Chapter 11: The Head

Since we entered the mountain, in addition to a few wild games given by the guide uncle, all the food is dry food, and the few wild games have not eaten a few bites, so they have been mixed with the monkeys, and now the slander has not passed, when the old itch said fish, I said not to eat, in fact, my heart has been a little moved, and my brain also imagined the scene of eating fish head hot pot at sea. I've never eaten fish this big before, and I'd love to try it here again.

But this damn knife shattered my sweet dream, I looked at the bloody and sticky stomach acid human head, and the scene of the fish head hot pot overlapped, and a wave of nausea went straight up my throat, almost squirting out.

Lao Itch is usually quite bold, and when it comes to dead people, he has seen eight hundred without a thousand, but when he saw this scene, his face turned pale, and he didn't ease his breath for a long time.

Holding back the nausea, I turned the human head upside down with a dagger, and found that the skin on his face was slightly ulcerated, but the whole head was still relatively intact, it should have just been eaten, and when the fish swallowed the human head, it probably chewed a few times, so that the shape of the skull was a little deformed, and the appearance could not be described in words, and it was impossible to judge who it was.

This man didn't have much time to get into the stomach of the fish, that is, he had just died, and he should have come out of that village in the morning, could it be that this man was one of the few people we followed?

I walked over to the corpse of the fish, covered my nose with one hand, and used the dagger with the other to remove what was coming out of the fish's stomach to see where the rest of the man was, but I found only one hand, and there was no place on the hand to reveal the identity of the man.

I continued to rummage a few times, and found half of the backpack it had swallowed, the contents of which had been mixed with the contents of my stomach, and I tossed aside all but those that I couldn't give up. The dry food was wrapped in plastic paper, but I couldn't convince myself to eat them.

Suddenly, I saw a black thing in the paste, and before I could pull it all out, the old itch had already cried out: "Cāo, it's the 'beat'." ”

I don't know what a beat is, I guess it must have been something he learned from prison, but when I pulled it out, it was an earthen pistol, and this kind of gun was really very dirty. It is to sawn the long barrel of a small-caliber double-barreled shotgun, and then repair the butt to look like a pistol. There are two barrels, which can be shot twice, but you can't return the shell by yourself, you have to take out the empty shell like a bullet, so it's okay to use it to hit those little beasts that have no attack power, if you run into a beast and don't kill with one shot, when you finish the bullet and fire the second shot, your neck will have been bitten off. In addition, the power of this gun at close range is amazing, but if it exceeds 20 meters, even a dog cannot be killed, and its practical xìng cannot be compared with a formal pistol at all.

I pulled out the gun, rubbed the things on the ground, and then took it out, and opened the barrel of the gun to see, there were two shotgun bullets in it, and under the barrel of the pistol there was an iron box for bullets, and there were about eight bullets in it, four blue and four red, I don't know what type. I thought that if it wasn't for one of the people we were following, then this person might have come to the mountains to poach, stumbled upon this hole, wanted to come in and have a look, and ended up feeding the fish. That's how bad luck people are, who would have thought that there would be such a big carnivorous fish in this place.

This gun is a good thing, and it can be used to save lives in an emergency, but there are too few bullets. After Lao Itch took out his precious stick, he tinkered in the stomach of the fish a few times, but there was no more discovery, I looked at the fish's body, and saw that in addition to the wounds we caused, there were also some small bullet holes, the fish had been injured before attacking us, but it was an iron sand bullet, which was too lethal and not fatal.

If it hadn't been injured, it would have ended up like this guy in his belly.

Old Itch tossed the man's head to the side of the water and said, "This guy is also our benefactor, but unfortunately there is only one head left, and we can't do anything we want." It looks too dazzling, but it's still out of sight. ”

I wanted to stop him, but the head was rolling very slippery, and all of a sudden it fell into the water, and I said to him angrily: "Why don't you fucking stop, let's stay for a while and go back to this waterway, you are tossing around here, are you disgusting when you step on that end?" ”

Old Itch disagreed, and said to me, "Then it's not disgusting for you to stare at him here?" If you fall into the water, you can't see it anyway, and if you step on it, it's like a stone, and you know what's under the water, maybe you have a lot of internal organs and six lungs. ”

I couldn't help him, so I turned my head to look at the place where the head had fallen into the water, thinking that when I got into the water, I would avoid the area, and suddenly, I saw another dorsal fin quickly paddle out of the water, stir in the water, and dive down again.

When I saw this, I chuckled in my heart, and thought I was wrong, but the dorsal fin seemed to want to deepen my impression, and paddled on the water not far away, this fish is obviously smaller than the one we just killed, but it is not a good thing, the small fish is flexible in the water, and if you really want to fight, it may be more dangerous than just now.

This fucking joke is too big, just such a big piece of ass, there are two salmon, how can they survive, could it be that there is a stupid b like us who comes to die the next day and a half? It's impossible, if this makes sense, what kind of ecological environment do you want to study?

Lao Itch was also dumbfounded, and said for a long time before he said: "No, there must be other passages under the surface of this mine, otherwise how could there be such a big fish, this fish must have swam from other places, I have more than one, how can we get out now." ”

I couldn't get my head around for a while, and when I heard what he said, I couldn't help but think that maybe the water here was connected to other underground rivers or rock veins, and through these connected to the outside world. Then it's not surprising that there are fish here.

When I was studying architecture, there was a natural mechanics course that talked about geological structure. It is mentioned that there is often a hollow zone formed during the orogenic movement in the ancient era in the rocky mountain, called the rock vein, if the rock vein and the mountain stream want to be connected, it is possible to form a water system inside the mountain, and once the mining is hit here. There is a possibility of a huge accident. The smaller ones washed away several mines. The large one floods the entire work face. This water may not be rainwater now, but water pouring in from underground dyins.

I wondered if the water temperature was so low. It's really possible that this is the reason.

The old itch saw that I didn't speak, and I was a little confused. Asked me: "What do you say, what are the rules, this bonfire won't last long, and when it's extinguished, let's hug it in the dark to keep warm." ”

I said, "You have to give me time to think about it, what's the use of being in a hurry, there is no way to do it." ”

At this time, venture out of this waterway. I didn't want to be killed, I looked back at a few caves on the side, and my heart moved, and said, "Don't panic, that hole just now was blown up." Speaking of which, it is not a regular exit, these mines, there must be an exit, we walk from here, maybe we can get out. ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I regretted it a little, this mining and building piling are the same, there are many ways, I don't know if the straight down or the waist is laid down like this, if the waist is good, as long as we can find the way, we can climb up, if it goes straight down, this mine hole more than ten meters above the ground, must need a lifting device, the hundreds of years of things, must be rotten, we just can fly the eaves and walk the wall can not climb up.

Lao Itch didn't have much confidence in me, and asked me: "Don't be sure, you fucking swear so much, whether you are sure of it or not, don't be the same as when you were a child, you said it well when you planned, but it was full of loopholes when you did it, and it hurt me to carry the black pot." When I was a child, it was at most a meal, but now it's a stop for the business of vegetables, you can think clearly. ”

I also muttered in my heart, but the problem of dying to save face was committed again, and said: "Where did you come from so much nonsense, there were not a few when you were successful when you were a child, and now at this time we can only bite the bullet, or we will go back along the waterway to see who lives hard." ”

As soon as I said this, I didn't reply to me, but for a moment, I seemed to see a jiān scheming look on his face, and I was shocked, but then I looked at him, and I couldn't see anything unusual.

I hesitated for a moment, and the old itch beckoned me to pack my things, and when we saw that our clothes were almost dry, we put them on at once, and put all the necessary things in our pockets.

When I came, it was expected that we might give up our backpacks when we entered the bucket, so our clothes were all mountaineering clothes with many pockets, similar to the mouse clothes in the Republic of China, but when we finished preparing, we found that our image was really funny, like two Christmas trees.

Lao Itch turned on the flashlight and opened the road in front, he asked me for the racket, I kept an eye on it at this time, and said: "I am more expert than you with a gun, you will give me a good way in front, and leave the cover to me, wait for what happens, you are in a hurry, kill me first, I am not unjustly killed?"

Old Itch wanted to contradict me, but what I said was true, and he scratched his head, so he had to agree, and the two of us went one after the other, picked the largest mine, and walked straight in.

At first, it was fucking dark in this mine, and we were very panicked after walking for a long time, but we walked and walked, and there was nothing to do, so I asked me: "I said that this mine is really strange, you say, what is going on with the big stone carving on the cliff, and does it have anything to do with this mine?"

I think back to the huge statue, the head and half of the body were blown up, I can't say what happened, the main thing is that I still don't see the head of the statue, I don't know if it's a man or a god, most of my knowledge is related to antiques, this kind of problem, it's really difficult for me.

But looking at the location of this statue, I can think the opposite, maybe the original intention of the villagers here was just to carve a statue in this clamp ditch, but when they carved, they accidentally found a mineral vein, and then laid a mine hole in other places, and slowly turned this place into a mine, this kind of thing is a lot in the county annals and notes novels, as for why they carved portraits on the cliff in the first place, it doesn't matter at all, and it can't be speculated, like Leshan Giant Buddha, the reason is often just a thought of someone, I don't have to try to figure out what the ancients thought.

My level can only be speculated to this point, but it is enough to bluff people of this grade, he was stunned for a long time before he said: "If it doesn't matter, it's the best, I look at that stone hand, the fucking carving is like the real thing, it's really terrifying, how to think about it." ”

I also think it's strange, there was no realism in ancient times, and anything carved is a little abstract, like this style is too weird, speaking of which, it's a bit evil, especially when I didn't see the face of the statue, I always feel that the face, maybe there will be something wrong...

Thinking about walking for a long time, the old itchy flashlight has begun to flicker, the battery is almost used, we stop to change the battery, this kind of flashlight has only one problem, that is, it consumes too much power, the general tactical flashlight, can last for more than 5 hours, this one is only about 3 hours, but fortunately it can use dry batteries.

I turned on the flashlight to light the old itch, he took out the dry battery from his pocket, squatted on the ground and began to unscrew the back cover of the flashlight, suddenly his foot kicked something, there was a clattering sound, I moved the light and shone it, and it shone on a rusty iron ring embedded in the ground.

I glanced at him, both felt inexplicable, I probed over, and my heart chuckled, the iron ring, apparently connected to a trapdoor on the ground, although the iron ring was very rusty, but there was a lot of rust peeling around, obviously someone must have opened this trapdoor recently.

The old itch blew away the dust on the ground, revealing a stone slab, in which the iron ring was embedded, and he knocked on it, and it was hollow inside, and said, "Strange, there seems to be something down here?" Would you like to open it and take a look?"

As he said that, his hand was already lifting the hoop, as if I would surely agree.

I suddenly felt a strangeness in my heart, and suddenly realized, grabbed his shoulder, and said to him: "No need to act, you have been here here a long time ago, how many things are you still hiding from me?" ”