It is not difficult to find this "snake river" according to common sense, but the plan can't catch up with the changes, the vegetation under this mountain is too thick, and there is no river channel at all, so I have to grope along the edge of Shalong Mountain and move forward slowly.

I just found out that in this kind of ghost place, the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Wind and Sand Secret Technique" is completely useless, to distinguish the situation and rationalize, you need to see the composition of mountains and rivers, and in this area, the top of the mountain is full of clouds and mist, and there are all kinds of trees and vines under the mountain, just like the surface of the mountains and rivers is covered with a thick layer of green mud, and it is covered with a cotton sleeve, and there is nowhere to start.

The jungle under the cliff is even more difficult to walk, after walking in, I didn't see a butterfly, all the big and small mosquitoes and poisonous ants, and there is no road, I looked at a piece of green in the high place, and I went in and found that the vines grew too densely, and I could hardly find a place to stand, so I had to use sapper shovels and machetes to open a road, and at the same time I had to be careful to avoid those mosquitoes and poisonous ants, which was really unbearable.

Seeing that the sun had set behind the mountains, the earth was gradually engulfed in darkness, and the primeval forest was covered with a veil of darkness, and we did not go far from the rest point to the present.

It seems that it is impossible to find the "snake river" before dark, so I have to temporarily find a relatively safe place to spend the night, the night in the forest is full of danger, and because it is located between the mountains and rivers, the air pressure changes greatly, the edge of the forest is hot in the day and cold in the night, at night, although it is not too cold here, but the body is damp, easy to get sick, and enter the depths of the dense forest, but there is no need to worry about this section, so we must find a place that is not too many mosquitoes and slightly dry, and light a campfire to spend the night.

Finally, under the two big trees, I hit a very flat big bluestone, and I shone it with a flashlight, and there was no snake and scorpion nearby. The three of them were tired and fierce, so they hurriedly took out the fuel and lit a fire, surrounded by small stones, because the air was too humid, they had to take a little fire and dry it on the bluestone, dry the moss and moisture in the cracks of the stones, and then spread the sleeping bag, so as not to sleep with moisture into the bones and fall to the root of the disease.

Shinley Yang went to a nearby spring to get some water, filtered it and made it drinkable, so I set up a small camping pot and boiled some boiling water, and boiled the noodles I bought from the Caiyun Inn in a camping pot. I didn't put any seasoning, so as not to let the aroma of the food attract any animals, and soaked a few pieces of Yunnan bait cake in the cooked noodles for dinner, because I didn't know how long I had to walk in the valley, so I didn't want to take out the canned food to eat.

The fat man kept complaining that the quality of the food was too poor, and the birds were about to fade out of his mouth, and when he talked about the birds, he grabbed the "Jianwei" and prepared to play some game, but it was already dark, so he had to do it. I sat down to eat again, and while blaming me for cooking something that was not delicious and tasteless, I ate three large pots.

After eating, we decided to take turns to sleep, leaving people to keep watch, after all, this primeval forest is full of dangers, who knows what poisonous insects and beasts will run out at night.

I was on duty for the first shift, and I held the "Jianwei" to fill the June Fourth bullets, crushed the fire into a dark fire, and then sat not far from the fire, humming a popular song to relieve sleepiness, while being vigilant against the dark jungle around me.

The two large banyan trees opposite me are quite spectacular, typical mixed plants. The body of the tree is as thick as a stone pillar, the crown is low, heavy as a cover, the two thick bodies of the tree grow like twisted flowers, twist each other together, go around four or five ways, form a rare husband and wife tree, the tree also grows a lot of unnamed huge flowers and other plants, these plants attached to the "husband and wife old banyan tree" tree are all animals in the forest, inadvertently attach the seeds to the bark, or the cracks in the body of the tree, so that they sprout and grow, blossom and bear fruit. More than 50 species of plants grow on a single tree, and this old banyan tree, which is a mixture of various flowers and trees, is like a large flower basket with brilliant colors in the forest.

I was looking at it intently, but I heard Shinley Yang lying in the sleeping bag suddenly say to me: "These two trees have not lived long, there are too many plants parasitic on the bodies of the two banyan trees, and the nutrients absorbed by the old banyan tree cannot make ends meet, and now most of the middle part of this tree is empty, and in three or five years at most, this tree will die, and some things will not be far from destruction when they reach the most beautiful stage." ”

I heard her say something about the tree, as if to say that we had a curse on our backs from the ghost cave, and I didn't want to mention these disappointments, so I said to Shinley Yang, "It's late at night, why haven't you slept yet?" Did you close your eyes and think of my majestic figure, so you tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep? ”

Shinley Yang said: "If only I closed my eyes and thought about you, now when I close my eyes, my mind is the figurines in the cave of Shalong Mountain, the more I think about it, the more disgusting I feel, I don't even want to eat, and I can't sleep until now." ”

I yawned and said to Shinley Young, "Since you can't sleep, you carry forward the spirit of internationalism, replace my post, and wake me up when you are sleepy." ”

Shinley Yang smiled: "It's beautiful to think, as soon as you fall asleep with the fat man, you can't wake up from thunder, I can't sleep, and I won't rotate with you, lest you pretend to be dead and refuse to get up and guard in the middle of the night." ”

I shook my head and sighed: "You disappointed me so much, I thought that you had traveled thousands of miles from the United States to support the four modernizations of our country, and I would have worshiped you as Bethune, from the bottom of my heart, that is to say, from the bottom of my heart, I think that you are a moral person, a noble person, a person who is beneficial to the people, and a person who has given up low-level interests, I didn't expect you to be so selfish and selfish, and you don't care about the feelings of your comrades-in-arms at all. ”

Shinley Yang said to me: "You are very eloquent, but you like to talk too much, and it is not good to brag all the time, and you can't sleep anyway, so you might as well talk to me, but you are not allowed to tell me what is on the quotation." ”

The forest was quiet, there was no wind, all the animals and plants seemed to be asleep, only occasionally from a distance came a few strange bird calls, my sleepy eyelids fought, looked at the fat man sleeping on the side, this guy put his head all into the sleeping bag, snorting and sleeping, not to mention how fragrant the sleep is, but Shinley Yang refused to be on duty, I had to have a word of strong spirit to talk to her.

I also don't know why, chatting and chatting about the python and snake in the forest, I talked about the past in Beijing, met a former company of comrades-in-arms, heard him say some rumors of squatting on the front line of cat ear piercing, at that time the war between China and Vietnam temporarily entered the stage of confrontation. On the front of both sides

It is densely covered with cat's ear holes, which are actually infantry counter-shock bunkers, and when digging cat's ear holes, they often dig out the big pythons in the mountains, and they tell me that the largest python is as thick as the legendary dragon. I didn't believe it at the time, but now when I encounter it in Shalong Mountain, I know that it wasn't built indiscriminately.

However, most pythons do not actively attack people, they are lazy and sleep all day long. Some soldiers couldn't stand the heat in the cat's ear hole, and they still felt hot bare-chested, so they had to find a big python sleeping in a tree and drag it into the hole. A few people sleep on the cool python, not to mention, it is more effective than installing an air conditioner.

Later, the python simply lived in the cat's ear hole and settled here. Every day, people feed it canned braised pork, and when they are full, they go to sleep. Then one day the fighting suddenly turned fierce, and the incessant shelling blocked the passage for the transportation of supplies to our army's military industry. The artillery hit, sometimes the position of the bunker repair is not good, a cannon group covered, the whole squad inside is gone, the artillery has been fought for a whole week, there are no ants around the position, the canned braised pork in the cat's ear hole is gone, in a short time, people can still hold on, but the python can't help it when it is hungry, it is used to living in the cat's ear hole, smelling the smell of soldiers smoking every day, and also infected with cigarette addiction, how to drive away, hungry red eyes, just want to swallow people, and finally had to shoot it to death, peel off the python skin and put it in the cat's ear holeMosquitoes and mice did not dare to enter the hole, but one day the Vietnamese agents took advantage of the darkness to dig the hole, the sentry soldier was asleep at the time, did not find the enemy, the Vietnamese agent planned to throw the explosives bag into the hole, but suddenly felt that the body was entangled by a python, unable to move, the bones were about to be strangled by the huge force, but the body was clearly empty, nothing, the next day the soldier in the ear hole found the python skin......

After I got to Shinley Yang Kan, I didn't even know what I was talking about, and I couldn't support it anymore because of my tiredness, so I fell asleep with "Jianwei" unconsciously.

I don't know how long it took, I was suddenly gently pushed to wake up, since leaving the army, I often have nightmares, insomnia all night and all night in Beijing after doing an antique business in the spirit of sustenance, this is slowly getting better, as soon as I fall down, I don't sleep enough thunder can't move.

But this silent night in the forest, although I was sleepy, but I faintly felt a trace of uneasiness in my heart, so at this moment I was pushed by someone, and immediately woke up, at this time the heavy clouds on the sky had removed, and the cold moonlight was about to fall, and through the moonlight I saw that the person who pushed my arm and woke me up was Shinley Yang, and when Shinley Yang saw that I opened my eyes, he immediately put his finger to his lips and made a silent gesture, which was suitable for me not to speak loudly.

I looked around, the fat man was still sleeping like a dead pig in his sleeping bag, I didn't know when there was a thin blanket on my body, maybe Shinley Yang saw that I fell asleep after saying half a word, so he covered me, at this time my brain had just woken up from a deep sleep, and it was a little difficult to make, but then I understood, there was a situation.

I saw that Shinley Yang had already held the **** pistol in his hand, pointed to the two entangled husband and wife trees with his other hand, and pointed to his ears, so that I could listen carefully to the sound in the tree.

I immediately turned over and sat up, and listened, though I did not have the windswept ears of a partridge whistle, but in the silence of the forest, close to the tree, I could clearly hear the sound of a tight and slow tapping from the tree.

It was not loud, but it seemed very strange in the night, it was completely out of rhythm, what was coming out was definitely not a woodpecker, there were no birds like this in the forest, and the sound came from the trunk of the tree above, could there be something in the tree

I can't help but be a little nervous when I think of this, the legend has it that around the tomb of the king, there are accompanying tombs, as well as burial pits, as well as those servants who are hanging upside down as guides, all of which have added a lot of horror to this forest, and God knows what evil things are still in this old forest.

I didn't dare to say anything, and slowly pulled the bolt of the "Jianwei" rifle back, and hung the carrying bag on my body. There are black donkey hooves in the carrying bag to ward off evil spirits and suppress corpses, as well as ropes for corpses, glutinous rice and other things, no matter what the situation, if you have these things, you can fight with it.

At this moment, the dull percussion sound sounded again, like a drop of water, and like a finger tapping an iron plate, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I looked towards the source of the sound, and my vision was obscured by the flowers and branches of the tree, so I couldn't see it clearly. The moonlight flickered between the branches and leaves, and it looked even more ghostly.

Shirley Young whispered in my ear, "You were asleep just now, and I heard this sound when I calmed down, as if there was someone in the tree ......"

I also whispered, "People?" How can you be sure you're not an animal? ”

She said: "The sound was small and weird, and there were no rules, and I thought it was from an animal at first, but when I listened closely, I heard a small signal from Morse code." However, this signal only appeared once, and then it began to become irregular, perhaps because the signal was relatively quiet, and it was very likely that I missed some of it. ”

I was confused, but the uneasy premonition in my heart was stronger. I whispered to Shirley Young, "Morse yards? Is that the international code that only has two long and short signals? What are you hearing? ”

She said: "Three short, three long and three short, that is, Di Di Di, Da, Di Di Di, translated as an international distress signal............ sos。 ”

I said to her, "Don't scare yourself, although this Morse code is the most popular in the world, but after all, it is a cipher code in English." In addition to the blind people and others in the Republic of China, there are a few stone quarrying workers who have come, they are only out of curiosity through the cave, come in and go back to the edge of the forest, the local people are very superstitious, they dare not come to the forest behind the Dragon Mountain, because they are afraid of bumping into ghosts...... Ghost. ”

When I said the last word, I didn't feel very lucky, so I hurriedly quenched it, and said silently in my heart: "There are no taboos." ”

Shirley Young waved at me and told me not to speak, but to listen carefully. The voice came out of the tree again, and this time it was heard very clearly, short and long, and really three short and three long and three short, short and hurried, long and heavy.

The two banyan trees were luxuriant in their foliage, and the moonlight was directly above them when it was dark, so they couldn't be seen at all. But this scalp-numbing distress signal was clearly coming from above. The strangest thing is that the sound comes from the inside of the upper trunk, not the top of the tree, as if someone is trapped in the tree and can't get out, and can't open his mouth to shout, Y Yang has already taken the wolf's eye out of the bag: "I'll go to the tree and take a look." ”

I grabbed her and said, "I can't go, you see the moonlight in the sky is red, the demon fog in the forest is getting thicker, there must be dead people in the trees, this sound is the legendary ghost signal." ”