More than a dozen corpses were lying on the ground, and many of them were mutilated, so the smell of blood was very strong in the area. Fortunately, the environment here is a bit like a tropical rainforest, with many snakes and insects in the swamp. The corpses left here will soon return to the embrace of nature.
Zhou Ze and Lawyer An had no interest in knowing the identities of this group of people. They came out because of something they had to do. The reason they got rid of them was not because they hated evil, but to reduce the burden on border guards or to add some protection to the safety of the people of the motherland.
It was simply because one of the idiots had a very accurate gun.
A stray bullet almost killed Lawyer An.
Xu Qinglang took out mineral water from his backpack and began to wash his hands.
Zhou Ze looked around the corpse and picked up a pistol. He didn't know what model it was, and no one in the team knew about it either. He found the bullets and threw the gun to Yingying, asking her to clean it up. He just kept it as a souvenir.
After some preparation, everyone was back on the road.
In fact, the place we wanted to go was not far away, but there was no means of transportation here, so we could only walk. The road was extremely muddy and difficult to walk on, so we naturally couldn't walk fast.
at the same time,
There are leeches hidden among the branches and leaves that people pass by. As soon as people touch the branches, they will immediately jump out and drill directly into your clothes.
When this thing is sucking your blood, you can't feel it at first, so many inexperienced people who enter this kind of rain forest often find that their backs are full of leeches that are swollen from sucking blood only when they sit down to rest and lean against a big tree.
Yingying is not afraid of these, but the other three men need to worry more because these are considered biological weapons, and talisman paper and talisman water are ineffective against them.
Evil spirits or demonic spirits are effective, but we can't just keep releasing them and move forward, right? We are not perpetual motion machines.
Go and stop, stop and go,
When night falls again,
Lawyer An repeatedly investigated.
Then I breathed a sigh of relief.
Said we have arrived at our destination.
There are no five-star apartments deep in the mountains at the destination.
There is no smoke rising from the kitchen or a table of delicious food.
In fact,
destination,
It is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles.
Savage Mountain!
"What a great place! Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times here."
Lawyer An said with a smile,
Then he casually took a leech that had just attached itself to his arm and threw it away.
Because the leech has just landed on it, it has not had time to break through the skin and flesh to suck blood, so it is easy to take it out. Otherwise, once it starts sucking blood, it will not be easy to just pick it off.
actually,
Wild Man Mountain is also very famous in China, but it is completely different from Shennongjia in China, which was famous for the wild man legend in the early years.
When Lawyer An said this, he was actually still in line with what he meant before, that there are some things that one can know in the heart but cannot say out loud.
Zhou Ze glanced at Lawyer An and directly refuted:
"When Zhuge Liang led his army out of Chengdu to quell the rebellion, he only fought as far as Kunming. How could he have come here again?"
Novels and history are things that are easily confused together.
but,
The Yeren Mountain area was indeed Chinese territory in history, but due to a series of turmoil in modern times, a lot of the original territory was lost, and many territorial disputes remained.
All I can say is that our ancestors were really good at fighting and built up a huge family business.
The descendants of the next generation were too cowardly and useless to keep it.
"Why bother to be so serious? It's pointless to be so serious." Lawyer An didn't care. He looked at the sky and said, "Let's rest here tonight and go in tomorrow. There are still some things we need to prepare before going in."
Next, it’s time to set up camp.
They brought all the camping equipment, including tents. Yingying was very strong and she didn't feel tired at all even though she carried so many things by herself.
Xu Qinglang started to cook. The conditions here were limited and no one was interested in hunting for game, so if they were to cook, it was nothing more than mixed noodles with vegetable soup.
Lawyer An went outside and cut a lot of tree branches. After shaving them flat, he took out parchment and candles from his backpack. After dinner, he sat there and busy himself with the work at hand.
Zhou Ze went back to the tent and slept with Yingying. Perhaps he was worried about going into the mountains after dawn, so he woke up not long after sleeping.
When he came out of the tent, Zhou Ze saw Lawyer An still sitting there busy, guarding the campfire in front of him. Xu Qinglang had already gone to rest.
"Is this made, Lantern?"
Zhou Ze pointed to the completed "work" that Lawyer An placed in front of him.
There are five lanterns with candles inside, red and white, and the candles are all white wax.
Lawyer An was currently making his sixth lantern. Most of the materials were in his backpack, except for the tree branches which were sourced locally.
“Hmm…”
Lawyer An stretched himself.
Yawning,
Nod,
"Yes, the lantern."
Zhou Ze poured a glass of water from the thermos cup and drank it slowly. He looked at the valley ahead and said:
"Isn't this a little too big?"
In this life,
Zhou Ze experienced a relatively large scene.
Three villages count as one,
The little boy's underground cave is also one.
But compared to the two waiting for him in front after dawn,
It doesn't matter anymore.
Lawyer An picked up the Super Cup beside him.
I took several gulps of coffee.
Smash your lips,
Looking at Zhou Ze,
Laughing:
"Boss, are you scared?"
Zhou Ze shook his head. "I just don't want any more accidents to happen. We all came out together, and we have to go back safely together."
Lawyer An opened his mouth and wanted to say that his boss shouldn't be so soft-hearted, but then he thought that he was also his subordinate and there was no need for him to persuade his boss not to care about his own life, so he said nothing.
There are no stars tonight, which means the weather tomorrow will not be very good.
Lawyer An finally finished making all seven lanterns. None of them were very big, with three hanging on each of two relatively thick wooden sticks. There was a vine connecting the two sticks, with another lantern hanging on top.
One person can lift it all up, and the posture is a bit like a sedan bearer lifting a sedan chair.
When everything is ready,
Lawyer An took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Zhou Ze, and then lit it for Zhou Ze.
"It's not a bad thing that he's asleep. At least you, boss, are more urgent than before."
Zhou Ze shook his head indifferently, exhaled a puff of smoke, and denied:
“It’s not that I’m simply afraid of death. When he was here, although I relied on his power many times, the worst outcome was that he swallowed me up.
Now that he is gone, the worst possible outcome is that I will take him with me and die together. It means real death, a permanent end."
"Haha, men with families are different."
Lawyer An joked.
Zhou Ze lowered his head and took a sip of water.
These days, he has been wondering why he agreed to Lawyer An's advice and came here from afar.
The bookstore would be destroyed by the explosion, that was just an excuse.
He is a lazy man, lazy to the core.
He thought about this question for a long time, but still couldn't come up with an answer.
Is it because of Tiehanhan’s deep sleep
Is it because of the Mount Tai deep in my soul
perhaps,
What Lawyer An just said is correct.
When you are alone, if one person is full, the whole family will not be hungry. It doesn’t matter whether you are in exile or go with the flow.
But when you are still concerned about other people's affairs, you feel embarrassed to continue lying there in the sun and turning over.
In my previous life, I was an orphan and worked hard to live and fight for myself, but in this life, I have become lazy.
He has no relatives and has never been married. To be precise, apart from his own patients, Zhou Ze does not understand what the so-called "responsibility" means.
"Boss, sometimes I envy you." Lawyer An took another big sip of coffee and wiped the corners of his eyes.
He drank expired Nestle instant liquor and it tasted like Moutai.
"When I was the chief constable, I also had five subordinates under me. Four of them died, leaving only Feng Si'er alive.
hehe,
Not so glorious,
Those four people died in accidents just to satisfy my ambitions.
When I was alive, I was a young man from a rich family. After I die and become a ghost, I also want to be a "superior person".
So, after Feng Si'er betrayed me, I hated him at first, but slowly, I stopped hating him. "
“Can coffee make you drunk?”
Zhou Ze became the killer who broke the fresh and clean atmosphere.
"Hehe." Lawyer An raised his head and said, "Boss, there are some things I shouldn't say. I know you won't listen even if I say it, but I still have to say it. I won't feel comfortable if I don't say it.
I don't hate Feng Si'er, but I never think I did anything wrong. A person in a high position should not take the lives of his subordinates too seriously. "
Saying,
Lawyer An came closer to Zhou Ze, stared into his eyes, and said seriously:
"Because, including me, you, the boss, don't really know what everyone wants, nor do we know what we are thinking deep down.
The value has been squeezed out.
Damn it,
Just die.
It will save you from trouble in the future.”
"You are really drunk."
Zhou Ze reached out and patted Lawyer An on the shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm drunk."
The two men stopped talking.
The evening breeze brings coolness and quietness.
Just sitting together like this,
Smoking one cigarette after another,
unconsciously,
The sky is slowly getting brighter.
Zhou Ze's guess was correct.
The weather today is not very good.
Because fog had already risen from the surrounding woods, even the Savage Mountains ahead were shrouded in fog, making it look like a dream.
Xu Qinglang and Yingying also came out of their respective tents, and everyone had breakfast together.
After dinner,
Lawyer An stood up.
Loosen your muscles and bones.
Then he turned to face Zhou Ze and pointed at the Savage Mountains behind him.
Shouted to Zhou Ze:
"Boss, I've said before that some things may not work if you tell them. Actually, there's no point in telling them.
You forgot that I brought you here to be promoted to captain of the police.
Just remember,
More than seventy years ago,
More than 40,000 soldiers who had fought for their country stayed on their way home.
They have been waiting here for more than seventy years.
today,
Please ask the boss to lead them out of this wild mountain,
Lead them,
go home!"