Tasi is a remote mountain village located in Qingzhou County, which is surrounded by mountains and has very closed traffic. There is only one mountain road in and out of the village, and there is almost no communication between the village and the outside world, and there are only about 100 villagers inside, and the village has always been a traditional self-sufficiency of men and women, and there may be very few villagers here who have ever left the village.

With the development of national defense science and technology, radar and other facilities have begun to be built in various strategic places. Although Tasi is surrounded by mountains, it is located on the east and west sides, surrounded by mountains and rugged roads, but the construction of the radar is also imminent. The local order was issued to open the mountain and build a radar.

At the beginning of May 1970, Captain Sun led the team to Tassi, Captain Sun had participated in the Liberation War, was a person who had crawled in the rain of bullets, and later came directly to this construction team after being discharged, and there were many veterans who had been discharged from the army. For Captain Sun, he has walked a lot of rugged mountain roads, but he has never encountered such a difficult mountain road as Tassi. The road here is not only rugged but also steep, and the transportation vehicles cannot enter the mountain at all, so the team can only walk into the mountain with equipment. The procession, which had been about half a day's journey, walked for a whole day and a night, and arrived at the village of Tassie in the evening.

After the procession entered Tassi that night, they saw an old man standing at the gate of the village, and upon careful questioning, he learned that the old man standing at the gate of the village was the village chief, and he was like an unknown prophet waiting for the procession here. The village chief said very little, almost what Captain Sun asked, he answered, and never said a superfluous word. Captain Sun pondered in his heart that it might be because Tasi was indeed too remote, so there were usually no outsiders here, and the village chief was extremely restrained. After Captain Sun explained his intentions, the village chief just nodded, didn't even say a polite word, he didn't even have any expression on his face, just told Captain Sun that the village has never been an "outsider", if Captain Sun doesn't mind, he will take the team to station on the periphery of the village, the team came here to open the mountain to do engineering, and must not be familiar with the mountain road, and told Captain Sun thousands of times, don't let the comrades enter the mountain alone, the construction of the mountain, the mountain road has nine bends and eighteen bends, people are easy to get lost in it, once they get lost, It's even more difficult to come out again. So starting tomorrow, the village chief will be a "guide" for the team and lead the team into and out of the mountain, so as to facilitate the team to complete the task smoothly.

The village chief's proposal was immediately agreed to by Captain Sun, who originally planned to be stationed outside the village with his comrades in order to avoid disturbing the villagers, and came here, if he wanted to successfully complete the project of opening the mountain and building a radar, he must have a local person as a guide, the village chief is the authority of Tassi, and with the help of the village chief, things must be twice the result with half the effort. However, before Captain Sun could shake hands with the village chief to show his gratitude, the village chief left Shanshan and told them that the opening of the mountain was a big project and there was no room for delay, so the village chief would come early tomorrow morning to join the team.

Captain Sun glanced around the village, the village was brightly lit, and through the window he could see that every house had kerosene lamps hung, and in the middle of the night, a remote village was so "prosperous", which made him feel very strange. What's even stranger is that although every house is brightly lit, there is not a single person on the street.

The process of opening the mountain lasted for five days in succession, and during these five days, the village chief arrived at the team station on time every day and led the team up the mountain to open the mountain. The team's attention was all on the construction of the mountain, and the comrades did not enter the village for five days. Fortunately, the project is progressing smoothly, and it is estimated that the completion time will be much earlier than expected.

Perhaps because it is too closed, so after the team is stationed, the villagers are very uncomfortable with the stationing of the team, during which there are no villagers to the team station, occasionally one or two villagers are standing at the entrance of the village to look at the team station, but also with a strange look, when the comrades greet the villagers warmly, the villagers immediately can't hide and leave. In the past five days, there has been one thing that makes Captain Sun feel very puzzled, that is, every night the village is brightly lit, and even after the comrades have rested, there is still no light out in the village. It's not at all like a remote village. Originally, Captain Sun was curious to ask the village chief why the village was lit up until the middle of the night, but considering that it might be the local customs, and Captain Sun and the others only came here to carry out the project, they didn't talk much. Captain Sun also specially instructed the comrades, after all, this is a remote location, and Qingzhou County is a place where AG ethnic minorities gather, so the villagers here may have religious beliefs or customs, so they should avoid conflicts with the villagers.

On May 6, 1970, the weather on this day was very special, because since the beginning of spring this year, the weather here in Tasi has been high and crisp, and the temperature has risen day by day, but on this day, it actually rained heavily in Tassi, and the temperature dropped from 18 degrees Celsius the day before to 2 degrees Celsius. Along with the strange weather, the village chief, who had always been punctual to the team's station, had not appeared today. Just like the village chief warned before, the mountain road here is winding and rugged, and walking into the mountain is like walking into a labyrinth, even if you work on the mountain for five days, but if there is no village chief to lead the way in and out of the mountain, the comrades themselves will not be able to enter and exit the mountain at all. So Captain Sun had no choice but to take a comrade to the village to find the village chief.

This was the first time Captain Sun had come to the village after arriving in Tassi, and it was full of old-fashioned dilapidated mud houses, which looked to be old, and the walls were peeling off layer after layer, and some of the walls were even bricked. On this day, it was pouring rain in the air, and the muddy road made it very uncomfortable to walk, and it was in this weather that they saw a family, an old man and a middle-aged man standing at the door, no matter how heavy the rain was, two people standing at the door without moving. And what is particularly striking is that at the entrance of this house, a lantern in the shape of a dragon head is hung.

Captain Sun stepped forward and persuaded the two to enter the house, and asked the two of them, why was they standing at the door in such a heavy rain? And asked where is the village chief's home?

But no matter what Captain Sun said, the two of them didn't seem to hear it at all, and they still had a dull expression on their faces, and they didn't say a word. The little comrade next to him was a little anxious, and raised his voice and shouted loudly, "You are deaf, can't you hear what you say?" ”

Captain Sun immediately glared at the little comrade and signaled him not to talk nonsense. But even after being yelled at by the little comrade, these two people were like two living corpses, and they still didn't have any reaction. So Captain Sun had no choice but to pull the little comrade and continue to walk forward.

When Captain Sun was leaving, he took a closer look at the dragon-shaped lantern, which was made of white silk cloth, and carefully painted the shape of the dragon's head with a black brush. The heavy rain wetted the white silk cloth of the dragon head lantern, and under the action of the rain, the white silk cloth was pressed to some unevenness, and this natural change actually led to the change of the "expression" of the dragon head lantern, and the dragon head lantern changed a variety of different expressions. Captain Sun had never seen such a lantern, and the little comrades around him were even more surprised.

When the two of them continued to walk forward, there were rows of dilapidated old-fashioned houses all around, accompanied by a very strange scene at the same time, all the houses were standing at the door of the men, each of them had no expression, their eyes were very confused, giving people the feeling of "evil". And at the door of every house, there is a lantern in the shape of a dragon's head. The more he looked at this lantern, the more ominous Captain Sun felt, because this lantern resembled a memorial lantern at a funeral. No matter which family Captain Sun was talking to, these people didn't seem to hear him, not only did they not answer, but their faces didn't even change at all.

The village is full of such lanterns hanging at the door, and the villagers in the village are in such a state, which gives people a very strange feeling. Even Captain Sun, who is accustomed to seeing the big scene of bullets and bullets, has a little bit of "emptiness" in his heart.

"Captain, what's going on? What's wrong with the people here? The scene is so terrifying. The little comrade asked tremblingly.

Captain Sun steadied himself and signaled that he would not look for the village chief for the time being, and would go out of the village first, maybe the village chief had already gone to the camp.

So the two of them quickly retreated from the village of Tassi, and when they were at the entrance of the village, they were surprised to find that the village chief was standing at the entrance of the village, and looked at them with a blank face on his face. Captain Sun couldn't help but speed up his pace, ran in front of the village chief in a few steps, and hurriedly asked the village chief what was going on in the village?

The village chief shook his head, saying that this was a "heavenly worship" ceremony in the village, in order to pray for God's blessing in the coming year. After saying it briefly, the village chief said to Captain Sun quietly, "Let's not waste time, let's hurry up and work on the mountain, you don't have much time." ”

After all, Captain Sun was a battle-hardened person, and he could see at a glance that the village chief's answer just now was just perfunctory to him, and the strange behavior of the villagers in the village was definitely more than just a ritual. But Captain Sun was not allowed to ask more, so the village chief stepped forward. A group of people passed through the camp, took the rest of the comrades who did the project, and soon came to the construction site, before five consecutive days of construction, the surrounding gravel has been bulldozed, today is the most important part of the project, is to blast through the south side of the rock.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a heavy rain, people's vision is even a little blurred by the rain, Captain Sun personally took his comrades to settle **, **After the installation, the village chief took a group of people down the mountain, as far away as possible from the area where ** is located, in order to prevent natural disasters such as landslides caused by explosions.

Everything went very smoothly, Captain Sun personally detonated **, accompanied by a loud bang, ** completely blew up the mountain rocks on the south side. After confirming that the mountain rock was blown through, Captain Sun breathed a sigh of relief, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Since the rocks have been blown up, the only thing left is to clean up the rocks, today's rain is really too heavy, Captain Sun decided to let the comrades go back to the camp to rest first, and wait until the rain is a little lighter before cleaning up. So Captain Sun asked the village chief to lead the way and bring the comrades back to the camp first.

But just as they were about to leave, a loud "boom" came from the mountain on one side, and the sound was so loud that the ears of those present were buzzing. Captain Sun panicked, and immediately turned to look at the mountain on the side, only to see that a thick fog rose from the mountainside of the mountain, and the explosion sound came from there. This is really strange, they have only been in this mountain for construction in the past few days, and they have not been to other mountains in Zhouwei, and as the village chief said before, the mountain road here is particularly difficult to walk but easy to get lost, and the comrades will definitely not enter other mountains alone. Also placed in this mountain, how could it be possible that the mountain next to it made a loud explosion, and if that was an explosion, then who placed it there? If not the explosion, then what caused the loud noise?

Tassie was in a remote area, and there was only one way in and out of Tassie, and after they entered the village, no one else came here, which ruled out the enemy's doing. So what's going on on the next mountain? Captain Sun's heart became a mess, completely straightened out, what happened here?

Just when Captain Sun was puzzled, he only heard a comrade next to him stammer, "That, that, that...... Yes yes...... Dragon?! ”