Chapter 12 throbbing
It is approaching dusk. In this long-lost ancestral hall, the light is somewhat distorted, which makes Beckham feel uncomfortable.
Night gradually fell, and the three decided to make do with them here for the night.
In fact, they had nowhere to go. The flood washed away the village. Now there are broken walls, broken trees, and scattered pots and pans. Since Yang Shaohua opened the sluice and he himself was washed down by the flood, the gate must still be opened. It is not very safe there.
Xiaobei made an open space, threw the torch on the ground, and found a pile of branches to cover it. Chen Siwei and Yang Shaohua also threw the torches in one after another, and soon lit a small fire.
Sitting on the ground, Beckham fiddled with the dead branches in her hand and asked, "Why is there a dark room under here?"
"I don't know, and I'm also puzzled that this ancestral hall has existed since I was born, and I never knew there was such a place." Yang Shaohua stared at a floor tile that was knocked open by him and shook his head, as he said.
This night was still bright. The bright moonlight broke in through the dilapidated window and sprinkled a layer of silver frost on the ground.
Chen Siwei said, "I guess it may be used to store some secret files. There is this custom in many places, which seals files that do not want people to be known or are no longer known."
Beckham nodded and didn't know whether he agreed or something else. He said, "But when we came out, we didn't find anything in it, only the fragments and a table."
Chen Siwei lowered her head and said, "Maybe it has been destroyed or transferred, but now the whole village has been abandoned for many years. He is the only one who knows the truth, but he knows nothing about it."
She looked at Yang Shaohua, and Beckham also turned her eyes away.
Yang Shaohua sighed and said, "There are no marks on the ground. If it is true as you said, then it should have been transferred."
"Where will you go?" Xiaobei turned over the fire, and there was a crackling sound from inside, as if it were bursting firecrackers.
Chen Siwei guessed that if it was really transferred, it might be possible to find it, but now they lack time and no more energy is wasted on it.
She said, "The whole village disappeared that night, but there was still someone in this dark room. Did he hide here? First guess that he did hide here, or did he escape because he had to come down to read things? Let's think so first. But many years have passed, and we want to find the truth. Looking for a needle in a haystack.
Beckham was silent and still lowered her head to play with the branches in her hand. He got up, walked to the door, leaned against the door frame, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and pulled out one to light his face.
Looking out, there are weeds in the courtyard. Because there has been no one for many years, the grass here is almost one person high, and there are many rotten boards and broken glass slag.
He took a deep breath of smoke, calmed himself down, exhaled a string of smoke, and said faintly, "If so, maybe we still have a place to find a file of records."
Chen Siwei's eyes widened, and Yang Shaohua also looked forward to it, hoping that Beckham could speak amazingly.
Xiao Bei frowned, then threw the branch in his hand into the weed pile and said slowly, "That ancient tomb, I think we should go there. Isn't it not far from here?"
Yang Shaohua was shocked and said, "The tomb is in the back mountain. It will take about ten minutes to walk. Are you sure there will be clues?"
Chen Siwei stood up, patted the dirt on her body and said, "Then let's go there and have a look. We will never know if we don't see it, and the situation at that time certainly does not allow the transfer distance too far. In this way, maybe the ancient tomb is the only place to go."
"We have to go there now. We can go to Lijiang early tomorrow morning, and maybe we can meet the team." Beckham looked at Yang Shaohua.
Yang Shaohua nodded and led the way in front.
Three people walked through the woods, which seemed to be silent and could not even hear the birds.
"Are you sure that things are in the ancient tomb? No one is allowed to enter here. Yang Shaohua is still a little worried. Maybe what happened in the past has left a shadow in his heart, which makes him unwilling to face it again and not want to step into this range again.
Once he was bitten by a snake for ten years, he was afraid of the well rope, which may be a good portrayal of him now.
Of course, Xiaobei won't care. Anyway, I don't know how many times he has died, but he feels very embarrassed. Unimaginable things have happened, and all the lives without intersections have intersections. Even if he fights with the ancient tomb, he can't escape.
"Think about it, it is because it has always been forbidden to enter here, so no one will look at it here, which is called a secret. Otherwise, what is the thing piled up in the sun is called a secret? This is undoubtedly the best choice. No one will think of it at all."
"What if it's not here? There may be great danger."
Xiaobei suddenly stopped, as if thinking about something. After a long silence again, he sighed. My luck has never been very good. There will always be trouble, and it will be the same this time.
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Several figures gradually appeared in the distance, hazy, making a rattling sound on the dry grass, and occasionally the sound of stepping on branches.
There are six or seven people in this line, all in ragged clothes, two of whom walk in the front with long poles in their hands.
"Hey, Ye Laosan, is there a place to rest your feet in front of you? I'm dying." A lazy voice came from the rear.
"You can die after a while, or you come to the front?" Ye Laosan answered dissatisfiedly, but his voice was very weak.
This team is exactly Yang Wei, Ye Laosan, Wang Chao, Du Qi and others who separated from Xiaobei and Chen Siwei.
They walked on this mountain road for a day, but they didn't even see a ghost. It was foggy in the morning. A team member accidentally fell off the cliff, and now there are only six or seven of them left.
There is still a day of food left. If they can't find a place to stay, I'm afraid they can't even get out of this mountain.
"Look over there, there are villages!" Wang Chao's slightly fat body flashed past Ye Laosan, looked down and shouted at the exit. This sound undoubtedly cheered all the staff and rushed forward.
Sure enough, there is a small village at the foot of this mountain, which can be seen through the moonlight. This is another family of hundreds of households. Now they can rest and rectify. After a long journey of a day and a night, they have been exhausted.
"Wow, now we can have a good rest. It's so cool. I'm going to die. I guess we can meet Marx after walking for another hour. Hurry up, I can't wait to go down. Yang Yu shouted and ran down the mountain.
"Are you in a hurry to die? Your IQ really needs to be improved. What if you go on like this and you are in danger again? There is no store behind the village. If there is any problem, your life will really be taken away. Ye Laosan shouted and scolded and chased Yang Yu in the back.
Finally, at the foot of the mountain, the houses were neatly arranged, and the village was filled with the tranquility of the night.
But the atmosphere was obviously wrong. Yang Yu was the first to arrive here and the first to stop. He turned his head and looked at Ye Laosan and asked, "Do you feel any strange?"
Ye Laosan was stunned and didn't understand what Yang Yu meant, but then Du Qi's words made him react quickly.
Du Qi, who had been silent, finally opened his mouth and said, "It's too quiet here."
Ye Laosan suddenly realized that it was indeed quiet and scary around him, and there was no sound at all, but why is that? Are they all asleep? He has a bad feeling.
Wang Chao looked inside and whispered, "Is this very similar to the last village?"
After what he said, Ye Laosan's heart jumped wildly. Isn't it more than similar? It's exactly the same!" Be careful, everyone." After Wang Chao said something, he took the lead in walking into the village.
"Do you think this will be another dug trap?" Yang Yu poked Ye Laosan's arm and asked.
"If you ask me who I'm going to, you'd better take care of yourself and don't drag me down to death." Ye Laosan responded rudely.
"Fuck you, you are also dragging me down, okay? But why do I always feel that it's very dangerous here? Or let's continue to go forward quickly. At worst, we will suffer for one more day, and there will definitely be a place to rest in front of us." Yang Yu said in a low voice.
Ye Laosan sniffed his nose hard, and he smelled a strange smell.
"I'm afraid it's not that easy. Even if we want to leave, we can't leave. It's unlucky to never go out. Let's take it step by step." After saying that, he followed closely and began to check whether there was anyone living in the village.
Du Qi never opened his mouth after saying such a sentence. If he hadn't heard him clearly just now, Yang Yu felt that he was a mute, but his image was very safe. The big man usually gave people this feeling when he was in danger, which was very reliable.
But he is still very worried. In case this guy is a useless embroidered pillow, it will be bad.
Thinking about it, Yang Yu felt that it was better not to count on him. Thinking of this, he touched the pistol in his arms. Perhaps this environment was the only one that could bring him a sense of security.
As for Ye Laosan's bastard, he never retains virtue in his mouth and does whatever he likes, but this boy can always jump out at the critical moment to save people from the heat. I hope he can be more majestic this time.
I opened several doors, which was exactly the same as I imagined. Like the last village, it was empty, but everything was arranged in an open manner, as if the big guys had discussed and went out for a long trip together.
"It seems that we are tragic again." Ye Laosan sighed, but looking at him was very relaxed, and he couldn't associate with the word pressure. I said Yang Yu, take good care of yourself. Don't disappear in a moment. If you are captured by a female ghost, you will be finished.
"I'm too lazy to talk to you." Yang Yu stretched out his middle finger and breathed a little relief. Then a cloudy wind blew by, which scared him with goose bumps. I'm a stubble. If I want to catch you, I'll catch you.
Wang Chao now plays the role of team leader and begins to arrange people to take turns to replace the duty rest. Of course, some people also proposed to leave here as soon as Yang Yu's idea.
Wang Chao thought for a while and said, "We are not sure whether there will be a place to rest in front of us. It is most important to maintain a good mental state. Let's rest here. Now two people are in a group, and two groups are changed every hour, so that there are two groups of people on duty. If there is any abnormality, they can be dealt with in time.
This time, everyone has gained experience and has made the position of the guard much longer, and you can clearly see the movement within a few hundred meters around.
However, Yang Yu and Ye Laosan still ran to the roof with sleeping bags. Although it was a little cold and piercing, they insisted on staying overnight. Compared with their lives, the comfortable environment is still not so important, and it can even be said that it is very small.
Beckham's life and death are unknown now, but the two of them always feel that Beckham is still alive. In Yang Yu's words, this boy is comparable to a cat demon, with nine lives.
Ye Laosan also felt the same way about this. He surprisingly did not refute him. The two climbed to the roof with a smile.
"I think you are still a little worried. Didn't you get hard just now?" Yang Yu looked at Ye Laosan with a smile.
"You fool, you really lack your brain when you say that you have few muscles. Do you know what pretending is? Didn't you find that Wang Chao is also silent? Can't you see that he is also fighting? If we waver and cause panic, it will be troublesome. Ye Laosan answered.
He is right. Now the leader is lost and has no backbone at all. Wang Chao can still persist for a while on the surface, but once something goes wrong, he still does not have much influence on the command of the team as Chen Siwei. That was undoubtedly a devastating disaster.
Ye Laosan got into the sleeping bag, then showed his head and said, "I think it's necessary to walk forward to see if there are any other places to hide. It's safer to keep one hand."
Yang Yu nodded and said, "Actually, I think so too."
While the two were talking, suddenly a figure sneaked along the wall. Ye Laosan quickly pressed Yang's mouth to prevent him from making a sound.
"Shh, let's see what he's going to do."
Ye Laosan winked and saw that Yang was quiet, then loosened his mouth and continued, "You move a little."
As soon as Yang Chen's mouth was relieved, he cursed in a low voice: "His grandma, you want to suffocate me. I was almost covered to death by you."
"Who told you to make such a big move just now?" Ye Laosan looked at him contemptuously, and then quietly opened his sleeping bag and came out. Now the two of them were not sleepy at all, and their four eyes were staring closely at the figure below.
This time, both of them saw clearly that the following is the people in the team, but what is he doing quietly coming out so late? Although he walked lightly, there was still some faint noise. He looked around warily and did not find that Ye Laosan and Yang Yu had noticed him.
Yang Yu whispered, "This boy is not an insider, is he?"
Ye Laosan glanced at him, then continued to stare at the man and replied, "God knows, but I feel that there is a great possibility. Let's keep an eye on it first."
The man slowly walked around a house and walked to the corner. The two couldn't see him because of the perspective problem, so they had to quietly climb down from the roof. Then they turned around and couldn't find the man.
"Damn it, where have you been?" Ye Laosan looked around, but still found no trace.
"Damn, if you hadn't been pulling me, I would have gone down, and I wouldn't have lost it." Yang Yu waved his fist unwillingly and said angrily.
" Come on, your virtue has been exposed for a long time, just like thunder when you came down!" Ye Laosan muttered and continued to walk forward.
The wind gradually became strong, and the two of them saw that the man had retreated and didn't want to continue looking for it.
I don't know when it began to fog, and there was a large area of gray around, and the sight was seriously blocked, and I couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly. This is even more difficult. Originally, it was night and the vision was not very good. This time, it was impossible to see things ten meters away clearly.
"It's really strange. Is it a bad sign to get foggy in the middle of the night?" Yang Yu asked Ye Laosan in a low voice.
"Forget it, go back first. I believe the night watchman has also found it. We need to prepare quickly." He turned his head and glanced at a fork in the distance.
After the two went back, they found that all the staff were ready to deal with potential dangers at any time.
Yang Yu asked Wang Chao, "It's foggy around. Do we continue to stay here now?"
"Let's take a look at the situation first. Maybe the fog will disperse in a moment." He sighed and then looked at the distance. In fact, he knew in his heart that the fog would never dissipate so quickly, but there was nothing he could do. Before everyone recovered from fatigue, they were called up as soon as they lay down. The feeling was very helpless and their bodies would be more sleepy.
Ye Laosan walked over and said, "Have you checked the number of people?"
Wang Chao was stunned, patted his head and said awkwardly, "I'm dizzy. I haven't taken a look, but no one should go out, right?"
Ye Laosan shook his head. At this time, Du Qi suddenly came and said in a yin voice, "No, one of us is missing!"
Yang Yu smiled and said, "It seems that I didn't read it wrong just now. It's really our person."
Wang Chao and Du Qi didn't understand what he said. Ye Laosan told them what he and Yang Yu had just seen. After that, the four were silent.
Here are the four of them who have the most experience and have the most ideas and command power. Now they are facing a big problem, and the people around them do not want to distrust. Generally speaking, the unknown enemy's goal has been achieved, and their team has begun to diverge from within.
This atmosphere is so strange that no one speaks and seems to interpret the meaning of the word "silence is gold".
Wow.
Suddenly, there was a long faint sound in the distance, and I didn't know what it was.