My mind was filled with thoughts of one kind or another. Even I didn’t understand why I had so many thoughts. But the man had already squatted down and moved the light in his hand to the man’s face, trying to see what he was doing.
appearance.
But I never expected that what I saw was a face like that. The two eye sockets were completely black and empty. The skin on the face was gray-brown like dry bark and was very ugly. The whole face was covered with black holes.
It has a gloomy aura, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell, which sends a deep chill to the heart.
"Ah..." I couldn't help but screamed. All the hairs on my body stood up in an instant, and I jumped up from the ground subconsciously.
"What's going on? What's going on?" A familiar voice came to my ears. I turned around and found that I was standing in the open space. It was already bright all around. Three girls were preparing breakfast. I don't know where they got it from.
An earthen pot was lit with a fire burning on it, and the aroma was already gurgling inside.
"Wang Fo, what's wrong with you? You're sweating all over." Liu Qingping put his face in front of me and stared at me with his eyes.
"It's okay, I just had a dream." I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and gave him a forced smile. In fact, I don't know what happened, but I can't find the second explanation other than a dream.
"Oh, it's okay!" Liu Qingping said with a bitter smile, and then said: "You are okay, but we are. Next time we can only sleep in the open."
I gave him a confused look, but soon understood. It turned out that I had been sleeping in a tent. The jump just now caused the tent to fall apart. I drilled a big hole in the top of the tent.
Completely destroyed.
"This..." I wanted to find an excuse, but I couldn't find one at all. No matter what I did, I couldn't make a hole in the tent. "Okay, okay, this is my fault. But how did I sleep?
In the tent? I remember Liu Xiaoyang called me up, but I don’t remember when I came in!"
Liu Qingping looked at me strangely and said: "Wang Fo, are you sleeping stupidly? Liu Xiaoyang didn't call you at all. I saw that you were too tired, so I helped you to pick up the shift. You have been sleeping here all the time.
Stay on!"
I nodded, but there was an uneasy feeling in my heart. He would not lie to me, but the experience just now was too real. Now I can remember every detail clearly, just like experiencing it myself.
"Forget it, Wang Fo, don't think so much. The meal is already done. It's your wife's credit. It's really rare to be able to drink a bowl of hot batter in a place like this."
I followed him over, and it was indeed a batter. I just crushed some dry food and added some water to boil it, but it was much better than eating dry food. Liu Qingping said that there were no animals here, otherwise I would get some barbecue to eat.
Even better.
After dinner, the sun had risen, and the mountain stream and the woods in front became bright again. After we packed up our things, we got into the woods.
I felt very weird along the way. The scenery around me actually gave me a familiar feeling. When I thought about it carefully, wasn't this what I saw in my dream?
"Well, you guys go ahead, I have something to do." After a while, Liu Qingping said something and hurriedly got into the bushes. You knew what to do by looking at his face.
This was just a small thing, but I didn't expect that a major discovery would be made just because of this small thing. "Wang Fo, come on, come on, there are discoveries, there are major discoveries." Liu Qingping's voice came from a distance, and it sounded a bit strange.
Nervous and a little excited.
When we walked over, we immediately found him squatting motionless in front of a big tree, as if he was studying something seriously. I approached suspiciously, and immediately saw a corpse lying in front of the roots of the tree, but when I saw
After seeing the corpse, I was completely stunned, and cold sweat kept flowing down my face.
The clothes on the corpse were very strange and were almost rotten. One of his hands still held a spear, but the wood of the spear had rotted away, leaving only a rusty spearhead. The key is
There was a dagger stuck between the two ribs on his chest. I recognized the dagger as mine at a glance.
I hurriedly touched my waist, and sure enough, the dagger was gone. Just like what happened last night, I plunged the dagger into the man's chest but forgot to pull it out. This is what I left behind.
Is there anything more terrifying than this? It's obviously just a dream, and this person seems to have been dead for at least a thousand years. Why is there such a weird thing?
"This man seems to be a soldier." Liu Qingping said, then looked back at us. When he noticed that my expression was wrong, he hurriedly asked with concern: "Wang Fo, what's wrong with you? Why does your face look so bad? This is just a bone.
That’s it, it’s not a big deal, there’s no need to be like this, right?”
I took a deep breath and tried to calm down the turbulent emotions in my heart. I glanced at him and couldn't help but smile bitterly. I couldn't tell them that I had a dream last night, and this person died in front of more than a thousand people.
The person was killed by me. I guess if I said this, all of them would think that I was crazy. I could only find an excuse to get over it, and then quietly left everyone. I didn’t dare to watch anymore, otherwise I would
I really don't know if I will really go crazy.
Shuiyue also followed. Being careful and cautious, she must have discovered that the dagger on the man's body was mine. However, she didn't ask anything. She just said that this forest was very strange and we might encounter some obstacles next.
"Tell me, why are there soldiers here?" Liu Qingping raised this issue again after we were back on the road.
"There's nothing surprising. Have you forgotten the plank road we walked before? It's very much like a marching route. I'm just curious about why they came to a place like this? It doesn't look like it's suitable for human life. Their
What is the reason and purpose?" Yang Yun said.
"Do you think they were looking for something?" Guo Yingying raised the possibility.
"I don't think it's possible. If it's to find something, there's no need to build that plank road. It's too complicated and time-consuming." Song Meiting objected to her words.
Liu Xiaoyang rolled his eyes and expressed his own opinion: "There were many wars in ancient times. I think the people who came here were a defeated army. The plank road was built to facilitate the retreat of the army and to leave space for future counterattacks.
Next road, this place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you want to avoid enemy pursuit, it is indeed a good place to go."
When I heard his words, I couldn't help but think of something in my mind, but I wasn't sure yet, so I didn't say it out loud.
"Hey, Wang Fo, tell me what's going on?" Liu Qingping touched my arm and asked.
I didn't want to get entangled in this issue, so I casually said: "I agree with Liu Xiaoyang's point of view, but I feel that the plank road was not for counterattack, but was destroyed in time. Judging from the dead soldier, there was a war here.
Obviously their enemies have chased them here, and I think the people hiding here must have been defeated in the end, otherwise they would have destroyed the plank road."
"Why do you say that? Maybe they fought back again, and this plank road is just a retreat they left for themselves?"
"Impossible. An army that has the possibility of victory will not be forced into such a desperate situation. Their opponents must be so powerful that they cannot resist, so even if they know that this is a dead end, they still hide in. And
The still existing plank road also proves this. If they won the war here, they would definitely destroy the plank road in order to prevent enemy reinforcements, but they failed to do this, which means they were defeated."
"According to what you said, all the troops who hid in have been destroyed?"
"That's not necessarily true. If they find a place to hide where others can't find them, they can naturally escape."
We observed the surrounding environment as we walked, and soon saw two decayed skeletons beside two big trees. They were similar to the ones we saw before, except that one of them had a different weapon. Although it was already
It's very corroded, but we can still tell it's a small weapon, like a long knife.
I think this person should be the other party in the war. From the weapons, we can also tell that they are the winning party. Because in this environment, long weapons are not as easy to master as short weapons. The restrictions on the environment are too severe.
Failure was also a major reason for the failure of the entire war.
After traveling about another three hundred meters, we finally came to a huge clearing in the woods. The clearing was just a relatively spacious place with relatively few bushes. Just as I thought, this was indeed a battlefield.
, weapons and corpses lay scattered all over the place, including humans and horses. There were not too many, but most of them were rotten and the full shape could not be seen clearly. The feeling was not very scary, but rather desolate.
Just desolate.
War is cruel. Perhaps many of them did not expect that they would die here. Perhaps many people did not know why they would die here. Even many people did not know why this war was fought. The truth is always just
In the hands of a few people, no one cares what they think, this is war.
"If we tell the outside world what we have discovered here, it will definitely cause a sensation. This is a war unknown to outsiders. It will definitely attract the attention of those old men who specialize in studying history. Then we will become famous."
Liu Qingping said with a smile.
This is true. I think this place will definitely become as lively as the vegetable market by then, but is it that easy? Thinking about it, we had a narrow escape from death along the way. We are lucky that no one died, but now we don’t know
No matter where I am, instead of becoming famous, what I want most is how to get out of here safely.