"Dead monkey, what are you calling, run!"

I screamed, and pulled the old teacher tightly, up the steps, and the rats came up, and they were not in the mood to bite us, but they ran up from us, on our legs, on our heads, wherever they could

"Ah, the rat is on my head." Peng Fei screamed in fright.

"Stop screaming, they're too busy running for their lives to bite you, run."

People and rats, crowded, screamed: people were jumped on their bodies and heads by rats, and they screamed in fright; The rat squeaked in panic. With the rumbling, there was a louder and louder thunder from the ground, and it was a mess.

A few of us desperately climbed to the first stone chamber, and then followed the rats out of the mushroom-like surface stone chamber.

Still not daring to stay, in one breath, climbed a hill not far away.

Then he turned around and looked.

Oh my God, I saw that mushroom-like stone chamber no longer existed, and there was a fire bubbling out there.

"The volcano has erupted, let's go, this forest is going to catch fire."

I hurriedly picked up the old professor, and Peng Fei followed closely and followed the way he came, going straight to the sheep farm where he owed his son.

We took turns carrying the old professor on our backs, and walked for nearly two more days before we returned to the sheep farm where we owe our children.

At this time, Qiao'er had already seen the forest fire, and had already packed up his things, set up the second carriage, and waited for us.

When he saw that we were back, he said, "If you have been waiting for you for a long time, and if you don't come again, we are going to leave, because according to the time you said last time, we should also return." ”

"Thank you for owing your brother, then where are we going now, after all, the way we took first, the wind is exactly there.

"There's still a way to go over there, although it's farther away, but it's a desert, and the fire can't burn, and my sheep can't be thrown down, after all, it's the food for our family."

"Okay, then it's all up to you." The old professor said with a grateful face.

When she saw her daughter-in-law Jiu'er and everyone getting into the car, she said, "Then let's go on the road, it's too late to be too late, although there are few trees here, the grass grows very tall." It is only a little more than 100 kilometers away from the glacier, but you can feel spring, summer, autumn and winter here, and the glacier is only winter. That's the magic of nature. ”

We got in the car, and he talked about this magical forest and its scenery.

He said: "This forest is also half of the year-round winter, half of winter, summer, spring and autumn.

If it's winter all year round, no grass will grow, nothing will grow. And on this side, there will be abundant water and grass, so I left my mother and came here with Jiu'er to raise some sheep, just to survive. ”

"Then this place is so bad, why does the old woman stay in the strange village and not leave?" I asked the owe child.

The girl's expression suddenly darkened, and after a while she said, "My father was buried in the glacier by that avalanche. It is said to be an avalanche, but it is actually a volcanic eruption, because there is a crater at the bottom of this river.

But I didn't expect that this volcanic eruption would come so quickly, and I expected that it should be half a month back.

My mother lived here because she missed my father, so she came here and stayed here for more than ten years. ”

When I heard this, I was shocked, could it be that his father and my father were in the same event, on the same day?

"Do you remember the exact time of that incident?"

"I don't remember that, but my mother does.

It must have been fifteen years ago, in 2001, when there was an avalanche here. Mother said: It should be an autumn, the season of cold and warm, and the specific date should be July 14, that is, the day of Halloween! ”

The monkey's face was a little ugly, and he said, "Could it be that there were ghosts here that day, so the landslide cracked and an avalanche appeared." ”

The old professor felt amused, and said with a smile: "Monkeys, although we archaeologists are not afraid of anything, but some unexplained things, we sometimes have to believe them, but when the ghosts say it, it is a fantasy after all. We can believe that there is a prophet, but it should be a kind of crossing of a psychic person, that is, what we call the unknown, the projection of supernatural abilities.

It is the most active period for volcanoes, so it can only be said that it is a coincidence. ”

The monkey is not talking, and I know that he will not be so easy to erase his own ideas.

At this time, Jiu'er spoke: "Don't say that the sheep are not following behind, Yao'er, you see them running away like crazy, and the fire behind them has been chasing after them like this." ”

"What? The wind direction should have been behind just now, why did you change the wind direction after a while? ”

Qiao'er looked back with us, and saw that the red fire was really spreading to this side.

The sheep were not following the car, and the two sheepdogs could not stop the flock of flocks that had gone crazy, and they bleated and walked south.

In this way, we are getting farther and farther away from the village.

"Look, brother, we don't care about the sheep, or we'll be farther and farther away from the village."

"No, without the sheep, we are waiting to starve to death, after all, in addition to this forest, there is also the east, and the valley mouth you came from is a prairie, originally I wanted to go east, enter the grassland, settle the sheep, and then return to the village from the valley where you came, because the other two sides are all deserts.

The sheep runs to the south, so naturally it has a reason to run, and maybe the wind direction will not go that way. We had to wait for the fire to finish and go back. ”

A few of us were silent, after all, we were locals, and what we said made sense.

Yao'er drove the carriage quickly south, chasing the sheep and galloping all the way.

The sheep ran for hours, and finally they couldn't run anymore and stopped together.

Immediately many sheep fell to the ground, and with a glance they died.

We got out of the car and saw that the fire was going all the way east. We're safe here.

"This beast knows more than anyone!" The monkey sighed again.

"Isn't it, or the rats would have escaped faster than we did." Peng Fei interjected.

I hurriedly glared at Peng Fei with my eyes, meaning not to mention the matter of that and the ancient tomb.

But it was too late, "What mouse?" "Jiu'er seems to be very sensitive to mice.

"We went this time, didn't we go to look for the ancient tomb, but the ancient tomb was not found, it turned out to be a mouse hole, there were too many rats in it, and we saw those rats running out, so we knew that things were not good, so we started running." That's all I can say.

Jiu'er seemed surprised, but she was covered with a white scarf and couldn't see her expression.

It was very unnatural for me to look at the owe.

The owe seemed to be smiling, it was a weird laugh, it seemed to be a contempt, and it seemed to be a weird smile like an adult listening to pediatrics.

Just a flash.

This kind of laughter of his, it seems familiar to me. But I just can't remember where I've seen it.

"Okay, don't talk about it anymore, I've been running for so long, I'm already hungry, it just so happens that these sheep who have blown up their lungs, clean them up, and they can eat for a long time." When the old professor had finished speaking, he jumped out of the carriage, rolled up his sleeves, grabbed a dead sheep, and placed it on a flat place.

I came over with Peng Fei, the monkey, to help.

At this time, except for me, the old professor and all three of them took out daggers from their boots, but I couldn't take them out.

"What about yours?" The monkey saw that I didn't have a dagger and asked.

"Mine, maybe lost, I don't know where it went."

I glanced like a monkey, and the monkey understood, so he didn't ask any more.

After a while, a few people cleaned up six or seven sheep, and Peng Fei and Jiu'er picked up some dry branches, lit a fire, and roasted the mutton. Soon the lamb emitted an enticing aroma. Jiu'er took out a few bowls made of edible salt and handed one to each person. Owe the child, cut the mutton, and divide it for everyone to eat.

Because there is a salt bowl, as long as you rub it in the bowl, the taste is enough, and it is many times more delicious than the tasteless mutton.

Several people were full of food and drank water boiled in snow, so it can be said that they were full of food and drink. I stood up and looked at the fire, which was still spreading eastward, but behind it, there was no flame, only the smoky trunks of the trees that had been on fire.

It looks very desolate!