Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen Proposal for Cooperation

I almost escaped out of the house, and it took a few minutes to recover from the disgusting scene. Jude Kao was behind me and handed me a bottle of beer, and I took a few sips before I recovered. "Any thoughts?" he asked. I looked at him, wondering what exactly he meant by asking.He said: "Chinese people like to beat around the bush. I've got a bit of a bad habit. I'm sorry. I'm asking, do you want to cooperate?" "cooperate?" "I don't have much time. Next is your world. I am always an outsider in this land, and I can't 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 sound grand, I understand what you mean." I said, "What do you want?" "We have already explored all the four hours' journey into the interior. But there is a door, no matter what method we use, we can't break through. I can provide you with all the information." Jude Kao said, "There is only one condition, you must Take one of mine in." I thought about it.Pan Zi seemed to want to refuse, so I immediately grabbed Pan Zi: "Wait a minute, I think it's acceptable." "Third Lord, they are all mobs, and we don't care about 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 would never make a deal that cannot be done, he must be very confident 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 proposed this cooperation is that I don't want you to make unnecessary sacrifices. Without this information, at least one of you will die during the four-hour journey .” "That's why you are useless." Pan Zi said. Jude laughed, then shook his head and said: "Well, anyway, you won't believe what I say, you have to go in to know what kind of place this ancient building is. I'm preparing four coffins here, Waiting for you to sit down and talk again."

The conversation broke up badly.Pan Zi gave me a wink. In fact, I really want to cooperate, but what Pan Zi said made sense, so I just nodded and said, "Then we'll talk about it when the time comes. Mr. Qiu, please go ahead." Pan Zi and I sat by the stream, pondering what the old foreigner said just now and what we saw.Pan Zi said: "It seems that the inside of this ancient building is extremely strange. I thought we were tossing around outside, and Jude tried to test that they could enter the building. I didn't expect that so many people died in so many days. I can't find it anywhere."

"Are you sure that this ancient building must be in the mountains?" I asked. "There have been many legends about Shiwan Dashan since ancient times. Only here is the legend of the fire in the Ming Dynasty, and many things have happened in modern times. In the past hundred years, I don't know how many people have entered this remote mountain village. These people must have a purpose Yes, there must be a lot of clues pointing to the ancient buildings of the Zhang family in these mountains. But I think you were out of your mind just now, and almost passed through the gang. Did you think of something just now?"

I looked to the distance in the darkness - there was a huge no man's land, deep mountains and old forests. I lit a cigarette, matched the scary patient I saw just now with the shadow I saw in the photo of Agui's house and Brother Chu, and said to Pan Zi: "This is definitely not a coincidence. I think there is a possibility that that shadow may be of the same nature as the person we saw just now." "Tell me in detail." Pan Zi obviously didn't understand. I said: "We don't know what happened to that person in the stone path, but if we assume that he survives this time, you should be able to imagine what his body will look like."

Pan Zi nodded.The man stood up just now, his body basically melted, and his whole body was extremely strange. This kind of deformity is absolutely impossible to cure. I said: "The photo Brother Chu gave me is very similar to the strange shadow I saw on the second floor of Agui's house, and the posture of that person standing up just now. I believe that in this village, there is a person who encountered Had the same accident as the man just now, but he survived and became deformed.” I took a puff of cigarette, breathed out, and thought of more, “This man, probably the archaeological team twenty years ago people here."

Pan Zi didn't make a sound. I told him what I experienced in Banai, but he didn't necessarily understand everything. In fact, I was just sorting it out for myself. "Assuming that the archaeological team that year entered the deep mountain, no matter whether it was the archaeological team before or after the bag was dropped, they carried out archaeological activities on the lakeside of the deep mountain lake. Given the time and scale of the team at that time, there must be some Discovery. They may have entered the cave, and then encountered changes, some died, some survived, and some disappeared. Then, the people who came out of this team left here, but there was one person they thought The man who was doomed to death crawled out of the cave by himself, and he survived and returned to the village to live." I said, "This man has lived for decades. He knows a lot of secrets, and he dare not come again Go back to the world outside the village. He thought he would die in this village, but what he couldn't imagine was that the matter didn't end. After decades, the "conscious successor" of the previous archaeological team ’ in this village again.”

"You made it up yourself, right?" Pan Zidao, "Then how do you explain the photo Brother Chu gave you?" "The background in that photo is the sanatorium in Golmud. The weird figure is behind the screen. The little brother was also found in this village. The time is on the same line. Although I don't know the specific relationship between them, However, there are obviously more secrets in this small village than I can imagine." I said. Pan Zi said: "Then don't sleep tonight, let's ask Agui what's going on, go to the second floor of his house and find that shadow."

I shook my head: "No need." I remembered the fire in Pokerfing's "former residence".Although the second uncle was evasive to me at the time, it seemed that he set the fire, but the second uncle did not admit it himself after all.I think it is very likely that this person lived in the "former residence" of Poker Ping.He thought it was impossible, and when we showed up, he thought it was not over, so he immediately burned the house and destroyed everything. So we won't find anything on the second floor of Agui's house.This man is not a wretch, and after so many years, he still shows a kind of extreme vigilance and execution ability.

Why? During the time Jude Kao was here, he must have wiped out all the clues, and at this time, he must not be staying in the village. If it were me, I would definitely hide in the deep mountains and move around Jude Kao's camp. "Do you think they found the ancient building of the Zhang family?" Pan Zi asked, "Wouldn't it be possible that the iron-like things they took away were from the ancient building of the Zhang family?" I shake my head.Now I don't know this person's position, but all his actions show that he doesn't want his past to be exposed.Although I don't know if he doesn't want to expose himself or everything, but I have a very ominous premonition. This premonition may have something to do with the burning of Poker's house.I was only a little bit close to seeing those photos, but I was inadvertently, and I was fooled. "Pan Zi, the team is not resting, can we go?" I asked Pan Zi. "Okay, I picked these people out, and they can handle it without sleep for three days." Pan Zi said, "Why, what do you think?" "We have to go into the mountains immediately, I think something might happen," I said, "Tell them to rest in the mountains, and we have to get to the lake before tomorrow night." My sudden decision caught everyone off guard. Fortunately, the third uncle's deterrent power was here. In a strange atmosphere, everyone began to pack up the unpacked bags, and asked Agui to prepare dogs and mules overnight and set off into the mountains. Even so, it was almost three o'clock in the middle of the night when the mules started off.Mosquitoes and insects are everywhere in the dark night of the mountains and forests. I am extremely tired, and at the same time, I am suffering from the internal fire in my heart.Knowing that it might be a waste of worry, but still can't help but feel anxious. Along the way, I walked in front of the team and followed Agui closely.A Gui led the three dogs to clear the way, and behind him Pan Zi and a few guys drove the mules for a long distance. It was not until dawn that we took a break, set up the first supply point, and made marks along the way.After walking through the dense canopy, we saw Jude Kao's team not far away, all of them were big blue tents, we ignored them and continued to move forward. There was nothing to say along the way, and it was already the evening of the second day when we arrived at the edge of Yaohu Lake.The sun has only one tail left, and there is only a misty light reflected on the calm lake, which looks extremely dim. On the lake beach on one side, the bonfire was brightly lit, and a series of red flames reflected an unbelievable scene. There are bonfires everywhere, cooking everywhere, and there are many makeshift shacks among the rocks, covered with thatch.There were twenty or thirty people, mules, dogs, and even ducks, mixed among these people. The tape recorder was playing music, and beer cans and Coke cans were scattered in the crevices of the stones. Under the firelight, those people in twos and threes were playing cards, dazed in a daze, and drinking alcohol, a very leisurely modern pastoral scene. "On the stone beach, the bosses couldn't lie down in their sleeping bags, so they built shacks. The ducks were raised for food, and it was too troublesome to bring them in one by one. Each household caught more than a dozen and raised them in the lake first. Come on, ducks can’t run away from the lake anyway.” Agui said, “In a few days, I’ll have to get some reclining chairs from outside, what day and bath does the boss want?” "Sunbathing." Xiaohua said from behind, and patted me, "People in this line of work are naturally fond of instant pleasure." I looked at two foreigners, a man and a woman, who were kissing on a big rock by the lake beach, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh. No one paid any attention to us. When we walked into their campsite, everyone looked at us with indifferent expressions.Pan Zi passed by a place where beer crates were piled up, and gave us a few cans, but no one protested. "It seems that he regards us as his own." Pan Zi said, "Jude is not reliable in testing his mother, not even a sentry." "It's not that there is no such thing as someone with a high level of art and boldness." Xiao Hua took a sip of beer, looked at a place and pointed.I turned my head and saw a little spark on a tree in the woods outside the rocky beach, as if someone was smoking on it. "On a?" "Just one." Xiaohua said, "I guess there is a guy in my hand, with good eyes." "Let's stay away from them." Pan Zi said, "It's smoky and full of people." He pointed to the other side of the lake, where it was pitch black. When we walked over, everyone was extremely tired, and they put down their luggage and lay down on the ground. Pan Zi kicked them all the way to get them up to chop firewood.