Chapter 3 "Dragon King" Palau
In the northernmost part of Siam and Bagan, there is an extremely vast primeval jungle, known as the Mae Sai Jungle, the east of the jungle is the continuous Mekong River, the west is the undulating Terlau Mountains, can be attacked and retreated, can be defended, has been a place of war for thousands of years.
It was not until recent decades, with the popularization of thermal weapons, that the strategic position of this land was lowered, and due to the inconvenient transportation and supply difficulties, the regular army was no longer stationed here, but many guerrillas, drug lords, and criminal groups active in Southeast Asia had their base camps here.
Although there are many underground forces in the Mae Sai Jungle, they are not as dangerous as outsiders think, and they can even be said to be very safe.
There is only one reason, the leader of the Siamese underground world, the "dragon king" Palau, who has controlled the Siamese underground order for more than 30 years, lives in seclusion here, and he hates people disturbing Qing Xiu the most, and the organizations that have made this mistake have all disappeared in the vast forest.
The sun in the sky is poisonous, and the jungle is stuffy, damp, and muddy, like a steamer hell, not to mention a criminal organization, even the bobcats and pythons that are native to this forest are lazily lying in their nests, motionless.
The group was walking deep and shallow towards the depths of the jungle, not paying any attention to the damn weather.
There were about twenty of them in this group, most of them wearing jungle camouflage, thick-soled leather boots, carrying Mp5 submachine guns on their chests, carrying huge marching bags behind them, and their faces were painted with swarthy camouflage.
Only two men were dressed in complete disarray, one wearing a black shirt, jeans, and sandals on his feet as if he were going to a picnic in the countryside, while the other was dressed in an Amani suit, dark brown top hat, and carrying a hand-sewn cowhide bag.
These two men were Suchai and Jung, and their destination was the hermitage of the "Dragon King" Palau.
They had been walking in the jungle for three or four hours, and the elite soldiers were already sweating, but Su Chai didn't even sweat a drop, and he still walked easily, it seemed that he could become the uncrowned king of Qinglai, not only by his wrist and cruelty, but also by his own ability.
"It's five minutes ahead of you to get around this bend!" said Suchai, standing on a hillside, pointing to the river in the distance.
Jung nodded, his blue eyes blinking slightly, and continued to walk forward.
More than ten minutes later, there was a village in front of me, this is a village composed of stilt houses, all of them are old teak houses, looking very dilapidated from a distance, like a deserted village that has been abandoned for many years, only when you get closer, you can see more than ten children playing in the open space in front of the village.
"Is the Dragon King here?" Suchai asked the group of children with a smile as he came to the front of the clearing, threw out a lot of candy, and smiled.
"You're so lucky, the Dragon King just came back from his cultivation yesterday, and he said that a man named Jung came to him, are you Jung?" a child asked curiously.
"I ......" Su guessed for a moment, and then he was afraid for a while, he didn't expect that the "Dragon King" Palau had already known about Jung's arrival, if he didn't bring Jung over with him, he was afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable.
"I am. Jung walked out.
"I'll take you in, the dragon king said that if you come, let me take you in directly. The child said loudly.
"Thank you. Jung nodded.
The child turned and walked towards the village, Jung walking behind with his handbag, and Suchai followed, waving back and motioning for the others to come in with him.
"You can't enter!" The child suddenly turned his head and shouted fiercely at Su Chai and his party, "The Dragon King didn't let you in!"
"The Dragon King knows me! I've come to worship before!" Suchai hurriedly shouted.
"Oh, I seem to know you!" the child frowned and said, "Okay, you come in, no one else is allowed to enter!"
"Okay, good!" Suchai said quickly, waving the others to stop.
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This village is not very large, there are only about thirty or forty households, and there are not many people in the village, but unlike other villages, most of the people walking around the village are young and strong young men, and there are very few elderly people to see.
Of course, this is also understandable, people who are a little worse in physique may not be able to survive here.
Contrary to the imagination of ordinary people, Palau's accommodation is not magnificent, and can even be described as simple, at least in this village does not seem special at all, if it were not for children to lead the way, no one would have imagined that the famous "dragon king" Palau would live in such a simple wooden house on stilts.
Arriving at the front of the hut, the child pushed open the door and went in first to make a report, while Jung and Suchai stayed outside.
"Haven't you been here before, why don't you seem to know the way?" Jung suddenly turned around and asked Su Guess curiously.
"The whole village is Palau's home, and he picks a random place to live every day, and every time I come to visit him, the place where he lives is different. Suchai replied in a low voice.
"Oh, what a cautious man. Jung nodded.
Chirping!
The wooden door was pushed open, and the child stood at the door, looked at Jung curiously, and said, "The dragon king, please come in." After a pause, he said to Su Chai again: "Let you go in together." ”
Jung nodded, and walked casually into the house, and Suchai followed suit.
There was almost no furnishings in the wooden house, an empty room, a few wooden chairs, a wooden bed, and the only advantage was that it was spacious and bright.
There were three people sitting in the room, and on the wooden chair on the left sat a swarthy and thin old man, who looked very old, his face was full of wrinkles, and his gray hair was draped behind him, but his spirit was very good, especially a pair of eyes that were bright and scary, like a jewel set in a person's face, shining.
Opposite the old man sat a monk, more than one meter nine tall, no hair, no eyebrows, looking a little weird, the red robe barely covered half of the body, the other half of the body was naked, revealing copper-filled iron-like muscles, faintly glowing with dark golden brilliance.
In the middle of the two, sat a sturdy old man, wearing a traditional Siamese vest, wide linen trousers, bare-chested, barefoot, sitting there casually, with a kind smile on his face, if it were not for the tattoo on his chest of a cyan dragon head that chooses people to devour, I am afraid that no one would have thought that this old peasant in the countryside is the leader of the underground forces of Siam, the "Dragon King" Palau.
Poof!
Without waiting for Jung to speak, after Su Chai entered the house, he knelt on the ground for the first time, knelt a few steps forward, knocked down at the feet of the Dragon King, and said loudly: "Respected His Royal Highness the Dragon King, thank you for giving me the opportunity to meet you!"
Although Suchai showed great reverence, Palau did not look at him, slowly stood up, took a few steps forward, came to Jung, folded his hands, and whispered: "Peace and happiness, my friend!"
Jung glanced at the other two people seated, folded his hands, smiled back, and said, "You are so polite, my friend, why did you find so many people to come over." ”
Palau was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Your Excellency, it would be rude for me to see you alone without the company of Master Huck and Master Vajra. ”