Chapter 16: Going in circles
Seeing this, Tan Jian took off his black mask and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter, we're going around in circles?" ”
"But, boss, there's only one way!"
This is a snow ditch, a large flat snow slope between two snow-capped mountains, although the snow is very thick, it is difficult to walk, but the terrain is not dangerous, and there is only one road, the left and right are blocked, either go forward or backward, how can you go around in circles?
A very terrifying thought immediately popped up in my mind, and I said, "Could it be that those three snow-capped mountains will go by themselves?" ”
Tan Jian was about to reach out and hit me in the back of the head again, but I quickly dodged on one side, he took a blank shot and frowned, "I've read too many novels." ”
I said: "It seems to have been written in "Liao Zhai", the story of the mountain god carrying the mountain. "The Tibetans are one mountain and one god, one lake and one god, is it that the patron saints of the three snow-capped mountains have nothing to do when they are full, and they wander around with the snow-capped mountains on their backs?
Zhou Xuanye stared at the three snow-capped mountains and said: "I haven't seen the mountain god, but this is definitely not a god, the gods will not play with us without nothing, and those who are abnormal will be demons." With that, he turned to look back.
There is no mountain behind us, you know, we turned around from here.
Zhou Xuanye turned around and said, "Turn around and pay attention to whether the mountain will appear again." "We couldn't figure out what was going on, so we had to do it, and we walked back for more than two hours, and we didn't see any mountains coming out, so it seemed that this time we were on the right track, and we were heading back.
We all wear windproof goggles, and the snow is all white, bright, and it is possible to be snow blind after looking at it for a long time, and people's eyes will be very uncomfortable. Such windproof sunglasses are essential. But even with this protection, prolonged fatigue and close observation can still make people's eyes tired.
I couldn't help but close my eyes slightly, but it was only three seconds, and when I opened my eyes again, I was almost scared to pee, and those three snow-capped mountains appeared in front of us again!
At the same time, I also noticed a strange phenomenon, we are walking back, there is wind here, but there is no snow, because the snow is very deep, so the footprints left by the place we walked are also deep.
But at this moment, the road in front of us is also new, and we can't see the footprints left before, as if we are not going back, but a new road!
What the hell is going on?
"Boss Brother Zhou, how did it appear?" I just closed my eyes for about three seconds!
I thought that Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian must have seen it clearly, but they shook their heads at the same time, saying that the situation was the same as mine, and it appeared at the moment when they closed their eyes. I can't really say how it happened.
The work in the office is relatively leisurely, and Zhou Xuanye is well-informed and has a lot of books, so in the past half a year, I will turn some books to read if I have nothing to do. Many of Zhou Xuanye's books are old editions, the kind that can't be found on the market, so I have gained a lot of knowledge.
In the book, I have seen the phenomenon of snow mirage, that is, in some vast snowy areas, due to snow and fog, there may be a mirage.
For a moment now, I even thought that the snow-capped mountains we saw could be the snow mirage that the ancients said, but the footprints in front of me could not be explained by a snow mirage.
We go around in circles on a straight road?
After thinking about it, there seemed to be only one possibility, and I said, "Boss Brother Zhou, could it be a ghost hitting the wall?" ”
Tan Jian pointed to the sun in the sky and said, "Don't you see it?" ”
The ghost hits the wall, which only appears at night, and even if it is encountered, it will be automatically cracked as soon as the sky is bright. We've all been in this place for a night and half a day, so how can it be a ghost hitting a wall?
For a time, the situation reached an impasse. After thinking about it, Zhou Xuanye said: "Go forward." "We go back in circles, but what if we keep moving forward? Where are we going? Now it seems that this is the only way to do it.
Immediately, we rested for a while, ate something more, replenished our strength, unbuttoned our pants and peeed on the way, and then looked in one direction and walked forward. The walk went into the evening. The surrounding environment is not repeated at all, as if we are walking on a new and unknown road, but the three completely unchanged snow peaks give people a very terrifying feeling. They are like three giants, looking down on us, and we are like insects in a box, unable to find the north and not knowing how to climb out.
It was a terrible feeling, but none of the three of us said it. Zhou Xuanye has never been a person who likes to add to the heavy atmosphere, no matter how dangerous the situation is, he maintains a very calm state, which makes people feel that he seems to be in a very safe environment at a glance.
And Tan Jian is always taciturn, covering his body tightly, and he can't see a little skin.
We couldn't continue to move forward at night, so we camped for another night, and the next morning when we got up, it seemed to be even colder, even if we boiled hot water, we couldn't dispel the chill on our bodies, we walked for a long time, and our bodies were difficult to warm up, which was a little different from the situation on the first day, when the altitude was not high, when we walked all morning, our bodies were actually very warm.
But now, it doesn't seem to be warm at all, there is no snow around, but the fog is heavy. The thick mist, lower than yesterday's, seemed to cast over our clothes, clammy and cold, stiffening our muscles and bones.
Something is not going well.
We still didn't have anything to gain, and according to the map, we should have come to a bend in a snow ravine, but at the moment, that bend did not appear. Our bodies are a little overwhelmed, and I even wonder if I'm going to get sick, and getting sick in this place is absolutely fatal.
The constant references, the route that doesn't match the map at all, the straight, unchanging snow gully, makes us realize that things have reached a terrible impasse.
Zhou Xuanye stopped, his face was slightly blue, and he didn't know if it was frozen.
With white breath in his mouth, he gasped a few times and said, "I can't get out, senior brother, have we met the 'three styles'?" "The so-called three styles, that is, the three styles and six tenacious gossip in traditional culture, are all fortune-telling and divination, and the three styles belong to the category of Qimen Dunjia, in other words, Zhou Xuanye suspects that in this snowy region, someone has arranged something similar to Qimen Dunjia.
Tan Jian shook his head, saying that he had already had this idea, but there was no trace of Qimen Dunjia in this place.
Just when the three of us were like headless flies, I suddenly felt my heart skip a beat. That feeling is exactly the same as the night Fu An's accident, which makes people very palpitating. At this moment, I was a little puzzled to understand why this feeling was happening again, and just as I was wondering, the feeling became more intense in waves, as if my heart was about to beat out of my chest. This feeling even caused me to have a temporary suffocation.
Damn, do I have a heart condition?
The next moment, I was on my knees, and my legs were buried in the snow.
My actions startled Zhou Xuanye: "Tiangu, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Heart...... Breathless...... I heard a voice...... "I don't know if it's an auditory hallucination, in this situation that seems to be a heart attack, I actually heard Fu An's voice, which seemed to be ringing in my ears, and kept calling my name."
The next moment, my eyes went black and I fainted completely.
In fact, the process of this coma was not long, and in a short period of time, I immediately woke up, and my heart still had the feeling of having a heart attack, heavy, and feeling very empty, and every now and then I throbbed twice.
Immediately after, I heard the sound of the wind, the sound of the wind whistling on the tent.
Then, I realized that I was actually sleeping in a tent, in a sleeping bag, and it was quite dark around me, making it difficult for me to figure out what I was in.
Could it be that after I fainted, Zhou Xuanye and the others got me into the tent?
It's so dark, could it be that it's too late?
The camping was all for the camp lanterns, why didn't they light the camp lanterns?
I felt that something was wrong, so I didn't rush to make a sound, I reached out and touched my trouser pocket, and from my trouser pocket I felt a windproof lighter and lit it, and in an instant, orange light filled the tent. I saw Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian sleeping next to them, also in their sleeping bags, and at this moment, they both had their eyes open, as if they had just woken up. So when I looked at each other, I was startled, and I almost didn't hold the lighter.
Immediately afterwards, Tan Jian sat up abruptly and said, "Why am I in the tent?" ”
You ask me, who do I ask?
Could it be that Zhou Xuanye did it?
And at this moment, Zhou Xuanye also climbed up, looked at the tent, and said, "After you fainted, we also fainted, and as soon as we woke up, it was now." After a pause, he didn't say a word, and from the place where the equipment bag was on top of his head, he pulled out the Si Ghost Sword and slammed out of the tent.
The light of the lighter peeked through the tent, and instead of the snow, I saw a patch of grass.
Grass?
There are only a few small shrubs in the snow that are very hardy, but you have never seen this kind of grass?
I immediately followed and went out, and at the same time, Zhou Xuanye outside lit up the camp lantern, and in an instant, the surrounding environment was displayed in front of our eyes. We are still next to the same Guozha Tso Lake that we set up camp on three days ago!
I pinched my thigh, wondering if I was dreaming.
And Zhou Xuanye squatted next to the tent, and suddenly slammed his fist on the ground, saying, "Fooled!" "The position where he was squatting was on the right side of our tent, and I remember that was the position where the photographer had camped right next to him.
I looked over and sure enough, I could see the traces of the nails, and in addition to that, there was a puddle of white marks that caught my attention.
It was like the grease after something had dried up, irregularly sticking to the surface of the grass, and Zhou Xuanye's hand was stroking that thing at the moment.
If you want to describe it, it's a bit like wax tears left behind after burning.
Tan Jian obviously thought of something, and when he came over to take a look, his expression was finally not calm, and he said with a loss of color: "Mirage? ”
Zhou Xuanye nodded and said, "Yes, we were calculated by Yang Ming!" ”
Does this have anything to do with Yang Ming? I listened to their conversation, and seemed to have made some name for themselves, but I was at a loss, so I asked them what the hell was going on, and what this mirage was.
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