Thousand Lantern Night

Before leaving the next day, I met the guide that the black glasses said.He was a man in his thirties, with dark skin, tattoos on his face, and a pair of large butterfly wings, which looked like he was wearing a mask.Xiaohua told me that his name is Quedan, and he should be a Yuezhi person or a mixed descendant of Yuezhi and Qiang a long time ago.I only remember that the women of the Dulong nationality have the custom of tattooing their faces, but I don’t know that the ancient Yuezhi people also have it, but I don’t have the heart to study this, and I just want to go up the mountain quickly.

The car we rented drove directly to the Qilian Mountains in the south of Jiuquan. In order to save energy, the guide Quedan took us up the mountain road in the tourist area for the first part of the road.We try to pack as lightly as possible, carrying all the equipment we may use on our backs, and leaving everything else in the car.

This season happens to be July, which is the best time for mountain scenery.As soon as you enter, you can see the mountain with distinct colors, covered with the yellow-green of the meadow and the purple of the alfalfa.The red mud on the mountain comes out of the dense forest and snowy ridges of the primeval forest, which can be called colorful.But the most eye-catching thing is the pure white of the main peak covered with ice and snow, the glaciers that have not melted for thousands of years cover the green forest, and the white snow of Cangshan Mountain is particularly clear.The Tiantifeng snow mountain seeps into the blue sky, and the wind blows the clouds and snow and sand into a swirl, blending into a vast expanse of whiteness.

The number of people going up the mountain is enough to make up a small tour group, and when Quedan walked in the front, the black glasses followed him closely.Fatty was very wary of Wang Jianqiang and Qin Ai, and deliberately walked behind them along the way.But because everyone is unfamiliar, there is nothing to say.Wang Jianqiang and the others were no different, they just kept climbing the mountain in silence.

Before entering the snow line, we had a rest.To say that it is rest is actually to find a dry and flat place to sit down and eat something to replenish some energy.Among the people led by Biantou and the others, a few young men came over to try to make a familiar face in front of Xiaohua, but they were kicked by Feng Ying twice, and they sat behind while rubbing their noses.

Qin Ai is the only woman, and the unique femininity of women is particularly eye-catching among a group of old men.But the strange thing is that no one dared to provoke her, and Wang Jianqiang and Hai Sen also inadvertently showed a kind of protection. I secretly judged in my heart that there might be some kind of class relationship among the three of them.

Of course, I am most interested in Quodan.If conditions permit, I really want to ask him in private what Poker-Face told him when he found him and entrusted him.But there were too many people, and there was a black spectacles staring at me from time to time, so I had no chance at all.Xiaohua seemed to be very afraid of me doing impulsive things, so she sat next to me all the time.If I really behaved in the opposite direction, he might kick me down the mountain first.

After resting, we continued to climb up.At this time, it was far away from the tourist area, probably at an altitude of more than 3000 meters.The color of the mountain began to become monotonous, the dark green of the virgin forest.The roots of the old trees are intertwined and intertwined, and because the sun does not shine all year round, there are wet moss growing everywhere.Going further up, snow began to appear on the surface of the forest, covering the roots of the forest like cotton candy, and the snow became thicker as you went up.

Qilian Mountains above 4000 meters above sea level is the snow line, and when the sun is about to set, we will reach the snow line.What is different from other mountains is that above the snow line of Qilian Mountain, there will be out-of-season scenery. We stood on a side peak and looked down, and we saw a river valley with fertile water and grass.Not only is there no snow in the valley, but it is also full of rose-like red flowers.

Quodan told us to rest in this valley tonight and continue to go up tomorrow.Although it is July, it will still be cold at night, so you must set up a tent.

When it got dark, we set up camp in the valley and started cooking.I wanted to help, but it was obvious that Fengying and the others were very professional in their operations, so the fat man pushed me aside.I didn't want to stay in the tent, so I ran to the river alone, wanting to see if there would be two fish in the snowmelt river in the high mountains to roast.The Xuerong River flows directly through the low-lying part of the meadow. I took a photo with a flashlight and I could clearly see the dense grass, but there were no fish.

At this time, I suddenly saw someone leaving the camp and walking towards the depths of the rose in the river valley.By the light of the moonlight, I can vaguely see from the clothes of that person that he is Chodan.

I originally wanted to ask him something, wondering if he was looking for a place to relieve, so I quickly followed.I was afraid that the black glasses would come out to interfere, so I turned off the flashlight and followed Quedan quietly.

Chodan walked for a long time along the direction of the river, passing through rose bushes that looked like thorns.Those roses have long and hard spikes, and it must be very painful if they are pierced.But the strange thing is that although it looks messy, the place Quedan walks through is like a maze surrounded by messy bushes, and the thorns can't be pierced at all.There are also passages like arches in some places.

Quedan walked very fast, so he should be very familiar with the terrain here.As he walked further and further away from the camp, it didn't seem like he was going to stop to relieve himself at all.I glanced towards the tent, but the camp was out of sight.I thought about it, and wanted to tell him to stop.However, when I turned around, I suddenly found that there was no confirmed figure in front of me!

I was stunned for a moment, I just turned my head just now, he walked so fast?Oh shit.I cursed secretly, and hurried forward quickly.I drilled through bush after bush of roses but didn't see chodan.Without a target, I didn't know the way at all, so I had to turn on the flashlight and walk back.However, after drilling back and forth in those arches and passages for about half an hour, I couldn't find my way back.

God damn it, I got lost in this wasteland!And how did I find that the more I drilled, the roses became denser and denser, and I could see the stars and moon in the night sky through the gaps, but now I can't see anything.

I shook the light of the flashlight into the passage ahead, but found that the light couldn't get out.At this time, I tossed back and forth for four to five ten minutes, and I was sweating all over, and I couldn't help feeling a little panicked.I noticed that the thickness of the rose had surpassed the wall, and the wind from the high mountain was howling, but it couldn't blow in.

Damn, it's almost like a house.I can't go around, can't I make a hole!I pulled out a dagger I kept hidden on my body and began to cut off the intricate branches.At first, I was looking for branches to cut one by one, but this was too slow, and it felt like the more branches I cut, the more branches I cut. I became angry and started cutting indiscriminately.I don't know how long it took to cut it. My hand was stabbed many times, and my whole palm was soaked. Only then did I cut a hole half the height of a person.

In my heart, I cursed Quedan, a savage, for somehow getting into such a ghostly place.Suddenly the flashlight flickered, and I saw something seemed to be wrapped in the rose bushes in front of me.The thing was wrapped into a ball by the entangled branches and vines, and it was dark like a big pupa.I froze, is it really hidden here?

Now my anger surged fiercely, and I cut off those vines even harder.I saw someone huddled there with his back to me, as if he was playing hide and seek with me.I grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled out the guy inside. "You fucking made it easier for me to find!"

The guy was much lighter than I thought, and I gave him a tug, and his head drooped in an unnatural arc and half-turned toward me.In a rage, I shone a flashlight on him, and then I almost yelled.

What I pulled out turned out to be a dead bone. The skull turned halfway to me, the hollow eye hole was pierced by a branch, and the wide open mouth seemed to be smiling at me strangely.

I was covered in white sweat, and the soles of my feet involuntarily slid back two steps, hitting the rose bush behind me fiercely.Countless spikes pierced my back all of a sudden, I finally know what it means to be pierced by ten thousand arrows!However, what scares me more is not this, but I suddenly realized that this guy wrapped in vines must have been trapped here when he was alive, and then he was entangled alive in this vine-like chrysalis.

Exactly the same situation as mine now!

I quickly took out my phone and called Xiaohua.The signal was very weak, and I could only hear Xiaohua's intermittent voice, but I couldn't tell where I was.In the end, it directly becomes an interfering electromagnetic wave sound.

Fear caused me to react very quickly, and I slashed wildly with the dagger.The instinct to survive made me use all my strength to chop and kick forward. No matter how thick the wall is, there must be a limit, right?

After a while my arm was so sore, I wiped my sweat and was about to continue when suddenly something stretched out from behind and entangled my right arm like a rope.

The pain that quickly pierced my skin made me realize that it was not a rope at all, but this ghost vine-like thing.Damn, they're alive!

The ghost vine quickly wrapped around my arm, and the thorns were as flexible as a snake.The place where they circled was full of burning pain. I guess I was really bruised.I switched the dagger to my left hand, and chopped hard at the vines wrapped around my right hand and waist, and quickly severed those few things.

More demon vines rushed over, this time entangled my hands, feet, waist and neck.My flashlight fell to the ground, and quickly fell into the river amidst the twitching of the branches.Under the shadows, I just felt that the vines around me wrapped me up like dumplings.

I was terrified in my heart, I never thought that I would die in this unknown river valley today in the rosebush after so many battles and storms in the past.No wonder that skeleton smiled at me just now. He saw the death method he had experienced before and now I am also being tricked. It's no wonder he didn't smile!Maybe we meet underground, and we can share the feeling of being entangled to death by vines, and we can become good friends after exchanging and exchanging.

I thought with self-deprecation and despair, feeling that those vines were becoming more and more entangled, and the thorns were getting deeper and deeper into my flesh, until later, I couldn't feel any pain at all.I just felt that my eyes became blurred bit by bit, and finally became black and I couldn't see anything.

At this moment, the vines that bound me suddenly loosened.My body slid down and someone picked it up.

I wonder if it's true that he's back?But I couldn't take that much into account, I could only take a big gulp of air, and feel the sharp pain all over my body more and more clearly.I just felt the rattan twist violently, as if it was split and severed by something, and the rattan fought back, and the two forces were violently confronting each other.

Because I was trapped in the middle of the vines, and the places we stepped on were also carpets made of vines, so I felt that my body was shaking very badly.After an unknown amount of time, the person who held me picked me up and jumped vigorously.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the rose vines behind me dancing wildly in the moonlight, rising like the tide of the Qiantang River.Someone hugged me tightly and was running wildly on the wetlands by the river.His chest was next to my face, and I could clearly see a majestic blue-black unicorn printed on his naked upper body!

This time, I'm sure I'm not dreaming or hallucinating.I hugged his neck tightly with my bloody arms, and whimpered, "Brother! Brother!"