Chapter 45: Stone Steps

There are a lot of esoteric and mysterious things in this world, but the sight of these fireflies actually converging into a god statue really baffles me, in other words. Fortunately, this is in the deep mountains of the hinterland of Sichuan, if it is outside, such a scene if coupled with a temple, it will bring an incomparable incense, night watching fireflies will also become a "miracle" as the scenery, and then there will be a variety of experts out of the countless kinds of reasoning that seems to be scientific to decipher this matter, He Pingan! He Pingan patted my shoulder and said: "What the fuck are you staring at this time?" I froze for a moment before I realized that I was just staring at the same time.

I froze for a moment to feel just lost in thought, at this time He Pingan woke me up, has begun to climb to the mountain, but down the mountain is easy to go up the mountain is difficult, and the location of the fireflies convergence, or in the location of the highest peak of the steepest side, want to climb very difficult. We both tried for a long time, all ended in failure, and finally can only think of going around the back, after going around the back to find a way to climb to the top, and then go close to the cliff.

Two people on top of this peak, really as small as two mole crickets, we walked and stopped, and finally in the side of the mountain, a very inconspicuous position, found a worn out stone steps, this stone steps more let us be ecstatic, the more obvious traces of man-made this mountain, it means that in the hinterland of the mountain there is a disappearance of the temple of God the greater the likelihood.

This temple is covered with moss, and because of the centuries of decay walk up very difficult, He Pingan and I hand in hand, clinging to the mountain wall, you do not know which foot falls off the cliff, how high is this peak? If you fall, you will definitely be immediately pulverized.

This stone steps like a mountain road, it seems that the ancients knew that this can make the slope most gentle and safe, we circled around and around, at this time the fireflies have disappeared, not to mention the pair of fiery red eyes, all of a sudden we also became confused, but also must follow the mountain road forward, because at the end of the mountain road, may be our destination. But at the last few levels, on the stone wall immediately adjacent to this stone staircase, a small hole was cut into the stone wall at intervals of space, and in each hole were placed two statues, one of a snake and one of a weasel, which were carved in a perfect likeness. Out of fear of the weasel, I walked more carefully.

I just couldn't figure out why the snake and the weasel were worshiped as real gods by many people, including my grandfather.

Although the stone steps are long, but there is always to the end of the time, just in the end, the stone steps appeared a fault, we stood in the middle of the mountainside, at this time the sky has been slightly light, the cold wind blew, more so that the two of us are shaky.

According to the two of us, it's completely impossible for us to jump from this side to the opposite side, and climbing over would be even more difficult without a support point, and I reckon that both of us would not be able to do it.

"I can't imagine that we've all come here, only to be stopped by a stone step break." I laughed bitterly.

But just at this time, He Pingan suddenly took out a rope with a hideous looking iron claw on the opposite side of it, he skillfully threw the rope to the opposite side, then pulled this end of the rope and swung it directly to the opposite side.

"You fucking still got it?" I said in surprise, I really couldn't tell that this He Pingan, who was like a little victim, would even play this.

According to my original understanding was that he had gone over, so would I be far away? Who knew that just at this time, He Pingan suddenly turned his head and smiled wryly at me, then waved his hand at me, and along that section of the ladder, he quickly disappeared into the blind spot of my vision.

I stood there alone, completely unable to accept this sudden situation, at this moment I really had the feeling of being in the wind, this He Ping An, what does this mean? He left his buddy here?

That is to say, this person whom I regarded as my friend along the way, has actually been acting to deceive me all along?

That kind of stifling feeling is not to mention, I looked at the cliff, just thought to exit the heart at this time decided not to retreat, you fucking dare to betray me, how I have to follow up to question you is not it? I also have a rope in the bag, but there is no hook, and finally I unbuckled my belt buckle, tied a child stone, made a suggestion of the hook claw, thrown I do not know how many times before thrown to the opposite side.

Next is the air swing, this is the real technical work, I was in the air a swing, and then the whole person in mid-air swing up, I would like to come in the air to a dashing move, but the hands are really too poor, and all of a sudden turned into a very embarrassing situation, my whole person just fell in the air, not to go up but also can not come down, the foot is the abyss, the head is the rope, now with the toes think! Now I know with my toes that it is more cost effective to climb up.

My weight is not heavy, is one hundred and twenty pounds of the appearance of this rope at that time we buy is certainly the best thing, load-bearing is absolutely no problem, but I did not climb a few times, I feel the top of the loosening, at this time I am almost all thoughts, with the belt and stone made of hair claws even began to loosen, the whole person in a hurry, I thought of that end of the break before climbing up, people in a hurry when they are in a hurry, will be busy, in the Suddenly, with a bang from above, my whole body started to fall down.

I thought to myself that I was finished.

I screamed in the air in fear, while screaming while frantically grasping, want to catch a child at such a time to save a straw, the wind whistling in the ears, just now I do not feel heavy, but at this time I feel that I really is a little too heavy, because even if on the way I grabbed the small trees and so on, but also did not appear on the TV as the same as being tented in the tree, is usually a pull on the break, and later on I am almost all despairing, the heart of a piece of of blankness.

At the end, I stopped my body, because at this time I finally caught something in the panic of hands and feet, because of the relationship of gravity, I grabbed this thing kept sliding down, I just feel my palms a burst of fever, but the good thing is that finally finally stabilized his body, and I'm holding this cold thing, dead, like a child's arms around my mother's neck as refused to let go.

Wait until I stabilized my mind, only to know just now saved my life, but is a rusty black chain, this chain is very thick, my palms have been bloody, but in survival, people will always be stimulated out of a different potential, I gritted my teeth, along the black chain to climb up, as long as I can return to the stone steps, is not equal to the success of self-help?

I almost used up my whole body's strength, the heart of my hand hurt to the end has been numb, I finally climbed to the top of the chain, but here, not stone steps, but a round hole, the hole is not big, can allow a person to pass through.

I climbed up the hole, breathing heavily, I did not expect, the most critical moment, the grave robbers of the hole actually saved my life, this child chain, may be the grave robbers wanted to enter the mountain temple hit.

I stabilized my breathing, and tried to make myself comfortable, and then turned on the flashlight, but when I just turned it on I was shocked, because as far as the flashlight could reach, in the cave that could be passed by one person, there were white bones everywhere.

Like hell on earth.

After experiencing so many things, in fact, white bones to my fear is very short, because I know that people if the bones, that even the opportunity to swindle will not be in the body, I just saw a fierce fear for a moment, and then quickly stabilized.

These white bones hands are inserted with arrows, arrows have rusted, a look at such a situation, I overturned my own speculation, feelings of this inside the dead, not grave robbers? On the contrary, from their almost rotten clothes, it looks like they are dressed in the Qing Dynasty.

I understood at once, when looking for those craftsmen were all killed by Zhang Xianzhong, I heard the big buck teeth told me that the general construction of the tomb craftsmen will leave themselves an escape route, feelings of this hole is the craftsmen's escape channel, but they did not run out, all were killed by the shot.