Chapter 14: The Mystery of Zawang

"Behind the Mountain......" I turned around, looked over the ridge of the low house and looked at the hillside where the cattle were grazing, and muttered to myself, what a wicked man, since the discovery of the stone saucer and the alien corpse, everything has become mysterious, and now even inquiring about a person has become like this.

"Don't look around, his purpose in using this method is obviously to avoid people's eyes, let's go see what is going on." Lu Dachuan rubbed the note in the palm of his hand and quickened his pace.

"This person is unfamiliar with the place, what if it is a trap set by the bad guys?" I voiced my concerns.

"There is no turning back from the bow, and now there is the Longtan Tiger's Den in front of us, and we are going to break through!"

Walking to the front of the car, Zhang Xiaohu and Liu Fashan surrounded them to inquire about the situation.

Lu Dachuan said: "You go ten miles and twenty miles and wait, and we will go to the mountain behind the village to meet someone." ”

Zhang Xiaohu said: "What person? Let's go together! ”

"A person who doesn't dare to meet us in the open and bright is too dazzling."

During the time I was in contact with them, I learned that although their group of travelers was only a group of adventure enthusiasts who came together spontaneously, it was neither a real organization nor an iron-clad organization, but they were still quite willing to listen to Lu Dachuan for everything. So what Lu Dachuan decided, they didn't have any objections, and they got into their own cars and waited for us.

After they left, we got into the car, Lu Dachuan turned the head of the car, went back two or three kilometers, drove the car directly off Provincial Highway 101 in a relatively gentle section of the roadbed, and walked obliquely from the grass without a road to the other side of the mountain behind the village.

From a distance, we could see that the back of the mountain, although not as gentle as the previous one, was not steep, except for a few exposed rocks that looked a little thrilling, and the rest of the place was not so much a mountain as a gentle swelling of the grass.

In order to save time, Lu Dachuan charged all the way and drove the car directly to the halfway up the hill.

After getting out of the car, the four people looked in sixteen places with eight eyes and sixteen eyes, but they didn't even see a single hair.

"Someone can't be fooling us!" I picked up a relatively large rock and climbed it with my hands and feet.

"Wait a minute, we're driving here, maybe he hasn't arrived yet." Lu Dachuan took out a cigarette and smoked it with Liu Peng.

Lu Keqin was about to come to the rock where I was standing, and I squatted down and was about to pull her, when a hairy head poked out from behind another large rock not far away, staring at me with flickering eyes.

"You made us here?" I grabbed Lu Keqin's hand and stopped in mid-air.

"What are you talking about, pull me hard!"

I motioned to Lu Keqin with my eyes: "There is a person behind that stone." ”

Lu Keqin stopped climbing up and turned around to look. Lu Dachuan and Liu Peng also came over when they heard me talking.

The little head nodded at me, leaning against the rock and walking to the side opposite us. It turned out to be a half-grown boy of fifteen or sixteen, except for two red-faced, black as if he had crawled out of coal.

Seeing a slingshot pinned to his waist, I pointed and said, "You hit me in the face with that paper!?" ”

He grinned a smile that wasn't shy at all.

I jumped off the rock, and he said in Chinese, which he was not fluent in, "You are looking for Zawang, I know where he is." ”

"Where is he?"

"I can't tell you in vain!"

"How much does it cost, you say!" Lu Dachuan put the cigarette to his lips and took out his wallet.

He held out a finger. Lu Dachuan took out a hundred yuan and handed it to him, he didn't take the money, but turned the gesture into ten.

"For a thousand, you kid is too dark!"

Lu Dachuan motioned for me not to speak, and then said, "I can give it to you, but you have to tell me in detail who Zawang is, why did the people in your village turn around and leave when they heard us asking?" ”

"I can't say, tell you where he is, my family will kill me if they find out."

"Then I can't give you the money either." Lu Dachuan packed the money back into his pocket.

He lowered his head for a full minute, then raised his head and said, "The adults are reluctant to mention Zawang because they think that Zawang is possessed by demons and is an unlucky person, but he will always be a hero in our hearts. ”

Lu Dachuan saw that he was relieved, and counted out ten tickets for one hundred yuan. He put the money away and told us the story of Zawang:

Zawang is a member of the Zara Pastoral Committee. Whether it is archery or shooting, he can hit every shot, and he is a sharpshooter worshipped in the hearts of people in Suohurima Township, and even several nearby towns. However, a few years ago, he was in the prime of life, but he died inexplicably.

Although people feel great regret for his death and sympathize with his family, people cannot be resurrected after death, and they can only wish him to go to heaven and live a happier life in their hearts. -- As many people know, the traditional funeral method of Mongolian, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities is sky burial, that is, after death, the body is taken to a designated place (sky burial ground, and there are fixed places in various places). ), let birds such as vulture eagles devour, thinking that they can be taken to heaven. In the process of celestial burial, there is a special celestial burial master who is responsible for dismembering the body of the deceased and helping the birds to devour it, because they believe that if the corpse is swallowed clean, it will enter heaven, on the contrary, if there is too much, it will go to hell. In this case, their practice is to cremate the remnants of the body and then have the invited trumpets chant for it. ――But no one expected that something would happen when Zawang "entered heaven".

On this morning, after Zha Wang's body arrived at the burial ground, the celestial burial master made all the preparations, carried the corpse on the burial platform, opened the shroud, and first stabbed three times and then three horizontal knives on the corpse's back (meaning rest in peace). He stepped aside, and flocks of vultures flew from all sides of the sky, and the vultures gathered next to him scrambled to pounce and eat the corpse.

The celestial burial master held a long-handled spoon with a length of a foot and a shiny cold light in his hand, and observed the vultures eating around the burial platform. According to the normal situation, after ten minutes, he would disperse the vulture, then turn the body over and make two cuts in the stomach to let the vulture eat the internal organs.

But this time, within five minutes, he realized that something was wrong, and the vultures huddled in the innermost part seemed to be being swallowed by an invisible maw, one after another...... This is enough, and he hurries to disperse the vultures. You must know that the vulture is a sacred bird in their minds, and even a feather on its body is sacrosanct!

Due to the short time, the vultures did not eat anything at all, and it was several times more difficult to disperse than usual, and the celestial burial master took great efforts to disperse the vultures, and was about to check the corpse, but the corpse itself stood up and screamed and jumped off the burial platform, running into the distance......

Several of the celestial burial masters present were experienced veterans, especially the one with the knife, who had been doing it for most of his life, but where had he encountered this formation, they were all stunned like clay sculptures.

Zha Wang's two friends before his death (who came to supervise his celestial burial), looked at Zha Wang's bleeding back, thinking that something was wrong, it seemed that this person was not dead, so he hurriedly chased after him.

Zawang ran out for a long time, fell to the ground and remained motionless, his two friends chased after him, dared to probe his snort, and sure enough, he was still breathing, knowing that it was a coma caused by excessive blood loss, he took off his clothes and wrapped his wounds and private parts indiscriminately, calling out for his relatives outside the cemetery, and rushed to the hospital.

Although Zawang did not die, people believed that he was possessed by the devil. Otherwise, how can the vultures that disappeared out of thin air be explained?

The Tibetan boy in front of me spoke in a calm tone, but I heard it with a creepy feeling, like a nightmare. Looking at Lu Dachuan's expressions, they should not be much better than me.

The boy let out a long sigh and said, "If I hadn't been in dire need of money, I wouldn't have told you this." ”

"You haven't said where we're going to find him."

The boy turned to the side, pointed in the direction we came, and said, "I see the mountain, and there is a lake on the mountain." After coming back from the dead, he lived alone by the lake and never left. ”

I followed the boy's hand and looked at the mountains in the distance: "There are so many mountains, which one are you talking about?" ”

"The mountain is different from the surroundings."

"What's different?" I put my hands on a pergola over my eyes, squinting and trying to see.

"When you get off the highway and cross the Gobi, you can see a valley, and if you go along the valley, you will know it when you get to it."

"You won't ......"

The boy hunched over and strode to the top of the hill.

"Hey......"

He didn't look back.

"This kid won't fool us, will he?!" I asked Lu Dachuan.

"What's your name? If you lie to us, we're going to come back to you. Lu Dachuan said to the boy's back.

"Gawa. Wishing you all a safe return! ”

What do you mean? We were stunned, and the boy didn't look back, and went over the ridge.

Liu Peng took out the binoculars and looked at the mountains in the distance for a while, but he didn't see the reason.

I asked Lu Dachuan if he believed the boy's words, or would he find someone to inquire again? Lu Dachuan said that if Zha Wang's matter is true, the locals are so taboo, I'm afraid we won't be able to inquire about anything, so it's better to believe him.

They called Zhang Xiaohu and went down the hill, and they were already waiting on the side of the road.

The rolling hills that the boy pointed out to us looked quite close, and we walked for more than half an hour to get there. The main thing is that there is no decent road, and the bumpy process is not detailed.

When they arrived at the mouth of the valley, everyone got out of the car and gathered together to eat something, Lu Dachuan briefly told everyone about the situation, and then asked everyone to prepare weapons in case of accidents. I'm very grateful that he didn't tell everyone what I was hiding before, but I can't express it in public, so I have to act as if nothing happened.

Before departure, everyone checks the condition of the car and takes self-defense weapons from the equipment on the frame and trunk. I have nothing to do, so I will look at this for a while, and look at that for a while, not to mention it is really surprising, Lu Dachuan's dog-legged scimitar I have seen in a small hotel, and all kinds of daggers of length and length are also expected by me, after all, what Lu Dachuan said is to let people take weapons instead of toys, but I never expected that several of them took out guns, including two double-barreled shotguns, a short gun with a sawn off the barrel and an imitation 54 pistol......