According to common sense, it is not difficult to find this Snake River, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. The vegetation under the mountain was too thick and it was impossible to find the river channel, so we had to grope along the edge of Zhelong Mountain and move forward slowly.
Only then did I realize that the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Wind and Sand Secret Technique was completely useless in this ghostly place. To discern the situation and regulate the energy, one needed to see clearly the composition of the mountains, rivers, and rivers. In this area, the top of the mountain was covered with clouds and mist, but at the bottom of the mountain there were all kinds of clouds and mist.
Planting trees and vines is like covering the surface of mountains, rivers and rivers with a thick layer of green mud and covering it with cotton covers, leaving you with nowhere to start.
It is even more difficult to walk in the jungle under the cliff. When I walked in, I didn't see a single butterfly. There were only mosquitoes and ants, big and small, and there were no roads. I looked at the greenery from a high place. When I walked in, I realized that the vines were too overgrown.
It was so dense that it was almost impossible to find a place to stand, so we had to use engineering shovels and machetes to carve out a path. At the same time, we had to be careful to avoid mosquitoes and poisonous ants. The hardships were unbearable.
Seeing that the sun has set behind the mountains, the earth is gradually being swallowed up by darkness, and the virgin forest is covered with a dark veil. We have not gone far from the rest point until now.
It seems that it is impossible to find the Snake River before dark, so we have to find a relatively safe place to spend the night. The night in the forest is full of dangers, and because it is located between mountains and rivers, the air pressure changes greatly, and the forest
It is hot during the day and cold at night. At night, although it is not too cold here, the body is wet and it is easy to get sick. If you go deep into the dense forest, you don’t have to worry about this section, so we must find a place that does not have too many mosquitoes but is a little bit colder.
In a dry place, light a campfire before spending the night.
Finally, they found a very flat large bluestone under two big trees. They illuminated it with a flashlight and found that there were no snakes or scorpions nearby. The three of them were so tired that they quickly took out the fuel and built a fire, surrounded by small stones.
Surround it, because the air is too humid, you must use a fire to dry it on the bluestone to dry out the moss and moisture in the gaps between the stones, and then spread the sleeping bag on it to prevent moisture from entering the bones and causing the root of the disease during sleep.
I went to a nearby spring to get some water, which could be drunk after filtering. I set up a small camping pot and boiled some water, and cooked the noodles I bought from the Caiyun Inn in the camping pot. I didn’t add any seasonings to avoid losing the food.
The aroma attracted some animals, so I randomly soaked a few Yunnan bait cakes in the cooked noodles for dinner. I didn't know how long I would have to walk in the valley, so I didn't want to take out the canned food to eat.
The fat man couldn't stop complaining about the poor quality of the food, and the bird almost disappeared from his mouth. Speaking of birds, he grabbed the sword and prepared to prepare some game, but it was already dark, so he had to stop. He sat down to eat again.
, while blaming the food I cooked for being unpalatable and tasteless, I ate three large pots of it.
After eating, we decided to take turns sleeping, leaving some people to keep watch. After all, this primeval forest is full of dangers, and who knows what poisonous insects and beasts might come out at night.
I was on duty for the first shift. I filled up the June 4th style bullets with my sword and turned the fire into a smoldering fire. Then I sat not far from the fire while humming a popular ditty to lighten the fire.
Feeling sleepy, he was alert to the dark jungle around him.
The two big banyan trees opposite me are quite spectacular, and they are typical mixed plants. The tree body is as thick as a stone pillar, the crown is low-hanging, as heavy as a cover, and the two thick tree bodies grow like twists, twisted together.
After going around four or five times, a rare couple's tree was formed. Many unknown giant flowers and other plants grew on the tree. These plants attached to the couple's old banyan trees were all accidentally picked up by animals in the forest.
The seeds are attached to the bark or cracks in the tree body, so that the buds grow, bloom and bear fruit. This old banyan tree is a mixture of various flowers and trees. More than 50 kinds of plants grow on one tree, just like
Large colorful flower baskets in the forest.
I was watching in ecstasy when I heard someone lying in my sleeping bag suddenly say to me: These two trees will not live long. There are too many parasitic plants on the bodies of the two banyan trees. The nutrients absorbed by the old banyan trees cannot make up for their expenses. Now the trees
The middle part is mostly empty. In three to five years at most, the tree will die. Some things are not far from destruction when they reach their most beautiful stage.
I heard something in her words. On the surface, she was talking about trees, which seemed to be talking about the curse we got from the ghost cave. I didn’t want to mention these disappointing things, so I said to her: It’s already late at night, why don’t you sleep?
As soon as I closed my eyes, I thought of my majestic figure, so I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
He said: It would be nice if I closed my eyes and thought of you. Now when I close my eyes, I think of the human figurines in the Zhelong Mountain cave. The more I think about it, the more disgusting I feel. I don’t even want to eat, and I still can’t sleep.
I yawned and said: Since you can't sleep, you should promote the spirit of internationalism, replace my post, and wake me up when you are sleepy.
He smiled and said: It's a beautiful idea. When you and Fatty sleep together, you won't be woken up by thunder. I can't sleep, and I won't take turns with you, lest you pretend to be dead and refuse to get up to watch in the middle of the night.
I shook my head and sighed: You have disappointed me so much. I thought you came all the way from the United States to support our country’s four modernizations. I originally worshiped you as Bethune. From the bottom of my heart, that is
From the bottom of my heart, I think you are a moral person, a noble person, a person who is beneficial to the people, and a person who has given up vulgar taste. I didn’t expect that you are so selfish and don’t care about your comrades at all.
His feelings and his usual approachable behavior are all disguised.
He said to me: You are very eloquent, but you like to talk big words too much. It is not good to brag all the time. You won’t be able to sleep anyway. Why don’t you talk to me, but you are not allowed to say anything to me about the content of the quotations.
It was quiet in the forest, without a breath of wind. All the animals and plants seemed to be asleep. Only a few strange bird calls occasionally came from the distance. My eyelids were so sleepy that they twitched and I looked at the fat man sleeping beside me.
, this guy put his head into his sleeping bag and slept soundly, not to mention how sweet his sleep was. However, he refused to take over the duty, so I had to force myself to chat with her without saying a word.
I don’t know why, but while we were chatting, I started talking about the giant python in the forest. I mentioned that I used to meet a comrade from a previous company in Beijing, and heard him tell some rumors about squatting on the front line and having cat ears pierced. At that time,
The war between China and Vietnam has temporarily entered a confrontation stage. On both sides' fronts
They are covered with cat-ear holes, which are actually infantry counter-attack bunkers. When digging the cat-ear holes, they often dig out big pythons from the mountains. They told me that the largest python is as thick as the legendary dragon. I was not there at that time.
I believe that only when I encounter it in Zhelong Mountain do I know that it was not built randomly.
However, most pythons do not actively attack people. They are lazy and sleep all day long. Some soldiers couldn't stand the heat in the cat's ear hole, and their bare buttocks still felt hot, so they had to find a big python sleeping on a tree and drag them into the hole.
.A few people can sleep on the cool python, not to mention it is more effective than installing an air conditioner.
Later, the python simply lived in the cat's ear hole and settled here. Every day, it was fed canned braised pork and went to sleep when it was full. Then one day, the war suddenly turned fierce, and the constant shelling blocked our military industry.
The channel for transporting supplies. The artillery fire. Sometimes the location of the bunker is not good. When a group of artillery is covered, the entire squad inside is gone. After a whole week of artillery fire, there are no ants around the position. Cat ears
The canned braised pork in the cave was gone, and people could hold on for a short time, but the boa constrictor couldn't bear it anymore when it was hungry. It got used to living in the cat's ear hole, and smelled the smell of the soldiers smoking every day, and was also infected.
I got addicted to cigarettes and couldn't get rid of it no matter what. I was so hungry that I wanted to devour people. Finally I had to shoot it to death. I peeled off the python skin and put it in the cat's ear hole. Mosquitoes and mice would not dare to enter the hole.
One day, a Vietnamese agent came to dig out the cave during darkness. The soldiers on guard were dozing off at the time and no enemy was found. The Vietnamese agent planned to throw explosive packets into the hole, but suddenly he felt as if he was wrapped in a python and could not move. His bones
He was almost crushed to pieces by the huge force, but his body was clearly empty and had nothing. The next day, the soldier in the cat's ear hole found the python skin.
After I started talking to him, I didn't even know what I was talking about anymore. I was so tired that I couldn't support it anymore, so I fell asleep without realizing it, holding Jianwei in my arms.
I don’t know how long it took, but I was suddenly woken up by a gentle nudge. Since I left the army, I have often had nightmares and insomnia all night long. After starting an antique business in Beijing, I found spiritual sustenance, and then slowly got better. I fell down.
It's easy to fall asleep. If you don't get enough sleep, you won't be able to move.
But on this quiet night in the forest, although I was sleepy, I felt a little uneasy in my heart, so I woke up immediately after being pushed by someone. At this time, the heavy clouds in the sky had moved away, and the cool moonlight was shining down.
, through the moonlight I saw that the person pushing my arm and waking me up was Yang. When he saw me opening my eyes, he immediately put his finger to his lips and made a silent gesture, which was suitable for me not to speak loudly.
I looked around. Fatty was still sleeping in his sleeping bag like a dead pig. I don’t know when a thin blanket was added to my body. Maybe he saw me falling asleep mid-sentence, so he covered me with it.
At this time, my brain had just woken up from a deep sleep, and it was still not working well, but I immediately understood that something was wrong.
I saw that I had already held the pistol in my hand, pointed with the other hand at the two entwined couple trees, and then pointed at my ears, asking me to listen carefully to the sounds in the trees.
I immediately turned over and sat up, listening attentively. Although I didn’t have the ear skills like a partridge whistle like a dog watching at night, in this extremely silent forest and so close to the big tree, I could clearly hear a loud burst of sound coming from inside the tree.
, a gentle knocking sound for a while.
The sound was not loud, but it seemed very strange in the dark night. It was completely out of rhythm. What it came from was definitely not a woodpecker. There are no such birds in this kind of forest, and the sound came from the tree trunks above.
, is there something in the tree?
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little nervous. Legend has it that there are accompanying mausoleums and burial pits around King Xian's tomb, as well as servants hanging upside down as guides. They all add a lot of horror to this forest. God knows this old forest.
Is there anything evil in there?
I didn't dare to say anything, and slowly pulled back the bolt of the Jianwei rifle, and hung the carrying bag on my body. The carrying bag contained black donkey hooves to ward off evil spirits and suppress corpses, as well as ropes and glutinous rice for tying corpses, etc.
No matter what the situation is, if you have these things, you can fight against them.
At this time, the dull knocking sound sounded again, like water droplets, or like tapping the iron plate with fingers, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. I looked towards the source of the sound, and my sight was blocked by the flowers and leaves on the tree.
I couldn't see clearly what was going on above. The moonlight flickered between the branches and leaves, making it even more ghostly.
He whispered in my ear: You were asleep just now. I calmed down and heard this sound. It seemed like there was someone in the tree.
I also asked in a low voice: How are you sure it’s not an animal?
She said: The sound was small, weird, and irregular. I thought it was coming from an animal at first, but when I listened carefully, I heard a short section of Morse communication code signal. However, this signal only appeared once just now.
It started to become less regular later on, maybe because the signal sound was relatively small, and I most likely missed part of it.
I was confused, but the uneasy premonition in my heart became stronger. I whispered to him: Morse code is the international code with only two signals, long and short. What is the content of what you heard?
She said: three short, three long and three short, that is, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
I said to her: Stop scaring yourself. Although Morse code is the most widely used in the world, it is coded in English after all. In this forest, except for the blind man and others who came during the Republic of China,
, and there were a few stone quarry workers who came here. They just walked through the cave out of curiosity, went in and wandered around the forest and then went back. The locals were very superstitious and did not dare to come to the forest behind Zhelong Mountain.
Yes, because they are afraid of bumping into ghosts.
When I said the last word, I felt it was unlucky, so I hurriedly took a sip and said silently in my heart: There are no taboos.
He waved his hand to me and asked me to stop talking and listen carefully. The sound came from the tree again. This time I heard it clearly, some were short and some were long. Sure enough, there were three short, three long and three short, short and rapid.
Long and heavy.
The two banyan trees had lush branches and leaves, and it was dark and the moonlight was directly above, so the situation above could not be seen at all. But this nerve-wracking distress signal clearly came from above. The strangest thing was the sound.
It comes from the inside of the upper trunk, not the top of the tree. It seems that someone is trapped in the tree and can't escape, and can't shout, so he taps the signal with his fingers to ask for help. He has taken the wolf eyes out of the bag:
I went to the tree to have a look.
I grabbed her and said, "You can't go. Look at the moonlight in the sky. The mist in the forest is getting thicker. There must be a dead person in the tree. This sound is the legendary ghost signal." Book Alliance
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