“What’s the matter, failed to negotiate with the old man by taking me there? I told you a long time ago that you are not worthy of being the head of the Moon Family, don’t be delusional.” Yue Mangshan didn’t care at all about his situation and happily mocked Yue Man Gong.
It looked like this was just like Jiang Ming, a crazy person who didn’t care.
Yue Man Gong and I had to leave, and we couldn’t get anything out of Yue Man Shan’s mouth.
By the end of the night, it was really boring and a few of us were mentally prepared to accept, I’m afraid, the worst possible scenario, that Yue Zhengjun was really planning to drag this out until we couldn’t run out and we had to be prepared for the long haul.
As we had to wait, Xia Gehuai suggested that we go rabbit hunting in the back of the mountain.
Although it was already November, the rabbits had long since left their holes, but Xia Gehuai insisted on going, saying that he had nothing to do, and that it was just as well that Snow Leopard had his gun with him.
I saw that he just wanted to touch a gun, but I was also really worried, so I agreed to hunt rabbits in the back of the mountain early the next morning.
Yue Man Gong wanted to go with us, but Xia Ge Huai said, “Don’t go with us, you still need to watch your brother. Don’t look at so many special forces, but if he really wants to get a piece of mind, these few people may not be his match.”
Yue Man Gong had to stay behind, and Xia Ge Huai took a day off, taking two guns with him.
At this time of the year, not to mention rabbits, even pheasants could not be hunted, so Xia Gehuai and I came here purely for the sake of relaxation.
I told him that it was not safe to go further west into the primeval forest, but he said he was here, so let’s go in and have a look.
“Wait.” I grabbed Xia Gehuai’s shoulder and he jumped nervously, looking around and asking me what was wrong.
“Chicken.” I whispered as I lifted the gun and aimed the scope at the chicken in the gra*s.
Just as I was about to pull the trigger, Shaggy Wai pushed my gun down.
I let out a cold sweat, “What are you doing? It almost went off.”
Luckily I reacted quickly, otherwise the shot would have blown my leg off.
“Don’t shoot.” Shaggy White said.
“Don’t shoot you use your hands to grab it?”
Xia Gehuai avoided my eyes, rubbed his nose and said, “Don’t want this chicken, don’t shoot, it’s too loud.”
It was obvious he was lying, not even daring to look at me, I shouted stand still and walked up after Xia Gehuai.
“Tell me the truth, what the hell are you doing today? You’re not here to hunt.”
Xia Gehuai’s eyes ducked and he quietly gripped his gun, his face already saying everything.
I swept up and saw his hand on the trigger, and my heart hung in the air.
The forest is so deep here that you don’t even need to find a place to bury your dead here, you’ll just let the leaves cover you up in a few days or let the wolves gnaw away.
I’m not afraid that Xia Gehuai will make a move on me, even if I give him ten more guns, he’s no match for me.
The wind blowing through the forest made both of our faces blue, and we looked at each other without saying a word.
After a while, Xia Gehuai suddenly threw the gun in front of me: “Really, can I harm you or what? Here’s the gun, now you can rest a*sured. Come with me, I’ll show you something.”
I eyed him suspiciously and didn’t touch the gun.
“What exactly are you going to show me?” I asked.
Shagwai took the initiative and turned around and took a few steps first, “Hey, you come with me, it’s coming up.”
I didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do, and after a long moment of hesitation, I followed him.
“If you dare to take me to see a den of blind bears hibernating, I dare to chop you up and feed you to the bears.” I said, without good humour.
“Hey, what you’re taking me to see is much more exciting than a blind bear.”
I asked curiously, “How do you know what’s there when there’s no way past this place?”
“I looked on the satellite map. Didn’t Han Kun say he was on holiday here? I thought, “What kind of resort is there here? I hadn’t heard of it. I searched on the internet, but I didn’t find any resorts either. But since Han Kun was in this place and the county is so small, if he didn’t live in the county, he must have lived nearby, so he couldn’t have lived in a cave. I wanted to see if he had built his own resort, but it wasn’t open to the public. Guess what? I didn’t find a resort, I found three unused houses.”
“How do you know they’re unused?”
“There’s woods on all sides and not a single road for people to walk on. Who would live in them? Yang and the Little Dragon Lady?”
Puzzled by what Xia Gehuai had said, I asked him how far away the house was.
“I don’t know, I’ve only seen it on the map and remembered the direction roughly. Why else would I have waited for you to come before I went to explore, I was afraid of getting lost in the deep woods. I printed out the map.”
He suddenly remembered and took out a folded A4 sheet of paper from his pocket and handed it to me. I opened it and there was a satellite map on one side and a two-dimensional map on the other.
Looking at the satellite map, Xia Gehuai really didn’t lie to me, there were indeed three houses here, surrounded by trees on all sides, and the house was halfway up the hill, facing south.
“You see, this place just can’t be inhabited.”
I don’t think there is any need for Xia Gehuai to make a fake map to deceive me, and with my experience, this satellite map is real, only Xia Gehuai is not experienced enough to notice some details.
I said, “This house has been visited by someone for at least a year.”
“How can you tell?”
I said, “Because you can see the house, and look how dense the trees are around him? If it hadn’t been there within a year, it wouldn’t need trees, it would soon be blocked by bushes and vines and you wouldn’t even be able to see it at a glance from the satellite map. Someone had lived in the area within a year, otherwise he wouldn’t have had to cut the trees down. Of course, for camouflage, he only cut down a few small trees. It’s impossible to see the way to the outside world for the moment, so go over and have a look.”
Xia Gehuai took the map and studied it for a while, shaking his head outright with a tsk, “You can even tell this, bully.”
I looked at the direction of the sun and found that Xia Gehuai had actually led the way ten degrees to the north, so I would definitely get lost if I went on like this.
I told him to stay behind me, I took my spikes and continued to open the way, while giving him my gun to take for protection, it was winter now, it would be bad if I met a bear blind that hadn’t hibernated yet.
I was relieved that he hadn’t attacked me from behind and didn’t seem to be planning to ambush me with a trap.
I was now so scared of betrayal that the very thought of it made my sweat stand on end.
By almost noon, Xia Gehuai was so tired that smoke was rising from his throat and he was stumbling after me, unable to walk any further.
“I told you this place was absolutely deserted, living here is like taking a trip down the mountain.”
By now the trees had blotted out the sky, with only a few rays of sunlight filtering through the gaps above our heads, and when we stepped on them, the rotting leaves were as deep as our legs.
Anyone who grew up in the rural areas of Tongcheng knows the horror of these big smoke bubbles. Xia Gehuai picked up a root to use as a walking stick and poked it while walking forward.
“Don’t move.” I growled low.
I took the stick from his hand and picked at the fruit. Suddenly a loop of rope was pulled up from the pile of rotten leaves, and luckily I was quick enough to pull Xia Gehuai out, otherwise he would have been hung up.
