I am a cripple in the Siheyuan. Who am I afraid of?

Chapter 535: See if you can get another bargain

The road up the mountain is rugged and difficult to walk on. The main reason is that the plants here are lush and leafy, and they are all old trees with a long history.

Later, the higher we went up the mountain, the more traces of excavation we could find hidden under the branches and leaves.

Going further in, we even found traces of blasting on some of the mountains.

But these are not surprising, because after all, it is a training ground, and it is normal to fire artillery and guns. Maybe this place was a target back then.

The area marked with five stars on the map is a continuous mountainous area, which is rugged, with gullies and valleys from time to time.

Song Wu carried a bag on his back. Once he saw Yang Twelve was tired, he would find a safe place by the roadside and take things out of his bag. The two of them would take a break to eat something, drink some water, and replenish their energy and strength.

However, the girl's performance was far beyond Song Wu's expectations. As expected, she was a child from a poor family who had to grow up early, was able to endure hardships, and had the physical strength to walk in such a mountainous area.

Song Wu even found that she seemed very happy, like a bird that had flown back from a cage to the forest. She felt a sense of joy at seeing everything she saw after a long absence.

Therefore, the girl never got tired, instead she would introduce Song Wu to all the interesting things around him. What kind of tree is this? She had even been to this place before. What kind of herbs and wild animals are there here?

What legends are there about that stone or that mountain? There are stories of horror, beauty, and hope.

Suddenly, Song Wu asked Yang Twelve: "Can you cook roasted wild animals?"

Yang Twelve smiled and said, "There should be a stream not far ahead. There are often small creatures there."

Song Wu nodded, then took out a pistol and said to Yang Twelve, "I see a few things that look like sheep ahead. Should we shoot them and roast them?"

Yang Twelve was very surprised. She didn't know how Song Wu knew it, but she didn't delay and grabbed Song Wu: "No, let them be free here, don't disturb them."

Song Wu couldn't help but be stunned. He turned his head to look at the sad-looking girl next to him. He realized that she must have felt pity for others because of her own situation.

Some people will develop a revengeful mentality when they have been wronged or suffered. But there are also people who want to bring all kinds of kindness to others because of the misfortunes and grievances they have experienced. This is the difference in human nature.

Song Wu smiled and put away his gun. He said to Yang Twelve, "We took a look around and it seems that the area ahead should be the center of the marked area."

Yang Shier said, "When I was a kid, I heard stories from the elders. There was a big battle here right after liberation. It seems like they fought against bandits here, and the battle lasted for quite a while. In the end, they were surrounded here. What happened in the end? I was young at the time and didn't pay much attention to it, so I don't know."

Song Wu found it very strange. They said there had been a battle, but there were no corpses nearby. There was a possibility that the battlefield was cleaned up very thoroughly afterwards.

He guessed that what Yang Twelve said might be that the defeated soldiers had become bandits in the mountains here, or they wanted to use it as a forward base for counterattack.

Song Wu suddenly thought, could this battle be commanded by the old man of Ling Li's family? Or his troops? This is possible.

If this is the case, Ling Li gave it 5 stars. It is very likely that something taken away by the defeated army back then was hidden nearby. Those people were probably all annihilated, and the things were not found in the end. Of course, it is not ruled out that they have been found. This is just an old map book.

It is even possible that he was just keeping it as a commemoration, occasionally reminiscing about the battle stories his father told him.

We can relate this to what Yang Twelve said. This place was once used as a training ground and was fenced off. If we analyze it this way, it is very likely that a large-scale search had been carried out.

If this is the case, then it proves that the item was not found after the battle. The training ground has long been abandoned, and it is unknown whether it was found or the search was fruitless and they gave up in the end.

As expected, as we walked further, the so-called red star marked central area on the map seemed to have more and more traces of explosions. If it was true as we speculated, this might be the place where the last battle took place.

Song Wu looked at the small valley-like terrain with a narrow exit in front of him. He immediately understood why the battle took place here. It was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

I went around the back of the valley and looked around, and it became clearer. There was actually a cliff behind it.

That group of so-called bandits used this place as their base, probably because of the terrain. According to Yang Shier, they have been entrenched here for one or two years.

Song Wu estimated that the two of them were just here for a trip and to climb the mountain, and they probably wouldn't gain anything. He pointed at the small entrance and asked Yang Twelve, "Have you been in there?" "Yes, I have. It's just a small valley. There are a lot of flowers and plants in it, nothing special. Before the training ground was built, and even after it was abandoned, people often came here."

Song Wu was actually taking advantage of Ling Li, and he was used to it. He felt that he could always follow him and get a lot of benefits. The main reason was that he was willing to spend money and could use foreign exchange to buy some things that were rarely seen or even imaginable in China in this era, which pleased Song Wu very much.

So, this time when he saw a mark on Ling Li's map, and happened to come here by accident, he simply went to the scene to see if he could get another bargain.

When he and Yang Twelve walked around the small valley, he shook his head helplessly. It was just like what Yang Twelve said, it was just an ordinary place. But there were many traces of excavation here.

After coming out of the small valley, Song Wu and Yang Twelve stood on the edge of the cliff. On the way here, they didn't know how high the mountain they climbed was. Now standing here, they realized that there was such a deep ravine below.

The most important thing is that the cliff here is not a gentle slope, but the area they occupy is a protrusion, and the bottom is concave, just like a ten-meter diving platform. Looking down, except for the deep ravine, nothing can be seen clearly because the mountain wall is an oblique surface.

However, Song Wu could know the situation below. In his perception, there was a new world below. Under the protruding mountain platform they occupied, there was actually a sunken cave. It was sixty or seventy meters below. It was so steep and so far away that it was no wonder that ordinary people could not find it at all.

The key point is that even if they found it, they couldn't get down. The so-called cave should be right under Song Wu and his friends' feet. However, the mountain was sixty or seventy meters thick, and his perception couldn't penetrate it. Therefore, he couldn't tell if there was anything fishy in the cave.

At present, even if someone wants to put something in there, how can they put it in? Unless there is another passage.

Thinking of going down the cliff here, Song Wu couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the slippery, moss-covered, and inverted cliff wall.

It's not that it's impossible to have good equipment, and it's possible with multiple people working together, but it's definitely not something that can be done under normal circumstances. Now, he wants to go down and take a look, but he can't think of any good way to go down for the time being, using his eyes and senses to explore.

Yang Shier saw Song Wuren lying on the ground, half of his body sticking out of the cliff, looking down. He seemed very worried, and even grabbed his feet from behind, fearing that he would fall down. He asked curiously, "What are you doing? It's so dangerous."

Song Wu turned around and smiled at her, saying, "There is a cave down here. I wonder if there is anything inside. I want to go down and take a look."

Yang Twelve suddenly held Song Wu's feet tighter: "No, it's impossible to go down this cliff. It's not something that can be climbed by human power. It's slippery and steep inside. I've never heard of anyone climbing here."

Song Wu simply pulled back his body and sat up. To be honest, he felt that it was impossible to continue. Even for him.

There should be an entrance and exit.

So he simply spread his perception around his body. Just now he was spreading it all around, but now he closed his eyes and tried to explore the mountain next to him.

Finally, I found something strange.

The rock on the left hand side, half a meter above the ground, was not complete. It looked like someone had built it up with cement or something.

Later, after being covered up, and with the passage of time, it gradually blended into the surroundings. If it wasn't for the gradual use of detection power to sense it, and the initial suspicion in my heart, it would definitely not be discovered easily.

The most important thing is that the back of the stone wall is still filled with broken stones. It is impossible to find out how deep it is behind. What is going on? Anyway, all we can know is that it is obviously filled with stones.

Fortunately, the stones that made up the mountain were not large, so Song Wu decided to blow them up with grenades.

He said to Yang Twelve, "Go around and hide at the entrance of the little valley over there, and cover your ears. Don't come over here unless I tell you to."

Yang Twelve was very confused, but seeing that Song Wu looked very serious and anxious, he hesitated for a moment and still ran out in a detour as he said.

Song Wu felt that she was going far away, and took out six grenades from the space. He looked around first, estimated the distance, and found a stone to cover his body.

Then he removed all the grenade drawstring covers, grabbed the drawstrings of the six grenades in his hand, took a final look at the planned place for the grenades, and then pulled the drawstrings hard. With a crackling sound, he calmly placed the grenades in the intended place, then turned around and ran behind the big rock he had found.

He had just ducked behind a rock when he heard a loud bang, rocks flew everywhere, and even his head was hit by many broken stones. There was a clattering noise all around, and it was a mess.

Moreover, after the explosion, when he looked up, all he saw was smoke and dust.

(End of this chapter)