don't talk to aliens

The monkey that Li Xie and Lu Yiming found by the river early in the morning was skinned and bitten to death.

After that, Li Xie walked back alone, and fished out the folding fishing rod they brought in their bag at the beginning.

The entire upper and lower reaches of the river are now floating red.

It was visually estimated that the dead body of the monkey fell from the branch, and the blood was drained after spending another night in it.

It is estimated that no one wants to drink this water, and Lu Yiming will feel scared when he sees this.

So Li Xie then wrapped it with the newspaper and plastic bag he brought to camp for the fire, and then he carried it back casually with water ticking all the way, and threw some of the things he scooped up on the ground for Chen Zhen and Fu Bailong I took a look.

"This monkey... Yiming said he saw it by the river before?"

Chen Zhen, who was staring at the bloody thing on the ground solemnly, asked.

"Well, that's it. It must have been bitten to death by a bird of prey in the middle of the night, and my body was frozen for almost half the night."

It was still a bit cold in the morning, so Li Xie, who took the lighter out of his pocket and sat down, dripping water from his hands, answered the same way.

"What about others? Does it matter?"

He didn't see anyone from Lu Yiming in the camp, so Fu Bailong asked Li Xie again.

And as the big brother for others, Li Xie, a guy who doesn't seem to worry at all, came back to his senses and pointed to the tent that was pulled behind him, and then he said with a big heart,

"Huh? It's okay, I gave you a bag of beef jerky, and now I'm hiding to heal my wounds. Hey, Lu Yiming, are you feeling better?"

"...You, let's talk for a while, I'll wait...take it easy, and then come out..."

I guess I was really scared by that scene.

For a long time, his body seemed to be leaking, and Lu Tiancai, who had lost his usual vitality, replied to his brother weakly inside.

Seeing this, Li Xie rushed to Fu Bailong and Chen Zhen in front of him, and turned his head to comfort the other three who couldn't care about the children for the time being, so they could only return to the matter in front of them.

It's 10:05 in the morning.

It stands to reason that the sky should have been completely bright.

But today, Fangshan seems to be shrouded in thick fog. Until now, the visibility of the entire mountain, including the camp in front of them, has remained within 30-50 meters of the car.

Apart from this, with the normal eyesight of ordinary people, it is impossible to guess what is in the forest not far away or in the gray fog.

Right now, the three of them were sitting in front of the camp where a pile of things had been put down again, and among the three of them was a paper map of Fangshan that Chen Zhen had just found from the car.

On this version, the map of Fangshan from 1985 to 1994 is written.

It was Fu Bailong who brought it back at the entrance of the store in the scenic spot where there were no living people.

In addition, he brought mineral water from a shelf at the door, some food and daily necessities, and put the same amount of money in the cash register and bird food donation box at the door.

After all, no one knows how long the signal in the mountains will continue to be lost. However, it is a bit big to have a personal opinion on this.

"I said, it's okay if you want to show your civic-mindedness, but if you give me money, you can give me money. Why take my wallet?"

Realizing that his unlucky wallet was deflated this time, Li Xie was a little speechless at the moment.

"Because I never have cash with me, I only use checks, and who cares about your little money."

I didn't feel at all that I was showing off my wealth invisibly, and I was subconsciously "looking down on people with dog's eyes".

After arguing with him in the morning, Young Master Fu, who has not yet found a chance to reconcile privately, returned him with a cold face and arrogant and stinging tone.

"Do you think it's a question of money? It's a question of respect, Fu Bailong, why do you live so long and make trouble so unreasonably? You still don't know how to respect others."

"...What do you mean by this? How can I not learn to respect others after living so long? Who are you talking about making trouble for no reason?"

This is a small problem that cannot be smaller.

But when Chen Zhen saw that the two of them did not agree with each other, and wanted to stage a "little couple" quarrel together unreasonably, he suddenly had a headache, so he quickly made a pause gesture, and helplessly signaled that they still have business to do right now. talk.

The most important thing right now is that the signal of the mobile phones of the four of them and the communication equipment installed in the other cars has disappeared.

When they tried to go down the mountain, they found that the driveway they entered at the beginning was covered by the gray fog that had been permeating continuously since last night.

The gps failed overnight, and the stores in the scenic spot, the rest of the tourists resting nearby, and the phone calls of the rescue team all lost news.

It was so strange and vaguely revealing an ominous situation.

It's just that it's rare to see it made into an adventure movie, let alone Chen Zhen, who never thought that such a thing would happen when he came to Fangshan before.

"Li Xie, Bailong, today's matter... is mainly because I didn't think about it in advance. Before coming, I should check the information given by the two girls more carefully. The current situation is really very important to you. not good……"

Although we are all friends.

It shouldn't have been said in this complicated situation, but when Chen Zhen frowned and said this complicatedly, his expression was obviously very self-blaming.

Because he, as a person who can't actually be fully responsible for the other three people in this matter, can't help but dominate the scene in front of him.

At the moment, he felt an unspeakable burden in his heart.

I am also trying to say that we must come up with some reliable and safe methods as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the four people.

Hearing this, Fu Bailong didn't say anything for a while, Li Xie, who was still arguing with him unreasonably just now, wiped his bloody hands with a towel and said this.

"It doesn't matter, but in the current situation, it certainly has nothing to do with you if you want to be held accountable. Things in this natural environment are not something that people can freely control."

"Think about how to get out of here first, and those two female students who lost contact. Maybe they have encountered this situation with us now."

It didn't sound like him uncharacteristically.

For a while, Lian Fu Bailong sat beside him and felt that since just now, or since he entered the mountain yesterday, Li Xie has shown a calmness and composure that is different from ordinary people, or he seems to be indifferent to the sudden situation in front of him. So unexpected.

This made Fu Bailong feel a little strange.

He just felt that it didn't make any sense after thinking about it, but after that, he suppressed all this and first asked the other party a question that he was more concerned about.

"What are these things you fished for?"

I saw that besides the monkey's corpse, there were other miscellaneous things on the ground.

Although Fu Bailong, who is quite obsessed with cleanliness, thought it was a bit disgusting to look at it like this, he still took the fishing rod that Li Xie handed over from the side and rummaged through the things in the plastic bag.

"The ones that fell into the river from the monkey's nest, cold medicine, a novel with a lot of notes mixed in Chinese and English, a package that has not been opened... Well, feminine hygiene products, and this, a basic medical first aid book guide."

Li Xie said this in order to prevent Fu Bailong, who was seriously ill, from continuing to feel sick.

After he finished speaking, he simply covered the bloody corpse on the ground with a plastic sheet.

But when he said something, the other two male compatriots present still consciously turned their eyes away together.

And he himself, who seemed to be used to it, rummaged through the pile of smelly and unpleasant river garbage, and then watched the gray mist on the mountainside continue to go down,

"Many monkeys that retain their wild nature like to collect or rob tourists. Generally speaking, in their nests, we can tell whether there are other people around us."

——"These things don't look that old, so at least you can guess that there may be a team stranded near here. Among them is a person who caught a cold on the way, a bilingual master or a foreigner, At least one or two women, and... a team doctor."

These speculations in Li Xie's mouth are somewhat reasonable.

If there really is anyone else around here.

Finding these things left in the woods may help one's own kind. This is generally a way to try to save oneself. At this time, Fu Bailong also asked Chen Zhen who was on the side.

"Have you played back what was captured on the GoPro and Lu Yiming's camera yesterday?"

"Oh, not yet, because there is no signal, and it will take at least an hour to complete the re-import. We can continue to watch later. The previous recordings are mainly pictures of small animals and birds brushing through the woods, but it should help Let's determine the change in specific orientation..."

"..."

"But speaking of this, I just flipped through the map manual you brought from 1985 to 1994, and found that there are still some things that have not been recorded before on the map of Fangshan at this stage, and we don't know much about it. .”

Chen Zhen answered.

"what's up?"

It sounded a little unusual, because after further questioning, Chen Zhen, who is a veteran in the study of such materials and reading materials, thought for a while, and then pressed the previous page of the handbook and said,

"According to a translation passage by a foreign tourist, it turns out that from November 11th to 15th in Fangshan every year, it is not only a bird migration day in the simple sense of Fangshan, but there is also a local saying that on this day, a kind of The name 'sutala' is transliterated as, 'Sutala God' will give a natural power to the birds, and let them decide the life and death of all things in these two days and one night. During this process, things will happen in the woods. Some unexpected disaster, until 17 hours later, the birds leave, take the climate with them, and everything will return to the original place."

"'sutala'?"

Immediately, they repeated this familiar word in unison. After Li Xie and Fu Bailong finished speaking together, they looked at each other with different eyes.

But he didn't think too much at the moment, just thinking that the two of them thought this word was very special. Chen Zhen then spread out the old version of the map, and showed them more strange pictures and pictures on it with his fingers. landmark.

"Well, it's sutala. This saying first came from the aborigines of Fangshan, but after the 90s, it seems that it has not been circulated. In the last century, it was once as famous as an incident called Dyatlov in Russia, but now it is only on this map. As you can see, I just re-adjusted my and your watches based on the daily difference proofreading method provided on the map, and found that there are still about 47 days before the end of the 'sutala migration' mentioned in the safety notice on this map. Hours."

"..."

"In these 47 hours, what unusual things will happen in the map manual is not detailed, but there is one point, it hints at a sentence in the form of a fable, it says, 'in this world that the gods gave nature During the Great Migration, the gods that men and women encounter are different, and the results will be completely different, and the ones that can be seen in the end are the ones that sutala really favors'."

"So, the meaning of this statement is that as long as you can stay here alive, you will see 'sutala' in the end?"

"That should be the meaning, but at the same time, it also said that there is actually no scientific literature that can explain what kind of paleontology the sutala is. Maybe it's just a local fabrication, maybe it's just a bird. , or the artistic treatment of other unknown beasts, no one can prove whether it really exists.”

And so far, since the three people have discussed all the known information at hand.

Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, and how true it is, you have to find a way to save yourself in the mountains for at least the next 47 hours, and even the three people who saved people all looked at their watches at the same time.

Then, among the three of them, Chen Zhencai, who had played the role of military adviser so far, took a deep breath in thought, and expressed his opinion rationally.

"If what Yiming said about the monkeys is true, then the 'monster' that attacked the monkeys at night and haunted the river yesterday should be watching us nearby."

"This is a common problem for all animals living in the wild to observe their prey before attacking. 'Observation' is the most important part before hunting. Now the mountains are foggy all day, and we have no signal to notify the outside world. All we have to do is save our lights, our food, our medicines, and all the next 'dangers' that might assail us at night."

"The most important thing is that if you follow the order of other large wild creatures attacking and killing an entire team, they will usually choose the weakest one to attack and break through one by one, so the monkey last night was the first to die in this campsite , then according to this speculation, Yiming, me, and then the two of you are the order in which danger may occur if danger occurs."

"So, no matter what happens next, Li Xie, Bailong, I will write down all the important things that I think are important in this notebook on the car. Once Yiming and I are unfortunately alone , or what happened in the process, I hope you two can read these things, and then save yourself and escape here, or find a way to save others after you can ensure your own safety, is that okay?"

What Chen Zhen said was extremely serious.

In a wild environment unaided by modern technological means, nothing is more important than the trust among companions and the rationalized sharing of current shared intelligence and stamina.

Because of this, a certain two people who have always disobeyed the organization's arrangement and management, and their respective personalities and tempers are very rebellious did not refute.

Instead, they made a compromise at the same time and jointly accepted Chen Zhen's suggestion, and made an agreement on the next 47 hours together.

After that, they started to figure out how to solve lunch.

Because from the moment the signal and road disappeared in the mountains, this was not destined to be a pleasant weekend camping trip, but under the premise, they are living people, and they must eat first.

……

12:14

The four settled for lunch according to the original plan.

Li Xie went to bury the monkey's body halfway, although according to his original intention, he felt that it would be better to keep it than to bury it.

In case there is nothing to eat later, he can still satisfy his hunger, but when his unlucky brother heard that he said he was going to cook the monkey, he howled more miserable than him, so he let it go.

13:02

Because there is a final progress bar for the import of the car gopro.

In order to worry about sleeping in the woods at night or not having more energy during the night watch, Chen Zhen suggested that everyone should take a nap for half an hour during the day in the afternoon. During this period, lock the tent and pay attention to your surroundings .

None of the four had any objection to this, but this time, Fu Bailong and Lu Yiming slept in a tent, Li Xie was alone, and Chen Zhen worked in the car.

2:30

Lu Yiming woke up first.

When he woke up, Fu Bailong lying on his side still had his eyes closed, the jacket he took off was covering Lu Yiming, and the PSP game console was placed between them.

Before that, as a 'rival in love' who had a bad relationship not long ago, Young Master Fu reluctantly played game consoles with him in the tent for a while.

During the process, seeing the records that were broken one by one with his own eyes, Lu Yiming burst into tears and had to prove the fact that he was the lowest IQ of all the staff.

But at the moment, he noticed that Fu Bailong, who was usually fierce to others, had fallen asleep, but instead looked dazed and cute.

Lu Yiming held his face and observed his handsome "sister-in-law" just as he was about to stand up in the next second, when he heard the man whose hair was a little messed up by his arms closed his eyes, subconsciously but rarely unresponsive and opened his mouth to himself.

"where did you go."

It seemed that he was already awake, and he seemed a little tired, so he couldn't open his eyes.

It seemed that Fu Bailong was really bothered by Li Xie and couldn't sleep well last night. He frowned and spoke in a soft voice, but he didn't feel at ease and asked him a question.

"Hey, that, I want to go and see Chen Zhen outside, Brother Bailong, go back to sleep... But why does your voice sound a little weird..."

"I feel like I have a cold."

Chen Zhen, who said he wanted to go out to watch the night video in the car, blushed a little, and Fu Bailong, who was also very quiet, didn't respond.

He is indeed a little uncomfortable at the moment, and his head is still a little dizzy. He probably caught a cold while "fighting" and "fighting" with Li Xie last night, so he was upset for a long time, and complained to Lu Yiming slowly Then came the sentence,

"It's all to blame... Li Xie is crazy, don't tell him."

This last sentence seemed to have a strong sense of self-esteem, which immediately amused Lu Yiming.

But it can be seen that Fu Bailong is really not feeling well. Our younger brother and classmate, who are rarely sensible once, quickly covered him with the clothes next to him, and said cautiously,

"Then you can continue to rest first, Brother Bailong, I won't tell the big villain Li Xie, I will go to see Chen Zhen first, and then help to see if there is any medicine in the car. My mother said, before the cold comes It might be all right to sleep with your head covered and sweat a little."

"Well, thank you."

Probably because my mind is really confused and a little unclear.

In the face of Lu Yiming's concern, a bad-tempered and arrogant person like Fu Bailong would say thank you softly with his eyes closed.

Lu Yiming, who showed a slight smile and didn't say anything, turned his head and climbed out of the tent, and when he tiptoed to the front of the car, he knocked on the window again, but he saw that Chen Zhen inside was startled with a bad expression, and then After seeing him, he was barely relieved.

"What's the matter with you, handsome?"

Lying on the window of the car, he smiled and waved at him.

Seeing that it was Lu Yiming who wanted to come up, Chen Zhen stretched out his hand to open the car door for him first, and then put down half of the car video and the medical notebook that Li Xie found in the river before opening his mouth.

"It's nothing, I'm just a little scared...Although it's not night yet, I'm already worried about something that might happen."

"Wow, Dan, what are you worried about, don't scare me, I, I was scared to death just now."

Running to sit beside him, Lu Yiming immediately became nervous when he heard Chen Zhen say this with a heavy face while looking out the window.

"I didn't scare you, but the situation in front of me is really not very good. Since the last time I was hospitalized and recovered, although I have forgotten some things, I always feel that there are memories of some things in my mind... Sometimes I dreamed of some monsters locked in boxes, and strange robots and so on... I can’t possibly play too many games like you, so maybe my brain is kindly reminding me of something.”

Having said that, Chen Zhen, who was actually in a very disturbed mood, also picked up the car video that he had watched half of the time in his hand, and said to himself thoughtfully,

"I can't figure it out. Since two o'clock last night, gopro seems to have fallen into a state of darkness and snowflakes. I just used the software to try to brighten the picture...but there was a period of time in the middle except for the section in front of our car. There are some sounds like animals walking, but there seems to be no other movement. The walking footsteps are really loud after being amplified, but if the monkeys are attacked by birds, how do they walk around on the ground first? Go, and then fly back to the tree, is it difficult for this kind of 'bird' to have organs like human feet and fly?"

Chen Zhen was very self-doubting in his analysis of all kinds of weird situations in front of him.

Lu Yiming, who was sitting in the co-pilot, was a little confused.

But this does not prevent him from saying that he can clearly feel the gusts of cold wind blowing around him, and what they encountered this time is indeed a very bizarre and terrifying event.

And seeing the guy who was scared to cry by a monkey just now was looking at him nervously, Chen Zhen immediately understood that he shouldn't continue talking, so he quickly changed the subject and revealed the matter .

After that, Chen Zhen asked Lu Yiming to go back first.

I stayed and left these relevant precautions and discoveries in another clean notebook in the car with an ink pen.

Four hours later, night was falling, and amidst the fog that had lingered all day, they began planning a formal dinner for the night of camping in Fangshan.

This time, he had already slept for almost five hours, and only Fu Bailong, who Lu Yiming had quietly visited him once in the middle, did not appear.

"He caught a cold?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xie disappeared for the whole afternoon and didn't know where he was going alone. His first reaction was to turn his head and glance into the tent behind him. Lu Yiming was beside him, and noticed that he didn't look like he was unhappy. The appearance of caring for each other came to the sentence,

"Yes, Brother Bailong said that he just wants to sleep now, but he will wake up on time to watch the night in a while, so let me not bother him. He also said that he has never had a cold in his life, so this time it must be just a small problem , but I think he doesn't even have the strength to speak, I said, some people should take the opportunity... cough cough, what about that?"

"..."

Li Xie didn't answer him directly.

But Dr. Chen still silently gave Lu Yiming a thumbs up from the bottom when he heard it from the side, and the clever brother Lu was also proud of it as if he didn't see it.

And after the meal, although he kept silent to others during the whole process, he turned his head and Li Xie went to the tent to look at someone who had sat up, but his face was not very good or even a little pale.

"Do you want it?"

"Huh? Nothing."

Seeing that it was him who came in, Fu Bailong, who was putting on his coat and preparing to go out, also turned back with a frown.

But in the next second, he saw Li Xie who seemed to be holding something in his hand striding over, knelt down in front of him again, touched his forehead with his hand and said something.

"I'm about to have a fever, nothing else."

The gesture seemed a little intimate for some reason.

Li Xie's hands were very cold, and his body temperature was naturally low like a cold-blooded animal, but Fu Bailong was still taken aback and felt uncomfortable.

He actually didn't like people being so close to him all of a sudden.

Skin-to-skin contact of any kind made him uncomfortable.

But at this moment, he felt that Li Xie, who was hugging him, took out a thermometer and asked him to put it in his mouth first, and after taking some warm clothes and carefully stuffing it under the sleeping bag, he listened to the other party's tone very naturally , and said with a sense of security,

"You take the medicine and sleep a little longer, I'll just go outside."

After finishing this sentence, it seemed that he had guessed that Fu Bailong's temper in the past would definitely reject him because of his pride. Li Xie, with his yellow hair on his head, was also rushing before the other party opened his mouth, his eyes were cold and his face was joking. added a sentence.

"Don't worry, I'm just fulfilling the contract, don't think I'm helping others, otherwise you'll think it's nothing."

Hearing this, it sounded like a deliberate provocation.

After hearing this, Fu Bailong didn't bother to pay attention to him, he turned his head and coughed with an extremely indifferent look, and just silently regarded this as the content of the contract between the two before continuing.

And that night, that is, the night of the 16th.

Because of Fu Bailong's sudden cold, the other three began to watch and rest in turn.

Among them, Lu Yiming and Chen Zhen stayed in the tent all the time. Chen Zhen was busy for a long time in the afternoon, but he was actually a little sleepy at the moment, and fell asleep after a while.

Li Xie, who was sitting alone outside the camp, has been keeping his body and mind awake with a blank face since the beginning, or sitting in the dark night watching like a beast of the same kind who is wary of everything. Looking at the fog in the distance.

Having lost the legitimate signal source, and unable to order Taiwei to appear, he felt a strange and strange aura coming from the mountains and forests.

That taste is so disgusting and sticky.

It was a bloody smell, exactly the same as that of the monkey's corpse in the morning, and now I squinted my eyes and watched the red light of gopra on the roof of the car flashed again.

In fact, not only the monkey's body and the pile of debris were fished out of the river in the morning, but also a hatchet that he took time to wash and put in the luggage pile.

At present, Li Xie can only find such a proper self-defense tool, just like this and in the dark night in the distance, that pair is round and bloodshot, staring so big that it would open his eyelids 'Big Eyes' looked at each other expressionlessly.

At the moment when he was surrounded by this group of "ghost things" with heavy footsteps and wings, he swung his hatchet and aimed at the first one that was aimed at the neck cut down—

"—!"

Flocks of birds flew from the forest.

In the dark night, murderous intent comes.