"Everyone retreat!" Asgen gave an order, and the team began to slowly move back. His men rode horses and drove, and drove the remaining cattle and sheep back along the original road in an orderly manner.
After retreating for about a kilometer, Asgen gave another order: "Stop!"
Looking at Zi Yang in a blink of an eye, Asgen said coldly, "I will camp here today, and continue to march tomorrow."
Zi Yang looked at Asgen in a bit of astonishment. He thought Asgen would directly announce the abandonment of this expedition.
After witnessing the bull's fall, everyone present knew how dangerous the road ahead was. At this time, Asgen proposed to return to Risheng Fort, Zi Yang and others could not refute it.
But it seems Asgen did not give up.
After dinner that night, everyone went back to their tents. There was silence in the camp. The horses of Asgen have been rigorously trained and never screamed easily. The whole camp was shrouded in a solemn atmosphere.
Asgen ordered four fires to rise around the camp, each with a cow tied to each fire, and everyone took turns to watch.
In a tense mood, they spent a long night.
Zi Yang got out of the tent early the next morning. Seeing the foggy space between the sky and the earth, the people in Asgen had already got up and were taking apart the tent to pack things.
Asgen stood alone outside the camp, with his hands behind his back, staring motionlessly at the cursed place in the distance.
Before Zi Yang got up to Asgen, he said, "Brother Asgen, how do you make arrangements today?"
"This road is no longer going, let's try another direction." Asgen's tone was cold as usual.
Zi Yang thought for a while and said, "Brother Asgen, don't take the words of Old Wang yesterday, don't take it to your heart, that guy has a brain disease."
Asgen turned his head and looked at him: "My task is to safely send you to that place. I promised Abba's thing, and I will do my best to do it. As for what you think in your heart, it doesn't matter to me. ."
After hearing what he said, Zi Yang was not only a little ashamed, perhaps they all blamed Asgen.
From Li Tianming to Wang Yangming and Professor Zhang, Zi Yang has experienced so many intrigues and persecution of designs, and the trust between people has long disappeared in his heart.
But not everyone in the world is so gloomy in their hearts. The taciturn man in front of him may not be as cold as his appearance. His indifference to everyone may be because they have caused the disaster of the Canglang family.
Zi Yang didn't know how to apologize to Asgen. He didn't look like he wanted to chat with him. After hesitating, he went back to his tent.
He rested until more than 10 o'clock in the morning, and after the fog had all dissipated, Asgen decided to leave.
Asgen and the others were carrying advanced GPS equipment, and they found a new route outside of yesterday's road.
This time the march was a lot more cautious than yesterday. A cow and sheep walked in front of the team. The people who drove them followed a few tens of meters away, and the large group went back more than a dozen meters.
Although this kind of travel is very slow, it is obviously safer.
When they met where there were bones on the road, they would go far away, and the closer they got to the target, the more bones they saw.
In the afternoon, the cattle and sheep they brought on the road had been changed three batches, and the route of travel was changed again and again.
Su Rui noticed that every group of leading cattle and sheep were in low-lying and leeward places.
In the high places where the sun and the wind are facing, there has never been an abnormality.
Under Su Rui’s suggestion, Asgen planned a new route. The team was almost walking on the ridge. The two cars they brought could no longer drive. They put their luggage on the horseback and walked along the rugged. The mountain keeps advancing.
Just walking and stopping like this, in the evening, I finally reached the valley where the coordinates were.
The legendary Death Valley was just at the foot. Seeing the long and narrow valley full of tired bones, Lao Wang couldn't help but tremble a few times.
"Is this the gate of hell? Why is it so evil? If you didn't see it with your own eyes, you really thought you were watching a horror movie."
Asgen glanced at Su Rui: "Do you have any opinion?"
Since discovering the law of the death of cattle and sheep, everyone followed the route suggested by Su Rui, and no accidents happened along the way. Asgen couldn't help but admire the little girl's abilities. At this time, they had no other way ahead. To reach the location of the coordinates, they had to cross Death Valley.
The question is what kind of danger is hidden below that will fill this narrow valley with animal carcasses
Su Rui said thoughtfully: "From the previous locations where the accident occurred, what we encountered may be a miasma. In some low-lying, leeward places, a large amount of toxic gas is deposited. After cattle and sheep inhaled the poisonous gas. Kill immediately."
Zi Yang frowned and said, "No, I remember that miasma can only be found in virgin forests with hot and humid climate. The air here is so dry and cold, and there is not much vegetation cover, so it does not have the conditions for formation."
Su Rui nodded: "This is a strange place. I can't figure out how these poisonous gases are produced, why the concentration is so high that large livestock like cattle and sheep can fall down in an instant. It is a pity that we lack the corresponding equipment. Otherwise, you can take a gas sample and analyze the composition."
Old Wang said impatiently: "Can we stop talking on this hillside? My fart & fart will be cold when the wind blows! Tell me to see if we can walk through the valley of the dead alive, whatever it is The principle is, we are not here to do scientific research!"
Although Lao Wang's words are very rough, Li'er is indeed there. This is not the time to discuss these things. The coordinates on the map are where they can see in front of them. With the naked eye, they can already see the ruins of trees lying downside down.
But there was such a Death Valley full of bones in front of them, but they couldn't cross it.
Asgen ordered a sheep to be driven off. After walking more than ten meters in the valley shaking his head, the sheep knelt on all fours and lay motionless on the ground.
Everyone gasped.
"This road is nowhere!" Old Wang said bitterly.
Su Rui looked around and pointed to the hillside behind the ruins and said: "From there, you can go directly to the coordinates. It is on the windward side, and it is high. It is probably safer."
Asgen looked at the place and said, "It's too far, we have to make a big circle to get there, and this section of the mountain road is too steep to be able to walk."
Su Rui said regretfully: "But this is the only way we can choose."
To go or not to go? They face a difficult choice.
Zi Yang and A Chong looked at each other, then turned to Asgen and said: "We are going to try, Brother Asgen, thank you for your help along the way, if you go back now, I can understand."
Old Wang panicked and shouted: "Ah? Don't! Don't go! Let's cool off when they go back! Are you familiar with this place?"
Zi Yang took a look at him: "The road ahead is too dangerous, let's not make it difficult for others."
"Knowing that it is dangerous, you still have to go by yourself? We are not humans? You are not grown up?"
"Shut up! Otherwise I will kick you in the ditch!" Zi Yang said angrily.
"Don't you dare!" Old Wang said with a curl of his lips. He looked at the bones in the valley below, and finally stopped talking.
Asgen was silent for a while, then looked back at his men, then turned to look at Zi Yang and said: "They stay here to camp, I will go with you. Everyone brings three days of supplies. When the supplies are used up, they will retreat immediately. !"
Zi Yang looked at Su Rui, who nodded.
After looking at A Chong again, A Chong said briefly: "Yes."
Zi Yang looked at Asgen and said, "Okay! That's it!"
Lao Wang mumbled unhappily: "Ask my opinion anyway! Lao Li, are you a human? You are the brothers who were born and died together, do you treat me like this? Do I still have a bigger fart in your heart? Yes? You stepped on the horse but answered me..."
At the moment Asgen gave orders from his opponent, Zi Yang and A Chong, Su Rui, Lao Wang, Xiao Hei and others began to prepare supplies and exploration equipment to carry with them.
Zi Yang saw that Old Wang was still carrying a submachine gun, and couldn't help but persuade him: "We can't use this bulky thing. You should bring more food, medicine and water."
"No!"
After everything was cleaned up, Lao Wang shot his gun in the air, "Comrades, let's go!"
A Chong glanced at the crowd and said, "I walk in the front, Xiao Hei is the second, and keep 30 meters away from me. The others follow behind."
Zi Yang understood that A Chong ranked the two best men ahead of him in order to cope with the sudden situation.
Even though he knew he was good at it, Zi Yang still verbally warned: "Remember to walk up to a sunny place. It's best to stand on the windward side and slow down. If anything is wrong, you can withdraw first before talking..."
A Chong nodded, tightened his backpack, and stepped onto the rugged mountain road.
The mountain range they walked is winding and winding, and the terrain is dangerous. Years of wind and rain have carved the mountain peaks like a knife and axe. It is too reluctant to say that there is a "road". Walking on it is similar to rock climbing. Only one person can pass on the narrow trail, and in some places half a foot Stepping on the ground, half of his foot volleyed out, below is a rocky cliff.
Except for A Chong, who was walking in the front, all the others were connected with safety ropes. Because they could not get professional climbing equipment such as climbing picks, they prepared a few short-handled claw picks instead. They encountered difficult mountain conditions. Wherever possible, first use a horn pick to fix the safety rope on the mountain wall, and then others pass by in turn.
This travel speed is similar to that of a tortoise climbing a hill. They spent more than half an hour climbing with great effort, and they were less than two kilometers away from where they were.
Zi Yang carefully climbed the hillside while looking up at the figure of A Chong in front of him from time to time. It is not yet known what exactly caused the death of the animal, nor is it absolutely safe on the ridge. Don’t make any accidents.
After passing a mountain ridge, the conflict in front of him stopped moving.