Chapter 107 One person is missing!
After leaving the alpine pasture, the shop owner led the four people to continue walking down the mountain on the other side.
The four people's backpacks were still tied to the donkey's back. The nanny walked in front with a flashlight side by side with the store owner, and Xu Ge walked at the end this time.
"You said there's a camping spot ahead. What is it?" the nanny asked as they walked.
The shop owner said: "Go down this mountain and cross the small hill ahead to reach the last grazing spot in the Kunlun Mountains. My oil basket should be there now."
"Your friend?"
"He's the owner of the alpine ranch."
Li Dongshui then asked curiously, "I see there are still quite a few cattle and sheep in the ranch. Your friend is quite generous. Isn't he afraid that someone will steal all his cattle and sheep?"
The shop owner laughed and said, "It's in the mountains. Even if you steal for a day, you can't get out. You can only go through our village. Going anywhere else will only lead to death. You can't get lost."
The group continued to move forward and soon came down to the valley, and then prepared to climb the mountain.
For some reason, there was no grass on the hill ahead, only gravel. The nanny asked everyone to use both trekking poles and slowly walk up the hill.
When they were almost at the top of the mountain, Xu Can reminded Xu Ge: "Cousin, always pay attention to your back. Liu Yang might send someone to follow us."
"Yeah, I've been paying attention to it." Xu Ge nodded.
The reason why Xu Ge walked at the back was to prevent being followed. After coming out of the ranch, he looked back from time to time.
He definitely wouldn't bring military equipment like night vision goggles when hiking. Among the four people, he was the only one with night vision.
Half an hour later, the group reached the top of the mountain and could faintly hear the sound of flowing water ahead.
The shop owner pointed to the foot of the mountain and said, "We're almost there. My friend's sheepfold is right below."
"Then let's go down quickly to set up camp and rest. It's getting late and we have to get up early tomorrow." The nanny started to go down the mountain first.
Xu Ge looked back out of habit, and his pupils instantly focused on a figure at the foot of the mountain.
After observing for a few seconds and confirming that there was only one person coming, Xu Ge quickly caught up with the team and patted Xu Can and Li Dongshui on the shoulders.
"There's someone following us!" Xu Ge whispered, "Just one person."
Li Dongshui immediately went forward to inform the nanny, while Xu Can and Xu Ge waited there.
Not long after, the nanny returned: "Where is the person?"
Xu Ge: "At the foot of the mountain, heading up."
"How do we do it? Should we get rid of him?"
The nurse did not make the decision alone, but discussed it with her three teammates.
Xu Can said, "Following us at this time, it must not be just to find out our location, there must be other purposes!"
Xu Ge thought about it and agreed with Xu Can's opinion: "Even if the person coming here is hostile, since he is alone, he probably doesn't intend to fight head-on. He must be trying to use underhanded tactics. We shouldn't give him the chance to get close."
Seeing that Xu Ge and Xu Can said so, Li Dongshui, who was too lazy to think, nodded in agreement.
The nanny pulled out a small axe from behind her waist and said, "Okay, the three of you follow the guide down first. I'll go and take care of him!"
Xu Can warned: "Don't kill them, otherwise Liu Yang and the others might overreact."
The nanny thought it made sense, so she put the axe back, picked up a stone from the ground, and quickly disappeared into the night.
Xu Ge and the other two continued forward, following the shop owner down the mountain.
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About a quarter of an hour later, Xu Ge smelled the scent of sheep dung and knew that he had arrived at the last grazing spot.
"who!"
At the bend of the hill ahead, a figure suddenly jumped out with a hunting rifle in his hand.
The three of them dispersed immediately, and Xu Ge reached to his waist and grabbed the pistol.
The shop owner quickly raised his hand: "Hey, it's me! I'm from the Black Mountain Village Shop!"
The ranch owner lowered his gun after hearing the familiar voice. He shone a flashlight over and, after clearly seeing the camel bag on the donkey and the attire of Xu Ge and the other two, asked curiously, "Tourists, huh? Why are you still walking in the mountains so late?"
As the other person walked over while talking, Xu Ge also saw the appearance of the ranch owner clearly. He was a slightly thin middle-aged man, about 40 years old.
"Originally, the four of them were going to camp in your ranch, but unexpectedly another group of people came. They felt unsafe, so they wanted to come here to rest overnight," explained the shop owner.
"Four people?" The ranch owner waved his flashlight. "Why are there only three here?"
The shop owner looked back and was also a little surprised: "Where is that big guy?"
"I have diarrhea in the back and will be back soon." Xu Ge explained casually.
The ranch owner seemed to have thought of something and looked at Xu Ge and the other two and asked, "Why do you think those people are unsafe?"
Xu Can said, "They are many, nine in total. We are few in number. We must consider our own safety in the wilderness!"
"No, I have to go back and make sure those people don't harm my cattle and sheep!" The ranch owner looked at the shop owner and said, "Hey, buddy, please keep an eye on my sheep for me."
"Okay, no problem."
"Wait a minute!" Xu Ge quickly stopped the other party, "You should wait until our companions come back before setting off. Otherwise, if you two meet on the road, it will easily lead to misunderstandings."
This man is carrying a gun. If he happens to run into the nanny, the two of them might start fighting without knowing what's going on.
The ranch owner thought about it and agreed, so he let the four people into the sheep pen and pointed out a place for them to set up tents.
"20 yuan per person, I'm going to charge!"
Xu Can directly handed over a hundred yuan: "No problem."
After the shop owner tied up the donkey, he followed the ranch owner to the side and whispered something, while Xu Ge and the other two took out their tents and sleeping bags and set up camp again.
About ten minutes later, the nanny came back.
The ranch owner carried his hunting rifle, mounted his horse and headed back to the alpine pasture, while the shop owner slept in the only wooden house in the sheep pen.
After the four people got into the tent, they all stuck their heads out.
"I knocked him unconscious and threw him on the roadside. I found a pistol and a bag on him."
The nanny took out the pistol and the bag of powdery substance and whispered, "That guy didn't see me clearly when I shot him."
The pistol was an old imitation of 64. Everyone took a look at it and threw it aside, focusing their attention on the small bag.
Xu Ge opened the bag, sniffed it, and immediately tied it up again. He said in a deep voice, "There are drugs in it, but there's also some other smell mixed in!"
"It seems they want to poison us!" Xu Can frowned. "This group of people really have no bottom line."
"Sister Qing, where did you throw the person after you knocked him unconscious? Will the ranch owner who returns see it?" Xu Ge asked.
The nanny said nonchalantly, "So what if they saw it? That guy will wake up in two or three hours at most. Even if he didn't see my face, he'd guess it was us. I just want them to know we're not to be trifled with!"
At this time, the four people had already met Liu Yang and his group and were walking on the same route. The psychological game had already begun.
"Should we wait for Liu Yang and the others to arrive before setting off tomorrow?" Xu Ge asked.
The nanny shook her head: "There's no need to wait deliberately. If they are interested in us, they will naturally catch up."
"Since they have already sent people here, will they send more tonight?"
"That shouldn't be the case. I spared that guy's life just to give them a warning, unless they are 100% sure they can cross this road."
However, although the nanny said this, she still set up a warning not far from the sheep pen before going to bed, and then came back to bury the imitation 64 pistol in the sheep pen.
After everything was ready, the four of them went back to their tents and went to sleep. Naturally, no one took off their clothes and they all loaded their pistols.
Xu Ge deliberately found a bowl and turned it upside down on the ground, and slept next to the bowl so that he could be the first to notice any movement.
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Nothing happened that night. At dawn the next day, Xu Ge was awakened by a buzzing sound coming from the bowl.
He sat up immediately, opened the tent and listened for a while. The sound of donkey's hooves and rolling stones on the mountain road came over.
Xu Ge was shocked. It was Liu Yang and his group coming!
"Sister Qing! Cousin! Ah Shui! Wake up!"
The other three were also quite alert. As soon as Xu Ge finished shouting, they immediately opened the tent. Xu Can asked while retying his hair, "What's wrong?"
"Liu Yang and the others are here!"
"Hurry, pack up the tent and pack up!"
The nanny immediately stood up and took back the alarm set up last night, and the four of them quickly packed up their things.
The shop owner was also woken up by the noise of the four people. He opened the door and came out rubbing his eyes: "Why are you up so early... Hey, how did they get here?"
On the distant hillside, a group of people were following three donkeys down the mountain.
By this time, the four of them had finished packing. The nanny said as she tied her backpack onto the donkey's back, "Boss, let's get going quickly. I'm afraid these people are up to no good."
The shop owner was surprised: "Not really?"
"What do you mean 'not so'? That woman from yesterday must have been taken in by them. You messed with her like that yesterday. Now that she's found someone to back her up, do you think she'll come after you?"
"Ouch! Let's go quickly then, and have breakfast on the way!"
The shop owner's expression immediately changed. He led the donkey out of the sheepfold and headed west with the four people.
After walking for a while, Xu Can suddenly said, "They're catching up. It looks like they're coming for us!"
Xu Ge looked back and found that the pedestrian had indeed sped up and did not stop at the sheep pen. He was now less than 500 meters away from him.
"Huh? That's not right. Why are there only 9 of them?" Li Dong said suddenly.
The other three were stunned: "Isn't nine people correct?"
Li Dongshui: "No, including the guide and Chen Lu, there should be 10 people in total!"
The nanny also looked back carefully for a while, and her face suddenly changed: "It's bad!"
"What's wrong?" The three of them were shocked by the nanny's expression.
"I remember the guy I knocked out yesterday was a small guy. Look, none of these people are particularly skinny!"
The nanny's face turned grim. "Damn it! Could it be that that guy didn't go back, and Liu Yang and the others are chasing us and asking for him?"
Xu Can: "Are you sure you didn't hit me too hard?"
The nanny nodded: "I still have some sense of propriety. I will be dizzy for a while at most."
Xu Ge thought of something: "Could it be that the ranch owner who went back last night took the person away?"
"For now, don't worry about where that guy went. Just remember, pretend this never happened. We didn't even know someone followed us last night. Let's see what they say later."
"clear!"
After the four of them made up their minds, they were no longer in a hurry to travel.
But they were not in a hurry. The shop owner was. He had just turned around and saw Chen Lu riding on the donkey. The nanny's words before touched his heart. Now he was particularly afraid that the woman would take revenge, so he kept leading the donkey forward without stopping.
The two groups of people advanced one after the other, several hundred meters apart, and both were moving at a fast pace.
However, the four people on Xu Ge's side were obviously in better physical condition. After walking for more than two hours, the two sides gradually widened the distance.
At noon, a high mountain appeared in front of us, which was the Hakkale Pass with an altitude of more than 4,400 meters.
According to the map, after crossing Hakkale, you will reach the first Renqi River Valley, where you will need to cross the water.
The shop owner looked back for a moment, then sat down on the ground, panting heavily. "These people are following us so closely! I'll have to run away soon after I get over the mountain!"
The group behind them had already sat on the grass and started to eat lunch, so Xu Ge and his four companions also stopped to rest.
Twenty minutes later, the shop owner, who had been watching closely behind them, immediately stood up and urged, "They're leaving, let's get going too!"
Start climbing the mountain.
When viewed from the foot of the mountain, Hakkale Pass does not seem to be high, but the slope is very steep, and as the altitude increases, the oxygen content in the air gradually decreases.
The shop owner began to breathe heavily, and the donkey even fell to his knees several times.
Seeing this, the four of them each picked up their backpacks and finally climbed to the top of the pass after more than an hour.
"Quick, give me the money!"
The shop owner came up to the wet nurse and pointed down and said, "See that flowing water at the foot of the mountain? That's the Renqi River."
"There's no road ahead. I can only take you here. We'll have to cross the Renqi River more than a dozen times. Take care!"
The shop owner took the money and rode away on his donkey without saying a word, but he did not return the same way. Instead, he cunningly went down the side of the mountain.
The four of them were too lazy to argue with him, so they took a short rest and continued on their journey.
Xu Ge looked into the distance for a while and found that there was no meadow a few kilometers ahead, only gravel beaches and snow-capped mountains and glaciers.
Now we have reached the real heart of Kunlun Mountain.
Because the slope was too steep, it took longer to go down the mountain than to go up.
The four of them did not stop and went down to the foot of the mountain in one go.
Wow! Wow!
A turbulent river blocked the way ahead, and the Renqi River arrived.
Boom! Boom!
Xu Ge heard a heart-pounding roar coming from the valley ahead, and it was approaching this side rapidly. His face changed and he quickly stopped the nanny who was about to go to the river.
"Wait a minute! Did you hear any noise?"
The three of them shook their heads: "No? What's that sound?"
Xu Ge frowned: "It seems like something is coming. We'd better not cross the river yet!"
Nanny: "Liu Yang and the others will be chasing us soon. We have to cross the river first and let them know that we are capable..."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The nanny was interrupted by a huge noise while she was talking.
Upstream, a pale yellow torrent is pouring down rapidly!
"Oh shit! A flash flood is coming, run!"
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