Chapter 30: The Biggest Puzzle
The old prostitute said that after he and Wang Jingang climbed to the top of the mountain, they found that the other side of the mountain was a cliff, but the bottom of the cliff was different from here, we were just a valley here, but that side was an endless dense forest, but the depth of the cliff was obviously deeper than the valley on our side, and it had to be two or three hundred meters high, so it was impossible to get out of that cliff.
They then went up to the top of several surrounding hills, with cliffs on the other side. However, the old prostitute said that there is a different mountain, that the top of the mountain is not steep around it, and there is no cliff on the other side.
"Can I get out there?" I couldn't wait to ask.
"I can't." The old prostitute shook her head. "Since there is no cliff, why can't you go out yet?" Skinny Monkey asked. "Because of the special location of that mountain." After the old prostitute finished speaking, she drew another circle by the fire, then nodded in the center and said, "The mountain is here." ”
"In the middle of our valley." I wondered, looked around, and fixed my eyes on the mountains that surrounded the valley on the inside.
"It's not this mountain, although we are following the valley in a circle, but it is a big circle, and there is a small circle in this mountain." After the old prostitute finished speaking, she drew a smaller circle in the circle on the ground.
"You're saying there's a circular valley in this valley we're walking in?" I couldn't believe it, after all, I thought that the round valley we walked was amazing enough, and I didn't expect there to be a round valley inside. Could it be that there is a mechanism in this valley that will bring us into that valley at some point?
The old prostitute nodded silently, and I then asked, "How did you find the valley inside?" Did you go in and have a look? ”
"I didn't go in, we saw it on the top of the hill over here." Wang Jingang explained: "The mountain terrain here is very strange, and when we climb to the top of the first mountain, we have a feeling of seeing all the mountains at a glance. Except for the surrounding mountain, which has a cliff, which is very high, the rest of the mountains are not high. In other words, the situation inside this circle can be seen clearly. ”
As soon as Wang Jingang's words fell, the old prostitute said to me: "Xiao Qi, you will never imagine what shape the valley inside is. ”
"Didn't you just say there's a circle in there, too?" I wondered.
"It's not a circle, I'm just using an analogy, the valley inside can only be regarded as a circle with a shape, but it is not a circle, it is in the shape of a tiger, with a head, feet and tail, and it is very neat, like a tiger painted by a painter."
"Like a tiger in a painting?" I was a little puzzled, and my heart said it wasn't that exaggerated.
The old prostitute seemed to see my doubts, and said to me, "Don't believe me, I'll take you up to the top of the mountain in a while, and you'll know." ”
Hearing the old prostitute say that she wanted to take me to the top of the mountain to see, I was a little impatient and wanted to go immediately, but seeing that the old prostitute and Wang Jingang's clothes were still wet, I was a little unbearable, after all, I was full of food and drink, and I slept for a while, but they never rested, so I decided to let them sleep for a while and then go up to see it.
I asked the old prostitute and Wang Jingang to take off their coats, and then I helped them bake their clothes and let them sleep.
They slept for a long time, and they slept until more than three o'clock in the afternoon. I didn't want to wake up the old prostitute, but I couldn't help but go to the top of the mountain today if I didn't wake him up now, because the sun would be setting in a few hours.
After I woke up the old prostitute, I brought him something to eat and let him eat while walking, so as to save some time. The old prostitute said that I was Zhou Papi, and I even calculated the time for eating.
I followed the old prostitute and climbed to the top of the mountain with great difficulty. When I arrived at the top of the mountain, I found that it was not as wide as I imagined, and the position on the top of the mountain was only a dozen meters wide, and it was bare, and there was not even a big rock. Looking to the other side, I immediately felt a little dizzy, and the cliff on the other side was indeed very high.
The old prostitute pointed me out an area on the top of the hill and told me to look that way.
I looked along the area of the old prostitute's finger, and sure enough, it was in the shape of a tiger, and it was vivid, like a very fierce tiger with teeth and claws.
"How can it be so neat?" I looked at it and shook my head from time to time, thinking that it didn't seem natural. Because the shape of the whole tiger is too neat, it looks like it was made after tomorrow. However, it is a valley, and if it is made by hand, I think it is impossible, after all, the amount of work is even larger than the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum. I don't think there is anyone in history who can do a bigger project than Qin Shi Huang.
"It's amazing, it's amazing." At this point, I didn't know what to say, and I had to sigh at what I saw.
"You see that?" The old prostitute asked me.
"I can see it, how can such a big tiger not see it." I replied without even looking at the old prostitute.
"Oh my god, I'm not talking about tigers. You take a closer look at the shape of the mountain under the tiger's legs. ”
I turned my head to look at the old prostitute, and said to myself, didn't I come up and look at the tiger shape in the valley inside? Why do you let me see this mountain below the tiger again?
"Oh my god, don't look at me, take a good look at what the mountain looks like under the tiger's legs."
I looked at the mountain a few times, and found that it was nothing special, just an ordinary mountain, if I want to say that it is different from other mountains, that is, it is longer than the surrounding mountains, and I don't see any other famous places.
"Old prostitute, what the hell are you asking me to see?" I asked.
"You see, the mountain under the tiger's legs doesn't look like a lying corpse."
As soon as the old prostitute's voice fell, I immediately chuckled in my heart, and immediately understood what he wanted to say, he was talking about the tiger riding the corpse.
At this moment, I was very apprehensive in my heart, staring at the mountain and looking at it non-stop. Listening to the old prostitute say this, it really looks like a lying corpse. I don't know if my subjective consciousness was misled by the old prostitute, but now the more I look at it, the more I look like it, no matter how I look at it, it looks like a tiger riding a corpse.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but it's the most vivid thing I remember in my mind, and even decades later, I still remember the tiger riding a corpse.
Is this something to do with the LTTE? That was my first feeling.
The old prostitute looked at me and asked, "See?" ”
I nodded, didn't say anything, and kept wondering in my heart, if this place is related to the Tiger Regiment, does that mean it is related to the master? But this idea was quickly rejected by me, because I felt that everything here could not be a product of modern times, so it should have nothing to do with the master.
"Xiao Qi, I asked you to come up not only to see the tiger riding corpse, but also two points for you to take a closer look." The old prostitute pointed to the mountain surrounded by the tiger-shaped valley with her hand and said, "Look at what is on the top of that mountain?" ”
I took a look, and the distance of the mountain is a little far, and the height of the mountain is very low, it is the lowest mountain here, so the situation on the top of the mountain is a little unclear, I can only see that there seems to be some buildings on the top of the mountain, but I can't see what it is.
"It's supposed to be a building, but I can't see any of the buildings."
After I finished speaking, the old prostitute nodded and said, "You can go back and take a look." ”
I turned around and looked, there was a cliff behind me, and a few hundred meters below was a dense forest, which I had seen when I came up.
"Xiao Qi, do you think it's high here?"
"Aren't you talking nonsense? That's not high, so how can it be high. I replied.
"Do you think you can see far enough here?" The old prostitute asked again.
"Of course it's far away, don't you know the phrase "far-sightedness?"
After listening to my answer, the old prostitute sighed and said, "Then there is a problem." I glanced at him, and he continued, "I think we're tall enough and far enough, but we can't see where we've been besieged by giant hyenas." ”
I looked into the distance, but I really didn't see it. But I don't think it's strange, after all, we can only see one direction on this side of the cliff, maybe we were trapped in the other direction and need to be seen from the top of another mountain.
I told the old prostitute what I thought in my heart, and the old prostitute shook her head and said, "I and King Kong have gone up to see the surrounding mountains, but we can't see the place where we were trapped in the valley at that time. The landscape around here is the same, and the cliffs are full of this dense forest. ”
"This is impossible, if there are cliffs all around, then this place is closed, how can we get in?" I was amazed.
"I don't know, but from what I've observed with King Kong, we can't have walked in from the outside."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"It's very simple, you see the height of the cliff here and the height of the forest outside, the difference is not a few meters, but a few hundred meters. If we really come in from the outside, we can only fly in, do you think we can come in on foot at this height? ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, could it be like this, is the idea I said at the beginning, we came in through a valley, and then after we came in, the valley closed and trapped us in this circular valley."
"I agreed with your idea at first, but when King Kong and I looked around us, we realized that your idea couldn't happen." The old prostitute explained: "Your idea must have two premises, the first is that there must be a valley leading to this place outside. Second, the outer valley is higher than the inner valley, because the water is flowing towards the valley here. ”
I nodded in agreement, and the old prostitute continued: "But at present, these two do not exist, the first is that there is no valley leading to here, not to mention the surroundings, even a few hundred meters away, and I don't see any valley. Second, the terrain outside is much lower than the valley inside, you see that the valley we came up from is only one hundred and fifty or sixty meters high from us, but the forest outside the cliff is two or three hundred meters high, which means that the height of the drop between the inner valley and the outer forest must be more than 100 meters. ”
After listening to the old prostitute's analysis, I suddenly realized that it was indeed as he said, after seeing the situation outside the cliff, my inference that the closing mechanism was not established.
But if we didn't come in from the outside, then how did we get in? Did we really fly in?
How can it be? I know we didn't fly in, but now it's really a bit hard to figure it out, and I think that if we flew in, it would be easier for me to accept it, after all, I don't have to speculate, I don't have to think about it.