A History on The Borders – I Pan for Gold in the Altai Mountains in 1985 (27)

Entering the primeval forest, the terrain gradually increases, because it is already summer, the trees are at their most luxuriant, and the road is getting more and more difficult. Looking at the mountain to run the dead horse, the trek for a long time, the two of us took a slight break in the cool breeze, drank some water, and continued up along the long pine slope road. On the way we also passed the tall tower uphill, which still looked weird, but I didn't have the extra energy to pay attention to it.

The small climate change in the mountains was uncertain, and at this time it became even worse, and I had no intention of looking at the sky in my bored hurry, and the layers of dark clouds that had accumulated in the distance were churning and surging, and they were already rolling in and connecting, and the sky dome was covered with ink. At the same time, there was a wind around, the wild wind passed through the forest, the pine waves sounded, and the skin and flesh of the "rustling" made people's necks tighten.

The sky darkened, the forest appeared even darker, we were afraid of encountering a bear, so according to the method taught by the eldest brother before, all the way to knock on the tree and sing, intentionally making a movement. Finally climbed a hill, according to the feeling that it should be to the place where the gun was fired earlier, the big eye did not see anything, and planned to look around.

At that time, I was very conflicted, I wanted to discover or get some clues, but at the same time I was afraid of suddenly seeing something desperate, such as the body of the eldest brother, the bloody clothes and so on. Just like that, we went into a red pine forest next to us, searched for a while, and quickly found some abnormalities.

There was a slightly sparse clearing in the forest, most of which were linden trees, but the branches of those trees had many broken places, and the strands were pressed obliquely on the ground, which was very unnatural, and looked very much like a pergola built by someone from a distance. Wu Jianchao was originally singing his "Song of the Infrastructure Engineering Soldier" with a broken throat, and when he saw this scene, his voice stopped unconsciously. Turning his head and whistling at me, the two of them stepped forward together to see what was going on.

The broken branches of the trees were very wrong, and the shape of the fractures was uneven, not at all like being cut or sawn out with a tool, but rather like being directly folded by force. The rows of broken branches were very thick, some not even branches, but small trees with thick bowls, which were broken from them and crushed to the ground, looking quite frightening.

Wu Jianchao and I looked at each other doubtfully, not understanding what was going on, saying that it was a beaver? But there was no water nearby. But if it's a human being, how much strength does it have to be?

At this time, the dark clouds were pressing down, the sky was already dark like the bottom of the pot, and we had to turn on the flashlight to see things clearly under the tree. After studying around the stump of wood for half a day, I didn't figure out anything, so I could only search for other places. Who knew that just a few steps to the side, the flashlight shone on a small mound like a grave bag, and there was a strange little tree growing on it.

The soil of the "grave bag" was very new and thin, mixed with the fluffy cover of the dead leaves. But as soon as I got closer, I cried out that it was not right, swept away the topsoil with my feet a few times, and grabbed the "little tree" with my hand to shake it left and right, and a large deer head was pulled out of the soil by me.

It was not a grave at all, but a dead deer hidden in the ground, and the little tree was not a small tree, but an unburied antler. Wu Jianchao and I took a breath of cool air at the same time, remembering the habit of Asanha bears who like to let their prey stink and then eat them, and immediately understood in our hearts: those broken and fallen linden trees, and this dead deer, are probably the masterpieces of Ha Xiong.

It should be said that although I already knew that those things were related to the bear, I was still puzzled by the strange "pergola" and could not guess what it was for for many years. This question was not answered until the other day when I went to the northeast Daxinganling for a tour and met an old man in Olunchun who had hunted bears in an ethnic village.

I told me what I saw at that time, the old man immediately understood, told me that it was a brown bear because of its huge size, very afraid of heat in the summer, but it would not go up to the tree, it could only make a nest in the high mountain or vent, break the pieces of tulip trees or lime trees, set up a large shelf with branches, and then lie down to cool off the summer, and the hunters in the mountains called this "Ursa Hall", saying that the bear "Winter Warehouse Summer Temple" is this meaning. (Barn, a tree or hole in the ground where bears hide during hibernation, called a "bear barn")

At that time, after seeing the dead deer, we understood that this was accidentally breaking into the territory of the bear, I raised my flashlight and quickly swept around, did not find a similar mound, secretly glad in my heart, fortunately, this is a dead deer, if it is the body of the eldest brother from the soil, I really don't know how to face it.

The bear said that it was not good when it would come back, this place was obviously not suitable for long, we were a spirit, immediately got up and left. Wu Jianchao scolded while walking: "Dog Day's thousands of careful, I am afraid of encountering a bear, and now I am running to the canteen, and I don't know what luck we are..."

I walked ahead, turned around and said don't scold, in a moment the bear will be finished, urging him to run. Who knows that I didn't pay attention between words, I stumbled under my feet, and I almost fell, as if I had kicked something, and my feet felt soft. Looking down at the flashlight, I found a furry object at my feet. I took a closer look, and when I reacted to what it was, my scalp immediately froze. On Dog Day, it was a little bear cub, motionless as if it had already died.

Not far away, Wu Jianchao found another bear cub, which was also dead.

Two bears, two gunshots, Wu Jianchao said is it your brother? Is he crazy? Usually I am afraid of the bear to death, how can I kill the bear again,

I didn't say anything, and when I picked up the bear cub's corpse and looked at it, I knew that Wu Jianchao was thinking wrong. The little bear had no gunshot wounds at all, only a few blood holes in its neck, and its head was weak and collapsed, and when it was touched, it was known that the cervical vertebrae were broken, and the other one was the same. My heart suddenly broke out, it was obviously bitten to death. But the bear has no natural enemies in the mountains, except for people, what animal dares to provoke them?

I wondered in my heart, and I wanted to see it again, but Wu Jianchao didn't care about these at all, pulled me up and left, saying that the two little things died here, in case the bear came back and bumped into each other, and didn't tear us both apart!

Strong winds blow through the mountains, and pine forests rustle. This place really couldn't stay any longer, so we took the gun in our hands and stood guard around, taking three steps and making two steps outside. But while running, something incredible happened that made me stop and be stunned.

Somehow, the front end of the shotgun in my hand suddenly burst out a bright blue-white fire. I don't know how to describe the scene at that time, but I can only say that the appearance of the flames was very strange, like a ghost wrapped around the gun, sometimes long and sometimes short, like a wisp of light blue glowing smoke, very dazzling in the dark background.

It couldn't be a misfire, and the barrel of the gun could not burn if it was steel, but that's the way it was, my gun was "on fire." At that moment, I was stunned, I couldn't believe my eyes, and I screamed to stop Wu Jianchao, who was still running forward.

He turned around unknowingly, found that his gun was also "burning" and started to fire, and subconsciously wanted to shoot it with his hands, but immediately reacted to it, screamed, and directly threw the gun far away. As soon as the gun landed, the flames disappeared.

I immediately lost my gun as he did, and as soon as the ghost fire was extinguished, the surrounding area returned to darkness, and only our flashlights remained. Wu Jianchao had a white face and asked in horror what was going on? I could only shake my head, not knowing how to answer.

After waiting for a while, it seemed that nothing was wrong, so I carefully went to pick up the gun. Who knew that as soon as the gun was held in his hand, the blue fire suddenly exploded again, and suddenly drifted to the side, jumping on the two of us at once, and wrapped us in the middle of it in an instant. The two of us were stunned, and one of the spirits threw the gun again, and ran away in a hurry, but the flames could not be extinguished, and they chased us like shadows.

Incredibly, there was no tragic sight of a fiery fire burning after that, and the blue fire seemed to be cold, not hot. It was just a "nuisance" on my face, a little painful, like the feeling of being blown to the skin by sand when the wind blew, touching it with my hand, and the fire beating at the end of my fingers, not so much a flame as an electric spark. The metal buttons on the clothes were also sparkling, our hair was all erect, and I saw that Wu Jianchao's hair was still flashing with blue light, and I guess I was about the same.

In this way, the blue fire "burned" on us for about two minutes, and then suddenly disappeared. Wu Jianchao and I were not injured in any way, but we were still in shock, we didn't understand what was going on, did we meet a ghost? But what happened next gave us no time to think about it further. Because there was a sudden deafening roar from the woods around me, and then a huge creature jumped out, and I could still see clearly in the dark forest, this was the old bear.

The two dead bears were lying not far away, and the old bear's roar was full of sorrow and indignation, which was a revenge hunt. We know we don't do it, but you can't reason with an animal. And the hell is that our gun was just thrown on the ground, and now it's all under its feet, and we don't dare to pick it up.

Suddenly, the bear's ears turned back, the hair on his back and neck exploded, he shook his head like thunder, and his upper and lower teeth collided, making a loud "popping, snapping" sound, and then his front feet slammed into the ground, and the momentum rushed up. After a brief shock, the two of us didn't say a word, turned around and fled.

Some books say that if a person sees a bear, as long as he falls to the ground and holds his breath and pretends to die, the bear will leave. I don't know if anyone has tried this trick, but I don't dare anyway. Do you know that the bear will not eat dead people even if the newly caught prey stinks? I can't see that I can't chew away all the bones of people.

However, as soon as we ran, we realized our mistake. Don't look at the bear usually walking and turning is very stupid, but chasing people, the speed is almost comparable to the tractor that steps on the throttle, and people can't run it at all. Running wildly, Ha Xiong's heavy footsteps were getting closer and closer, shaking the ground as if it were about to collapse the mountain.

Wu Jianchao's body was better than mine, and he ran in front. The more I dragged on, the large backpack on my body was upside down, and the person who fell could not run fast. I think this is not ok, I want to take off the backpack, but people nervous hands and feet do not listen to the call, but the more they want to solve, the more they can not solve.

Soon, I heard the wheezing sound of the bear behind me, and then I felt a strong wind behind my ear, and I immediately fell on my back, and my body was crooked, so I was swept to the ground by the bear.

I screamed and said it, and I struggled a few times without looking forward, but I didn't feel any pain. It turned out that It was Ha Xiong who bit down on the backpack that was still in the way just now, grabbed me with a bag, and was throwing it back and forth.

At the critical moment, I finally took off my backpack, rolled into the grass, quickly got up, and ran wildly. Who knew that because the flashlight fell off, I couldn't see the road clearly and fell again, and I fell into the bottom of a pile of fallen trees.

Almost at the same time, Ha Xiong let go of his backpack and cheated on him again in the blink of an eye. The wood in front of me was falling obliquely, and I couldn't climb over it, so I could only drill into the messy tree pile. The terrain is relatively low, just enough to accommodate my body.

The bear swooped over and slammed its head into the tree crack to bite me, but fortunately the gap was narrow, and its big head was stuck between the branches of two large branches, and it could not reach out for a while, but the smelly hot air in the bear's mouth spewed over, making people suffocate, and the wet and sticky saliva also dripped down, all flowing to the back of my neck.

After trying to bite me several times, the bear suddenly stood up and directly slapped the broken tree, exposing me instantly. Last time, I didn't feel far away, but this time I was almost facing the face, and the two-meter-tall Ha bear looked even more huge.

I had no way to escape, the bear fell heavily, and a mountain of flesh seemed to be pressed against it. Blown in my face by its heavy breathing, I was desperate and could only close my eyes and wait for death. And at this moment, a gunshot suddenly "banged" in the distance. I opened my eyes again to see ha xiong shocked, his body was crooked, and he left me in pain and rushed past the gunshot.

I gasped, my heart pounding, and I quickly got up. It was Wu Jianchao who fired the gun, he didn't just care about his own life, just now taking advantage of the fact that Ha Xiong only knew how to chase me, he turned around and picked up the gun, saving me at the critical moment.

The more the carnivorous beast was injured, the more crazy it became, and Naha Xiong had completely lost his mind and pounced directly on Wu Jianchao, who had injured him. Wu Jianchao fired another shot, but he didn't know if he didn't hit it or how, the bear didn't stop, roared and pounced on it. Wu Jianchao couldn't dodge and take the gun to a block, but he was thrown out a few meters away by the bear's paw, and then before he could fully stand up, Ha Xiong pressed him under him again.

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