Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Change Your Mind

Bai Su could see clearly that a big brick three feet square was slowly pushed up on the ground: it was the entrance and exit of a secret passage! Then, the upper body of a man appears, holding a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other.He hadn't found Bai Su yet, and Bai Su didn't make a sound. The man came out of the secret passage, turned around, and when the man turned around, the man saw her!He was shocked suddenly, and the portable machine gun in his hand was raised immediately. And someone came up in the tunnel again. The second person who came up from the tunnel was actually a monk!Holding a gun in his hand, he looked very nervous.

As soon as he saw that monk, Bai Su understood! It was the guerrillas of the rebels. They must have been the original owners of this monastery, so they knew there was a secret passage.While the attack outside the temple attracted the attention of the garrison, another group of people entered the temple through a secret passage and attacked from inside and outside. Bai Su is in an awkward situation at this time, because she is not pleasing to both sides.How would she explain her sympathy to the rebels coming up from the tunnel? Bai Su saw people coming up from the tunnel one by one, and when the fourth person came up, the monk came forward with a gun, and asked in very fluent English: "Who are you?" ? Are you a member of the military, or a staff member of the army?"

She hurriedly said: "Neither, I am their captive, General Zhang escorted me back from India." The monk was stunned for a while, and immediately spoke a few words in their native language.At this time, the small room was almost full of people. After everyone heard that sentence, there was a commotion. Bai Su said again: "I am by no means your enemy. When I was in India, I met Mr. Zhang Da and Mr. Sa Ren." Bai Su's words caused another shock, and a young man stuffed a gun into her hand.Bai Su took it over: "Your attack plan is very good, but the number of people is small, so you need to use a lot of grenades."

The monk translated Bai Su's words, and there was a low voice of approval from the crowd.The monk said again: "We have grenades, about eight per person." Bai Su said: "Then what are we waiting for?" She picked up the portable machine gun in her hand, fired a row of bullets at the door, kicked it out, and the door collapsed completely. The two young men behind Bai Su rushed out, their movements were very nimble, they rolled on the ground, they rolled six or seven feet, they threw four grenades with continuous swings of their arms. There was a deafening bang, the walls vibrated, the ground trembled, and thick smoke filled the air. Bai Su leaned over and rushed forward. Many people followed her and rushed out of the corridor. In the smoke, there are all hurried and panicked figures!

Although there are many garrisons stationed in the temple, but because the attack outside the temple is very fierce, they are busy defending and fighting back outside the temple, but they did not expect that at this time, a wave of brave athletes came from the center of the temple. , Attacked outward! Bai Su swept out several rows of bullets, and the grenades were thrown out one after another. The grenades inside the temple exploded together, and the attack outside the temple intensified. A few booming gunshots passed by, and the temple wall was attacked and collapsed, earth-shattering The shouts came from outside.

Listening to the bursts of shouts, there may not be more than a thousand people surrounding the temple! And although there were only seventy or eighty people who got into the temple, those seventy or eighty people, like a sharp knife pierced into the heart, played the greatest fighting role, rushing east and west, invincible! Some of the soldiers in the temple were shot, some were killed by grenades, and some were pinned down by the collapsed walls and could not move.Some of them are hurriedly carrying out "glorious retreat". Bai Su ran here and there, she wanted to find Qian Wanwan, but Qian Wanwan didn't know where he went.

In less than half an hour, the people surrounding the temple rushed forward. They picked up weapons as much as possible, and seven or eight mountain cannons were dragged down the mountain. Of course, this ruined temple was not good. Stick to it, and if you win, retreat immediately. Bai Su followed the crowd and exited the ruined temple. She also had several guns on her body. In the crowd, she met the monk. The monk gave Bai Su a thumbs up: "Well done, you go back to the base with us, okay?" Bai Su said: "If you welcome me, of course I will go." The monk laughed loudly, and shouted Bai Su's words in their language, and the people around them also laughed loudly. The monk laughed and said: "They are laughing at you With such words, you are our most loyal friend, how can you not be welcome to go?"

Bai Su also laughed, she felt that the people around her were bold and rough, and there was absolutely no need for politeness when getting along with them. Many people descended the mountain in clusters, and when they reached the hillside, they automatically lined up into five teams, with more than two hundred people in each team, and walked down the mountain at a very fast pace. After a while, the five teams passed through a canyon.As soon as I got out of the canyon, I saw a team of horses, lined up, waiting in front of them, and two horsemen galloped forward with whips. More than a thousand people suddenly shouted, Bai Su couldn't understand what they were calling, but judging from their expressions, they must be shouting victory, and the two people riding forward were naturally the leaders of this group.

Under the faint starlight, Bai Su looked forward, and saw the two people, both young people in their thirties, their faces were heavy and their clothes were rough, but it could still be seen that they were very educated people. Surrounded by a group of people, Bai Su came in front of those two people, and they got off their horses.The monk spoke a few words to the two men. The two turned to Bai Su together, and one of them said in standard Oxford English, "Welcome, welcome, I'm Sa Ren's cousin. Do you find it strange? I'm a law student at Oxford University." Bai Su knew that some noble children in this place were very educated, so she didn't find it strange.And when she heard that the other party was Sa Ren's cousin, she felt even more relieved, and she hurriedly said: "That's great, do you have contact with Mr. Sa Ren?"

The young man nodded and said: "Yes, we received a report from Sa Ren that you were kidnapped into the embassy and may have been brought into this area by them. We are planning to rescue you. Unexpectedly, this time The sneak attack actually kills two birds with one stone, that's really worth celebrating!" Bai Su also felt very relieved, during the chat, someone led the horse and gave Bai Su a ride. Bai Su and the two young men galloped forward side by side, passed through several canyons, passed a section of poor mountain road, and then suddenly saw a big valley in front of them.

On the cliffs to the east, there are waterfalls splashing down, the valley is covered with green grass, and the streams are gurgling. On the banks of several streams, many tents are pitched, and many women are cooking with extremely simple equipment. As soon as the women and children saw the large group of people approaching, they cheered and greeted Bai Su, but everyone looked at Bai Su with very strange eyes. One of the two young people spoke a few words loudly, apparently Introduce the identity of Baisu. Cheers followed, and many girls, holding hands, danced around Bai Su, singing a simple but very beautiful song.An old man and an old woman came over and hung the ribbons they were holding on Bai Su's neck. At this time, the sky was already bright, Bai Su was excited, she wanted to say a few words, but she didn't know what to say, she just hugged the girls dancing around her in turns, and kissed again and again. A very tidy tent was prepared as a resting place for Bai Su.Bai Su sat down in the tent and drank a kind of sour tea that tasted very unpleasant. This is a generous gift from the people of that place for hospitality.Under such a difficult environment, they were able to entertain distinguished guests with such customary etiquette, so Bai Su had no choice but to pretend that he liked it, and swallowed the bowl of tea that was actually extremely unpalatable go. Then the two young men entered the tent. They——Bai Su already knew that one of them was named Gedengba and the other was Songtsan, both of them were students of Oxford University, and they were the leaders of this guerrilla force. They sat down, and the first sentence they said was: "Bai Miss, we will escort you to the shrine as much as possible." When Bai Su heard those words, he was startled suddenly. She said, "Shall I go to the shrine?" Songzan said: "Yes, Sa Ren's message said so, and he also indicated that one of us should go with you." Bai Su stayed for a long while before saying: "I don't understand something, can I ask?" Gedenba hurriedly said: "You just say it, there is no scruple between us, you just say it." Bai Su thought for a while: "From my point of view, you, Sa Ren and many others are extremely resourceful and brave people, why don't you go to the shrine to get what you want, but ask you What about me, an outsider, why is that?" Both Songtsan and Gedenba showed a frank and sincere look in their eyes: "It's actually very simple. We tried, but failed. We sacrificed a lot of people, but we couldn't enter the shrine, so we thought of it." Father." Bai Su smiled wryly. Songzan continued: "But your father can't come, but we fully believe in your father's appointment, we believe that you will succeed, you will succeed, we firmly believe." Bai Su smiled wryly again: "You guys overestimate me, you will be disappointed." Songtsan and Gedenba looked at each other before saying: "Miss Bai, if you really don't want to go, then we will try our best to arrange a retreat so that you can go back to India by a secret road." Bai Su stayed for a moment: "When I was in India, I did push this matter away. If it wasn't for your surprise operation to rescue me, I don't know what the result would be, so—" Bai Su paused for a while before speaking slowly, "So I changed my mind. Although I know that the chance of success is very slim, I still want to give it a try. I think it's better for me to go alone. Well, I need something, maybe you can do it?" The two hurriedly said, "Miss Bai can just discuss it." Bai Su said: "First, I will go all the way, and I need the help of your people and your cover. Is there anything that can make your people treat me as one of their own when they see me?" Songtsan thought about it: "We will spread the news that you are going to the shrine, and then I will give you this ring!" As Songzan said, he removed a very large ring from his finger: "My family crest is engraved on this ring, and if you wear it, you will get help from all our clansmen, unless he is a scorpion. " Bai Su took the ring: "I also need two pistols and enough bullets." The two said: "That's easy." Bai Su said: "I still need to make up a little bit, and I want a fine horse so that I can go on the road." Songzan shook his head and said, "As for the horse, I don't think it's very convenient. If you ride a horse, it's easier to attract attention." Bai Su said: "Okay, then I will give up riding. Can you provide me with a detailed map of the secret road? I think I have to take a small road to get close to that city." Songzan said: "That's okay, here is a map, there are two roads for you to choose." As he spoke, he took out a bamboo tube, pulled out a map from the bamboo tube, and spread it out. The two passages on that map are drawn in great detail, and are represented by a red line. Note very detailed. Bai Su looked it over and said, "I decided to take that shortcut." Gedenba nodded and said: "Yes, we will try to inform our people on this road that you are going to pass by and ask them to help you." Bai Su walked out of the tent, Songtsan and Gedenba followed behind. Everyone in this valley obviously knew what Bai Su was going to do for them, so as soon as Bai Su stepped out of the tent, all sounds and movements stopped. Those who were eating food with their hands also stopped, and no one spoke.Everyone's face showed a look of extreme admiration.Even in the eyes of children, you can find that look. Bai Su walked slowly through the crowd, her steps were very heavy, her mood was also the same, until she got out of the valley, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned her head. Songtsan and Gedenba were still behind her. Bai Su glanced at them before saying: "Don't worry, I will do my best to complete this matter." The eye circles of Songtsan and Gedenba suddenly turned red.They could be said to be all extremely brave fighters, and the red eye circles are not befitting of them.But they did look like they wanted to cry.And they turned around immediately: "Miss Bai, take care." In Bai Su's heart, there was also an inexplicable heroic and desolate feeling.All of a sudden, she felt how people felt thousands of years ago when they were on the beach of Yishui, the wind was singing and the water was cold, and the strong men were gone and never returned. Bai Su took advantage of the time when the two turned around, and strode forward. When she walked quite a distance, she seemed to hear Songtsan and Gedengba calling her from behind. This is an extremely vast area with undulating mountains and winding trails. Bai Su was careful along the way, but she didn't meet anyone.At dusk, she took out the dry food, and by the side of a stream, used the stream water to deliver the dry food to fill her stomach. The creek is also marked on the map, and the map also shows that going forward along the creek is a waterfall, and on the left side of the waterfall, there is a very flat and sloping hillside.On that hillside, there is a temple and a small village. The sun sank slowly on her left, and when the sun disappeared behind the high mountains, the sky and the earth were still filled with a very soft orange-yellow light.This kind of brilliance casts a very mysterious color on the snow-capped peaks in the distance, the gurgling stream nearby, and all kinds of unknown flowers on the hillside. Being in it, you feel like you are in a mythical world.However, that orange-yellow brilliance disappeared in the blink of an eye, replaced by the dim night that filled the sky and the earth. She disguised herself as a local aboriginal woman and traveled overnight. With a ring, the journey went very smoothly.Three days later, she had seen the shrine! At that time, Bai Su had six or seven women guarding her. When the sun was setting, Bai Su saw the magnificent shrine built on the top of the mountain! The setting sun shone on the indescribably majestic shrine, reflecting a wonderful golden brilliance, against the surrounding snow-capped mountains, which were also dyed red by the sunset, making everyone who saw it feel involuntarily Hold your breath! This shrine is not the tallest building in the world, but it is the building built on the highest plateau in the world.It has a long history. In the past years, it has been continuously added and expanded, so it has formed the scale it is today. This is a palace that is unparalleled in the world, and this palace seems to have a magical power, so that even those who look at it from a distance feel an inexplicable sense of mystery in their hearts! Bai Su stood blankly for a long time, but she never noticed when the women around her had left. When she walked forward again, the sky was already in chaos. Not far away, she saw a woman walking towards an old man who was obviously very inconvenient and supported by a wooden stick. As soon as the old man came in front of Bai Su, he said: "You are here, you are finally here, all of us know that you will definitely come." As soon as Bai Su heard it, she knew that it was the person who took care of her, she hurriedly whispered: "Old Master, the city is strictly investigating?" The old man sighed: "Strict, strict to the extreme, but we will make you safe no matter what, come with me and support me." Bai Su hurriedly walked to the old man's side, supported the old man, and walked forward slowly. The sky was getting darker. After entering this city, Bai Su's first feeling was that all the streets and alleys in this city Inside, there was a very unpleasant smell.Then she found that almost every house was dark without lights, and there was a bleak and ghostly atmosphere that pierced people's hearts. Bai Su and the old man walked in the dark shadows, and the two middle-aged women followed behind. They have been walking back and forth in the alley for a full twenty minutes , is considered to have entered a room. Inside the house, the unpleasant smell was even more pungent, and Bai Su tried his best to get used to it. When the door was opened and entered, the interior of the room was still pitch black, but when the old man coughed, a door opened and light leaked out. Only now did Bai Su see clearly that although he had entered the house, he was only standing in a small room, and he had to walk through that door to be inside the real house. Once the door was opened, the old man led Bai Su Su, walked in together. The interior of the house was small and crowded with more than twenty people. All the people sat around a dilapidated round table, crowded together.As soon as Bai Su walked in, everyone stood up and looked at Bai Su. Among the crowd, a monk in his fifties raised his hands high and began to chant in a low voice in a deep, slow tone. The monk was chanting something, Bai Su couldn't understand, but Bai Su and these people in the room had already become one with each other emotionally, but she could hear the emotions in the hearts of these people in that low voice, and heard The groaning of the misery that took place in the earth. Everyone in the room followed suit. Although there were many people, their voices were still so low.After about three minutes, the sound of chanting stopped, and the old man beside Bai Su whispered: "Just now, we were blessing you." Bai Su was moved and said: "Thank you everyone, I also wish you well." The old man translated Bai Su's words, and the twenty or so people sat down again.The old man said: "We have been waiting for a long time, we wait here every night, waiting for your arrival, and we finally arrived." Bai Su took a breath: "It's not too late, I'd better enter the shrine quickly." The old man was in awe: "The road leading to the shrine is strictly blocked. The people here are going to divide into three groups, causing a small disturbance and attracting the attention of the soldiers occupying the shrine. You climb up the cliff. " Bai Su was taken aback: "Climb the cliff? The shrine is on such a high mountain, can I climb it?" The old man said in a deep voice: "This is the only way. When I was young, I once climbed the cliff of the Jingu Temple, and climbed from below to the bottom of the Jingu Temple. It took about a day." Bai Su hurriedly said: "In that case, I will still not arrive at dawn tomorrow?" The old man was silent for a while, Bai Su looked at him anxiously, but the old man's answer was unexpected, he said: "Miss Bai, we have sincerely blessed you." Bai Su couldn't help being astonished when he heard the old man's words. She understood what the old man meant: She had to try to enter the shrine before dawn, if she couldn't enter the shrine before dawn, then she could only rely on the blessing of the Bodhisattva. The old man said: "Miss Bai, we are leaving." Bai Su resolutely said: "Okay, let's go." The old man waved his hand to those people in the room, and whispered a few instructions, and those people divided into three groups and went out.Bai Su followed behind the old man and also walked out. Bai Su and the old man tried their best to use the shadow of the street corner to cover their bodies, and moved forward quickly. After the two of them walked three or four miles, they fell down and did not move.Suddenly, Bai Su felt that she had come into a huge shadow, she was stunned for a while, and looked up from the stage. I saw that I had come under an extremely steep cliff, and on top of that cliff was an indescribably tall and magnificent building. At this moment, it was squatting on the top of the mountain like a gigantic monster. In the whole building, there is almost no light at all! Bai Su looked at it for a while, then lowered his head, and said, "We──" But before she could finish her sentence, she stopped.Because she noticed that the old man fell to the ground at some point, Bai Su quickly bent down to check. The old man's pale face was very glaring, Bai Su held his head up, the old man's eyes were open, foam was dripping from the corners of his mouth, his last bit of strength had been exhausted in running just now, he was just trembling , stretched his hand upwards, pointed a finger, and exhaled his last breath. Bai Su slowly put his body on the ground.She didn't spend much time dealing with the old man's body. She quickly ran to the cliff, and then began to climb up. The climbing tools she prepared were very special. They were two sharp steel claws, which could be inserted into any rock crevices and grasped by people's fingers. living stones. Her body was climbing up quickly, and she herself thought that the speed of climbing was already very fast.However, looking up, there is still a long way to go! Her arms gradually felt sore and numb, but she still persisted and did not rest at all until she climbed to a big rock protruding five or six feet before she sat down and took a breath . She turned over her hand and looked at the watch on her wrist. It was already four o'clock in the morning.It wasn't until this moment that she realized that she was sweating all over her body. She was so cold that she shivered several times in a row when the morning breeze blew. She looked up, and it seemed that it was not impossible to climb the cliff and enter the shrine before dawn. This gave Bai Su great encouragement. She only rested for five minutes before continuing to climb up. Has successfully climbed the cliff. The outer wall of the shrine is only three or four feet away from the edge of the climbing wall.Bai Su took a step forward, and stood with his back against the back wall of the shrine.Then she used the fastest speed to climb to the lowest window. There was an iron branch across the window, Bai Su tightly grasped the iron branch with both hands, and pulled it out forcefully.The iron branch was gradually shaken by her pull. She gritted her teeth and pulled it out violently. With a "slap", an iron branch left the stone! She immediately dodged in at the place where the iron branch was pulled away. The stone wall was very thick. After Bai Su penetrated into the iron branch, she rolled on the thick wall, rolled down the wall and fell down steeply. She didn't know where she climbed into. It was pitch black. She just guessed based on common sense, and guessed that the window should not be more than eight feet from the ground. However, when her body fell straight down, it fell straight down. When her descending speed accelerated, Bai Su secretly screamed in her heart that something was wrong, and she quickly shrank back. Because her estimation was wrong, from the window to the ground, it was at least twenty feet or so. If she fell from such a height, if she was not good at controlling her muscles, she would definitely be injured. Bai Su's body shrank into a ball, and her shoulders touched the hard rock first.Bai Su hurriedly rolled to the side, and with that roll, she relieved the force of falling downwards, and jumped up. Although she rolled very skillfully, the place where she fell was too high after all, it was already extremely difficult to not break a bone, the place where her shoulder first touched the ground still felt extremely painful. She assumed that the place she was in was a cellar, so she had to get out of the cellar. She walked forward, illuminated by a small flashlight, where the light of the flashlight reached, all she saw were gray-black, wet boulders.Sometimes the torch light is reflected by a mass of small round bright gray dots.Those were the eyes of a swarm of unusually large mice. She walked forward for about ten yards before she found a stone door.The stone door was bolted with a thick iron post, which had already rusted. Bai Su came to the door and pulled out the iron pillar vigorously.His hands and body were covered with rust before he pulled the iron pillar away. She pushed open the door, stepped in, and stood with her back against the door.She waited for a while before turning on the small flashlight again. The light of the flashlight spread out, allowing her to see clearly that it was also a huge cellar made of huge stones, so big that it seemed to have no limit, and the weak light of the small flashlight could not detect it at all. Different from the cellar she just entered, there are many boxes and baskets in this cellar, all of which are very large. Of course, Bai Su didn't want to know what was in those big boxes, big baskets and big jars. She guessed that they were materials from the shrine, and maybe they hadn't been touched for hundreds of years, because the cellar was full of A damp musty smell. Bai Su's body moved forward, she climbed up a clump of large boxes, and leaned down on the top of the boxes, listening carefully, surrounded by damp and darkness and subtle gnawing sounds. The gnawing sound continued, of course, it was made by a huge mouse. That sound gave Bai Su the feeling that something was biting her nerves. She waited for a long time, but she never heard any other sound except that of the mouse. Bai Su knew that she was safe at least temporarily. She climbed down from the box and walked forward. She had to use the flashlight carefully so as not to cut off the power in the flashlight, so she groped forward in the dark most of the time. . She was at the bottom of an ancient, mysterious and famous shrine, roaming around like a ghost, which made her feel extremely strange and strange. She walked for nearly ten minutes before she saw a stone wall, and after walking along that stone wall for more than forty yards, she saw another door. At this time, she had more time to choose. She put her ear on the door and listened outside.She couldn't hear anything, so she knew it was safe to go out through this door. She thought for a moment, then gently pushed the door, and then used a thin and hard iron branch to pry it through the crack of the door.Finally, she opened the door.