Chapter Seventy-One: Lake of the Gods

"I don't take money, but you're going to take me to find my father's body." It was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, his cheeks had a flush peculiar to the highlanders, his cracked skin and messy hair could not stop the sparkle in his eyes, his name was Kasang, the son of Luomu.

Feng Qiyun asked for a long time to find this child, two dilapidated wooden houses, the house was burning red cow dung, the temperature outside was close to zero, the front end of the unsized liberation shoes on Kasang's feet was long gone, he was a little restrained, his toes kept rubbing back and forth, these people from outside bought him a lot of things, although he had not eaten all day, his stomach had already betrayed his strong self-esteem.

Feng Qiyun reached out and touched the child's head and said, "Kasang, tell me that the sun will rise tomorrow?" ”

"Yes!"

Feng Qiyun said with a smile: "There will be hope when it will rise, take us to find hope." ”

Kasang had no mother, not at a very young age, Luo Mu was an instructor in the local border detachment, and his father was very stubborn after the accident and moved out of the barracks.

The local leaders had taken the boy out of the mountains, but he had run back on his own, and the locals said that he was as stubborn and strong as his father.

Kasang refused many kindnesses, and the local government would give him a living allowance every month in the form of a five-guarantee household until he was eighteen years old, but Kasang never used the money.

He told Feng Qiyun that his Mu Luo father was watching him from the sky, that he was the bravest boy in the snowy mountains, and that he needed to live bravely on his own.

He also had a horse, three cows and a dozen sheep in his house, plus the house that his father had left him all his possessions.

The young man clutched a shotgun in his hand, which he said was his father's gun with his name on it.

The fat man had seen the gun, and he said that it was a good gun, meticulously maintained, and the parts of the gun were much cleaner than the child's face.

The old man in the village said that there were gods and devils in the mountains, and that dark clouds and lightning and thunder could often be seen over the canyon, but the area outside the canyon was peaceful.

"Grandpa Boogie said that it was the gods and devils in the mountains fighting, they have been fighting for thousands of years, and they have never been able to distinguish between winners and losers, as long as they have not divided the winners and losers, we are not allowed to go in."

Boogie was the oldest man in the village, and in the afternoon they tried to visit, but the old man left only one sentence: "You must not harm this child"

And he closed the door.

Cha Wenbin hesitated, and he said to Feng Qiyun, that place is so dangerous, will it be too dangerous to let Kasang be a guide.

Feng Qiyun said that this place is full of glaciers and snow caves, and there may be an abyss beneath the ground, and only experienced locals can distinguish these dangers, and they must have someone to lead the way.

It's not that he has to look for this child, it's that no one wants to do it at all, no matter what the price is.

This morning, Feng Qiyun had been finding the child following them, far away he was avoiding them, the disappointment lasted until noon, Feng Qiyun decided to talk to the child, he chased, the child ran, and in the end he failed, he stepped into a snow cave, the child deliberately.

The fat man said that the child was stronger than them, and finally they learned the story of the child and that his father was the one who disappeared last year.

Seven bodies, six recovered, the grave has not been found, people found his gun at the scene, the bullets in the magazine have been exhausted, but the person has nowhere to go.

Just because there is no corpse, Mu Luo cannot be defined as a martyr, and Kasang cannot enjoy the pension of the descendants of martyrs, he is too self-respecting, he knows that the money is pitying him, but he wants to get back a little bit of his dignity for his father.

At that time, several of them had spent time in the old forests of Northeast China, and they were not unfamiliar with the environment, but the altitude and the fickle weather and those glaciers and snow caves here were the most deadly.

The fat man decided to ask the herdsmen for some equipment, and he bought Kasang a pair of thick cowhide shoes, a dogskin hat, and a warm coat.

He bought enough beef jerky, dried cheese and high-grade barley wine for themselves, and bought a professional trekking line and cane and compass from the local geological team, and one end of the strong flashlight can be used as an electric baton, instantly releasing a strong current, and he even got a set of two-dimensional matrix walkie-talkies produced by foreign mechanisms, although it is an old product, it is better than nothing.

As for guns, they are everywhere in the herdsmen's area, and the fat man will not miss such an opportunity, and there is a rich man like Feng Qiyun, and all he has to do is wave the money in his hand.

A five-and-a-half-half, a double-barreled shotgun with a sawn short barrel that can be pinned to the waist, and four Type 59 offensive and defensive grenades, this thing imitates the early products of the Soviet Union, characterized by great power, the disadvantage is that it is extremely unstable, often thrown out without exploding, and the eliminated things are stuffed into the meat by herdsmen to blow up wolves.

The rest of the canned kerosene, matches, and flint and steel were brought, and everyone was given a denim backpack, even Cha Wenbin was no exception.

Early the next morning, Kasang entrusted the family's cattle and sheep to the herdsmen in the village, and the herdsmen served the ** barley wine when they left, although they were reluctant to go, but still admired the courage of these people, except for Grandpa Buji, all the people in the village came.

There was a dog in Kasan, a mastiff, three years old, black, whose name was Badu, and Kasang said that it meant warrior.

The temperature difference here is particularly large, and as the sun rises, the frozen earth begins to awaken, and they go northwest along the banks of a small river.

Everywhere there is a small plant with purple flowers, which Kasang says is called Girallam, which means the grass that the fairy sister loves.

There is also a legend here that in ancient times, there was a very beautiful fairy sister in this mountain, who brought this beautiful grass from the far east and planted it on the land of the plateau.

Cha Wenbin looked at the flower and felt familiar, they also have this thing there, the scientific name is unknown, most people call it melon seed flower, when it blooms, the purple of the mountain is very beautiful.

Along the river, there are a number of mani mounds, as well as some dilapidated small houses, which Kasang says were built by herdsmen, and now that something has happened, no one dares to come here.

He said that there is a very clear lake in the upper reaches of the river, which the locals call Shenmu Leitian Lake, which means a place where the gods often go to play.

According to the process, they can reach Shenmu Fortress before the sun goes down today, as long as there is no sun here, it is not suitable for hurrying, without it will lose its direction, the ground under their feet will also freeze, and the originally bare grassland cave may appear a thin layer of ice and become a trap for eating people.

There are many caves here, shallow for a few meters, deep and bottomless, some people say that it is the structure of geological movement that has formed these strange underground worlds, and some people say that it is because of the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction that this land is full of holes, but Kasang said that it is because there is a monster that can punch holes.

The fat man asks him what kind of monster he is, he doesn't know, that's what Grandpa Boogie told him.

The fat man has no heart and lungs to say that there is really a monster to fight to eat, in this life I have eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I like to eat those strange things the most.

It seems that God favors them very much, and the good weather all day has somewhat relaxed Cha Wenbin's heart.

Half an hour before sunset, they arrived at the lake that Kasang said, the snow-capped mountains by the lake are reflected in the lake, the red sunset makes the lake show three magical colors: blue, white, red, they are intertwined and layered, the fat man said that it is really a pity that this place is not circled to collect tickets, and when he finishes his work, he will come here to find the local government to invest in the development of a scenic spot.

Kasang said that Shenmulei is a sacred lake, and the water in this lake is holy water flowing from the distant valley of Nalengrad, and it cannot be desecrated.

The fat man teased him, saying that he didn't care, that he would go to the lake to take a bath in a while, and he took off his coat and walked towards the lake, which they did a lot when they were in the northeast.

The fat man really likes winter swimming, and when he encounters such a large lake and beautiful scenery, he feels that he wants to come to one person and one scene.

Kasang said no, only the gods can swim in this lake, otherwise the monsters in the lake will destroy everything, he said that some cattle and sheep used to go to the lake to drink, and the nomads saw with their own eyes that their huge mouths devoured those cattle and sheep.

The fat man said, that's a lie to your children, the biggest in the plateau freshwater lake is the naked carp, less than the length of the little arm, and he also said that he would get a few for dinner.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade the fat man, Kasang came to find Cha Wenbin, who was lighting a fire on the side, "Brother Cha, he is really going to have an accident, please stop him quickly, God will punish him." ”

But when Cha Wenbin put down his work and chased out, the fat man was already happily entering the water by the lake, he knew that the respect for the lake in Tibetan areas came from respect for nature, but where could the fat man manage so much.

However, seeing that Ye Qiu and Feng Qiyun were also by the lake, Cha Wenbin said to him: "It doesn't matter, he is very watery, I will call him up in a while." ”

"But ......"

Kasang's eyes were full of warnings, Cha Wenbin was entangled by this child and had to walk towards the lake, at this time the fat man was about ten meters offshore, and Feng Qiyun was still throwing stones at him, this is also a stubborn master.

Looking at the two living treasures, Cha Wenbin shook his head and shouted at the fat man: "Come back, don't go into the water, the lake in Tibet can't be fooled." ”

The fat man in the lake was swimming vigorously, he saw Cha Wenbin talking to him, but he didn't hear it clearly, he turned around and stepped on the water and shouted: "What to say, I can't hear it!" ”