Even though Jasmine called her by her first name, Old Liu Tou didn't feel angry at all. After giving Fatty Wu a fierce look, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, waved to Jasmine and said, "Don't worry, girl, I'll provide you with transportation." Everything has been arranged, come with me!”
I always thought that the means of transportation mentioned by Old Liu Tou was at least a jeep or something, because in my opinion, jeep is the standard equipment on this plateau and can travel on any rugged road.
But when I saw the so-called vehicle, I was dumbfounded. Suddenly, a guy actually led four dirty yaks out.
"Oh shit, are you kidding me, Uncle Liu? Don't tell me to just ride this thing. It can't walk as fast as I can on two legs. I can just get a few horses!"
Old Liu Tou turned around and glared at Fatty Wu again, and said in a very unhappy tone: "What do you know, you little fat guy? This is a plateau, even if there are horses, you can't run. What's wrong with this yak? You Like to ride or not!”
"Oh, you old man..."
Fatty Wu still wanted to say a few words, so when I saw this, I reached out and tugged on Fatty Wu's clothes, and then Fatty Wu stopped talking.
A yak is a yak, it's better than walking on two legs. Anyway, Fatty Wu and I decided to help on the spur of the moment, so naturally we have to follow our orders.
Later I understood why Lao Liutou chose to rent a yak as a means of transportation. Firstly, the yak is a docile animal, and secondly, it has a strong load-bearing capacity. Not only were there just a few of us, the yak also served as a camel at the same time. He bought a lot of food, water, tents, blankets, etc. These things together are really beyond the capacity of one car.
Another point is the most important. Old Liu Tou said that if you want to get to Skeleton Lake, you have to climb several hills to reach it. The car cannot go up at all, but the yak is different. It treats the hills as if it were walking on flat ground. The only shortcoming is too slow.
After riding on the back of a yak for two full days, we finally reached our destination.
Looking down on a hillside, Old Liu Tou held up the crutch in his hand and pointed down the hillside, "If you remember correctly, Skull Lake is down there. I can't see clearly with my eyes, girl. Wow, please help me see if there is a skull-shaped lake there?"
Jasmine agreed and looked in the direction pointed by Old Liu for a long time. Finally, she even took out her camera equipment. She shook her head in frustration and said, "Liu Jianguo, do you remember?" Wrong, there is no skull-shaped lake!"
"What? No! How is this possible? Although I haven't been here for decades, everything here has been remembered in my mind. How could I remember it wrong?"
Fatty Wu raised the corner of his mouth when he heard this, and said with a hint of teasing: "Liu Jianguo, you must have memory loss, maybe you really made a mistake!"
Fatty Wu's words once again angered Old Liu Tou. Old Liu Tou picked up the crutch in his hand and hit Fatty Wu, "You brat, call me uncle, call me grandpa, Liu Jianguo is what you can call me!"
"Hey, why can Jasmine call you Liu Jianguo, but why can't I? Why?"
Old Liu Tou and Fatty Wu started arguing with each other again, and Jasmine on the side hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them.
I was speechless and said, "Okay, just stop saying a few words. We're all here, why not go down and have a look and see if the Skeleton Lake is down there!"
Old Liu Tou and Fatty Wu both felt that what I said was reasonable, nodded one after another, and rode their yaks towards the bottom of the hillside.
When I was on the hillside, I didn't notice anything wrong at the bottom of the hillside, but now that I'm only halfway down the hillside, I feel like something's not right.
From this position, we can see much more clearly than before on the hillside. We are only thirty or forty meters away from the bottom of the hillside at most. However, at this distance, we can't even see what's below. The situation felt as if there was a thick layer of dark fog down there.
Not only that, the closer you get to the bottom of the hillside, the warmer the surrounding temperature is. When you were on the hillside, you could still feel the warmth brought by the sun shining on your body, but now, the sun is clearly right in front of you. , but no longer feel the slightest warmth.
"Holy shit, what does it smell like? It's so stinky!" Fatty Wu said with a frown.
Not only Fatty Wu, but the rest of us also smelled the smell. It was not the smell of feces, but the smell of decomposing corpses, and this smell clearly came from the location below the hillside. radiated.
Almost at the same time, all the yaks we were riding on stopped moving and were unwilling to take a step forward. They also made moo-mooing sounds one after another. Their originally docile personalities began to become restless. It seemed as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
Seeing this, I jumped off the yak's back, turned my head and glanced at the bottom of the hillside, which was getting closer and closer. I turned back and said to the others: "Something's not right down there. The yak is too scared to go any further." , it seems we can only walk down and have a look!”
So Fatty Wu and the others jumped down from the yak one after another. After tying the yak in place, we walked step by step down the hillside.
After walking about a hundred steps, I noticed that the surroundings were getting darker and darker. The layer of black mist I had seen before had now risen to the top of our heads, completely blocking the sun in the sky.
The smell of rotting corpses was so strong that it not only stimulated the sense of smell, it even started to irritate the eyes.
This is just one of them, and there is also the weird coldness, so that any exposed skin feels like it has been cut by a sharp knife.
"Skull Lake...this is Skeleton Lake...!"
Old Liu Tou suddenly became excited, pointing the crutch in front of his eyes and exclaimed.
I looked in the direction that Old Liu Tou pointed, and just one glance made me gasp in fright, and my legs and knees twisted.
There is a small lake seven or eight meters in front of us. It is better to say it is a lake than a nearly dry puddle.
The water layer in the puddle was inky black, and the strong stench was emitted from it.
However, this was not enough to scare me. What frightened me was that in the huge puddle, there were dozens or even hundreds of corpses piled on top of each other, including animal and human bones!
I have never asked about Skeleton Lake, so I thought it was a lake shaped like a skeleton, but now I understand the true meaning of Skeleton Lake. That is because there are really many skeletons in this lake.
Fatty Wu and I were both frightened, but Jasmine started crying directly, "With so many bones, are my parents' bones here too? Have they encountered something unexpected..."
When Jasmine cried like this, my mood also dropped. Maybe it was what Jasmine thought. Her parents might have met with something unexpected, and their bones might be among the hundreds of bones.
Although I think so too, until I find no evidence that Jasmine’s parents are really dead, it’s just a guess.
With this in mind, I walked towards the almost dry puddle, intending to find clues about their identities among the bones.
I took a general look and found that these bones were very badly decayed. Apart from the white bones, there was not even the slightest trace that could prove their identities during their lifetime. There was not even any clothing. This gave me a headache. Proof I can’t find out the identity of the deceased, but with so many bones, where can I find Jasmine’s parents?
I was worrying about this when I suddenly heard a scream from Fatty Wu. I wondered if something had happened to this guy, so I hurriedly turned around to look, only to see Fatty Wu screaming. He yelled at me excitedly, "I'm so stupid! I'm so rich! Silver dollar, silver dollar!"
