Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Mountaineer

Offroad Junzo started mountaineering after resigning from the police force.Cross-country was called "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" when he was tasked with hunting down criminals at the police station.He has experienced countless bloody fighting scenes; he has arrested the most criminals among his colleagues, and has won the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Director Award many times.Even today with the modernization of investigation methods, he still has the temperament and demeanor of an old criminal policeman - relying on his own legs and sixth sense. The criminals are afraid of him, calling him "Guiyue", and the superiors are also a little scared of him.On the contrary, he is caring and close to his subordinates and colleagues, and everyone affectionately calls him "Guanyinyue".

During his tenure, he lived a hard-working, intense and orderly life.After resigning, he was bored and at a loss. After battling against the evil forces in society for most of his life, he suddenly lost his direction in life. During his tenure, once a case occurs, he will always live in the investigation headquarters, not only does not rest on public holidays, but also rarely returns home.Even when he occasionally goes out with his family during compensatory rest, as long as the police station calls, he will immediately arrange for his family and rush to the station. During his tenure, in pursuit of criminals, he did not know how many pairs of shoes he had worn out, nor how many roads he had walked, and he felt extremely fulfilled.From the day he resigned, no matter where he went or what he did, he felt as if he was placed in a sea of ​​freedom, at a loss.That is to say, no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, his free body is as if he didn't go to that place or do anything.

During his tenure, he was hardly at home during the day, and he only went home to have a place to sleep at night, not to mention that sometimes he didn't go home to live.After resigning, there was no place for him in his home, which was his comfort zone. After resigning, although he still has the same sense of justice and curiosity as when he was in office, he no longer has the right to investigate, so the so-called justice can no longer be realized, and the amount of justice that cannot be realized is meaningless . After resigning, Yue Yue discovered that his previous so-called justice was assigned by his superiors. No matter how strong a person's sense of justice is, it cannot be achieved by one person alone.In the past, it was only by exercising the investigative power given by the superior that it broke into the underworld group and arrested the criminals again and again.Without the right to investigate, even ordinary investigations cannot be carried out, let alone arresting criminals.

After resigning, off-road has been unable to raise his spirits.When he found out that all the work he had done in the first half of his life was assigned by his superiors, off-roading was like a deflated balloon, feeling disheartened and powerless. This phenomenon is by no means just a person off-road, but there are many people.During their employment, some people are busy with work, and once they are freed, they will soon become old.Many of them reported to King Yama soon.That is to say, resigning from the unit and disappearing from the world are closely related. Off-roading doesn't want to die of old age anytime soon, but hard work isn't enough either.He was thinking, after getting up every day and carefully reading the newspaper of the day, how should he spend the remaining time?

Every day when it was finally dark and laying down on the bed, he murmured in a low voice with confidence: "Today is finally over." But when he thought of "Is it just waiting to see King Yama?" Feeling depressed. Some of the colleagues who resigned first and those who retired almost at the same time as the cross-country, some became the doorman of the apartment, and some became the bodyguard of the bodyguard company.But cross-country is a well-known "ghost-seeing" detective in the investigation department, and he doesn't intend to waste the rest of his life in that kind of place.In other words, he would rather not do anything, but also to keep the honor he had won.

He felt bored at home, and he felt bored when he went to the library full of candidates. When he had to, he would walk around in the park to pass the time like a person who doesn't even have a place to stay.While he was walking in the park, he met an older friend. His friend is called Matsuyama Yuichiro.It is said that Matsuyama once worked for a certain high-volume food company and served as the managing director of the company.Because it was found that there were pollutants in the company's food, he resigned to take responsibility.He said that his goal after retiring is to climb hundreds of famous mountains.In order to climb mountains, he often does fitness activities in the open space of the park in order to enhance the strength of his legs and waist.He is 68 years old this year, but he doesn't look that old from his appearance.

"People always get old legs first. Once the legs and feet don't work, the whole body will become weak, and then the functions of the brain and internal organs will decline. After I retired, I got to know about mountain climbing and started my second life. .Through climbing, I also made many new friends. How about climbing with us!" Songshan invited him. Off-roaders have also heard the saying of climbing a hundred famous mountains, but they don't know what kind of mountains they are. According to Matsuyama, the "Hundred Famous Mountains" is a mountain that a writer named Fukada Hisaya chose for himself to climb. Now there is a wave of climbing the Hundred Famous Mountains among Japanese climbers.Matsuyama knew about mountaineering and praised how exhilarating and intoxicating it was.After resigning, he regarded mountaineering as his second life, and started a real life that was no longer bound by his unit or family.

Off-road hearts are touched.He thinks that he has plenty of time and plenty of physical strength, and he can’t spend enough money to live on his pension. Instead of opening up a second life by finding another job, it’s better to pass the time by climbing mountains. The move of cross-country to choose mountaineering was approved by his wife.She thought that if the distracted husband who had nothing to do at home all day could go hiking or something, it would definitely get rid of the sullenness in his heart. At the invitation of Matsuyama, the first mountain I climbed off-road was Irikasa Mountain.From the top of the mountain, you can see Hachigakesan and the Japanese Alps in the distance. As Matsuyama said, it is an eye-opening experience that has never been seen in the first half of off-roading.

Prior to this, the only mountain that could match its name in off-roading was Mount Takao, which I visited during elementary school field trips. Ever since I climbed Mt. Irikasa, I have become obsessed with mountaineering.And through this mountaineering, I also met a lot of new friends, most of them are of the same age as cross-country, and there are no young people.They are all looking for the difficult life path in the second half of their lives. Today, people who often climb mountains in Japan have begun to shift from young people to middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old.Young people who grew up in the era of car travel, they don't like to climb mountains like ants with heavy climbing supplies, but like to drive to the foot of the mountain or the beach to go camping with beautiful scenery.

In the 1980s, mountaineering was all the rage in Japan.The middle-aged and old people who account for the majority of mountain climbers today are not the young people at that time who have returned to the ranks of mountaineering.Most of these middle-aged and elderly people really understood the meaning of mountaineering after they retired from the front line or in their later years, and thus became fans of mountaineering.By saying this, I am not belittling the elderly, but rather, the elderly have an obsession with mountaineering. It is especially worth mentioning that among the middle-aged and elderly climbers, many of them want to climb hundreds of famous mountains.They all regard climbing the hundred famous mountains as their second goal in life.

During their tenure, many of them wanted to be successful.That is to say, those in the salaried class should become general managers, those in sumo wrestling should become generals, and those in the military should become generals.All of these can naturally be regarded as the goal of life. To be honest, when they achieved their goals and became the general manager, yokozuna, and general, they soon fell into an abyss of emptiness, without the energy and stamina to set a new goal for themselves, a new end of the game . However, those who climb hundreds of famous mountains do not need to compete with others.It doesn't matter which mountain you climb first and then which mountain you climb, and it doesn't matter which mountain you don't climb after you climb it, it's all up to you.At the same time, those who participate in climbing hundreds of famous mountains can return halfway without climbing to the top of the mountain. Cross-country soon fell into the vortex of climbing hundreds of famous mountains.Although mountaineering itself has many dangers lurking.However, it doesn't matter if you climb the mountain in winter, and you don't need superb climbing skills.This is because there are climbing roads built on those mountains, and small houses for climbers to rest are built in every dangerous place.As long as there is no severe weather, personal safety will not be affected. Climbers have great enthusiasm for climbing hundreds of famous mountains.They have life experience in the first half of their lives and are well-versed in the world. Every time they climb a mountain, they will have different feelings. If the mountain is respected by its height, then the hundred famous mountains are lower than Mount Fuji, and only occupy a place in the Japanese Alps.I don't know what criteria the writer Fukada Hisaya used to select the hundred famous mountains.There are mountains like the Hundred Famous Mountains all over Japan. Therefore, it is not a wise move for climbers to climb all the Hundred Famous Mountains. Middle-aged and elderly climbers are limited by physical strength, energy, age and other conditions. Many people do not have full confidence in climbing hundreds of famous mountains in their lifetime.The realization of climbing hundreds of famous mountains is just a kind of hope for the rest of life of these people, and it is a kind of summary of their life. There are several types of people who climb hundreds of famous mountains. The first is that members of golf, croquet, fishing, employees of the same unit, town clubs and other various hobby groups climb mountains collectively; The second is that you don't belong to any group or any group, but climb the mountain alone; The third type is that employees who liked mountaineering when they were young, joined the ranks of mountaineering when they got older; The fourth is that in addition to mountaineering, you also have other special hobbies, such as photography, painting, literary and artistic creation, etc.; The fifth is not simply to climb mountains for the sake of climbing, but to learn about hundreds of famous mountains during the climbing process, so as to achieve the goal of climbing hundreds of famous mountains; The sixth type is those who aspire to climb hundreds of famous mountains out of their religious belief in mountaineering. Although the above divisions are somewhat repetitive, what they have in common is that the first half of life is turned to the second half of life, that is, the second half of life is turned to climbing hundreds of famous mountains. In the process of climbing hundreds of famous mountains, climbers not only met many mountaineering enthusiasts, but also exchanged mountaineering information and experience with each other, and compared the number of mountaineerings with each other.The number of mountaineering mentioned here does not refer to climbing from some dangerous place, nor does it mean only half of the mountaineering, but the number of times of climbing to the top. To climb the Hundred Famous Mountains, one must first start from the places with good climbing roads in the Kanto area or the Kinki area, and then climb the mountains in remote places and islands. During the peak period of mountaineering in the 1950s, climbers not only showed off to each other and compared the number of times they climbed to the top of the 100 famous mountains, but they also thought that mountains other than the 100 famous mountains were not worth mentioning.Even some people are very close to many good mountains, and they still want to include climbing hundreds of famous mountains in their mountaineering plan.For them, after climbing the hundred famous mountains, it is considered that they have completed their tour of the holy land. During his tenure, cross-country is to track down criminals everywhere, but now he is wearing hiking shoes and has to climb hundreds of famous mountains.When cross-country realized this, he couldn't help but be shocked by his current transformation. During his tenure, those murder scenes where the victims were brutally murdered, decapitated, and covered in blood are the "best places" for off-roading.For ordinary people, that kind of scene can be described as horrific and unbearable, but for off-roaders, it is an unforgettable picture. Since he started to climb hundreds of famous mountains, Crossroads couldn't believe that he was such a person during his tenure.He deeply felt that his body and mind were completely distorted in the process of hunting down the murderer in the past. After climbing the Hundred Famous Mountains, Crossroads felt that he had recovered the original nature of human beings.Whenever he stands on the top of the mountain and looks at the majestic nature, he will find that his distorted body and mind are being corrected rapidly.However, in the process of climbing off-road, there is a kind of worry.Since he started mountaineering after retiring, cross-country still belongs to the ranks of young people in the middle-aged and elderly mountaineering team.Fortunately, cross-country has undergone various trials during his working period, so he does not have the diseases that the elderly often have, and he is physically strong, with no problems in his legs and waist. Cross-country firmly believes that he can climb the mountain for another 20 years.If you climb one mountain a month on average, that's twelve mountains a year.According to this calculation, every one of the hundred famous mountains can be visited in ten years.Even the Japanese Alps are just a series of peaks, and several peaks can be climbed at one time, so all the peaks can be climbed in a short time. "If all the mountains to be climbed have been climbed, what should we do in the future?" Cross-country told Songshan his worries. "Yes, you can't just limit yourself to climbing a hundred famous mountains! After climbing a hundred famous mountains, you must create a new hundred famous mountains for yourself and continue to climb. If you finish climbing all the mountains in Nisagamoto, then go abroad Deng, this is the future!" Matsuyama replied vigorously. However, climbing a hundred famous mountains is a common goal set by mountaineering friends, so climbing a hundred famous mountains is interesting and lively.If you make a new climbing plan for the Hundred Famous Mountains by yourself, you will lose many colleagues and competition, and the new climbing plan for the Hundred Famous Mountains will become one person’s self-consolation. It didn't take long for off-road worries to finally dissipate.Many mountaineering friends have already climbed the hundred tops of the hundred famous mountains, and now they return to the first mountain they climbed and start to climb the hundred famous mountains again.In other words, what they are proud of is not how many mountains they have climbed, but the number of times they have climbed to the top. After climbing the hundred famous mountains, some people plan to start climbing the original hundred famous mountains strictly according to the previous schedule, and some people decide to climb some of them repeatedly.And the more religious the mountain is, the more people climb it more often.Of course, some people plan to climb mountains as high as Mount Everest (a mountain above 8,000 meters).Climbing this kind of mountain is undoubtedly quite dangerous, but as long as you are willing to spend money and hire a capable Nepalese mountain guide, it is entirely possible to climb the route that people often take.This kind of person has a kind of consciousness, that is, they want to bury their precious body on the top of the mountain.In a word, they put the rest of their lives on the mountain. For men who love mountaineering, the first half of their lives is centered on work, and the second half of their lives is centered on mountaineering. Women who love mountaineering have quite different tastes.They started climbing after they were freed from the shackles of raising children, doing housework, and caring for husbands and grandchildren.Therefore, rather than saying that they climb mountains with purpose and intention, it is better to say that they continue to extend from the chain of dancing, golf, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, handicrafts, chorus, and tourism. Their awareness of mountaineering is very weak, and it is not a hope or a goal for the rest of their lives like men.Because of this, many of them stopped climbing the mountain after a few times. Ever since he climbed hundreds of famous mountains off-road, he seemed to have a kind of illusion.This is when climbing a mountain, people are separated from the ground.Yamamoto is an extension of the ground, not to mention that most of the mountains in Japan are below 3,000 meters above sea level, so he felt as if he had escaped from the world and entered another world. Cross-country clearly knows that it is an illusion, but when climbing, I always feel that I have become an alien.In other words, these people who have been honed and rich in life experience through the work of the first half of their lives have this illusion while climbing mountains. Because of the large number of climbers who came down from the first line, the illusion still lingered in my mind after returning to the ground.They think that the rest of their lives will be spent climbing hundreds of famous mountains.They firmly believe that their bodies on the ground are fake bodies, and only when they climbed hundreds of famous mountains can they restore their real bodies. During their employment, they are hard labor in the unit or a domestic slave. They have to bear the pressure and responsibility of work every day, and they also have to bear the obligation of raising their families.After resigning, while rejoicing to be free, he soon fell into the sea of ​​freedom and lost his direction. Looking back now, during the working period, the daily time was allocated by minute and hour, which was very busy and hard.But that is indeed the thoughtful protection of the unit. The unit actively assigns work tasks to everyone, and provides a nutritious lunch at noon.In order to keep everyone from being lonely and bored, the unit also organizes entertainment activities on rest days. During that time under the thoughtful protection of the unit, people lost the ability to set goals for themselves and arrange time for themselves.In other words, the goals I think are actually the goals set by the unit, and the time schedule I think is actually the time schedule of the unit. What I think I am working for my own survival is actually working for the survival of my unit.The work done by the minute and the hour is also all the work assigned by the unit.In other words, everything such as one's own authority and responsibility is stipulated by the unit. When people are announced to be resigned, the jobs, responsibilities, authorities, goals, and everything else that they thought were theirs before were taken away.This is equivalent to the person in charge of the unit saying "Hey, you are free from today", and then expelling himself from the gate of the unit, leaving himself at a loss. When I lost the stronghold of the unit and returned to the only stronghold family, I found that there was no stronghold of my own in the home.That is to say, they have become superfluous in the unit or society. During the working period, that is, during the egg-laying period, I was cared for by the unit, and once it was time to stop laying eggs, I became a piece of waste. In fact, it is not that they will stop laying eggs, on the contrary they are laying higher quality eggs than the young.They are simply treated as non-egg-layers because there is a retirement age line today. After retirement, they still deeply miss the scene of laying eggs like Italian white Legion chickens under the care of the work unit. When they realize that the first half of their life that they have always believed to be living for themselves and working for themselves is an illusion, and they have been drugged by the unit, they have lost the ability to find a new job and set new goals.What should appear in front of you is to climb hundreds of famous mountains. After waking up from the illusion of the first half of his life, he then fell into a new illusion.Just because I understand that the first half of my life is an illusion, I know that the second half of my life is also an illusion.Knowing that it is an illusion, but clinging to that illusion tightly.Why is this?This is because if you lose that illusion, you will not be able to live the rest of your life. Women, however, don't experience that illusion.Although some women are more persistent than men in climbing hundreds of famous mountains, they will not have the illusion.In other words, women do not have the illusion of the ground and the mountain, and mountaineering is always an extension of the road. Women don't think that the mountains and the mountains are two different worlds.They were moved by the magnificence of the mountains and the magnificence of the scenery, and that was just a touch in their life experience, not something special.That is to say, women are more flexible and flexible than men when they all climb the same hundred famous mountains, and they don't take climbing the hundred famous mountains very seriously. Generally speaking, women do not have a clear plan for themselves to set a life goal and hope.However, even if they don't have that kind of hope, they still have the courage to live well. Men are different from women. Once they lose their goals and hopes, they will feel extremely empty and bored.Therefore, as long as someone (such as a unit, owner, country, etc.) points out a goal to him, they will also regard it as a kind of hope.Even if that hope is an illusion, it is better to have hope than to have no hope. For these retirees, climbing hundreds of famous mountains has become their life goal for the rest of their lives.Therefore, they must earnestly implement it and never give up halfway.Although this is also an illusion, it is not an anesthetic given by the unit or the state, but its own decision. Cross-country has made a practical plan for climbing hundreds of famous mountains.The first stage is to climb Mount Akagi, Mount Asama, Mount Tsukuba, Mount Okuchibu, and Mount Tanzawa, which are close to Tokyo and have good roads. The second stage is to climb all the peaks of the Northern Alps of Japan along the ridge at one time.The third stage is to climb every mountain in the Tohoku region, Hokkaido region, and Kyushu region of Japan. Only the mountains that are not connected to the four major islands of Japan or in the distance, such as Rishiri, Rausu, and Miyanoura, and the mountains that are relatively close to Tokyo but are only an isolated mountain, such as Mount Huanghai and Mount Makiki, have not yet been established. It is included in the plan and will be posted later. Cross-country was shocked by the speed of Matsuyama's summit climbing in the years after he resigned. He has already climbed ninety-nine of the hundred famous mountains, leaving only Phoenix Mountain in the Southern Alps unclimbed. Phoenix Mountain belongs to the Southern Alps. It is composed of three 2,800-meter-high mountains, Jizang, Guanyin, and Yakushi. It is the highest peak in the Southern Alps and the second highest peak in Japan. The collective name of the three mountains of Nongniaoyue) is also known as the barrier of "White Peak".Therefore, Phoenix Mountain in the Southern Alps is the favorite mountain for those who are just beginning to climb.At the same time, it is close to Tokyo and the roads are easy to walk. Why didn't Songshan climb this short and easy mountain first, and leave it for the last climb?Maybe this is why he planned to climb those mountains that are far and difficult to climb first, and put the easy ones at the end as the end of his climbing? Middle-aged and elderly climbers may be worried that if they do not climb those difficult mountains first when they are physically strong, it will be difficult to realize their desire to climb hundreds of famous mountains in the future. Cross-country is full of confidence in his body, and he will start climbing from the mountain closest to Tokyo.Matsuyama is different, he wants to climb from the far mountain, which may be due to physical reasons. Unexpectedly, Song Shan did not go to Phoenix Mountain immediately after climbing the Ninety-Nine Mountains. "If you climb Phoenix Mountain, you will lose your goal in the future. I will leave it at the right time to climb again." Songshan said to Cross Country. After that, Songshan began to climb the mountains he had already climbed in the past and the mountains other than the hundred famous mountains, but he still did not climb Phoenix Mountain. One day in the early summer of the third year after getting acquainted with cross-country—— "It's finally time for me to climb Phoenix Mountain. How about going with me?" Songshan invited Cross-country to say. Unfortunately, the climbing time of Matsuyama coincided with the wedding day of a relative's daughter of off-road, and off-road had already agreed to go to participate.Cross-country has not climbed Phoenix Mountain yet, but there will still be opportunities in the future. To Cross-country's regret, he had to reject Songshan's kindness. Song Shan climbed Phoenix Mountain alone.What is puzzling is that when the time came to return, he did not return.It is completely impossible to say that he was killed, because the weather was always fine during that period of time. When going out to climb mountains, it is common for him to return a day or two late, so his family is not so worried, thinking that he is alone in a cozy mountain hut or in a hot spring at the foot of the mountain. Enjoy Qingfu. Three days passed, and Matsuyama still hadn't come back.So, the family members went to the places where Songshan often strolled, and asked the close mountaineering friends of Songshan, but there was still no news. Matsuyama's wife found off-road. "I heard that sometimes he didn't come back on time. When he came back late, did he call and tell you?" Crossroad asked Matsuyama's wife. "Fight, definitely fight." "So, it's the only time I didn't call?" "Yes, only this time I didn't fight." "Then why didn't you feel a little strange that day?" "I think maybe he forgot to call because he was too leisurely during the trip." As expected of Matsuyama's wife, she seemed a little disapproving when she said this.It doesn't matter whether her husband is at home or not, and she doesn't care if she comes home late, and now Matsuyama's wife is not the only one. "Did Matsuyama bring his mobile phone when he went out?" "Bring it. But he may be turned off and can't get through." Cross-country thinks that Songshan can't hear the signal in the deep mountains, but thinks that even so, it is impossible to have no signal for three consecutive days. Therefore, Crossroads persuaded Matsuyama's wife to report to the local police station, and asked the local police station in the mountain area to send someone to conduct a search. According to the search request put forward by Matsuyama's wife, the local forestry guard sent a search team into the mountain to search. On the first day of climbing, Matsuyama lived in the Phoenix Hut.The lodging register at the hut has Matsuyama's name, home address, and the name of the mountain to climb, Yashagami. The Phoenix Hut is the base camp for climbing the three mountains of Fenghuang, located at the foot of Mount Jizang.If you follow the route of Mount Jizang, Mount Guanyin, and Mount Yaoshi, you will miss Yasha Shenling.But across the deep valley of the Norogawa River, you can look at the magnificent scenery of the Shirane Sanzan towering opposite, and you can also take a walk on the mountains. If you don't climb Guanyin Mountain, the mountain road to Yashashenling is very gentle and generally descends slowly. It is also a pathway to climb the Phoenix Three Mountains. In addition, the road has now been built to the foot of Yachashenling Mountain, so many people go to the foot of the mountain by car first, and then walk along the top of Yachashenling Mountain to complete the Phoenix Three Mountains. If it is winter and spring snow season, people sometimes get lost because they can't distinguish their footprints, on the top of the mountain or in the jungle.However, there are many climbers in summer and the mountain roads are easy to walk, so you will not lose your way at all. Regrettably, the footprints left by Matsuyama in the Phoenix Shack are actually his last. People who climb the Phoenix Three Mountains from the direction of Dizang Mountain usually pass through the Yashashen Ridge, and then descend to the Lu'an Mineral Spring Area.Of course, there are also those who go down the mountain from Berping via the Great Reindeer Ridge, Qiantouxing Mountain to Ganli Mountain, and those who descend directly from the Yashashen Ridge to the Yeluchuan River Valley. There are many forks down the mountain from Ganli Mountain, and it is difficult to distinguish. Therefore, except for those with rich mountaineering experience, most people dare not descend from Yeli Mountain.For the sake of caution, the search team also searched there, but there is still no news of Matsuyama. Matsuyama was climbed before the forests were officially opened for climbing. At this time, there were few people climbing, but the weather was always good during this period, and there was no danger on the mountain path.So where did Matsuyama go?The search team believed that Matsuyama might have strayed into a wild animal or forest, so they searched for it outside the mountain road, but did not find any trace of Matsuyama in the end.The search party's search was stopped. Later, when the climbing friends got together—— "Perhaps Songshan ran away from home on purpose," said a mountaineering friend. "Run away from home?" asked another. "After retiring from my job and climbing a hundred famous mountains, wouldn't there be nothing else to do? In addition, I don't have my own stronghold at home, so after climbing ninety-nine mountains, I temporarily leave the last There is no mountain to climb. Now that I have climbed the last mountain, I decided to run away from home, isn’t that right?” "Run away from home, where will he go?" "Isn't it just starting a new life!" "What is the new life?" "Well, you can only find out by asking Matsuyama. However, don't we all have the same wish? Aren't we all thinking that after climbing hundreds of famous mountains, we have to open up a new path in life?" After hearing this discussion, the mountaineering friends present seemed to have a bottom line in their hearts. When I was young, I felt that the mountains were a world I didn't know. As I grew older and accumulated experience, I realized that life in the mountains is exactly the same as life in the world, so the fantasy and longing for the mountains no longer exist. However, when I first stepped into mountaineering activities after resigning, I still had the fantasy and yearning for mountains when I was young.The difference between this longing and when I was young is that I have fully understood that that kind of longing is just a fantasy and longing, but I can't abandon it. The disappearance of Songshan created many associations in the hearts of mountaineering friends.Matsuyama may have really bid farewell to the current life and embarked on a new life journey. Matsuyama may have a lover secretly. He secretly prepared to run away from home very early on. When he finished climbing the hundred famous mountains, he started a new life with his lover. The male friends among the climbing friends all have a wonderful fantasy about Songshan's disappearance. But the cross-country does not think so, it is impossible for Songshan to have such a young lover.If Matsuyama secretly fell in love with a mountaineering girlfriend, there should be another woman who disappeared at the same time as him. In addition, Cross Country had never found such a woman in Matsuyama, if there was, he would not have invited himself to climb the mountain with him. Up to now, there has not been a precedent of disappearance after climbing one hundred famous mountains.Instead, they go home triumphant and content after having accomplished their second life goal.As for losing the goal and becoming empty from then on, that can only be a later thing. Afterwards, Cross Country also heard from mountaineering friends who have climbed Phoenix Mountain that, except for the winter and spring snow cover period, the mountaineering roads around the Three Phoenix Mountains are the best among the Southern Alps, and there are no fatal accidents at all. kind of dangerous place. If Songshan suddenly became unwell and unable to move during the climbing process, he should lie on the mountain road or somewhere not far from the mountain road.If so, later climbers or searchers along the route will surely find him.What is puzzling is that the search team searched around the mountain road and found no trace of Songshan.Does this mean that Songshan went down the mountain instead of going up the next day after staying overnight in the Phoenix hut?Or is it because of some special reason that he went missing during the mountain climbing? If Song Shan did not go up to Fenghuang Mountain, but went down from Fenghuang's hut, someone should have seen him at the foot of the mountain. If Matsuyama was pretending to be missing, there was absolutely no need for him to walk so far to the Phoenix Shack.Going to the Phoenix Shack in order to pretend to have climbed the Hundred Famous Mountains is something that people who are interested in climbing the Hundred Famous Mountains cannot understand and cannot accept. Climbing hundreds of famous mountains is the established goal of every climber.Even the climbers themselves will be puzzled if they pretend to have climbed the hundred famous mountains without climbing the hundred famous mountains.Because such a pretense is meaningless to one's life purpose.On the contrary, Songshan went to the Phoenix hut, which should be a sign of his determination to climb the Phoenix Mountain and finish climbing the hundred famous mountains. According to this inference, Songshan should have disappeared due to physical reasons or other special reasons other than mountaineering. What is the special reason?Offroad is thinking hard. Cross-country is based on the professional habits of the first half of my life, and the idea is locked on one point, that is, if a woman in Matsuyama and Friends of Mountaineering is to start a new life journey, there should be a female mountaineer who also disappeared during the same period of time up.Offroad is reasoning. "Missing in the same time period..." Cross-country looked at the sky and thought. If Matsuyama had a female companion when he disappeared, this companion may not necessarily be a companion among the friends of mountaineering, so is there anyone who disappeared at the same time as Matsuyama's disappearance? Cross-country turned on the computer that he started to learn after retiring, ready to search for relevant reports on Matsuyama's disappearance.He is not very skilled in operating computers, but it is a good way to pass the time after retirement.Of course, he didn't think there would be clues to be found on the computer. Off-road's finger rested on a message on the retrieval key.It was a small but complete piece of news. Koichi Uemura, 67, who lives in Kawasaki City, told his wife that he was going to climb Mt. Hachidake, but his whereabouts were unknown. According to his wife, Uemura is also a person who wants to climb a hundred famous mountains, and he is about to finish climbing a hundred famous mountains. According to her request, the Forest Guard searched the mountain with the assistance of the local climbing team, but failed to find Uemura.Uemura left home at the same time as Matsuyama, and was one year younger than Matsuyama.The three mountains of Fenghuang are very close to the eight mountains, and they can also be said to be two connected mountains. Offroad started his imagination, Matsuyama and Uemura disappeared at the same time, is there any relationship between them? The two of them are not in a heterosexual relationship, and it is impossible for them to start a new life, that is to say, they will not elope.Since there will be no elopement, Matsuyama's disappearance will have other secrets.Thinking of this, off-road can no longer sit still. Cross-country decided to go to Uemura's house according to the address mentioned in the report.When he arrived at Uemura's home in the hilly area near Gegaoka Yuen along the Odakyu Line, he saw Uemura's wife, who was in her 50s, with a surprised face. "I am a mountaineering friend of Uemura. When I was traveling abroad, I was surprised to hear that he disappeared. After I came back, I wanted to find out if there was anything new after that." Cross-country is like memorizing a prepared line Say. "It turned out to be a friend of mountaineering! Thank you for your concern for my husband. There was no news about him after he disappeared. He disappeared as if he met a ghost." She was not very sad when she spoke. Yue Yue thought, if he disappeared, his wife might have the same expression. Yue Yue handed her the gift he brought with him, and her expression calmed down. "May I ask if you guessed your husband's whereabouts?" Cross asked without losing the opportunity. "No, if you can guess it, that's great!" She replied in a somewhat irresponsible tone. “这就是说，除了登山他就没有其他好去的地方啦？” “他是个胸无大志的人，因此没法出人头地，只熬到一个科长就退职了。” “你丈夫原来是从事什么工作的？” “这，你不知道吗？” “你丈夫没有对我说过，我也没有问过。” “在叫做'星记食品'的食品公司工作。” “星记食品……”越野听后大吃一惊，这一点他想到了，但没有想到这么快就找到了目标。 “你知道吗？”她反问说。 “说实在的，我有一个登山之友也在星记食品公司工作，姓名是松山友一郎。不知道以前你从你丈夫那里听说过没有？” “松山啊，认识认识。他是我丈夫童年时的朋友，从小学到高中都在同一所学校上学，上大学时才分开了。说真的，我丈夫与松山报的是同一所大学，可惜他没有考上，就改上了另一所大学。毕业后，他们二人又都在星记食品公司工作。我丈夫退职时，松山是公司的董事，我丈夫是他的部下。” “你丈夫的登山之友中有松山吗？” "I don't know, I never asked." “退职后，你丈夫与松山有交往吗？” “应该说没有交往，因为我丈夫对松山一直都没有什么好印象。” "why?" “我丈夫没有详细跟我说过，好像是在与我结婚之前，他有一个心爱之人被松山夺走了。” “心爱之人？” “不过，最后的结局是，松山并没有跟我丈夫的心爱之人结婚，而是与当时一个董事的女儿结了婚。我记得我丈夫曾经无意中说过一句话，松山是靠他妻子的门路才升上去的。” “松山是在与你丈夫同一时间向他妻子说了要登八个岳附近的凤凰三山之后失踪的，这件事你知道吗？” “这，我不知道。松山的失踪与我丈夫的失踪之间有什么关系吗？”她稍感兴趣地问。 “现在还说不清。不过，我发现你丈夫是与从童年就是朋友，在学校是同学，在公司是同事的松山，在同一时间到附近去登山，然后都失去了消息。同时，两个人都是要登百座名山中的最后一座山。” “你是说，他们二人是商量好之后失踪的吗？” “还不能那么说。我问你，警方没有来人问过你什么吗？” “没有。松山和我丈夫是同时失踪，今天我还是第一次听你说的。” 越野感到从植村妻子那里再也了解不到更多的情况了。不过，越野从中却得到了启发，那就是松山与植村同时失踪决非偶然。 “有什么新情况请通知我一下。”越野说后，就离开了植村家。 越野在职期间的一位朋友，现在仍在松山家所属的派出所里任职，于是他就把自己的发现告诉了那位朋友。那位朋友对此很感兴趣。 越野心中明白，只靠这些材料是无法进行搜查的。同时，两个人在失踪之前都没有异性关系的纠葛，也没有工作方面的往来，而且也没有遭到别人的嫉恨或者威胁。 尽管他们都不拥有巨额财产，他们的生活也并不困难。退职后，他们都有存款，有退休金，生活过得很舒适安逸。也就是说，他们完全没有卷入犯罪的可能。 越野根据他前半生的职业生涯，也只能考虑到这种地步。 松山和植村至今仍无一点消息。 一年后的5月末，“五一”黄金休息周的余热过去了，又恢复了往日的平静。就在此时，松山的失踪也以最坏的结果画上了句号。 辖区林业巡察职工在巡察位于药师岳和夜叉神岭之间的迁山（海拔二千五百八十五米）附近原始森林山火发火情况时，在一棵倾倒的树下面，发现了一具腐尸。 由于死亡时间过长，身体变形，再加上动物咬食，尸体损伤严重。 接到报案后，山林警备队立即派人赶赴现场验尸收尸。根据死者携带的物品认定，死者是去年6月下旬离家登山失踪的松山友一郎，68岁。 山梨县公安局小笠原派出所迅速与其家人联系，并要求认领尸体。 说是认领尸体，尸体已腐烂变形而且满身伤痕，连家属也无从辨识，只能是认定死者生前随身所带的物品。最后决定由松山的妻子与松山的生前好友越野一起前往收尸。 越野确定死者是松山，同时也确认死者的随身物品登山帽、手表、指南针、照相机、背包、眼镜等都是松山的。松山的手表准确地记下了松山死亡的时间。装在照相机内的胶卷上，还拍了几张登山途中想拍的山水风景。 松山妻子也确认照相机是松山的遗物。经解剖确定，死因系后脑部遭跌打导致脑出血并伴有脑损伤。 致伤物体鉴定为钝器，但鉴定意见则是，因现场周围布满了树根、岩石，难以确定是滚跌时撞击受伤还是被人所击致伤。 辖区派出所对死因虽有犯罪性嫌疑，但多数人的意见都倾向于事故死亡。 解剖后，尸体立即被送往当地火葬场火化，骨灰由家属领走。 从遗体所在位置推测，死者已经登完了第一百座山。这是悲壮的第一百座山。 葬礼可以体现出松山的人生功绩，参加葬礼的人排成了长蛇阵，送的花圈上既有政界要员的名字，又有商界大人物的名字。 报纸上还登了松山死亡的讣告。登山之友们从报纸上才知道了松山生前的功绩，无不为之震惊。原来若不是该公司生产的食品引起过食物中毒事件，他就会当上公司总经理。 松山的失踪，因他的遗体被发现画上了最后的句号，但植村的消息却一点儿也没有。越野的脑海里仍然留有一个重大疑团，那就是植村与松山之死就一点关系也没有吗？不过，越野决定，从此不再考虑松山及其死亡之事了。 松山之死，在登山之友中一直都是热门话题。头天晚上他还住在凤凰棚屋，在辻山附近发现他的遗体却是在登完凤凰三山之后。他这种以死表明登完百座名山的做法，使所有的登山之友无不为之震动。 即使你登完了一百座名山，也不会有人表扬你，也不可能留下什么记录。但面对拼死登完百座名山，圆满书写自己的人生总结的松山，那些把后半生定格在登完百座名山的中老年登山者，无不感慨万千。 越野不打算在登完百座名山之后就像松山那样进行人生总结，他也不急于要很快登完百座名山，因为他对他的体力、精力都充满了自信。 放眼日本，除了百座名山之外，还有无数的好山可登。可是为什么那些各具风格的山却没有被列入百座名山一览表之内呢？相反那些令人无法首肯的荒山秃岭，却被列入了百座名山之中。 挑选是根据人的好恶，百座名山自然是代表着作家深田的好恶。但令人不可思议的是，作家深田所挑定的百座名山，已成了中老年登山者们深信的一种新兴宗教，而作家深田久弥则成了这一宗教的开山鼻祖。 诚然，登山之友中的大部分人并不知道是谁选定的这百座名山，也没有看过深田的作品。但若不按挑选人所选的这百座名山登山，登山时就会有一种孤独之感。 在松山的葬礼之后，越野决定登凤凰三山。他打算亲自沿着松山可能走过的登山路线登山，并亲眼确定松山登山时所见到的景点。同时他还从松山妻子那里，借到了松山登山时所拍下的照片。 就在当年6月中旬的某一天，越野选择了梅雨期间的一段无雨天气，就开始了他的登凤凰三山之旅。 松山的登山路线有两条。第一条路线是先到登山大本营凤凰棚屋，然后经由御座石矿泉到燕头山山顶；第二条路线是经由青木矿泉到屯故泽。 松山到底选的是哪一条路线，谁也不清楚。在第一条路线途中可以欣赏到飞流直下的瀑布，但却有些绕远。经再三考虑，越野最后决定走第一条路线。 越野乘坐中央线在穴山站下火车，改乘到御座石矿泉的中巴车直达御座石矿泉。然后从矿泉又经约六个小时的长距离攀登，当到达长满林木的燕头山山半腰时，地藏岳上的方尖塔便映入了眼帘。这里与第二条路线的交叉处就是凤凰棚屋。 越野在凤凰棚屋度过了进山后的第一个夜晚。第二天，日本列岛整个受流动性高气压的影响，天气晴好。越野决定当天一鼓作气，沿山顶的道路登完三座山到达夜叉神岭。他这样决定，是因为这样走可以在途中看到辻山附近的原始森林，而松山的遗体就是在那里发现的。另外，他还打算如果可能的话，要顺便到现场去看一下。当然，这样做会大大偏离一般的登山路线。 离开棚屋，走过一条坡度很大的林间道路，就到了名为“赛河原”的砂石斜坡。赛河原果然名不虚传，坡陡、路长、砂石多，确实是走两步退一步。地藏岳上的方尖塔明明就耸立在眼前，却怎么也靠近不了。 穿过砂石区，又进入了爬地松林带，穿过林带很快就到了山顶。隔着深谷下的野吕川河谷，眼前是以北岳为尊的白根三山，它雄伟壮丽，令人叹为观止。 山顶上冷风飕飕，全身的汗很快就消了。越野不由啧啧称赞，而且还领悟到了登山之乐。他取出照相机把镜头对准白根三山拍照，但使他感到奇怪的是，松山所拍的照片中没有这一绝妙景观。 由山麓像负荷的蚂蚁一样艰难通过漫长而陡峭的山路来到山顶之后，松山竟然无视这样好的拍照机会。另外，松山没有沿着山路走西北方，也就是右手方向的早川山山脊走，相反他却走的是左手方向，即东南方向的白根三山。 从地藏岳到凤凰三山最高峰观音岳，沿途需要通过白白的砂石区、爬地松林带、高山植物群落地。在登山的过程中，隔着野吕川，眼中并排出现的白根三山就越来越大、越来越壮观了。 自从决心要登百座名山以后，越野能够叫出名字的山也越来越多了。 越是尽情地四处观望，越野心中的疑点就越多。在这满眼美景中，不管带多少胶卷恐怕都不够用，可是松山却一张也没有拍就轻而易举地放过了。当然，这也许是松山不想用照相机观望和拍照，而是想把这些美景深深刻在眼底之故吧。 不，松山不可能不用照相机拍照，他的胶卷上显示他在登山途中用过。不过，都是用快照拍摄的，而且不管从哪一个角度看，松山所拍照的，都远不如越野眼前所见到的美景好。 观音岳离药师岳近在咫尺，而且通路平坦宽敞。从观音岳穿过有明显足迹的白沙石中的登山路，就到了药师岳。然后沿着山路，就可以抵达夜叉神岭方面的原始森林，同时，如果天气好，绝不会迷路。 过了药师岳，岩石逐渐增多，从花岗岩石间穿过之后就到了沙拂岳。从这里起，就再没有山脊山背之分了。下了沙拂岳，就进入了丛林地带。 在下沙拂岳时，越野心中又越发感到奇怪，松山就是顺着山路一直走到这里，竟然一张风景照片都没有拍。 这绝对不可能，因为与松山走的是同一条登山路，所以松山所拍照片的地点应该是越野此前走过的山路沿线。可是在越野认为最好的拍摄地点观音岳、药师岳山顶上，松山一张照片也没有拍。 越野怀着极大的疑虑经过了南御室棚屋，终于到了辻山。令他遗憾的是，那里的原始森林遮天蔽日，到处找都找不到松山遗体的现场。从辻山走过林中长长的下坡路往下，就进入了松山未曾看到过的又一景区了。 穿过树林，眼前突然一亮，北岳就展现在了面前。这个地方叫“杖立岭”。据说此处观景极佳，登山者一般都会在此拄着手杖站立，或将手杖放在地上休息观景，此岭由此得名。 面对此情此景，越野不由目瞪口呆，惊愕不已！因为松山拍摄的照片中，确实有一张越野现在看到的北岳照片。 越野把从松山妻子那里借来的照片与眼前的实景进行了对比。 “这个老糊涂……” 越野想着，他不敢相信眼前北岳的这一实景。一瞬间他感到“这不是幻觉吧”？ 死在辻山附近的松山，他不可能在他没有到过的杖立岭拍下北岳的照片。 越野呆呆地目视着北岳。 从凤凰山回家后的某一天，越野突然收到了一个出乎预料的电话。 “我想你也许会忘记了，我是植村公一的妻子。去年因为我丈夫的事，曾劳驾你到我家来过。” 听到姓名后，越野一下子就想起来了。 “当时我太打搅你了。你一直都很好吧？” “好，谢谢你。说真的，我是想告诉你我丈夫的一点情况，所以才很冒昧地给你打电话。” “你丈夫的情况有眉目了吗？”越野想起去年到植村家去的时候，自己曾说过如果有植村的消息，希望能告诉自己一下。 “说真的，我丈夫的一位朋友对我说，他曾在新宿看到过我丈夫。” “说你丈夫在新宿？那他在新宿干什么？” “这个……”植村妻子停了一下又接着说：“听说是在外流浪。” “流浪？” “他的朋友很吃惊地向他搭话，他却一转脸就像逃跑似地跑走了。” “是不是认错人了？” “他的朋友说绝对是他。当他的朋友一叫他的名字，他有明显的反应，并扭头看了他朋友一眼，然后就吃惊地逃跑了。他的那位朋友还说，我丈夫的摸样有变化，但他绝对是我的丈夫。” “在新宿的什么地方见的？” “在西口的中央大街的地下道里。” “请问你去看过吗？” “没有。我，有点害怕。”听植村妻子的语气，越野感到她好像是想请自己去新宿确认一下。 “我最近就到新宿去找一下。不过，我认为你丈夫的模样可能会有些变化，所以请你给我几张最具你丈夫特征的照片，好吗？” “好，我很快就给你送去。” “另外，你能否告诉我一下，你丈夫那位朋友的姓名和联络地点呢？” "of course can." 第二天，植村妻子把十几张植村的照片和植村朋友的联络地点交给了越野。 随后，越野便给植村的那位朋友打电话，询问了他见到植村时的大致位置后，立即带着照片往新宿去了。 越野心中在想，植村现在一定不在那个地方，被朋友发现以后，很可能已转移到了其他地方。 植村朋友碰到植村的地方，是在京王广场大饭店通往东京都政府大院地下道的正中间。 越野首先到新宿警署去。他没有预先打电话，因为预先打电话的话，事情繁多的牛尾刑警就需要抽时间等候他。很凑巧，越野去的时候，牛尾刑警刚好在办公室里。 “越野老兄，好久不见啦！你还是这么精神。你能来我很高兴！”牛尾刑警满脸带笑迎接越野。 “我来打扰你这个大忙人，实在感到有些过意不去。我很想你啊！” “我要是知道你路过这里而不来，我会生气的。像你这样的才干，退职后斗志仍不减当年啊！” “你奋斗在第一线，一切都好吗？” 就在此时，青柳和大上两位刑警来了。 “真是难得相聚啊！”他们互致问候。 “啊，就是这种氛围嘛，现场的氛围。离开现场不久，我就很想再闻一闻这种现场的气息。” “欢迎你随时随地来闻，我们始终都把你当做是现场之人啊。” “好，好。我已经是老头儿了，不能再登台了。我能来闻闻味就感到心满意足啦！在百忙中打扰诸位，实在是对不起，我该走了。”越野说着，站了起来。 “越野老兄，你以后到新宿办什么事，一定要来跟我说说话。今天你有没有什么事需要我们帮忙？” 牛尾刑警装作若无其事地问。他感到越野并不是只为了见见面，说几句话才来找他们的。 “我想来这里找一个流浪汉。” “流浪汉？要说流浪汉的话，这个地区现在有五百多个，而且都是按等级分片分布的。” “流浪汉还有等级吗？” “有等级。有现金收入、有找到食物的能力、厚包装箱纸室内有整套家具、无忧无虑生活的属于A级。不具备上述条件，仅有能力寻找食物度日的属于B级。那些什么也干不了、迷迷糊棚等死的属于C级。按照级别，A级分布在京王广场到东京都政府大院一带，B级分布在新宿中心大厦到世纪住宅公寓一带，C级分布在南口到新宿中央公园一带。请问你要找的是哪个级别的？” “据说是在京王广场到东京都政府大院的地下道内碰到的，我想应该属于A级。” “我跟你一起去好吗？” “不用，不用。让你们调查一科在百忙中找一个毫无目标的流浪汉，不是太大材小用了吗？我只是打听一下，作为一个重要参考。” “好，有事你尽管招呼我。”越野向他们告辞后离开了新宿派出所。 正如牛尾刑警所说，中央大街南侧，排列着四五十个用厚包装箱纸搭的小屋，住着一些比较干净利落的流浪汉。 据说到了夜晚，这里人数会增加一倍多。越野想，如果到了夜晚，流浪汉们住进了小屋，就无从查找植村了。 越野发现，现在在小屋里的流浪汉中没有一个像植村的，于是就拿出植村的照片让他们看，问他们认识不认识照片上的这个人。 “这不是登山怪吗？” “登山怪？登山怪是什么意思？” “就是山里的妖怪嘛！就是喜欢登山呗！他又当流浪汉又登山。他说什么登完百座名山之后还要登新的一百座名山，所以他是一个登山怪。姓名嘛，我们都不知道。总之，住在这里的人，全都把世俗之名忘记了。” “这个登山怪现在在哪里？” “可能正在巡逻。” 他所说的“巡逻”，也就是为了找食物在自己的势力范围内转来转去。 “登山怪什么时候回来呢？” “什么时候回来……这说不清，反正登山怪的家就在那边。” 那个流浪汉指了指不远的一个小屋，接着说道：“可能夜里才会回来。你，你是记者呢，还是登山怪的亲朋呢？” 流浪汉在猜测越野是什么人。 “唉，就算是吧。”越野含糊其辞地回答道。 越野心中暗想，如果植村心中有愧的话，当他从流浪汉那里得知有人来找过他后，他很可能会变换地方躲避起来。越野转而又想，既然他的那位朋友发现他后，他现在仍呆在这里，这就说明他没有要离开这里的迹象。 不过，令越野感到佩服的是，植村竟然能一边流浪，一边还继续登山，并制定出登新的一百座名山的目标。 在新宿区内溜达着消磨时间的越野估算好了时间，在傍晚时重新向中央大街的地下道处走去。越野发现，植村所住的小屋里好像有人。 越野朝小屋内问了一声：“里面有人吗？” 有一个流浪汉探出了头。此人正是照片的主人。 “你是植村吗？” 那个流浪汉满脸狐疑地点了点头。 “我姓越野，是松山友一郎的朋友。”越野自我介绍后，植村的脸色稍稍平静了一些。 “直说吧，