Chapter 20: The Legend of the Mountains
After a day's journey, the two of us were so tired that we lay down, and as soon as we put down more than 100 kilograms of things on our bodies, we felt that the whole person was floating, followed by a strong sense of sleepiness, and we couldn't move anymore when we fell on the bed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
When I woke up, it was already past ten o'clock the next day. Li Er and his daughter-in-law, Sister Wang, were busy with lunch early, and they didn't wake us up before they saw that we had even gotten up.
After we got up, the meals were already on the table, all the game in the mountains, snake soup, wild pheasants, etc., the whole table was meat dishes, the two of us were already hungry and dizzy, grabbed the chopsticks like a wolf who had been hungry for ten days and half a month, and ate it like a whirlwind, I casually joked with Li Er that he was getting more and more moist this day, and a table of game, it seems that there is no shortage of wild food.
Li Er said that this is just a common thing in the mountains, and we didn't eat less when we were soldiers here, so it's not unusual. Eating and chatting, the fat man had already swept away most of the food on the table. Unconsciously, we talked about the fact that a few years ago, when we went to the mountains as engineers to investigate, these things have long passed the period of secrecy, and it is no longer a secret.
Hearing that his eyes were about to come out, his mouth couldn't stop being amazed, and I said that the two of us were going to go into the depths of the mountain again this time, and his head shook like a rattle and waved his hand and said, "You are lucky to come out alive in the mountains, this mountain has never been peaceful, and even the oldest hunters here dare not go into the depths of the mountains and forests." ”
The two of us have experienced the strangeness of this mountain, so naturally we don't take what he says seriously, and we can't help but ask him how he knows that this mountain is not peaceful?
He looked at us like monsters and asked, "Haven't you heard of this mountain after all these years of being here?" ”
The fat man and I both shook our heads, and the fat man said, "We also went into the mountains a few times during the war, and we didn't go there less during the usual training, and we never heard of anything unpeaceful inside. ”
Li Er sighed and said: "No wonder you haven't heard of it, I know that there is discipline in your army, this will tell you that you must say that our people in the mountains engage in feudal superstition, I also heard my grandfather say that the most terrible thing on the surface of this mountain is poisonous snakes and beasts, any of which can kill people." But what you don't know is that there is a forbidden area in the mountains, and no one knows the specific place, so if you rush into the mountain, you may enter the forbidden area by mistake. ”
The fat man was very unimpressed: "What's so strange about the forbidden area, when we entered the mountain, we also saw blood-sucking lobsters, man-eating swamps, centipedes with arm thickness of one meter, praying mantis holding sickles, and big pythons that swallowed people alive, there can be anything more terrifying in this mountain." ”
Li Er said: "What you said are more common things in the mountains, after all, they are the most common things in the primeval jungle, I am talking about strange things, my grandfather said that there is a cemetery in this mountain, it has a history of thousands of years, and I don't know who the cemetery is, I only know that this person in order to prevent someone from robbing the tomb, in the cemetery set up countless hidden weapons, even if these mechanisms can still be used for thousands of years, the person who mistakenly breaks will definitely die, and most of the people who come back have not brought back anything, Even if you bring things back, they are all dead branches and leaves or animal bones that you can pick up at will, and even if you don't die at that time, you won't live for seven days, and you will die inexplicably at home on the seventh day. ”
It sounds so wicked, why don't I believe it? I asked him again, "Did the people who came out say what they encountered in it?" ”
Li Er shook his head and said: "All the people who enter the mountain don't know the specific place of the forbidden area, and not everyone can get to the forbidden area, and the people who come out don't remember anything about what happened inside, sometimes sober, sometimes babbling nonsense." I'm afraid no one knows what happened. ”
Naturally, the two of us didn't believe his words, and the fat man and I both thought that no matter how many strange things in the mountains were, could there be strange things that we encountered? Besides, no matter how strange things are, they are all artificially created traps through some means, and people who fall into them will be delirious at least and die at worst.
Half a day in the afternoon, under Li Er's strong persuasion, we still packed up the shape and prepared to go, Sister Wang's maiden family suddenly came to someone, that person is his sister-in-law, Sister Wang's two brothers and sisters, he has an elder brother, he is very fond of this sister on weekdays, and I can't see anyone saying bad things about my sister behind my back.
Her sister-in-law hurriedly came to find Li Er, Sister Wang's brother went to the mountains three days to hunt, and brought a big hunting dog, this morning the big hunting dog came home covered in blood, and scared his sister-in-law stupid, a woman's family had no idea at that time, and after thinking about it again and again, she had to come to Li Er and his wife for help, and was just bumped into by us who were about to leave.
Sister Wang listened to her sister-in-law's words and sat on the ground paralyzed, the two women hugged and cried together, and the big hound came back covered in blood. Li Er was about to take the two of them to the village party secretary for help.
The village party secretary is an old man in his sixties, and when we were fighting in the past, our reconnaissance company was also responsible for communicating with the village party secretary and asking them to evacuate the villagers to the city, so we are quite familiar with it.
I and the fat man also went to the village committee together, the village party secretary saw our two of extra enthusiasm, and please sit and pour tea, after listening to the narrative of Sister Wang's sister-in-law, the old village branch fell into contemplation, lit the old cigarette pouch, took a few puffs, thought for a long time before he spoke: "He is an old hunter in the village, will not make such a low-level mistake, according to ancient legends, there is a big mountain in the depths of the forest, from the outside it looks no different from the ordinary mountain, almost to the border of Vietnam, Legend has it that this place is the tomb of the ancient Dian King, because there are traps all around, no one dares to go, but some people still have to worry about the treasures in the cemetery, so they will still take the risk to break in, but most of them have no return, so they got the name 'Broken Soul Mountain'. ”
I've heard the name Broken Soul Mountain before, but I never knew the origin of this name, and I didn't know that this place was still buried with the tomb of the ancient Dian king, it seems that it is indeed not the same place as the altar we were to when we first arrived, don't say what the trap of that place is, I don't know, even the old branch secretary doesn't know, in Li Er's words, the people in the entire village who know the situation inside are either dead or crazy.
There are too many dangerous things in the deep mountains and old forests, poisonous snakes and beasts are relatively common, and the hunters also have methods and means to deal with them, if you fall into the swamp and are trapped by some strange traps alive, even the Da Luo Immortal will not be able to save you at that time.
We discussed it with Li Er, and finally decided that I and the fat man, Li Er and an old hunter in the village, the old hunter called Wang Ye is a young man in his twenties, and he followed the people in the village into the mountains to hunt at the age of eight or nine, and he knew the situation in the mountains clearly. Everyone took a big hunting dog into the mountain to find Sister Wang's brother, although the old branch secretary did not approve of us doing this, but after all, human life is at stake, and we have four people and four dogs, and we have a response to each other, so the chance of accidents will be smaller.
We originally wanted to try our luck in Longtan again, but now we unexpectedly learned that there is a larger cemetery, and it is a cemetery of the princes of one party, and it is really hard to say how many treasures there are.
The old branch secretary only said that the place of the tomb was not far from the border, and the hunters in the whole village, whether it was hunting or collecting mountain goods, could not go that far, the old branch secretary was old, and the generations were deeply affected by these legends, and he was still a little uneasy, so he found someone to pick the three largest hunting dogs in the village and take them into the mountain for us. Why three? Sister Wang's brother took a hunting dog into the mountain, although he was covered in blood, but he was not injured after a careful examination, and he was also very conscious.
The big hunting dogs in the south are not as big as the north, and the south rarely encounters large beasts such as black bears and wild wolves, but in the face of some smaller and more poisonous poisons, so most of the time these hunting dogs are not small, and those big hunting dogs in the north look very thin and weak, but the flexibility can throw off ordinary hunting dogs for several streets.
In order to cultivate the flexibility of these big hunting dogs, they will be like the Tibetan mastiff method, throw several very flexible poisons into a cellar, and then starve the hunting dogs for three days and throw them into the cellar, which is at least black, some hunting dogs are put in and stay in place and tremble until they starve to death and dare not move, and the bolder ones can only rely on their sense of smell to find prey, and the poisons that are often put into the cellar are poisonous snakes and other animals that do not rely on their eyes, and the hunting dogs that can survive in the end are very sensitive. Whether it's day or night, you can't hide the slightest wind and grass, and you are definitely a good hand at hunting in the mountains.
Almost every family in the village will have a big hunting dog like this, Li Er and Wang Ye are both good at dog taming, and the four big hunting dogs have become obedient in their hands.
Before leaving, I asked Sister Wang to prepare some things for us, two live chickens, glutinous rice, ink buckets, and searched the entire small mountain village without a family raising donkeys, so it is a pity that we did not find the legendary black donkey hooves, and we did not take this matter to heart, after all, this is only one side of the book, not to mention that I also have a Japanese saber and a bronze ancient sword, but this scabbard has long been lost in the mountains. I don't know how many years this ancient sword is old, according to the meaning of the book, I don't know how heavy the evil spirit of this ancient sword is, if the demons and monsters want to get close, they are looking for death.