Chapter 48: Skull Lake
was called by Jasmine's name, Lao Liu Tou was not angry at all, and after glaring at Wu Fatzi fiercely, he squinted his eyes and waved to Jasmine with a smile and said, "Don't worry, girl, I have already arranged the transportation, come with me!" ”
I always thought that the means of transportation that Lao Liu Tou mentioned was at least a jeep or something, because in my opinion, the jeep is the standard equipment on this plateau, and any rugged road can be traveled.
But when I saw the so-called vehicle, I was dumbfounded, and a guy directly led out four dirty yaks.
"I'm grass, just kidding, Uncle Liu, don't tell me to ride this thing, it's not as fast as my two legs, and it's okay to get a few horses!"
Lao Liu Tou turned his head and glared at Wu Fatzi fiercely, and said in a very unhappy tone: "What do you little fat man know, this is a plateau, even if you have a horse, you can't run, what's wrong with this yak, do you like to ride or not!" ”
"Alas, you old man......"
Wu Fatzi still wanted to say a few words, but seeing this, I hurriedly reached out and pulled Wu Fatzi's clothes, and Wu Fatzi didn't continue.
Yak is yak, it's better than walking on two legs, anyway, Wu Fatzi and I also decided to help temporarily, so naturally we have to obey the Lord's convenience.
Later, I understood why Lao Liu Tou chose to rent a yak as a means of transportation, one is that the yak is a docile animal, and the other is that it has a very strong load-bearing capacity, not only a few of us, but also the yak at the same time camel a lot of food and water, as well as tent blankets or something, these things are gathered together is really a car can not be loaded.
Another point is the most important, Lao Liu Tou said that if you want to go to Skull Lake, you have to climb over several hillsides to reach, and the car can't go up at all, but the yak is different, depending on the hillside as if walking on flat ground, the only shortcoming is that it is too slow.
It took two days to ride on the back of a yak before it was close to its destination.
Looking down on a hillside, Lao Liu Tou held the cane in his hand and pointed down the hillside, "If you remember correctly, the Skull Lake is down there, and I can't see it clearly with my eyes, girl, wow, can you help me see, is there a skull-shaped lake?" ”
Jasmine agreed, looked in the direction pointed by Lao Liu for a while, and finally even took out her camera equipment, and finally shook her head in frustration and said: "Liu Jianguo, are you mistaken, there are no skull-shaped lakes!" ”
"What? No! How is this possible, even though I haven't been here for decades, but everything here is already in my head, how can I remember it wrong? ”
Hearing this, the fat man Wu raised the corners of his mouth, and said with a slight teasing: "Liu Jianguo, you shouldn't have memory loss, maybe it's really a mistake!" ”
Wu Fatzi's words angered Lao Liu Tou again, and the old Liu Tou picked up the crutches in his hand and hit Wu Fatman, "Stinky boy, call uncle, call grandpa, Liu Jianguo is also what you can call!" ”
"Alas, why can Jasmine call you Liu Jianguo, why can't I call it, why?"
Old Liu Tou and Wu Fatzi scolded each other again, and Jasmine on the side hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.
I was a little speechless and said, "Okay, let's not say a word, it's all here, it's better to go down and have a look, and see if the Skull Lake is down there!" ”
Lao Liu Tou and Wu Fatzi both felt that what I said made sense, nodded one after another, and rode the yak towards the bottom of the hillside.
When I was on the hillside, I didn't notice anything wrong with the bottom of the hill, but now that I'm halfway down the hill, I feel that something is not right.
In this position, it was much clearer than it had been on the hillside before, and there were only thirty or forty meters left from the bottom of the hillside at most, but at such a distance, it was impossible to see the situation below, and it felt as if it was covered with a thick layer of dark fog below.
Not only that, the closer you get to the bottom of the hillside, the more underground the temperature around you becomes, and when you were on the top of the hillside, you can still feel the warmth of the sun shining on your body, but now, the sun is clearly in front of you, but you can't feel the slightest warmth.
"My grass, what smells, it stinks!" Fat Wu said with a frown.
Not only Wu Fatzi, but the rest of us also smelled the stench, which was not the smell of feces, but the smell of decomposing corpses, and this smell was clearly emanating from the position below the hillside.
Almost at the same time, all the yaks we were riding under us did not move, unwilling to take a step forward, and they also made the sound of Mu Mou, and the originally docile character now began to become restless, as if it was about to be a great enemy.
Seeing this, I jumped off the yak's back, turned my head to look at the bottom of the hillside that was getting closer and closer, turned back to the others and said, "Something is not quite right down there, the yak is too scared to go any further, it seems that it can only walk down to see!" ”
So Wu Fatzi and the others also jumped off the yak one after another, and after fixing the yak in place, we walked down the hillside step by step.
After walking about a hundred paces, I noticed that the surroundings were getting darker and darker, and the black fog I had seen before had risen above our heads, completely obscuring the sun in the sky.
The smell of decaying corpses has reached the extreme, and it is no longer just as simple as stimulating the sense of smell, and even starting to be a little spicy to the eyes.
This is only one thing, and there is the strange coldness, so that any exposed skin feels as if it has been cut by a sharp knife.
"Skull Lake...... This is the ...... of Skull Lake! ”
Old Liu Tou suddenly became emotional, and the crutches in his hand pointed in front of him and exclaimed.
As Lao Liu Tou looked in the direction he was pointing, just by looking at it, I gasped in fright, and my legs and stomach turned with it.
Between seven or eight meters in front of us, there was a small lake, which was more of a dry puddle than a lake.
The water in the puddle was inky black, and the strong stench was emitted from it.
However, this was not enough to frighten me, what frightened me was that in the huge puddle, there were dozens or even hundreds of corpses piled up on top of each other, including animals and people!
I hadn't asked about Skull Lake, so I thought it was a lake shaped like a skeleton, but now I understand what Skull Lake really means, and that's because there are so many skeletons in this lake.
Wu Fatzi and I were frightened enough, but Jasmine cried directly, "There are so many bones, are the bones of my parents also here, have they already suffered an accident......
As soon as Jasmine cried like this, my mood also fell, maybe I really thought that Jasmine thought, her parents were likely to have suffered an accident, and the bones might be among these hundreds of bones.
I thought so too, but until I found evidence that Jasmine's parents were actually dead, it was all just speculation.
With that in mind, I walked towards the near-dry puddle, intending to find clues to their identities among the bones.
I took a general look and found that these bones were very seriously decomposed, except for the white bones, there was not even a trace of their identity that could prove their identity, and there were not even clothes, which gave me a headache, I couldn't prove the identity of the deceased, so many bones, where can I find Jasmine's parents!
I was worried about this, and suddenly I heard an exclamation from Wu Fatzi, I wondered if something had happened to this thing, and hurriedly turned my head to look, but saw Wu Fatman yelling at me excitedly, "I grass, developed, silver dollar, silver dollar!" ”