Chapter 15 Strange Lies

Zhou Linli was the only one who saw the gesture. He braked suddenly, and I was caught off guard and bumped into him.

At this moment, I suddenly went crazy, grabbed Zhou Linli's neck, and threw him to the ground. When Du Xiaosheng said this, he pointed helplessly at Zhou Linli's neck. There were indeed five finger marks on the left and right sides, and the flesh was black and blue from being pinched.

Zhou Linli looked at me with an innocent face and pitiful eyes, obviously as if I was injured and you were responsible. I waved my hand and motioned for Du Xiaosheng to continue.

Zhou Linli was also resisting at that time. His strength was much weaker than that of me who went crazy. Veins popped out on his forehead. In the end, he couldn't break my hand from his.

The sound of fighting attracted Du Xiaosheng who was studying the marks. When he saw that I was crazy, he vented all the anger that I had squeezed him out of over the past few years. He showed no mercy to me and went up and broke his right hand off.

Before he could break off his left hand, I fainted and didn't wake up until now. I was stunned when I heard this. What are they talking about? Didn’t I go down into the snake hole?

I told Du Xiaosheng and Du Xiaosheng about my experience. They were also surprised. Zhou Linli said, "You are not dreaming, are you?"

"How can such a realistic dream be possible?" I said unconfidently. In fact, I also felt like I was dreaming.

If one person says there is a tiger in the market, no one will believe it. If three people say there is a tiger in the market together, the credibility will be greatly improved. What is before me now is what I and Du Xiaosheng saw. Obviously I was isolated, that is to say, everything I encountered in the snake cave was considered to be an illusion.

In our respective experiences, Du Xiaosheng and I were always awake, while I fainted once. If I wasn't hallucinating now, I must have been dreaming before.

After discussing it for a while, no results came out of the discussion. Zhou Linli asked me unreliably whether I had any mental illness and had intermittent attacks. I just scold you for being mentally ill, and your whole family is mentally ill.

Zhou Linli didn't care. He smiled and said that he hadn't taken a shower in several days and wanted to go to the tent to get some water to rinse. He is now in middle age, has great energy, and perspires very strongly, and his body is already soaked. I laughed at him. After this day of getting along, our relationship had reached the point where we could joke around. Zhou Linli showed no dissatisfaction with my ridicule and left in a blink of an eye.

After Zhou Linli left, I thought about what he said again. My spirit must be normal. Du Xiaosheng can guarantee this. We have been together for several years, and if I have any illness, he will have discovered it long ago. In fact, I also want to know why I suddenly went crazy, but there is no point in being anxious. The answer will not come out by itself when you are anxious.

I looked around carefully, and it was obviously not the same place where Du Xiaosheng said I went crazy. The trees here were much rarer than those in the previous place. I asked Du Xiaosheng: "Where are we now?"

"After you fainted, Mr. Zhou carried you some distance. Now you are not far from Longkou. If you work harder, you can get there tonight." Du Xiaosheng said.

Longkou is our company’s pet name for the Feng Shui treasure land. Feng Shui often uses the name of dragon to represent the direction and changes of the mountains. Because the dragon is good at changing, it can be big or small, it can bend or stretch, it can hide or appear, it can fly or it can dive. The mountains are as changeable as dragons, so they are called dragons.

The "mouth" is the organ for most creatures to eat and make sounds. It is also accompanied by the in and out of Qi. Ventilation is strong and has auspicious meanings. What's more, in China, dragon's saliva is called ambergris, which has a beautiful symbolic meaning, so it is called "mouth". Our company adopts Feng Shui for a wonderful place.

Judging from the information I obtained, the Zhou family tomb happens to be located in a geomantic treasure land, and we need to find a place to study the specific good geomantic omen.

I don’t know much about Feng Shui. I didn’t have any professional knowledge when I first joined this company. I mostly learned it from the professionals in the company later.

Everything about the Zhou family tomb comes from the information given to me by Zhou Linli. It seems that Zhou Linli's father is also a person who understands Feng Shui, otherwise he would not have noticed the good or bad Feng Shui there. However, it is really strange that a Buddhist believer understands Feng Shui.

I nodded, and suddenly remembered that Fang Yuze had gone somewhere. That man didn't talk much, and we had never felt his presence. Now we found out that he was not there, so we asked.

When Du Xiaosheng heard this, his expression became a little strange. He hesitated and said, "He is fine. He stayed overnight and is sleeping in the tent now."

His face looked unnatural, and I knew he was lying. Du Xiaosheng has never lied to me. Now that he has lied, what is he hiding? What happened to Fang Yuze?

I remembered again that Old Man Ye said that people around me would betray me,

Is it really Du Xiaosheng?

Then why did he lie to me?

I didn't expose his lie and waved my hand to skip the topic. Du Xiaosheng asked again: "Mr. Chen, it's getting dark now. Do you think we should continue on our way, or rest for a night before setting off?"

It was completely dark now, and I was rushing forward not knowing what would happen. But we have already been delayed for two days. If we leave again tomorrow morning, we won't be able to stay there for long, and we may have to go back to the city to prepare food again.

This time when we visited the tomb, we were all unlucky and everything went wrong. I wonder if my catastrophe has come early. Do you need to put a little pressure on me to prepare?

I didn't want to delay any more, so I said, "Let's rest for ten minutes and then continue on our way. Work is important. We will be out of the woods soon, and there should be no more danger."

Du Xiaosheng nodded, got up and went to the tent to inform Zhou Linli and the others. I suddenly thought of the scene where Du Xiaosheng threw a knife to kill a snake, and wanted to stop him to ask what was going on. For a moment, I forgot that my hand was still broken. The hand that didn't hurt at first started to hurt sharply again when I moved it.

Du Xiaosheng saw what I meant, stopped and asked me if I had anything else to do. Only then did I realize that I didn’t know how to ask him, so I had to ask directly: “Can you throw a knife?”

Du Xiaosheng smiled shyly. This kind of smile was often seen on his face. He said: "Have you forgotten? I used to be a field soldier, and throwing knives is one of the must-learn skills. And the snake was too dangerous at the time, so I threw the knife away as soon as my hand slipped."

He did serve in the military. I heard that he was a certain rank before. I didn’t know much about military ranks, so I didn’t remember them.

Du Xiaosheng left. I sat alone by the firewood, my mind buzzing.

Recalling that Du Xiaosheng has been by my side in the past few years, he has done everything for me in the company. In other words, I trust him as long as we have known each other.

Now suddenly someone said that he might betray me. If he had been beaten to death before, I would not have believed it. When I was in the mountains, I had no money and no power. Who would covet the little money I had?

It’s different now. Ever since I got rich, many people have tried to murder me, either openly or secretly. Especially the people in the company, most of whom were old employees from the time of my previous boss, were very unhappy with me as a new leader. They are dissatisfied, and most of them have the idea of usurping power.

When Du Xiaosheng came out, he had already packed his things and came out with two bags of equipment. When he walked next to me, he handed me a bag of instant noodles.

Now that there is no hot water, naturally we can't soak it, so we can only eat it dry. After not eating for more than a day, I was so hungry that I tore open the packaging and gnawed on whatever was raw or cooked, leaving instant noodle residue all over the floor.

Du Xiaosheng put out the fire, and Fang Yuze and Zhou Linli also came out of the tent. Fang Yuze was bouncing around, and there was nothing special about him except that his face was a little abnormal.

Fang Yuze started to look at me with a little fear. Maybe my crazy behavior scared him, and I was very innocent about this. Zhou Linli's face was a little red, and he felt like he had a fever... Could he really have been taking a shower just now? It is easy to get sick if you take a bath with cold water here. After I asked a few questions, he waved his hand and said it was okay.

I walked forward alone. In late autumn, it is relatively cold in the mountains, and you may freeze if you don't move around. Fog has begun to form ahead, a light layer of mist that cannot penetrate the moonlight, making it very hazy and beautiful.

Du Xiaosheng put on his equipment, and Fang Tuesday followed closely behind me, perhaps because he was afraid that I would "get sick" again. Du Xiaosheng spared me and walked in front. I felt relieved to let him lead the way. As a retired field soldier, he is extremely vigilant in the wild environment and can respond to danger as soon as possible.

Before departure, Du Xiaosheng helped me re-process the handle and no longer fixed it with a knife. The knife was very sharp and could cut my arm accidentally. Du Xiaosheng broke off a branch as thick as an arm to use as a dagger. His technique was very fast and I felt no pain during the whole process.

The trees here are much rarer, and soon there will be no trees at all. A pile of weeds appears in front of them, which is similar to the dead grass at the foot of the mountain.

Du Xiaosheng was still walking in front. Apart from occasionally turning his head to remind us to pay attention to our steps, he said nothing else.

The strange thing is that this place is almost the same as the wild grassland at the bottom of the mountain. If I couldn't see the bottom of the mountain from here, I really thought I was back down there again. There are no obstacles here. We just need to walk in the direction. At our speed, we can reach it in about three hours.

We were surrounded by weeds half as tall as a man, and we had to clear a path as we walked. Sometimes we would get bugs on the grass crawling onto our hands while we were clearing the grass, and we couldn't get rid of them.

There are more ants and grasshoppers here, and you can feel some big bugs crawling on your body. It's okay to say that the most disgusting thing is those little ants. Sometimes they can only be felt when they crawl to the areas on the face where there are many facial nerves.

We couldn't help but tighten our trouser legs and cuffs, but this was just to give ourselves some comfort, as we couldn't stop those little bugs.

When he was about to reach the top of the mountain, Du Xiaosheng suddenly stopped and said, "We're here."

This place is at the neck of the mountain, which is exactly where it was recorded in the information given by Zhou Linli's father.

Suddenly there was the sound of someone falling to the ground behind me. I turned around and found Zhou Linli lying on the ground, his limbs spread out and snoring.

Falling asleep so quickly?

Du Xiaosheng stepped forward and kicked him, causing Zhou Linli to jump up immediately. The fatigue on his face swept away, and he covered his waist and said, "Brother Du, why are you kicking me?"

"We haven't arrived yet. Let's take a look at the environment. We'll set up camp in a while. You won't need to come to do any work or anything. You can sleep wherever you want. No one will care about you if you sleep like a pig." Du Xiaosheng said.