Later that night, in the early hours of the morning, before the police station arrived, everyone on the bus dispersed.
There are no surveillance cameras on such remote roads between villages. If you take the small roads to the county seat and check into a hotel, you can't find them even if you try to find them.
Next to a big tree on a country road, Tian Sanjiu and I stood behind the tree and puffed away. We hadn't had much rest in the past few days. We both had dark circles under our eyes, mine was more serious.
"Tian Bantou, the self-harming snake appeared on the DVD we watched tonight. What do you think this person is going to do next?"
"what to do...."
Tian Sanjiu rubbed his temples and suddenly said: "Go down."
I was stunned, "You mean to let me go down now to find the boss and Brother Yu?"
"Not just looking for it, but urging it."
Tian Sanjiu turned around and said: "The time that Wang Xiansheng and I set at that time was three and a half days, and no more than four days at the latest."
"But today is the fifth day. Judging from Wang Xiansheng's style, there are two possibilities. One is that something happened to someone, and the other is that they encountered difficulties."
"I can't leave. I'm your logistics now. I have to ensure the safety on the ground. Only you can go down. You can hold this thing."
As he spoke, he handed me the short-barreled shotgun.
He said: "This is a gun made by the people of Guzhen themselves. It has no serial number and cannot be traced. It can still fire seven rounds."
"hiss!"
My mind was groggy, and I suddenly felt a burning pain on the back of my hand.
"It hurts so much! Why are you burning me?" I casually took the gun.
Tian Sanjiu threw away the cigarette butt and said with a smile: "Look at how bad you are, you're going to fall asleep just standing there. Let me cheer you up."
Looking at the dark circles under his eyes, I said you are no better.
I wanted to burn him with a cigarette butt to get it back, but I got a slap on the back of the head.
People are alive, and plans cannot keep up with changes. When changes occur, corresponding adjustments must be made.
This is what I decided with him.
All the five ugly people have appeared. This is the result of our efforts. It is a good thing. At least we know what the people we have to deal with look like. The self-harming snake said that we don’t understand the five ugly people, so we don’t want to know them. We just want to find the tomb.
Take out all the valuable items in there and leave quickly.
Tian Sanjiu stayed up there and watched. I wanted to sleep for three or four hours, and then at noon, while everyone was eating and taking a nap, I would take the gas bottle and go down to the pond.
More than an hour later, I entered the cave.
It's much warmer in the south than in the north at this time. It's so cold in Mohe that I don't want to get up. There was heavy dew on the mountain in the morning, and my trouser legs were soaked with water.
Water droplets condensed on the walls of the cave. The moment I entered, the water droplets dripped onto the ground.
As we walked all the way to the deepest part of the cave, we heard the melodious sound of a harmonica. It was very clear and pleasant, and the melody was very familiar. I didn’t know what song it was.
"Little sister, I'm back."
I turned in, and when the little girl saw it was me, she immediately turned her face aside.
She grabbed the harmonica and said in an angry voice: "Why don't you say a word?"
She groped around her body, looking for the mask to put on.
I said you don't need to bring it. We're here. What else do you need to bring? It'll be fine.
The little girl hesitated for a few seconds and then slowly turned her face.
I've been mentally prepared, but this...
"I look ugly, I know."
I quickly said: "No, haha, it's not ugly, little sister, you have a very distinctive look."
She still put on the mask, then hugged her legs with her hands and sat there in a daze.
"Hey, where did the red eyes go? Why didn't you see him?" I asked, changing the subject.
The younger sister said that he was in the mountains and woods. He kept running to the mountains after waking up and only came back at night. He didn’t know what he was doing.
His red-eyed thinking was different from that of ordinary people. No one knew what was going on in his mind. He might squat under a tree and watch bugs for a day, but as long as he knew he would come back, I didn't take it to heart.
I didn't sleep for two days and two nights. I was so sleepy that I had a headache. I didn't take off my shirt. I pulled the quilt over me and fell asleep against the wall. There was a faint fragrance on the quilt.
Strange things have happened since I arrived at Guizailing. I have had nightmares several times, and this time I also had a very bad dream.
I dreamed that my little sister was squatting by the pond with her back to me. He called me over. As soon as I walked over, I saw snakes rolling and swimming in the water. Thousands of them were like boiling water.
Same as noodles.
I was just about to run away when my little sister suddenly turned her head and opened her mouth wide, filled with little snakes.
