Chapter 173 The Will-o'-the-wisp in the valley
Remoteness means remoteness. Blind Man Gao has been far away from the crowd all his life. His residence is also mostly inaccessible. Just like the legendary masters of the world, it makes people feel like "a dragon can see its head but not its tail". This Maybe it has something to do with his experience. In his long life, he has experienced so much cruelty and struggle. In addition to other reasons, his mental state is very different from that of ordinary people.
Yin. According to our understanding of Blind Man Gao, because of his special constitution, he usually lives in extremely dark and humid places without sunlight all year round. He will never choose a sunny, dry and ventilated place. This is different from ordinary people. Lifestyle habits are exactly the opposite. Although it is a bit incredible, it is indeed the case.
We used these three points to identify the most likely hiding places for Blind Man Gao in the mountains, and then prepared to search these locations immediately.
Because the opportunity was rare, we just did it. Suddenly, early in the morning, we set off and headed straight for the first place...the valley.
This operation is obviously different from the past because the goal this time is very clear. It is to prepare for a face-to-face fight to the death with Blind Man Gao. It is extremely dangerous. At the beginning, we did not intend to let Du Hongmei go. Everyone felt that she had already helped us enough. There is no need to let her take such risks anymore.
But Du Hongmei refused to go no matter what. They argued for half an hour. In the end, it was Xiao Lei who understood his classmate's temperament better. She looked like a beautiful and weak woman on the surface, but she was sometimes more manly than a man in her heart. When I heard about adventure, my eyes lit up.
So, he just shook his head helplessly and gave in. Seeing that we agreed, Du Hongmei was as excited as a child. She immediately rushed into the house and picked up the backpack she had prepared.
In order to ensure the safety of this operation, of course we completely listened to Xiao Lei's arrangements. In addition to repeatedly explaining to the three of us, if we encounter the blind man Gao and the half-goat, half-human monster, he will be the "main attacker". The three of us will try not to get involved. Xiao Lei also bought us essential equipment: two daggers, three anesthetic guns, and four gas masks. Xiao Lei said that he only brought four gas masks. Originally, one was a spare. But Because of the addition of Hongmei, all four of them are used. So Xiaolei reminds everyone that you should take more care of the gas mask. If it gets damaged, it will be troublesome.
Entering the valley this time is completely different from the last few times. In the past, I climbed directly into the valley in broad daylight without any scruples. But this time I absolutely cannot do that. Because the blind man Gao and the monster are very likely to Right in the valley. We entered rashly. They were in the dark and we were in the open. It was easy to be in an extremely passive and dangerous state.
Therefore, we first climbed to the top of the valley, lay down on the edge of the cliff, and used high-power military telescopes to carefully observe everything in the valley from top to bottom. But unfortunately, because the vegetation in the valley was very dense, we could only see Go to an open area without tree cover.
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. We took turns holding the telescope and observing the movements in the valley. But so far, we have not found anything unusual. Our plan is to wait until dark before we follow the rope. .Enter the valley quietly, because only in this way can you not be noticed by the blind man.
In order to completely defeat this ruthless Gao Blind Man, we have gone through many hardships and countless efforts. But Gao Blind Man's opponent is too weird and too powerful. Fortunately, with the help of first-class special forces like Xiao Lei, we can severely injure Gao Blind Man. .Otherwise we have no power to fight back and can only sit back and wait for death.
The most terrifying thing is the blind man's ability to detect consciousness. As soon as you have a thought, he may see through it. This is a nightmare for anyone who wants to deal with the blind man. But we passed by the pavilion. "Shielding" effect. Consciousness should not be easily detected by highly blind people.
It is getting dark. Although it is a sunny day today, there is no moon. There are only stars in the sky. The insects in the mountains are chirping one after another. Of course, there is also the buzzing of mosquitoes in my ears. But I have applied mosquito repellent beforehand, so There will be no trouble of being bitten. The dew has already made our clothes a little damp. I can feel myself shivering a little. Not just because it is a bit cold, but more because of nervousness. Sister Li's hand is holding it tightly in the dark. Hold mine. I can feel her hands are sweaty.
Climbing in the dark is very dangerous. However, we are familiar with the terrain here. We have chosen the location in advance and lowered the rope. Of course, the first one to go down was Xiao Lei. It took him about ten minutes. We entered the bottom of the valley smoothly. Du Hongmei came next. What surprised us and Sister Li was that Du Hongmei's climbing movements were so skillful. I heard Xiaolei say that she was an expert in the school's mountaineering team before. After watching, As expected, she lived up to her reputation. The time it took her to reach the bottom was even shorter than Xiao Lei's.
Next was Sister Li and I. Of course, we were a bit clumsy. When we went down to the valley one after another, it took almost half an hour for no one to do it, and we were tired and scared. Everyone was sweating profusely, and their legs were dripping with sweat. I felt a little weak. I sat on a rock in the valley again. After resting for a long time, I finally felt better.
Xiao Lei and Du Hongmei seemed very relaxed. However, they did not complain or be impatient with us at all. Instead, they waited for us very patiently, allowing us enough time to sit on the ground to recover our strength. Of course, neither of them had any complaints. Idle, paying full attention to the surrounding environment to see if there is anything unusual. Pay special attention to the smell in the air. If the horrible smell of the monster appears at the slightest moment, we will quickly put on the gas mask on the chest.
But there seemed to be nothing unusual in the surroundings except for the low hum of insects and a few loud croaks of frogs. When Sister Li and I felt that we were almost rested, we went to the grass in the valley with Xiao Lei and Hong Mei. and in the woods. Quietly walk towards the entrance of the cave.
Our plan is to go to the entrance of the cave first to see if there is anything unusual. Then we will start a carpet-like search at the bottom of the valley. Anyway, the area at the bottom of the valley is not too big. It won't take us long to search it all. The strange thing is. When we felt we were near the entrance of the cave, we couldn't find the entrance. Did we remember it wrong? No. There was a large open area at the bottom of the valley, just at the entrance of the cave. Almost everywhere else. It's a tree. Moreover, Sister Li and I both clearly remember that there are two boulders with special shapes on both sides of the cave entrance. These two boulders are obviously here. Why can't we just see the cave entrance?
Sister Li suddenly thought of something and whispered to us: "Do you still remember? In the professor's book, it was mentioned that when they were picking special plants at the entrance of the cave, the entrance of the cave suddenly became smaller automatically. It can be seen that this
The entrance of the cave will also become larger and smaller. Just like the large or small hole in the stone wall that we saw in the Zhao family's old house. Is it because of the crack that cannot be closed that caused many subtle changes in the mountain?
Change. And this change caused the hole to disappear."
We all feel that Sister Li's inference is very reasonable.
I really want to take out the flashlight and take a closer look at where the hole used to be. What it looks like now. Is there still a tiny crack or something like that? But we all understand that in the dark, there is a place where enemies may be lurking.
It is very dangerous to rashly bring out bright light in this place. It may immediately become the target of enemy attack. So we just observed it for a while through the extremely dim starlight. But the entrance of the cave disappeared mysteriously.
Just when we turned around and were about to search in other directions, we suddenly saw a horrifying scene in front of us. In the woods far away from us, two groups of blue, looming blue lights appeared. And they seemed to follow us.
The breeze was still blowing back and forth like a ghost. Because it was so dark in the forest that I couldn't see my fingers, these two groups of lights looked particularly dazzling.
Like a will-o'-the-wisp.
After a brief pause, Xiao Lei pulled out the dagger from his waist. A few of us also took out anesthesia guns. Xiao Lei made a gesture towards us, indicating that we should go over there and take a look. Then
What is going on with the light?
Because it had just rained and the soil in the valley was very thick, it was a bit muddy under our feet. We walked in the dark towards the place where there was a "will-o'-the-wisp".
To be honest, although we have been to this valley several times, each time we only stayed around the entrance of the cave, but we have never been to the direction where there are "will-o'-wisps". This is the first time we have gone in that direction of the valley.
I felt that we had walked more than three hundred meters in the dark, but the two fires were still looming in the distance, as if they could never get closer.
We gritted our teeth and walked forward for a while. Then we felt that we were not far away from the fire. It was only about ten meters away at most. When we were completely walking, we suddenly felt something strange under our feet.
It was soil. It seemed like we were stepping on a bunch of dead branches. There was a creaking sound. And through our boots, we could feel something like a branch breaking when we stepped on it. But there seemed to be a subtle sixth sense that told us what was under our feet.
The things didn't seem to be dead branches, and there seemed to be small stones mixed in them. Xiao Lei quickly took out a small fluorescent flashlight from his pocket and looked for it under his feet. This kind of small fluorescent flashlight is specially used when the troops are operating in the field at night.
It is used to read maps. Because this light source is extremely weak and blue light, it is not easy to diffuse. This can effectively prevent yourself from being exposed in the dark.
When a few of us used the dim light of this fluorescent flashlight to look down at our feet, we couldn't help but be shocked. There were piles of human bones at our feet. Not only the bones, but there were also some silver ingots mixed in among them.
What on earth is going on? At this moment, our moods are extremely complicated, confused, excited, and fearful. It suddenly occurred to me that this cave is where Li’s wife Zhang’s treasure is hidden. In the past, I always felt that it didn’t matter.
Chapter completed!