Chapter 82: Urgent Need
I pointed to Liang's jacket pocket, and he reacted and pulled out a stack of photos. I picked out a few and handed them to the "colonel".
After the "colonel" saw it, his face was cloudy and he asked me where I had taken it.
"The underground ancient city, there are many more good things buried there than in this village." I pointed to the bracelet and scraps of metal in the photo, "Doesn't that sound familiar?" The ancient city is full of them. β
"Colonel" looked at me and sneered, "Since there are a lot of them, why didn't you bring them out?" β
"It's true that there are a few big bags, but when I came out, something went wrong, and the bags were all lost halfway up the mountainβ" I leaned closer to him and lowered my voice, "You should also see that these villagers are stubborn, and they only believe in the 'mountain gods' and ancestors, and they don't let us go up the mountain at all, and they still look at us to death...... Didn't you just see that? They didn't let us leave the village, and they almost shot us with arrows! β
"I've heard that Namen stole their things." "Colonel" laughed disdainfully.
My face flushed, "This...... Alas, isn't it that I can find something to catch up, but I didn't expect these dirt buns to be so small. β
"But I still want to help them." The "Colonel" pointed to the mercenary I had just beaten down, and then looked at the villagers.
I smiled and pulled Mao San up, hooking her shoulders with my hand, "I don't care about others, but this ...... Hey...... You know huh? β
The "Colonel" looked at Mao San and looked at me again, laughing, as if he had understood, "I'm not a good person, but I like it." β
I said yes, neither of us is a good person, and such a bad combination is more capable of doing great things.
The "Colonel" suddenly grabbed Mao San and twisted it, put the gun on her temple, and his smile slowly turned cold, "Lead the way, go to the mountains to find the bag that Nai has lost!" β
I said I don't need you to say that I know, but I have one condition, I will exchange those gold, silver, copper and iron for the lives of me and a few of my companions.
"I am no longer qualified to negotiate." The "colonel" hooked the trigger, and Mao San didn't know that he was afraid, and glared at him viciously.
"Then leave my companion aloneβ" I said at once, "just let us go." I pointed at Mao San and twisted it.
Several of my teammates turned black and glared at me.
The "Colonel" laughed again and pushed Mao San back to me, "Go up the mountain early tomorrow morning, if you dare to lie to me, I will kill her!" No! And all the people here! β
I said that you can rest assured, I can not only let you make a lot of money, if you are lucky, maybe you can also find the entrance to the "underground ancient city", when the time comes, you can bring a few more brothers, you can move as many as you want, how many bags can be carried, let's fight to the death and do a fart, each has its own family, and we can't spend it in a few lifetimes!
"Colonel" was not fooled by me, and sneered, "Okay, I hope tomorrow is a lucky day for Nai." After speaking, he turned around and left, and explained a few words to his subordinates, looking at the gestures, as if they were to focus on me, if there is any trouble, kill on the spot!
I've finally solved the urgency of the moment, and if I can survive one night, at least make sure that we and the villagers get through this night safely. As for tomorrow's trip up the mountain, let's take a step at a time, not to mention where to find those fictitious backpacks, and I don't even know where the entrance to the "underground ancient city" is, a few days ago I fell down from the mountain, everyone lost consciousness, and now looking at the surrounding mountains, the ghost knows which hill we rolled down from. I remember that at that time, the old man Wei also said that in this valley, there are eighteen sets of old mountains, no people's roads, drilled out of the ground, and winding from east to west, north and south. Even if he had saved us at the time, he couldn't be sure from under which snow cave we had fallen from.
The "colonel" then ordered his men to ransack the village, leaving five or six of his men to watch us, who did not dare to drink today, probably for fear of being beaten by us again to "fight back".
Mao San was twisting to help Dafen bandage his wounds, and glared at me viciously from time to time, probably because he hadn't figured out why I was taking advantage of her just now, Old Man Wei counted her down a few words, said that I was not a bad person, and nodded at me again. He sat on a wooden stool smoking a cigarette pouch pot, and I slowly rubbed it over, "Old man, change the taste?" I handed him a jade stream, and he smiled and said, "It's a delicate thing, and I can't get used to it." β
"I'm used to smoking, the leaves are too rough."
"I'm used to smoking, you provide for me?"
"No problem, you saved so many of us, not to mention offering cigarettes, just to support you for the rest of your life, we don't bring a fart to the circle!"
"Hmph, I say so, I save no less than dozens of them every year, and the words are good, but they don't smell as good as fart."
I licked my lips, "Old Man Wei, I'll ask more questions when it comes to this, dozens of people every year, that's for-"
"For the sake of the baby on the mountain." I didn't expect his words to be very direct.
"Ah yes, I heard that there is a 'snow river' flowing down the mountain......"
"Did the three twisters tell you?" The old man looked at me, took two puffs of cigarette pouch pot, and looked at the vast snow-capped mountain opposite, "It's the old mountain god who favors us......
"Old man, you haven't thought about it? Maybe there really is treasure in the mountains, what is it? Never went up to see it? β
The old man smoked a cigarette "let's click", stared at the snow-capped mountain for a long time without speaking, his eyes hiding in the wrinkles seemed to light up a little, and then darkened, "A few years ago, there was a period of bad times, the snow closed the mountain, and the rice and noodles we saved also saw the bottom, and every family in the village couldn't open the pot, and they couldn't get out if they wanted to go out for help, and the people outside couldn't get in, and the children and women were so hungry that they only had skin and bones left. Hunt a few live creatures on the mountain, even if you look for some winter fruits and vegetables to fill the children's stomachs......" His tone became very solemn, and I felt like I was in the scene when I heard it, "But on the day we were about to go up the mountain, the 'Mountain Keeper God' appeared!" He turned into a black shadow and flew down from the top of the mountain...... On that day, there was no longer only snow in the 'Snow River', but also the corpses of wild boars, roe de roe deer and even horses, and we escaped the catastrophe. β
"You say that the 'old mountain god' turned into a shadow?"
"That's right, the boss of the black pressure is as fast as Sun Wukong's somersault cloud!"
"Can you see what our 'Old Mountain God' looks like?" I asked urgently.
"The village said, with sharp eyes, as if ......," he said, looking around and lowering his voice, "like, it's a woman, oh no, goddess." β
My heart was beating faster and faster, "Old man, you have a good time recalling memories, what year is the year you are talking about?" β
Old man Wei began to recall, my heart was also like his face, it was all folded, and it took a long time before he knocked on the cigarette pouch pot, "Six years ago? Well...... That's right! In 1995! That year, my sister was just over 100 years old! β
Six years ago again......