I almost escaped out of the house, and then I recovered from the disgusting scene.
Jude Kao was behind me and handed me a bottle of beer. I took a few sips before I calmed down.
"Do you have any thoughts?" he asked me.
I looked at him and didn't know the specific meaning of his question. He said, "Chinese people like to be circumspect. I have some bad habits. I'm sorry, I'm asking, do you want to cooperate?"
"cooperate?"
"My time is running out. Next is your world. I am always an outsider on this land, and I cannot get the favor of this land. Cooperation has always been my choice. You can consider my proposal. "Jude Kao said.
"You don't need to be high-sounding, I know what you mean." I said, "What do you want?"
"We have fully ascertained the four-hour journey inside, but after that black door, no matter what method we use, we can't break through. I can provide you with all the information." Jude Kao said, "But there is One condition, you must take one of my people in."
I thought about it in my heart, Pan Zi seemed to want to refuse, so I immediately held Pan Zi: "Wait a minute, I think it's acceptable."
"San Ye, they are all mobs. We are not to blame for the information they can get. This kind of condition is of no value to us."
"Not necessarily." I said, "Since Mr. Qiu said before that he never made unsuccessful transactions, he must have confidence in his own conditions. The information he said should be different from what we thought."
Jude Kao nodded: "My idea is not that simple. The reason why I propose this cooperation is to hope that you will not make unnecessary sacrifices. Without this information, you will at least die on the four-hour journey."
"That's useless for you." Pan Zi said.
Jude Kao smiled, then shook his head and said, "Well, you won't believe anything I say anyway. You have to go in and find out what kind of place is this ancient Zhang family building? I'm here to prepare four coffins. , Waiting for you to sit down and talk again."
Broke up unhappily. Pan Zi winked at me. I actually wanted to cooperate, but Pan Zi also had a point, so he nodded and said, "Then we will talk about it then, Mr. Qiu, please."
Pan Zi and I were sitting on the edge of the stream, thinking about what the immortal foreigner had just said and what we saw. Pan Zi said: "It seems that the inside of this ancient building is extremely weird. I thought we were tossing outside and Jude Kao could enter the building. Unexpectedly, so many people died in so many days. I couldn't find the building anywhere."
"Are you sure, this ancient building must be in the mountains?" I asked.
"One hundred thousand mountains, there have been many legends since ancient times, but here are the legends of the Great Fire of the Ming Dynasty. Many things have happened in modern times. In the past 100 years, I don't know how many people have entered this remote mountain village. These people must have been. For the purpose, there must be a lot of clues pointing to the ancient buildings of the Zhang Family in these mountains. But I think you just didn't guard the house and almost put on help. Did you think of something just now?"
I looked into the distance in the darkness, I knew there was a huge no-man's land, deep mountains and old forests.
I lit the cigarette and told Pan Zi about the terrible patient I saw just now and the shadow I saw in the photos of Agui's house and Sanshu. "This is definitely not a coincidence. I think there is a possibility that the shadow may be of the same nature as the person we saw just now."
"You tell me in detail." Pan Zi obviously didn't understand.
I said: "We don't know what happened to that person in that gap, but let's assume that if he can survive this time, what will his body look like? You should be able to imagine it."
Pan Zi nodded. The person stood up just now, his shoulders basically melted, and the whole person was extremely strange. This kind of deformity is absolutely impossible to cure.
I said: "And the photo I gave to me by Brother Chu is very similar to the strange shadow I saw on the second floor of Agui's house, and the posture of the person standing up just now. I believe that there is a person in this village. He suffered the same accident as the patient, but survived and became deformed." I took a puff of cigarettes, became suffocated, and thought more, "This person is probably from an archeology 20 years ago. People in the team."
Pan Zi didn't say anything. I told him what I had experienced in Banai, but he might not understand everything. In fact, I was just sorting it out for myself.
"Suppose that the archaeological team that year entered the deep mountain, whether it was before or after the package was dropped, and carried out archaeological activities on the edge of the deep mountain lake. With the time and scale of the team at that time, they must have found something. Maybe they entered the cave, and then encountered a change. Some people died, some survived, and some disappeared. Then they left, but a person who they thought was bound to death crawled out of the cave by himself. Surviving and dying unexpectedly survived, returned to the village and lived there." I said, "This man has lived for decades. He knows many secrets and dare not go back to the world outside the village. He thought he would be here. The village was old, but what he couldn't imagine was that the matter did not end. Decades later, the conscious successor of the previous archeological team appeared in this village again."
"You made this up yourself," Pan Zi said. "Then how do you explain the picture that Brother Chu gave you?"
"The background in that photo is the Sanatorium in Golmud. The weird shadow is behind the screen. The younger brother was also found in this village. The time is in the same line. Although I don't know the specific relationship, this The small village obviously has more secrets than I thought." I said.
Pan Zi said, "Then don't sleep tonight. Let's ask Agui what is going on? Go to the second floor of his house and find him?"
I shook my head: "No need." I remembered the fire in the "Former Residence" of the stuffy oil bottle. It is very likely that he lived in the house of stuffy oil bottle before. He found it as soon as we showed up and it burned down immediately. My own house ruined everything.
Therefore, he will not find anything on the second floor of Agui. This person is not a poor worm. After so many years, with this kind of performance, he still shows a very high level of vigilance and execution ability.
why
During the period when Jude Kao appeared here, he must have erased all the clues, and, at this time, he would not be in the village.
If it were me, I would definitely be in the mountains, near Judekau’s camp.
"You said, did they find the Zhangjia ancient building back then?" Pan Zi asked, "Is the iron-like things they took away from the Zhangjia ancient building?"
I shook my head. I still don't know where this person is, but he burned down the stuffed oil bottle house, indicating that he didn't want the previous things to be exposed. I don't know if he doesn't want to expose himself, or if he doesn't want to expose everything. But I have a very ominous hunch.
This hunch may have something to do with the burning of the stuffy oil bottle house. I was only a little short of being able to see the photos, but the momentary negligence made it overshadowed.
"Pan Zi! The team is constantly reorganizing, can you start?" I asked Pan Zi.
"Yes, I picked these people out. You can hold them without sleeping for three days." Pan Zi said, "What? What do you think."
"We have to go into the mountain immediately. I think something might happen." I said, "Tell them, go to the mountain and rest. We must get to the lake before tomorrow night."
My sudden decision caught everyone off guard. Fortunately, Sanshu’s deterrence was here. In a strange atmosphere, everyone packed up the baggage that had been opened, and let Agui prepare dogs and mules overnight and set off into the mountains.
Even so, it was almost three o'clock in the night when the mule set off on a regular basis. The mosquitoes and mosquitoes in the mountains and forests are all over the ground. I am extremely tired, but my heart suffers from the internal fire. I know that it may be in vain anxious, but I can't help but feel anxious.
Along the way, I walked in front of the team and followed Agui closely. Agui took the three dogs to clear the way, and Pan Zi and a few guys drove the mules for a long distance.
We took a break until dawn, set up the first supply point, and marked along the way. After walking through the dense canopy, we saw Jude Kao’s team not far away, all of which were blue big tents. We ignored it and continued to move forward.
There was no word all the way, when it arrived at the edge of the demon lake, it was already the evening of the next day, and the sun only had a tail left, and only a mist of light was reflected on the calm lake, which looked extremely dim.
But on the other side of the lake beach, the bonfire was bright, and a series of red fire lights reflected an incredible scene.
There are bonfires everywhere, cooking is everywhere, and there are many makeshift shelters between the rocks covered with thatch leaves. There were people on the 20th and 30th, mules, dogs, and even ducks, among these people.
The tape recorder was playing music, and beer cans and coke cans were scattered among the rocks.
Under the fire, those people in twos and threes played cards, in a daze, drunk and drank, a very leisurely and modern idyllic scene.
"The bosses on the stone beach couldn't lie down in sleeping bags, so they set up shacks. The ducks were raised to eat. It was too troublesome to bring them in one by one. Each household caught a dozen of them and raised them in the lake first. Now, anyway, the duck can't run away from the lake." Agui said, "I have to get some recliners from outside in a few days. What day or bath does the boss want?"
"Sunbathing." Xiaohua said from behind, patted me, "Everyone is like this. People who do this business are born to like to have fun in time."
I looked at one side, a man and a woman, two foreigners sitting on a big rock by the lake and kissing, I couldn't help but sighed.
No one paid any attention to us. When we walked into their camp, everyone looked at us indifferently. Pan Zi passed by a place where beer crates were piled up and threw a few cans to us without any protest.
"It seems that we are treated as our own people." Pan Zi said, "Jude is not reliable to test his mother. There is not even a watchman."
"It's not unbelievable, people are art experts and bold." Xiaohua looked at a place, took a sip of beer and pointed. When I turned my head and looked, I saw a little spark on a tree in the forest outside the rocky beach, and it seemed that someone was smoking on it.
"On a?"
"Just one." Xiaohua said, "I guess there is a guy in his hand, and his eyes are good."
"Let's stay away from them." Pan Zi said, "It's misty and crowded." He pointed to the other side of the lake, where it was pitch black.
We walked over, everyone was extremely tired, put down the luggage and lay down on the ground, Pan Zi kicked it all the way, let them get up and cut the firewood.