When I hear the word snake, my legs feel weak. Most northerners are very afraid of this kind of animal. I remember seeing a thumb-thick cauliflower snake in the wild when I was a child. I was so scared that I wet my pants on the spot. Especially the guy's words at the beginning.
The adjective "very big" was also added, which made my scalp numb even more, and I couldn't help but step back.
Several people were very nervous. The flashlight in Ma Dad's hand was trembling, and he pulled Zhang Houhou tighter. Zhang Houhou gritted his teeth and said: "Get rid of it!"
"They didn't mess with us. Just go around if you can. Why bother looking for trouble?" Ma Dad swallowed and stared at the front with bright eyes: "Although the snake has no legs, it can run very fast. If you mess with it,
It’s so gross, who can escape it?”
While I was talking, I could faintly see the shadow of the huge snake that the clerk mentioned in the light that swayed back and forth. I felt a chill in my heart, and cold sweat dripped down my forehead. This snake was thicker than me, and its body was coiled.
After several rounds, the raised snake head weighed at least several dozen kilograms, entrenched motionless in the darkness under the stone platform.
Bang!
I don't know who took the initiative and fired a shot. The rest of the people followed suit and opened fire as if on conditioned reflex, and the crisp sound of gunfire rang out.
"Damn it! A bunch of idiots!" Without saying a word, Ma Dad temporarily left Zhang Houhou and ran back, dragging me with him.
After running at least a hundred meters in one breath, Ma Dad slowed down, looked back and said to me: "What kind of quality is this team? They don't listen to orders at all. I have said that if you can't mess with it, it's best not to mess with it, or don't care."
Let's fight for nothing. Master Wei, the two of us can just go back and guard the door. Let Lao Zhang and the others do whatever they want."
"It's very inappropriate for the two of us to leave the team alone."
I was talking to Ma Dad while running, and after a while, the people behind me came after me, shouting from a distance: "Boss Wei, wait, wait a minute, there is no danger..."
"Is there no danger?" Ma Dad stopped and said, "Did you kill the big snake?"
The two of us stopped and waited. As soon as one of Zhang Houhou's guys ran up to us, Ma Dad said worriedly: "Did you beat that snake to death? This thing is spiritual and grows so big. It often comes out and walks.
Why do people in the world have their heads full of mush and ignore the severity of trouble?"
"No, no, it's just a false alarm. The snake we saw just now is a stone statue."
"stone carving?"
"It's a stone sculpture. There is one on each side of the two corners of the stone platform."
I find it a bit unbelievable. If the coiled snake I just saw is a stone carving, the carving of this stone carving is so exquisite that it can be mistaken for the real thing.
"Boss Wei, go back."
Ma Dad is like this. When the danger comes, he can run faster than a rabbit. When the danger is gone, he looks careless and says to the guy with disdain: "I told you, you young people, including Lao Zhang,
I don’t have much knowledge, and I get into a mess when things happen. It’s not a big deal, but I fired so many bullets in a hurry, and the bullets are free of charge?”
The whole team was very jealous of Ma Dad's mouth. The guy didn't dare to say anything more and took us back to where we came from. Some people were already surrounding the big snake, pointing and pointing. It seemed that there was really no danger. I
He and Ma Dad also went over with Zhang Houhou to watch.
This entrenched snake was indeed carved out of stone as the guy said. It was very fine and the scales on its body were faintly visible. Those people just hit it all over the head and face, and the bullets scattered sparks all over the snake. Only then did Zhang Houhou discover the strange thing.
"Is this for the town house?"
"Bullshit, you just put two snakes in front of your house? I think it's not to guard the house, but to guard something else."
Several people talked about it, and after they all finished speaking, Mustache, who had been silent, said: "This is the Dragon of the Holy Mountain."
Among us, only Xiaozhu has read a lot of information about Xixia, so in this regard, I am quite convinced by his words. But Ma Dad sneered: "It is uncultured to bully others? What does a dragon look like? It is different from a snake.
It’s far away.”
Mustache glanced at Ma Dad, walked to the big stone snake, stretched out his hand and pointed in several places. We followed the direction of his fingers and found that there were two or three snakes coiled under the belly.
A very inconspicuous protrusion.
"Is this...a claw?" one of the guys asked hesitantly.
"The Xixia people call Helan Mountain a holy mountain and think it is the place of their ancestral origin." Mustache said lightly: "Ever since the Dangxiang Qiang tribe lived in groups, this snake has been regarded as the patron saint of the holy mountain. Some people
According to the original myth of the Dangxiang Qiang people, the guardian spirit of the sacred mountain is immortal and reincarnates every 3,600 years. Five claws and two horns grow from the snake's body and transform into a dragon. After 3,600 years, it returns to its original form.
, over and over again, guarding the holy mountain."
"This is just a legend. Chinese people all regard the dragon as a totem. Who has seen a dragon? It is nothing more than a fictitious species. This kind of dragon in the holy mountain may be that people at that time saw a big snake and were inspired to write it.
If you tell a story about a patron saint, you don’t have to take it seriously.”
Mustache ignored what others said and fell into silence again. Ma Dad really wanted to play in the ruins of the building on the stone platform, so he encouraged Zhang Houhou and asked him to send someone up to take a look first. Zhang Houhou was scared by Ma Dad,
Hiding behind a waiter, he said: "Brother Ma, there won't be anything valuable in a place like this. It's impossible to move a few rocks out, right? We'd better do business first, Boss Wei, don't you think so?"
When I saw the ruins of this building, I had guessed whether the bronze medal would be hidden here. I also thought that Zhang Houhou would have the same idea as me, but I didn't expect that he was not optimistic about this place. It looked like
I wanted to give up directly. This made me have a doubt.
"Lao Zhang, have you been to this place before?"
"No, it's not like you don't know, Boss Wei. Before you came, we were blocked outside the door and couldn't get in. How could we have been here before?"
I approached Zhang Houhou, looked into his eyes and asked, "Since you haven't been here before, how do you know the thing isn't here?"
"Boss Wei, you must have misunderstood me." Zhang Houhou said calmly: "Actually, I wasn't sure whether the things were here or not, but your master said that this place is very much like a sacrificial place."
I was stunned, thinking that the place of worship has nothing to do with whether things are here or not?
Zhang Houhou pulled me to the side and said in a low voice: "Master said that the people who built these buildings are very different from the era when the bronze medal appeared. In other words, the bronze medal has nothing to do with this building. Moreover, you also
We saw it, and we have to look for things in the ruins above. Just the cleanup work will take us half a year."
As soon as I heard that it was Xiaozhu's opinion, I stopped talking to Zhang Houhou and went directly to Xiaozhu and asked him about the relevant situation. I didn't want to stay in this place longer. I just wanted to find something and leave immediately.
Mustache is different from Ma Dad. He is indifferent to emotions and anger. Even though he knew that I had a problem with him, he did not show any dissatisfaction. He said to me: "The ruins on the stone platform, if I didn't guess
Wrong, it should be the ancestral hall of the Dangxiang Qiang people recorded in historical materials. It was built at least 300 to 500 years earlier than the Xixia Dynasty, and the bronze medal obviously only appeared after the road construction. You
Just think about it and you will understand. When the holder of the bronze medal came here, the entire building had collapsed. If it were you, would you hide your things here?"
"That's not necessarily true." I actually agreed with Mustache's conclusion 80%, but I refused to give in.
I thought about it, and finally gave up the idea of searching here carefully. One was that the amount of work was too large, and the other was actually from my own feelings. After listening to what Mustache said, I felt that the things might not really be here. So.
When Zhang Hou came to ask for instructions again, I asked him to lead people directly through the ruins.
Zhang Hou gathered everyone on the stone platform and continued to move forward, crossing the ruins of the building. When he approached the other end of the space, a dark hole appeared on the stone wall. The hole was very wide, and there were traces of man-made damage on the edge of the hole.
, it was probably intentionally widened at the beginning, and based on normal analysis, it should be relatively wide inside. The man exploring the path in front drilled in with a flashlight, and kept sending safety signals, and the people behind followed him all the way. It took about ten minutes at most,
All human signs around have disappeared, and the passage behind the cave entrance has gradually become flat. There is no sound of any water flow nearby. It is probably because we are far away from those underground water systems, or the water system has changed its course.
Although the surrounding environment seemed calm, we didn't have much food and water. I asked Zhang Monkey how long he planned to walk forward, and he said it was all up to me. I thought about it, when we distributed the supplies just now, everyone was
There is enough for three or four days, so I said that we should walk for up to thirty hours to avoid running out of food and finding no other way. Zhang Hou looked at his watch and said yes, if he can’t find anything within thirty hours,
Since he couldn't find a way out, he went back the way he came and tried to find a way to connect with the guy who was staying outside the cave.
Seeing that Zhang Houhou answered very simply, I felt less suspicious of him. However, Ma Dad is a stubborn person who never looks back when he is sure about something. He sticks to Zhang Houhou wholeheartedly, as if he is sharing life and death.
After walking for a while, I felt that the road under my feet began to slope. In fact, after such a long time of tossing, my mind was already lost, and I could not even estimate the altitude where I was. Moreover, the slope became more and more obvious.
If you shine a flashlight over it, you can see the changes in the road surface with the naked eye.
When the slope of the ground reached almost twenty degrees, Ma Dad couldn't help it any longer. He put his arm around Zhang Hou's shoulders and asked, "Why do I feel like I'm walking into a big pit?"