Chapter 10: Strange Rats
Outside the mine, the grass is thick, the fog is filled, the visibility is only seven or eight meters, the mountain wind comes out, the grass in the mountain is swaying, rustling.
At that moment, two hairy heads poked out of the grass, looked around a few times, and then sneaked out.
It is pale gray, strong as a domestic cat, but its head is extremely small, its eyes are even smaller and pitiful, flashing with a trace of cold and vicious gaze, its mouth is slender, revealing two two-inch-long sharp teeth, the tip of its nose is blood-red, a pair of tricky ears are erected on the door of its head, and a thin tail half a meter long is dragged behind it.
These were two mutated rats, and the mutant rats ran forward two meters further, and when they saw Xu Zifan standing three meters away, they stopped instantly.
The two mutant rats looked around again, and when they saw that Xu Zifan was the only one, their eyes turned red in an instant, they opened their mouths, showed their sharp teeth, and rushed towards Xu Zifan.
And Xu Zifan was ready when the mutant rat appeared, holding a sapper shovel in his hand, and looked at the two mutant rats cautiously.
He was still a little nervous when he saw such two big rats for the first time, but now that he was fully armed, his mentality had stabilized.
At this time, Xu Zifan saw two mutant rats pounce up, and quickly took the sapper shovel forward and slashed horizontally from right to left, and the mutant rat on the right was cut in the face and fell to the ground, blood flowed in an instant, his body convulsed, and he couldn't survive.
The other one on the left jumped over and bit Xu Zifan's left leg, Xu Zifan raised his left leg, stepped on it, and trampled the huge mutant rat under his feet.
The mutant rat was about to resist, and the sapper shovel that Xu Zifan had withdrawn had already pouted to his feet, and the entire head of the sapper shovel was inserted into the abdomen of the mutant rat.
Blood gushed from the belly of the mutant rat, and after a few struggles, the mutant rat also stepped into the footsteps of the first mutant rat.
After dealing with the two mutant rats, Xu Zifan carefully looked around, and after seeing that there were no other threats, he looked down to see where his legs had been bitten by the mutant rats.
Luckily, the boots worn were good quality leather military boots with two deep tooth marks on them, but they did not penetrate.
Xu Zifan packed up his things and continued to walk towards the deep mountains.
The thick fog rolls, the mountain wind blows, the leaves on both sides of the mountain road rustle, and the weeds between the trees reach waist up, swaying with the wind, as if returning to the primitive society.
After walking more than 1,000 meters along the mountain road, I encountered two clusters of blue flowers, and only found a sky blue stone in the soil at the root of one of them, but it was the size of a fist.
Along the way, Xu Zifan opened the way with a sapper shovel and looked around carefully. While he was watching for the dangers around him, he was also watching to see if he could spot anything strange. Now many people on the Internet are looking for treasure.
After turning a small hill, there is a downward slope in front of you, and below the slope is a basin.
Through the fog, Xu Zifan stood on the top of the mountain and could vaguely see that the trees inside were strong, the branches were luxuriant, the wild grass between the trees was dense, and the middle was occasionally dotted with colorful wildflowers.
"Huh? What is that? ”
The mountain wind blew, the mist rolled upside down, and a flash of blue brilliance flashed, and it was obscured by the thick fog.
"Is it that blue alien flower?" Xu Zifan shoveled the way with a sapper shovel and walked down carefully.
"What is this?" I saw a cement rectangular pillar on the side of the road, with words on it.
Xu Zifan used his leather-gloved hand to gently remove the weeds on the cement pillars, wipe off the dust, and a few traditional characters could be faintly seen.
"Ningping Town Open-pit Mine."
Yes, this should be the location of the open-pit mine that was mined during the Republic of China, and it was later abandoned.
Xu Zifan continued to cautiously walk towards the basin below, and after walking for more than a hundred meters, he came to the side of the woods, at this time he smelled the fragrance of flowers, and could see the blue mist steaming in the woods.
Walking forward for more than ten meters, through the woods, Xu Zifan was shocked by the scene in front of him.
I saw about two acres of land in front of me, surrounded by woods, dense, all of them were clusters of blue flowers, the flowers were brilliant, swaying and colorful, like a dream, the blue was crystal clear, the blue mist was misty on it, the breeze blew, the blue mist flowed, and the surrounding trees and branches were dyed blue, which looked dreamy and bewitching.
The intoxicating floral fragrance greets you and refreshes your heart. It makes you feel like you're in a blue fantasy kingdom.
"This ...... Dig or not? After Xu Zifan saw this beautiful scenery, he was really reluctant to destroy this environment, and felt that if he continued to dig it, he would cook the crane and burn the piano and destroy beautiful things.
After a while, Xu Zifan took a few photos as a souvenir, picked up the sapper shovel and excavated without hesitation.
After digging a third of the way, Xu Zifan looked at the time, stopped what he was doing, packed his things, and prepared to go home.
Here he dug up almost two hundred pieces of sky-blue stones, and after putting them together, he placed the stone ring on them.
A few minutes later, wisps of blue light particles of misty material floated towards the stone ring, and as time passed, the blue light particles of mist material became more and more abundant, and they all flocked to the stone ring.
The stone ring is like a long whale absorbing water, and the comer does not refuse, absorbing all the blue light particles and mist substances, or the blue light particles and fog substances are actively integrated into the stone rings.
The stone ring is densely textured, mottled and old, and at this time, near the outermost part of the ring, about one-tenth of the part is lit up, and the golden light wanders in the middle of the lines.
The lines are intricate and unpredictable, and there are even lines that were difficult to observe with the naked eye before, but they also begin to appear at this time, and the mystery is endless.
After a few minutes or so, the blue light particles became less and less misty, and the golden light above the stone ring gradually dimmed, approaching nothing.
After all the azure stones had turned to gray powder, the vision on the stone ring vanished, only to be seen with an occasional flash of golden light proving that it was no longer the same.
Xu Zifan held the stone ring, and obviously felt the difference, and the stone ring became even more mysterious.
"A tenth of it?" Calming down the excitement in his heart, he had a conjecture to be tested for the future.
Xu Zifan packed up his things and prepared to go down the mountain, not that he didn't want to dig anymore, but it was not early, and now the mountain road was not easy to walk, and there might be danger, so it was impossible for him to put himself in danger.
On the way back, Xu Zifan was cautious all the way, and when he passed by the grass at the entrance of the mine, his eyes shrank, and he found that the corpses of the two mutant rats were gone, and there were only blood stains on the ground to prove their existence.
"Be careful, it's not too much to blame, it's not peaceful on the mountain!" Xu Zifan muttered to himself.
All the way without incident, he returned to the door of the small restaurant in the bus rest area, and after saying hello to the old man of the shop, he got on his motorcycle and returned home more than three hours later.