Chapter 1: A Strange Laugh in the Wilderness
In the early spring of 1932, a special expedition of more than 20 people entered the vast forest area of the Great Khing'an Mountains. Each of them carried a large amount of baggage, stopping and stopping along the way, picking out the lonely jungle that was inaccessible.
"Young Master Jin, the sun is about to set, do you think we should find a place to rest for the night?" The accompanying guide unfolded an old map, and the map was dotted with locations and areas where camping could be made.
Young Master Jin was dressed in a green tweed trench coat, with a pair of shiny leather boots under his feet, this person was thin, and his handsome white face looked weak, but there was an imperceptible demon hidden in those deep eyes.
"How far is it?" he said, looking at the endless forest sea in front of him with his hands behind his back.
The guide said: "According to the map left by the Russians, there should be still 50 kilometers of mountain roads to go, but you also know that the mountain roads around the Xing'an Mountains are rugged, and wild beasts often infest after nightfall, so let's rest for the night." ā
They were very well prepared for this entry into Lingzi, with weapons, equipment, all kinds of advanced instruments, and lighting equipment. After dark, five tents were erected in the open area, and there were four on the periphery, which were occupied by the entourage, and the middle was Young Master Jin's. Once there is any trouble, it can also protect the safety of Young Master Jin.
Young Master Jin's identity is too special, in order to ensure his safety, four people take turns guarding the camp, and with the camp as the center, ten mines are evenly buried in the arc of a hundred meters around the periphery, as long as an animal dares to step into this area, it will be blown into rotten meat.
The temperature difference between morning and evening in the forest area of Xing'an Mountains is huge, and the cold wind is bitter at night in early spring. This vast mountain forest is as silent as a sleeping beast. Except for the fire in the camp, the surroundings were so dark and terrible that even the squirrels who used to frolic among the pines and cypresses were nowhere to be found.
Young Master Jin was lying in his sleeping bag, the kerosene lamp next to him was bright, and he held the hard-won map in his hand and checked it repeatedly. In the center of the map is a towering mountain with a string of Russian characters on the side, meaning Mount Ilhuri. In the belly of the Ilhuli Mountains, the Russians drew a red circle with a red pen, and within the red circle was a serpentine symbol with a diameter of two or three centimeters. If you zoom in on this particular area at real scale, it's at least a kilometer.
This map of the Khing'an Mountains was left by the Russians 30 years ago, when the Russians occupied the four northeastern provinces and plundered mineral resources in a frenzy. But according to Young Master Jin's side understanding, the Russians did not leave any traces in this vein hidden in the Xing'an Mountains. The purpose of his trip was to find out what secrets were hidden in this area.
"Giggle...... Giggle...... "Just as Young Master Jin was immersed in thought, there was a faint burst of laughter in the wilderness.
The laughter was so cold that the listeners couldn't help but count down their hairs, as if someone was deliberately pinching their throats. He sat up and pricked up his ears and carefully examined it, and found that the laughter seemed to be two children chasing each other, but where in this barren mountain and wilderness, whose children ran out to play in the middle of the night?
He put on his overcoat and carried the K31 rifle on his back, lifted the curtain of the camp tent and walked out.
"Did you hear the kids laughing?" he asked the retinue who was releasing the realm.
"Young master, you can rest early after a day's walk, there is a kind of owl in the forest of Xing'anling, and the call of that thing is like a child, why don't we drive it away?"
Young Master Jin looked suspiciously at the lonely shadow of the pine trees around the camp, where was the shadow of an owl, it was clear that a few of them did not hear the laughter. It wasn't coming from the mouth of some kind of animal, and he was sure that the two kids were not far away. He was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that these two children would step on a landmine and die in vain.
"You two come with me!" Young Master Jin gave an order, and chased into the darkness of the dense forest with two entourage.
But somehow, no matter how the three of them chased after them, the voices of the two children kept drifting away, as if they were forever at a fixed distance and could not be approached. The bright moonlight above their heads sprinkled through the branches on the white expanse under the feet of the three people, and there were no birds and beasts in the forest, and the strange atmosphere was self-evident.
"Young master, we can't run far, it's not peaceful in the mountains after nightfall!" Seeing that the distance from the enemy was getting farther and farther away, the attendant reminded.
This young master Jin has a strong temper, and he doesn't believe in evil even though he is well-equipped, so he went up and slapped the entourage in the mouth, and the frightened two six-foot sweaters bowed their heads and continued to follow their master through the forest sea. But this is the Xing'an Mountains, the vast mountain forests of the Great Xing'an Mountains stretch for thousands of kilometers and are endless, not to mention the three of them, even the hunters who hunt in the mountains all the year round do not dare to go deep into it after nightfall.
Seeing that they couldn't persuade the young master, and worried about his safety, the two attendants hurriedly found two branches and lit them as torches. But I don't know what evil I have committed, I can't wipe the foreign fire, and I just didn't light the branches when I used up all the packets of foreign fire.
"Giggle...... ......"The strange whispers of those two children echoed one after another in the dense mountain forest, sometimes close and sometimes far away, so that you could not touch it.
"Young master, even if you kill the two of us, we have to drag you back, let's not get involved in the strange things in the mountains, okay? You can do it if you want to see what is going on, let's go back and call Xiao Chen, and bring a few more brothers, just the three of us now, in case something happens......" The two entourages did not dare to mention the taboo, Xiao Chen was the guide of their group, and their ancestors lived in the Xing'an Mountains as hunters.
"Don't make a sound, you two see?" Young Master Jin hid behind an old tree and pointed to a low-lying pile of barren grass behind the tree. The other two people looked in the direction of their master's guidance, and saw that ten meters away from them, two four or five-year-old children were chasing each other and playing in the mountains and forests.
These two children are so weird, it is the beginning of spring, and the Xing'an Mountains belong to the cold area, although the ice and snow have melted, but at night the wilderness is still a frost and fog. But the two children were bare-bottomed, mixed with the upper and lower stripes, and only wore a belly pocket. They were too far away to see what flowers were embroidered on the two children's belly pockets, but one was yellow and the other was silver. As the two children chase each other, they leave a yellow and silver glow in the mountains.
"Young master, this is an ordinary child? It's clearly a lonely ghost in the mountains, let's go! There are often ghosts looking for a substitute in the mountains, let's not touch this brow. ā
Young Master Jin is a materialist, and the common people were feudal in those years, but he was sent to Japan to study by his father since he was a child, and he received advanced militarist ideological education in Japan.
He broke free from his two followers and chased after him, shouting as he ran, "Hey, whose children are you?"
Who knew that the two children ran faster after hearing his shout, don't look at how old they are, and they are barefoot, but they can run and step on the wild grass and fallen leaves to make the wind under their feet, and even if Young Master Jin is sweating behind him, he still can't see the appearance of the two children.
"Hey, don't run, it's dangerous!" he shouted from behind.
The two entourages knew that there was something strange in this, but they had to follow hard, if something really happened to Young Master Jin, the two of them would not have enough to lose a hundred heads.
Passing through the vast forest and sea, and turning over the mountain beams, I finally saw the yellow and white light disappear into a spruce-covered valley. Nestled in the midst of mountains, the valley offers only a dense canopy of spruce trees and a dark hideaway below.
Surrounded by mountains, there is no road to the deep valley except for a narrow waterway that has been washed by mountain springs all year round. Fortunately, it has been civilized in the last few days, and the snow has washed away the mud and gravel in the waterway, and the mountains at the edge are inlaid with rocks to serve as a fulcrum.
"Young master, we'd better go back now, use the radio to contact the headquarters first, and wait for the aerial photography sent over there to determine the location before going down." "The retinue built yƬ road.
"You know a fart, there are rich mineral resources hidden in the dense forests of the Xing'an Mountains, which cover a lot of gold veins, the gold and silver buried in the ground have absorbed the essence of the veins for thousands of years and have become humanoids, and the two children just now were called 'Golden Baby Silver Baby' by the folks, they disappeared in this valley in vain, indicating that there are mineral veins nearby!"