After listening to Su Xiaomeng's words, I didn't have much reaction, but my heart moved slightly. Kunlun is a familiar but unfamiliar land to ordinary people.
"Have the preparations been done?" I asked, "When will we set off?"
"You..." Su Xiaomeng was a little surprised. In the past few days, my attitude had changed a lot, which may have made her unable to adapt: "Is it really okay?"
"Everyone is going to die, right?" I stood up and said, "Including me and you."
When we walked out of the small restaurant, the sky was a bit gloomy, and that kind of weather was very similar to my mood. I was really confused. Peixin's incident was definitely related to Lao An and the others, but Su Xiaomeng acted so naturally. I guess it was while doing things.
Lao An and the others intentionally skipped Su Xiaomeng's level and did not let her participate.
When I returned to my residence, Fan Tuan had already had people clean up all the traces that needed to be cleaned up. I packed up my few belongings and moved to a nearby hotel. I didn’t want to stay in that yard any longer.
, as soon as I approach the room, I will think of the scene before Pei Xin died.
I will settle this account with the person who should settle it.
Lao An and the others were actually fully prepared, but they were just waiting for me. After staying in the hotel for a day, I went to find Su Xiaomeng. Our people had to drive to Qinghai first, and then follow the east foot of Kunlun Mountain from there.
Entering the mountain. I don’t know what clues Lao An got, but in Chinese legends of the past dynasties, Kunlun is the ancestor of all mountains and the birthplace of the world’s dragon veins. More importantly, it is said that the Queen Mother of the West lives in Kunlun Mountain.
There are nine people in the team including Su Xiaomeng and I, which are all the members in the circle. I was not in a high mood, so I rarely talked to anyone along the way. Su Xiaomeng kept talking to me. It was obvious that she wanted to mobilize
My enthusiasm. I want to endure it, but my natural personality makes it difficult for me to pretend to be nonchalant about certain things.
In this way, I followed the team to Qinghai first, stayed for a few days, and then made a final stop in Mazi County, Qinghai. This is the nearest densely populated area near the mountain pass. Lao An made arrangements in advance.
, someone prepared materials and vehicles for us to use along the way. There are not many local residents in Mazi, but many travel friends like to use Mazi as the starting point for entering the mountains. They enter the mountains from here, and then cross north to reach the north bank of Kunlun.
There are many non-freezing springs in the area, so there are more people messing around. Lao An is a low-key person and doesn’t want to stay here for a long time. After receiving the supplies and vehicles, he bought some more things and took us on the road.
I originally planned to go directly into the mountains, but before driving far, a car suddenly had a puncture on the Shipoyazi west of Mazi. The car had a spare tire, but it drove out before driving out of Mazi.
As for the accident, Lao An might be afraid that there would be another accident during the journey, so there was nothing he could do about it, so we kept the spare tire useless and sent someone to turn around and go back to the county town to buy tires.
As a result, some time was wasted. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, someone suggested to Lao An that he should leave tomorrow, because none of these people had been here before and were not familiar with the road conditions and terrain. If they were traveling at night,
No one can guarantee absolute safety. Shipo Yazi is already on the edge of Mazi. It is very remote. I don't know if I can find a place to stay.
They were discussing how to change the tires they had just bought, and I sat aside and smoked quietly. After the tires were changed, a few people gathered around to eat, and Lao An asked Biaozi to find a place to stay in Shipo Yazi.
After arranging the chores, Lao An slowly walked over to me and sat down opposite me.
"There's still some time, let's play a game of chess." Lao An took out his exquisite and small camphor wood chessboard and placed it between the two of us. He didn't even ask me if I was interested in playing chess. He placed the chess pieces and started the game directly.
I didn't refuse. I just held up the chess piece blankly and played step by step. This time, Lao An didn't play chess in silence like last time. He played slowly while talking to me.
"Do you have such a habit?" Lao An said: "You start to do something, but as you do it, you find that it seems completely different from what you imagined before. Then, you don't care about it, because it has already started.
, so no matter what, continue to insist on finishing it?"
"Is that a habit that occurs after the brain is affected by dampness?" I laughed. Peixin's death changed some of my views. I am no longer so taboo about Lao An, even though he looks like the dark night sky.
Unfathomable, but so what? He is just a human being.
Lao An was not angry because of my disrespect, and remained calm. This time, his offensive in playing chess was so fierce and decisive that I couldn't resist it at all, and I was quickly defeated.
"You lost." Lao An packed up his chessboard and chess pieces, looked at the already dark sky, and said slowly: "When people walk on the road, they can't help themselves."
After playing this game of chess, Biaozi drove back from Shipo Yazi. There were very few people living in Shipo Yazi, and there was only a small, run-down hotel that was under renovation.
"If you can't live there, you can only go back to Mazi, or sleep in the car." Biaozi said to Lao An, "You make up your mind."
"Let's stay." Lao An thought for a while and said, "Just one night."
I had a premonition that the conditions of the hotel would be very poor, but Fan Tuan next to me was very satisfied and whispered to me: "When you really enter the mountains and stay there for a while, you will find that no matter how broken the bed is, it is also paradise."
Lao An and his gang seemed to have a lot of money. The team of nine people prepared a total of four vehicles. The wheels carried a burst of dust, and Biaozi led them to the only small hotel in Shipo Yazi. The hotel was worse than mine.
Imagine that there are two floors in total, and they are both under renovation, so we have to make do with living in the basement.
The rooms were limited, and Su Xiaomeng was special. One person had one room, and the rest had to squeeze into one room. I couldn't tell others, so I naturally squeezed in with Fan Tuan. The basement was quite dark, and the sun couldn't be seen all year round, and the room was old.
The door lock was covered with dust. It seemed that no one had opened the door in a hundred years. The moment the door was opened, two unknown insects flew out. Standing at the door and looking inside, there were many insects in several corners.
There are spiders on it, and the dust is a finger thick.
"Is this a hotel or Pansi Cave?" Fan Tuan carried the big bag, stretched out his hand to drive away the rising dust, ran to get a basin of water, and sprinkled it in the room.
Several people settled down one after another, because they had to be on their way early the next morning, so they went to bed early. After they all went to bed, Fan Tuan went to the door, took out a bottle of white wine from his bag, and said: "
On the hour?”
"Drink it yourself."
"On the hour, on the hour." Fan Tuan got two cans and opened them while saying: "Since I got into this circle, I have no hobbies. I will live by it for the rest of my life. Let's take a few bites to refresh myself. Lao An
It’s a big rule, don’t let him know.”
I am not familiar with a few other people in the team. In comparison, I naturally feel that I am relatively close to Fan Tuan. In addition, I am in a bad mood and being encouraged by Fan Tuan, I really feel like drinking. The two of us
We gathered around the broken table and started drinking. After drinking, it was like a strong emotional catalyst. Looking back on the past, all kinds of tastes were mixed. As I drank the wine, my eyes became astringent.
"Fan Tuan, let me ask you something." I rubbed my eyes, raised my head, and said, "When I was cleaning up my room a few days ago, did you go there? Did you see the body?"
Fan Tuanji shivered. Pei Xin's corpse was so horrific that if she wasn't a person whose humanity had been completely wiped out, he wouldn't be indifferent when he saw her.
"Tragic..." Fan Tuan sighed.
"Do you know what happened to that body?"
"Brother, what does this mean?" Fan Tuan immediately understood the intention of my question, and his eyes opened wide.
"Forget it, it's nothing." I felt that Fan Tuan and Su Xiaomeng glanced at each other. Although their expressions were surprised, they were very real. He might really know nothing, and I couldn't ask anything. I drank the last sip of wine in the glass and said:
"sleep."
I have a good drinking capacity, but after drinking half a kilo of wine, and having never slept well these days, my eyelids started to get heavy. Fan Tuan fell asleep earlier than me, and as soon as his fat body touched the bed, he fell asleep in less than two minutes.
Start snoring.
I was very sleepy, but subconsciously I was resisting sleep. I tossed and turned for at least half an hour before I fell asleep. However, the quality of my sleep was not high and I never fell asleep deeply. It is easy to dream in such low-quality sleep. In my mind
Pretending to be doing all kinds of things, my dreams were also messy. I saw the shadows of many, many people flashing past my eyes one by one.
"North...North..."
Suddenly, my consciousness suddenly woke up, because I heard a very ethereal voice echoing, it was a woman's voice, she was calling me.
I woke up all of a sudden, opened my eyes and saw that the night was still very deep, the room was dark, and Fan Tuan opposite was still snoring and sleeping soundly. A layer of sweat appeared on my forehead, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
The sound must have come from a dream, but it sounded so real that it made me wake up.
I lay down again, but the moment my head hit the pillow, the ethereal voice echoed again.
"north......"
I felt a numbness in my scalp and sat up with a sigh. I was sure that the sound was definitely not an hallucination. Although it was very slight, mixed with Fan Tuan's snoring, it sounded extremely real.
"north......"
I pricked up my ears and tried to distinguish it. At first, the sound seemed to come from a certain corner of the room, but after careful analysis, it didn't look like it. The sound was definitely made by a woman, and I heard it several times.
, I think the sound is a bit muffled.
In such an environment and time, this sound was extremely permeable. I quietly grabbed the knife beside my pillow, turned over and got out of bed barefoot, and as soon as I stood in the middle of the room, the source of the sound was clearly discernible.
The sound came from the direction directly opposite me, but there was a wall opposite me. After a few seconds, I reacted like an electric shock. No wonder the sound sounded a bit muffled, it might have come from the middle of the wall.
to the room.
Is there someone in the mezzanine of the wall!? And it’s a woman who knows me!?