Lao An is the absolute core of the team. His experience is unparalleled. When he shouted like this, although the others didn't know what was going on, they already smelled the danger from Lao An's shouts. How many people?
Without asking, I turned around and ran away. I also realized that it seemed unsafe here, so I pulled Fan Tuan, who was still in a daze, to follow the others.
"What happened?" Fan Tuan didn't know what was going on. He was dragged away by me and kept asking. I didn't know how to explain it.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Lao An urged everyone from behind to run away as hard as possible, saying at the same time: "If you are late, you will die!"
As soon as he heard this, Fan Tuan's spirit suddenly perked up, and his body of fat flashed up and down as he ran. We had just run out not far away, and in the middle of the gloomy clouds above our heads, as if catalyzed by something, lightning flashed.
They intertwined and flashed in the clouds, like a giant cloud covering the river bed.
Thunder and lightning!
I suddenly thought of the carbonized corpse. My previous judgment may have been wrong. The reason why the corpse was carbonized was not because it was burned, but because it was carbonized instantly after being directly struck by electricity.
"Everyone get down! Get down!" Lao An tried his best to remind everyone amidst the lightning and thunder: "Don't run straight up! Everyone get down!"
I heard the warning, but Fan Tuan seemed to be frightened out of his wits. The lightning flashes that kept rolling and flashing in the clouds above his head were a huge deterrent. Fan Tuan was still running with his body shaking. I tried my best to hold him and held him with all my strength.
Push him to the ground. Lightning is most likely to hit upright or moving targets on the ground. Although lying under a layer of electricity like this will make people frightened, you will die faster if you stand up and run away.
We just lay down on the ground and crawled forward little by little. The cold sweat on Fan Tuan's face kept pouring out. He trembled while crawling and asked me. He said that his "volume" was the largest. If from the probability
From a scientific point of view, the possibility of being struck by lightning is also the greatest.
"Stop talking nonsense." I was also a little flustered.
The electric light in the clouds flashed for a while, seemed to weaken a little, disappeared into the clouds, and was temporarily invisible. Taking this opportunity, all the people who had been lying down waiting for the opportunity jumped up and continued to run towards the distance, cars and so on.
I couldn't care less, so I could only escape for my life first.
But this time I ran for less than three minutes when I heard a muffled thunder behind me, followed by the sudden screams of someone. I couldn't help but look back and saw that a man named Baoliang in the team had already rolled over.
On the ground, he was struggling and wailing in pain. He was the oldest one in the team, about forty-three or four years old. He had an operation on his left foot and three toes were amputated, so he could not move as easily as others.
The moment I turned around, I was immediately stunned by the sudden flash of lightning. Lightning bolts of different thicknesses pierced down from the clouds and swept across the bottom of the river bed aimlessly. The low shrubs were covered with trees.
Baoliang must have been injured by the carbonization of the thunder and lightning that fell from the sky. He kept shouting on the spot, but the lightning still did not stop, and it struck straight down around him with almost no gaps.
"Baoliang..." Fan Tuan moved, but hesitated again and again and still did not dare to move rashly.
At this time, I saw Lao An jumping up from the ground, bending down and approaching Baoliang at a very fast speed. In that case, approaching Baoliang was a very dangerous thing, but Lao An
Without much hesitation, I ran to Baoliang in one breath, fell to the ground, and dragged him hard towards us.
I can’t explain how the scene in front of me makes me feel. Flashes of lightning illuminated the river valley at dusk. I could even see the veins on Lao An’s forehead exposed due to nervousness and exertion. He was biting Ya kept insisting. Baoliang soon fainted and might even die, but Lao An did not give up, so he took such a huge risk and dragged the other person bit by bit. Soon someone else ran over to help, and the two of them were stronger. They were a little older, so they were lucky enough to drag Baoliang back from the dense thunder and lightning.
Next, we abandoned our supplies and vehicles and ran back to the river valley bank from the river bed. When we arrived at this place, we were out of the lightning attack area.
Baoliang was not dead yet. A piece of his shoulder was burned, and it was a grayish white color unique to lightning burns. Lao An asked him to take him aside for treatment. I silently watched everything he did, feeling very conflicted. He was in danger. I admired him very much for rescuing Baoliang, but when I recalled Pei Xin's death, my admiration suddenly turned into more complicated emotions.
But the hatred has not subsided at all.
Our car was still in the river, unable to leave, and we had lost our supplies. A group of people sat down near the river valley with no food and no sleep. People like Fan Tuan have absolutely very strong survivability. After chatting with me for a while under such harsh conditions, I fell asleep.
I got up and walked to the side and sat down to smoke. As I smoked, I felt someone behind me. When I looked back, I saw Lao An walking over at some point. He still didn’t have much expression and sat down next to me. He also took out a cigarette.
"What happened today should be kept in mind in the future. This is an experience. Maybe it will save my life." Lao An looked at the valley in the distance and said, "I have never been to Kunlun before, so I am a bit careless. ."
I didn't ask, but Lao An explained it to me in detail. In the Kunlun Mountains, there is a place called the Gate of Hell. It is also a valley. The magnetic field in the valley is very abnormal. When the clouds are thicker, The magnetic anomalies in the valley will react with the charges in the clouds, causing the charges to become active, thereby triggering discharges. The area covered by the magnetic field is almost a minefield. Lao An has never been to Kunlun, but before taking action, he had been preparing for a long time, I browsed through all the useful information I could read. I originally thought that it was still far away from the Gate of Hell in Kunlun Mountain, but I didn't expect that this river valley was also a forbidden area.
"There are still many things to do. If you can sleep, just sleep for a while." Lao An's story was very brief. After smoking a cigarette, he basically finished what he had to say. He threw away the cigarette butt and turned around when he stood up. He turned to me and said, "There's one thing I forgot to tell you."
"What?"
"You may have heard that my rules are relatively strict, but they are not as scary as they say. When I come to this circle, I have to be responsible for you. As long as it is not too much or a matter of principle, I generally won't argue with anyone. "Lao An said, his tone became solemn, his expression became serious, and he said: "But one thing must be kept in mind. No matter at any time or under any circumstances, you can't abandon your companions. As long as you are still alive, you must Let them live too."
These words reminded me of the scene when he risked his own life to rescue Baoliang. To be fair, I didn’t think Lao An was bluffing because he had already explained it with his own actions. But my prejudice against him could not be eliminated, so I listened to him.
If so, I'm still a little dissatisfied.
"If one person is in danger and is about to die, but the other person is in a safe situation, will he get himself trapped if he takes the risk to save the person?" I asked Lao An with a deliberate smile: "Originally only one person died, but now
But two people have to die, is this a good deal? Can you guarantee that everyone can abide by the rules you set?"
"I can do it." Lao An replied affirmatively: "You must do it too."
"Aren't you afraid of death?"
Lao An suddenly laughed. This was the first time I saw him smile. He has always had a sullen face without any expression. This may have caused his facial muscles to become rigid, so his smile looked unnatural.
"I'm not afraid of death. In fact, the last thing people should fear is death." Lao An left his stiff smile and said as he walked: "Each of us may have died many, many times...
..”
"Can you explain this sentence?" I suddenly felt shocked. I didn't know if Lao An meant this sentence, because when I heard this, I couldn't help but think of that late night a few days ago, in
The whisper that appeared on the other side of the wall. In my impression, she was a person who left this world. The phoenix guano in the small bronze furnace only allowed people to linger for a while, but could not truly resurrect the dead.
"I can't explain it right now because I don't fully understand it either." Lao An said without looking back, "You can also think that I'm making nonsense."
We spent the night near the river valley, and the next day, the weather cleared up. We took the time to drive out of the river valley, and this time we did not dare to take advantage of the convenience. We walked honestly along the edge of the river valley and made a circuit.
The big circle left here.
The road after that was still so boring. I was used to the lonely life in the wild, so I didn’t feel anything. Anyway, living is a kind of suffering. It depends on what kind of mentality you use to face it. After ten days of non-stop trekking
, I saw from the map that the team was approaching the Kandamu Basin.
At this time, Lao An finally spoke up. He said that the destination would be arriving soon and asked everyone to hold on. Originally, I thought the destination he mentioned was Kandamu, but Lao An said it was not.
"The real destination is still more than 220 kilometers away from Kandamu." Lao An pointed at the map and said: "This time, what we are looking for is not just bronze."
"Isn't it just bronze?"
"Yes." Lao An nodded and said, "There is also the legendary Yuantu Ancient Kingdom."
I'm a little confused. I'm engaged in the restoration of cultural relics. I can't say that my understanding of history is perfect, but at least in front of ordinary people, it's at a semi-professional level. But I searched every corner of my memory and can't recall it.
Around the Kandamu Basin, there once existed an ancient country called Yuantu.
"The ancient Yuantu Kingdom was the most important stop during King Zhou Mu's journey to the west. At the same time, it is likely to be the origin of bronze patterns."