Chapter 52: The Ruins of Conch Village
When the sky was bright, there was movement in the tent, not far away, the towering trees were covered in white mist, and occasionally there was a sound of joy, thinking about the events of last night, thinking of Xiao Erdan's words, no one would associate everything in front of him with the devil.
I helped Gu Yi wipes the hair floating down on her forehead, hugged her tightly, didn't dare to wake up, I felt that I had to sleep until I woke up naturally, although I couldn't do it, but I hope she can do it, people say that the woman in the dream is the most beautiful, but no, Gu Yi quietly crawled into my arms, with a faint smile on his face, he should be dreaming.
"Lao Cui, what's the situation, why don't you act?" Big Mouth led a donkey to me, and the donkey in the morning was also very cheerful, tearing open its big mouth and barking its molars and roaring loudly.
I repeated Gu Yi's words and big mouth at night, this kind of thing can only be said to Big Mouth, if I talk to Professor Xue, I am afraid that I will laugh off other people's dentures, and I will cancel the trip casually based on my feelings, which is a bit fantastical, and I will definitely not be able to say it.
"Lao Cui, this is not your style, when did you listen to a woman's words, I don't think there is anything wrong, let's go, something happened to the captain Yu Captain"
"Big mouth, you ......"
Originally, I still had something to say to Big Mouth, I didn't want the donkey in his hand to be restless, and I saw my own kind impatiently dragging Big Mouth away, but it seemed that even if I said anything, it would be useless, and it was difficult to convince him with Big Mouth's character.
"Do you want to talk to Professor Xue again, maybe others will have more scruples when they get old." I said to myself.
"Forget it, maybe I'm wrong" The voice came from my arms.
"When did you wake up, why don't I feel anything at all?" I kissed Gu Yi's smooth forehead and slowly helped her up.
"I woke up early, but I was reluctant to get up" Gu Yi simply straightened his hair and went in the direction of Xiao Hui.
Then let's go, I don't want to be old with anything, but I hope it's an illusion of Gu Yi.
I took a large bag from Professor Xue's shoulder, and now that I am far away from Mayi Village, I don't need to load it anymore.
"Professor Xue, how did you sleep at night? It's not cold, is it? ”
Professor Xue looked red-faced, obviously well-rested, with me and Big Mouth taking turns keeping vigil, he no longer had to worry about beasts or anything like that at night.
"Thanks to you, a sense of clarity is clear, but it is hard for you and less." Professor Xue patted me on the shoulder, with a smile on his face, and after a few days of getting along, everyone didn't have so many kind words, and then I tapped the number of people and the size of the package, Big Mouth was in charge of the team, and I was in charge of the direction, which was discussed in advance.
When the team walked for less than half an hour, seeing that they were about to enter the primeval forest, the strong smell of grass planting was already clearly recognizable, and at this time Feng Guodong hurriedly ran over.
"Team Cui, we found a deserted village to the west, Professor Xue asked you to go over and take a look" Feng Guodong gasped breathlessly, his face was a little unnatural, maybe they had been scared away by what happened before, until after the death of five companions, everyone had become frightened birds.
At this time, I suddenly remembered Conch Village, those people who disappeared out of thin air, hundreds of people disappeared at the same time, died at the same time, and then appeared at the same time, I didn't have time to say hello to Gu Yi, and trotted all the way to Professor Xue, the old man was standing on the half-fallen rammed earth pile, looking into the ruins.
If you don't pay attention, you won't notice this place at all, the broken arm of the wall has long been covered with vegetation, and from a distance, it looks like a low mound covered with weeds. Could that legend be true? Shall I talk to Professor Xue?
Perhaps because of the occupational disease, Professor Xue asked Feng Guodong to dig down with a sapper shovel to see if he could find any clues, and then turned around and smiled at me, telling me not to make a fuss, saying that he was just passing by to take a look now, and would not delay everyone's trip.
"It's okay, you are busy first, I'll just go around casually, just say hello if there is something." To be honest, I still wish Professor Xue would delay, and it is best to waste all of today's itinerary.
After Gu Yi told me that she didn't feel very good, after connecting with the legend thousands of years ago, my heart was also faintly hindered, after thinking about it for a while, I still couldn't help but not talk to Professor Xue about the legend of Conch Village, it would be better to have less, if he could find some clues, if he couldn't find it, he should rest.
I simply wandered around the ruins of Conch Village alone, and it wasn't until Professor Xue shouted at me that I ran over, and at the same time, Dazui, Gu Yi, and Xiao Hui all surrounded me.
In front of Professor Xue was a bunch of petrified conch, the big one was the size of a human head, and the small one was only the size of a fingernail, he held a magnifying glass and looked at it for a while, and handed it to me casually for a moment, I took it in my hand, but it was a conch, in fact, it was a stone, to be precise, a fossil.
"Xiao Cui, what do you think, are these things valuable to our archaeological discoveries?" Professor Xue's face is serious, and it seems that he has entered the role, the kind of meticulous academic work.
I've been playing with the conch fossil in my hand for a long time, I don't know what to say, I'm just an impostor, and I can still do something to say that I can encounter zombies, but now I can only stare at what I have in my hand.
In order to hide my ignorance of archaeological knowledge, I had to turn my heart and say to Professor Xue: "I won't tell you, the old site in front of us used to be called Conch Village, and thousands of years ago, Fonu Ridge was not called this name, it was called Conch Ridge."
Looking back, I found that everyone listened attentively, and I didn't have to hide it anymore, and told the story of Conch Village back and forth, because I knew this legend alone, and all of them were surprised and scared, knowing that I had finished telling this legend, Professor Xue took a long breath.
"It seems to be old and pedantic, I heard the master say in the early days, don't be too serious about the things in the world, science is science, it is a kind of academic based on people's cognition, but in addition to science, there are many things, which cannot be explained by science, it seems absurd, but in fact it is also a reasonable existence, the old man wants to see the Buddha mudra with his own eyes, I don't know how much time it will take to go?"
"Lao Cui, you're a little unkind, you actually hide it from me."
"Brother, what you said is true?"
"Brother Cui, do you say there are really ghosts in the world?"
I suddenly felt speechless, I don't know whether to say yes or no, in some eyes the ghost is just a legend, and it can even be used to scare children, casually mentioned, but only if you see it with your own eyes, it will be clear.
"At the beginning, Lao Cui and I were worried about letting the zombie second child swallow alive in the Qinling Underground Palace, did you say that there was a group of people, except for a few words that were more than me who were older, in fact, in front of me, it was at best a primary school culture, have you ever seen the Yin soldiers cross?" For a while, the big mouth blocked all the words that everyone said, and everyone looked at each other, as if they were immersed in the scene.
I don't know how this vaccination is, since the matter has come to this, let them see what real archaeology is, far from a group of people holding a Luoyang shovel and studying Wuhua soil on the ground.
We bypassed the conch village and continued to move forward, until the fifth day, only out of the primeval forest, during which in addition to being scratched by some branches and leaves, everyone was safe, of course, this is due to the good road I led, the good management of the big mouth, all the military management, everyone suppressed curiosity, concentrated forward, concentrated rest, on the road also encountered a lot of lonely wolves, a few bullets easily solved.
Walking in the mountains, the sun sets earlier.
Tomorrow we will have to cross the rocky desertification area, where there is drought and no water, and there is nothing to shade, so we need to recuperate enough and pass through in one go, if we stay in the middle, it will only make our physical strength weaker.
After the tent was set up, today's picnic was in charge of Dazui and Feng Guodong, so a few of us hid from afar, chatting, Professor Xue sat not far from us with a book, but glanced at me from time to time.
"Brother Cui, tell us a story, I feel that you are so mysterious, you must have experienced a lot of things." Xiao Hui relentlessly tugged at my sleeve.
"Yes, Brother Cui, I'm idle and have nothing to do anyway." Luo Yuhe looked at me pitifully and helped me on the side.
"Tell me, I'd like to hear it too." Gu Yi lay down lazily, pillowed on my lap.
After all, I still couldn't stand the entanglement of a few beauties, so I had to dig out my mind and think about it, what happened when I was still in the army, and I didn't let go of scaring them.
I remember that it was the second year after we enlisted in the army, just after dinner at noon, the superior issued an order, all assembled, the place was 800 people auditorium, at first we didn't know what was going on, everyone thought that there was a snow disaster in that place again, and emergency rescue was needed, but when we arrived at the auditorium, we found that the place where we used to eat was now arranged as a wedding hall.
Later, I learned that our deputy company commander Jia Guoliang was going out to carry out a special mission, and the superior leaders considered that he would have at least three years to return to the team, so they wanted to hold a lively wedding for Company Commander Jia in advance.
The wedding was carried out in an orderly manner, the leader spoke, the comrades-in-arms sang songs, Company Commander Jia hugged his lover, and the anger was unprecedentedly lively, I was also the first time to participate in such a wedding, so I drank a little too much that day, and I wanted to find a place to relieve it, but it was full of people inside and out, and the toilets were full.
I simply trotted towards the farewell hall of my comrades-in-arms at the back of the auditorium, but when I got there, I stopped, because in the farewell hall, the company commander A Manzi was arguing with several leaders, and there was a corpse of a comrade-in-arms at their feet, covered with a party flag.
Out of curiosity, and probably the effect of alcohol, I sneaked around the corner, but the scene in front of me completely scared me silly, and I didn't even need to use the toilet, and stumbled back to the dormitory.