After hearing the fat man say that we had discovered the entrance to the Worm Valley, Shiry Yang and I also raised our telescopes and looked in the direction the fat man said.
We saw a large field of yellow and white wild flowers and trees under the hillside in the distance.
There were groups of wild flowers among the flowers.
Golden swallowtail butterflies shuttle among them.
These butterflies are not small in size.
They fly around in groups and never leave the flower tree.
Shiry Yang praised: "Those flowers should be Phalaenopsis.
I didn't expect to attract so many golden swallowtail butterflies, golden banded swallowtail butterflies, and even the rare golden thread butterfly.
It's like the ancient Greek myths and legends, in love.
Those golden tree leaves blown by the sea breeze in the Garden of the Gods of Qinhai."
I knew nothing about butterflies, so I looked through the binoculars for a long time.
Apart from butterflies and wildflower trees, I didn’t see any valleys or ravines.
The vegetation layer here is so thick that all the landforms are completely obscured.
It is impossible to identify where the valley is and where the stream is.
Viewed from above, the ups and downs are all dense and unique near the Tropic of Cancer.
The plants are very different from the primitive forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains that we are familiar with.
As the saying goes: If the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them.
The crown heights of the trees in the Daxingan Mountains are all about the same, and the trees can work together to withstand strong winds.
This place is located in a place surrounded by two rivers and three mountains.
The basin and valley in the middle are low-lying.
In addition, Yunnan has the same four seasons.
There is no monsoon season.
The lower the terrain, the more moisture breeds.
The annual temperature remains at around 2530c, which is not necessarily the case all year round.
The wind blows once, so all kinds of plants grow to their heart's content.
Thick-stemmed vines, woody and herbaceous epiphytes in the forest grow at different heights and scattered according to their own characteristics.
The tallest is Yunnan's famous Wangtian tree.
Originally, this kind of big tree was only found south of the Tropic of Cancer. , but the environment in this mountain valley is unique, and there are actually many towering sky-looking trees growing there.
Only a few relatively large pools are not covered by plants.
In the deep and secluded places, there are many places shrouded in clouds and mist, making it difficult to see what is going on from a distance.
You can't just rush into the forest with a few groups of big golden butterflies.
The environment here is so complex that it's difficult to figure it out with common sense.
The human skin map was drawn in the Han Dynasty.
It has been two thousand years since it was passed down to today.
The topographic and landform features marked on the map have long been unrecognizable.
Except for some specific markers and locations, the human skin map can no longer be used for more accurate reference.
According to the blind man, a few decades ago, their group of mountain-unloading warriors entered the Bug Valley with soil explosives.
They saw a large group of butterflies in the Bug Valley, which is the front section of the valley formed by the Snake River.
But who can guarantee that butterflies will not appear in other places outside the Worm Valley, so it cannot yet be concluded that that is the entrance to the Worm Valley.
We must find the characteristic that the blind man said.
There is a broken wall in the Worm Valley.
It was the remains of an ancient wall built on the Snake River by manpower.
It seemed to be a dam.
When the tomb of King Xian was built, the water flow was cut off.
After the tomb of King Xian was built, it was demolished and the "water dragon halo" in front of the tomb of King Xian was restored.
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Only by finding the remaining wall can it be used as a basis for confirming the location of the Worm Valley.
The safest way is to do the same as the group of Xieling warriors back then, leaving Zhelong Mountain and not entering the forest first, but following the direction of the mountains towards Look for the Snake River in the north, and then follow the Snake River into the valley to ensure that you don't go astray.
Fatty said there is another way, which is to find the artificial canal in Zhelong Mountain again and follow the ancient river course to find the Snake River.
However, due to heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Lancang River, various large and small waterways are connected to each other and have become intricate.
They may even be diverted and flow underground.
The old river channels have long been completely covered by vegetation and soil, so the method mentioned by the fat man is not feasible.
The three of them discussed for a while and looked at the time.
It was now three-thirty in the afternoon.
We took a bamboo raft into Zhelong Mountain at about 9 a.m. and have not rested until now, so we decided to use this spot as a relay point.
We would rest for twenty minutes first, then head north, trying to find the entrance to the Insect Valley before sunset, and then Set up camp there and enter the valley early tomorrow morning.
We found a slightly flat hillside to sit down and took out some bait cake beef to satisfy our hunger.
The fat man talked about those piranhas, and thought of the mountain pools, full of bright red blood, similar to the blood pools in the legendary hell, which made me lose my appetite.
I suddenly felt a shiver in my heart.
What if those fish with teeth faster than saws also swam into the Snake River?
But with those guys in the water, it is impossible for us to get into the tomb of King Xian from the water.
Shiry Yang said: "Don't worry, I used to work as a photojournalist for a geographical magazine and have read a lot of relevant information about animals and plants.
The sabertooth viper fish is found in India, Myitkyina, Laos and the Americas near the Tropic of Cancer and at 20 degrees It exists in all waters in the area.”
Among them, ancient India has the largest number.
Buddhist scriptures record that during the Asoka period in India, one year, saber-toothed vipers caused a catastrophic disaster.
At that time, during the Ganges River flood that had never happened in a century, an underground river in the Eastern Ghats poured into a nearby city, killing countless people and animals in the city.
The ancestors of this saber-toothed viper can be traced back to the aquatic tiger-toothed fish of the post-glacial period.
That kind of fish lives in the ocean and has a light-emitting device on its body.
A large group of tiger-toothed fish can kill the dominant king whale in the ocean in an instant.
Later, due to the great famine of the sub-glacial period, these creatures were gradually cruelly eliminated by nature, and their descendants, the sabertooth viperfish, also evolved into freshwater fish.
Although Sabertooth Viperfish are very powerful, they have a huge weakness.
These fish can only live in water with relatively low temperatures.
Only the cold waters in caves near the Tropic of Cancer are suitable for their survival.
There is a kind of hard-shell shrimp without eyes in those waters.
There are many of them, but they are still not enough to eat, so this often happens.
A state of cannibalism.
After September each year, only one percent of the huge number of sabertooth viperfish survive to the final spawning period.
Every year during the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the spawning period of sabertooth vipers.
They cannot survive in areas that are too hot, but the reason why they live near the hotter Tropic of Cancer is to spawn in areas with high water temperatures.
After spawning, the sabertooth viper will die immediately.
The eggs hatch in warmer water and then migrate to colder waters to continue to survive.
The unique living environment of sabertooth viperfish makes their numbers rare and their living space small.
This season is not the spawning period, so there is no need to worry about them swimming out of the cave, but you need to be careful when going back.
Due to heavy rainfall, all the waterways in Zhelong Mountain have become interconnected water networks.
If you return the same way, you may encounter them in a certain section of the river in the cave.
After listening to Shiry Yang's detailed explanation of the saber-toothed viperfish, Fatty and I felt a little relieved.
The fat man felt that he had shown a bit of cowardice just now and hoped to regain his face, so he said to Shiry Yang and me: "How much noise can these stinky fish and shrimps make?
The reason why I think they are a little bit something is because the old man, the Chairman, once taught We have said that we must pay attention to the enemy tactically.”
Shiry Yang said: "These fish are nothing to worry about.
I just kept thinking that the human figurines hanging upside down in the river are not simply used to feed the pythons, but the tricks are very weird.
It is really hard to guess.
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Fortunately, there are It’s hard to say what would have happened if we accidentally bumped into the Sabertooth Viperfish.
We’ve already encountered so much trouble before we even entered the Worm Valley.
We must be cautious every step of the way.”
Everyone looked solemn.
This back-to-back fight was a matter of life and death.
There was no retreat when racing on a cliff.
They could only succeed but not fail.
We rested for a while and took out a map with the contour lines of Zhelong Mountain.
This map was extremely simple and had a very large error.
We cleared the compass, redetermined the altitude and orientation, corrected the map, and marked the orientation of the exit.
The three of them continued to set off to find the Snake River.
The smallest branch of the Lancang River is the Snake River we are looking for.
It bypasses a section of Zhelong Mountain. one One waterfall after another, the river is full of huge whirlpools, which cannot be passed by all kinds of boats.
And because it is extremely winding, it is named Snake River, and the local Bai people call it "Jie La Luo Yang", which means "The evil dragon suppressed by the snowy mountains."
According to common sense, it is not difficult to find this Snake River, but the plan could not keep up with the changes.
The vegetation under the mountain was too thick and the river channel could not be seen at all, so we had to follow the edge of Zhelong Mountain and move forward slowly.
Only then did I realize that the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique was completely useless in this hellish place.
To distinguish the situation, you need to clearly see the composition of mountains, rivers and rivers.
In this area, the top of the mountain is covered with clouds and mist, and the bottom of the mountain is covered with various trees and vines.
It is as if the surface of the mountains, rivers and rivers is covered with a thick layer of green mud.
The top was covered with a cotton cover, so there was nowhere to start.
It was even more difficult to walk in the jungle under the cliff.
After walking in, I didn't see a single butterfly.
There were only mosquitoes and poisonous ants, big and small, and there were no roads.
When I looked at the greenery from a high place, I found that the vines had grown too much when I entered.
It was so dense that it was almost impossible to get a foothold, so we had to use engineering shovels and machetes to carve out a path.
At the same time, we had to carefully avoid the venomous snakes and insects.
The hardships were really unbearable.
Seeing that the sun has set behind the mountains, the earth is gradually being swallowed up by darkness, and the virgin forest is covered with a dark veil.
But we have not gone far.
It seems that it is impossible to find the Snake River before dark, so we have to first Find a relatively safe place to spend the night temporarily.
The night in the forest is full of dangers, and it is located between mountains and rivers, and the air pressure changes greatly, so we must find a place that is not too many mosquitoes and is slightly dry, and light a campfire before spending the night.
Finally, I found a very flat large bluestone under two big trees.
I illuminated it with a flashlight and found that there were no snakes or scorpions nearby.
The three of them were very tired, so they hurriedly took out the fuel and built a fire, surrounded by small stones.
Because the air is too humid, it is necessary to set a fire to dry the bluestone, dry the moss and moisture in the gaps between the stones, and then spread the sleeping bag to prevent moisture from entering the bones during sleep and causing the disease.
Shiry Yang went to a nearby spring to fetch some water and brought it back, which can be drunk after filtering.
I set up a small camping pot, boiled some water, and cooked the noodles I bought from Caiyun Inn in the camping pot.
I didn’t add any seasonings, so as not to let the aroma of the food attract any animals and soak them randomly in the cooked noodles.
Serve a few pieces of bait cake and have it as dinner.
I didn’t know how long I would have to walk in the valley, so I didn’t want to take out the cans and eat them.
The fat man kept complaining about the poor food, and the bird almost disappeared from his mouth.
Speaking of birds, he grabbed the "Jianwei" and prepared to prepare some game, but it was already dark, so he had to give up and sit down to eat again.
While blaming the food I cooked for being unpalatable and tasteless, I ate three large bowls.
After eating, we decided to take turns sleeping, leaving some people to keep watch.
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After all, this primeval forest is full of dangers, and who knows what poisonous insects and beasts may come out at night.
I was on duty for the first shift.
I held the "Sword Power" and filled up the 64-style bullets, suppressing the fire into a dark flame.
Then I sat not far from the fire while humming the current Popular ditties were playing to kill the sleepiness, while one was alert to the dark jungle surrounding him.
The two big banyan trees opposite me are quite spectacular.
The trees are as thick as stone pillars.
The crowns are low and heavy as a cover.
The two thick tree trunks are like twists.
They are twisted together and twisted around four or five times to form a There is a rare couple tree, with many unnamed huge flowers and parasitic plants growing on the tree, like a large colorful flower basket in the forest.
I was watching intently when I heard Shiry Yang lying in the sleeping bag suddenly say to me: "These two trees will not live long.
There are too many parasitic plants on the bodies of the two banyan trees.
The nutrients absorbed by the old banyan trees cannot make ends meet.
Now The middle part of the tree is probably empty, and in three to five years at most, the tree will die.
Some things are not far away from destruction when they reach their most beautiful stage."
I heard something in her words.
On the surface, she said trees, as if she was talking about the curse we got from the ghost cave.
I didn't want to mention these disappointing things, so I said to Shiry Yang: "It's already late at night, why aren't you sleeping yet?
Every time you close your eyes, you think of my majestic figure, so you toss and turn and can't sleep."
Shiry Yang said: "It would be nice if I closed my eyes and thought of you.
Now when I close my eyes, my mind is thinking of the human figurines in the cave of Zhelong Mountain.
The more I think about it, the more disgusting I feel.
I don't even want to eat.
I still can't sleep." ” I yawned and said to Shiry Yang: "Since you can't sleep, carry forward the spirit of internationalism and replace my post.
Wake me up when you are sleepy."
Shirey Yang smiled and said: "It's a beautiful idea.
Once you and Fatty sleep, you won't be woken up by thunder.
I can't sleep, and I won't take turns with you, lest you pretend to be dead and refuse to get up to watch in the middle of the night."
I shook my head and sighed: "You have disappointed me so much.
I thought you had traveled thousands of miles from the United States to support our country's four modernization constructions.
I originally worshiped you like Bethune.
Deep in my heart, I think you are a moral person, a noble person, a person who is beneficial to the people, and a person who has given up vulgar taste.
I didn't expect that you are so selfish and don't care about the feelings of your comrades at all.
His usually approachable attitude is just a disguise.”
Shiry Yang said to me: "You are eloquent, but you like to talk big.
It's not good to brag all the time.
I can't sleep anyway, so why don't you talk to me, but you are not allowed to say anything to me about the content of the quotation." " It was quiet in the forest, without a trace of wind.
All the animals and plants seemed to be asleep.
Only a few strange bird calls occasionally came from the distance.
My eyelids were so sleepy that I kept twitching.
I looked at the fat man sleeping beside me.
This guy had his head completely buried in his sleeping bag and was sleeping soundly.
Not to mention how fragrant it was.
But Shiry Yang refused to do duty for me, so I had to force myself to chat with her without saying a word.
I don’t know why, but while we were chatting, we started talking about the big python in the forest.
I mentioned that I had met a comrade from the company in Beijing and heard him tell some rumors about people who had their ears pierced while squatting on the front line.
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At that time, the war temporarily entered a stalemate stage.
The front lines of both sides were densely covered with cat's ear holes, which were actually infantry counterattack bunkers.
When the cat's ear holes were dug, they often dug out the giant pythons in the mountains.
They told me that the largest python was as thick as the legendary dragon.
I didn't believe it at that time, but now I know that it was not built randomly when I met it in Zhelong Mountain.
However, most pythons do not actively attack people.
They are lazy and sleep all day long.
Some soldiers couldn't stand the heat in the cat's ear hole.
They still felt hot when they were naked, so they had to find a big python sleeping on a tree and drag them into the hole.
Several people lay down on the cool big python to sleep, not to mention pretending.
All air conditioners work.
Later, the python simply settled in the cat's ear hole.
It was fed canned braised pork every day and slept when it was full.
Then one day, the war suddenly turned fierce, and continuous shelling blocked the passage for our army to transport supplies.
As for the artillery fire, sometimes the location of the bunker was not good, and if a group of artillery were to cover it, the entire squad inside would be gone.
After firing artillery for a whole week, there were no ants around the position.
The canned braised pork in the cat's ear hole was gone.
People could still hold on for a short time, but the big python couldn't bear it when it was hungry.
It got used to living in the cat's ear hole and smelled the smell of the soldiers smoking every day.
He also got addicted to cigarettes and couldn't get rid of it no matter what.
He was so hungry that his eyes turned red and he wanted to devour people.
In the end, he had to shoot it to death.
Peel off the python skin and put it in the cat's ear hole, so that mosquitoes and mice will not dare to enter the hole.
One day the enemy took advantage of darkness to dig out the cave.
The soldiers on guard were dozing off and did not find the enemy.
The enemy planned to throw explosive packets into the hole, but suddenly he felt as if his body was entangled by a python, unable to move, and his bones were about to be crushed by the huge force, but his body was obviously empty and there was nothing.
The next day, the soldiers in Maoerdong discovered the python skin.
After I talked to Shiry Yang, I didn’t even know what I was talking about anymore.
I was so tired that I couldn’t support it anymore, so I fell asleep without knowing it while holding "Jianwei" in my arms
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