Chapter 12: Alternative Routes
The two roads in front of you are in different directions, one continuing forward and the other leading up the mountain. While I don't know exactly what the people who opened the road thought at the time, one thing is for sure, there was only one road that actually led to where they were going.
"Oh my god, why did they get two ways out here?" The old prostitute wondered.
"Could it be that they went in the wrong direction and turned back to redefine the direction?" After speaking, the thin monkey looked at me and asked me, "Boss, let me ask more, do we have any clear goals for coming in this time, such as the destination is in the mountains or in the ravines."
I understood what the skinny monkey meant, he was reminding me that if the place we were going to was in the mountains, we should go up the mountain, and if we were in a ravine, we should follow the ravine. In fact, he didn't say it, and I understood this truth, but now we have no clues except for the two roads in front of us. Don't say where the destination is, but I can't even tell what the senior brother is going to do when he comes in.
"The trees and grass here are strong, and even if you know where your destination is, it's hard to determine the exact location." Wang Jingang said.
"So what to do, now there are two roads in completely different directions, it is impossible that both roads are right, there must be one that is not where we are going." Skinny Monkey said.
"I don't think we should think about that right now." He Mancang, who had not spoken, opened his mouth and said: "Since we want to follow the road they opened before, then don't care if they are going in the wrong direction, as long as we go through all the routes they have taken, we will definitely be able to find where they are going."
"What Brother Mancang said is right, but wouldn't it be better if we could choose the right path."
As soon as the thin monkey's voice fell, the old prostitute scolded: ", if you know which way is right, choose a fart and just walk over it."
"Let's go up the mountain first, after all, the trees and grass here are tall and high, and we can't see the situation in the distance, instead of blindly guessing here, it is better to go up the mountain first to observe the surrounding terrain." I said.
"It makes sense, it's good to observe the environment first." After the thin monkey finished speaking, he took the lead in front of the road up the mountain, and I followed closely.
As soon as we walked up the hillside, we found that the weeds on the hillside were not as dense as in the ravine, and the higher we went, the fewer weeds there weeds, and when we were almost halfway up the mountain, there were almost no dense weeds, only scattered grasses, and more leaves on the ground.
It's a good sign for us to walk, it's no longer as difficult to walk as the tall grass. But it's not a good thing to judge the route they are taking. Because there was no longer a need to use machetes to open the way, and there were thick foliage under their feet, it was difficult to discern where they had gone after they had walked here.
"Xiao Qi, come here."
I was following the thin monkey upwards when I heard the old prostitute calling me from behind. When I looked back, the old prostitute was riding on the branch of a tree, beckoned to me, and motioned for me to pass.
I told the skinny monkey to stop going up first, and then came under the tree where the old prostitute was riding. He was not very high above the ground, only five meters away.
"We don't have to go up the hill anymore." After the old prostitute finished speaking, let me go up to the tree to see.
Climbing a tree is a piece of cake for me, not to mention that there are many branches of this old tree, and I climbed to the branch where the old prostitute is in a few clicks.
As soon as I got to the old prostitute, he pointed out to me that the opposite mountain had changed direction not too far ahead, and the ravine below had also bent with the mountain, turning in the direction of the opposite mountain.
After looking at the opposite mountain, the old prostitute let me take another look at the branches, and there were traces of being cut by a knife.
The scratches on the branches are the opposite mountain trend, and this scratch is not the old prostitute's scratch at first glance, because the scratch is old, and it looks like it will take a month or two to say the least. In this way, it should be the people of the senior brothers.
"How did you find out?" I asked the old prostitute.
"I didn't find it, it was King Kong who said someone had climbed up this tree, and I climbed up and saw it."
I glanced at Wang Jingang under the tree, and before I could ask him, he pointed to the bark on the ground and explained, "These two pieces of bark don't fall off naturally at first glance, so I think someone has climbed this tree."
I jumped down and picked up the bark he was pointing at and looked at it, and as he said, the bark didn't fall off naturally, someone had kicked it off.
"Xiao Qi, you said that their idea of going up the mountain is the same as you, they also want to go up the mountain to see the terrain here?" After saying that, the old prostitute also jumped down from the tree.
"Since they can enter Guanmengou, they must have a clear destination, and they can't blindly look for it like us." I said.
"That's a must, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to go so far in the ravine before they thought about going up the mountain to see the terrain." After the old prostitute finished speaking, she looked up the mountain.
"Not necessarily, the weeds below the mountain are so dense that it is not easy for them to distinguish the mountain. Even if they had a map of here, I am afraid that if they have walked so far in the ravine, they will worry that they will go wrong, and it is normal to go up the mountain to see. Wang Jingang said.
"Oh my god, if that's the case, it wouldn't be better."
"Let's go, I don't think about it so much, since someone has used a knife to draw the terrain of the mountain, then let's follow the road of the ravine." I was the first to go down the mountain.
As I walked, I was thinking, this Wang King Kong is indeed different from others, he can even tell that someone has climbed a tree by the bark of a tree, and sure enough, it seems that he is not only a master, but also a thoughtful person.
After walking back into the ravine, we kept following the route in the weeds.
When I looked at it on the mountain, I felt that the turn in front of me was not too far, but when I actually walked over, I realized that it was a distance of five or six hundred meters before I reached the turn.
In fact, this is only the first detour, after which we passed through three more turns, bypassed a few mountains, in short, walked for more than three hours, and saw that the sun was about to set, and then we reached the end of this road.
The reason why it is said to be the end of this road is because there is an unexpected alternative route ahead.
The path among the weeds leads to a huge camphor tree. This camphor tree looks like it has grown for at least a thousand years, or even older, and its form can no longer be described as stout, and ten people may not be able to hold it. Its bark is dark green, and its strangely shaped branches coil around the tree like dragons. The breeze passed, and the branches and leaves rattled, like the sigh of a dragon. The most important thing is that the camphor tree has a hole the size of a door, and there is a secret passage into the ground.
Obviously, there is no road ahead, if this path is right, then the senior brother should have entered the secret passage in the tree hole.