Chapter 254: The Wind in the Pamirs
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Gao Chao gave an order, although the fat man was reluctant, but he found that Xia Qing was also very supportive of Gao Chao's idea, helplessly, the fat man had to follow the other two people, picked up his backpack, and carefully climbed down the mountain from the other side of the blood river. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The stone road on the mountain wall is still very steep, as the so-called up the mountain is easy to go down the mountain, it is difficult to go down, Gao Chao is in front, carefully observe with the headlamp, and dare to move down step by step.
They did not dare to stop for a moment, because there was still a muffled sound on the mountainside above their heads, and no one knew what was going on there, whether it was really as Esseti said, a devil had escaped from the ancient tomb.
It didn't take long until Gao Chao felt his legs start to tremble, and they finally approached the river below the valley.
The sky had turned white, and before I knew it, the night had passed.
When Gao Chao was the first to step down the last stone platform, he stepped his feet back on the flat ground at the bottom of the valley, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and sat down on the ground at once.
The same is true of the two people in the back, neither of them can stand, and when they look back at the mountain wall, no one can believe that they can actually walk down the steep mountain wall with a simple headlamp last night.
They couldn't help but fear that if they were not careful last night, they would fall from the cliff to the bottom of the valley and fall to pieces.
Perhaps this is a simple truth, in the midst of infinite fear, the most effective way is to close your eyes tightly.
Although they had fled to the bottom of the valley, the sound of falling rocks still resounded in the valley, and it really felt indescribable to hear it.
The sound echoed through the valley, as if a boulder would roll down from the mountain wall at any moment.
So they just took a short rest, and then hurriedly led by Gao Chao, and continued to walk along the river to the depths of the valley.
By the time it was getting lighter, they had already walked out of the high-altitude climate for some distance. They have almost adapted to it, but the fat man will still complain a word or two from time to time, hoping that Gao Chao can stop and rest, at least let him sleep.
Of course, Gao Chao also wants to rest. After all, no one had a chance to close their eyes for a minute last night, but he didn't dare, because he chatted with Xia Qing on the way, and Xia Qing told him that their current situation was not optimistic.
First of all. No matter what was buried in that ancient tomb, it had undoubtedly escaped from that tomb, and although the situation was unknown now, it was already chilling to feel the damage caused by that thing, so there were undoubtedly "chasing soldiers" behind them, and if they were slower, they would encounter some unpredictable things.
Secondly, the contents of the ancient tomb are probably not the worst thing. Just because when they escaped from the ancient tomb last night, they once encountered a big white leopard, Xia Qing suddenly remembered after recalling, that thing should not be an ordinary leopard, it is likely to be a snow leopard, you know, the Pamir Plateau is the same as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is the main habitat of the snow leopard in China, this animal is very rare, but it is quite fierce. They are very spiritual, and are often called the messengers of death by the people on the plateau, because they have one characteristic, that is, they like to track their prey. And waiting for the opportunity to kill.
That is to say, they are likely to have encountered the snow leopard, so the three of them are now very likely to have become the target of the snow leopard, and one of the most amazing abilities of the snow leopard is its tracking ability. As long as it wants to, it will never be detected by its prey, in other words, they are now in danger of being attacked by snow leopards at any time.
The last disturbing thing, and the most helpless thing, is of course that they have lost their guide Esetti, although Aceti seems to be very unreliable, always giggling, but after all, he can lead the way for them, and relying on his experience, he can solve problems for them, but now? They are left on their own.
So all the circumstances, their current situation, I am afraid that it is not as good as when they were in the ancient city of Yinshan, at least at that time, they had two guides, and the weapons on their bodies were also very good, and they had a spear to defend themselves, but now, they can only resign themselves to fate, in addition to being able to recall what Essetti told him, they can only pray to Allah, hoping to get some good luck.
However, good luck always likes to joke with people, and it will always go around you when you need it more and more.
Around the end of the evening, the wind picked up on the plateau.
The wind on the Pamir Plateau is not the same as other plateaus, it can only be said that the wind here is awe-inspiring.
It is always said that the wind in the Pamirs has three characteristics, it is cold, it is fast, and it is long.
Cold, it means that the wind in the Pamirs is always cold, whether it is spring or summer, the wind here is always cold, it can easily penetrate the sheepskin jacket, making people shiver in the sun, miserable, so the herdsmen on the Pamir Plateau will always joke that even if you wear more, you will always be bare-fed.
The wind on the Pamirs is very fierce and fierce, no matter where you hide, even if you hide in a mud house, you will still be blown by the cold wind and there is nowhere to escape, it is like having eyes, as long as there is a little gap, or there is no way to drill at all, it will always blow you, it will penetrate your body, and make you shiver all night.
Long, then it is obvious, the soldiers stationed on the Pamirs often joke, "the wind is not accurate, the wind goes for twenty days", this is what it means, the wind on the Pamirs, I don't know when it will blow, but when it blows, it will take at least half a month to stop, and in this windy half month, absolutely no one wants to go out to see, because anyone can be killed by the wind on the Pamirs at any time.
The wind really blew, and even in the deep valley, it didn't change at all.
It was still so cold and fast, and the three of them struggled to prop up their tents in the cold wind, and they didn't dare to slack off, because they had all heard the local legend about "wind", so they used the hardest pitons to drive into the ground next to the river, and then fixed the tent firmly in the leeward place, hoping to use these equipment to survive the night.
But in the Pamirs, there was no real shelter from the wind, and they hid in their tents, still huddled up.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and it was frantically tearing at the outermost windshield of the tent, and the loud sound of "bang-la-la-la" made it difficult for everyone to sleep, although they were already very tired, but no one could sleep peacefully in such a night, even the fat man who liked to sleep the most, could only toss and turn in his sleeping bag, cursing angrily.
The wind, whistling, hitting the stones, will make all kinds of sounds that people have never heard before, how many stones, how many such sounds, it is like someone moaning in pain in the wind, just like those stones trembling in the wind, are also crying about their thousand years of helplessness and sadness, the sound is simply indescribable, only those who have heard it with their own ears, only those who have heard it know its horror.
Gao Chao also felt terrified, he blacked out the light in the tent, but kept looking at the light outside his tent - it was Xia Qing's tent, and Xia Qing had not turned off the tent light in his tent.
Gao Chao knew that she must also be afraid of such winds.
Isn't it only at night that a lonely and stubborn woman hides alone in a corner and is afraid?
Gao Chao couldn't sleep, he kept his eyes open, looking at the light outside his tent, their tents were close to each other, so Gao Chao could even feel that Xia Qing's tent seemed to be shaking much more than before.
He began to worry, could it be that Xia Qing didn't beat the pitons deep enough when he was propping up the tent? Or maybe the pitons hit the ground at the wrong angle?
Anyway, Gao Chao had a sense of foreboding, he felt that something might happen to Xia Qing's tent.
Sure enough, I don't know how long it took, just when Gao Chao looked at the light outside the tent and was already a little drowsy, he only heard a "stab" sound, although the sound was not obvious, and it was even muffled by the sound of the wind tearing the tent cover, but Gao Chao still immediately reacted that it must be Xia Qing's tent that had an accident.
So Gao Chao sat up violently, he got out of his sleeping bag and put on a coat, for the sake of Xia Qing, he thought that he should immediately get out of the tent to take a look.
Unexpectedly, he found that the light outside the tent seemed to be slowly moving.
Gao Chao was stunned, what was going on outside? So why is the light still moving? Could it be Xia Qing?
But before he could react, the light had already come to the entrance of his tent, and then a voice like Yinling whispered into the superb tent: "Old Gao? You...... Did you sleep? (To be continued.) )