Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 157 Buffalo Head Ditch

Hearing that Mengli and the others said they wanted to help search the mountains, Agui refused at first, so they followed after talking.

Agui told Yuncai to follow Mengli and the others so that they don't get separated.

Yuncai is Agui's youngest daughter and Fatty's future wife.

These days, it was also the first time for Mengli to look at her seriously, she was a good girl, no wonder Fatty liked her so much, and even guarded Banai for her all the time.

But this time, their fate will be changed by her, and they will have a happy ending...

The villagers gathered about 20 people, held torches and flashlights, and walked towards Buffalo Head Valley with hounds.

It was pitch black all around the mountain road, and they let the hounds smell their clothes while shouting.

The forest farms here have been felled once, and the road ahead is not difficult, but there is plenty of rain here, and there are many puddles on the mountain, which are full of mountain leeches.

It's hard to walk all the way to Baolin District, but these mountain people are all hunters with rich experience, so walking is not difficult at all.

For Mengli and the others, such a mountain road is really like a walk compared with Tamuto.A group of people just walked to the depths of the mountain.

As he walked, Aning asked the question Wu Xie wanted to ask: "What's the situation in the Buffalo Head Valley area, is it dangerous?"

Yuncai turned back and said, "That's the boundary line between the Dabao Forest District and our village's forest protection area. Yangjiao Mountain is in the Dabao Forest District, Zhoudu Mountain is in the forest protection area, and in the middle is Buffalo Head Valley. Behind Yangjiao Mountain is a deep mountain old forest. The forest farm All the people in the area put up a sign at the mountain pass, telling us not to go in, so except for the old hunters, we generally don’t go to Yangjiao Mountain, and I haven’t heard of anyone going in the forest behind Yangjiao Mountain.”

"No one has gone in?" Wu Xie asked.

A Gui said behind Wu Xie: "I am afraid that the only person in the village who is most familiar with Yangjiao Mountain is Papa Panma. It is said that only ancient Yue traders dared to leave the forest behind. Traveling for a month to sell jade, I don’t know how many people are trapped in the depths of these mountains.”

Jade trading is the most lucrative, cruel, and mysterious commercial trade on the ancient Sino-Vietnamese border. Wu Xie has heard of the tragic struggle between the Vietnamese and Burmese jade gangs. Getting poor and rich overnight is so common here that it can no longer be normal. , Under the huge benefits of one-for-one, there is no place for human nature at all.

"It is not far from the place where the jade trade is the most prosperous. The jade merchants from Banai to Guangxi all do small business with some bosses in Guangdong. They are the hardest group of jade people, so they are also very vicious. Especially during the Qing Dynasty, The Vietnamese who are half merchants and half bandits come here in batches, which is a local disaster." Agui continued.

Wu Xie thought in his heart that if this was the case, if the remains of those Vietnamese jade people could be found in the forest, maybe the rough jade they brought could be found.Raw stones with good color are very rare these days, and the price of jade is ridiculously high. The quality of jade in those days was much higher than it is now. If you find one or two good pieces, it will be worth more than any other artifacts.But after thinking about it, those Vietnamese jade people valued these jade stones more precious than their own lives back then, so intercepting them now is a great injustice.

They went into the ditch in the middle of the night, and found that the man in the bloody clothes pointed to a tree and said that the clothes were found on the tree. He first saw the blood sticking to the trunk, and then he looked up to find the clothes. At first I thought it was a night owl killed by a wild cat, but later I realized it was not.

The flashlight shone on the tree. This kind of copper-skinned flashlight had no lighting ability, but it was confirmed that there was nothing else on it. It was obvious that Papa Panma left the bloody coat behind after he climbed the tree.

Dad is almost 80 years old. Although he used to be a good tree climber, it is impossible to climb a tree for no reason. Obviously, he encountered some danger.

Aning looked at the cloud and asked, "What kind of beast is there?"

Yuncai thought for a while and replied, "I heard about tigers a long time ago, but now in the mountains, the most powerful thing is probably a leopard."

When Wu Xie heard it, he thought that the tiger is definitely gone now, and leopards are good at climbing trees. If it is really a leopard, it will be troublesome. Moreover, leopards have the habit of hanging food on trees to hide. Maybe my father has already died. .

But A Cai said again: "But the leopards are all in the deep mountains. The mountains here are not deep enough, and the chance of encountering leopards is too small. Dad didn't bring a gun, so why come to such a deep mountain?"

Wu Xie recalled the scene where the little soldier Gazi hid the captured pistol in the bird's nest, and wondered if Papa Panma also learned this trick, but there was no bird's nest on the tree.

They searched around the tree for a while, but found nothing but some bloodstains, in several directions.The dogs they brought came in handy. The hunters all carried guns. After the bullets were loaded, the soldiers went to the distance in several ways. Mengli and the others followed Aguina all the way to Yangjiao Mountain.

Buffalo Head Ditch is very long and deep, and no one has ever walked to the end. The middle part of the ditch is the mountain pass where Yangjiao Mountain and Zhoudu Mountain meet. Xie is very uncomfortable.

He always heard the sound of "cluck" and broke out in a cold sweat, but he couldn't help it. If he wanted to come, he had to bite the bullet and follow, thinking that there were Mengli, brother and Aning beside him, Instantly relieved a lot.

The mountain dogs were quite fierce, standing taller than a person. Although they were all mongrel dogs, they were well-trained, and they quickly smelled them, leading them all the way to the depths of the valley.

There was nothing to say all the way, and when the crescent moon was on top of their heads in the middle of the night, the dogs seemed to have found their target, and they stopped near the Yangjiao Mountain Pass.It was a slope on the mountainside. Because of the mudslide, the trees were sparse, the slope was very steep, and the soil was wet and slippery, as soft as snow.

They used the branches as crutches to keep their balance. From time to time, they stepped on the wrong place, and the whole piece of mud slid all the way down.

The hound pulled them and half-crawled to the bottom of a tree with difficulty. After that, they stopped wandering and barked at a large piece of grass behind the tree.

Yun Cai was a little scared, and Wu Xie's heart sank. If the old man met a leopard, the things in the grass might be horrible.

Aning patted Wu Xie on the shoulder, signaling him to be at ease and not letting him think about it.

Wu Xie nodded, but was still a little scared.

Agui stepped forward to push aside the grass with a branch, but under the light of the flashlight, he found that there was no body inside, only a big stone.

After they went there, they found that it was a fragment of an ancient stone tablet. It had been a few years old, and the traces of wind and rain were obvious, and the surface was worn clean.

Agui and the others pushed aside the waist-high weeds around them, and suddenly a hunter let out an "oops" and fell short.

Everyone rushed over to grab him, and saw a mud pit hidden in the grass, which seemed to be washed out by the rain, and there was still mud in the pit.

Looking at the bottom of the pit, the four of Mengli looked at each other, and their hearts skipped a beat. In the pit, a few pieces of rotten wood could be vaguely seen wrapped in mud. Judging from the shape, it was almost certain that it was a coffin that had been broken into pieces.

This is a simple ancient tomb that was washed out.

I'm here to update (??ω??)??

Just one question, does anyone still watch wood?

(End of this chapter)