After several waits, the last day of the month quietly came.

Starting tomorrow, the public holiday period that the people of the country are looking forward to will officially arrive.

Since the afternoon of this day, the vehicles on the roads in the capital have obviously been congested a lot, especially in the direction of going out of the city, and there are self-driving vehicles everywhere that take advantage of the holiday to travel, almost blocking the road out of the city.

Some people are in a hurry to go out of the city, and some people are in a hurry to return to the city, such as the archaeological team that works in the field all year round, they rarely have a vacation, and this small long vacation period is an opportunity for them to reunite with their families.

In the evening, an off-road vehicle drove in front of the courtyard.

deliberately changed into an outdoor outfit, carried a big bag, and had long hair coiled in the back of his head, and walked into the hospital with a heroic posture and knocked on the door.

Li Xiaodong opened the door of the house, and then said coldly: "Are you ready?" The archaeological team over there of the ancient tombs has all returned to the city, and we are going up the mountain tonight, and we can only go out by day and night. ”

Li Xiaodong nodded, turned around and picked up a backpack, and went out with her.

After getting into the car, Leng Ranbing handed him a map, which marked many key locations with a red pen, Leng Ranbing pointed and said: "In the past, in the name of the official, I often went to visit archaeology, and I deliberately marked the map. The red circles represent the military and police stations on duty, the triangles represent the tombs under development, the squares represent the tombs that have not yet been stationed in the archaeological team, and the diamonds represent ......"

"Okay, okay, you don't need to explain any more about this, I'll follow you along the way, you are my map. Li Xiaodong interrupted her and returned the map to her.

"It's okay to follow my instructions along the way and follow my plan. If you encounter patrolling military police, don't clash with them, hide if you can, if you can't hide, leave it to me to deal with, you have to remember that they are not our enemies, and our entry into the mountain this time is essentially equivalent to tomb robbers and other lawbreakers. ”

Leng Ranbing explained again and again, and saw that Li Xiaodong had no objections, so he started the vehicle.

In the northwest area of the capital, in the reckless forest, there is a mountain range that stretches for nearly 100 kilometers, and this mountain range has been recognized as the "dragon vein" by the emperor since ancient times, and there are countless dynasties of emperors and generals, all of whom regard this place as the best place to rest after death.

In the middle of the night, the car was abandoned and the two walked through the forest one after the other in the bright moonlight, amid the chirping of insects.

When he came to the mountain pass, a barbed wire wall blocked the way, and he pressed his hand coldly and made a gesture, Li Xiaodong immediately squatted down and hid with her in the half-human deep grass.

Checkpoints are set up on the pass's improvised roads to check vehicles entering and exiting the mountains, and on the left and right sides of the pass, along the long barbed wire walls, there are wooden sentry towers every few hundred meters with soldiers carrying guns on their backs and extremely glaring searchlights.

Leng Ranbing took out his night vision binoculars and observed for a while, then put down the binoculars and said: "We must be careful, we must avoid the patrol team and their wolf dogs, through this net wall, the situation inside will be much better, after all, the mountainous area is too large, and their patrol team can't take care of it." ”

As he spoke, in the net wall not far away, a flashlight beam came from far and near, and a patrol team lined up in a neat line, leading a wolf dog, and walked through the guard area according to the set patrol route.

Leng Ranbing took out a bottle of spray from her bag in time and sprayed it a few times on Li Xiaodong and herself, to prevent the wolf dog in the distance from smelling the scent of strangers.

After waiting for a while, she took out the wire cutter from her bag again, leaned in a little, and cut through the barbed wire wall.

Li Xiaodong hurriedly patted her and pointed to the nearby barbed wire wall, where there was a warning sign with an electric shock sign hanging on the wall, and there were a few red words at the bottom: High voltage danger, keep a distance of five meters.

Leng Ranbing looked up and said, "Don't be afraid, it's to scare the people, there is no electricity at all." ”

She was also bold, and without hesitation after speaking, she opened her hands and cut the barbed wire underneath.

Seeing that she didn't have anything to do, and the barbed wire wall was really not energized, Li Xiaodong smiled bitterly and patted her on the back of the shoulder again.

"What's wrong again?" Leng Ranbing asked, turning his head.

"Look, there. ”

Li Xiaodong pointed to the left, about a few meters away, the barbed wire wall in that place has opened a hole, the size is just enough to drill through a person, but the gap is covered by weeds, if you don't look carefully, it is difficult for ordinary people to find.

Leng Ranbing went over to probe for a while, and said softly: "It's strange, I came to see the terrain two days ago, and there is no such gap at all, could it be that there are tomb robbers coming in?"

Li Xiaodong said: "You don't meddle in your affairs, we are tomb robbers, why don't you save some effort and follow the path they opened." ”

"Okay, follow me, crawl low, and drill through. Leng Ranbing didn't say more, put away the iron tongs, crawled his body, and carefully drilled over.

In fact, this kind of three- to five-meter-high barbed wire fence is a matter of jumping over with Li Xiaodong's ability, but Leng Ranbing told him to crawl, he will crawl, he will not show off his light skills without finding trouble, he will not be handsome casually, and he will converge if he can converge.

After walking through the barbed wire fence and continuing up the mountain, after about three hours, the two of them found a rock and sat down to take a breath.

The security here is no longer as tight as the periphery, except for the mountains, rocks and trees within a radius of 100 miles, there is no human population, after taking a sip of water coldly, he lit the flashlight and began to refer to the map.

"That's how I planned it. According to the assumption you made, your mother came to this no-man's land for the tombs, so she will most likely avoid the tombs where the archaeological team has stationed, and go to the tombs that have not yet had time to be developed. ”

"If your mother wants to enter the ancient tomb, then she has only one way, or like those tomb robbers, she can use the robbery hole to enter the ancient tomb, so as long as there is a robbery hole, you can use it as a key search target. ”

She took the map and looked around, "It's just a pity that after such a long time, most of the ancient tombs here have been robbed, most of them have robbery holes, and some of the ancient tombs have more than one, I really don't have the ability to narrow down the scope of the search." ”

Li Xiaodong showed a trace of warmth after hearing this, and said: "Don't feel pity, you have done your best for my business, thank you, Leng Ranbing." ”

Leng Ranbing was embarrassed for a while after hearing this, and smiled: "When did you become so polite? ”

As he spoke, a fluttering movement suddenly sounded in the forest in the distance, and a flock of birds and finches perched in the night forest quacked and chirped and rose to the sky.

And in that night forest, the two of them could hear it, and the roar of the beast was faintly heard.

(End of chapter)