Chapter 4: The Sinkhole
The next day, after breakfast, everyone came to the place agreed with Lao Lin ------ the management station of the reserve. Lao Lin told everyone that the reserve should charge 100 yuan per person for resource management, which is used for garbage disposal, personnel rescue and other aspects. Everyone paid the money and registered their names and phone numbers. Then under the leadership of Lao Lin, he walked into the mountain forest.
It was late spring in March, the grass grew and the warbler flew, and the mountain roads along the way were full of fine wildflowers. From the bustling city to the mountains and forests full of flowers, listening to the clear birdsong on the trees, everyone's spirit is refreshing.
Yunni's astronaut life has always been boring and monotonous, either training or traveling through the dark and cold space, rare to return to nature, she seems to have returned to the innocent era, fluttering butterflies for a while, picking wildflowers for a while, bouncing and jumping, like a tireless child. Gao Feng followed her quietly, his eyes revealing indescribable love. Yang Peng stabbed him: "Your girlfriend is quite cute, don't let her run away, buddy will teach you a trick, cook the raw rice first!" Gao Feng smiled, and his mind unconsciously appeared with Yunni's white jade-like body.
The group talked and laughed, and before they knew it, they came to a small stream, the water of which was clear and pleasant. Lao Lin wiped his sweat and said, "Let's take a rest here now, eat something, and pass through Laojun Mountain in the afternoon, which is an undeveloped primeval forest, and we need to be vigilant!" ”
Liu Zhenyi nodded and said: "Laojun Mountain is nearly three thousand meters above sea level, it is the core of Shennongjia Nature Reserve, and it belongs to a real uninhabited area, with a variety of plants, maintaining the atmosphere of primitive flooding. "Everyone gathered around the stream, took out compressed biscuits, beef jerky, dried fish and other food, and talked while eating.
Yang Peng said: "I heard that there are some famous sinkholes in Shennongjia, and there are many legends of savages, let's not go to see it." ”
Liu Zhenyi did a lot of homework, he said: "The largest sinkhole in Shennongjia is located in Xiaozhai sinkhole near Fengjie, from the depth and volume of the two indicators, it can be called the largest sinkhole in the world, but unfortunately it is too far from here, it is estimated that it will have to wait until the last stop of the journey." ”
Lao Lin chewed beef jerky and said slowly: "Speaking of the sinkhole, I know that the road has crossed Laojun Mountain, and there is a sinkhole called the bear climbing the nest, although the area is not very large, but there is really a legend of savages. ”
"What legend?" Everyone was interested all of a sudden.
"The bear's nest was a very deep pit, surrounded by cliffs, and there was a lot of grass growing on it. The local cattle herders often drove the cattle there to graze, and because the sinkhole was nearby, the cowherd would pick up stones and throw them into the sinkhole when they had nothing to do. Once, as soon as the stone fell, a loud roar came from under the sinkhole, and then a big red creature climbed up from the sinkhole. Caught one of the small children. The child was also very brave at that time, and desperately cut the big guy with the lawn mowing sickle in his hand, and the big guy was cut by the sickle again and again, and then left the child and ran back to the sinkhole. ”
Gao Feng patted his thigh and said, "Let's go to this bear crawling den and take a look." ”
Lao Lin clapped his hands: "Okay, let's hurry up, we should be able to arrive before dark." "Everyone ate dry food, washed their faces by the stream, and repacked on the road.
Lao Lin took the lead in opening the way with a hunting knife, Liu Zhenyi followed, Gao Feng and Yang Peng broke off, and the three girls were in the middle. In the depths of the forest sea, the clouds are surrounded by fog. Lao Lin told everyone that the climate in Shennongjia is changeable, especially in rainy weather, and no one can be seen within five meters of the mountain, and told everyone to follow closely.
While walking, Gong Mei suddenly said "ouch" and said with a cry: "My hand was bitten by a snake." ”
Lao Lin reacted very quickly, the hunting knife flashed, and a finger-thick small black snake hidden between the branches was broken into two. Looking at Gong Mei's bitten forearm, the small holes of the two needle tips were faintly glowing with black light.
"This snake is poisonous!" Lao Lin frowned, and skillfully tied Gong Mei's elbow with a tourniquet to prevent the spread of the toxin. At the same time, he instructed: "Inject serum, it is better to suck out the poisonous blood." Among the six people, Su Yahe was born as a nurse, and she quickly helped Gong Mei inject the serum, while Liu Zhenyi grabbed the bitten hand without hesitation and sucked it in a big gulp.
Yun Ni quietly pinched Gao Feng and said, "If I am bitten by a snake, will you help me take drugs like he did?" ”
"Of course!" Gao Feng patted his chest.
Soon, the blood from Gong Mei's wound turned red. "It's all right." Liu Zhenyi let out a long sigh, he took Gong Mei's mountaineering bag, and asked softly, "Can you still go?" ”
"Hmm," Gong Mei nodded, and everyone took a short rest, and then continued on their way.
The fog is getting heavier and stronger, and the visibility is less than 100 meters. Fortunately, Lao Lin is familiar with the road conditions, so he will not get lost in the mountains. After walking for more than an hour, Yunnie suddenly screamed and cried, "My ass looks like it was bitten by a snake!"
"Impossible! You're wearing jeans, how can a snake bite through it so easily? Gao Feng stepped forward with an arrow, and when he looked down, he saw a thorn hooked on Yunni's round buttocks. Gao Feng was angry and funny, holding the thorns: "You really want me to kiss your ass like that?" ”
"Nasty!" Winnie's face flushed with shame. Everyone laughed, and the atmosphere suddenly relaxed a lot.
In the evening, the group finally came to the bear's den. Gao Feng watched as weeds, moss, ferns, and thorns filled the entire sinkhole below, like a huge black hole, and a layer of wet mist slowly floated up from the bottom of the pit.
"Let's find a high ground and camp for the night, and then go down to the pit tomorrow during the day." Lao Lin still seemed calm.
Under the guidance of Lao Lin, everyone found an open flat land and set up a tent, and Lao Lin went to find some hay and firewood and came back, and built a bonfire.
After dinner, everyone chatted around the bonfire, Lao Lin spit out a string of smoke rings, and said slowly: "Here are barren mountains and mountains, and when you sleep at night, you have to keep someone to keep vigil, and a few of us men will work hard, and each will keep watch for two hours." ”
"No problem!" Yang Peng drank all the beer in the can, arranged the shift at the moment, and sat for a while, the three girls all said that they were tired, and they went to sleep in the tent early.
Gao Feng was responsible for guarding 4~6 o'clock in the morning, and he couldn't sleep for a while, so he found a leeward place to meditate, and when the distracting thoughts gradually disappeared, he seemed to feel that there was a colorful light and shadow above his head.
"Huh!?" A voice suddenly sounded deep inside him, it was his second telepathy, but this time it was clearly a female voice.
"Who are you?" Gao Feng concentrated on his thoughts, and just like last time, the other party did not respond. Gao Feng's mind was in turmoil, and he could no longer continue to settle down, so he took the credit and walked around aimlessly. Liu Zhenyi, who was on duty at night, asked him again and again what was wrong, Gao Feng smiled, saying that there was a little problem when practicing meditation.
"You also practice qigong?" Liu Zhenyi's eyes lit up: "I don't know which school of Lu Taoism is learning?" Didn't get through the big and small Sundays? I've practiced Wuji Qigong before, but I never felt it. ”
Gao Feng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I don't have a sense of qi either, I learned the Buddhist method of stopping meditation, and I just trained mental concentration." ”
Liu Zhenyi pulled the leaves with his hand and asked, "Do you say that the qi of qigong exists?" Why have I been practicing for so many years, and I don't feel it at all? ”
"I don't know if there is a so-called qi, but if you just keep your intentions, you will be angry, I am skeptical! Yishou is trained in the spirit, while qi belongs to the material level. For example, mental power is like software, and matter is hardware, and no matter how you develop software, you can't conjure up a piece of hardware. At most, it affects the health of the hardware. ”
Liu Zhenyi nodded again and again: "Actually, I am also skeptical of China's qigong. ”
"If you look at the historical research, China's Neidan art mainly arose in the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jins, and Buddhism was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to my opinion, there is a very high probability that Neidan was born out of meditation, and it is likely that some Taoists, in the process of learning meditation, have some illusions, and then become obsessed with these illusions and create a series of theories. ”
"That's a novel idea."
"The introductory kung fu of Taoism and Buddhism is to keep one, and the difference between the two is that Taoism asks for something, while Buddhism asks for nothing."
"You have studied these very deeply, and you must ask for more advice in the future." Liu Zhenyi sincerely admired.