Chapter 19: What is it?
I saw a large black shadow faintly appearing in the distance ahead, and at the same time, a green glowing light was flickering. If you look closely, each dark shadow has two small green bulbs that flicker slightly in the dark. It turned out that the fluorescence was the glow of the wolf's eyes at night.
Where have people who live in the city ever seen such a scene, I clenched the shotgun tightly in panic, and Le'er's jaw trembled in fright, and the teeth that only touched "gurgle" rattled.
The three of us held our breath, and the white breath exhaled from our nostrils dissipated when the wind caught it, and I unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat, and in such a cold environment, my nose was even more red from the cold.
Seeing the wolves slowly moving towards us, Lao Tsering hurriedly added a large amount of firewood to the bonfire and sprinkled a small bottle of gasoline into the fire. I only heard the "boom" of the bonfire rise to a high pitch, which suddenly illuminated the scene in the distance.
Oh my God, there were a dozen wild wolves, and there were a dense group of them outside, and there were almost a hundred of them at any glance.
I saw that my legs were weak, and Le'er gasped directly and cried out "Ah!"
This night, it is destined to die for a lifetime, a battle against the water, whether it is life or death, only the destiny of each peace.
The wolves gathered tightly and orderly around the campfire, surrounding us in the center. More than ten meters away, we saw a circle of highland wolves with black and brown fur and a little green light in their eyes.
"Quick, roll these strips of cloth into balls and light them and throw them out of the circle. Quick!" Old Tsering quickly calmed down and instructed me and Le'er to say.
We hurriedly cut a piece of tent canvas into strips with a knife, dipped it in gasoline, lit it, and threw it more than ten meters away.
After the firewood and cloth balls stained with gasoline were lit and thrown out, many small fires slowly formed more than ten meters away from us. No matter how presumptuous the wolves were, they had to retreat when they saw the fire.
In the autumn valley, many plants and trees have dried up, so the thorn bushes on the periphery are also ignited. Watching the wolves retreat, we couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Immediately afterwards, Lao Tsering fired a few shots into the sky, and I saw that the wolves were even more nervous and retreated a step or two.
The time was half past three in the morning, and if the wolves did not leave, it would take more than four hours until dawn.
The wolves are hesitating, and we are persevering. From what I have observed, one of the tallest wolves in the pack, with grayish-white fur, seems to have a special position, standing far outside the circle, with several other tall and strong wolves beside him.
"Look, that's the wolf, I've heard of it, the wolf king of this piece 'Cangyue'. But it's always been farther north, so why is it here tonight?" said Old Tsering, pointing to the wolf.
"Mr. Tsering, do you say, will the wolves let us go?" asked Le'er.
"It should be, the purpose of this group of wolves should not be us, they are usually a few, a dozen or so to fight guerrillas, this time they gathered so many nests and set out, they must have been eyeing a large number of prey and targets, and it is estimated that they just met us by the way. Oh, by the way, didn't we see a pack of wild donkeys when we first entered the valley today? There have been a lot of wild donkeys in this area lately, maybe the wild wolves are looking for them, and as long as we hold on until dawn, we should be fine. Old Tsering analyzed.
I don't know how the wolves are arranged and managed, but I just feel that under the instruction of the first wolf, the whole pack of wolves is like a well-trained soldier, with a dozen wolves cruising outside the circle, while other wolves lie down to rest on the periphery.
There are four or five wolves on the roam, and a total of three teams of wolves shuttle back and forth outside the circle. Damn, it looks like the wolves are still planning to wait for the rabbits.
At the same time, we also lit the remaining firewood and cloth strips one after another, and scattered them outside the circle. Old Tsering didn't let me shoot the wild wolves outside the circle, saying that once we killed or hit the wild wolves, then the wolves would never let us go.
In this way, we patiently confronted the wolves for nearly an hour or so. Suddenly, hearing the wolf "Cangyue" raise his head and let out a wolf roar, the wolves suddenly all stood up, and then collectively withdrew to the northwest under the leadership of Cangyue, and soon disappeared into the darkness in the distance.
Fuck me, bro suddenly had a feeling of being reborn. Le'er also grabbed my arm happily and yelled.
"Don't be too happy, it's not dawn yet, and we have to continue to be vigilant. Damn, I didn't expect this to bring such a big pack of wolves, which has never happened before. Old Tsering said with a little disbelieving.
We didn't sleep any longer, and the three of us sat around the campfire all night, during which we found out whether it was the wolf king's arrangement or other stragglers, and we found that several wild wolves had spied on us in the dark.
The next day dawned. We dragged our sleepy bodies and continued in a zigzag route through the valley. In order to find the "Liujia Thunder" array that Meng Fei said.
According to Meng Fei, Death Valley is a veritable minefield due to its strong magnetism, high metal content beneath the earth's surface, and other natural causes. In order to attract the nearby heavenly thunder to gather in one place, Qingxiao deliberately arranged a thunder guide array in the valley according to the ancient formation. This thunder array consists of six large stones arranged in a hexagonal orientation, each with a special rune carved on it.
Meng Fei also said that this magic circle was set up in a very secret location in the valley, and it was difficult for ordinary people to find it. Therefore, in order to find this thunderstorm in all directions, we had to take a zigzag route and shuttle back and forth in the valley more than 100 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide.
A week passed, and we didn't find any minefields, but from time to time we encountered wild bears, foxes, and wolves, and we barely managed to cope with them with shotguns and dogs.
Lao Tsering saw us spinning around in the valley of death like headless flies, and couldn't help but be anxious and said: "I said, Mr. Yang, it hasn't rained this week, it can be said that the gods have blessed us, but once it rains, the devil will appear, if we are just for exploration and travel, then it is almost time to get out of the valley, the southeast wind has been blowing yesterday, I am afraid that it will rain in the next two days." ”
I know that Lao Tsering's worries are for our good. Extremely dangerous situations may arise in this valley at any time, and if it weren't for the old Tsering leading the way, we might not even be able to tell the direction.
Because the geomagnetic field is too strong, our compass loses its effect after entering the valley. The whole valley is covered with dark rivers, and the surface of the land in the valley is either quicksand or ice, and sometimes during the day, when the sun is high, the underground ice melts, and people walking on it will fall into underground ice caves or quicksand at any time.
I think maybe this valley is because of the strange geological characteristics, the minefield, the underground river and quicksand, so it caused people to disappear into this valley in the past, because it can't be explained, so it is said that there are monsters in the valley.
But I heard from old Tsering that there was really a kind of monster hidden in this valley, and when he was very young, he had seen from afar that the monster's tail was exposed outside the boulder, the thickness of a bucket and seven or eight meters long.
At noon that day, the sun was too hot and we were sleepy, so we set up a big tent and prepared for a lunch break.
After a while, a sandstorm broke out in the sky. At first, we thought it was just a random scrape, but we didn't expect that the more we scraped, the bigger it became, and the sky was covered with yellow sand, covering the whole valley in darkness.
Our horses and donkeys gathered around to guard the entrance to our tent, and Lao Tsering and I strengthened the nails of the tent against the strong wind.
If you are not prepared, you will be blown by the wind and you will not be able to open your eyes, let alone open your mouth, as long as one mouth is a mouthful of sand. We wore windshields, scarves, ropes for the horses, and then drove the mastiffs into the tent to take shelter from the wind.
I only heard the wind outside the tent screaming very fiercely, whining and hissing like crying.
Just when the outside world was in chaos, there were suddenly several neighing of horses outside the tent, and I and Lao Tsering looked at each other, and the neighing was unusual, short and rapid and as if frightened.
Just as we were about to peek out of the tent to take a look, the horses outside stopped moving. Maybe the wind choked on the sand, so I sat down with Lao Tsering again.
After a while, it seemed that there was no movement outside, so I opened the tent and got out. Holy shit! The scene in front of you will make you think that you are in Shura Hell.
Two of our horses died, and the heads of the horses were torn apart by something and thrown outside the tent, and the entrails and intestines of the horses were scattered all over the ground, and the blood was mixed in the sand. A donkey is also missing. The remaining horses and donkeys also fainted and foamed at the mouth.
Old Tsering and Le'er saw me standing outside the tent dumbfounded without making a sound, and they all came out. At first glance, he only retched Le'er excitedly. Indeed, outside our tent, there were red, white, and yellow entrails, intestines, and stomachs, and even the tent was splattered with blood, and it looked disgusting.
Neither I nor Tsering dared to think about what had just happened outside the tent.
It seems that the neighing of the horses must have been due to the discovery of something during the sandstorm, but in a short moment, the head was torn off, the internal organs were dug up, and the horse's body was taken away.
It's easy to deduce that this is definitely not the various beasts we have encountered before. Because even a wild bear can't get two horses and a donkey at the same time in such a short time. What's more, wild bears and other wild animals never go out to hunt during sandstorms.
No matter how big or small this thing is, the sheer strength of being able to tear apart a horse is terrifying.
"Mr. Yang, let's go out of the valley, as soon as the sandstorm blows, it will rain soon, you see, the devil has come out. If we don't go back, we may have to send our lives here. Old Tsering said.
It's a pity that after turning around in this broken valley for so long, I haven't even found a fart, and I'm really unwilling.
But on second thought, what Lao Tsering said was also right. After all, it's more important to keep your life safe than to leave your life here. In addition, without horses, it was too difficult to walk in this valley full of thorns and bumps. I agreed to Tsering's suggestion, no matter what, let's go out first and then make plans.
We packed up our tents and let Le'er ride the only horses we had, and Old Tsering and I started out of the valley one after the other with our guns.
After walking for a while, our dogs seemed to smell something, and suddenly they all ran forward and barked loudly. We knew the dog must have noticed something and ran up after it.
After running up a small high slope, the dogs stopped barking and looked fixedly at the side behind the slope. Lao Tsering and I also hurried up the slope.
Climb uphill to the dog, only to find that there is a small ditch on the other side of the slope. And the ditch is already full of corpses.
The inconspicuous ditch was littered with the carcasses of wild donkeys and wolves, and a few vultures were leisurely pecking at what looked like they had been dead for a day or two. We also found the wolf king "Cangyue" in the corpse of the wild wolf, but unfortunately the body under the wolf's head was only connected with a little fur and flesh, and the whole wolf body was gone.
The whole ditch emitted a huge stench of corpses, and it was no wonder that the dogs were attracted from afar.
Our horses died tragically and mysteriously disappeared before, and here we don't know what happened and killed so many wild beasts, this valley is really fucking evil. I can't help but feel that the atmosphere around me is very eerie.
Seeing that it was going to be dark again in a short time, I hurriedly pulled the old Tsering and said hurry up and get on the road, I hope I can get out of the valley as soon as possible. Brother is very nervous.
Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard a scream in the distance, fuck, it's Le'er! Just now we ran over with the dog, leaving Le'er alone on the road waiting for us. My day, it won't be....
Wait for me and old Tsering to go back. Hey, I really regret it.
It turned out that this lovely woman, who had been recognized as a sister in my heart, had disappeared. There was only the corpse of a donkey that had been cut in two by the waist, and the horse she was riding was gone.