Chapter 109 Ghost Signal

According to common sense to find this “Snake River” is not difficult, but the plan can not catch up with the change, the vegetation under the mountain is too thick, can not see the river, so we have to follow the edge of the “Shading Dragon Mountain”, groping slowly forward.

I realized that in this kind of ghost place, “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” completely useless, to identify the situation of gas, need to see the composition of the mountains and rivers, and in this area, the top of the mountain is full of clouds, under the mountain is full of all kinds of trees and vines, as in the mountains and rivers in the surface of the paste full of a thick layer of green mud, the top of the cotton cover cover, there is no where to start.

The jungle under the wall is even more difficult to walk, after walking into, a butterfly did not see, all the size of mosquitoes and poisonous ants, and there is no road, looking at a piece of green in the heights, go in a walk to find that the vines and vines grow too dense, almost can not find a foothold, had to use the engineering shovel and machete hard to open up a road, but also be careful to avoid those poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, which is tough, it is unbearable.

See the sun has fallen behind the mountain, the earth is gradually engulfed in darkness, the primitive forest covered with a layer of dark veil, and we set out from the rest point to now, and did not go out much farther, it seems to want to find the “Snake River” before dark has been impossible, had to find a relatively safe place to spend the night, the night in the forest is full of danger, and here because it is in the middle of a big, dangerous place. The night in the forest is full of danger, and here because it is between the mountains and rivers, the air pressure varies greatly, the edge of the forest is hot day and cold night, at night, although it is not too cold here, but the body is wet, easy to get sick, into the depths of the dense forest, but do not have to worry about this section, so we must find a piece of mosquitoes and insects and a little bit of dry place, light a campfire can be spent the night.

Finally in two large trees under a very flat large green stone, with a flashlight, there is no snake or scorpion nearby, three people tired, then hastily take out the fuel to rise a fire, surrounded by small stones, because the air is too humid, must take a little fire in the green stone to dry, the stone cracks in the moss and moisture baked dry, and then put the sleeping bag on the sleeping bag, lest sleep with moisture into the bones, fall sick! .

Shirley Yang went to the nearby spring to play some water back, after filtering can drink, I set up a small camping pot, boiled some water, from the color clouds in the inn to buy noodles with camping pot cooked, what seasoning did not put, so as not to let the things of the aroma of the animals, in the boiled noodles, haphazardly soaked in a few pieces of bait cake of Yunnan, as a supper, because we do not know how long we have to walk up the valley, so did not bother to put the canned goods, so I did not want to put the canned goods. I don’t know how long I’ll be walking in the valley, so I didn’t bother to take the canned food out to eat.

Fatty can not stop complaining about the quality of food is too poor, the mouth is fading out of the bird, talking about the bird, grabbed the handle of the “Jianwei”, ready to play some game, but the sky is already dark, had to do, and then do down to eat, while blaming me for cooking things do not taste good, no taste, while eating the three big pots.

After eating, we decided to take turns to sleep, leaving people on sentry duty, after all, this primitive forest is full of crisis, who knows what poisonous insects and beasts run out at night.

The first shift by me to duty, I hold the “Jianwei”, the six-four type of bullets pressed full, the fire into a dark fire, and then sit not far from the fire, while humming a popular song to alleviate the sleepiness, while vigilant in the dark jungle around.

The two large banyan trees across from me were quite spectacular, a typical mixed plant, with a body as thick as a stone pillar, a low-hanging crown, heavy as a cover, and two thick bodies that grew like twine, twisted around each other in four or five ways, forming a rare husband and wife tree, with many huge flowers and other plants that could not be named, which were attached to the ” old husband and wife banyan tree”. These plants attached to the ” husband and wife old banyan tree” tree, are by the forest animals, inadvertently bring the seeds into the bark, or tree cracks, from which the germination and growth, blossoms and fruits, this mix of many kinds of flowers and trees old banyan tree, in a tree actually grew more than fifty kinds of plants, like a large colorful flower blue in the forest.

I was mesmerized, but I heard Shirley Yang lying in the sleeping bag suddenly opened her mouth and said to me: “These two trees won’t live long, there are too many plants parasitizing on the two banyan trees, the nutrients absorbed by the old banyan tree can’t be enough to cover the expenses, the middle part of the tree is already half empty, at most after three to five more years, the tree will die, some things when they have come to the most beautiful stage, they are not far away from destruction. Instead, they are not far from destruction.”

I listened to her words, on the surface of the tree, as if she was talking about the curse we got from the ghost cave on our backs, I did not want to mention these spoiler rooms, so I said to Shirley Yang: “The night is already late, why don’t you go to sleep? Is it because you think of my magnificent figure when you close your eyes, so you toss and turn and can’t sleep?”

Shirley Yang said, “It would be good if I closed my eyes and thought of you, now when I close my eyes, my mind is the human figurines in the cave of Chalong Mountain, the more I think about it, the more disgusting I feel, I don’t even want to eat, and I can’t sleep even now.”

I yawned and said to Shirley Yang, “Since you can’t sleep, you should carry on the spirit of internationalism and replace my post, and call me up when you are sleepy.”

Shirley Yang laughed, “Thinking quite beautifully, once you and Fatty fall asleep, thunder can’t wake you up, I can’t sleep, and I won’t rotate with you, lest in the latter half of the night you pretend to be dead and refuse to get up to put up a guard.”

I shook my head and sighed: “You can let me too disappointed, I thought you not far away from the United States to come to support our country’s four modernization construction, would have taken you as Bai Qiu’en as worship, from the heart of the deep, that is to say, from the heart of the place that you are a moral person, is a noble person, is a person who is beneficial to the people, is a person who gave up the low-class taste. Low-class taste of the people, did not expect you to be so selfish and self-interested, do not care at all about the feelings of comrades, usually that kind of easy-going performance are all disguised.”

Shirley Yang said to me, “You are eloquent, only too much like to say some big words, always bragging can not be good, anyway, also can not sleep, why don’t you accompany me to talk, but you can not tell me anything on the quotations again.”

The forest is quiet, a wind is not, all the animals and plants seem to be asleep, only occasionally from the distance came a few strange bird calls, I sleepy two eyelids straight fight, look at the fat man sleeping on the side, this guy put his head into the sleeping bag, hoo hoo naive sleep, sleep, not to mention how fragrant, but Shirley Yang and refused to take over for me on duty, I had to have a sentence without a sentence to force the spirit of talking to her! I had to talk to her.

I don’t know how, chatting about this forest python snake, I said before in Beijing, met a former company comrades, listening to him say some rumors in the front line of the cat’s ear holes, when the war between China and Vietnam, temporarily entered the phase of confrontation, in the two sides of the front, are densely populated with cats’ ear holes, in fact, is the infantry anti-impact bunker, digging cats’ ear holes, often dug out of the mountain python, they told me that the biggest python, the biggest python, the biggest python, the biggest python, the biggest python, the biggest python, the biggest python. Python, they told me that the largest python with the legendary dragon as thick, I did not believe it at that time, and now encountered in the Chalong Mountain to realize that it is not chaotic cover.

However, most pythons do not actively attack people, they are very lazy, sleeping all day long, some soldiers in the cat’s ear hole in the heat can not stand, bare buttocks still feel hot, had to look for a python sleeping in the trees dragged into the hole, a few people lying on the python in the cool body to sleep, don’t say, than the installation of a cooler are useful.

Later that python simply live in the cat’s ear hole, settled in this, every day someone feed it canned meat, eat enough to sleep, and then one day the war suddenly turned fierce, non-stop shelling blocked our military engineers to transport supplies of the channel, that the shelling, and sometimes bunker repair is not a good location, a cluster of artillery cover, inside the whole class is gone, played a whole week of artillery, positions around even the ants are not! The cat’s ear hole in the canned meat is gone, a short period of time, people can still hold out, but the python can’t help but be hungry, it is used to living in the cat’s ear hole, every day, smelling the smell of soldiers smoking, but also caught the addiction to cigarettes, how to drive not to go, hungry red-eye, want to swallow people, finally had to shoot it dead, the python skin off the cat’s ear hole, mosquitoes and rats do not dare to go into the hole, and the result is that one day the Vietnam Agents to take advantage of the dark to pull out the hole, the sentry soldiers were stoned, did not find the enemy, the Vietnamese agents intend to throw explosive packages into the hole, the results suddenly felt the body was wrapped around the same python, can not move, the bones are almost strangled by the enormous strength of that, but the body is clearly empty, nothing, the next day, Cat’s Ear Cave, the soldiers found that the python skin… …

I and Shirley Yang Kan to later, even I do not know what is said, tiredness surging no longer can not support, unknowingly holding the “Jianwei” sleep.

I do not know how long, suddenly was gently pushed awake, since leaving the army, I often send nightmares, insomnia all night, in Beijing after the antique business, the spirit of a support, which is slowly improving, a fall on the, do not sleep enough to fight.

But this silent night in the forest, although I am sleepy, but the heart is vaguely feel a trace of uneasiness, so at this moment was pushed, immediately woke up, at this time the sky on the heavy clouds have been removed, the cool moonlight will be down, through the moonlight to see push my arm, wake me up is the Shirley Yang, Shirley Yang see me open my eyes, and immediately put his finger on his lips, and made a gesture of silence, and I was able to see my eyes, and then I was able to see my eyes. Shirley Yang saw me open my eyes, immediately put her finger on her lips and made a gesture of silence, suitable for me not to speak loudly.

I looked around, the fat man is still in the sleeping bag sleeping like a dead pig, I don’t know when a thin blanket on my body, may be Shirley Yang see me talk halfway to fall asleep, so give me cover, at this time my brain just woke up from a deep sleep, is still a little bit not very good, but then understand, there is a situation.

See Shirley Yang already put the six-four pistol in the hand, with the other hand pointed to the two entangled “husband and wife tree”, and pointed to their ears, let me listen carefully to the sound in the tree.

I immediately turned over and sat up, side ear to listen to, although I do not have “partridge whistle” kind of dog vigil of the wind ear kung fu, but in the silence of the forest, from the tree and close, clearly hear the tree to wear a tight burst of slow burst of soft knocking sound.

The sound is not big, but in the dark night seems very strange, completely out of rhythm, what is the thing issued? Definitely not a woodchuck, like this forest does not have that kind of birds, and that sound is from the upper trunk of the tree came, is there something in the tree?

Think of this I can not help but be a little nervous, the legend “dedicate the tomb of the king” around, with mausoleums, as well as martyrdom pits, as well as those who hang upside down to do “痋 lead” human figurines, have added a lot of horror to this forest color, God knows that there is still something evil in this old forest. I don’t dare to make a sound.

I did not dare to make a sound, slowly pull back the bolt of the “Sword and Power” rifle, and hang the bag on the body, the bag has the black donkey’s hooves to seclude the evil and suppress corpses, as well as the “bundled corpses”, “glutinous rice” and other things, no matter what. “No matter what the situation is, with these things, can fight with it on a fight.

At this time that dull knocking sound once again, like water drops, like a finger click iron plate, fast and slow, I like the source of the sound to see, the line of sight are blocked by the tree flowers and leaves, can not see clearly above the situation, the moonlight intermingled in the branches and leaves flickering between the light down, it seems that above the ghostly atmosphere.

Shirley Yang whispered in my ear: “Just now you fell asleep, I quiet heart only heard this sound, as if there is something in the tree ……”.

I also asked in a low voice, “A person? How are you sure it’s not an animal?”

Shirley Yang said, “This sound is tiny and strange, and there is no rule, I also thought at first that it was from an animal, but just now when I listened carefully, I heard a small signal of Morse communication code from it, however, this signal only appeared once just now, and it started to become less regular afterward, maybe because the signal sound is relatively small, it’s highly possible that I missed a part of the sound. ”

I was confused, but the uneasy premonition in my heart became even stronger, I whispered to Shirley Yang, “Morse code? It’s that international code that only has two signals, long and short? What did you hear?”

Shirley Yang said, “Three short, three long, and three short, that is, tic-tac-toe, da-da-da-da, tic-tac-toe, which translates to the internationally recognized distress signal …………SOS.”

I said to Shirley Yang: “You don’t scare yourself again, this Morse code, although the most widely popular in the world, but after all, it is the secret code with the English pressure code, this forest in addition to the Republic of China in that period of time the blind man and other people have come, and then there are a few quarrying workers have come, they are only in the curiosity, through the caves, come in and around the forest side to go back, the local people are very superstitious, is not dare to go back. The local people are very superstitious, do not dare to come to the forest behind the “Dragon Mountain”, because they are afraid of bumping into ghosts,…… ghosts.”

I said to the last word, I also feel not too auspicious, hastily quenched a mouthful, the heart read: “Hundred no taboo.”

Shirley Yang waved his hand to me, let me not speak, and then listen carefully, that sound again from the tree came out, this time to hear really, there are short and long, really is three short and three long plus three short, short sharp, long heavy.

Those two banyan trees due to the branches and leaves, coupled with the darkness, the moonlight is directly above, so the situation above can not see half of the situation at all, but this scalp numbing distress signal is clearly in the above came, the most strange thing is that the sound originated from the upper end of the trunk of the inner, not the top of the tree, as if there is something trapped in the tree, can not get out of the tree, and can not open the mouth to cry out, so they use their fingers to tap the signal to us to ask for help. Shirley Yang had already taken the wolf’s eye out of her bag, “I’ll go to the tree and take a look.”

I pulled her and said: “go not, you see the moon in the air reddish, the forest in the demonic fog thickens, there must be dead people in the tree, this sound is the legendary ghost signal.”