Chapter 28: The Reindeer Man

As we walked along, we found that this place was a little different from the road ahead, although it was also an endless wasteland, but the trees and weeds in this place were very strange, no matter how high or small, they all grew obliquely, and fell in one direction, as if there was some mysterious force attracting there.

Looking at this strange situation, I quietly asked Pan Haigen, now that we have been walking in this place for two days, have we been in the hinterland?

Pan Haigen nodded and said, the reality of this Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun is not very large, we walked about dozens of miles in two days, and after calculation, it should be regarded as going deep into the hinterland, if we go forward like this for two days, it is estimated that we will reach the territory of Russia.

I looked at the mountain in front of me, I was a little apprehensive, I always felt that something was not quite right, we have come this way, although we have also experienced danger, but every time it is a danger, if the black water demon cave, just like we found, is it a little too easy?

Pan Haigen patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't be too nervous, this is not yet to the Black Water Demon Cave, and what I encountered before can only be regarded as a side dish." ”

I grinned, smiled wryly, and didn't speak.

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The road gradually became rougher, and the original plain began to rise and fall, and further on, the terrain gradually increased, and suddenly a high slope appeared, and the wilderness came to an abrupt end here, and a rocky field stretched upward, and we trudged up to the hillside, and as far as we could see, there was a basin paved with stones.

The hillside looked like a strange jagged rock, some covered in shaggy moss, some directly exposed, some as smooth as a knife and an axe, and some jagged as saws. In addition to the most abundant bluestone, there are also white, red, and yellow stones.

This is simply a sea of stones, Ah Sheng picked up a stone and looked at it, muttering: "The color and texture of this stone do not seem to be common mountain stones, but like sea stones formed by long-term water wave soaking and scouring, but the edges and corners are clear, none of them are smooth and round, and they are not like pebbles in the river, which is really strange." ”

Pan Haigen also picked up a stone, shook it in his hand, and threw it on the ground, saying: "It is estimated that there will be more strange things in the future, don't look at it, keep walking, you see, after this stone field, there is a dirt mountain in front of us, we have to go around the dirt mountain again, and we are not far from the highest mountain." ”

I looked ahead, and saw that the mountain he was talking about looked like it was in the clouds, hazy, and I couldn't help frowning: "This seems to be far away, can we get there today?" ”

He took a deep breath and said, "No matter how far you go, it's also a step by step, don't get entangled, let's go." ”

So we carefully stepped on the rocky field, and with great difficulty walked down the hillside, and finally passed through the stone field, and there was a meadow in front of it. But the meadow was different from the road ahead, it was a relatively normal weed, only knee-high, and there was no such perverted wild grass, nor the strange grass that grew in one direction.

After we walked down, we waded through the meadow, and a few hundred meters ahead was a valley, with scattered trees and sparse trees, and a deserted path winding forward.

When we walked to the mouth of the valley, there was a stone tablet several meters high on the side of the valley mouth, which was already crawling with vines, and it looked very desolate under the cover of the wild grass. ”

We went over together, and we saw that there were many scratches on the stone tablet, deep and shallow, and I couldn't tell what the words were, but some of them looked like random graffiti, and it seemed that someone deliberately scratched them.

A few of us looked at it for a while, but we didn't see anything, so we left it alone, and Pan Haigen told Da Kui to explore the way ahead, and we went on and walked into the valley.

There are some strange things inside this valley, the outside looks like a continuous dirt mountain, the trees are sparse, it is very inconspicuous, but the valley is a strange rock, a steep mountain wall like a knife and an axe, the path between the valleys is very narrow, there are strange rocks and weeds on both sides, look up, this terrain is actually very sinister, quite like the Journey to the West, the kind of place where Tang Seng wants to be in danger.

We didn't dare to be careless, so we walked cautiously all the way, and after turning a few mountain paths and two more hillsides, the scenery in front of us suddenly opened up, and a plain area appeared.

It's just that here and outside are different, the mountains are full of flowers, the grass is green, the scenery is very unique, and the treacherous scene in the valley just now is diametrically opposite, it looks like a paradise.

The changes along the way are a bit too different, not only am I confused, but I am also quite surprised to see the appearance of several of them, it seems that these scenes do not seem to be owned in the same place at all.

As we walked forward, the terrain became even more open, and it seemed that it had gone beyond the confines of the valley and plunged into a boundless grassland again. We were walking cautiously when suddenly there was a dull rumbling sound on the ground, accompanied by a noise, and the sound of shouting, coming from far ahead.

Pan Haigen stopped and shouted in a deep voice: "Stop advancing, Da Kui will go forward to investigate, and the others will hide on the spot, Zhang Ye, cover." ”

He gave an order, everyone immediately took action, there happened to be a low soil slope next to it, and a few big stones, we were busy on the soil slope, hidden behind the big stones, Zhang Ye was alone on the side to observe, Da Kui looked at us, pinched his nose, simply jumped on a relatively high stone, put his hands on the pergola, and looked from afar.

These people really cooperated tacitly, and when they saw Da Kui take a few looks, they suddenly shrank their heads, jumped down, and waved to us again and again.

"What's the situation?" Pan Haigen shouted in a low voice, Da Kui ran back, and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a rumbling in front of him, and then he saw a cloud of dust covering the sky and the sun, rolling in, and the large noise became more and more deafening.

This time, there is no need to say that Da Kuiduo, we have all seen that the one running in front of us was actually a herd of gray-brown reindeer, numbering about hundreds, as if they were being chased by something, running all over the grass and dust, which was magnificent.

As soon as Pan Haigen signaled all of us to hide themselves, the reindeer were already approaching, and the dust suddenly filled the sky, and the noisy shouting and shouting were also getting closer.

I watched this thrilling scene, and couldn't help but secretly get nervous, at this moment, about 20 figures finally appeared, and I saw that these people were actually riding on the reindeer, wearing animal skin clothes, carrying bows and arrows, earthen guns, shouting and chasing, and they were getting closer and closer to the reindeer in front.

In the blink of an eye, these people had already reached below us, and we saw that the few people running in front of us were the most vigorous, and one of them was actually standing on top of the reindeer, and with the reindeer running and undulating, it was as steady as the ground.

Seeing that this young man was about twenty years old, he was born strong, with a dark complexion, shirtless, and only a piece of sackcloth was draped diagonally, and a rope hung obliquely on his body, and seeing that he was soon less than a hundred meters away from the reindeer, he suddenly shouted, and pulled out the rope, and threw it back, and immediately a man caught him behind him, and both of them called at the same time, and the reindeer suddenly accelerated at the same time, and ran forward like the wind.

The two men tore open the rope and gradually lengthened it, and saw that the young man before had turned over on the back of the deer, sat down steadily, and kept shouting, and gradually chased after the deer running in front of him, and together with the man behind him, stopped the deer with the rope.

Those reindeer were running in a hurry, suddenly a rope stretched up, stopped in front of them, the group of deer could not retract, they all hit the rope, the deer herd was in chaos, the first to hit up, some fell to the ground, some suddenly closed the momentum and were knocked over by the behind, and some wanted to jump up and jump, but the rope in the hands of the two as if alive, up and down circle, those reindeer did not succeed in jumping out of the escape, the speed is getting slower and slower.

After rushing forward for a while, it was actually stopped like this, and more than 20 people in the back surrounded it together, each holding a rope in his hand, and drove it together, and those reindeer obediently turned around and ran with everyone, but they were already in the control of others, and they couldn't run anymore.

We are on the high slope, what we can see is clear, these people have mysterious origins, superb riding skills, and the weapons and equipment are also very ancient, I look at it, I can't help but wonder, what kind of people are these, how can they make a living in this wasteland?

In the blink of an eye, those people had already driven the deer herd back, Pan Haigen hurriedly signaled us to pay attention to concealment, but Da Kui's guy was too big, but he had just picked a relatively small stone to hide, at this time he saw those people coming back, and he tried to lie down, but he accidentally hit a stone, and the stone rolled down the hillside, and somehow so coincidentally, impartially, just landed in front of the young man who took the lead.

I was shocked that the secret way was not good, and I saw the young man stop suddenly, look up at us, and shout at the same time, "Who is hiding there?" Above! ”

He shouted in Chinese, which sounded a little jerky, but as soon as his words fell, more than a dozen people immediately turned over and jumped off the deer, each with a weapon in their hands, and rushed towards us......