Lord Helanza

Before dawn on the 2nd day, the caravan set out for the next village.

The caravan of twelve horses and six mules, facing a grey dawn just exposed from the horizon, walked along an uneven mountain road towards the village of Heard 30 kilometers away. Surdak was riding on a horse, standing on the upper reaches of the highest river in Wall Village, watching the caravan leave silently from a distance.

On the gray limestone layer, the sun jumped out from below the horizon, stretching their shadows very long.

Surdak also followed the lizard hunting team in Wall Village and entered the mountains on the southern foot of Paglos.

The Captain of this lizard hunting team is naturally led by the village chief Bright, who has the most experience in hunting in Wall Village. The villagers carried bows and ropes on their backs, carrying dry food for about seven days, and walked in. In this mountain, the deeper you go to the Paglos mountain range, you will find that it is even more desolate. You can still see a touch of green in the ravines. When everyone has climbed over a mountain range, the ravines have become more green. The colors are all disappeared.

Looking around, the mountains in front of me are all made of gray rocks. Occasionally, a few animal bones can be seen on the stone wall. Here is simply a dead place.

Occasionally, some sea-buckthorn grasses with thorns are seen in the crevices of the rocks, shaking their dry branches and leaves in the wind.

Village Chief Bright climbed to a steep rock crevice, reached out and broke off the branches of sea buckthorn that had long lost moisture in the rock crevice, and the wrinkles on his face became a bit deeper, here The vitality has almost been cut off. Originally, this area was the active area of ​​limestone iguanas. These seabuckthorn grasses were the Source of Life for these limestone iguanas. But this year, these seabuckthorn grasses have dried up and died. Of course, this area It is also impossible to have limestone iguanas.

The old village chief tightened frowns, drank a sip of water to moisturize his thirsty throat, covered his face with a linen scarf, moved towards the team waved their hands, everyone was deep in the mountains Go ahead.

The volcanic crater in the distance, called the pustule, became clearer and clearer in Surdak's sight.

The chief of Bright brought the lizard hunting team in the village for a whole day, passing through four areas where limestone iguanas were the most active before, but this year’s situation is slightly different. There are no traces of limestone iguanas in the rock crevices in these places. Not only that, even the seabuckthorn grasses that the iguanas depend on for survival have almost all died.

The team walked until the sun fell into the mountain col, and then set up a camp under a sheltered cliff. These villagers did not carry a tent. Everyone just carried a shabby blanket. Everyone was on the cliff. A small bonfire rose below, everyone wrapped in blankets around the bonfire, tore off some of the dry food they had carried, and threw them into an iron pan filled with clean water on the bonfire.

When the water in the pot boils, everyone will scoop out some food from the iron pot and gather to enjoy this dinner.

This kind of big pot rice is not delicious. The quality of the food brought by the villagers is uneven. People are picky about the food, but the first day of the hunt is one after another, which makes the atmosphere in the lizard hunting team a little dignified.

At this time, the old village chief gathered several villagers with rich hunting experience in the village together, and began to discuss that area on the old parchment of Old Zhang, there will be a greater chance of the existence of limestone iguanas , These villagers browse tightly frowns, it seems that the situation is not so good.

Surdak sat quietly against the rock face. He was next to the mayor Bright, listening to the discussion.

"All the seabuckthorn grasses in this area withered. This area was too dry. Not a single seabuckthorn grass survived. The limestone iguanas should have migrated to other places." The wrinkles on the old village head’s face appeared deeper. , His lips were a little dry, and he wanted to take out the water bottle to drink, but he held back, just pursing his mouth slightly.

The younger son Charlie looked towards the old village head with a puzzled look, and asked casually: "This is only a ridge away from Wall Village. How can it be so dry?"

"This is not surprising. This happens every few years. As long as we continue to explore the depths of the mountain range, we will always find something." An elderly villager who wrings bowstrings skillfully , Said to Charlie.

"In my opinion, the limestone iguana should be migrating in this direction. As long as we continue to chase, we will be able to find their traces." Another old villager solemnly vowed and pointed to the'pustule' Shan said.

But his words were immediately questioned by other villagers: "Come on, there has long been a barren land, do you think the lime iguana can live there?"

The villager stubbornly said: "Is there any limestone iguana? I need to explore it before I know..."

The discussion at night did not yield any substantial results.

Early in the morning on 2nd day, the old village chief climbed to the top of a cliff. He raised a piece of red silk in his hand and felt the direction of the wind in the mountains.

He climbed down from the top of the cliff and led the lizard hunting team to set off, and then the team marched into the wind.

In the lizard hunting squad, only Surdak is leading the horse. This ancient Borai horse carries most of the squad’s supplies. In the morning, he checked two hunting grounds continuously, and they all went empty one after another. The wrinkles on the old village chief’s face Go deeper.

In the afternoon, the lizard hunting team in Wall Village climbed a mountain ridge, and a strange rocky limestone stone forest appeared in front of Surdak’s eyes. These bamboo-shaped stone forests were on a slope. From a distance, it looks like the ground is covered with sharp spikes. The stalagmites are almost tens of meters high, and the short ones are ten meters high. The stalagmites have countless mottled cracks.

Finally in the crevice of a stalagmite, Surdak saw a green and purple seabuckthorn swaying in the wind.

"In the past good years, we were able to catch enough limestone iguanas almost only in the previous hunting grounds. Although there are many limestone iguanas in the stone forest, it is too It's dangerous, not compelled by circumstances, I will never come here..."

The old village chief stood at the forefront of the team, looking worriedly at the stone forest in front of him.

"Is this place dangerous?" Surdak asked the old village chief curiously.

The old village chief nodded very seriously and said: "Almost all the stalagmites here have broken, and a little bit of violent vibration will cause these stalagmites to collapse..."

Surdak is a bit speechless At this time, the lizard hunting group of Wall Village has come to the outskirts of the avalanche stone forest. Surdak has seen countless piles of large and small gravel around the avalanche stone forest, which looks like a cemetery from a distance. Listen It was only after the old village chief’s explanation that they knew that these gravel piles were all stalagmites from the collapse of the stone forest.

Surdak crushed a piece of crisp limestone with one foot, and suddenly a dark gray shadow rushed out of the cracks under his feet, and in the blink of an eye it got into the cracks on the side.

'Lime rock iguana...'

Someone in the lizard hunting group called out...