Chapter 37: Camping
The next day the weather was terriblely gloomy, not like the eve of a storm, not even a breeze from the other side of the valley, let alone the dense forests on either side of the desolate path, which seemed to be frozen in frame. Without a snapping reference, even a speeding car cannot show its speed. Staring at the strange picture outside the window, Mu Tianyu saw it for the first time, and what puzzled him even more was that he didn't sense that evil force from beginning to end.
The driver in the cab is a tall and bespectacled Applejack, who works back and forth with the bald He Yongqiang, and the puzzling thing is that the speed seems to have been controlled in the range of about 60 miles all the time. Because of the blackout material of the windows, even in the daytime, it is not necessarily how bright the interior of the car is, not to mention that the climate outside is already terrible, and there is no sunshine. As for the people in the car, they didn't seem to want to talk, they were busy with their own affairs, even the young man Lu Ming had been sitting in front of the radio station, wearing a headset, and had not moved his body. Mu Tianyu noticed the woman named Tan Lin, her eyes never left the notebook in her hand, although she occasionally glanced at herself.
The dull and boring episode continued until 5:12 p.m., when the car stopped. After taking a nap for a while, Mu Tianyu suddenly opened his eyes, and at this time, three lights had been lit in the carriage, because the sky outside was like the sunset. When he saw that everyone got out of the car, he looked at Sun Lei and followed.
"Oh my God, it looks like a storm is coming." The person who spoke was a woman, Xiyuan, who looked into the distance, standing in the mountains under the gloomy sky, like two doomsday guards, intimidating people's hearts and making people dare not violate. "And the valley is Kennel Town?" (Doom Guard: The church has sacred and majestic statues of angels, and the hell has terrifying demons, all with wings, but they all end the same way.) In the propaganda videos of the early church, the image of the demon is more thoroughly portrayed, and believers call it the doomsday guard. )
Applejack holds the digital display in her hand, looks down and analyzes it, and is about to speak when she hears another person's voice. "Yes, there is Kennel Town behind it, and the two mountains you see are called dog gods by the locals." Everyone looked at Sun Lei, who had just gotten out of the car.
"Inugami? Looks like two giants. Xiyuan looked at it again, shaking his head and concentrating. Is it really quite similar, with a twisted and narrow head, a muscular physique, and a beastly human body? She exclaimed, turned to Sun Lei and asked, at the same time, everyone also noticed this scene, the picture did look like a huge mountain range with a dog's head but a human form.
"If you look from the side when the car drives into the valley, it is really lifelike, and everyone will surrender to its solemn intimidation." Sun Lei recalled the pictures of the past and felt a little touched. "According to legend, the kennel town can be prosperous because of these two spiritual mountains."
"Prosperity? Now it's just a pile of ruins. The young man Lu Ming said coldly, his words were always sharp.
"Yes, yes." Sun Lei turned his head and looked at Lu Ming, his serious expression with a hint of anger. "This can only be blamed on human greed, if it is not for more monetary benefits, you don't forget, even the country's research on the project is tacitly approved, if the mutated gene can be extended to the human body, there will be countless incurable diseases to be perfectly reborn." Sun Lei hated all this, when such a terrible disaster occurred in Kennel Town, he did not get rescue from the military, and he was still left to fend for himself, even today, twelve years later, the official has not made any explanation or report from the relevant parties.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Mu Tianyu took a step forward and extinguished the burning smell of gunpowder, and he diverted the topic and said, "Okay, then let's go, it seems that it is only half an hour's drive." ”
"No way!" As soon as the words came out, Applejack interrupted him, shaking his head and motioning, "Can't go now, half an hour?" I'm afraid I won't be able to get there in half a day. ”
"Half a day?" Mu Tianyu was surprised, the distance visually measured was only a few tens of kilometers, and even if he walked, it would only take a few hours.
Sun Lei looked at the puzzled Mu Tianyu and said: "Yes, it will take at least half a day, about eighty years ago, I was not born, and the economy of Kennel Town is more developed than some cities." In order to attract more tourists and businessmen to invest, the mayor of the town carried out the construction of the underground mine, which was financed by the donations of the local owners, and my grandfather invested most of his life savings. The town is located in the deep mountains, and it is difficult to open up a path for thousands of miles and surrounded by mountains, even this seemingly casual path has experienced a long time of carving. Sun Lei stared into the distance, he seemed to be visiting this winding road back to his hometown, took a step forward, but retreated, turned around and said: "It's okay on weekdays, although the mountain road ahead is rugged, and you can pass through cautious driving, but when it comes to a rainstorm, the surrounding landslides make it extremely difficult, as far as I know now, on this road of death, there are at least hundreds of car accidents when it rains." People who came from thousands of miles lost their lives, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and who would dare to come after that? Therefore, the underground mine tunnel came from this. ”
"This is indeed a difficult and magnificent project, the entire underground mine is 30 kilometers long, so far it is extremely rare, the local people spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources, it took nearly 40 years to build it, the mine road spans 34 meters, the height is nearly 10 meters, the interior stone carvings are all kinds of dogs, very local characteristics, has been integrated into the intangible cultural heritage." Applejack looked at the display in his hand and said, "There is a detailed introduction to this on the Internet, but unfortunately, ten years ago, such a magnificent underground mine completely collapsed. ”
"Since then, unfortunate events have followed, and the historic town has finally been buried under the dust." Sun Lei sighed, leaned on the side of the bus, and felt depressed, after all, this is his hometown, a place where he was born and raised, and now things are neither human nor human, and it is inevitable that he will touch the scene.
The bald head He Yongqiang, holding a searchlight projected into the far part of the road, in the diffuse halo, those broken and messy rocks scattered on the edge of the road, as the line of sight deepened, there was a huge crack from the ground, which was a collapsed mine. "This road doesn't work, and the only way is through this dense jungle." The powerful light shone into the dense forest on the side of the valley, but in the dim sky, the light and shadow were full of dense branches and leaves, and the dense phobia triggered the mind, and the vast forest was endless.
"We go now? We will arrive in the middle of the night. Mu Tianyu looked at the gloomy jungle, as if he heard the wail and destruction from the depths of the dense forest. If there was something in there, I should have felt the evil force, but it's strange why I couldn't notice it at all. Mu Tianyu's heart was shrouded in yin qi, just like this strange weather, and the ominous premonition gradually came to his heart through this fog.
"If you want to act, I raise my hands in agreement." Lu Ming, who was standing behind Mu Tianyu, stepped forward, he still had that proud look, contemptuous of the other party. "But I'm sure you won't see the dawn sun, and perhaps we'll pass by your corpse, trampled on the bloodstains of the bloody flesh being dragged away. Oh no, you may have no bones left, and your blood will be sucked dry, and you will evaporate from the world. He pointed to the heart-wrenching, inconspicuous trail at the edge of the jungle. Be my guest. "The media fanned the flames of the legend here, and it cannot be ruled out that there is some kind of ferocious beast here.
Applejack shook his head helplessly, he understood why Lu Ming targeted this man named Mu Yu everywhere, even though he had only known him for less than twenty-four hours. Staring at the data analysis on the display, he explained: "Fifty meters ahead, our navigator will fail, and the entire magnetic field inside will be chaotic, and even the satellite positioning GPS will fail." This vast forest is far more vast than we imagined, and if we go deep into it, we cannot rule out the invasion of wild beasts, even if the sky is full of stars at this time, I am afraid that when you look up, you will only be covered with dark shadows, and you will not be able to see the starry sky, and you will not be able to discern the direction at all, and the end will be lost, and when the water and food are exhausted, only death will remain. He took a deep breath and said to everyone, "We'll camp here tonight and leave early tomorrow morning." ”
"Hey, that's great, I can finally get a good night's sleep, but I still rely more on this sturdy and hard floor! By the way, I regenerated the fire and ate some cooked food, and the biscuits at noon really made my appetite miserable. He Yongqiang said, and walked to the trunk of the car, and he stared at Sun Lei, who was in a daze. What are you looking at, why don't you come over to help, do you still want to sleep in the car tonight? That cramped, short bed board is enough for you to roll over? ”
In the next hour, the simple camp was set up, and Mu Tianyu dragged a large broken branch from the ditch not far away, and the dry climate made it break into several knots with a light foot, enough to make a fire tonight. It was seven o'clock in the evening, but it was already completely dark, and it was no exaggeration to say that without the lighting of the campfire, the fingers would not have been visible.
When the group sat down, the oppression of the environment was very severe due to seclusion, and it was inevitable that they were in a strange place, and they were inevitably distracted and absent-minded. Finally, someone broke the gloomy atmosphere. "Well, it's rare for everyone to gather together." Xiyuan turned his gaze from the bonfire to Sun Lei, and glanced at Mu Tianyu again. "The two of you are now members of the squad, you should more or less have an understanding, I know that this Uncle Sun Lei used to be the sheriff of Kennel Town, so ...... This Muyu, who did you before? When they calmed down and saw each other through the light of the fire, they felt that he was charming, and everyone couldn't help but look at Mu Yu in the corner, who was holding a piece of wood in his hand and preparing to add fire. Looking at his sluggish appearance, Xiyuan couldn't help but laugh.
"He used to be a psychiatrist." Sun Lei is not a sheriff, and he is very honest, he immediately spoke.
Mu Tianyu was very embarrassed, and planned to find a random career to fool the past, after all, the position of a psychology professor is a painful memory. And combined with such information, the other party is very likely to inquire about his unbearable experience, he nodded blankly, and said helplessly: "Yes, yes, I used to be a psychiatrist." ”