Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Evening
I'm not stupid, how could I fool him with a few words, but Uncle Liu helped us after all, I was somewhat grateful to him in my heart, so I stood up and said, "Let's find the people first, we originally planned to save Professor He, but now the people haven't caught it, but even our own people have been captured by these natives, what's the use of saying so much now?" β
Uncle Liu said with a smile, "These indigenous soldiers and civilians have never been in contact with outsiders, if you hadn't offended them unintentionally, how could you have suffered such a disaster?" β
Ge Zhuang also couldn't help but smile strangely, and asked, "Uncle Liu, what you said is not very kind, according to what you said, they have never gone out to make trouble, that is, a few of us don't know how to advance and retreat?" How can the village at the foot of the mountain say, so many villagers have been killed by them, is it that the fat man just watched? β
Uncle Liu said that you young people, young and vigorous, and don't know how important it is, the people of the Li tribe have been rooted here for thousands of years, and they have been guarding their own one-third of an acre of land, never expanding outward, they just want to guard the civilization left by their ancestors, if you don't do it first, how can people seek revenge on you?
I can't say that, the reason why we offended the Li tribe is because we saved a person on the way, and it has become the truth if we don't save them when we die? Uncle Liu could only shake his head, forget it, I don't bother to tell you the truth, if you want to save people, come with me, go up from this stone crack, you can avoid the Li people above, don't think they are really so stupid, like you are stupid to break into people's camps, I'm afraid I didn't wait for people to be found, I will wrap people in pies first.
Then we followed Uncle Liu to walk in the middle of the stone wall, the stone wall is full of this kind of rock cracks, forming a natural channel, I am curious why Uncle Liu is so familiar with the environment here, but he has been walking in front of him, and he did not take the initiative to talk to us, I guess this old guy will definitely not share the secret here with us, so I can only hold the doubt in my heart.
Walking up the crack in the rock wall for about half an hour, there was a light above the head that penetrated down, Liu Bo pointed to the faint light above his head, and said to us, "The exit is not far ahead, and when you go out from here, you can avoid the dark whistle of the Li people, but I have to say ugly things in front, these Li people have always maintained the ancestral lifestyle of drinking blood, and rashly breaking out conflicts with them will only be asking for trouble, you just want to save people, forget it, don't make a big deal here." β
I said Uncle Liu, don't you go up with us? He said that I, an old arm and old leg, will not be involved in your affairs, I came here to find Lao He, I don't know if he can survive after falling into the hands of those people, we have to act separately, you go to save people first, I will go to the back mountain to see, maybe Lao He has already led people to find the core area of the ruins, I have to hurry up to stop them.
After saying this, he didn't care what our opinions were, turned around and got into another stone crevice, the rock crevice under the belly of the mountain turned back and forth, and there were such narrow passages everywhere, Liu Bo got into the stone crevice, and soon disappeared, and I looked at his disappearing back, and there was a deep question flashing in my eyes.
Old Zhong leaned over and whispered, "It seems that this old man is not simple, he is so familiar with the stone crevice road under the Ten Thousand Snake Ridge, I am afraid that he has been here once before." β
I said don't care about it for now, anyway, he's here to help us, as long as it's not malicious to make trouble, we don't care what secrets he has, let's save people first.
The three of us took advantage of the darkness to find an underground passage and climbed behind a rock. I leaned on the rocks and looked around, and found that there was a village-like building complex not far ahead, but the houses of these people were less than two meters high, and most of them were built of rocks, several stones piled up to form a small space, and the top was covered with plantain leaves and straw to protect from the wind and rain.
The buildings here are almost the same as the buildings in the ruins we found under the tomb of Lijun before, and it seems that these Li tribesmen are really the descendants of the Bashu people, and even the specifications for building houses are highly uniform.
The buildings in this village are very dense, there is a tall "round tile" building in the middle, covering an area of about 100 square meters, which looks higher than the surrounding buildings, the stone house is located in the middle of all the buildings, and the surrounding buildings form a circular group, surrounding the stone house, being able to live there, should be a status symbol, I think the leader of the Li tribe should live there.
Ge Zhuang gently leaned into my ear and said, "Little pumpkin, this dog's complex is so dense, where can we go to find Sister Chen Yun?" "I put my hand up and said don't complain first, listen to my command, the main Chen Yun is really taken up the mountain and imprisoned, and he will definitely be placed on the faΓ§ade of the building in the middle, let's just touch it while it's dark and take a look."
Ge Zhuang and Lao Zhong looked at me puzzled at the same time, and said How can you be sure that after Chen Yun is caught, he will definitely be locked up in the middle building?
I said you are stupid, the buildings around here are only less than two meters high, only the stone house in the middle can reach three meters, and the area is much more spacious, the people who can live in it must be people with status, maybe the high priest of the Li people lives in it, after kidnapping Chen Yun, the Li people will definitely hand over the "intruder" to the high priest for interrogation, this is not understood?
Lao Zhong said Okay, for the time being, it's up to you, it's getting late now, it's just the right time to act, we might as well ......
Before he could finish speaking, Ge Zhuang suddenly interjected, interrupted Lao Zhong's speech, pointed to the place where torches were lit outside the tribal village and said, "Look, a lot of wild people are gathered there, isn't it for a bonfire?" β
I said I don't know if it's a bonfire, but so many clansmen gathered, it must mean that something big is happening in this tribe, or let's go over and take a look?
Both of them hesitated for a moment, put their heads on the ground, and Lao Zhong immediately said, "I think it's better not to go over, now most of the Li people have walked towards the barren dam in front, and the internal air defense is weak, it is a good time for us to save people, so don't go to make any fun." β
I said that so many people gathered together, it would never be as simple as holding a "bonfire party", what if Chen Yun was tied up, he would be taken there to hold a "criticism meeting"?
Lao Zhong turned his gaze to Ge Zhuang again, and said There are only three of us here, let's vote, fat man, do you support the tribe to find Chen Yun, or do you support going to Huangbazi, and see what these people are doing?
Ge Zhuang thought about it and said that the situation is not clear now, I think what you said makes sense, why don't we act separately?