Chapter 116 There is a devil in the deep mountains and forests
At dawn, Luo Ning faintly heard the sound of the car engine starting. Then I heard Yu Xiangnan say, "Okay, let's go. You can start quickly later."
I didn't expect everyone to be busy so early. Luo Ning stretched out and was ready to start as soon as possible. Last night's dormancy and Mahayana swallowing method are indeed good things. Luo Ning only spent one night to feel that his body, which had been tired for so many days, finally returned to its peak state. Moreover, what's more amazing is that Luo Ning's ankle injury has almost recovered now.
Brother Luo, are you awake? Wake up and have some food. We have to leave right away." Just after washing, I heard the stubble monitor knocking on the door. Luo Ning answered, hurriedly put down the toiletries, put on his coat, and went downstairs for breakfast.
"Brother Luo, our task today is very simple. You just need to stay with me." Luo Ning had just put the peeled egg in his mouth, and the monitor of the stubble who was drinking porridge opposite said to him with the bowl of porridge.
It seems that the stubble monitor has already had a plan. Luo Ning nodded assuredly.
After dinner, the monitor Roningen's beard went on his way. The stubble monitor wore a wide-brimmed sunglasses and a small men's sat bag that he usually wears to the south. The monitor of the stubble patted the rustic small bag and told Luo Ning, "Yu Xiangnan is really a buddy. He didn't blink for 100,000 yuan."
Sometimes I really doubt whether Xiangnan has a mother named on the Forbes list in addition to a military commander who is his father. Otherwise, can you stand spending so much money like water?
Luoning nodded. He knew that this money was what he owed to the south.
The car was driven away to the south. Because the materials listed on the list by the stubble monitor can be found in one store in one place. And there are few shops like Tibet, and some small equipment even have to go a long way.
After breakfast, Luo Ning followed the stubble monitor on the road. The only long-distance bus station here waited until 8 a.m. to arrive at the long-distance bus to the western town. On the way, I climbed over the mountains, took the mountain road, took the glacier snow road, and arrived at my destination at about three o'clock in the afternoon.
This is a small town called XXXX. The town is not big and has a small population. The neat houses are slightly richer than other places. The stubble monitor told him that the people here all make a living by hunting. In the past few years, poachers sought a lot of violence, and people here also followed poaching. So the village got rich, and almost every family built a new house. Some even built three-story buildings.
Later, the large reduction of rare species such as Tibetan antelopes caused serious damage to the ecological environment here, and the country strengthened its crackdown on poaching. A large number of the villagers here have spent their time in prison. The circumstances are serious and have not been released yet.
Luo Ning looks at the neat rows of streets here, which is really a little different from most of the vast and sparsely populated villages in Tibet. Although the streets here are neat and the houses are fashionable, there are few adult men on the street. Luo Ning followed the stubble monitor and saw only women, children and lonely elderly people on the street.
The children saw outsiders rushing into the village. They jumped around the stubble monitor and Luo Ning, and the smiles on their innocent faces clearly expressed their nostalgia for their adult father.
"Go home and help your mother work." The stubble monitor drove them away, but they didn't leave. I really had no choice but to be surrounded by these children all the way and continued to the destination.
Walking outside the village, there is a rolling mountain at the end of the grassland in the distance. The bottom of the mountains is verdant, but the upper end is covered with a layer of white snow. From a distance, it looks like a hat with a white green edge.
The children followed the entrance of the village and saw that the stubble monitor and Luo Ning had the intention to enter the mountain, so they stopped following. Luo Ning looked back curiously at the group of children at the entrance of the village and suddenly thought of his sister's little nephew.
"There is a devil in the mountains. You'd better not go." An older child has finished primary school. He has learned Chinese from books and knows a little Mandarin.
Luo Ning suddenly stopped, and the stubble monitor walking in front of him also returned.
"What devil is in the mountains?" Luo Ning asked curiously. Although he knew that there was no devil in the world, he looked at the simple children and just wanted to talk to them.
"My father died in the mountains. My mother said that there was a devil in the mountain and would not let me go into the mountain.
Hearing the child's words, Luo Ning's smile stopped abruptly. He didn't expect his curiosity to uncover the scars of a simple and pure child.
"Let's go. This group of children are talking nonsense. The stubble monitor said in a rough and heroic tone.
Luoning nodded. Just as he was about to leave, he heard the child say again, "I'm not talking nonsense. I'm not talking nonsense. There are indeed demons in the mountains. They eat human flesh and drink human blood. Don't blame me when you die."
After saying that, the child cried and ran to the village. The rest of the children dispersed with him. Luo Ning looked at the child's distant back and suddenly felt a little sad. He turned his head and looked at the stubble monitor. The stubble monitor nodded: "There are indeed demons in the mountains. We are going to get weapons from the devil. Do you dare?"
"Ye." Luo Ning nodded and then followed the stubble monitor into the mountain.
This mountain is very high. Although it looks snow-capped most of it from afar, a large part of the foot of the mountain is still full of green trees. The cold climate outside the mountain is almost snowing, but it is obviously mild and humid here, and some trees even grow green grass under it.
The mountains and forests are very deep, and the stubble squad leader told Luo Ning that he had come here to carry out missions when he was in the army. Three years have passed, and there is still no change here.
After walking for about an hour in the mountain forest, a natural cave suddenly appeared in front of me. The cave is striped, which looks like a human eye from afar. The upper and lower ends are extremely narrow, and the middle is slightly wider.
Walking to the cave, the monitor of the stubble only said, "I'll be there soon. We have to pass it over from here first.
Luoning cheered up. The sun can't shine into the cave. The cave looks narrow and dark, and there is cold water flowing down from the mountain peaks. The stubble monitor waited at the mouth of the cave for a while and looked up at the sun, as if waiting for someone. Luo Ning looked around and waited for the next order of the stubble monitor. About 20 minutes later, the stubble monitor looked at the sun again, took off his shoes, and said to Luo Ning, "It's just the right time. Let's go in."
After saying that, the first one went into the cave.
Luoning didn't understand why the stubble monitor waited for 20 minutes at the entrance of the cave. He looked at the dazzling sun on the back and still couldn't figure it out. When Luo Ning took off his shoes, he suddenly heard the sound of Shasha in the forest behind him. He hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Who?"
The stubble monitor went back and looked at Luo Ning and the mountains and forests in the distance: "Hey, it's windy. Don't be nervous."
"But I seem to see a dark shadow flashing by."
"It seems, right! It may be a rabbit or a pheasant. Many small animals in this mountain forest are very good at hiding. The stubble monitor told him not to be nervous.
Luo Ning nodded and looked back at the mountains and forests, but still didn't find anything. Then he safely followed the monitor of the stubble into the cave.
Luo Ning buried it in the water and it was cold. The cold person made the muscles on Luo Ning's feet serious**, and the monitor of the stubble hurried to help him and rub his ankles. Jumping into the water again, Luo Ning felt much better. The stream has just passed its feet, but it is clear.
The cave was very long, and I walked in the dark for a long time, and finally saw a glimmer of light. The stubble monitor told him to be careful, there should be a sentry post in a cave. The private sale of guns in China is private and smuggled, and the state resolutely cracks down on these people. However, some arms injuries risked their lives to fight with the government and deal with the public security in order to make huge profits. Still doing small movements underground.
The group of 'friends' of the stubble squad leader are hidden in the mountains and forests, and several Kangzhuang roads leading to their nests have been sentries. However, this narrow road in the cave is a 'secret road' that they ignored. Only the stubble monitor knows.
When I got to the end of the narrow cave, I found the reason why this obvious 'secret road' did not set up a sentry post: it turned out that in the middle of the mountain, it was covered with snow, thousands of years of ice, and a steep slope almost close to the 'ciff'. Although it was a little slope, it was almost 90 degrees. The snow flowing from the top of the mountain flows into the cave and converges into a trickle under his feet; if it did not flow into the cave, it was all frozen by the wind on the mountain table. Such a steep slope is more than 50 meters vertically from the ground.
" monitor, what is this secret channel? How can we go down?"
Luoning stood at the entrance of the cave and looked down: opposite is a natural mountain pass, empty and bright. There are several simple wooden houses in the dense forest of the col, and the peak opposite is the highest peak in this group of mountains. There is a man-made cave on the left side of the cabin. Around the wooden observation deck of the hut, there are really people standing guarding on the observation deck.
The stubble monitor squatted down and observed for a while. He had figured out the distribution of the opposite sentry and the specific number of people guarding.
"Okay, now I'll teach you how to go down. But before I teach you how to avoid these sentries after going down. The stubble monitor put on shoes. Pointing to the sentry opposite: "That sentry, and the farthest sentry, the main vision range is in the east. Monitor the only exit here. This sentry is guarded by us in the north.
When the monitor said this, Luo Ning hurriedly bent down to avoid it for fear that the man on the opposite watchtower would see him.
The stubble monitor smiled and said, "Ha ha, don't be afraid. The wind close to the mountain wall in this ravine is very harsh, and the snow on the northern peak is melted into water by the sun. Before the ground flowed into a stream, it was frozen on the mountain wall by the cold wind. Now the sun is right opposite us, and the sun shines on the ice, and the sun will reflect out. Strong sunlight can help us hide and escape their sight.
No wonder the stubble monitor has been watching the sun on the other side of the cave just now. So he is waiting for the best time for the reflection of the sun. Luo Ning was once again shocked by the field skills of the stubble squad.
"Well, since you know the distribution of sentries, you should be careful to avoid it. Now I'll teach you how to go down."
A nearly 90-degree ice slope of more than 50 meters. It is impossible to walk down such a steep slope step by step, not to mention a smooth layer of ice now.
Luo Ning will wait and see what method the stubble monitor will use.