Chapter 26 Chapter 25 Ghost in the Valley

Not long after we walked up, we came out of the bush area and came to a rocky land, which was bare and had a very wide view. We could see the lush green area below, which is the forest we were in just now, and the distant land. A vast meadow, you can't see the side, and you can see the clouds on the top of the peak and the snow that is looming in the clouds. The rocky mountain where I am now is on the shady side, and the clouds in the sky are a bit thick. Although the view is wide, the light is not very good. Occasionally, a few black clouds drift by and press down low. This picture reminds me of In The Lord of the Rings, the scene where the two hobbits go to Mount Doom at the end, and the rocks under our feet are a bit like those in the movie, they are blue and black, and these rocks are not the kind of fine rocks seen on the river beach. Most of them are connected together, and there are many gaps between the rocks. At the beginning, the gaps were small, and the gaps became more and more wide as we went up. If we were not careful, our feet would get stuck in the gaps, so we walked very slowly, especially It was two guys who carried the box, one deep foot and one shallow foot, they were so skillful that they didn't even let the box touch them.

Huang Lin walked at the end, and I saw her start to place leaves on the ground at intervals and press them down with small stones. It turned out that she was making a mark, because in the forest and bushes, the traces of walking are easy to find, but It is impossible to go to this rocky mountain, you must leave a mark, otherwise it will be very difficult for Lao Shi and the others to identify the traces when they come back. After going up for a while, we didn't go to higher ground, because it was very cold and the air was thin, which may cause altitude sickness, especially for people like me, if we go further up, the oxygen will not be enough .

Huang Lin said that there is still a long way to go to Mount Buzhou, and it is still far away from here. The mountain we are on now is just the beginning, and there are many mountains bigger than this to climb, which makes me Immediately disheartened, he took a few breaths and muttered that this was even more exaggerated than Tang Monk going to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. He at least had a horse that could go to heaven and earth, not to mention a few disciples with great powers. , We are lucky, we have nothing, we can only climb slowly on this kind of rocky mountain that may turn our feet at any time.

She smiled and said, that is the novel you read, have you ever thought about how the prototype Tang Seng in the novel went all the way to India? I had no choice but to click my tongue, and asked me to think about it. In that era, it is really impossible for a person to travel long distances from the Eastern Land to the Western Heaven. Huang Lin still smiled, pointed to the distance, and said: "This kind of rocky mountain is easier to walk, and it doesn't hide hidden dangers like the forest, so let's go around along the flat now." , that’s the next mountain over there.” I looked in the direction she pointed, and the distance was gray, but I could still see that it was the place where the mountains meet, forming a high-lying valley. The bottom of the valley was on the same level as our current terrain. , and there are still mountains on both sides of the valley that cannot be seen from the top, and the rocks at the foot extend all the way there.

We were walking slowly on this rocky mountain. By noon, Lao Shi and the others still hadn't caught up. This made me more and more worried. Something really happened to them, right? Is there really something wrong with Ale? Huzi said, you're starting to worry about it again, you should take a good look at the bag on your back, it's almost on the ground, can't you carry it anymore? When he said this, I was embarrassed. Indeed, I felt that the bag on my back was getting heavier and heavier, and my shoulders were painful. There must have been a few big blood bubbles. I was strangled by the weight of seventy to eighty catties, but I was embarrassed to say it, because I was the lightest among these men, and if I said it, I would have to make a joke, so I squeezed my bag hard Pushed back, gritted his teeth, jumped a few times, and said nonchalantly: "With this weight, I can jump and walk, haha!"

"Come on, don't be brave, you'd better save your little energy and hurry!" Huang Lin must be very clear about my behavior of hitting my swollen face to pretend to be fat. As she spoke, she walked to me and helped me adjust the position of the bag, and then walked to the front to observe the terrain in the distance. Take a very unique compass in her hand, and look at it from time to time, it should be used to correct the direction. At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we reached the valley we had seen before, but Lao Shi and the others still hadn't caught up. Before entering the valley, there was fog, which made my goosebumps rise again in an instant, because when I saw this fog, I remembered the previous Wudrill, the kind of terrifying thick that makes me still have lingering fears. Fog, and the valley in front of him seemed to be getting thicker as he went in. Under this kind of thick fog, it would definitely not be difficult to form a fog mandrill.

Huang Lin saw my strangeness at a glance, patted my shoulder, and said: "Don't worry, keep up, everything will be fine." Her voice was still so mature and charming, which calmed my nervousness a little bit, and I focused on watching the road under my feet, almost following her back. After entering the valley, the road became quite difficult to walk. Large and small stones covered the entire bottom of the valley. Several of us walked through the crevices of the stones. If we couldn’t get through, we had to help each other to climb over. The deeper we went into the valley, the more It is difficult to climb, and I still have a little strength to talk, but when I get here, I am so tired that I don't want to talk.

But the fog is getting thicker and thicker, everything is a little blurry, and the feeling on the body is getting colder and colder. If you don’t talk, the surrounding will be terribly silent. I have been worrying about the appearance of the fog mandrill, in order to drive away the haze in my heart , I tried to tell a joke, only to find that the moment I blurted out a few words, my voice trembled a little, and with the panting after continuous climbing, it sounded a little weird even to myself. The guy who basically hadn't spoken said three words softly: "Don't talk." As soon as he said these three words, my nerves immediately stretched to the critical point, because this situation reminded me of the time when Ling Jianfei told me not to talk in the car, and I thought to myself, as expected, Wudrill is coming again... …

But after waiting for a while, there was no sound. Huang Lin pulled my arm and looked at me in surprise, asking: What's wrong with you? Only then did I gather myself up, shook my head and said softly that it was all right, and then asked the silent guy why he said that, but he did not speak again, and he didn't even look at me. Huzi approached, put his ear close to me and said, "Don't talk if I tell you not to talk." I also imitated his appearance, leaned back and said, "I'm going to suffocate if I don't talk, will I die if I talk?" "you are right."

"what?" "Didn't you notice that the rocks at the bottom of this valley are different from the way we came here?" "It's different. The stones here are a bit sharp and easy to cut people, but does it have anything to do with whether you can speak or not?" "This is a stone that fell from weathering! Do you understand?" There were a few black lines growing on my forehead. After he said that, I realized that the rocks, large and small, all fell from the mountains on both sides of the valley, which means that there may be people here at any time. The stones rolled down again, and the pieces were so big that if we spoke louder or made some other big noise, the sound waves would be transmitted to the top, and if there was a slight vibration, it would definitely have something to do with the dead.

After realizing this, I immediately shut up and climbed those big rocks more cautiously, for fear of making a big noise by accident. Although I was very cautious, I still heard the sound of rocks rolling down in front of me. , but the movement is relatively small, it should be caused by the falling of small broken stones, but it comes from time to time, which also makes me tremble. Fortunately, we went all the way until the fog began to fade away, and when we were about to leave the valley, nothing happened, and we didn't encounter the Wudrill that I had been worried about before. So as soon as I got out of the valley, my tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and I yelled at Huang Lin: "Sister Lin, shall we rest here?" Huang Lin turned her head, nodded and said yes, but I saw that she seemed a little restless, which was completely different from the calm demeanor when she was walking in the valley before, and after she sat down, she kept looking at the one in her hand. Compass, not sure what went wrong. I leaned over and asked her what was wrong, and she raised her head, smiled and said it was all right. I continued to ask her, have we all reached the second mountain?Why didn't Lao Shi and the others catch up? It's almost 6 o'clock now, and the sky is getting dark so quickly. If they don't catch up at night, they will be in trouble. She forced a smile, and I could see that she was also starting to feel a little worried, but she still told me that Lao Shi and the others should be coming soon, and they will definitely catch up before it gets completely dark, so let's camp here. Beard didn't care about what we said. After putting down Shimei's box, he yelled that he was starving to death, and went to find firewood to make a fire, but it returned to the rocky mountain terrain before, and there were few plants. There are also a few plants that are very short, only as thick as chopsticks, and they grow stubbornly in the crevices of the rocks. Beard chopped them down one by one with a saber, but it was not enough. Huang Lin told him not to worry about it, the bonfire will not be lit tonight, so just eat some compressed biscuits to fill his stomach, and the beard cursed bad luck, complaining that he couldn't even start a fire in the wild, and swallowed a piece of biscuit after cursing I went down and found a relatively flat rocky place to lie down on. The pain in my buttocks has improved a lot, and I found a place to sit down, took off my shoes, and found that the insides were soaked with sweat, so I spread the socks and insoles on the rocks, and fell down again. Sole, pour out some small stones inside. "I said, pony, why do your feet smell so bad? All creatures within a radius of ten miles will be suffocated to death by you!" The beard lying on the rock suddenly jumped up, holding his nose and moving towards me. "No way? I don't have athlete's foot. Although my feet are a little sweaty, it won't float to your side...wait...it seems to have a bad smell..." I smelled it while talking. It has a very strange smell, and it's unspeakably smelly, but it's completely different from foot odor. I turned my head and looked, Huang Lin seemed to have smelled it too, and was frowning at me. Even the guy who was silent stood up, raised his nose and sniffed around for a while, and then started walking towards the valley. I also looked towards the valley, and it seemed that the wind was blowing, because the dense fog was drifting towards us, and I thought that the smell was coming from the valley along the wind, but When I thought about it, I was wrong. We had never smelled this kind of smell when we passed the valley before. How could there be such a strong smell suddenly? Rumble... Rumble... Before I could think about it, there was a deafening sound from the other side of the valley. Because we are not far from the valley here, we can hear the loud noise from there very clearly. From the sound, it seems that a large-scale rock collapse has occurred in the valley. I touched my chest unconsciously and said: "It's okay, it's okay, if it collapses earlier, we will be finished..." "This sound is not right, please listen carefully." The silent guy stopped in front, turned and said to us. I knew that what he said must be very important, so I listened carefully, and found that the sound was not only the sound of rolling stones, but also some very regular trampling sounds. After a while, we felt the sound getting closer and closer to us, as if a large number of things rushed out of the valley. The beard on the side shouted first: "Damn it, isn't that the sound of horseshoes?!" "Ah... there seems to be more than one horse, this... this seems to be a lot of horses?" I am not sure about my hearing. As soon as I asked, no one answered, and everyone stared fixedly at the valley in the thick fog. Soon, a scene that made my hair stand on end appeared: As the sound of horseshoes got closer and closer, some shadowy figures rushed out of the valley, crowds of people, horses neighing, and it is unknown how many people and horses galloped towards us wrapped in thick fog. After confirming that it was not my hallucination, I was stunned immediately. This is the first time I have seen such a spectacular scene. This kind of picture can only be seen in movies before, but at this moment I am actually there, and they It was coming in our direction. When the surprise turned into fear, I couldn't move my legs for a while. Thank God, I don't know who gave me a hand, and I ran up, until I ran behind a big rock and hid. I just found out that the three of them were already there a long time ago, and even the boxes and equipment packages were all moved here. The sound of galloping horses was getting closer and closer. Huang Lin gestured for me to speak separately, then poked her head out to look in the direction of the sound of horseshoes, and I followed. The dense mist has spread to our side, and the weird stench has also rushed to my face. I pinched my nose and still felt the smell go into my lungs, and I almost vomited my internal organs.I took one last look before I lowered my head. The large crowd of people seemed to be flying through the clouds. After leaving the valley, within a few seconds, they had rushed to the place below us, where I was drying the insoles just now. At this moment, I could even hear the sound of iron hooves stepping on the hard rock, clang and clang, which made my eardrums hurt. Jumping wildly, his body shook involuntarily, and he was extremely nervous. The sound of iron hoofs stepping over rocks continued for quite a while, and we didn't know how many people were there. It wasn't until the sound gradually faded away, and the dense fog and stench became weaker, that we groped around. They came out from behind the stone and looked at each other a few times, their expressions were full of surprise. Indeed, for what just happened, if I hadn't personally experienced it, I really doubt that several of us had hallucinations at the same time. But soon, the silent guy found something and told us to go back to the place where the insoles were drying. It was indeed a bit abnormal, because there were no traces of anything passing by on the rocks here, that is to say Just now the horse's hoof didn't step on the rock at all. What's going on?Is that really an illusion? Huzi looked at me, and spit out four words: Yinbing borrowed the way. "Ah? Is this the so-called evil soldier's way? Are those troops made up of dead people?" I have a little faith in his statement. But Huang Lin quickly denied Hu Zi's opinion. She said that she had encountered this phenomenon in other places. Simply put, it was a holographic film in nature. When she said that, I remembered it, because I also saw similar news, saying that the rocks in such and such a valley are magnetic, just like video tapes, they will record what happened in the past , under certain conditions, after being triggered, the video recorded at that time will be played again. When people just pass by there, they will be confused by this scene. If the recorded scene is a war scene, it will make the audience Those who arrived thought it was Yin soldiers fighting. So, that strange valley, together with the rocks under our feet, are all magnetic to a certain extent, which formed the horrible scene just now, but how can the smell be explained?I've only heard that magnetic things can record sound and images, but smells can't be recorded, right? Huang Lin said that the smell should not be recorded, but has always existed in the valley. We didn't smell it before because it was not released. However, after the large-scale collapse, those who covered up The rock from which the smell came from was shaken down, and the smell floated out along the wind. I just said that as expected of Sister Lin, she can explain everything she encounters, but she frowned, as if she still couldn't figure out something, I thought you explained it yourself, why is it still like this expression . Huang Lin quickly said something, but not to me. She said, "Beard, do you remember what it smells like?" "Mr. Huang, it's okay if you don't tell me. Once you say it, I'll be sure. It smells like dry and wet powder." Huzi replied with a frown. "What is dry and wet powder? Is it a kind of flour?" I asked immediately. "What kind of flour? If you don't know, don't ask nonsense, mummy powder! Do you know about mummy? Dried corpses, the kind of corpses that look like mummies, the powder used by the ancients to make mummy is called mummy powder!" It's like popularizing scientific knowledge. "Ah... is there a mummy in that valley?" I was a little speechless after realizing it. "It's not certain yet, but the smell is indeed the smell of mummy powder, and from the images of the army just now, it is speculated that many people may have died in the valley. It must be unusual for this army and dead people to appear here, beard, you and me Go back and have a look, maybe you will find something." After speaking, Huang Lin walked into the valley with a flashlight. Hu Zi followed along, and turned around and told me to look after things. At this time, the sky was completely dark, and Lao Shi and the others hadn't caught up yet... Lao Shi!I suddenly thought, if Lao Shi and the others were in the valley just now, wouldn't it be very dangerous, would they be hit by stones? Thinking of this, I feel a little restless, but looking at the backs of the two people who are walking into the valley, I think Huang Lin went back to the valley not only to see some mummy, but also because she was worried about Lao Shi's condition, so she went to check Bar. There were only me and the guy who didn't talk left in the camp. It was a torment to stay with him, because there was someone beside me, but it seemed like there was no one. When I talked to him, I didn't answer a word. , not even moving.This kind of person is too quiet, doesn't make any sound, it makes me panic, no matter what topic I find, it's just me talking, I thought it would be fine if you hum, but he just doesn't, his personality Very odd. I finally asked, "Are you intermittent aphasia?" He still didn't answer, so I gave up completely, and I lost all thought of teasing him. Time passed very slowly. During this period, I untied my big hand, leaned against the tightly bound box, and said a few words to Shimei lying inside. Finally, I was bored and took a flashlight. Those magnetic stones on the ground were illuminated on the guy’s eyes. I was startled by this photo. This guy’s eyes were wide open, and he didn’t even blink when I shone my flashlight on them. He didn't speak either. I was even more surprised. My mind turned and I thought, did he fall asleep?It turns out that he is the kind of person who sleeps with his eyes open... No wonder he didn't answer what I said before, it seems that he really fell asleep... It was only on my front foot that I concluded that he was asleep, and then he suddenly said a word on my back foot: They are back. The voice was faint, and it frightened me again. After reacting, I looked back and saw the light of two flashlights coming out of the valley. After a while, Huang Lin and Hu Zi returned to the camp. "Is there really a mummy there?" I went up to him and asked. "Yes, and there are quite a few of them. Would you like to go and see for yourself?" Huzi smirked at me. "Farewell, what's so interesting about a mummy, if there's anything valuable, then I'd like to see it." "Valuable things? There are many, and they are all worn around their necks, but you dare not, hahaha..." "Haha, you are right, I dare not, but neither do you." "Damn it! Is there anything else I dare not do, you bearded brother? Tell you, I have seen more corpses than you have seen people, and I have touched more dead hands than you have touched women's hands... " Huzi's voice became louder as he spoke, but after being glared at by Huang Lin, his voice immediately dropped down again. After Huang Lin glared at Hu Zi, she walked over to the silent guy, and the two of them started discussing something quietly. I wanted to go over and listen, but Hu Zi pulled me away, so I had no choice but to give up. After holding back for such a long time, I started talking a little too much, and started to ask Huzi about the silent guy, but Huzi told me that he didn't know the origin of that person either. It turned out that Huang Lin was running a company, and both Huzi and Chen Quan were her subordinates. No wonder they both had a boss, Huang, because they had such a relationship.The guy who didn't speak was invited by Lao Shi. I only know that this person is quite good, and he must have some special abilities. Generally speaking, people with special abilities will have a special personality, so he doesn't say anything when he doesn't speak. It's normal to talk to people. Then I told Huzi about the incident of shining the flashlight on his eyes just now, and asked if there was any problem with his eyes. Huzi said, in fact, he has noticed this before. It is not clear where it is, and the only way to know is to ask him or Huang Lin and Lao Shi. I said, so you never asked?Huzi smiled and said, these things, he should do it first, it's better not to inquire about it. I suddenly remembered what they went to the valley to check just now, so I asked Hu Zi about the specific situation there, and Hu Zi stopped joking with me now, saying that they climbed up the hillside in the valley and found a large amount of mummy powder falling down , They continued to search for it along the powder, but they didn't end up, because the mountain was too steep, and those rocks might collapse again at any time, so they had to take a flashlight to take a look. There are several large rock holes exposed on it. I don't know if they are natural or artificially excavated. The powder is poured out of the holes. "So you didn't see the mummy?" "You are not talking nonsense! Hey, I said, do you have necrophilia? Are you so interested in mummy?" "Where is it, I haven't seen it, I just want to see it..." "Then you should really follow Master Liu." "Forget it, I won't quarrel with you, you still didn't see Lao Shi and the others when you entered the valley, right?" "Aren't you talking nonsense again? If you see me, you can only have me and Mr. Huang when you come back?" "Oh, Sister Lin said that Lao Shi and the others will definitely arrive before dark, but now it seems that whether they can arrive before dawn is a problem." "Ma Yuanqing, I really suspect that you're a bitch, worrying about nothing! It's your turn to worry about Lao Shi and the others? On the contrary, Mr. Huang, I think she has encountered some kind of problem. After she came out of the valley, she looked a little abnormal." I said you can see it too. I thought there was a problem before, but she didn't seem to want to tell us why. If there is a problem, wouldn't it be better to bring it up and think of a solution together? Hu Zi said: "You don't understand that. Mr. Huang has this kind of temper. He will keep it in his heart when he encounters big things, and he will joke with you in turn. But don't worry, during the few years I have been with her In my impression, I have never encountered anything that can stump her. The company has faced many crises before, and those things that most people think are impossible to solve have all been settled by her. I really doubt her Is it a woman..." "Who is talking bad about me? Huh?" Huang Lin walked behind us at some point. Hu Zi hurriedly put on a smiling face, and said, "Mr. Huang, how can that be? Xiao Ma asked me if I saw Lao Shi in the valley. Why don't I tell him not to worry..." "Okay, I won't hide it from you this time, I did encounter some problems." "What's the problem?" "It's a complex issue, but the short answer is we're on the wrong track."