Chapter 194 Walking into Karamir
My heart sank, hurriedly put out the cigarette, went over to watch, the black donkey hooves have been just exhausted, Shirley Yang is from the lama fingertip to dial out a black flesh nail, do not know what is the matter, the iron rod lama’s skin, although it has returned to normal, but the color of the face is getting more and more green, a probe of his breathing, although weak, but still stable, but whether it can keep the name is difficult to be determined.
I picked up the meat nail from the ground and looked at it, the back is still crashed with very small pieces of black meat, this is probably the piercing lama finger of the hard splinter, this is not a good thing, stay in the ominous, then casually still into the fire burned, those foul-smelling black hair, but also not left one, all completely burned.
Finally called Ah Xiang over, look at the iron rod lama body is indeed no abnormality, this is to rest assured that night I could not close my eyes that night, the next day, the iron rod lama only woke up, shriveled up, seems to be in one night, aged twenty years, his right arm has been completely unable to move, seems to be a great impact on the eyesight, the most important is the exhaustion of qi and blood, the strength of the movement, to his current condition, to want to Recover health, at least need more than a year’s time, it is no longer possible to enter the high altitude of the Kunlun Mountains Karamir.
Iron rod lama also know that this is the will of heaven, even if reluctant to go, will only become a burden to others, but the lama is most worried about, is now trying to find another heavenly authorization of the chanter is too difficult, and finally with me to discuss, or to go to the kalamir with us, but do not enter the Kunlun mountains, waiting for us to come back at the pass, and in the period of time of our pre-preparation, he will try to the world to make the enemy of the treasure beads of the Xiongshi great king’s Wuhun long poem, in Chinese, which is related to the demonic kingdom, recounted to Shirley Yang, good thing Shirley Yang has the ability to overhear and not forget, must be able to remember a large part of it, in the phoenix divine palace in search of the demonic kingdom demonic tower, perhaps will be useful.
In order to let the lama rest for a few more days, let uncle Ming with his people, first take the road to the Kunlun Mountains Karamir near the GaZeBuChing, equipment supplies and other necessities, will also be consigned there, there is a large area of wilderness and no man’s land, there are a lot of poachers, the advance team’s task in addition to buy weapons and ammunition in their hands, also want to find the right guide, hiring footmen, in short, there are a lot of preliminary preparatory work to do! In short, there are a lot of preliminary preparations to be done, and I and Fatty, Shirley Yang three, is to wait for the Iron Rod Lama’s condition improved, and then go, still far from the Kunlun Mountains, there has been a death and an injury, which inevitably casts a shadow on the road ahead of us.
Uncle Ming expressed firm opposition, to act together, can not be divided into two ways, I know that the old Hong Kong farmers must be afraid that we dumped him alone, but how to say it does not matter, had to the fat man set aside to him as a hostage, Uncle Ming only then rest assured.
I was afraid that the fat man refused, had to deceive the fat man, said he sent him to be a liaison officer, Uncle Ming that four people, by the fat man is responsible for the command, the fat man heard that is to be the leader, can not help but be overjoyed, without saying a word on the agreement, Uncle Ming on the navigation of the knowledge of the wide range, but the reverse fight into the mountains, what supplies are needed, what kind of guide and so on all do not know, Peter Wong, although he has fought in the jungle for a few years, he did not even understand what is the meaning of reverse fight, and also never come to the mainland. He has never been to the mainland, so naturally they all listen to Fatty.
Fatty with Uncle Ming and other people before the departure shook my hand and said: “Old Hu ah, the friendship between us has long been unable to calculate, only to remember that he is higher than the mountains, farther than the road, this time I first take the troops to open up new bases, years of daughter-in-law into a grandmother, fat master of this deputy commander of the position finally correct, but also can not be separated from you guys, I do not know if the heart should be happy or should be sad, in a word, it is a very mixed. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad, in short, it’s all five flavors, very much don’t know what to say.”
I said to Fatty, “Since you don’t know what to say, why are you still talking so much? Our team has always been the equality of officers and soldiers, you don’t have to put up a fight with Uncle Ming and the others, and of course you don’t have to be polite to that Hong Kong farmer if he dares to violate Ge.” After a few words of advice, they were sent on their way.
When Iron Lama could move, he first did a puja for Ah Dong, and then accompanied by Shirley Yang and me, rode a yak slowly to Senge Zangpo to take the bus.
Along the way the iron rod lama constantly tell Shirley Yang about the poetry of the magic kingdom, Shirley Yang listening to the side of the notebook writing and drawing, so we are more than 20 days later than the fat man and others, before arriving at the “GaZeBuQing”, the fat man and Uncle Ming has long waited for the eyes, see we finally arrived, immediately open up to arrange for us to rest and eat. Rest and eat.
Our boarding is in a herdsman’s home, the evening before dinner, Uncle Ming told me about the preparation of the situation, the herdsman has a man called “this Ji”, less than forty years old, typical of the Khampa man, smart and strong, his name means “the first one”, Uncle Ming and others hired this Ji as a guide. Uncle Ming and the others hired him as a guide because he was the only person in the area who had ever been to Cholamir.
In addition, there are fifteen yaks, six horses, and five footmen, from the “GaZeBuQing” into the Karamir, first to cross the wilderness no man’s land, where there are many ravines, no transportation conditions, there is only an old truck nearby, two-wheel drive, drive in will not want to come out of the wilderness even poachers are not willing to go, so carry a large number of supplies to enter, only rely on yak transport So carry a large number of supplies, only rely on yaks to transport over, now yaks, horses, guides, footmen, equipment shipped from Beijing, are Dajinya according to Shirley Yang purchased, has been prepared, ready to go at any time.
I asked Uncle Ming how about weapons. We can’t go into the Kunlun Mountains with just two Lemming lamps and seventy rounds of ammunition, right? There are a lot of wild animals in that mountain.
Uncle Ming led me and Shirley Yang to the back of the herdsman’s tent, fat man and Peter Huang two people are inside fiddling with firearms, long and short guys have, pistol models are more uniform, pistols are poached from Southeast Asia over there, may be the U.S. Army’s legacy, the U.S. single-action standard pistol M1911, the model is relatively old, but the point of four-five caliber is large enough to be able to stabilize the performance of the U.S. military pistol can be considered a classic among the classic, the military pistol. Military pistol among the classic among the classic, the legend among the legend, Browning’s masterpiece, is definitely a weapon for self-defense.
Long guns are poor, only two different models of small-caliber sporting rifles, no really should be the guy, but coupled with the two shotguns, can make do with enough, after all, it is to go to the reverse, not to fight.
I looked at the rest of the equipment, indeed have been all complete, not only the U.S. mountaineering team to wear Allison “assault suit”, and even diving equipment are shipped, the Kunlun Mountains under the snow melt and the formation of water systems crisscrossing the mountains, all of these are prepared for any problem, the main thing is that those black ass hooves, glutinous rice, tanning yin claws and other traditional instruments, can not be bought on the market tools, tools, tools, tools, tools, tools, tools, tools. The tools that can not be bought on the market are all customized, with these, there is more confidence.
I left some money, asked the local herdsmen to take care of the Iron Rod Lama, when we come out from Karamir, and then pick him up, if we are not back in two months, please ask the herdsmen to send the Iron Rod Lama to the nearby monastery to recuperate, the Tibetans are extremely pious beliefs, even if I did not tell them, they will also take care of the lama.
I see everything ready, then decided to leave early tomorrow morning, that night, all Uncle Ming invited all the people to get together for dinner, here is located in the intersection of Qinghai, Tibet, and New Zealand, the diet seems to be somewhat compatible, our dinner is very sumptuous, cold yak tongue, cordyceps roasted meat, Tibetan buns, dunked lungs, enemas, milk poured over rice, roasted lamb chops, ginseng lamb tendons, ghee tsampa, and everyone drank a lot of barley wine.
Uncle Ming drank a few points on the high side, said an inappropriate wine, he even said that he hoped that this is not the last supper, by his words, the crowd also lost interest, hastily eat, all go back to sleep.
The next morning, we said goodbye to the iron rod lama, ready to gather to go, the iron rod lama will be a hatha grant on my shoulders: “Bodhisattva blessing, may you go to the Phoenix God Palace all the way to be auspicious and safe.” I hugged the lama tightly and wanted to say something to him, but my heart was so moved that I couldn’t say a word.
People drove yaks and horses formed by the procession, looking northwest, the northern Tibetan plateau, deep inland, far from the sea, the climate is dry and cold, temperature and rainfall is vertical change, winter is cold and long, summer is cool and short, the current is the end of summer, is the most unstable time of the year temperature.
The desolate wilderness is known as the “red exclusion” of no man’s land, although no one in sight, but a lot of nature, birds in flocks, wild animals from time to time, the mountains in the distance stretch without end, behind the mountains and the blue sky, is a large area of snow-white color, but the distance is really too far to see whether it is a mountain of snow, or a pile of clouds in the sky, only a few clouds in the sky. The clouds in the sky, only feel the weather, through an indescribable mystery.
Walked five days time, through the no man’s land, of course, is about to enter the mountains, is more than no man’s land wilderness is also deserted area, the mountain pass has a lake, the lake has many black-necked waterfowl, in the case of no one alarmed, will be flocks of south, these birds are not migratory habits of the Houbao, their flight away from this lake, may be the mountain avalanches, so that they are frightened, and there is also a reason, it may be a cold snap! Coming signs, a superstitious footman said this is an inauspicious signal, advised us to go back, but we have decided to go, not the slightest move.
I discussed with the guide “first”, here is a very high altitude, and then go up the mountain, the team may be unable to withstand, can we pass through the valley, the mountain has countless ancient glaciers, on which there is a lot of snow, from the valley is very easy to trigger avalanches, but “first”! However, “First Year” has been collecting medicinal herbs with monks in Karamir since childhood, and is very familiar with this area, and knows that there are several deep depressions in the elevation, which can be passed through safely, so he asked all the people to take a rest at the mountain pass, and then led the team to “Hidden Bone Gully” after twenty minutes.
Shirley Yang on this journey, always in the finishing iron rod lama oral information, and take the time to the Portuguese priest’s bible map to repair, finally gradually clear some clues, then heard that the next step to go through what the hidden bone ditch, they asked the guide first, why there is such a place name “hidden bone ditch”? What kind of human bones are hidden there? This mountain range is called Karamir, what does that mean?
The first told the crowd: “Hidden Bone Gully there are no human bones, that is not clear, the reason for this name, because that is the place where the beasts commit suicide, every year there are a large number of yellow sheep and bison, Tibetan horses and bears, run to there to jump to commit suicide, the bottom of the ditch are covered with the beasts of the white bones, the more courageous people, do not dare to go there at night, as for the Karamir, which means ocean of calamities, why it is called by this inauspicious name, that even the longest-bearded herdsman does not know.”