Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 853 Half Cigar
Lu Lu looked at the map along the way and made a preliminary estimate. The straight-line distance from the location of Sumarokov's winery to the mountain where they hid Bangchui in the north of Khabarovsk is equivalent to the distance from Mohe to Jiamusi. .

In other words, it would take at least three days to get there by car.

Switching to a sledge and traveling in the mountains will take even more time.

Therefore, when heading to Khabarovsk along the way, most of the people were rushing.

Fortunately, Oroqen horses have excellent endurance, and such long-distance running can last for many days.

Of course, the weather is too cold, and it will be unbearable for a few people sitting on the sledge. Walking on both sides of the sledge allows the body to move frequently, which is actually more comfortable.

So, along the way, a few people only hunted the valuable prey they saw along the way.

Sables jumping on the branches, silver squirrels running in the snow, yellow-skinned dogs chasing greyhounds on the tree trunks, red foxes occasionally running through the forest, and running on the ravine slopes, taking advantage of the situation in the snow. The water dog gliding for a distance on the slope, of course, the blind bear hiding in the barn and being discovered by Yuanbao and the others, the brown bear coming out for food, the red deer wandering in the mountains, etc. were also not missed.

I didn’t deliberately look for it, and I didn’t deliberately hunt for it.

After leaving Sumarokov's winery, the few of them could only pretend to be Oroqen people on a safari and try their best to avoid people they might encounter so as not to cause trouble.

If he is recognized, he will not be as lucky as he was when he met Ashku and his son, or when he met Wu Biao at Sumarokov's winery.

It's okay if you meet ordinary civilians who go into the mountains to hunt, and they probably won't mind their own business. But if you meet people from Maozi's military, it will be a big trouble.

It is said that there are millions of troops on the border. Even though the relationship between the two sides has eased, the manpower and supplies on Maozi's side have not weakened.

When passing through some mountainous roads, you can often see some personnel carriers or supply vehicles. Of course, there are also many vehicles, and I don't know what they are for.

Along the way, we still had to be extremely cautious. A few people walked quite secretly and took many detours.

There was only one day during this period. The wind was blowing very hard and there was some snow. They chose to camp and rest.That is to say, during this day, more prey were caught.

In this way, it took them nine days to finally see Khabarovsk, which is close to Fuyuan City in the east of the wilderness. There were still more than a hundred skins of various sizes on the sledge, as well as a lot of bear bile, deer gallbladder, etc. Whip something valuable.

Standing on the top of a foreign mountain and looking at China, there is a very strange feeling, but with such a small distance and only a river less than 200 meters wide, it has become an out of reach place.

For some reason, Lu Lu's desire to return to Xiushan Village became a little urgent.

"Have a rest. The closer you get to the city, the more villages there are around. Naturally, there are a lot of people going out into the mountains. We have to be more careful on the next section of the road. You all have to work hard. We will go to the mountains tonight and bag those sticks. , I returned to the uninhabited land in the mountains overnight, and I wanted to be more secretive at night!"

Lu Lu looked up at the bright white sun in the sky, feeling a little uncomfortable, and his eyes couldn't stop crying.

"How do your eyes feel?" Raymond asked with concern.

"It's still the same, it's snow blindness!"

Now Lu Lu was completely sure of the problem with his eyes.

Just the day before yesterday, his eyes and eyelids began to become red and swollen, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot. He always felt that there was a foreign body in his eyes, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

At first, he thought it was due to lack of sleep. For this reason, Zhang Shaofeng and others didn't even need him to stay overnight so that he could have a good sleep. As a result, after two days, there was still no relief.

And the situation is getting worse. Now when he sees the snow, it feels dazzling and he can't help crying. He is particularly afraid of light.

He had to find gauze bandages to cover his eyes.

Snow blindness is an acute light source eye disease. It is mainly caused by strong sunlight reflecting through the snow and focusing by the lens to reach the macula of the retina, causing tissue burning and vision loss.To put it bluntly, if the ultraviolet rays refracted by the sun and snow damage the eyes, they will usually recover within 24 hours, and there will be no sequelae and it will not cause blindness.

It's just that it's like having sand in your eyes. You can't open your eyes and tears are flowing. It's really painful.

This is why you need to wear glasses when skiing.

The winter in the wilderness is long, covered with heavy snow for several months, and everything is completely white. The main colors are just monotonous black and white.

Like other places, it doesn’t snow every day. It’s more often sunny and cloudless. The sun has no temperature, but it is very bright. Coupled with the refraction of the snow, it is always bright, often outdoors. Many active people have actually suffered from snow blindness.

Especially for hunters, this is a very troublesome thing. Whether it is finding prey or using a gun, it depends on the eyes.

Lu Lu's eyesight was the best among several people. He had been holding on for the past two days, but his condition had not improved.

"Don't worry...it's not a big deal!" Lu Lu comforted with a smile.

"Don't worry about it. Without your eyes, the loss is not small... Okay, rest, this is good. Sleep during the day and move around at night. The light is weaker. Maybe your eyes will be fine by tomorrow. Get up!" Zhang Shaofeng laughed.

Several people immediately made a decision and started to build the chuluozi. Without Lu Lu doing anything, they first lit the fire and let him roast it.

The chuluozi was set up, and several people moved the firewood into the chuluozi. After eating some boiled and frozen dumplings, Zhao Yongke was left on duty while the others lay around the fire to rest.

When Zhao Yongke woke him up, the sky had become dark.

Without the dazzling snowy light, Lu Lu was able to take off the gauze covering his eyes, and his eyes felt much more comfortable.

After baking a few sticky bean buns and eating them, the group of people got out of the buns in a tacit understanding, then started to pack up their luggage and load it on the sledge, and walked silently towards the mountains north of Khabarovsk.

The last time they went to Laoye Ridge to carry sticks, they delivered the sticks to the cave four times. They paid special attention to the surrounding topography and remembered them clearly in their minds.

Even if it's dark and there's a moon, it won't hinder travel. Moreover, there are fewer people active at night, so it's safer, but the temperature is much lower.

In the middle of the night, several people successfully arrived near the cave. They did not approach immediately. Instead, Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke used flashlights to investigate the situation first.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, they suddenly heard a gunshot from the mountain, which shocked Lu Lu and others. However, it was just this gunshot, which was particularly loud in the quiet night. It should be Zhang Shaofeng and the others. It's open.

Not long after, Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke ran back.

"What happened just now?" Lu Lu asked softly. "There was a man-bear living in the cave. He didn't wake up and was beaten by us!" Zhang Shaofeng said.

"Is there anything unusual about that?" Lu Lu asked again.

"On the snow near the cave entrance, except for some scattered animal footprints, there are no traces of human activity."

"We also looked inside the cave and found nothing unusual inside. The stone cave where the mallets are stored and the stones blocking the entrance of the cave have not been touched. We opened it and took a look and found that the mallets buried in the sand are still in good condition."

The two briefly discussed the situation.

Seeing that everything was normal, Lu Lu also breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's go and get those mallets out and bag them. We have to leave as soon as possible!"

The reason why Lu Lu was so cautious was because he had his own considerations.

The leader of the three Maozi soldiers killed in the ditch last time was obviously an officer.

If a soldier disappears for no reason, there is no way there will be no movement at all.

Furthermore, many of the sticks in Laoye Ridge are seeded manually, and a protected area has been established. There are often patrols. The traces left after lifting the sticks and the traces of camping will not be discovered at all.

These are things that can easily attract attention, especially the dead officer. Last time, he used a thunderstorm silent pistol and a button with cyanide to kill him, and then he was thrown into the water. I don’t know if he was found. After that, were they led in other directions?

Everything is unknown, and the interval is only less than a month or two months.

This time, these things that can kill people invisible were also brought here by them.

Some investigations may last for a long time, so we should not be careless.

Moreover, Lu Lu did not dare to underestimate Mao Zi's investigative ability.

A few people speeded up and arrived at the entrance of the cave. Zhao Yongke stayed at the entrance to pay attention to the movement outside. The other people used flashlights to get into the hole and uncovered the stones blocking the entrance. A few people got in and then started directly. Grind the sand and carefully remove the mallet, which is still fresh inside, and bag it.

More than 2000 mallets, large and small, filled several bags.

Then they removed the bile from the killed brown bear and skinned it. It took four people nearly two hours to finish the work.

Bags of mallets were placed on the sledges of several people. Worried about the lack of river sand cover and the low temperature at night, they were afraid of freezing the mallets, so several people simply wrapped the bags in large bearskins and put them away.

Although the stick is cold-resistant, it is still buried in the soil under the snow. Now that the environment has changed, there is no chance that it will be frozen.

But while several people were busy carrying it out, Lu Lu suddenly noticed that there was half a cigar placed in the stone gap on the right side of the cave entrance. You really couldn't find it unless you looked carefully.

There are a lot of smokers here in Maozi, and some people like cigars, cigarettes, and pipes.

The presence of cigars in this place means that someone has been there.

Lu Lu frowned slightly, stretched out his hand to pick up the half of the cigar in the gap and looked at it. From the logo, he recognized that this was a very famous Cuban cigar. It was a privately customized, long and thick large cigar. People who smoke this kind of customized cigars will not be simple.

Lei Meng and Liang Kangbo, who were busy carrying the bag of sticks outside, saw what Lu Lu was looking at and came over as they passed by. Lei Meng asked, "What's wrong?"

"Someone has been here before!" Lu Lu looked a little solemn. He handed the half of the cigar to Raymond: "I always feel uneasy!"

Raymond took it and looked at it: "However, there is no other abnormality. Even the mallet has not been touched. If someone has been here and found the mallet, it is impossible to stay. Maybe only some people passed by and took a look at the entrance of the cave. , or shelter from the rain or something!”

"I hope it's okay!"

Lu Lu nodded slightly: "Hurry up and get on the road early. After more than two hours, it will be dawn again."

"it is good!"

Zhang Shaofeng also responded. He took the half of the cigar in Raymond's hand and looked at it. As if out of curiosity, he picked out the cigar a few times and unfolded the tobacco leaves wrapped in it. Suddenly, a small metal object fell out. When he came out, he picked it up, looked at it, and asked Raymond: "What is this!"

Lu Meng looked at the thing in his hand under the light, and his expression suddenly changed. He suddenly grabbed it and threw it into the snow in the distance: "That's a bug..."

Unexpectedly, there is a secret hidden in half a cigar.

Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo had no idea about bugs, but Lu Lu, Zhang Shaofeng and Lei Meng all knew what it meant.

It was discovered, and there were still people monitoring what was going on here.

At this moment, Zhao Yongke, who was observing the movement, suddenly shouted softly: "There is a light on the sloped mountain!"

Several people glanced in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough they saw lights flashing in the forest on the hillside more than 400 meters away, and soon went out. Judging from the lights that just disappeared, it seemed that someone was going down the mountain quickly.

That is a place where you can directly observe the location of the cave.

Combined with this bug...

"Troublesome..."

Lu Lu's heart suddenly became anxious, and he instinctively felt that danger was approaching quickly.

"Find a place to stay. If those people are really coming for us, kill them!" Raymond said in a low voice: "Otherwise, if we want to leave with our things, there are traces everywhere and we can't escape. Yes, there will be constant troubles later!”

Zhang Shaofeng also nodded.

"That's it!" Lu Lu nodded heavily.

It would be better if things were done neatly and neatly!
(End of this chapter)