I don’t know why, but as soon as I saw the two mountaineers, my thoughts started to wander, and I remembered what Baoliang had told me. That was all twenty years ago, but the two mountaineers looked like each other.
The clothes I wore in the early 1900s were so earthy yet a little weird, I couldn't help but think about them.
After the two herders appeared, they ignored us and sat down not far away to eat dry food. Lao An kept staring at them. I noticed that Lao An was not cheating. This might be the first time he saw these two.
Free the mountain people.
At the same time, Meng Xiaolang's eyes narrowed, and he walked slowly over and started talking to the two people. The two mountain men didn't show up, and as soon as Meng Xiaolang opened his mouth, they replied.
"How many years have you been herding mountains here?" Meng Xiaolang usually had a cheerful and cheerful face, but at this time he became very serious and communicated face to face with the two mountain herders in a serious manner.
"I can't remember clearly." A herder chewed dry food and said, "It must have been many years."
"Aren't you tired of coming and going?"
"There's nothing we can do about it."
"Take us for a walk in the mountains. It's all on the way anyway." Meng Xiaolang said: "We won't go too far, just to Tiemuling and Laolong Lake."
"I've never heard of that place."
"You'll find out after you take a walk."
As they spoke, Meng Xiaolang and the two mountain men laughed in unison. I felt that this simple conversation had a profound meaning, because their smiles looked mysterious, as if they each had their own agenda. But I heard
Don't understand their words.
After making an appointment with the mountain rangers, the team set out on the road. Lao An felt that the two mountain rangers were not normal. He communicated with Meng Xiaolang privately and wanted to act cautiously, but Meng Xiaolang said that nothing would happen to the two mountain rangers.
The road is familiar and he knows the way to Tiemuling. Lao An sighed and said nothing more. In the past, he was the absolute leader of the team, but Meng Xiaolang’s identity is more complicated. He looks like a person from Ziyang, but also looks like someone from Ziyang.
He is the blind third master, so he cannot be offended.
We walked along the mountain road for a while, and the more we walked, the more unsteady I felt. I couldn't do this without asking clearly. Although I didn't bring Niuniu this time, Su Xiaomeng and Fan Tuan were both heartless and didn't care.
I knew that, pointing and talking and laughing along the way, I looked very happy. I found an opportunity to approach Meng Xiaolang, pulled him to smoke, deliberately fell to the end of the queue, and then asked in a low voice: "Can't you tell these two people are letting go?"
Is there something wrong with the mountain?”
"That's obvious. How could you not see it?" Meng Xiaolang smiled, lit a cigarette for me diligently, took a puff, and said, "Brother, I'm not a rookie."
"Then why do you still follow them?" I think Meng Xiaolang is too childish. He doesn't discuss this matter with us at all and makes his own decision. I have been thinking about the road Baoliang took twenty years ago. It was a road of no return.
road.
"Brother." Meng Xiaolang put his arm around my shoulders and said affectionately: "You are going to do big things in the future. Now that we brothers have formed a good relationship, we will take care of you more in the future. If it were anyone else, even if it were Lao An,
If you come here and ask, I won’t tell you, but since you’re the one asking, I can explain.”
"Is there anything else fishy here?"
"I can't call it tricky, but it's very strange." Meng Xiaolang pointed to the winding path under his feet that seemed to extend deep into the mountainous area, and said: "For example, if we set out from here to Laolong Lake in Tiemuling, if it is
The first time I went there, even if I broke my legs, I still wouldn't be able to find Tiemuling."
"Why?"
"Because there is no one to pick up the mountain." Meng Xiaolang pointed at the two mountain men in front of him seriously and said, "They are the only ones who can lead the way."
Meng Xiaolang told me something. It was not the first time that they were looking for Laolong Lake. They had been there before, but Meng Xiaolang was not involved. I don’t know when the legend of the mountain guides started to spread. It is said that only these two mountain guards could lead the way.
When you take people to Tiemuling, whether you can find Laolong Lake depends on your luck. There are no conditions for Fangshan people to lead the way. As long as you say you want to go, they will take you there.
Listening to Meng Xiaolang's words, I couldn't help but look at the two mountain men again. They looked very ordinary. Except for the fact that their clothes were not in line with the current era, everything else was ordinary.
"Don't underestimate them." Meng Xiaolang took a puff of cigarette and said, "At least a hundred years ago, these two mountain rangers were already here."
I still can’t figure out what the relationship is between Ziyang and Blind Third Master of Badu Ancient Village, but even if they are not a group, they definitely have the intention to cooperate. What Meng Xiaolang said about the release of the mountain people, is Blind Third Master or Blind Third Master?
Ziyang sent people to experience it in the past. The Fangshan people took them to Tiemuling, but they did not find Laolong Lake.
"Those people who went to Tiemuling all died later." Meng Xiaolang said: "There is no other way. We can only take this road and wait for the two mountain rangers to appear in Jiao's nest."
Just as I thought, before we actually arrived at Tiemuling, things were already a bit weird. Two mountain men were haunting the area between Jiaojiawozi and Tiemuling like ghosts, just to show people the way?
In order to make things clearer, I deliberately approached two mountain rangers. They were very good at talking, and they talked about some things in the mountains while walking, regardless of whether anyone was listening. But apart from those anecdotes, I asked them about other things.
Yeah, the two of them just didn't say a word, and no matter how they talked, it didn't work.
In desperation, we had no choice but to follow the two mountain rangers. There were no accidents. Two days later, the two mountain rangers pointed to a mountain in the distance that looked like iron lumps and said to us: "Iron.
Muling.”
"Thank you." Meng Xiaolang thanked the two mountaineers.
"No thanks." One of them, carrying his own baggage, picked up the gun handed down from an unknown age and said, "We are leaving. There is still a long way to go."
"Wait a minute." I thought about it for two days. When the people who released the mountain were about to leave, I couldn't bear it anymore. I caught up with them and said, "Can I ask something?"
The two mountaineers looked at each other, and one of them with a beard said: "Ask, but don't expect to be able to answer you for everything."
"I want to ask about something that happened twenty years ago." I said: "Twenty years ago, it was also summer. Did you take a few young people from Huludao into the mountains?"
I don't know why, but when I walked into the mountains, I had a little doubt about Baoliang's story, because what he told was too real. After so many years, the truth was too real and it seemed distorted.
"For many years, we have known who we have taken into the mountains, how many times we have taken them, and how many people we have taken," another mountain ranger added next to him.
I was immediately confused, was Baoliang lying? Was he deceiving me? But what he told was so true, and most of the stories were consistent with the actual situation. This proved that he was familiar with Tiemuling, but without the guidance of Fangshanren, Baoliang
Can you find Tiemuling by yourself?
A feeling of being deceived arises spontaneously. I feel that Baoliang has deceived me. The incident he mentioned twenty years ago may not exist. But what is the purpose of deceiving me? He paid for it with his own life.
What do you want to express to me by weaving a lie?
No other clues were obtained from the two mountaineers. Once they set off on the road, they walked very fast and completely disappeared from sight soon. The entire Tiemuling was like a world that had been silent for thousands of years, and we were the first batch
intruder.
"If we can find Laolong Lake, it will be to the east of Tiemuling." Meng Xiaolang said: "Try your luck and see if you can find it."
"What if I can't find it?" I was worried, but Meng Xiaolang had already made it clear that Laolong Lake could not be seen anywhere and at any time. It was a magical lake that seemed to be mysterious and appeared and disappeared.
"Then just wait." Meng Xiaolang said: "Everyone has worked hard for a while. After this matter is completed, the gods and the third master will express their opinions."
We started looking around Tiemuling. As Baoliang said before, the area around Tiemuling is very lush with vegetation, especially in this season. We started walking there early in the morning and walked there in about an hour.
To the east of Tiemuling, however, the situation is different from what I thought. Tiemuling
The east side is almost covered by a forest, and there is no shadow of Laolong Lake at all. I have seen many strange things, including incredible miracles such as the resurrection of the dead, but I still can't figure out what force can make a natural lake disappear.
Appeared again, appeared and disappeared.
"It seems that this time we walked away in vain." Meng Xiaolang smiled bitterly and asked everyone to rest where they were, cheering everyone up. Fan Tuan and the others probably didn't know that we couldn't leave until Laolong Lake appeared, but they were actually in the mood to stay.
Collecting wild vegetables and hunting rabbits in the woods.
We started wandering around Tiemuling for three consecutive days, walking around it at least twice a day, but the legendary Laolong Lake was never seen. In fact, in wild adventures, various dangers are not the most disturbing.
The painful and most unbearable thing is that you can't find the goal and have to keep wandering around with no date and no boundaries. It's just like accepting an unfinishable task, which makes people irritated.
After the experience at the Yuantu ruins, Biaozi calmed down a bit, but after wandering around for three or four days, everyone was a little impatient. He picked on Fan Tuan, and the two of us clashed again.
Maybe it was on the fifth day after arriving in Tiemuling that I was arranged to stay overnight. There was no guarantee that there would be no large wild animals in this dense and uncivilized deep mountain forest, so a fire was burning next to the campsite all night long.
, we camped on the east side of Tiemuling and continued to search the next day.
I watched the night alone. In the middle of the night, Fan Tuan got up and ran out ten or twenty meters in a daze. I didn't pay attention at first, but after more than ten minutes passed and he still didn't come back, I felt heartbroken.
It is said that no matter how big the bladder is, it is impossible for a person to urinate at this time. He suddenly became wary in his heart, grabbed the weapon next to him, and slowly walked over there.
As soon as I took a step forward, Fan Tuan trotted back from the front. He made a silent gesture towards me. When the two people met, Fan Tuan's face turned pale green.
"Over there...over there..." Fan Tuan turned around and pointed behind him, but maybe because of nervousness, he stammered for a long time and could not finish his words.