Chapter 18: The Yellow Skin (I)
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And we can now say that there is almost no food, and the water is not sufficient, and after the four of them are separated evenly, they will have to include Rum's share, and it is conservatively estimated that these resources will only last for three days at most. Here is no better than the wild, where there is creek dew when thirsty, and wild beasts in the mountains when hungry. In addition to the stone coffin in the pyramid, the remaining pile of gold, silver and jewelry has become worthless at the moment.
Taking into account everyone's physical condition, I divided the mineral water and sausages into equal five portions, one in each person's backpack, and two in the bone backpack as a supply for rum.
After walking all night, Rum was really tired, lying on his side in front of us and sleeping soundly with his ears on the ground. I raised my hand and looked at my watch, the time had just passed twenty minutes, and there were still two-thirds of the time before the shift change, so I took out the map that Leng Qi had drawn before and studied it carefully.
If the proportions are correct, as shown on the map, we have walked three times around the pyramid and are now in the center of the tower. Although the pyramid looks like a skyscraper on the outside, the space inside it is far less than it seems, because most of them are made of huge rocks and occupy a large space, so it is only about 30% of the total volume at most.
Looking at the bald head and Leng Qi sleeping beside me, thinking back to my experience in Egypt in the past few days, I feel that this operation was a failure, there are too many factors that we have not taken into account, coupled with the fact that we are not familiar with the place and the language barrier, so it has added a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Just when I was alone in a melancholy mood, a strange cry suddenly came from the darkness. The sound sounded like a baby laughing, and it only rang for a moment before it stopped moving again, making it impossible to determine its location.
In this extremely quiet pyramid, any sound was amplified several times by the empty environment and became extraordinarily clear, and the snoring of bald heads and bones was no exception, echoing all around the stone chamber. I listened with my ears pricked up for a moment, and when there was no more sound, I rubbed my temples vigorously. Comfort yourself that the strange sound just now may also be from a bald head or a bone, knowing that a person in a snoring state can make any strange sound.
After 20 minutes of staring at the second hand, just when I couldn't bear the fatigue and drowsiness, the abnormal sound sounded in my ears again. This time it was much larger than it had been twenty minutes ago, and it seemed that something had screamed, and Rum, who was asleep, raised his head suddenly, stared at the darkness around him for a moment, and then lay down again.
I took a deep breath, I was so tired that I was in a bald state that I was willing to sleep in a coffin.
There were still more than ten minutes before the shift change, and I woke up the bones and waved my hand: "Old bones, I can't stand it, you look at it for a while, and then call it bald after an hour." β
Bones snorted sleepily, nodded slightly, sat up straight, took out a military dagger and put it in his hand, and began to take out his mobile phone to play games.
Thinking of the two strange screams just now, I reminded softly: "It's not peaceful in this pyramid, you must not fall asleep, if you are really sleepy, you will wake up the bald man in advance." After saying that, he didn't care about getting a bone response, his back against the wall, and his eyelids were not fully closed before he fell asleep.
I slept so tired that I dreamed that I was walking back and forth through the passages of the pyramids, and no matter how I walked, I couldn't find the end or the exit.
I don't know how long it took, but I flashed a lot of fragments in my dream, and a gust of wind blew in my face, and I shivered and woke up from my dream, and when I opened my eyes, I found that the bones had fallen asleep, and the shift had become bald.
Although the bald head has slept for a while, he is still groggy, drooping his eyelids and not having any energy, and he has to take a breath almost every few tens of seconds. I raised my hand and looked at the time, three hours had passed, and according to the previous arrangement, it should be Leng Qi keeping vigil now, so I asked quietly: "Bald, how long have you been watching, let's change shifts every hour." β
The bald head waved his hand: "It's not a troop march, so there's no need to strictly enforce it." Leng Woman has been drawing maps yesterday, and her mind is highly concentrated, so let her rest more, and the three of us can just change shifts back and forth. β
I nodded: "Then you go back to sleep, and I'll watch next." β
After snorting again, the bald head squinted his eyes, but after a few minutes, he sat up again: "Lao Zhang, why don't you go back to sleep, I was sleepy just now, but now I can sleep, but I have become energetic." β
I smiled: "You're still not sleepy, just stay with me for a while if you can't sleep, and it's more energetic for the two of you to chat." With that, I threw his backpack over: "We only have these resources, one per person, and if you are hungry, let's eat some first." β
The bald head took it in his hand and looked through it, and then his face showed bitterness: "Two bottles of water, one intestine, and one piece of chocolate...... Lao Zhang, isn't this too miserable......"
I shrugged my shoulders helplessly: "We have to start again after two more hours of rest, and we can't find the exit again, the situation is even worse than now......"
The bald head said: "This foreign fighter really can't be messed around if he has nothing to do, he is different from our China." In China, no matter how big the place, you can just dig a hole and get out. This place is surrounded by stones, and even a drill can't make an opening. Two words, fuck! β
I sighed heavily: "Maybe we were wrong in the first place, the Egyptian Archaeological Bureau excavated not a crystal fragment at all, just a crystal with a similar shape. As for the detailed location of the crystal fragments, perhaps only one person knows. β
"You mean that Master Tan in Shanghai?" The bald head frowned and analyzed: "I also think that Master Tan is not an ordinary person, he knows a lot of things, but he just doesn't want to say more." Let's find a way to go out and ask the Archaeological Bureau what happened two months ago. If it really has nothing to do with the crystal fragments, then go home as soon as possible, and I will go to Shanghai to find Master Tan to ask for clarification! β
As soon as the words fell, a 'whimper' sounded again. This time the sleeping bones did not snore, and there was silence all around. The bald head immediately closed his mouth and took the military dagger in his hand. Rum opened his eyes as well, staring at the darkness around him.
The sound was like a baby laughing, and the laughter echoed in the empty stone chamber, eerie. I swallowed: "Bald, did you hear me?" β
The bald head blinked: "Nonsense, I'm not deaf again!" The voice...... It's like a cat meowing, but it's more like a yellow skin! β
"Yellow skin?" I frowned: "Weasels usually live in the forests of the village, how can they appear in such a place?" Is that thing really that evil? β
The bald head nodded and said, "The yellow skin and the fox are the two most evil animals, and the yellow skin is even better in comparison." When I was a child, my rural hometown would often make trouble, and people didn't dare to fight, and they couldn't prevent it, so they really couldn't stare at it. β
After waiting quietly for a moment, the sound disappeared again, never to be heard again. However, I was quite interested in the yellow skin in the bald mouth, and I couldn't imagine how a little weasel could make people stare dryly, so I asked in detail and asked him to talk about it briefly.
The bald head took out a sausage from his backpack and sighed while eating: "That was more than 20 years ago, when I was still a bare-ass doll, and my hometown was in a small mountain village in Linxian County, Shenyang. At that time, it was still the twentieth century, the city people were just living a good life, and the countryside had not yet developed. If you have a cow and a few chickens at home, you can already be considered a well-off family.
Our family is quite wealthy, although we don't have cattle, but we have more than 30 old hens, and eggs alone can bring a lot of income. At that time, the most willing thing to do was to quietly go to the chicken coop to pick up eggs, and then go to the small shop at the entrance of the village to exchange eggs for candy to eat. An egg can be exchanged for three pieces of sugar lumps, and these three pieces of sugar lumps are held in your arms, and when you are hungry, you can take them out and lick them, and you can eat them for half a month, to say the least.
Of course, what children are looking forward to the most is the New Year, because only the New Year will there be more good things, such as sugar lumps, peanuts and eggs, and maybe you can eat pork if the income is good.
However, in the countryside, there is a custom of worshipping the gods, and for a few days in the year, they have to put all kinds of food in their own sacrifice halls, and when the gods have eaten them, these foods have blessed roots, and then they can be eaten.
The so-called sacrificial hall is actually a separate wooden house, in which a table is placed on the wall, and then the names of the immortals such as 'Fox Fairy' and 'Stove King' are written on yellow paper, and all the good things are placed on the table for three days.
This is the most respectful thing for the villagers, but it is also the most troublesome thing, because once the tribute is placed on the table, it will probably be swept away the next day. It wasn't for the rats to steal it, but for the yellow skin to move it away.
Weasel is a highly intelligent animal, and when they see what people do, they will follow it, such as standing and walking. When people put food on the table to worship the gods, they will also move the food, not to eat, but to run to the woods outside the village and find a flat place to place tribute and worship in the form of people.
It is precisely because of these human-like behaviors that the feudal villagers dare not hunt the yellow skins, but they have a headache for their stealing. As a result, we little ones had the honorable and arduous task of remaining in the sacrificial hall to look after the offerings. After three days, if the tribute is not less, then we will get a large piece of fragrant beef in sauce.
Adults are in awe of the yellow skin, but children don't care about this, and sometimes they accidentally fall asleep in the worship hall, and when they wake up, most of the tributes on the table are gone. In this way, not only will you not be rewarded with sauced beef, but you will also have to be scolded. After holding back his anger, he naturally wanted to vent it in the end, and this way of venting was to hunt and kill the yellow skin! β
Speaking of this, the bald head took a sip of water and continued: "When I was eight years old, I encountered such a thing when I watched the festival hall with my neighbor Xiao Maozi in the same village. The two of them looked at a table of sumptuous tributes, and their mouths itched in their hearts, so they simply stopped looking, locked the door of the altar and squatted at the door to play with the mud. At that time, I was too naΓ―ve, I didn't know that the yellow skin stole things and didn't go through the front door, and when the adults came in the evening, I was dumbfounded when I saw it in the sacrifice hall, and the six large plates of sacrifices, including the plates, were gone, and only a few clear yellow footprints were left on the table."