Chapter 42: Entering the Mountain
"Fuck! What the fuck?!" My head was fitted out a big bag, couldn't help but scold He Pingan, could the real meaning of this thing, He Pingan could read it? He Pingan ignored me. Instead, he opened this drawing that Real He left me, stared at it for a long time, and finally continued to drive, and when we arrived at the county town, he ran to buy a er detailed map, after which the whole person fell into a state of madness.
"What's the matter with you?" I asked.
"Look here, look at these seven peaks." He Pingan asked me.
I glanced at it and seemed to think of something, but I couldn't be sure, so I could only ask He Pingan, "What exactly do you mean?"
"The location of these seven peaks corresponds to a line on the map, which means that this map we originally had was just too small, so trying to find this target is just too difficult. These seemingly unrelated seven peaks are actually expanding the target line a little bit more for us, and this snow lotus symbol on the map is where this child map of ours is located." He Pingan said.
"You mean to say, He Ping An gave left this map is actually to let me find this place, and left this map is five years ago, in five years ago, He Ping An knew that I would come to Zhang Xianzhong Shrine?" I wondered.
"The surname Guo will definitely go, it can be you, it can be your old man, or it can be your grandfather. It seems that my speculation was not wrong, this Lost is the temple, also in Guo Zhongyong's whole plan, Zhuo Anu should have come here back then! It is also because of this that He Zhengen expected that your Guo family, sooner or later, one of you will come here!" He Pingan is a bit excited, not only him, even I am a bit excited, lost is the temple, Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, He Zhenzhen left the words, could it be that everything, there is an understanding?
The next thing we did was to rush, frantically, to these seven peaks that appeared on the map. According to the labeling on the map, the location of the end of these seven peaks, has basically deserted, but there are still some villages that exist. As for whether or not these villages were inhabited, it was not certain.
He Pingan and I are not considered to be martial arts masters, much less have much experience in the jungle, so we walked along the way in a very lousy way, and looking at the map to walk in the mountains, which is a very difficult thing, you will find that you walk and lose your direction.
So in the food and drink we brought almost to have no time, finally found a village, this village is basically deserted, almost all grass houses, according to the original intention, we are ready to borrow a night, tomorrow on the go, but found two of the houses, there is still cooking smoke.
He Pingan is very excited, after all, in the mountain village walking so many days, a fierce see people words is indeed worth the excitement of the thing, but I pulled him at this time said: "not buddy splash you cold water, deep in the mountains to see people, either ghosts or demons, be careful for the top."
"Come on you." He Pingan gave me a blank look and said, "I've never heard of ghosts and goblins cooking."
He walked in front, I also feel like some of the grass, now the sky is not yet dark, really have a demon also not this time out ah, we arrived at one of the family knocked on the door, after opening the door, our two sides of the people almost at the same time fell back a step.
He took us for a demon, and we took him for a demon.
Finally I can confirm, this is an old man, but he has been too old, and very dark skin with wrinkles, a fierce look, as the black mountain old demon, the next scene, is that I and He Pingan became the village only three old man in the eyes of the monkey, the three of them surrounded us to look at, speaking with the obvious Sichuan flavor, but we can not understand the Mandarin. The three of them wore very old clothes, which do not know what era of clothing, we talk they do not understand, just around us pointing.
Finally, I took out our only remaining cookies and chocolates, as well as drinks to give them, the three old people treat this as a delicacy on earth, eat do not want to eat a big mouthful of food, just a time to buckle down a little bit in the mouth slowly taste. The look on their faces made us feel very cozy.
In the end, we did not communicate normally with these three old people, He Pingan is a very patient person, in the end, he froze with the body language expressed the two of us is to enter the mountain, and we lack of dry food, these old people stopped their mouths, in the face of us to reveal the expression of panic, and constantly shaking his hand to indicate that can not enter the mountain can not enter the mountain.
He Pingan gestured and asked them why, these three old men made ghostly faces at us, He Pingan said to me, "What they mean, is that there are ghosts inside the big mountain."
"That's right, a temple hidden in a deep mountain, if it's not a ghost or a monster, it's a ghost." I said.
The two of us are really very lucky to have found our way here, but equally unfortunate is that the two of us don't have the slightest way to face the danger, this time we don't have an expert to follow us, and Zhang Xianzhong's temple is bound to be full of organs inside, how are the two of us going to face it?
In order to persuade us two good children do not enter the mountain, these three old people also pulled us to a large puddle in front of the village, an old man directly jumped in, and directly in the inside salvaged a skeleton head thrown out, and then this old man continued to dive, not long after, and once again, salvaged a skeleton head.
The meaning of the old man is very obvious, is this puddle, many many bones, but bones this thing, destined to scare us both, and then the old man climbed ashore, pulling us out of the village, outside the village of a forest, we once again saw the tired white bones, and many ancient weapons, have been decayed out of shape.
He Pingan found some of them and said, "All of them are the weapons of the Qing Dynasty. This is either the gathering place for the deaths of Zhang Xianzhong's troops back then, or the gathering place for the bones of the artisans he pitted throughout the construction of the temple, and this place should undoubtedly be that place if nothing else."
These three old men should know something, but unfortunately, because of the language communication barrier, it was hard for us to get anything out of them, but these three old men were determined not to let us go, and didn't even provide us with food.
Later, we had no choice but to steal some sweet potatoes that were hanging outside, and prepared to go into the mountains overnight to find that dragon-shaped lotus land, who knew that we hadn't gone for long when those three old men chased after us with torches and danced around at us, and in the end, probably feeling that they really couldn't let us compromise, they walked in front of us.
"Are they going to show us the way?" I asked.
"It looks that way." He Pingan said.
Looking at the guarded figures of these three old men walking in front of us, I suddenly didn't know what to say, these three old men were extremely intimidated by this big mountain, yet they resolutely decided to lead us, for the sole reason that we gifted some chocolates and half a box of cookies and a bottle of drink.
Perhaps these three old people will soon pass away, after they pass away, this mountain village will completely cut off the fireworks, there are a lot of such villages such people are slowly disappearing, also disappeared, there is such a character.
One by one, the old people are very old, but they live by the mountains, walk the mountains than both of us, and later even we have to follow their footsteps, He Pingan took out that his own map, the map is a palace, give those old people to see, to show them where we want to go, that is, in the mountains to find this palace.
Those three old men suddenly became frightened when they saw this palace, and even kneeled down to the temple on this diagram.
This time we are surprised at the same time also become unusually excited, these three old people whether it is to this temple panic or awe, all show that they know the location of this temple, then on our trip, is not it will become unusually simple?
The old man after kneeling, the face is very ugly, but still lead us to continue to rush, finally in the dawn of dawn, we climbed the last peak, the last mountain of the seven mountains in a row, standing on the top of the mountain, but can not see the existence of the temple.
The highest overlooking the panoramic view can not be seen, which makes me more or less a little disappointed, the three old men walked here, did not decide to continue to take us down, we did not force, people are old, and rely on the mountains to eat people will always have this kind of that kind of fear, and willing to take us here, has been considered a really difficult to them.
We stood at the top of the mountain to say goodbye to the old people, I have a decision, no matter this time we can not find the temple, go back, if possible, pick up this old man out of the mountains, of course, provided that in the case of their willingness.
By the time we got here, we were very close to that temple, but it was so far away, because even when we got here, there was no sign of that temple. We descended the mountain and went around this deep forest for a day without the slightest gain.
Toward evening we pitched our tents, only to find a strange sight in this place.
Under the moonlight, the clouds rise, just over the highest peak where we are during the day, like a fairyland on earth, countless fireflies in the jungle like the Buddha's light gathered on top of that peak, countless fireflies converge, composed of an incomparably strange picture, under the convergence of fireflies, but also composed of a huge statue of God.
The idol that the fireflies converged on, however, had two strange eyes, which were a pair of fiery red eyes.
This scene, very strange, but also very beautiful, I looked dumbfounded, but He Pingan said to me a little crazy: "So it is like this, the seven peaks are connected, in fact, it is not surrounded by a real circle, the ancients have great admiration for the Big Dipper seven stars, that these seven connected stars are telling the true meaning of the universe, these seven peaks, secretly attached to the way of the seven stars, at this highest peak, it just so happens to be a dragon lifting up the head of the Fate, heck, what heavenly temple, that temple, just repair on the mountain!"