Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 12

The bullock cart stopped, Mengli and the others thought they had reached the place, so they all jumped off the bullock cart.

At this time, a dog ran up ahead, and Wu Sansheng was delighted to see it, and he patted the old man who was driving the cattle and joked with him: "Old man, shall we ride this dog for the next ride? I'm afraid this dog is enough!"

"How can you ride a dog?" The old man laughed loudly. "This dog is used to announce the news. There is no car for this last journey! You have to take a boat, and the dog will bring the boat over!"

As he spoke, he drove the ox cart down a slope, and several people followed in a hurry.The hills here are different from those in the south. The altitude is high, because there has been no human activity for many years, the shrubs are very dense, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of eroded soil. The mud is black, and sometimes it can reach your knees when you step down. .Several people cut off a few branches and used them as crutches, exploring the way as they walked, walking very carefully.

After descending into the valley, a green mountain stream appeared in front of them. It was five or six boats wide, and the depth of the water was invisible. Except for a flat rock where they were standing, other places on both sides of the stream were towering. On the cliff, the canopy of the trees above is covered with branches and leaves, and the sun is covered with thick shade, covering most of the sun, which makes the surrounding temperature drop by several degrees.

Wu Sansheng supported the back of the ox cart and asked the old man, "This dog can swim?"

"It's a good swim! It's a good swim!" The old man sat in the car and tapped the dog's head with a bong, "Donkey Dandan, go swim and have a look."

The dog was really intelligent, jumped into the river with a "woof", and swam around.He came up to shake his hair, and stuck out his tongue on the ground.

Wu Sansheng and the others were all happy, but Mengli frowned.

The old man looked at the sky and said to them: "It's still too early, the boatman must have not started work yet, let's take a break and smoke a cigarette."

Wu Xie looked at his watch: "We haven't started work at two o'clock in the afternoon, what is your boatman's work and rest time?"

"He is the only boatman here, and he is the most powerful! When he wakes up and starts working, sometimes he doesn't start working for a day, which can make people die in a hurry." The old man smiled. A boatman, he can do whatever he wants, and the village chief has nothing to do with him."

"Then why don't you hold a congress, remove him, and replace him with a neat person?" Wu Sansheng asked him.

"We also think that you are from other places. I don't know. The mountain gods and river gods here only sell his face. Once others enter the cave, they will definitely not be able to get out. I don't know if he can pass with it." What are you doing?"

"Ah? There is still a cave ahead?" Wu Sanxing was taken aback, and immediately took out the map. After looking at it, he seemed to suddenly realize, "It's really a river cave. How old man, this cave can still eat human?"

The old man chuckled: "That's the words left by the previous generations, and I can't remember clearly. I heard from my family that they said it, but I don't know if it's true."

When they heard it, they thought it might have something to do with the ancient tomb, so they hurriedly asked him to talk about it. The old man saw that they were interested, and he got excited, so he chatted with them for a while after smoking a cigarette.

It turned out that the cave was already there before the village. Unfortunately, no one knew that the two ends of the cave were connected. The cave was very strange, and people could not get out after entering it. Over time, the village said that there was a snake spirit in the cave. , Hidden piles were placed in the water to prevent the boat from entering.

Then one day, suddenly a man propped a small boat from the cave and appeared at the edge of the village, saying that he was a shopkeeper from outside.Fortunately, there were a few daughters-in-law from the next village in the township at that time. When they heard this man's Xiangxi accent, they recognized him and said that he was a real shopkeeper. .

A few clan heads ran to the next village to ask about it, and it was true, so they let him go.From then on, the cave seemed to recognize someone. Only the boatman's family could go straight in and out, and there had been no mistakes for hundreds of years.

"Is that dog okay?" Wu Xie asked strangely, "Didn't you use it to report the letter?"

"Then I don't know, old man! It's said that it has been passed down for generations, who knows if it's true." The old man tapped the pipe on the ground. "We seldom take this waterway. There is a mountain road on the top of the mountain. We usually go there, but you have too many things. The mountain has been uneven in recent years. It keeps dropping rocks. It's not a big deal. Let’s play several times, let’s not argue about it, just wait and wait.”

Wu Xie looked from below, and found that the mountains here were tall and straight, and the mountains were piled up. He couldn't see other passers-by, and he didn't know if what he said was true. Wu Sansheng was fascinated by the old man's words, and he thought for a while , clap your hands: "Donkey Dandan, come here"

The dog was really obedient, so it ran over. Wu Sansheng picked it up and sniffed it, his expression changed: "My grandma, why does it smell like this..."

Wu Xie also picked it up and sniffed it. He coughed for a choking smell, thinking, the dog's owner is really lazy, and he didn't know how long he hadn't bathed the dog.

Pan Zi saw it, and laughed loudly: "You want to imitate your third uncle, but you are still young!"

"This dead dog, why is it so smelly!" Wu Xie grinned heartily.

"Pan Zi, come over and smell it too!" Wu Sansheng waved.

"I, don't want it!" Pan Zi said, "I can't bear the smell of dog smell the most. If I spit it out later, I'll be ashamed."

"Don't be so wordy, come and smell it, this dog smells so weird."

Pan Zi had no choice but to walk over, lifted the dog up and shook it by his nose, and his expression changed immediately: "This, it's the smell of corpses..."

"No way?!" Wu Xie and High's shabby hairs stood upside down, and even the little brother's face changed.

"...It will be fine." Meng Li patted the little brother on the shoulder, smiled at him, and expressed comfort.

Wu Sansheng lit a cigarette, looked at the dog with a frown, and said, "Take them all, the cave in front is probably a cave for corpses, cheer me up."

High was a bit timid, and asked softly, "What the hell is that corpse hole?"

"I don't know. A few years ago, I also found such a hole in Taiyuan, Shanxi. It was the place where the Japanese massacred and piled up corpses. Wherever there are corpse holes, there must be massacres. This is for sure. It was fun to watch at that time. To do an experiment, put dogs and ducks on the bamboo row, then set up the camera and push it in. The hole is at most one kilometer or more. I prepared a long enough cable, but when the cables are all pulled out, the bamboo row They didn't even come out, it was pitch black inside, and I didn't know where they had drifted to. Later, I wanted to pull out the bamboo raft, and after a few pulls, the bamboo raft suddenly tipped over, and then..." Wu Sanxing shook his hand stand.

"In the end, I only saw half of the face, and I couldn't tell if it was an animal or something because it was too close to the screen. If you want to go through this kind of hole, in ancient times, a row of dead people and living people would pass by one at a time. If it was a living thing, If you go in, you can’t get out! However, I heard that people in a certain place in western Hunan fed their children to eat dead human flesh, accumulating corpse gas in their bodies. When they grow up, they are no different from dead people, even ghosts Not him. Old man, your boatman ancestors came from Xiangxi, right?"

The old man's expression changed slightly, and he shook his head: "I don't know! It was something about his great-grandfather at that time, and he didn't even belong to a dynasty." He looked at the sky and barked at the dog, "Donkey egg!" Egg, go and bring your boat over here!" The dog uttered a "woo", jumped into the water and swam to the back of the mountain.

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