Chapter 71

Rushing to the entrance of the cave, he saw Zhou Jingyi and the other three leaning against the stone wall at the exit, observing the situation outside with vigilance.

Obviously, they also heard the sound

However, the rain outside is getting heavier and heavier at this moment. In the dark rainy night, no one can tell which direction the wolf howl came from.

What are you still here to do? Didn't you hear the wolf screaming? We have to go back to the camp quickly. I urged you

The camp I am talking about here naturally refers to the temporary footprint that has been built with a rain awning and surrounded by four off-road vehicles. Although it is simple, it is enough to have all the functions of a general small outdoor camp.

Just now, something seemed to run over from the front outside the cave entrance... Liu Jin was holding a hunting rifle in his hand and explained with a stuttering look.

I blinked, and Zhou Jingyi spoke out to confirm Liu Jin's statement

He read that right. I just followed him and saw a dark ball, and it swung past the hole... Zhou Jingyi said, while taking out a shiny dagger of more than ten centimeters in his right pocket of the camouflage vest on his body.

I realized that this time I came out, I was not the only one who carried the self-defense weapon, but Zhou Jingyi also kept it a hand.

Zhou Jingyi's move to touch the knife obviously scared Xiao Tian and Liu Jin. The two of them moved their bodies almost instinctively and opened the distance between them and Zhou Jingyi.

Of course, Zhou Jingyi turned a blind eye to the actions of these two people.

Instead, he asked me

Because it was too fast, I didn't see clearly what it was. Here is still hundreds of meters away from the camp. Do you think we want to go out?

What is it? We can't stay here and wait. We have to go back and meet with others first. I glanced at the big dagger in Zhou Jingyi's hand and confirmed it was a survival knife in the wild

Although it looks very close to a military dagger, and there is even a serrated hacksaw on the back of the knife, there are no blood grooves on both sides of the blade, which is a big difference between civilian knives and military knives.

Then he turned his attention to Liu Jin

Don't tell me, you are afraid of the dark shadow outside, so you dare not go out, right?

Liu Jin obviously realized the contempt in my words, and gritted his teeth and ran out first.

Seeing this, I patted Xiao Tian on the shoulder and signaled him to follow immediately. Xiao Tian understood and followed him out. At the same time, he used the flashlight in his hand to illuminate the ground in front of Liu Jin.

Zhou Jingyi knew that I had a pistol, and she also understood that I would definitely choose to cut off the back. I didn't need my instructions. After Xiao Tian went out, I immediately followed him. I held the pistol in my hand and followed a few meters after Zhou Jingyi went out.

The road from the entrance to the camp was scattered with gravel and rocks emerging from the soil

In addition, the heavy rain was pouring and the vision was extremely poor. As soon as Liu Jin came out of the cave, he almost tripped by a piece of gravel, so he had to reduce his running speed. Under the light of Xiao Tian, ​​he observed the ground while moving forward cautiously.

After turning a corner for more than a hundred meters, the lights on the other side of the camp were far away. Liu Jin saw it and felt relieved.

The hands holding the gun also relaxed

At the same time, he turned his head back and seemed to be asking us to follow

But at this moment, a black shadow jumped out at an astonishing speed from the darkness on the right.

Punched the unprepared Liu Jin to the ground

Liu Jin fell to the ground and pulled the trigger. With a loud bang, the bullet flew to the direction.

Liu Jin was knocked down, and Xiao Tian behind him seemed to be caught off guard. While suddenly awakening, he jumped and dodged from Liu Jin.

After realizing that he was attacked, Zhou Jingyi quickly pressed her body against the stone wall on the left. After experiencing the adventure under the cage of Fenghuáng Mountain, the woman not only became much stronger, but also learned to use the terrain to protect herself.

Back against the stone wall, it can reduce the space and direction that needs to be guarded against. This woman now seems more professional than Xiao Tian.

Zhou and Xiao were close to Liu Jin. When they realized that Liu Jin was attacked, they immediately chose to make priority to ensure their safety.

But I am far away, but I can use the flashlight in my hands of the latter two to see the specific situation of Liu Jin being attacked.

It's a wolf...

The wild wolf that threw down Liu Jin was obviously frightened by the sound of hunting guns. After throwing down Liu Jin, he did not bite Liu Jin, but instead made a sob scream, jumped out of Liu Jin, and then turned around and rushed into the dark rainy night. The green eyes looked particularly eye-catching.

Since the wild wolf retreated with one blow, I didn't have much time to aim and shoot. Thinking that I didn't have many bullets on my hand and I didn't have much confidence, I gave up shooting

Instead, he rushed to Liu Jin quickly, grabbed his arm, and pulled him up.

There was obviously a gunshot in the other side of the camp. You could see that under the light, there were several figures that seemed to be looking at this side.

I instructed Xiao Tian and Zhou Jingyi.

Don't stop, cross the stone wall, and let everyone over there hurry into the car and stay away.

Xiao Tian was stunned when he saw the pistol in my hand, but then he followed my instructions and continued to move towards the camp.

Zhou Jingyi was smart here and followed Xiao Tian. Obviously, Xiao Tian was regarded as a shield for her pathfinding.

Liu Jin was still in shock at this moment. After being pulled up by me, he just groped back and forth on his body, perhaps because he was worried about some injuries.

In this situation, I wouldn't let him do these useless work, just pushing his shoulder and saying

Go back to the camp quickly, it's too dangerous here

At this moment, Liu Jin seemed to have lost the ability to judge himself. Under my push, he immediately stumbled towards the camp and ran towards the camp.

The remaining 100 meters finally passed without any danger

I pulled Liu Jin into the canopy. When I saw Xiao Tian, ​​I wanted to discuss the next way to deal with him.

It now seems that at least one wolf pack exists in the area around us

Although I am not a biologist, I know very well that wolves are social animals

The so-called lone wolf is not without it, but it is extremely rare. I don't think we are lucky enough to encounter this situation.

But just as I was about to speak, another whimpering cry came into my ears, and after this sound, there were immediately sounds of wolf howlings from several directions...

After hearing the sound, I didn't need to remind me. Everyone who was packing things in the awning immediately rushed to the vehicle they were riding before and rushed into the carriage.

Zhou Jingyi took the driver's seat first, but I saw that I had no choice but to choose the co-pilot.

He Yanqiu and his son followed him into the back seat of our car, but to my surprise, Xiao Tian also jumped into the back of our car and squeezed into the same place with He Yanqiu and his son.

Zhou Jingyi and I turned around at the same time and looked at him unexpectedly. He reached out and pointed at the pistol in my hand, explaining the reason why he got into our car with a little embarrassed.

You have a gun, it's safer to be with you

I had no objection to what Xiao Tian said. Zhou Jingyi once again showed a contemptuous expression and wanted to ridicule Xiao Tian. But before he could speak, Xiao Tian once again pointed his hand outside the windshield in front of the car.

Look, look, what is that?

Because he saw He Yanqiu and his son's frightened expression at the same time, Zhou Jingyi and I suddenly turned around and looked out into the vast dark space outside the windshield.

Hesitated at this moment, the windshield was covered with rain, and the whole world outside seemed blurred and distorted under the refraction of the rain, but in this blurry and twisted darkness, two blue and faint, flame-like things slowly approached the camp from a distance.

Yan Ping, what do you think? Zhou Jingyi was obviously scared at this moment and her mouth was a little unscrupulous.

It looks like phosphorus fire... I deliberately used what I think is scientific name, and the folk name ghost fire that does not use phosphorus fire may be in my subconscious mind. This name may relieve the fear of the people on the car.

However, as the flames keep approaching, it is increasingly proved that my speculation is wrong.

When the flames advanced about ten meters away from the camp, there was a sound of ignition coming from an off-road vehicle next to it...

After realizing this, Xiao Tian hurriedly rolled down the car window, poked his body out, and wanted to signal the other party to stop the action.

But it was obviously a beat slower. While the driver in the car next to him ignited the engine, he also turned on the wiper and headlights on the car.

Two thick beams of light extended out, just illuminating the location of the two flames

Two burning blue eyes, a wild wolf covered in black hair, appeared in everyone's sight

This is what you call phosphorus fire? Zhou Jingyi shouted at me in anger, and reached out to ignite the engine of the car.

Because in addition to our car, the other two cars also heard the sound of starting

The first vehicle that started was the first to drive out from its original position. The driver was obviously frightened by the giant wolf that appeared under the headlights.

The car was driving crookedly and rushed directly towards the giant wolf's position.

Just as he was about to have a direct collision with the beast, the driver threw the steering wheel in front of him at a critical moment, and finally passed by the side of the giant wolf.

The giant wolf did not make much movement or reaction to the car's movement from beginning to end, but his head and eyes kept turning with the car's big lights.

After seeing the car drive out, the other three drivers, including Zhou Jingyi, turned on the headlights and moved in the direction of the first car.

Of course, no one has the courage to pass by the giant wolf, but while chasing the trajectory of the car, he kept his distance from the giant wolf.

After drawing three arc trajectories, the three cars behind us finally matched the first car that started in the direction.

The giant wolf was still standing there, twisting its wolf head and its faint blue eyes, observing our actions

And I was also nervously through the car window, paying attention to the every move of the beast more than ten meters away on the side...

The distance was getting farther and farther away, the giant wolf's figure disappeared into the dark rainy night, only the light emitted by the blue eyes was still flashing faintly, and the heart I held was slightly calmer

This beast seemed to be attracted by the light emitted from the camp, and it seemed that it did not intend to attack us actively

Just when I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, I suddenly noticed that the blue light suddenly moved, fishing far behind our car...

After realizing this, I turned my head and looked at Xiao Tian, ​​and he also noticed this situation.

An impatient expression appeared on his face, and he looked at Zhou Jingyi and said: That wolf seems to have followed us? Can you get rid of it quickly?

Zhou Jingyi replied

It was so heavy rain that the visibility was too poor, so I could only try it. After that, she stepped on the accelerator and the car accelerated suddenly, quickly surpassing the other three cars and rushed to the front of the convoy.

Be careful... I reached out to pull the gripper above the side of the door. My heart disease was almost scared by Zhou Jingyi's actions at this moment.

But then I pointed my hand in front and shouted.

Front, front... Because I suddenly found that many green lights suddenly appeared in the darkness far ahead...

When the big light beam passed through those green light positions, groups of wild wolves appeared in my sight

Oh my god, how many Ahs are there?

Seeing this, Zhou Jingyi kept swinging the steering wheel to the right and drifted directly in front of the wolf pack.

The other three cars followed Zhou Jingyi to make the same maneuver avoidance actions

The wolves were obviously stimulated. After making waves one after another, they followed behind the four cars...

In the dark night of heavy rain, four off-road vehicles were running wildly on the vast grassland

Following them are countless wild wolves, whose shiny eyes are like ghost fires in hell in the dark

I pulled the gripper beside the car door and looked out of the window. Looking at the incredible and strange scene in front of me, I felt very distressed.

Originally, I just wanted to speed up and get rid of the giant wolf. Now, I guess most of the wolves on the grassland were attracted by Zhou Jingyi's previous big moves.

What to do? What to do? I was thinking desperately in my mind

Among those green spots of light, a pair of blue spots squeezed up from behind and finally stood at the position of the wolf pack's arrow.

It was the blue-eyed giant wolf, but it was still impossible to get rid of it... I frowned

Begin to think about the worst that the wolves catch up with us

In this way, wandering in the heavy rain, Zhou Jingyi took the lead. The four off-road vehicles led countless wild wolves behind us to parade on the dark grassland for almost ten minutes.

In the past ten minutes, while paying attention to the situation of the wolf pack behind me, I tried hard to observe the situation around me.

At the beginning, due to heavy rain, my eyes could only see the lights of the vehicles behind and the situation within a short distance around them. However, as time passed, my eyes gradually adapted to the current environment and could see some scenes in the distance.

I found that the sky in the distance on the right side of our driving direction seemed to have a different color from the sky here

The sky above us was pitch black, but there was a faint dark blue vaguely revealing the sky over there.

From here, turn right and keep moving forward! I retracted from outside the car and shouted at Zhou Jingyi. The woman was completely immersed in the high-speed driving situation at this moment.

It seems not to be escaping, but more like racing

However, after getting my instructions, Zhou Jingyi turned the steering wheel to the right without any hesitation, and the car ran wildly in the direction I was guiding.

After a few minutes, the rain outside the car weakened significantly

I realized that I was right this time and we were leaving the rainfall area

Although doing so is not helpful to get rid of the wolves behind, you can get better vision and visibility after leaving the rainy area, which is also more beneficial for us to escape

After a few minutes, I leaned out of the window again, and finally I couldn't feel the rain.

I looked at the horizon that was faintly visible in the distance and began to think about how to get rid of the wolf pack behind me.

As a result, just as I started to think about it, I saw a black protrusion on a certain position in the horizon, and the thing immediately attracted my attention.

Although I couldn't tell what it was, I still signaled Zhou Jingyi to move the direction and led the vehicles and wolves behind him toward the black protrusions.

As the distance narrowed, I finally saw clearly what the black object looked like... It was a Mani pile that can be seen often in the Tibetan area.

After confirming that it was Mani, I let out a long sigh

With a mani pile, it means that there are people living nearby or there are herders and herdsmen activities.

If they can run into the local residents, they should have a way to help us solve the pursuers behind them, right?

A moment later our vehicle drove past the Mani pile

The three cars behind also passed by the nearby Mani pile, and then something strange happened.

The wolf pack that followed us before suddenly slowed down when they saw the pile of Mani

Finally, even dozens of meters away from the Mani pile, all the wild wolves, including the huge black wolf with blue eyes, stopped.

It was as if I were afraid of this Mani pile, and there was no further progress

The wolves watched us drive further and further at the end of the Mani pile. Finally, they gave up tracking, made a series of howlings one after another, and turned around and went back one after another.

The blue-eyed giant wolf seemed a little unwilling to accept it. He wanted to pass by the Mani pile several times, but seemed to be afraid of something.

After wandering for several times, he finally turned around and returned.

Seeing that the wolves were not chasing them anymore, Xiao Tian let out a long sigh

Zhou Jingyi finally stepped on the brakes and started to slow down

After the vehicle stopped, I jumped out of the passenger seat of the car

Looking at the shadows piled up in Mani in the distance, he fell into thinking

It is a good thing to get rid of the pursuit of the wolf pack, but I can't understand the whole story

Mani Pile is also called the God Pile. In addition to its functions of praying for blessings and exorcising evil spirits, it also has the effect of road signs and other signs.

But now those wild wolves gave up tracking after seeing Mani pile, which made me feel incomprehensible.

In my impression, Mani Dui does not have the ability to expel wild beasts

While I was thinking, the men and women in the car jumped out of the car one after another.

We talked about the events we had encountered before, and not long after, we heard the sound of crying, scolding, and scolding.

It seems that people who suddenly relax after their nerves are tight and unconsciously reveal their nature.

Woo, woo, woo...so scary

It’s all your fault, it’s all your fault... I don’t want to go to Lijiang when I leave it well, so I have to come to some Tibetan area...

My phone, I didn't bring it in the car...

I was upset when I heard this, and then walked a few more steps away. After looking up at the stars in the sky, I suddenly thought about it.

Because of the rain, we couldn't even determine our location.

Now that I have left the rainfall belt and can see the stars, I may be able to use my mastered wild survival skills to calculate our general direction at this moment

Thinking of this, I turned sideways and greeted Xiao Tian

Xiao Tian, ​​have you prepared a compass?

Xiao Tian was cursing by several women at this moment. When he saw me greeting him, he quickly took this opportunity to get rid of those women, then ran back to the car he had been riding in, took out a small box from his backpack, and ran to me quickly.

I took it, opened the lid and looked, and the muscles on my face couldn't help but shrink.

Because at this moment the needle of the compass in front of me actually turned a circle inside the dial...

What happened to this? Zhou Jingyi stood by me at some point. After seeing the compass, she couldn't help but exclaimed.

Is there any other compass? I frowned

Zhou Jingyi thought about it and took out her large survival knife again, then twisted the bottom of the shank of the survival knife.

It turned out that the handle of her knife was hollow, and there was a small compass that could be installed spirally at the bottom. There were small tools such as needles and tweezers in the hollow space of the handle.

However, when Zhou Jingyi took out this small compass, I realized that it should not be a problem with the compass.

Because after the small compass is laid flat, the pointer inside also turns into a circle

Moreover, the direction is opposite to Xiao Tian's compass. Xiao Tian's compass keeps rotating clockwise, while Zhou Jingyi's rotates counterclockwise...

Seeing this situation, I sighed

You can see stars here. I originally planned to use these stars and compass to see if we can roughly calculate our current location on the map, but it seems that there should be some places like a strong magnetic field nearby, so I may not be able to use this method.

After hearing this, Xiao Tian asked

So what should we do next? Find another place, or just take it over tonight here first?

I looked up at the surroundings and realized that we were staying at the top of a small hill with a wide view around me, and I made my suggestion

It's hard to say anything else, but judging from the situation just now, those wolves should not be close to the safety of this place. Staying here overnight can at least avoid being attacked by wolves again, and here is condescending. If someone or beast is approaching, we can also find out early and react. If it were me, I would rather stay here and wait for dawn.

Well, yes, that's it. After hearing what I said, Xiao Tian obviously made up his mind and turned around and discussed with Liu Jin and the others.

Or because I led the convoy out of the rain belt and got rid of the wild wolf pursuit on the side of the Mani pile, Xiao Tian unknowingly regarded me as the new backbone of the team.

Seeing Xiao Tian leaving, Zhou Jingyi approached me and said: What should we do next? Don’t tell me, we should continue to act with these people. Ah, let’s take a look, we followed them, and we took the wrong path at the beginning, and then we ran into this series of unlucky things. Don’t you think that the monster wolf is not a wolf at all?

You are right. Although I don’t know how big the wolf can grow, the wolf is obviously very special. The current situation is that even if we two want to put aside their actions alone, we can’t determine where we are now and where you are. If we try to determine whether we are now, where should we go? How can we get to the county town? We can’t just wander around the grassland like we are now, right?

So what do you mean?

At least now we have to continue to act with them after dawn tomorrow. As long as we can find a village or an obvious road, we will see them again and act according to our original plan. I finished speaking, and pointed to the faint shadow of Mani pile in the distance and said

Just now, the wolf pack gave up tracking after seeing the pile of gods. I think that pile of gods may be a bit weird. Do you want to accompany me to take a look?

Zhou Jingyi shook her head and said

I think it's weird, just go and see it yourself and don't get me involved! In the underground palace, Boss Li and others also thought the stone tablet was weird, so they pried open it and then provoked those monsters. I don't want the same thing to happen again. I want to go back to the car and something happened. Don't expect me to save you. I will definitely drive the car and run away as soon as possible.

I heard Zhou Jingyi say this, laughed twice, then took out the large flashlight that had been stuffed into my pocket, walked towards Mani pile, and

After walking for seven or eight minutes, I finally arrived in front of this mani pile

From the appearance, this Mani pile is not much different from the common Mani piles in the Tibetan area. It is just that the piles are larger and higher

Perhaps because no one has passed by here for a long time, there is only one rope left in this Mani pile that is barely pulling the top and edges, and there are only a few broken pieces of cloth left on the prayer flags on it.

I walked around the Mani pile and focused on the Mani stone carvings with patterns and symbols at the bottom.

Most of the Mani stone carvings depict the six-character proverbs commonly found in Tibetan Buddhism, just like the relevant materials I have consulted back then, while a few are rough and concise statues of Bodhisattvas.

However, during my careful search, I finally found several unique existences. The patterns on these Mani stone carvings were not ordinary Bodhisattva images, but statues of Buddha joy. The engraved words were not six-character proverbs, but Tandoro runes that left a deep impression on my mind.

Some time ago, I took advantage of the opportunity of guarding Xia Jiang with Han Zhe to ask Han Zhe for a lot of knowledge about talismans and formations.

But I have no ability to interpret the meaning and arrangement of runes on these Mani stone carvings in front of me at this moment.

I thought about it, took out my cell phone, and took pictures of the patterns on these Mani stone carvings and Tandoro runes.

Because Han Zhe has been studying various rune and spells from various religions and genres and the arrangement and combination of these rune and spells from various religions and genres.

The photos I took now may be of some use to his research

After taking the photo and realizing that there was nothing special about this Mani pile, I turned around and walked back towards the convoy.

After leaving the rainfall zone, Xiao Tian and others used solid formaldehyde and prepared wood charcoal to raise a bunch of bonfires

On the one hand, it is also to intimidate the wild beasts nearby

After venting his emotions, the women finally sat quietly around the bonfire. While roasting the fire, they used the bonfire to cook water and grilled some food.

Among the crowd surrounding the bonfire, I unexpectedly discovered that Zhou Jingyi was sitting inside too

Then came to her and sat down

Seeing me back, Zhou Jingyi immediately took down a piece of steamed bun on the baked fork on his hand and handed it to me.

I took it and chewed it

Aren't you going to go back to the car and rest and ready to get off at any time?

Zhou Jingyi said with a blank look

Then I have to find a way to fill my stomach and say it. I ignored me and turned around and started talking to He Yanqiu next to me. As I was talking, the woman named Qi Ying also came over and joined the conversation between the two.

At this moment, I realized that Zhou Jingyi's relationship with these women seemed to have improved without realizing it...

After eating, I got up and walked to Xiao Tian

How to schedule a shift at night for vigil?

Xiao Tian immediately discussed with me the order of duty

Considering that there were three men who had to drive the next day, He Yanqiu's son Xiaohua was classified as a minor by Xiao Tian. The only ones who could watch the night were left, Xiao Tian, ​​Liu Jin and two others.

Although I expressed different opinions on Xiao Tian's calculation of Xiao Hua as a minor, I still did not point this out in person.

After confirming that I was on duty for the last shift, that is, the two hours before the early morning, I didn't say anything to Xiao Tian anymore

Instead, he returned to his off-road vehicle, pulled a spare marching blanket from the rear compartment, wrapped it on his body, and then curled up to the passenger seat and started to sleep.

Although Xiao Tian and others had already set up two marching tents next to the bonfire, I definitely wouldn't sleep there...