We left the woods and walked in the wilderness and wasteland, without the old fish as a guide, without Dongzi as a narrator, I no longer knew where I was, and even my sense of direction had been completely lost, I only felt that everywhere was an endless wasteland, barren pastures and cultivated land, rotten and abandoned cottages and houses, messy bushes, and far away, I could faintly see some abandoned high-rise buildings and crooked telephone poles in the distance.

It seems to be a completely forgotten place, looking at those abandoned farmhouses and barren plains, there is a feeling of traveling through time and space, returning to the years of a hundred years ago, but looking at the high-rise buildings and telephone poles, there is a feeling of going to the countryside and the countryside and overlooking the city.

Ah Sheng pointed to this barren land and said to me, this is the site of the 64 Tun tragedy in Jiangdong. The traces of the history of the Chinese who have operated here for hundreds of years have now been erased by the blood and sins of the colonizers, and now what is buried under these barren grasses is the homeland of China a hundred years ago, but now, we have become illegal border crossers.

He said that the high-rise buildings and telephone poles in the distance over there have also been abandoned, and now that Russia's population in the Far East is decreasing, it will become a wasteland in the future, and the Jiangdong 64 Tun will probably become a historical relic forever.

The two of us were talking, Pan Haigen walked in the middle of the team, but he didn't say a word, just kept observing the terrain, his lips moved slightly, as if he was looking for something.

"Pan Ye, which direction are we going, do you know the way?" I walked up to him and asked.

He shook his head, and instead of looking at me, he continued to look around, and replied, "If I knew the way, I wouldn't have to look for a guide." ”

I'm dizzy and don't know the way, so what is this blind walking?

He then added: "But it doesn't matter, here, even if you know the way, you may not be able to find where we are going." ”

He was obviously a little absent-minded as he spoke, and he was observing, and I thought to myself, does he know any markers, or has a map?

"Pan Ye, since you don't know the way, why are you still watching the old fish and them go, now that so much time has passed, we have gone far, are you sure they can still come back?"

Pan Haigen stopped, looked back at me, and said, "They are my buddies, it's okay to call me Pan Ye, you can call me Uncle Pan, listen to comfort." ”

I was speechless for a moment, thinking to myself that I called you Uncle Pan, you are comfortable, but I am not comfortable.

"Don't, doesn't it call you old, and if I call you uncle, you have to take care of me everywhere, which is not conducive to teamwork, otherwise, I will call you Lao Pande."

"Okay, Lao Pan is very pleasant, haha...... Da Kui, you go to the front to explore the way, look at the terrain, and the others rest in place. Damn, this place is full of plains and meadows, and there is not even a recognizable object the size of a dirt bag. ”

Lao Pan commanded, Da Kui answered, unloaded the backpack, threw it to the ground, threw off the big foot and ran forward, he was tall and strong, there were ordinary people in two steps one step, the foot strength was actually very fast, only a moment of effort, his back disappeared from my sight.

It seems that these guys, each with different specialties and skills, combined together, is a good team, looking at their obedience to Lao Pan Yan, they should also be old guys, old partners.

Several of us sat down on the spot, and after a morning of trekking in this boundless wasteland, I was also exhausted, and sat down with my back against a tree, and suddenly I felt a feeling of bad luck, and cursed in my heart, Didn't I find my own guilt?

After resting for about ten minutes, Da Kui ran back with a bump, and scolded and said: "Pan Ye, there is a rotten grass pond in front of his mother, I don't know how many years it has been soaked, and I can't see it on the surface, I almost fell into it and picked up a life......

Only then did I see that Da Kui's legs and feet were stained with a lot of wet mud, slimy, obviously he had been hit just now, Pan Haigen frowned, and said to Ah Sheng: "It's better for you to come, you see, where should we go?" ”

Ah Sheng nodded and stood up, looked around, observed Da Kui again, suddenly squatted down, picked up the surface soil with his hands, twisted a little soil with his hands, looked at it, and sniffed it under his nose.

I looked at him curiously, and when I saw Ah Sheng thinking for a moment, I stood up, pointed in one direction, and said, "Five hundred meters away, there must be underground water." ”

Pan Haigen nodded, seemed to believe his words, and waved his hand at us: "Get up, let's go." ”

I got up and continued with them, muttering casually, "Groundwater, what are you looking for groundwater?" ”

Ah Sheng said lightly: "Where there is water, there are mountains." ”

……

Five hundred meters away, there was groundwater.

But it was very hidden, after we found it, along with Ah Sheng, carefully brushed away the wild grass on the ground, and soon Ah Sheng found a trickling stream hidden under the grass, he looked down to identify it, looked at the direction of the water, and then stretched out his finger and dipped it in some water, tasted it on the tip of his tongue, and said to Pan Haigen, go up this stream.

Old Pan was convinced of his words, and immediately the team turned around and walked towards the upper reaches of the creek. It's just that I wondered in my heart, so I whispered to Ah Sheng, what did he find, and where are we going?

Ah Sheng glanced at Lao Pan, hesitated slightly, and then told me that the place we are going to is a high mountain, but there are plains everywhere, so we must use this method to judge where there may be mountains according to the topography, soil changes, water quality and water flow direction here.

I didn't understand what he said, but it sounded very powerful, and I was curious: "You dig a pit, but you have a lot of knowledge, and it seems that there are a lot of doors here." Hey, I said, do you know a little bit about Feng Shui? ”

Ah Sheng smiled: "I don't understand Feng Shui, I only understand science, but sometimes, the two are interconnected." Oh yes, I forgot to tell you, I'm a graduate of the School of Geology. ”

I'm a little speechless, no wonder they all say that knowledge creates value, it's really like this, these people who dig pits and rob tombs are all highly educated......

We followed the stream, which was actually quite difficult, because we had to constantly remove the grass to find the direction of the water, and sometimes there were divergent flows.

However, with Ah Sheng, he was able to accurately determine which stream was the main road leading upstream, and even from the water, he could tell where there would probably be wild beasts in the vicinity, and how far away, and led us to avoid several swamps lurking in the shadows, which made me look at him with admiration.

It was fast to afternoon, and when I looked up, we were still in the middle of a wasteland, and it looked like we were all the same in all directions, with no recognizable object or any object that gave me a sense of direction.

I had always thought that only the endless arid desert and the dark ancient jungle would cause me to get lost, but at this moment, I was in a barren land on the border between China and Russia, full of wild grass and scattered bushes, and lost all sense of direction.

Intuitively, I felt as if I was on a path of no turning back, step by step.

"Rest in place." Pan Haigen in front suddenly ordered, this happened to be a bush, a few of us sat down, Pan Haigen looked at the time and said, "Rest for half an hour, hurry up." ”

I'm already tired, although my backpack is the lightest, but after walking for so long, it also weighs on my back pain, this unloading, suddenly a lot easier, I directly leaned against a tree, snorting and panting.

Ah Sheng, who had been walking in front, suddenly stopped, waved to us again and again, we hurriedly walked over, followed his gaze, and saw that the wild grass on the ground in front of him was already very sparse, and the position he was looking at, a piece of weeds was lodging badly, and it had been trampled out of a road, and it seemed that something often climbed over it.

"What is this, is there a big snake?" Da Kui asked with a strange expression, Ah Sheng didn't answer, looked down and observed, carefully brushed away the weeds on the ground, pointed to the bottom and said, "Look, this seems to be...... Footprints? ”

I looked down and saw that there seemed to be rows of footprints under the weeds, but the footprints were a little too small, probably similar to the traces of chicken feet digging the soil, and the shape was also very similar, and it was dense and disorganized, spreading from under these overwhelmed weeds all the way forward.

"Could it be that someone is raising chickens here?" Da Kui Leng said with a frown, Ah Sheng glanced at him, looking a little helpless, Pan Haigen scolded: "Can you grow your brains?" ”

Da Kui shrank his head and said with a smile: "I'm just talking casually, just kidding......"

Ah Sheng frowned, looked ahead and said, "This road is the only way for us, it seems that ......"

Pan Haigen waved his hand: "Don't worry so much, just be careful." ”

Ah Sheng turned around and shouted at us: "Brothers, all follow, just walk along this road, pay attention, and keep an eye on your steps at any time." ”

Pan Haigen glanced at Da Kui, Da Kui reacted quickly this time, and was also very conscious, folded a few wooden sticks on the ground, handed us a few, and then rushed to the front without saying a word, holding the wooden stick and hitting the grass hard, and started to be a pioneer.

Ah Sheng reminded me: "See, this is called scaring the grass and scaring the snake, you should be careful." ”

I didn't speak, just nodded.

However, I don't think it's a scareless snake, how can a snake have claws?

A few of us had a stick in our hands, and we kept beating the grass and walked along this strange path.