Chapter 26 Disappearance (Next)
Fatty contemptuously turned his mouth away, “Let you give it to me, when I was a child, I really did fire two shots.” But he then took the shotgun from the old sheepskin hand to see, bitter smile: “You this kind of gun I can not fight, this is a shotgun? I see than when the Boxer Rebellion to fight the foreign devils bird cannon is not much stronger.” Herdsmen’s hunting rifles are also advanced, but the old sheepskin only has a hunting cannon, because there are not many jackals on the grasslands of Kelunzuo Banner, occasionally see one from afar, use the hunting cannon to let off a bang, only to play a deterrent role, this small caliber cannon actually has a very legendary history, its original form appeared in Tianjin, is a kind of instrument to fight wild ducks, the construction of a simple and durable, the year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Northern Expedition, fought in Tianjin, as long as the Hit Tianjin, the capital of the Qing dynasty will not be able to keep, this juncture of Tianjin governor Xie Zicheng duck hunting militia group formed a musket team, the use of playing platoon gun tactics for defense, known as the “duck platoon”, and finally relied on the “duck platoon” to repel the Taiping army! So the end of the Qing Dynasty, folk really made a large number of such workshop-style firearms, the Red Army Long March there are also people using these weapons, but it is great again is more than half a century ago guys, and now should have been an antique, sent to the museum.
But now there is no time to argue that this hunting cannon can not have the power to kill, there is only a defensive instrument is always better than bare two fists, four people try to get close to the line of sight in a fan to the grassland spread, the horses are still in the “whinny, whinny,” trembling, I look ahead, the grassland is a wide range of vision, the sky is pale, the wild, all the eyes, can be In addition to the long wind caressing the grass, the wilderness is empty, can not detect any unusual movement.
The quieter the heart the more bottomless, a whole herd of cattle in the grassland suddenly disappeared, and disappeared so completely, I feel that there seems to be a kind of mysterious force in the netherworld, can not be countered by manpower, look at the horses so uneasy, perhaps that terrible and mysterious force is approaching us, but we do not even know what direction it is in, I repeatedly asked myself what to do? Fight or flee? Come to think of it, the only thing to do at the moment is to wait and see what happens.
Thoughts rolling in the mind, was suddenly interrupted by the sky of a goose’s sad song, I heard the air geese, and the rest of the three subconsciously looked up into the air, only to see a row of zigzag geese are swept from above us, the autumn migratory birds in formation, is a common scene on the grassland, we do not think, but the row of geese flying in front of the line of the route, it happens to be suspended in a cloud of black clouds, the cloud is so thick that it is amazing, a little bit like an atom. Amazing, there is a little like an atomic bomb explosion mushroom cloud, but the scale is much smaller, the color is also different, quite common in the grasslands, do not look carefully is not easy to attract attention, the cloud from the sky straight down, this is a kind of cloud called “sky hanging”, experienced herdsmen see this kind of cloud, they know that recently there will be rain and snow.
When we raised our eyes to look up, the flying geese just cut into the clouds, due to the herringbone shape of the geese formation is very long, the formation of a few geese have not yet approached the cloud, with a few miserable geese in the cloud, the last few geese as a shock like scattered backward to escape, we see this situation, the heart immediately struck a sudden: “My God, there is something in the cloud! ” The old sheepskin holding his head with a cry of alarm, the everlasting sky ah, the demon dragon is hidden in the clouds.
High in the sky seems to have a strong wind blowing, “the sky hanging” thick clouds quickly spread out to become a silk tile, blue sky and red sun to see exceptionally clear, the cloud is empty, nothing exists, and fleeing the scattered geese are still in the distance wailing, just those who flew into the clouds of the geese, as evaporated in the clouds, not even a goose hair left.
We were stupefied, if we did not see it with our own eyes, who would believe this horrible scene just now, at this time the sunshine spread down from the sky seemed to turn dark by a moment, but our eyes looked, the sky is still blue sky and white clouds, there is not any thing that should not be there, but the horse then became frightened again, because we in order to bring the horse to hold on to the horse, we all strangled the reins backward, the horse knew that the master did not send out the command of running and just circled in place, but would not stop no matter how we reined them in.
Just at this time when we didn’t know whether to advance or retreat, I suddenly had a feeling that my eardrums were swelling, and I thought that it was not good, that thing in the sky was coming towards us. The old sheepskin also reacted, waved the horse whip, toward our mounts hindquarters each whip, the guys all know not to run can not, all knocked stirrups to urge the horse: “Run, run!”
Four horses finally got relief, with us splashing rush to the back of the grassy slope, riding a horse is the most afraid of going down a steep slope, it is easy to lose hooves, but who cares so much at this time, no one to urge, the horses are playing wildly run up, only whirring in the ears of the wind sound.
Horses only pick up the terrain of low-lying places to escape, all in the undulating grass dunes between the gallop, we know that the horse’s perception of danger is much sharper than the people, do not have to ask the reason, just crouch in the saddle, let the horse take us to escape that is, in my busy schedule I did not forget to turn around to look behind me, only to see gusts of autumn wind in the sea of grass to create a layer of waves, the sky is high and cloudy, behind us there is nothing.
A breath of about two or three miles, the four horses slowed down, the horse’s mood also recovered from the panic, it seems to have been out of danger, we stopped the reins, looking back, no one can say what actually just encountered? But the missing cattle, perhaps like those wild geese flying into the clouds, were somehow swallowed up by something shadowless and invisible.
I asked the old sheepskin, he said last time that decades ago in the grassland depths saw a dragon, whether it is the same as what we just encountered? The old sheepskin a blank expression, he said that the situation is completely different, that time is in the dusk, see the sky there is a hideous evil dragon, the whole body black, simply like a terrible ghost, not just like the sunny day, so many creatures said no, this is really a ghost.
The crowd discussed a few sentences, are at a loss, who can not say a reason, ding sweet parents are museum managers, she grew up in contact with a lot of people in us belongs to her knowledge of the broadest, but even she was never heard of this phenomenon, she just said that the world can be shocked by the horror of natural phenomena is very much, human beings are only as a small thing to look at the world, and where to recognize the mystery of it! Mystery, but whether it is materialism or idealism, or a critical perspective of the status quo, our cattle, are most likely never get back.
Just as Ding Si sweet sighing fate, I suddenly found not far from the depression in the desolate grass, a fox ghost infested signs, said just focusing on escape, this is to escape to what place? Quickly let the old sheepskin look at the terrain, where is this ah? The old sheepskin settled down, turn the horse’s head to look around, look suddenly tense up, he looked at the depression and said, must have sinned in a previous life, how did we just run into the “hundred eyes cave”?