I walked over and stood in front of the young man, and I said to him, "If you want to clear yourself, tell me what means you have to communicate with us, and if you can't hear me, how do you know what we're saying?" ”

The young man blinked his eyes, and seemed to have a great indescribable concealment, but in the face of the sharp gaze of the three of us, and the twenty or so sleepy people on the ground, he seemed to be very embarrassed, and hesitated for a moment, he gestured to us, but unfortunately, I couldn't understand, I shook my head at him, he expressed his helplessness, looked down for a moment, and finally raised his head and said, "I know lip language and ventriloquism." ”

Although this answer has long been in my expectation, but from his mouth, I am still a little surprised, because I know from some information, in the folk rumors, there is a very small city in the Western Regions, the people of this city are born deaf, born unable to hear any sound, but proficient in ventriloquist and lip language, and later the city was destroyed after a natural disaster, the people of the city are scattered everywhere, relying on the excellent skills of ventriloquist and lip language, some were elected to the court as officials, and became the head of the secret service at that time, Specializing in some undercover or investigative work, while others live in more distant places and live incognito.

I approached the young man and said to him face to face, "Then let me ask you, what is the matter with what you said your ears hurt?" ”

The young man replied without changing his face: "Maybe it's because there is a high-frequency sound nearby, or there is an abnormal movement." ”

He put the word "abnormality" very seriously at the end, as if judging from his own personal experience, the appearance of abnormal movement is more accurate.

I turned my back to the guy and said to the other two, "I don't think he's lying, what should I do?" ”

Fang Kong didn't know if he had thought of something crucial, and he immediately returned to the instruments. Hurriedly debugging something, the serious expression made no one dare to disturb when they saw it.

I can only look at Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu's performance at the moment makes me feel that my decision is really redundant, because Xiao Wu's face is full of panic at the moment, and I am not calm.

"Hey, second son. Second Young Master Wu, what should I do now? Shall we continue to walk forward and catch up with the large army, or shall we die here? ”

Xiao Wu looked around, checked the situation of a few more people, stood up and said to us: "They are not in danger of life, they just keep sleeping, I think they may have been drugged or something, let's settle them down first, wait and see." ”

I gave him a big smiley face. It means that I listen to your arrangement, but I am thinking in my heart: "What did I do in my last life, why did I encounter this kind of trouble every time, and it was not smooth to go out, and the road behind this is not the same, Yunnan is like this, Xinjiang is also like this, and it is still the same when I come to the West China Sea later." It's all accidents that make our actions very dangerous. ”

Since it was the little ancestor who spoke, I could only follow it. After all, I still have to find out the whereabouts of Jiang Yuan and a few of them from his mouth, so I cooperated with his work, showed that all the twenty or so people on the ground were arranged together, took out the air cushions from the car and put them on them, and checked them one by one to make sure that they were all safe and sound. It's already dark.

Fang Kong has been debugging the instrument, I cooked some noodles and ate them with canned food, everyone was hungry for a day, and there was no distinction between dignity and inferiority, Xiao Wu and that little guy gobbled up most of the pot. I couldn't eat much because I had something on my mind, and when I saw that Fang Kong was still debugging the instrument, I went over and asked him to come over to eat first, but when I stood up, I saw Fang Kong coming over with a sad face, silently picked up a bowl of noodles in front of him, devoured two bites, looked at me after swallowing, and said, "We have lost contact with the front." ”

I didn't understand what the "front" in his mouth meant at the time, but Xiao Wu understood in seconds, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped his mouth, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "It's okay, my dad and they will be fine, let's wait until dawn, if they don't come back, let's go up and meet them." ”

I said: "Old man Wu has experienced a hundred battles, it is a myth in our industry, Mr. Wu, things have come to this point, I just want to understand one thing, I hope you can tell the truth." ”

Xiao Wu was very surprised, he looked at me, then at the square hole, and finally his eyes fell on the young man who was sitting opposite us to eat, pondered for a moment, and finally said to me: "It's cold, the temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is large, the four of us are divided into two groups, you and I keep watch in the first half of the night, and the two of them keep watch in the second half of the night." ”

The young man looked at Xiao Wu, didn't speak, just silently ate the things in his bowl, and then walked back to the tent to rest by himself.

Fang Kong was still eating, I handed my dagger over, and said, "You take this, go back to rest after eating, and when it's time, I'll go back and call you." ”

Fang Kong is so shrewd, he nodded his head in the way of nature, which is the purpose of the vigil, and then silently finished eating and walked in the direction of the tent.

Xiao Wu and I were the only ones left in the whole camp, and the crackling sound of the bonfire set off the silence here, and he and I leaned against a big tree, sitting next to each other.

After being quiet for about ten minutes, I began to hold it back, I looked sideways at Xiao Wu, I thought he was asleep so quiet, but I didn't expect that his eyes were bigger than lanterns.

"Hey, you didn't sleep?" After I finished speaking, I suddenly felt like I was very squeezed.

"No, I was thinking about the question you asked me." He spoke very frankly and helplessly.

I sat on my side and said, "Will you tell me the answer?" ”

Xiao Wu said "um" and said, "Actually, it's not a secret, it's just that I set off in too much of a hurry, and I didn't have time to tell you clearly for a while." ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, he continued: "Our destination this time is the Snow Mountain Tomb in the hinterland of the Great Snow Mountain, and the original time of the operation was three years later, but because of you, the operation was advanced. ”

I said, "Because of me?" Am I a nobody, will it affect the plans you have been planning for twenty years? ”

Xiao Wu was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked at me, looked at me very seriously, and said: "Back then, my father and they stopped in front of the tomb and didn't go in, not because they didn't have the guts, nor because of the lack of equipment personnel, but because there was less time. ”

"Running out of time?" I asked, "Do you mean that they didn't come back because of a twenty-three year difference?" ”

Xiao Wu nodded and said: "Yes, this year is the twentieth year, and it would have been three years before we would go to Daxue Mountain again, but because of you, we were three years ahead of schedule, and we acted in a hurry." ”

I was even more puzzled, "Why do you say because of me, although I have been in this industry in the past few years, I don't seem to have any contact with your Suzhou Wu family, why is it because of my relationship that your plan is in advance?" ”

Xiao Wu looked at me helplessly, maybe in his eyes, I was like a pig at this moment.

"Huh? How's that? I asked.

Xiao Wu took out a few photos from his pocket and threw them to me, I picked them up and looked at them, and suddenly a breath of cool air was held in my throat, and I couldn't go up or down, which was very uncomfortable. (To be continued.) )