Back in the guest room, Lantern Xiao grabbed me and said in a low voice: "Why do I think the snake on the statue of the horse stepping on the snake seems to have been seen somewhere?" Do you feel this way? ”

"Nope." I shook my head pretending not to care.

Lantern Xiao scratched her head, "It's strange, could it be that I saw it in a dream?" As he spoke, he stretched, "Maybe I'm too tired, I'll go take a shower first." I nodded absentmindedly.

I pretended to be calm in my heart, but my heart was already turbulent, and countless questions surfaced in my mind, leaving my brain in chaos. My gut tells me that things are more complicated and weird than they seem!

Why was that email sent to me? What secrets is that snake hiding?

Suddenly, I remembered my second uncle. The second uncle is very good at studying this kind of strange things, maybe he will know something. I turned on my phone and sent me the picture I had taken of the horse stepping on the snake and the photo I had received in the email.

Unexpectedly, after a day of tossing and forgetting to charge the phone, I just pressed the send button and the phone turned off. Plugging in the charger casually, I went downstairs to eat with the Lantern Festival who had just finished taking a shower.

Shi Tao is worthy of following Kong Ye for many years of right-hand man, the next day all the equipment was ready, we had breakfast and went downstairs, four large mountaineering bags have been piled up in the hall.

"Brother Tao, you can! So fast! I'll see what you've got to write for me. As he spoke, Lantern Xiao walked to a mountaineering bag and skillfully opened it.

I also reached out and pulled open another bag, which contained all kinds of things, waterproof flashlights, cold fireworks, glow sticks, sapper shovels, water bottles, sleeping bags, compasses, some medicines and food, etc., and some other things I didn't recognize. But there was a tin box the size of a portable radio, which caught my attention, "What the hell is this?" I asked, taking the tin out of the box.

When Lantern Xiao heard my question, she turned her head to look at it, and then smiled ambiguously at me: "Hehe, this is a good thing!" I didn't expect Brother Tao to be able to get this thing. ”

"I'll go! What the hell is this, iron bricks? If you don't like it, can I shoot you? "I pretended to lift it up for the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Xiao shrank his neck in fright, Shi Tao next to him saw this, smiled, took the iron box from my hand, pressed it gently, and with a bang, this iron box turned into a small submachine gun, "FMG9 folding submachine gun, 9mm caliber, effective firing range of 120 meters, rate of fire of 1034 rounds per minute." How's that, handsome, right? Shi Tao introduced it, and then folded it into an iron box and handed it to me.

"It's... This is so handsome!! "I took it excitedly, followed Shi Tao's example and turned it into a submachine gun, and compared it, it felt very heavy and felt very good!! Men have a natural fanaticism for guns, and this is the first time I've touched a gun when I'm so old, and I suddenly feel that this time it's really worth it!

However, I was a little strange, "Brother Tao, let's go up the mountain to search and rescue, why do you want to bring a gun?" ”

Shi Tao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "The place we are going to may be a deep mountain no man's land, there are many fierce beasts, and there is this safe point." ”

I was immersed in the novelty and excitement of having a gun, and I didn't care if the reason was far-fetched or not.

Shi Tao threw two sets of jackets and two pairs of hiking boots to the two of us, "I see that you two are in this outfit, and you can also go to visit tourist attractions, if you don't want to go into the mountains and get frozen, just change your clothes." Shi Tao looked at his watch, "You guys change your clothes and prepare first, and then set off in twenty minutes." ”

Twenty minutes we met at the gate, and what made our eyes shine was Kong Xue in a jacket, with a long ponytail tied behind him, looking heroic, and his handsome appearance was really pleasing to the eye.

After we got on the bus, Brother Tao told us that according to the wheel traces we found at the exit of the tunnel, Uncle Kong should have gone straight to the direction of Qilian Mountain, and we would drive 150 kilometers to Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County.

Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County is located at the eastern end of the Qilian Mountains, where we met our guide, because each of us was armed and would be easily spotted by the checkpoint if we took the main road, and at that time, not to mention looking for Confucius, we were afraid that we would not be able to protect ourselves, so we found a Tibetan friend who was familiar with the local situation to lead us into the mountain.

The journey went smoothly, and around noon, we arrived at Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County. We had a simple lunch. In that environment, the first time I had such an experience, I was a little excited, and for a while I forgot those doubts, forgot the photo, and forgot the statue of the horse stepping on the snake.

All I could think of was the impatience to go into the mountains, to start the adventure, to use the FMG9 folding submachine gun.

After going through countless dangerous experiences, I think about it now, and I feel like a stupid X at that time. If I could travel back in time, I would travel back in time and tell myself who was about to enter Qilian Mountain, "You stupid X, now throw away all your equipment and run!" How far can you run, how far you can run! Find a place where no one knows and spend this life in a bland way! "But...

After lunch, Shi Tao began to call the guide, and when we arrived at the agreed place, we found that what was waiting for us was not one person, but two people, one Tibetan, and the other was obviously a Han Chinese, and also carried a hiking bag and wore a jacket, I went! This person is also going into the mountains?

Seeing this situation, we couldn't help frowning, and Shi Tao even asked the Tibetan guide with some anger: "What's going on with this TM!" ”

The Tibetan guide pulled us to the side and said in Chinese with some accents: "This, I can't help it, it was introduced by a very important person, I can't push it off, it doesn't matter, he only asked me to take him through the checkpoint, I don't need to take him into the mountains, he left after the checkpoint, I'll take you on, it's okay, don't worry!" ”

Hearing the explanation of the Tibetan guide, Shi Tao's expression softened a little, and he whispered a few words to the guide before letting him go back.

Shi Tao told us that this Tibetan guide's name is Cairang Dorjee, who has also worked with him before, and is very familiar with the Qilian Mountain generation.

Since we didn't have a very clear destination for this trip, the only clues were the strange map and the news published in the newspapers of the year.

Therefore, we planned to first rush to the vicinity of Unity Peak, which was not far from the location where the avalanche occurred that year, and we planned to go and take a look. If there is still no clue about Kong Ye, we can only search near Unity Peak. Because this mountain range is so huge, it is impossible for us to search the entire Qilian Mountain Range, so we can only do our best to find psychological comfort.

Soon, we all got into Cairang Dorjee's car and headed for the Qilian Mountains. Shi Tao sat in the co-pilot, me, Lantern Xiao and Kong Xue sat in the second row, and the other person who was going into the mountain sat in the third row. Probably because our trip was not so open, we were very wary of this sudden appearance.