occupied by a gang led by bandits in the fifties, there is no question of covering up the traces of the corpse, so why should it be guarded? And after more than 60 years of weathering, those corpses should have become bones buried forever. There must be something else important, otherwise...... I was about to ask again, when suddenly there was a "bang" sound in the distance, and I jumped up one after another.
It's gunshots! Judging from the direction and distance of the range, it was the cave 100 meters away.
The two native men were also frightened, and they got up and looked over there, muttering, "Guns again, someone is going to die." He used two more in a row, and I grabbed the man's arm and asked urgently, "They also have guns?" ”
After asking, I felt like I was asking an idiot question, this group of people has been carrying guns into the mountains since the fifties, and in the past 60 years, they have done all kinds of evil things, how can they not have guns?
But I heard one after another say: "It's no one else, it's Brother Liang's gun, I can hear the gunshot." ”
Saying this one after another, I don't doubt that he has the ability at all.
And it just means that things have gone to the extreme, in the whole process, Brother Liang has always been the most calm person, even if he is in prison and has snake venom in his body, he also behaves calmly. If this shot was fired by Brother Liang, there must have been something on their side that made him have to shoot, but if it wasn't shot by Brother Liang, then ...... The consequences are unimaginable.
Seeing that one after another's faces turned white, it was obvious that what I could think of, he also thought of. I saw him squinting at the thick fog, and when he turned around, he had already made a decision, and he said to the indigenous man: "Two big brothers, I'm sorry." As soon as the words fell, the person pounced on the taller man, and shouted: "Xiao Jiu, I'll leave the rest to you." ”
I cursed in a low voice, this person is really willful, he didn't greet him, he didn't even give me a look, and he actually asked me to cooperate with him. But although he was so buried in his heart, his hands and feet had already moved, and a sweeping leg kicked another indigenous man who was still stunned to the ground, quickly bullied him, knocked his chest with his elbow, and slashed his neck with his palm, causing him to faint again in severe pain.