He hesitated for a few seconds and then asked me: "Is this the twelfth lunar month of 2004?"
Brother Yu said: "No, you remembered wrong, this year is 2005."
"Oh, it's already 2005..."
He murmured and raised his head: "That is, I have lived here for 14 years."
"It's cold. Would you like to smoke one to keep yourself warm?" I lit it and took a sip first, then handed it over.
He looked left and right, looking at the red cigarette butt, holding it between his hands and taking a big sip.
After smoking half a cigarette in one breath, he opened his mouth and watched the smoke slowly coming out.
Just listen to him slowly say: "My name is Wang Pingbin. I was originally affiliated with the Xiaolangdi Western Sichuan Geological Survey Team and it is organized."
"In 1991, five of us came to the Lost Soul Forest to inspect the basalt rock formations distributed here. Later, we got lost and encountered poisonous camphor gas like black mist. We all died, but I survived."
I was surprised. It turned out to be this. I had heard about it. It is said that it was because of the collective disappearance of the address team that the Sichuan Tourism Bureau permanently turned the area of Mt. Soul Forest into a tourist restricted area. (If you are curious, you can go
Look for old local newspapers in Sichuan.)
Dou Sprout asked him: "Then since you survived, why don't you go home?"
This is also what I want to ask.
The man shook his head and recalled: "Going home? In the third month after the incident, I finally walked out of the Forest of Lost Souls. I still remember that it was around ten o'clock in the evening when I went back. My wife saw me and saw a ghost.
Same."
"Because I am employed, this time it will be considered as a work-related injury. The superiors gave my family a one-time pension of 110,000 yuan. My wife is worried that people will see me when I come back, and the superiors will take all the pensions back."
"I have two children to raise, so after we discussed it that night, I decided to live anonymously in the mountains."
As he was talking, he suddenly cried aggrievedly.
He cried: "What kind of life am I living? I regretted it after living here for a few months. At the end of 1992, during the Chinese New Year, I couldn't bear it and ran back. As a result, there was no one in my family. My wife
She ran away with the child."
"During that time, I felt like I was going crazy. I was afraid that people would see me and say that I cheated the state pension, and that I would be arrested and go to jail."
"Zhou Cao, brother, you are really ruthless. You have been hiding in the mountains for more than ten years for more than 100,000 yuan. I advise you to drive out as soon as possible. It has been so long and no one still recognizes you."
"I've thought about it too, but my household registration has been canceled a long time ago and I don't even have an ID card! Where can I go?"
He pointed his head to Brother Yu to give him something to eat.
He took the bread, hurriedly tore open the bag and ate it voraciously.
"Eat slowly, don't choke," he asked kindly, "Brother, where do you usually live?"
He randomly stuffed things into his mouth, pointed in a direction, and muttered: "There is a hole there to take shelter from the wind, and I will live there."
"Then after we finish eating, can you take us to have a look?" he asked again.
The man just stuffed bread into his mouth and nodded repeatedly.
I pulled Tou aside and asked in a low voice: "Tou Tou, what do you think of this man? Is everything he said true or false?"
He frowned and whispered: "I just observed carefully. This man doesn't seem to be lying. There is a 70% chance that what he said is true. However, you still have to be more careful when a person suddenly appears in the wilderness. Let Wen
Bin Yazai, be smart and wait until you go to the cave where he lives. If there are things he left behind when he was a member of the geological team, you can believe him, and vice versa..."
I didn't say the entire first sentence, but I understood it.
Yes, if a person suddenly appears in this wilderness, we have to be on guard. If he is like the old woman who climbed the beads in July, and is a believer in the Climbing God Cult, then it will be finished for us to save him.
Walking back, I gave Brother Yu a look.
Years of working together have given us a tacit understanding with each other, and sometimes we can tell what we mean just by looking at each other.
If he finds anything unusual, Brother Yu will immediately stop him.
The cave is in the deep southwest of the Ecstasy Forest, less than one kilometer away from the cemetery.
This man was tightly wrapped in a military coat and leading the way. I held up the flashlight and suddenly saw a large white spot on the back of his neck.
