Chapter 7: Rupture
My scalp exploded, and my heart said that I had met a ghost, really, this thing is really alive?
The fat man had already rushed in front of us, and did not stop, but grabbed us and ran, shouting, "What a daze! ”
We took the fat man out for a few steps, but at this time he still didn't react, and when he looked back, he saw an even more bizarre scene, the face of the stone carving was actually shattered, and his facial features were shifted, as if something was wrapped in the stone, and he wanted to come out of it.
"Dog's!" I cursed, and my heart said that my hunch was indeed correct, and immediately ran wildly.
We were in a large area of ruins, and there were rocks and vines below, and it was really difficult to accelerate, so we had to follow the ruins of the mountain, where it was convenient to run, and I fell several times, and my knees were broken, and I ran until we were exhausted, and then we looked back, only to find that we had not run far, but the stone sculpture was still in place, and it was not chased, and this distance could not be seen clearly.
When we were running, our physical strength had already pulled us out of the distance, and the fat man and Panzi were running farther than me, and they were still running forward, so I quickly stopped them. They rushed back and came to pull me, and I grabbed them and told them to hide first, and then look at the stone carvings in the distance.
They were surprised to find that the stone carvings did not chase after them, and we gasped for breath and looked at them for a while, but the stone carvings in the distance did not move at all...... Only then did we relax, and the fat man gasped like a bellows, and said with difficulty: "What's the matter? Xiao Wu, it doesn't move, could this be a mechanism? ”
"We didn't touch that thing at all, how could it be a mechanism? And the agency can't do that to that extent. ”
This is absolutely impossible to be a mechanism, the overall stone carving, plus it is sandwiched between two giant trees, if it wants to turn its head, then there will be a huge movement, and the two trees may even be twisted, so even if there is a mechanism, it cannot turn, there is no doubt about this. But, no matter what I thought, apparently it turned around, which was just too weird.
I was actually mentally prepared for what might happen in the Western Queen Mother Kingdom, but such things were still beyond my imagination.
At this time, Panzi took out the binoculars from his equipment and looked in the direction of the statue, and I hurriedly asked how it was? What the hell is it? saw Pan Zi show a very surprised expression, and said, "I'm cāo? Gone? ”
"What?" I immediately grabbed the binoculars and looked there, and sure enough, the back of the stone sculpture appeared in front of us, but the hideous face was gone.
Before I could put down the binoculars, I was snatched away by the fat man, and my mind was in a mess, could it be that what we just saw was a hallucination? No way, all three of us were scared and almost peed our pants, so what's going on? What is the face we just saw? Could it be a ghost?
"Fuck, is someone playing with us?" The fat man stood up.
We were afraid that he would be reckless, so we immediately pulled him down again, and the stone was unstable here, and the fat man stumbled and slipped a little, and we hurried to pull him again. I accidentally saw that on the boulder about ten meters away behind me, there was a huge relief of a human face, which was exactly the same as what I saw just now, and he was also looking at the front with an expressionless face, like the expression of a corpse.
When I ran just now, I ran all the way and didn't pay attention to the ruins around me, so I don't know if this relief was there in the first place.
When the fat man and Panzi saw it, they immediately felt that something was wrong and stood still. The fat man said: "Damn, this is not alive." ”
"More than one!" Pan Zi said, pointing to the side, we looked, and found that on the boulder around us, there was a relief of human faces every three or five times, some large and some small. But most of them are hidden by vines, and if you don't look closely, you can't tell clearly, and if you look closely, you will find that the scale is amazing. Almost everywhere. Less than ten meters from where we lay is a huge human face, and strangely enough, the reliefs here are all human faces, and there is no pattern of a bird's body.
When the fat man saw so many sluggish stone eyes looking at him, he couldn't help but panic, so he picked up Panzi's gun, and I immediately held it down to tell him not to act rashly. I already felt something was wrong around me, and it didn't seem like a relief.
But before I could clearly figure out what these things were, suddenly one of the reliefs cracked, and then I saw a strange sight, and the broken stones all floated up.
I looked dumbfounded, and my heart said, "Am I finally nervous?" Are you hallucinating in broad daylight? I heard Pan Zi shout: "Damn it, it's a moth!" ”
It dawned on me that the stones floating up were all black moths, and these faces were made up of these moths, no wonder they suddenly appeared and disappeared. Immediately, I saw that the human reliefs around me began to twist and crack, and a large number of them flew into the air and scattered in all directions.
These moths are obviously lying on the ruins here, after being disturbed by us, I don't know why they lined up the appearance of human faces, and soon the sky was almost covered with fragments of black sè, and these moths didn't know if they were poisonous or not, we all subconsciously covered our mouths and noses with clothes, however, the things that protect sè are generally non-toxic, watching the moths gradually fly away, like black sè petals in the sky, quite a feeling.
The fat man caught a few and said that he wanted to take a closer look, these moths didn't know what breed they were, but he didn't catch a few of them. Our hearts gradually let go, and this is also a false alarm. However, we are not to blame, the situation is truly appalling.
We stayed where we were, not daring to act rashly for a while, and the moths flew away one after another, leaving only a few scatters. At this time, we saw that the original ruins had changed, and in the place where the moth had just covered, a large white sè was exposed, and if we looked closely, we found that it was full of white flowers and snake moults, which were entangled in the vines of plants, looking like the white intestines of some animal.
The fat man jumped down, saw the vines, picked up one and scolded, most of the snakes have rotted and are full of holes, extremely disgusting, a large number of vines are interspersed and entwined from them, look around, snakes are everywhere, in the gaps of the ruins, between the roots, there are hundreds of thousands, just now these moths, all of them are stopped on the snake molt, may be attracted by the fishy smell above, this may be the hiding place of these snakes when they molt.
We look at it and shudder, this ruin is huge, how many snakes need to survive here to molt to such a scale?
The fat man climbed up and showed us the snake skin he had picked up, the head of the snake skin was swollen, and the shape of the cockscomb could be seen, it was indeed the skin of the poisonous snake that had faded off, and the skin of this snake was as thick as a calf, thicker than the snakes we had seen before, and it seemed that we could not estimate the shape of the snake here.
The fat man obviously felt disgusted, frowned, and didn't even look at it.
Snake molt is a very valuable traditional Chinese medicine, a pound can be sold for more than 100 yuan, the scale here, at least a few tons of snake molt, the value is amazing, if the fat man knows it is estimated that he will not feel so disgusting. However, I just knew and felt goosebumps all over my body.
Pan Zi touched the skin of the snake, and said: "This skin is still very tough, it seems that it has just faded, this is the place where they shed their skin, the snakes generally molt in places they think are safe, if they meet two here, they will think that their territory has been violated the most serious, and it will definitely attack us, I think this place should not stay for a long time." ”
I looked backwards, and if I wanted to go backwards, I had to walk through the areas where the snakes had molted, which was a very unpleasant thing, but Panzi's concern was correct. There may be those poisonous snakes in the hideaway here.
We set off at once, hurrying out of the area, I expected to run into at least one or two snakes, but it went surprisingly well, and we didn't notice anything. Thinking about it, it seems that snakes are rarely seen during the day, and it seems that these snakes are nocturnal animals, which also shows that this forest will definitely be very lively at night.
I went deeper into it, smelling a disgusting fishy smell, a very strange smell, and by the time I walked out of the ruins and down the terrain back into the woods, something from my stomach was already stuck in my throat.
After re-entering the rainforest, the feeling of covering the sky came back to my face, but after a while ago, I felt that the air in the rainforest was simply enjoyable, and the moist air with the smell of swamp was much better than snakey, and soon, the feeling of vomiting disappeared.
After a delay in the ruins for a while, Panzi walked extremely fast, but his physical strength had reached the limit, and we stopped talking. After walking like this for four or five hours, we clearly felt that the terrain was lowered, the water in the swamp was turbulent, and the sound of waterfalls and rapids could be heard everywhere, but we just didn't know where it was.
Panzi took out the dry food, and we continued to move forward while eating, and after a while, we finally came across a waterfall, which was a fault that suddenly lowered the terrain, and I don't know what ancient ruins were.
Along the way, I was almost certain that the valley was a concave bottom and that the central part of the valley should be the lowest so that all the water would flow there, and I felt that the West Queen Mother Palace should be there, but at this point it was not important at all.
After we crossed the waterfall, we were soaked, and when we got to the bottom of the waterfall there was another cave, the water seemed to seep into the ground, the vegetation was more dense, there was almost no passable gap, and there was no sky to see below, we almost squeezed forward for a distance, and then lost the sense of direction.
The smoke of the third uncle and their cigarettes thinned out quickly, and even if we adjusted the compass, we were worried that we would go too far, so Panzi had to stop and climb the tree to identify the direction.
I was completely out of my way by this time, and as soon as Panzi flipped up, the fat man and I leaned up on the tree to take a breath. However, it didn't take long for Pan Zi to point out the direction, and the Dao was already close to the third uncle, urging us to move on.
At this time, looking at my watch, I have been walking non-stop for a day, I have really never experienced such an intense trek in this environment, and now I can still stand, I think it is indeed a lot stronger. But now it's beyond my physical limit, and I feel like I can sleep as soon as I sit down.
The fat man and Pan Zi discussed it and the forced march began again, and the fat man saw that my face was pale, and he knew that I was physically exhausted, but it was impossible for him to help me in the current situation. He could only keep talking to me to distract me.
The scenery around was monotonous, and there was no topic, so the fat man looked at the things in the water and asked me: "Xiao Wu, do you say that these water floods the broken house, is there any Ming weapon?" ”
I said that according to the exploration experience of the ancient city of Loulan, it is naturally something, but because this ancient city is buried by water, you don't have to think about these like silk and bamboo slips, and there may still be some pots and pans left. What do you want? It's not like it's itchy again.
The fat man was busy saying that it is not itchy or itchy, how can you look at you fat man and me with the eyes of non-development, this time our goal is to have a big vote, and I will retire when I get the things, this bottle and jar is worth a few dollars, how can we also touch the things that can be put in the běijīng restaurant for auction.
I sighed as I listened, and said that there are so many annoying things, and you still have the heart to think about this.
As I walked, it was a little useful at first, but then I felt more and more blurry in front of my eyes, things in the distance gradually became unclear, and the trees became confused. The heart said that I was going to faint, which was really humiliating. But I heard the fat man say: "Damn, why is it foggy?" ”
I pressed my nerves, rubbed my eyes and looked around, and found that it was really fog, not that my eyes were blurred, this fog didn't know when it got up, it was gray, the forest in the distance was completely invisible, and the trees a few meters away in front of me had also become strange shadows one by one. A cold breath began to envelop the surrounding forest.
I don't know if it's due to excessive fatigue or if it's the temperature dropping. I began to have extremely uneasy palpitations, and a nightmare of tangled feelings pressed against my heart.
Last night it was outside the sea of trees, and we don't know if there was fog in the sea of trees, and we don't know if the fog is poisonous or not, but we can't pay attention to so much, and we didn't bring in gas masks.
We pulled some clothes, wet our mouths and noses, and walked a little longer without feeling uncomfortable before putting them down. But at this time, we found that the fog was so thick that we couldn't see anything.