Chapter 17: The Wolf Dance
Could it be that the wolves are going to attack!?
Lu Dachuan and I both "rubbed" up, climbed onto a dirt bag with higher terrain around us, and looked down the mountain, although the moonlight was bright, but far away, and the situation in the valley was not real.
Liu Fashan, Zhang Xiaohu and others jumped out of their sleeping bags, opening their eyes full of horror: "What's the matter?" What's going on? ”
Lu Dachuan and I said almost in unison: "It's still unclear about the situation, you guys quickly packed up your things." ”
They packed up their sleeping bags, kettles and other equipment. The hiking bag is all carried on the body.
The wolf howl lasted for about a minute before it came to an abrupt end, and the valley fell silent. The rustle of leaves in the wind made our hearts flutter, and the crackling of the branches in the campfire made our hearts flutter, as if these were the sounds of wolves sneaking up on us.
After waiting for about ten minutes in fear, the wolves did not jump out to attack us, nor howled again, as if they did not exist at all, and we were just nervous to scare ourselves.
Waiting is easy to make people irritable, and waiting in fear is even more devastating. Lu Dachuan scolded, "Didn't you shout a slogan on the dog day, and the meeting was dismissed and everyone went back to their homes!" ", asked Liu Peng for a telescope.
It didn't matter if Lu Dachuan wanted a telescope, Liu Fashan, Cai Zhengdong and others climbed up the dirt bag one after another, and took out the telescope mirror to look down the mountain. I was so crowded by them that I had no place to stand, so I had to come down and guard the surroundings with Liu Peng.
In a moment, several people on the dirt bag exclaimed one after another, making us baffled.
"What do you see?" I climbed into the dirt bag again, squeezed sideways beside Lu Dachuan, and reached out to take the telescope he held up in his eyes: "Show me." ”
Lu Dachuan turned his head away from my hand and said, "With Lao Liu's, he has night vision." ”
"That's what I'm going to do." I snatched it for him.
"Whose child is this, why is he not obedient at all."
I didn't care what he said, but looked down the mountain, and although I couldn't see it clearly at night as during the day, by the moonlight, the situation at the bottom of the valley was not blurry at all. I easily saw in the open space in front of the hillside, dozens of wolves neatly arranged in a pyramid shape, doing particularly strange movements repeatedly: the head ran four or five steps to the left, raised one front leg, paused with the mouth diagonally in the air, then turned around and ran four or five steps to the right, then raised the other front leg, paused with the mouth in the air again, and then turned in a circle, the head all rushed forward and stopped, the front leg did not move, the two hind legs staggered a few times, crawled to the ground, Stretch your chin flat against the ground, and after a while, get up and repeat this movement......
The whole set of movements was neat and slow, mysterious and heavy, and my blood was about to freeze: "Fuck! People say that they dance with wolves, and it turns out that this is what wolves dance like. ”
Lu Dachuan, who was standing next to me, said, "They should be holding a kind of sacrificial ceremony, you didn't see the rock sheep in front of them, it should be their sacrifice." ”
After being reminded by Lu Dachuan, I looked in front of them, and sure enough, I saw a big rock sheep crawling motionless on the ground towards the top of the pyramid, looking dead: "What are they sacrificing?" The ancestor of the wolf, or the mountain god of this mountain? ”
"I'm afraid I'll have to go down and dance with them once."
"I don't dare go."
At this time, Liu Peng and Zhang Xiaohu wanted to see it, so we gave them the telescope and returned to the fire.
Lu Keqin asked me what I saw? I'm going to take her to see it. She didn't dare. I told her what I saw. She said it was terrifying. Lin Xian'er couldn't help but be curious when she heard what I said, and ran to see it. Lu Keqin asked me in a whisper if I ran down the hill during the day for her? I said I was so scared that I peed my pants, not for who for you!? She took advantage of people's inattention and quickly kissed me and said, Sister didn't hurt you in vain. It was so unexpected that I almost fainted.
"It's changed, it's changed!" At this time, I heard Liu Peng and them say on the dirt bag.
"What has changed?" I climbed up the dirt bag again.
"The formation of the wolf." Liu Peng handed me the binoculars.
I saw that the formation of the wolves was no longer the original pyramid shape, but had become two rings, the inner and outer rings. They were connected end to end with the rock sheep as the center, and the two wolves in the inner and outer rings were about a foot apart, running at the same speed, not very fast, but not too slow. Faintly audible whispers.
The wolves continue. We went back to the campfire and discussed it, and decided that instead of waiting, it would be better to find a way up the mountain while the wolves were still too much to take care of, lest we get trapped and have nothing to do. After such a toss by the wolves, everyone ran away from sleepiness, so they all agreed.
Liu Peng took out a folding sapper shovel, shoveled some soil indiscriminately, and pressed the fire pile. We turned on our flashlights and walked along the knife-like base of the cliff to the left. The more I walked, the more strange I felt, the mountain peaks in front of me didn't look like they were naturally formed, the mountain walls were too flat and smooth, not to mention, and even the color was not normal.
I expressed the doubts in my heart, and Lu Dachuan said that he found out during the day that the stone wall on the hillside had been treated, but it was not clear in what way it was handled.
The hill at our feet, although it had a certain slope, was not obstructive, so we walked very fast and in less than an hour we found ourselves turning back to where we were.
Staring in amazement at the fire we had extinguished for a moment, I had an image in my mind of a huge turret built on a hill that had been cut off from its top.
None of us expected that this would be the case, and we couldn't find the north for a while. Lu Dachuan said: "I'll go and see the movement of the wolf, you have regenerated the fire." ”
Before we lit the fire, we heard Lu Dachuan say on the soil bag: "Fuck, the wolves are gone." ”
As soon as I heard Lu Dachuan say that the wolves were gone, I thought it was bad, and quickly turned on the flashlight to look down the mountain, and almost peed my pants again, only to see wolf eyes flashing like light bulbs everywhere in the woods on our hillside.
"Dog's Day is coming!" I shouted.
This time, the wolves did not stop as they did during the day, but lowered their heads and bared their teeth and roared, and then pounced on us like crazy.
Lu Dachuan jumped up to me, picked up his gun and pulled the trigger on a wolf running at the front. With a flash of fire, the wolf fell to the ground with a scream. It was so close that the gunfire rang in my ears.
Several other guns were also fired by Zhang Xiaohu and Cai Zhengdong, but they did not receive obvious results in the case of insufficient light.
Lu Dachuan called out to Liu Peng, who was still making a fire: "Take the headlights to light everyone." ”
Liu Peng took out two high-power lights and put them in front of everyone. There was a burst of gunshots, and several big wolves fell, and the wolves didn't know whether they were stabbed by the strong light and couldn't see anything, or if they felt that hard work was not the way, so they turned around and retreated down the mountain.
When the fire was burning, we counted five wolves left, three dead, and two lying on the ground, their open mouths foaming blood-red, their bellies bulging and undulating.
Lu Dachuan took out a scimitar and slashed at the throats of the two wolves that were not dead.
Liu Fashan looked at the wolf's head that was about to fall off, and said distressedly: "What are you doing with so much energy, two good wolf skin tubes have been destroyed by you." ”
Lu Dachuan put away the knife, pointed at the other three wolves and said, "Isn't there another three, it's all yours." ”
Liu Fashan smiled: "I don't really want it, I just think it's a pity." ”
Although we won this battle, no one can say for sure what tricks the wolves will play next, after all, none of us have experience in dealing with wild beasts. My biggest fear was that when the light and fire did not deter the wolves at dawn, they would rush to play hand-to-hand combat with us.
Lu Dachuan said: "There is this stone wall behind us, don't be afraid of them rushing hard, what I'm afraid of is that they will ambush us on the way out of the valley and attack unexpectedly, and then we will lose support behind our backs, and we will suffer from the enemy on our backs." ”
Liu Fashan said: "It's useless to say anything now, if you want me to say that you still take turns to sleep, and the most important thing is to cultivate your spirit." ”
Hu Xiaoming echoed: "That's it, that's it." ”
Cai Zhengdong interjected: "Dead fatty, you are always the most active when eating and sleeping!" ”
Hu Xiaoming didn't hear it, and took out his sleeping bag from his backpack: "Don't forget to call me when it's dawn." ”
"I'll carry you to the wolves in a moment."
Hu Xiaoming got into the sleeping bag: "I'm asleep, how do you like it, don't forget to call me in the morning." ”
Lu Dachuan looked at his watch and said, "It will be dawn in two or three hours, Lao Liu, you can sleep if you want, let's keep an eye on it." ”
After running around the mountain for an hour, and fighting with the wolves, everyone was a little tired, and at three or four o'clock in the morning it was the time when people wanted to sleep the most, so Lu Dachuan said let him sleep, and those who couldn't hold on to it unloaded their backpacks and took out their sleeping bags.
I was also a little sleepy, Lu Dachuan asked me to sleep, I was not sure, I wiped my face with cold water and insisted. Lu Keqin was scared, so she took a sleeping bag and slept with Lin Xian'er next to me and Lu Dachuan.
In the end, me, Lu Dachuan, Liu Peng, and Zhang Xiaohu didn't sleep, and the three of them held guns in their arms and smoked. I had nothing to do, I asked Lu Dachuan if I wanted to come to the telescope, I don't know when the moon was gone, and I couldn't see anything in the distance, I dropped the telescope, added some branches to the fire, came back and sat down next to Lu Dachuan, and turned my face to look at Lu Keqin. She was already asleep.
I finally managed to get through until the sky turned white.
"Wake them all up." Lu Dachuan said and picked up the binoculars to observe the movement on the hillside.
I pushed Lu Keqin, and when she opened her eyes, she stood up and stretched, turned around and was about to call the others, only to find that the mountain peak behind me was gone. I thought I had seen it wrong, so I rubbed my eyes vigorously, and when I looked again, it was indeed gone.
How could such a big mountain disappear out of thin air!? I don't know if I'm dreaming or if I'm hitting a ghost!
With a stomach full of doubts, he stared into the distance, and in the not very bright sky, he vaguely saw a vast pool of water more than ten meters in front of him. Could it be the lake that the Tibetan boy was talking about! I couldn't help but scream.