"Face? Oh, you are talking about those things painted by Lao Goli." The strong woman easily carried the mining pick, threw the water bag into the basket on her back, and led them to climb up the slope without breathing at all.
promote.
She did not shy away from talking about the painting on the rock at the entrance of the village, and even talked about it casually, which almost made Kraft doubt whether his judgment last night was correct. "From then on, he seemed to be a different person, chattering about them all day long.
If I can come back, then I will paint and lead people into the cave."
"But please don't say in front of others that he still has those paintings. Some people really believe those nonsense and cannot be persuaded."
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his thick hands, and the salty liquid seeped into the dead skin calluses, moistening the red wounds caused by tools that didn't fit his hands.
Even in this place where women have to do a lot of manual labor, it is rare to see someone like their landlord wielding a mining pick himself. There are a few such examples in the village, but men are not as common as before in villages of the same size.
Most of them have childish faces, no older than Yin Feng, or they are old people who are unable to work.
"after that?"
"Lao Goli lost his son that time when the old cave collapsed." She wiped the sweat from her palms on her sleeves and opened the old stories as casually as if she were dealing with chapped hands. "You can see it a little higher. Now we have to
To dig a few pieces of ore, you still have to go to the top of the mountain."
It sounded like a mining accident, so it wasn't too unexpected. Kraft felt that he had not heard of similar incidents in other villages. With the tradition of mining relying entirely on natural caves, the sense of security brought by hard rocks made people lose vigilance about supporting structures, or
It is said that they had no awareness of prevention at all and were mining blindly. An unexpected collapse left almost all the prime-age labor force underground.
The son of old Goli, the husband and father of several families, including her husband.
The winding path took them past the cave entrance, which was two people high. It was dark and deep, no different from the mines seen on the road. The collapse should have occurred deeper, underground where the sun has not been able to reach for millions of years, an unintentional structure of rock formations.
The mountain suddenly collapsed under the repeated blows of the pickaxe, causing the esophagus to shrink and swallow reflexively, inadvertently blocking the incoming insects in the mountain.
This seems to suggest that the behavior of mining in "safe" caves is just a small accident on a natural scale. The rocky mountain can close its jaws at any moment without warning, without any reason.
It happened so suddenly and so deeply that the villages at the foot of the mountain were not aware of it. It was not until the evening that they found that no one who had gone out had returned. With torches and fear, they faced the jagged, cavities-like congested rocks.
The thicker wall of the collapse layer blocked them between them - the mine took some people away forever.
"The foreigner and his followers also died inside." She picked up a round stone on the ground and put it back on the distorted sign made of several stacked stones at the entrance of the cave.
Others can tell that it once swallowed up half a village and two strangers alive.
There seemed to be something wrong here. Kraft looked at Yin Feng, gave her a hand, and helped her climb up the khaki rocks blocking the road. The girl who was busy keeping up obviously didn't notice the "foreigner and his followers" referring to
Who is it? The road here is too difficult for Yin Feng. If she hadn't insisted on following, maybe it would have been a better choice to let Kupu stay in the village with her.
Although he was seriously frightened last night, Yin Feng still flatly refused the suggestion after hearing it. I don't know whether it was because he wanted to force his mind, or because it was a matter of letting Ku Pu take care of this option.
It is not difficult to notice the subtle relationship between the two people recently. Although most of the time it is Yin Feng's one-sided competition. It is impossible for Kupp to regard a little girl as a similar player on the track. This attitude seems to make her even more angry.
.
Kraft devoted his energy to paying attention to her at all times. Taking care of children's psychology is very important, but if she is ill, a sailor must be found to take her down.
If you are right, there is at least one exception. Her father, the alchemist's follower, did not die in the landslide. He did not even stop in the village, and fled this place without stopping, returning to Solace.
Hong Kong spent several years in pain.
He escaped, but he could not completely escape the malicious intent of the southern hills. The dust that strangled his throat was always with him. Until the last moment of his life, his breath was filled with the smell of dust and blood from the grinding of rock powder and inflamed lung cavities.
The round, quiet shadow that is insoluble in the morning light that caused all this, the temporary silence, the cool air from the ground blowing out like a weak breath, fluttering on the thin clothes prepared for day activities, even Kraft's constitution felt a chill,
It felt like being breathed into the ear by a stranger, urging him to walk quickly and uncomfortably, "What's it like inside now?"
"It's blocked halfway and there's nothing there."
They no longer lingered at the entrance of the cave and continued to climb to the top of the mountain.
There is little vegetation along the trail, and it is difficult to find a gripping point. You need to press hard on the edge of the protruding rocks, some of which are almost sharp, like serrated blunt knives that scratch your palms. Surprisingly, no one complained, like Silence
I walked around a full-bellied dormant snake, not wanting to wake up the long body embedded in the mountain.
The Huangchen Trail turns back and forth along the slope. The time required to see the height drop from a distance is several times longer than expected. Frequent changes in direction interfere with the sense of direction. Only intermittently, when you look up, you can see that the top of the mountain is getting closer. The old mine cave and the unfortunate accident were
Leave it behind.
The road near the top becomes gentle, bypassing half of the top of the mountain, and leads to the shady side of the hill. The sun that has not yet reached its peak cannot shine on this side, and most of it is still in the half-light and half-dark light and shadow between morning and dusk, and the rocks are
The shadow was long and thin, and they only saw the so-called new mine when they walked in front of them.
Another cave entrance that is two people high.
Craft heard the commotion from the sailors behind him. They all stopped and looked back at the way they came. The direction changed. Under the cover of the mountain rocks, the winding route they had taken could no longer be seen. But a very similar scene reappeared in front of them:
After walking through a rocky area, we came to a deep, two-person cave.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is certainly not an old mine, but the two are exactly the same in size, except that there are no stacks of stones at the entrance, as if you have returned to the same place in a circle.
The strong middle-aged woman picked out a lighting torch from the basket behind her and lit a fire from the smoldering ashes at the entrance. The burning flames dispersed the shadows, "That's it. Do you want to go down and take a look?"
"Let's take a break first. Thank you for showing us the way." Kraft declined the invitation and pulled William to the side of the road. "By the way, where can we find that old Goli? I know two people."
A friend who likes to collect strange things, maybe he will be interested in his paintings."
"I don't often see him by the well. You can look for it yourself, or ask those who believe his lies." Even if you don't like the self-taught abstract trauma art painter, for the accommodation fee
For her own sake, she still answered the questions readily, carried the manuscript and walked into the cave alone. The firelight quickly disappeared completely in the darkness.
"Don't you want to go down and take a look?"
"Wait a minute, William, I don't think something is right." Kraft stretched out his hand to stop him from looking at the entrance of the cave. Since the night last night, the nature of the matter has changed.
He felt some kind of uneasiness brewing. First, it was the mules and horses that stumbled, and Coop seemed to have encountered something, and then there was the unique style of painting, the winding thing, the human face-like pattern on the painting...
【connect】
There should be a connection here. He didn't need reminders to help him realize their differences. They just needed to be clarified and expressed, and this in turn required a logical enlightenment. "Go to Old Goli first. I want to know what he is."
What did you draw?"
"Does this have anything to do with our business? Pagan gadgets are everywhere in remote places, nothing special."
"This time is different. Have you ever heard of paramorphology? There is some research on this in my family." Kraft lowered his voice and whispered to William alone, "Koop said that in the painting he saw last night,
His face feels familiar. As you know, it's not normal for him to look like that on the mountain road."
Considering that the captain is only a semi-pragmatic believer and may not reject the possibility of non-Church supernatural phenomena, and informing him now will not cause panic, he can discuss his ideas.
"Does your family do this too? I thought you were as uninterested in this as you are in the church." William held up his beard nonchalantly and blew off the dust, "Abnormality, I did listen to some small noble family.
People have said that, if hysteria can be taken into account, it is much more common at sea."
"I used to be able to see them if I stayed at sea for a little longer, but since I stopped at Solace Harbor every time I went there, I saw a lot less of them."
This thing is far from making the captain feel weird. Those who are careless may have been forced to retreat during the long voyage. All those who have been screened out are rough and tactless, and he is the best among them.
"Most of them are not even as good as my stories. For example, the noble boy who told me that his family likes anomalies, and a lecturer from your college who helped me." Looking at Kraft's worried look, William changed the subject and tried to talk to him.
As usual, I used anecdotes to attract his attention.
"The guy from the Faculty of Liberal Arts is said to know several languages, and he can even recognize a few words from before the founding of the Kingdom. He was asked to bring back an 'abnormal' antiquities from the port, but how can there be such a thing in Wendeng Port?" For some reason,
Today's anecdote may not be very appealing at first, but the effect is quite good.
He usually has to come up with a bottom-line story to impress the audience, but he was suddenly diverted from the original topic.
"oh?"
It's just that the expression on his face looks very strange.
"I gave him an idea. Use the stonemason's training parts and make a few carved lines that no one can understand as pagan symbols." The beard couldn't hide the proud smile of the little clever man who succeeded. He still feels happy thinking about it now.
"If you get recognized when you go back, say you were deceived; if you don't recognize it, say it was an overseas item bought from a certain crew member. Anyway, you can't find any proof."
He spoke very immersedly and passionately, and even imitated the mysterious action of taking out objects from his arms and offering them to him.
"It turns out that no one can see where this thing comes from. Haha, it's just blind. How could anyone have seen it?" William concluded confidently, "So, most of the pretenders in this world are like this. Maybe there are most of them in the church."