Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

Dante drove the car until it stopped in front of the rocky cliff. Sure enough, there is a very narrow crevice on the stone house, and the hill faces east.The sun was rising, and the light just shone into the crevice of the mountain. It could be seen very clearly that the crevice was only two meters deep, and after that, it was blocked by many rocks. Dante's grandmother made it very clear that when she wanted to go back after leaving, there was a shock, and many stones fell from the shock, blocking the cracks in the stones. This area is the area with the most frequent earthquakes in Central Asia. It is not surprising that a very slight earthquake can shake down rocks and block the cracks in the mountains.

When I saw this situation, I couldn't help but feel cold.The crack is very long—according to Dante's grandmother, if it is completely blocked by rocks, with the strength of two people, even if Dante brought explosives, there is no way to clear it. While I was thinking this, Dante screamed and rushed forward, squeezed into the crevice of the mountain. After he squeezed two meters in, he was naturally unable to move forward. I saw him yelling while grabbing a small stone with difficulty in the narrow mountain crevice and throwing it outward. I was shocked, and said loudly: "Dante, if you use this method to clear the clogged stones, I estimate that it will take 20 million years."

Dante threw another small stone with great difficulty, panting: "Of course I won't use this method all the time, but it's good to have one less stone blocking the way." I had no choice but to smile wryly, he deserves sympathy for being so anxious."Come out, don't waste your time," I yelled. Dante was finally willing to squeeze out, but when he came out, he still brought out two small stones.His mouth wasn't big enough, or I think he'd get a stone out of it. The two of us worked together, and it took about half an hour to load the explosives. Dante and I are neither explosion experts, nor can we estimate whether the explosives we put are just right. We just rely on blind estimates. Then, we pulled the explosives near the car. Dante's hands were shaking all the time, and he couldn't ignite the explosives. , I snatched the lighter from his hand and lit the medicine.

After the medicine was on fire, it burned forward with a "chichi", and our hearts were very nervous.But the situation at this time is that even if there is a mistake, it is too late to correct it. I held my breath and waited, the medicine burned into the crevice, and then, there was a "boom", thick smoke filled the entire crevice, and I couldn't see anything for a while Arrived, only heard the continuous sound of rolling stones. Dante held my hand tightly, and it took a while for the thick smoke to dissipate. After seeing the result of the explosion clearly, Dante and I cheered.

The result of the explosion was exactly what we expected: the large and small rocks stuffed in the mountain crevice were blown loose, and many of them had rolled out of the mountain crevice because of the loosening, making the mountain crevice look deeper. I ran to the crevice and looked inside. I could see that there was at least ten meters or so, which could be climbed in with great difficulty. It was ideal to have such a result with an explosion. We worked until sunset that day.Including two other explosions, and the transportation of large and small stones through a temporary conveyor belt.Because the mountain crevice is very narrow, when getting the rock out of the mountain crevice, the body can't even turn a bit.This kind of working environment reminds me of Chinese quarrymen who pick the rough stones of Duanxi inkstones in the pits of Duanxi.

It was dark and we were tired, so I got in the car, dropped the front seat and lay down.I said to Dante: "You must rest, otherwise, within two days, you will lose your strength and die." Dante stood by the car, smoking cigarette after puff, gulping down a lukewarm can of beer, his clothes sticking to his body with sweat, filthy, the way he was, and going in and out of a first-class hotel, a playboy Compared with the Dante who looks like him, he is a different person. He said, "I can sleep, so leave me alone." I can't help him, I'm too tired, and when I close my eyes, I'm already asleep.

When I woke up and opened my eyes, it was quite dark. I turned my head and saw that Dante was not in the car. I poked my head out and saw him sleeping on the ground, sleeping very deeply.It is quite hot during the day, but the temperature is quite low at night. I picked up a blanket and wanted to get out of the car to cover him. Just as I sat up, I suddenly saw a light flickering in the crevice of the mountain. . My first thought was that Dante forgot to turn off the lighting so the light came through. I got out of the car and put the blanket over Dante, who was sleeping like a dead pig. The light shines through the cracks in the mountains!

Then, I walked towards the crevice, and the light has been coming from the crevice.When I got very close to the mouth of the mountain, the light suddenly went out.I froze for a moment, and asked naturally, "Who?" I can't get an answer.I felt a chill, and quickly took two steps back, the mountain crevice was still dark. After staying for a while, I took off the flashlight hanging from my waist and shone into the crevice of the mountain. The light of the torch can be shot all the way to the place where the mountain crevices are still blocked by rocks. There is absolutely no one, and no objects that can emit light can be seen.I turned off the flashlight, my thoughts were confused, and suddenly I thought of something: that aura, that mysterious aura.

Could the light I saw just now come from that mysterious aura? When I think of this, I can't help being very excited.I've been looking forward to seeing this kind of mysterious aura, and it would be great if it is.I waited for a while at the crevice of the mountain, but still did not see any light, so I had to lower my voice: "You have appeared before, I hope you will appear again, I want to talk to you." I said it many times in a row, but there was no response at all. This made me very disappointed, so I had to turn around slowly.At this time, the sky was very dark, and suddenly, I saw my own shadow appearing on the ground in front of me.

This situation really shocked me: behind me, there was a light coming out. That is to say, as soon as I turned around, the light in the mountain crevice brightened again. For a while, I didn't know what to do, so I turned around?I thought that the mysterious light would disappear again, so I decided to do nothing, just took a breath and continued to move forward slowly. When I was walking forward, I paid attention to the changes of the shadow on the ground. If the shadow is getting shorter and shorter, it means that the light source behind has not moved. However, I walked several steps forward, and the length of the shadow on the ground did not change at all, which surprised and delighted me: it proved that the light source was moving.And as far as I know, the mysterious halo will also move.At this time, it is very possible that the mysterious aura is right behind me.

Several times, I wanted to turn my head to take a look, but I was afraid that if I turned my head away, it would disappear, so I had no choice but to keep walking forward. After a while, I had come to the front of the car, where Dante was lying. out of place. During the short distance of dozens of steps, I had countless thoughts in my mind, all thinking about how to keep the halo from leaving me so that I could talk to it, but I couldn't think of any way. When I came to Dante, I stopped, my shadow.Projected on Dante, just when I still didn't know what to do, Dante suddenly woke up. He moved a little first, then opened his eyes.When he first opened his eyes, he was still very tired, but in less than a hundredth of a second, he sat up abruptly, his eyes widened, with a look of extreme surprise looking at me. At that moment, the shadow in front of me disappeared.I noticed that Dante's extremely surprised expression also became very puzzled, rubbing his eyes with his hands, I turned around, and there was nothing behind me. I couldn't wait for Dante to stand up, and quickly squatted down: "Dante, what did you see just now?" Dante shook his head: "What should I see? I think I must be too tired and dazzled." I heard him say this, knowing that he must have really seen something, and asked again: "Is it a halo? That mysterious aura? The kind your grandmother encountered? Behind me just now?" Dante opened his eyes wide: "I didn't see any aura." I was stunned, Dante had no reason to lie, so, what did he see? I asked three times very quickly, and Dante compared with his hands: "A lot of light, coming out of your head, no, it shouldn't be called light, it's just a lot of light... On your head, it seems to be shining." There are flames, and in the flames coming out of your head, there are many rays of light, which are intricately surrounded, and it looks like a pattern." I listened attentively, but I couldn't understand his description, so I couldn't help asking angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Dante said, "That's it." I had no choice but to say: "Please explain in detail again." Dante said it again, in more detail, but still about the same.Just now, a "flame" rose from my head, and from the "flame", many ring-shaped rays of light shot out, like a pattern. I couldn't help smiling wryly, I always thought that mysterious aura was following me, but it turned out not to be.As for the "flame" rising from my head, that is even more unimaginable. I looked up, the stars were few and far between, and it was almost dawn, I said, "It's time to get up and work." As I said this, I straightened up, but I couldn't help it, and I reached out and touched my head. Dante also stood up with me, and he suddenly said: "By the way, just now, your hair was standing on end, and each hair had a fire coming out, so, from your point of view, it looks like the whole Over the head, there is a flame." This time, he finally described it more concretely, but it was still unbelievable.Did my hair stand on end just now? The day's work was even harder. Whenever Dante and I looked at each other under the scorching sun, we had to smile wryly whenever we were covered in sweat, squeezed out of the mountain crevices, and waited for the explosives to explode. Dante said several times that he did not choose the wrong partner. A look of sincere gratitude.On this day, there was a little accident. A group of Turkish soldiers passed by, and Dante sent them away in fluent Turkish. Dante claimed to be a surveyor sent by the government, and did not reveal any flaws. After a day's work, another ten meters or so have been opened, and the sound of the explosion is quite hollow. There is great hope that I can enter that cave tomorrow. That night, I was still very tired and fell asleep, but woke up at midnight, hoping to see the light again, but saw nothing, waited for an hour, fell asleep again, and when I woke up again, it was already dawn. As in the previous two days, I ate some canned food and started to work again. After the second explosion of the day, after clearing the stones, Dante was in front and I was behind, squeezing into the crevice together, and I could already feel strong. Suddenly, there was a rather refreshing air rushing towards us in front of us. That is tantamount to telling us that the way forward has been opened. Dante was so excited that he took a big breath and kept asking me: "Do you feel it? Do you feel it?" Of course I can feel that there is quite a strong airflow gushing out from the gaps between the stacked stones and stones. We installed a small explosive, and then exited the cave, detonated, and thick smoke came out. Feel nervous. Dante was so nervous that he wanted to go in before the smoke dissipated, and it was only with my strength that I pulled him back.He was so anxious that he wished he could blow his breath into the crevice of the mountain so that the thick smoke would dissipate earlier. Although I was equally nervous, I still found it ridiculous to see his expression: "Check the lighting equipment first, don't take it so hard, go inside, like your grandmother, you can't see anything, just grab a couple of things come out!" Dante didn't seem to hear me at all. He put his hands together, his body was trembling, and even when he spoke, his voice was trembling. He was muttering to himself: "Please, don't let me Disappointment, don't disappoint me, please." He said, twisting his fingers together.Looking at his appearance, the pain is inexplicable.Dante was happy, he owned a lot of jewels, and his expert knowledge of all kinds of treasures gave him a very high social status.People like him are top figures in the world. But the pain he showed at this time was really surprising. This situation made me stunned. Dante had been praying all the time, and I didn't know what religion he believed in. He called out all the gods he could name.Finally, the thick smoke from the mountain crevice gradually dissipated, Dante looked at me, I nodded, Dante hesitated: "You...you go in first." I nodded, holding a powerful flashlight, and squeezed sideways into the crevice of the mountain. I don't know how many times I have squeezed in and out of this narrow crevice in the past few days. Dante squeezed in too.I'm not so far away that hands can touch hands if both of them stretch out their arms. Not long after, I discovered that our last explosion was very successful. The rubble was scattered by the force of the explosion, and there was a cave in front. Getting closer and closer to the cave, suddenly, both Dante and I couldn't help but let out a scream. Under the light of the flashlight, we all saw an indescribable brilliance.It is indescribable!The light suddenly shot out from the ground, so dazzling, so gorgeous, beyond the limit of human vision. I feel suffocated.I had long expected to find treasures in that cave, but at that moment, I still couldn't imagine what those brilliance came from!Dante cried in a very shrill voice: "My God, look at those jewels! Look at those jewels!" That large piece of dazzling brilliance caught the eyelids, and I couldn't see what it was. At this moment, I calmed down, but I still couldn't see such a large piece of light clearly. Every kind of brilliance is shining and flowing.But at least it was possible to see the brilliance, emitted by many different colored luminous bodies.Those objects, which do not emit light themselves, reflect a dazzling brilliance when the light shines on them. They are all kinds of precious stones: large rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and many kinds of bright colors. Gems that take one's breath away are all over the place. All my mind was attracted by the scene in the cave. Under the dazzling brilliance, what I thought of was the price of each of these gemstones in the world jewelry market, and the large amount of money it represented.There is simply no room for noticing how much time has passed!The beauty of the gem itself is really of secondary importance to the real beauty of the large amount of money it represents. I just remember that all of a sudden, all around us were the dazzling brilliance of precious stones, and we were already in the cave. Both Dante and I kept screaming, even though I was not obsessed with money, I still kept screaming, that inexplicable excitement surpassed everything else.Dante yelled, opened his hands, and suddenly threw himself on the ground. The result of Dante's actions was that his whole body fell heavily on the ground. This time he fell extremely hard, but he didn't feel it at all. He pressed his body tightly to the ground, and his hands were hard Picking and picking, he grabbed all the gemstones, large and small, of various colors within the reach of his hands. All kinds of precious stones gathered into two small piles, like sand piles piled up by children on the beach. Then, he kept laughing, crawling on the ground, doing the same movements until he piled up all the gemstones in the cave into small piles, totaling about twenty or thirty piles. When he was busy, I was also not idle, but unlike him, I didn't pile up the gems, I just picked them up one by one, put them in front of a strong flashlight, and illuminated them with light. .I had to squint my eyes a little as the light shone through the gems, because the reflected light was so intense. I spent a long time staring at a rather large pure blue tourmaline, this kind of gemstone called "tourmaline", I know it is not a very expensive gemstone, but I have never seen it so big , such a pure blue piece of blue tourmaline. The light of the torch shines through this gem, I close one eye, and let the open eye get as close to it as possible, and then, my whole body is suddenly surrounded by that pure blue, as if my whole body is immersed in the deepest blue. In the clear sea water.And this piece of sea water is so pure, without any impurities, so pure that there is no life at all. This kind of feeling makes people feel a little sad, such a beautiful gem has no life, in the feeling, I have already entered this gem, the pure and clear blue color can freeze all life, Be part of the gem.Beauty is very beautiful, but there is no life in it. I stared blankly, in the azure blue, I couldn't help but think of Jin Te's words: Is the human soul in the gem?If so, the human soul must also freeze and no longer live after entering the gem.According to Jin Te, the soul is just a form of anti-life, which cannot be described as "live". Then, what kind of form is the soul after entering the gem? My thoughts became more and more confused. Suddenly, I became excited and threw the pure blue tourmaline in my hand to the cave wall. I didn't know if it was broken by me, so I picked it up again. Pick up an emerald cut into a square, a quarter the size of my palm, and observe it in the same way. Emerald is not so pure, inside it, there are cracks like tulle.This kind of crack, which is called "cicada's wing" by insiders, is composed of many extremely fine patterns.I'm afraid that there is no artist in the world who can express the change of pattern shape in such a complicated way.Expand the lines that make up the pattern, and it's like another world, another universe, another world beyond the world in which we live. The world we live in is also composed of various lines, and those lines inside the emerald form another world.I threw one away and picked up another, and in each of the different gems I saw something extraordinary.I also know that I not only appreciate their beauty, but also have an unusual exploration of the interior of gemstones, which is influenced by Ginter's words.I also want to find the human soul among the gems? I was thinking: Is it possible for me to see some strange phenomena?This kind of mood is a bit like a summer night, in the wilderness, waiting for UFOs to bring aliens to land in front of them. My action came to an end, and I found that all the gems on the ground were collected by Dante, and Dante also straightened up, looking at me: "Wei, the two of us are the people with the most gems in the world." I nodded: "I'm afraid so." Dante suddenly laughed: "Wei, I beg you, don't sell all the gemstones you get to the jewelry market at once, otherwise, I'm afraid the price will drop by 90%." I spread my hands: "The gems I got?" I am not pretentious, facing so many gems, there is no reason why I should not be tempted, but I have never thought of "points".When Dante heard my question, he was stunned for a moment: "Of course it's divided. There are twenty-four piles here. Each of us makes a pile. You pick them first." I took a breath, thought for a short time, and said, "Dante, when you mentioned the treasure, I didn't believe it at all..." Dante interrupted me somewhat roughly: "But we've found it now." I smiled: "Generally speaking, in novels or movies, when two partners work hard and find the treasure, there will never be any good results." I said this only as a joke, but Dante turned away impatiently: "What nonsense are you talking about?" I said: "I want to say, I don't want to break up with you at all..." Only halfway through my words, Dante’s whole body shook. He suddenly turned around, and the powerful flashlight in his hand was aimed directly at me, so that I couldn’t see anything for an instant. It's very impolite to shoot a flashlight directly at another person's face, so I covered my forehead with my hand while stepping away.One side said: "What are you doing?" After I backed away, the light of the flashlight couldn't reach me, but my eyes were stimulated by the strong light just now, and I still couldn't see anything for a while.I didn't answer my question, but only heard Dante's heavy panting. I froze for a moment: "Dante, are you unwell?" Dante made a very strange sound. At this time, I could see his appearance clearly. I saw his expression was terrified and extremely angry. His body was half bent, as if preparing for a duel, staring at Looking at me, my body was shaking and my face was twitching. I couldn't help being startled, thinking that suddenly there was an extremely vicious enemy in the cave that I hadn't noticed yet, I immediately looked around vigilantly, but there was no one else in the cave except me and him. I hurriedly said, "Dante, what happened?" When I asked, Dante screamed in a deafening voice: "You, what did you mean by what you just said?" I was stunned again, what did I just say?I just said that I don't want to share those gems with him, but in the middle of the sentence, he shone a flashlight at me——I suddenly understood why he was like this.He, God, completely misunderstood me, he thought I didn't want to share with him because I wanted to keep it all to myself. I was busy making gestures to calm him down: "Listen, you have completely misunderstood, I said that I don't want to break up, it's true, I won't break up with you..." Dante screamed, "You want it all to yourself?" I shook my head vigorously: "No, it's all for you." Dante shook, with a look of disbelief.I took a step forward, I only took a small step, but Dante immediately screamed and jumped back a big step, and his demeanor, which was guarding me against attacking him, really made me laugh and cry. I was angry and funny: "Before you asked me to be your partner, you must have known me well. If I want to attack you, can you deal with it?" Dante swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "You...you mean..." I said: "What I say is my heart. These many gems are all yours. Maybe I need one of them and take it back to my wife. I don't want the rest at all." Dante's face turned pale, and he murmured, "Why? Why?" I said, "I'm fine without these gems. Besides, I believe that these gems are better in your hands than in anyone else's. You won't sell them easily, and you won't let them be damaged. What's more, you are the only descendant of the Ottoman dynasty, and this treasure originally belonged to your ancestors." I used the simplest words to make him understand my intentions. Dante's expression became extremely agitated, and he suddenly let out a cry, "Wei, forgive me!" I was stunned: "Forgive you for what?" Dante walked towards me, reaching into his pocket as he walked, and when he stretched out his hand again, I saw that in his palm, he was holding a bird at least the size of a square pigeon egg. diamond.