Chapter 58: Anecdotes from the Ancient Road



As the saying goes, there is always a way out. Remember what was written on the white cloth? The last refugee once said that he had seen the Bigfoot's lair. This means there was another way suitable for humans to get up. Otherwise, how could that person have sneaked up without being noticed by Bigfoot and visited its lair?

Therefore, as long as I can find a path that people can walk on, instead of climbing down the cliff, I can go down the mountain smoothly and safely. But where is this mountain path?

I groped around, searched and searched, trying to avoid falling. I even crawled around to look for it, so that I wouldn't miss a step and fall to my death. I searched left and right in an arc radius, slowly expanding the radius to find the way with a high probability.

If you keep walking to the right from the top of the mountain, you will find a spring pool. A spring pool has formed in a slightly lower part of the mountain top, accumulating a lot of spring water. On the right side are some larger stones stacked up one by one. The spring water flows out from the center of those stones, and flows from top to bottom. It will pass through the low-lying part of the rock here, branch out to the crevices of the rock below, and continue to flow downwards.

This is obviously not a place that can be left, and right in front of the nest is a bush. However, this bush is particularly terrifying because it almost blinded my vision and I almost fell into the abyss when I passed through it.

I also realized that if we look at it as a city wall, there is definitely no extension in the front and back, but there are mountain roads on the left and right sides. Its principle is similar to that of the Great Wall.

The only answer was the left side, and I actually found the way down the mountain.

"Wow, this is a path that people can walk on. It's so obvious!" I exclaimed.

I saw a carved stone staircase on the left side, which could accommodate two people walking side by side. However, due to the age of time, the stone staircase was overgrown with weeds, and many tree roots broke through the stone. However, there was absolutely no problem for people to walk on it. These about a hundred stone steps would lead to the mountain below, and if you continued to the left, there would be many flat mountain roads. If you walked a little further, there would be stone steps leading down, and so on, until you reached the bottom of the mountain.

I thought about the stories on the bronze ware and the jade pendant, and the stories I heard from Yunwen. I thought that the reason why there are so many man-made stone steps on this mountain must be that the owner of the bronze ware must have asked his subordinates to help carve them at that time. That is why these stone steps are so old and do not look like modern craftsmanship.

"Zhou Bo! Zhou Bo! Where have you been? You left me here alone!" Song Yingchun shouted from above.

I hurriedly climbed back up the stone steps. She was relieved to see me, and her face looked pale with fear.

"I was just looking for the way, and I found it. Let's go down," I said.

I helped her up, found the stone steps, and went down, as if we were strolling in a forest park, one step after another, all the way down. Halfway down, Yingchun pulled me aside, pointed to one side of the stone steps and said, "Look, there are stone sculptures here."

There were two stone-carved people with double buns on both sides of the stone steps, as if they were used to guard this place. They were placed not far from the stone steps, but their bodies were covered with moss, which looked a bit weird.

We went down all the way to the bottom of the mountain. There were two paths when we came down from the last step. One path led to a hidden downhill slope, which, judging from the sound, was probably another entrance to the dangerous area. The other path turned a corner and led down a slope without stone steps. This led to the area of ​​the deserted house in the mountains, where we found Xiao Mai and the German folding engineer shovel. I didn't expect the road to be so open.

The most iconic thing is the scarecrow that was cut in half, but it still survives here strangely.

"Is there wheat here too?" Song Yingchun asked.

"Yes, to be exact, this is where our wheat comes from," I said.

She opened her eyes wide and looked at me in disbelief.

After finding this place, it will be easy to go back. There is a narrow slope going down from here, and after going down, there is a dangerous road on the fault. Going down, you will reach the vicinity of the Zaoshu area. From then on, you can find the way back to the old house without any hesitation.

When I arrived at the old house, before I even entered, I heard Song Bailu crying, "It's over. We are completely finished. Brother Zhou Bo and my sister must be dead. There is no hope for us."

"Let's wait a little longer. Maybe he didn't come back because it was dark or there were other inconveniences." Yunwen said calmer.

"Sister, you are still too naive. This place is a hell. Everyone will die here sooner or later. It's just a matter of time. Don't have such fantasies. What I mean is that we should go back to the beach and try to call for help. If we really can't wait for rescue, just give up. It's impossible for two weak women like us to survive." Bai Lu said crying.

I pushed the door open and said, "That's basically the same as sending yourself to death. There's a lot of rain in spring, so the water level will rise easily. Some dangerous creatures from the seabed will also emerge. I think you'll be dead in two or three days. Besides, even if nothing like that happens, you won't get rescued. There's a giant squid lurking not far from the island. Even if someone comes, it's likely to capsize. So your patience won't pay off. You'll easily get rheumatism and cold legs."

When the two girls saw me, they were extremely surprised. They rushed over and hugged me tightly. They were both very surprised that I came back.

The three of them hugged for a while, and then Song Bailu remembered something, stepped back, and asked, "Where's my sister? Isn't she dead?"

"Come in, your sister is thinking about committing suicide after not seeing you," I said.

Song Yingchun walked in, holding the clay sculpture of "Hello Kitty" in her hand, and shouted, "Sister!"

"Yingchun! My sister! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere? Are your hands and feet okay? Oh... it's good that you're still alive. I was scared to death. I was really scared. I thought I wouldn't be able to explain to my parents!" Song Bailu hugged Yingchun tightly, sobbing.

Yunwen looked at me with concern. Seeing that my hands were covered in blood from climbing, she quickly fetched spring water to wipe my hands and prepared some herbs to apply to relieve the pain.

They had been nervous the whole night and were now very curious about what had happened last night. This time I didn't tell them, but Song Yingchun told them. She added fuel to the fire and completely deified me. Yunwen and Bailu kept cheering, praising me continuously and giving me thumbs up, while I drank ginseng tea and listened to it all with a smile.

In a word, in Yingchun's mouth, I was simply a god from heaven, beating up Bigfoot. The beating was just like beating up a naughty kid, which was even more exciting than Ultraman fighting monsters. After she finished speaking, Yunwen and Bailu's eyes towards me changed. If they had any opinions about me before because of the bath water incident, now they basically had eyes of hero worship, and they especially admired me!

No matter what, it has enhanced my good image and satisfied my vanity. It was worth it to save little Yingchun.

After talking about all this, we still have to solve our food and clothing problem. Last night's "New Year's Eve dinner" happened before everyone finished eating when an unexpected incident occurred, so those dishes are basically still preserved and can be heated up and eaten. In addition, I also talked about the things on the top of the mountain, thinking that when I have time, I will take someone to take down the bison meat on it, which will not be a waste of wild resources.

While we were eating and chatting, Xiao Yingchun gave me her boiled bird eggs and said, "I received your 'New Year's gift', Brother Zhou Bo, thank you."

This was the first time she said thank you, and in front of everyone.


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