Vermillion mole

The two spent seven days in a strange atmosphere. After the seventh day, when they came to a mountain depression, the fat man let out a hush first, and everyone else also stopped.

There is a huge group of dodders in the valley, densely packed, like a huge cocoon. There are many "hair sticks" around this group of dodders, which are dead trees that are completely entangled by dodders.The dodders are also dead, a large piece like a yellow silk curtain.The weeds on the ground were withered and turned yellow, but they were extremely tall, obviously growing wildly for a while before withering.

Except for Zhu Sha and Xie Yuchen, everyone was attracted by the dodder cocoon. When they got closer, they found that the cocoon was really huge, and it seemed to be a huge rock inside.

"It should be here." Wu Xie said.

Seeing that there is a pine forest all around, it is sparse, and there is such a strange landform, the mountains on both sides are gentle, and it is very strange that this stone stands abruptly in the valley.

They began to scan the ground with metal detectors everywhere, and soon discovered that when the soil surface was turned up and sieved, some iron lumps appeared in a short time, which were not fragments of ancient armor, or iron slag from weapons, arrowheads and the like.

"It's an ancient battlefield." The fat man acted like Huo Qubing, and turned his head to point to the mountain on one side, "This huge rock should be on the other side of the mountain. After the Mongols entered here, King Wannu's army pushed it down. boulder, and charge down with the boulder."

Is it an ambush?In an ambush battle, there should be a lot of falling rocks. A huge rock should be a fortified battle. I looked at the direction the fat man pointed and said, "The army of King Wannu is guarding an important place. The Mongols climbed the mountain to attack. They will soon be attacked." When we want to break through, we need a huge boulder all the way down. Let’s go up the mountain from here, and everyone opens up their tricks. There must be something on the top of the mountain.”

It is extremely difficult for ordinary people, but for someone like Xie Yuchen who can climb cliffs or even reverse slopes like flying, this kind of climbing is like playing.

After 10 minutes, Xie Yuchen had already climbed far ahead by himself, and the whole group was very indignant when they saw his stomping behavior.

"Young people have good waists." The fat man gasped, and his physical strength was not as good as before. "I think back when I was fighting in the Northeast, this kind of mountain went up and down seven times a day without sweating."

"Fatty Master, have you been in the Northeast before?" The waistcoat wanted to help the fat man carry his things, but was pushed away by the fat man.The waistcoat asked: "Then do you know what the four comforts in Northeast China are?"

"Who doesn't know this?" The fat man said, "Don't you just wear big shoes, fart loudly, ride in a bullock cart, and watch a big show? Let me tell you, I don't know anything else. I almost lost your boss's life. But Fat Lord, I will continue to carry out this revolutionary tradition as always."

"Niu, Fat Master is really well-informed." The waistcoat unscrewed a bottle of white wine, "I have also lived in the Northeast, and my brother and I have a heart-to-heart, so we must drink one, come come come come come."

The wine was very fragrant and I didn't know what kind it was. The waistcoat took most of the equipment from the fat man, and handed the wine to the fat man. "Fatty, drink steadily."

Wu Xie glanced at the waistcoat approvingly, the fat man took a sip of his wine, yelled excitedly, and praised Wu Xie: "You are better than your third uncle, look at you fellows, everyone looks like a genius. Waistcoat, wait Go in and the fat man will touch something for you, which is guaranteed to be better than your boss's."

As soon as they finished speaking, the others immediately stepped forward, those who handed cigarettes handed cigarettes, and those who received backpacks took backpacks.

Xie Yuchen whistled from above, and the group of people speeded up, came near the top of the mountain, looked from between the tree poles, it was just the setting sun, the setting sun was shining at night, the whole valley was covered with rays of light, shining on the vast forest, like a canopy of trees Under each leaf on the tree, there is a group of golden fireflies.It just has a shimmering effect.The moon has risen on one side, and the temperature has dropped a bit.

Looking down from this position, you can see a clear trajectory, knowing how the boulder at the bottom of the mountain rolled down and hit those places.Because there are huge depressions in the mountain at a distance, which are obviously formed by the rolling and impact of huge boulders.

"The dodder grows so luxuriantly in this valley. Could it be because there used to be a river of blood here, and the soil was full of Mongolian corpses?" asked the waistcoat.

"Stop it." Wu Xie said, "Damn it, don't talk about what happened thousands of years ago. There must be other reasons. As long as we continue to explore here, we will always find something."

The slope where Wu Xie and the others are located is full of gravel and sand, and the trees are not high. The fat man nodded to me. We have seen such landforms on the mountains near Yunding Tiangong before. If King Wannu once guarded here, then What is guarding should be right under the rubble beneath our feet.

Fatty pulled out the detonator and gunpowder, Wu Xie was far away, Fatty loved the mountain bombing sport from the bottom of his heart, and now the technology of explosives is far better than the cash before, the little ghosts are very excited, just like setting off firecrackers in the New Year.

Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen worked together for a long time, and when they came to the woods on one side, this place was the safest, Wu Xie shouted: "Be careful, the top of the mountain will collapse and bury you all."

"Oh, don't worry, now this is called directional blasting. The explosion hits the ground, blasting the gravel, and directly blasting a deep hole." The fat man said, "Don't you guys understand my technology?"

Xie Yuchen led Zhu Sha back to the edge of the forest. Wu Xie scratched his head and still felt that something was going to happen to the fat man. Xie Yuchen patted Wu Xie on the shoulder, turned his head, and immediately told the fat man to stop.

All the way back, I retreated to the edge of a crack in the mountain without knowing it. This crack is so abrupt on the rock that I can tell at a glance that the cause is different.

This crack is about two people wide, quite exaggerated, and the rock is exposed.This kind of gap cannot be formed except by earthquakes.

Because it has been formed for a long time, there are many small shrubs on the wall of the gap below the crack, and it goes very deep. When a stone is kicked down, it hits the wall of the gap all the way and can hear the impact still deep.

It was a wound on a great mountain that seemed to lead to the heart of the mountain.Going up the gap, the gap becomes wider and wider, until it goes straight to the top of the mountain. It seems that if this gap continues to develop, it will become a landform like a line of sky.The guano and soil in the gaps form a piece of vegetation area. The wider the place, the bigger the vegetation, and the pine trees with the thickness of the mouth of a bowl grow in the gaps.

Returning to the place where the gap was found, Xie Yuchen carefully tested the protruding rock lines on the wall of the gap, and climbed down. He was very fast, and when he got down to the place where darkness and light meet, he turned on the flashlight.

"Water!" Xie Yuchen shouted, and Zhu Sha also saw the unique reflected light on the water surface.

"Is the water alive or dead?" asked the fat man.

"What do you think?" Xie Yuchen asked.

"You put some dandruff into the water and see if it's flowing slowly."

"I don't have dandruff." Xie Yuchen said angrily.

"Don't talk nonsense, people have dandruff, and no one will laugh at you." The fat man said.

"Stop making noise!" Zhu Sha roared.

When this voice came out, Xie Yuchen was silent for a while, and then he heard Jian Yuchen shouting from below: "It's running water."

The fat man looked at Wu Xie, and said softly, "It's running water, which means it's underground water. The hot springs here are very developed, and there are underground water systems everywhere. The imperial tomb we went to last time had a moat, which means that there was also dark water in the huge underground crater before." The river exists, that's a clue.

Wu Xie nodded. After working together for so many years, he naturally knew what the fat man wanted to do, so he beckoned someone to bring up a wooden barrel.There are dozens of catfish in the barrel, and each catfish has a GPS tracker on the upper part of its gills.They were all dismantled from those 80 yuan wholesale electronic watches in Huaqiangbei and sealed with wax.Hang down the crack and let Xie Yuchen pour all into the water.

"It's a pity." The fat man couldn't bear to say.

Zhu Sha also nodded and said, "Stir-fry the chili with garlic and put it in soup, it must taste good."

Wu Xie originally thought that these two people would have some compassion as they got older, but it's a pity that he doesn't understand the world of foodies!

I didn't blow up the mountain that day, because I was afraid that the cracks would expand and the whole mountain would crack and collapse. I went back to the mountain and cut some dead trees and dodders to start a fire, and waited to see the results the next day.

Cinnabar still didn't say a word, the fat man wanted to find out why the dodder was so lush here, but to no avail.Wu Xie kept his eyes closed and rested his mind. He had nothing to say all day and night. The next morning, thinking that it was almost time, he turned on the computer to see the whereabouts of those catfish.

To my surprise, all the catfish signals that can be found are distributed in a long and narrow area, like a centipede, lying in an area more than ten kilometers away from us.

GPS can only be identified in the open air, a long and narrow distribution, which may be the beach of an above-ground river.

Fatty thought it was boring and insisted on blowing up the mountain here. Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen agreed that no matter what, they had to go and see.

So the soldiers split into two groups, Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen took the cinnabar vests to the dusk, and arrived at the GPS signal.

I turned over the mountain and thought I would see a lake or a small river.As a result, what I saw was a forest, very dense vegetation, without any water system.

"Strange." Wu Xie muttered, and looked at the signal distribution on the IPAD. The catfish is in this forest. Could it be that there are many puddles connected to underground rivers in this forest.

Walking into this forest before sunset, the ground between the lush shrubs and pine trees in the forest is covered with dodders, like a giant net spread on the ground, it is difficult to walk, and the waistcoat uses a knife to open the way.

Wu Xie felt more and more strange. As he walked deeper, there were more and more dead trees. Cuscuta crawled along the ground and spread a thick layer, covering almost the entire forest floor. A dilapidated ancient well, distributed in the forest and covered with vines, the distance between the wells is only a foot away, there are hundreds of them, like grave mounds one by one.

Seeing this magnificent scene, the waistcoat was speechless for a long time.

Xie Yuchen glanced at Wu Xie, and there was a lot of meaning in his eyes. It is indeed bizarre that there are so many ancient wells appearing in the same place in the wilderness.

Zhu Sha put her arms around Jie Yuchen's waist, and looked at everything in front of her without saying a word. She must have been here before, but she couldn't remember what it was used for. The memory is too long, and it is nothing. Important things, so forget them.

Xie Yuchen looked at Zhu Sha's expression, and rubbed Zhu Sha's head calmly. After being soothed by Xie Yuchen, Zhu Sha's brows stopped frowning.