After Wang Ke came back, he immediately stuffed the fifteen yuan into Gu Maolin's jacket pocket.
Then I went to eat in silence and with a sense of guilt.
There was nothing substantial to do in the afternoon, so Wang Ke and Gu Maolin took a group of people to inspect the Eagle Mouth on the spot.
Wang Ke distributed the leggings left by the reconnaissance team to the four of them, and then taught everyone how to wear leggings with Gu Maolin.
Everyone knows how to do it as soon as they learn it, and Ye Xuanqian can obviously do it, but she insists on letting Wang Ke help her fight.
Really unable to offend this aunt, Wang Ke squatted down to help quickly finish the beating. At this time, he gave each of them a stick that Gu Maolin had brought.
"What is this for?" Professor Wen asked.
"Be a walking stick." Gu Maolin said with a smile.
"Crutch, do we still need a crutch?" After saying that, Professor Wen happily took it. After everything was packed up, the group left Longquanzhuang.
Unlike others, Wang Ke and Gu Maolin each carried a pot of cold water.
Because the grassy beach was too difficult to walk, when he reached the side of the road, Wang Ke took out the map, pointed to the location of the eagle's mouth, and asked for everyone's opinions.
One way is to take the deserted grass beach, go straight under the Eagle's Mouth, bypass the Eagle's Mouth, and then find the way up the mountain from the unnamed ridge on the right. The other way is to climb up the shepherd's trail from the south of the elephant's leg on the left.
Both paths have pros and cons. On the right side, you can see the whole view of the Eagle's Mouth from below. The road up the mountain is relatively gentle, but it is difficult to walk on the grassy beach, and it also requires a detour of nearly ten kilometers. The one on the left is a direct climb to the top, which is relatively close. The disadvantage is that you cannot see the whole view of the eagle's mouth, and the road up the mountain is difficult to walk due to the pine trees.
"Well, let's not go up. Today we will just take a look under the eagle's beak and take the road on the right."
Professor Ye Rongguang thought for a moment and then asked Professor Wen for his opinion.
When Wang Ke heard this, he immediately turned around and dived in from the intersection on the right. The group was headed by Wang Ke, followed by Dr. Viper Xiao Zhang, then Professor Ye Rongguang and Ye Pianpian, and Professor Wen was followed by Gu Maolin.
This was Wang Ke's deliberate arrangement.
Wang Ke was walking at the front of the team. He didn't have to worry about the deep grass and dense forests here. Because he has the snake stone and mahjong rooster in his pocket, these are his "talismans".
A group of people were on the chest-high barren grass beach, struggling to push the grass with tree sticks and walking on the soft vegetation.
It was said to be a grassy beach, but there were some small bushes and thorns inside. Now everyone realized that if it weren't for the straps, the trousers would have been torn long ago. And the effect of this tree stick is even greater. One step at a time, in addition to alerting snakes, it will not step into a hole.
As everyone knows, this has long been the experience of Wang Ke's command platoon.
After walking for a while, except for Wang Ke and Gu Maolin, the rest of the group could not tell the difference between east, west and north. They were surrounded by endless grass. Some grass is taller than people, and a gust of wind blows, making a "swirling" sound, which is eerie. If there were no people passing by, let alone getting lost, I would be scared to death.
"Brother Bing, can I walk behind you?" Ye Xian called from behind the team. Following her call, several unknown birds frightened up in the grass and made a "flapping" sound. Just hear the sound but not see the thing.
At this time, Wang Ke had to rely on the compass to make difficult judgments.
It was less than two o'clock in the afternoon, but in this grassy beach, it felt like four or five o'clock in the afternoon. "Teacher Xiaoye, hold on, we will cross this grassy beach immediately and we will be there."
Even though it was coming soon, Wang Ke didn't know for sure. Logically speaking, this grassy beach is less than two kilometers away, but now it feels like we have walked three or four kilometers.
"Maolin, are we going the right way?" Wang Ke asked loudly from behind.
"Platoon leader, bad, bad, about the same." Gu Maolin from behind was also obviously lacking in confidence.
Wang Ke suddenly remembered why he was still relying on a compass and a map. When he first came here, Song Ruimin of the reconnaissance squad had lost his way because of the malfunction of the compass. He had a navigation system.
So Wang Ke closed his eyes and began to mobilize his fantasy.
When Dr. Viper Xiao Zhang saw Wang Ke suddenly stop, he couldn't help but turned to the side and stretched his head to take a look. He saw Wang Ke closing his eyes and frowning, but without even opening his eyes, he took a big step to the right.
"Platoon Commander Wang, are we going astray?"
Wang Ke ignored him at all and took a few big steps to the right. Then he casually pushed aside the grass with a stick and walked straight forward.
Dr. Xiao Zhang was stunned, Wang Ke walks without his eyes?
It turned out that as soon as Wang Ke closed his eyes, he was shocked. The road turned eastward. If he continued walking, he would go under the "elephant's leg". There is something weird underground here, and the direction taken by the compass is not accurate at all.
"Platoon Commander Wang, Platoon Commander Wang, are we going on the right track?" The current direction is almost ninety degrees from the original, and Wang Ke is still making corrections. But now he was the team's only guide and had no choice but to listen to him.
What surprised Dr. Zhang the most was that Wang Ke walked away with his eyes closed. It seems that this road is not recognized with the eyes, but figured out with the brain. The only difference is that Wang Ke walks steadily and quickly.
"Attention, there is a big pit ahead, everyone follow me and go around it." When Wang Ke said this, his eyes were still closed, but there was a lot of wind under his feet, as if he was walking on a flat road.
Dr. Viper Xiao Zhang looked at it for a while, it was fun, the one with his eyes closed could walk more steadily than the one with his eyes open.
"Wait a minute, Platoon Leader Wang." Dr. Viper Zhang from behind screamed.
"What's wrong?" Wang Ke stopped.
"There seems to be a snake nearby." Dr. Xiao Zhang said, and the group, except for Wang Ke and Gu Maolin at the head and tail, immediately became nervous.
Wang Ke felt strange. There was no movement in his right breast pocket, and Gu Maolin didn't react at all.
"I smelled a snake smell." Dr. Xiao Zhang continued to explain.
Wang Ke also smelled what he said. It turned out that the smell of snakes was like this. It was different from the smell he had smelled when he saw the cockscomb snake and the eagle's beak. However, Wang Ke still admires Dr. Xiao Zhang. Being able to smell the smell of snakes in the wilderness shows that he is really an expert.
Wang Ke opened his eyes and said, "If there are snakes, they won't pose much of a threat to us."
Dr. Xiao Zhang looked at Wang Ke, as if he didn't believe it: "How do you know? Did you see it?"
Because from the beginning to the end, Wang Ke was walking with his eyes closed, but now when he opened his eyes, he said that there was not much threat. But Dr. Xiao Zhang didn't know the secret in Wang Ke's right breast pocket, so he naturally didn't understand why Wang Ke said this.
Wang Ke picked up a stick and fiddled with the grass around him. Soon, he found a dead snake, half a dead snake to be precise.
The people behind exclaimed that there really was a snake.
This is a poisonous snake that cannot be named, and a small part of its body has been chewed off by some animal. Seeing Wang Ke pick it up with a stick, Dr. Xiao Zhang immediately became nervous.
"Are there other venomous snakes?"
"No more. But will there be other aggressive animals here? It's hard to say, but we still have to be careful." When Wang Ke said this, he regretted that he should not have let Shi Hanlu take away the military dagger. , now with nothing but a stick.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Professor Ye Rongguang saw Wang Ke preparing to throw away the dead snake and immediately squeezed forward. For a biologist, a scale or a feather has its research value, not to mention most of the venomous snakes.
Several people immediately squatted down and fiddled with the dead snake. "It should be a white-browed viper."
Professor Ye Rongguang stood up. This kind of venomous snake is small in size. In spring and autumn, it usually lives in the grass of graves or near hibernation places, and never attacks other animals. But found here, is there a cemetery?
"Mosquito farm?" Wang Ke was stunned. He walked back and forth here several times, but he didn't find any graves here.
"Maybe it's a coincidence. The grass here is deep and the forests are dense, so it's possible for such a poisonous snake to appear." Seeing Wang Ke's confusion, Professor Ye Rongguang added: "It could also be some kind of animal, such as an eagle that picked it up from other places and didn't eat it. It ended up right here.”
"Impossible." Wang Ke once witnessed an eagle catch a big snake from the grass beach and catch it in its mouth. But this small poisonous snake is not enough for the eagle to fit between its teeth. How could it throw away half of it after eating it?
Wang Ke immediately closed his eyes vigilantly, and his mind immediately searched the area like a radar. This search really made him discover some problems. There is a small mound less than ten meters away from here. If it weren't for a few thick locust trees growing there abruptly, no one would know that the mounds under the tree are grave mounds.
But Wang Ke couldn't explain clearly. He opened his eyes, looked at Gu Maolin and then at everyone, and said: "Gu Maolin, come to the front, let's look around."
"Yes!" Gu Maolin understood and immediately ran forward with a stick.
"Daddy Wen, Uncle Ye, you guys take a rest for a while. Gu Maolin and I will take a look nearby. How can there be a cemetery in this barren grassland?" After saying that, Wang Ke winked and immediately walked towards the locust trees in a pretentious manner. past.
After walking a few steps, Gu Maolin first shouted: "Platoon leader, there really are several graveyards here. Professor Ye was really accurate."
Gu Maolin shouted loudly, attracting everyone immediately. Everyone waded through the weeds and walked over to take a look. It was really a pile of tombs. There are about five or six of them, hidden deep in the grassy beach for who knows how many years.
"Is there a monument?" Professor Wen's concern was different from everyone else's.
There are no inscriptions here. It's strange, if it was someone from a nearby village, they would be buried either in their own fields or on nearby mountains. There is no village in front of this deserted beach and no store in the back. How could it be buried in such an inaccessible place? It is inconvenient for future generations to visit the grave, and they might even get lost!
Looking at the few locust trees, the big ones are as big as two people can hold each other's arms, and the smaller ones are as thick as an arm's length. They were obviously planted together with the graves. Thinking about it this way, these five or six graves must have been at least several decades old, or even It makes sense for hundreds of years.
But for many years, it seems that no one has come to visit the grave. The original raised mound of earth has gradually collapsed, and there is only a little bulge. If you don't look carefully, it is just a small earth bag.
"Teacher Wen, is this an ancient tomb?" Gu Maolin asked.
"What do you think?" Professor Wen found it funny. There was no Feng Shui in this place. How could there be an ancient tomb? Little did he know that his words really aroused Gu Maolin's seriousness.
Gu Maolin scanned the five or six soil bags with his eyes. Then he walked up to Wang Ke, pulled his sleeves, and said quietly to Wang Ke: "Platoon leader, look at the graves under the tree. .”
Wang Ke looked along Gu Maolin's hand and saw exactly where Ye Qianqian was standing. He knew that Gu Maolin's eyes could see through, but he could never tell the truth at this time.
"What did you see?" Wang Ke asked in a low voice that only the two of them could hear.
"There's a box!" Gu Maolin said excitedly, his voice still a little loud.
Professor Wen raised his head and asked, "Xiaogu, what box is it?"
Wang Ke quickly interrupted: "Gu Maolin said that there is a strong aroma here."
Ye Pianqian rolled his eyes at Wang Ke, didn't he just put on some cream! Professor Wen looked at the two of them doubtfully and said nothing.
