Mu Weixiong is in his early forties. His family has been the most famous hunter in Wangshan Town at the foot of the Qinling Mountains for generations. He once joined the army and returned to his hometown after being discharged. He gave up the job arranged by the government and continued to be a hunter. With the development of the country's economy, there are more and more wealthy people, and more and more people have time and energy to pursue novels.
The Qinling Mountains are one of the most famous mountain ranges in China, and are also an important symbol that geographically divides the north and south of China.
Surrounded by the huge Qinling Mountains, there are countless Qinling-themed tourist resorts, and an endless stream of people come here every year.
Some of these tourists are not satisfied with the artificially arranged tourism projects, and hope to experience the charm of the real primitive mountains and forests in depth. Therefore, the guide responsible for leading groups into the mountains has become a popular profession.
Compared to a profession like a hunter, which depends on the weather, is subject to many policy restrictions, and is highly dangerous, being a guide is much easier.
They only need to take the guests to see the scenery and hunt a few wild animals with little attack power according to the guests' needs, which is enough to satisfy the guests' curiosity.
Mu Weixiong is one of them. With his experience, reputation, and diligent and loyal character, he soon became a well-known guide, and hunting became his part-time job.
The current job was approached by people from the town government, who asked him to lead Professor Kamemoto Tomoshige of Hayata University in Japan and several students to go deep into the Qinling Mountains to conduct a research project on comparing the evolutionary directions of plants in different environments.<
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This expedition into the mountain is planned to last ten to fourteen days. There are five guests in the mountain. In addition to Professor Kamemoto Tomoshige, there are also three of his graduate students and a translator hired by them. p>
At this time, there was a seventh person in the team, an 18-year-old young man named Mu Tiezhu.
He is Mu Weixiong's only son. He graduated from high school this year and just took the college entrance examination. Now he is wandering around the mountains with Mu Weixiong.
Today is their third day in the mountains. The Mu family father and son have been going to the mountains all year round, so they don’t feel much at this time. However, the freshness of the three students who entered the mountains for the first time has mostly worn off, and everyone has a trace of excitement on their faces.
They were tired, and the big mountaineering bags they carried seemed to be getting heavier and heavier.
Professor Kamemoto, who looks fifty years old, is extremely energetic. From time to time, he will find one or two plants along the way, explain them to the students, and ask them to take photos and collect specimens.
The translator they hired was a Japanese named Minako. She was a former student of Professor Kamemoto. She had just graduated a few years ago and had been working in new product development at a branch of a large Japanese fine chemical company in China.<
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After learning that Kamemoto was leading a team to China for research, Minako volunteered and became the translator and external contact for this event.
In fact, not only is Minako's Chinese very good, even Kamemoto's Chinese has no problem communicating normally. Chinese culture still has a strong mass base in Japan, and is no worse than the imported product - English culture.
Mu Weixiong's suggestion was recognized by everyone, so everyone divided the work and began to clean up the site, and took out camping tents to set up a temporary site.
Although we have entered the mountain at this time, we are still not too far from the outskirts. The government has sent people to deal with several nearby places suitable for camping, so in less than an hour, we are done here.
The remaining time is to sort out the various materials collected during the day and start a fire to cook. The place has been professionally processed and there is a safe camping stove for use, so there is no need to bother setting up a campfire to cook, and the speed will naturally be much faster. p>
Three students, two men and one woman, were responsible for sorting out the information. The Mu family and his son were responsible for preparing dinner for everyone. Kamemoto and Minako left the temporary camp and walked around nearby.
"Teacher, why do you need to bring those three oil bottles into the mountain together? If there were only two of us, we would be almost there by now." Minako was very dissatisfied with the current speed of travel, so she said with some complaint.
Kamemoto glanced at her and replied: "No one can tell what will happen in the depths of the Qinling Mountains. What if there is a sect of Chinese cultivators stationed inside, or there are masters hiding there, and if it's just the two of us,
If the Japanese come secretly, they are simply going to die.
We all know that although Chinese cultivators live in seclusion, they will not go against the government, so we applied for formal procedures with the Chinese government and went into the mountains to carry out research.
Even if we do encounter Chinese cultivators inside, given their arrogance, they will not pay attention to us as long as our identities are not exposed."
"Teacher, what exactly is there in the Qinling Mountains? Is it really like the predictions of Elder Yamada that a treasure of heaven and earth will be born?"
"I don't know, that's why the headquarters sent me to investigate. You know, my last mission was to excavate the ruins of a medieval jungle warrior tribe in South America. Before the final work was completed, I was transferred to China. That way, the headquarters didn't want to
We can’t wait any longer." Kamemoto said.
"Teacher, you are the most outstanding outer priest of our Shiman Shrine. When encountering such an important matter, the headquarters will definitely ask you to take action personally." Minako complimented.
Kamemoto smiled and shook his head and said: "You have been stationed abroad in the past few years and rarely return to the headquarters, so there are some things you don't know.
The headquarters always wants to take back power from the outer palace, but the president has always sat back and ignored it. Therefore, it is difficult for people like us from the outer palace to be reused by the headquarters.
The energy fluctuations deep in the Qinling Mountains occurred two years ago. In the past two years, the headquarters has actually sent people to investigate several times, but they all failed.
The worst thing is that not long ago, an elite squadron of the secret department of the headquarters was used. There were 30 people, all of whom were official priests or ninjas, which was almost 20% of the total strength of the shrine.
As a result, they first encountered poisonous bees on their way into the mountains, and after finally escaping, they accidentally entered a group of ancient tombs.
They wanted to collect Yin spirits to feed the shikigami, but instead they angered the zombies and ghosts inside, and were hunted down all the way. Most of them died in the mountains, with no bones left. In the end, only five people came out alive, including two.
It was basically scrapped."
Kamemoto sighed, but a smile appeared on his face unconsciously. Minako was so excited that she almost clapped her hands.
The dispute between the inner and outer palaces of Shiman Shrine has started since the establishment of the shrine. It is nothing more than conflicts over the distribution of rights and resources, and big commotion will occur almost every few decades.
The strength of Shiman Shrine is only second-rate in Japan, because their internal friction is too serious.
A few years ago, the old president was very capable of controlling things, either by hitting or pulling them, and suppressed internal disputes by himself.
However, in recent years, the newly appointed generals have focused on personal cultivation, and most of the people in the outer palace are stationed abroad, beyond their reach. Therefore, the headquarters of the shrine is now gradually controlled by the inner palace.