8. Into the mountains - late at night
"Is there a tiger-faced man in the shrine in this photo?"
He nodded, his eyes shining brightly.
"So, is the place on this picture still there?"
He continued to nod his head, and then asked Asuke to translate for me, "Do you have any impressions?" ”
"Seems so." I smiled deep under the mask and lied to them, "I think I've seen this somewhere." ”
As soon as I said this, the duo rushed up and grabbed my shoulders and shook them constantly, "My mind is blank now." By the way, when was this photo taken? I asked, pushing his hand away.
Shaking his head, "It seems to be a 1950's thing." ”
"That means can't be sure? So what are the red circles on this photo for? ”
"I don't know." Asuke translated, then said to me, "You really have an image of this picture?" If the master is not mistaken, 1950? So how old is your face under the mask now? ”
"Can you stop kidding?" I sighed, "Talking about business?" ”
"Okay!" I just think it's a little too boring for a bunch of men to stand here on our big night.
I wasn't in the mood to laugh with him, and after watching the man make a half-noise, he said leisurely, "I remember, but I didn't take the group into the mountain at that time, I just watched them from afar." ”
"Lookout?" I could hear the incongruity in his words.
"Hehe, that's right, because most of their team is made up of people." Master Brie seemed to be a little tired, and sat cross-legged on the ground, "At that time, who dared to approach?" Although they have a good attitude. ”
"And where is that place, you know?"
"I don't know? We couldn't find this place. From Master Brie's original tone, I could tell that he was saying this very lightly.
"Who's that? Brought them in? I continued to ask, if this thing really has a connection with my face, then those people must not be able to get out of it, and the only thing I can do now is to find all the people who may have been in contact with me, otherwise I will throw me in front of my own mother with a mask and she will not be able to see it.
"My uncle." Master Brie himself said as if my words had brought him back to some memory.
"I'm sorry." I scratched my head, "So." ”
"No, he's not dead."
"What?" I was taken aback and delighted, "So where is he?" ”
"Gone out, traveled far away."
"And where did he go?" My train of thought was interrupted by a noise in the distance, and the question that had just come to my lips was swallowed again.
Brie shook his head, and at the same time saw the people in the distance, he patted his butt and sat up from the ground, picked up the book and said to me, "So you stay here for a few days now, we need to confirm something?" Or come with us to the place where the sea and the sky meet. ”
"Yes." I readily agreed. Because I needed something, and I felt that it was going to do something for me, so I asked, "So I think that picture of yours?" ”
"Take it." Out of surprise, he took the photo out of the book without asking anything.
"Don't ask anything?" I watched him walk past me and asked.
"No need. Your path is longer than mine, and there are some things that need to be passed on, and those things are not necessarily history. ”
"I see." I looked at his back and nodded to myself.
"You know what." Asuke and Gith gathered around, "I'm translating the head is big, you understand." ”
"Hey, wait, it seems that someone is back over there?" Keith interrupted what I was about to say and pointed into the distance.
"It looks like a person." I retracted my thoughts and looked over there, and sure enough, a group of people rushed down the hill in a hurry.
"What's wrong?" I looked at the person as if he had been grabbed by something, his clothes were torn and there was nothing good about it, even the skin and flesh rolled out, and the red blood fell bit by bit, making people twitch uncontrollably.
"We can't handle the things on the mountain, we need to send people to support, Ali is gone, flashlights, torches, and food are brought with us." Someone in the chaotic crowd shouted hoarsely, and then the cottage began to slowly boil, and in every room there were people coming out with torches and agricultural implements, and they took the dogs out in front of their houses, and each of them commanded the women and children not to go out, and then they ran in groups towards the mountains.
I looked at the people and saw that the monster was starting to fight back and bite, or that there were more monsters in the mountains? "You're not coming?" At this time, a man ran past us and shouted to Asuke.
"That's right." Asuke shouted, "Why don't you go." Guise, you take care of this friend first, and I'll come back when I go. ”
"What?" Guise said bitterly, "I'm going too." ”
"What do you think this is? Play? Asuke shouted at him with a frown.
"But." Keith was speechless for a moment, then turned his gaze to me.
I was hinted at by him, and suddenly became interested, it stands to reason that I don't know if there are any strange creatures in this world, and I don't know what fear is, but human curiosity is always innate, I watched the torches light up the mountains shrouded in night, and in that place mysterious, unknown, and even a statue that looks exactly like my mask, I also tried to think in my heart if I can also find that statue? "I'd like to see it too." I took Gise's words and said to Asuke.
"There are so many people in the mountains, what does it matter if we follow the troops." Keith rubbed Asuke and didn't care, so he quickly hit me with me. I immediately agreed, but it was night, and many things could not be seen, and the deep mountains and dense forests had not even been found in Brie, who had lived here for a long time, not to mention that they had not even been able to turn over a forest here for generations.
I was thinking about it, and Asuke over there couldn't stand the soft grinding and hard bubbles of Jisi, so I had to reluctantly agree, and he walked into the room without looking back, and said, "I'll go get a gun and wait for a while, don't run around." ”
After a few minutes, Asuke came out with three torches and a cloth bag, and he said to us, "The guns will not be given to you for the time being, and the torches will be lit at the brazier at the entrance to the mountain." ”
Ah Zhu carried this black shotgun, this gun is said to have been handed down by his grandfather's generation, so although the style is ancient, but it is still as new, the old people of the Yi nationality used this gun to defend the country before liberation, guerrillas in the mountains. He himself loaded his shotgun, then pointed to us up the hill and said, "Follow the crowd first, and I'll make the route after that." ”
I nodded, and followed the crowd all the way up, the sky in the mountains was not polluted by industry, a moonlit night hung in the air like frost, the twilight sloped down to clothe the mountains and forests with a white coat, I lit the torch in the brazier at the head of the village, and walked along the crooked path all the way to the mountain.
This piece of mountain forest is a primitive tree species, so there is no road at all, the beginning of a section of the journey we walked is mostly the villagers into the mountain when stepping out, but in the end there is no place to settle, the dense forest that covers the sky has completely blocked the moonlight curtain at this time, I hold the tree with one hand, one hand with a torch, walking in the dense grass, a Yi uncle next to me said that because there was a heavy rain before, the road here is a little difficult to walk, but it will be changed later.
"Reroute?" I asked with a frown as I walked cautiously. However, before I could finish my sentence, I noticed that the long line of lights in front of me had changed direction, and when I walked past with the troops, I saw that in front of me was a large wetland, where the land and water converged, the water level was close to the surface, the green duckweed flickered and flowed under the shadow of the lamp, and the ripples on the water surface rose slightly with the movement of people. In the darkness in the distance, the roots of the trees were like giants that had stood there for thousands of years, watching us come one after another.
Avoiding the wetland, I followed them on the slope of the earth wall waist slowly, the environment here due to the influence of the wetland, part of the surrounding land has a slight sinking trend to the middle, but fortunately there are more trees here, and the vegetation is lush I will not slide down, but because of the dark, there are still people in front of us to remind us, let us watch carefully under our feet.
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