Multimillionaire Zhou Yun went bankrupt overnight and decided to go into Hoh Xil alone, one to avoid creditors, and the other to gamble his life: if he got out of Hoh Xil alive, he would immediately start a new business. If you can't get out of Hoh Xili, you will abandon the wasteland and live your life.
Unexpectedly, he won the bet. He has a wolf to thank!
On the first day of entering Hoh Xili, Zhou Yun was chased and killed by a vigorous lone wolf, and chased and killed him for three days in a row. Zhou Yun particularly emphasized: The lone wolf is chasing, not tracking.
But three days later, Zhou Yun, who was chased by the hungry wolf, suddenly didn't want to die, so he reflexively chased and killed the hungry wolf in a fit of rage, and chased the hungry wolf for three days in a row, and actually chased the hungry wolf away!
★ The lone traveler is chased by wolves in a no-man's land
Zhou Yun put on an extra-large backpack and rode from Golmud along the 109 Qinghai-Tibet Highway to Wudaoliang and got off the bus and entered Hoh Xil.
From a multimillionaire to a debt-ridden pauper overnight, this dramatic scene made Zhou Yun, who was only 32 years old, suddenly lose interest in life. This time I entered Hoh Xil, I was gambling with myself.
He chose to get off at Wudaoliang on National Highway 109 because Wudaoliang has a long reputation - "when he arrives at Wudaoliang, he cries his father and calls his mother". The altitude here is as high as more than 4,500 meters, high cold and lack of oxygen, winter in all seasons, there are many wolves and bears, the average annual temperature is -5.1 degrees, and the oxygen content of the air is only 70% of the plains. He thought that it was impossible to get out alive by entering such a place.
After a full meal in a restaurant in Wudaoliang, Zhou Yun ignored the advice of the hotel owner and resolutely stepped into the desolate Hoh Xil alone.
The owner of the hotel once said that many people regret not far from Wudaoliang into Hoh Xil and vow to turn back and never set foot in Hoh Xil again in this life. But Zhou Yun didn't have any feeling of high reaction when he entered Hoh Xili. This strengthened his determination to gamble further – to move on.
However, when he entered Hoh Xil, he lost his sense of direction, and had to wander forward in the vast wilderness where there was no one to go. But soon, he began to feel lonely and alone. Not only is there no hustle and bustle of the city, but there is also no rooster and dog barking and warmth in the countryside.
To his surprise, in the vast Gobi Desert, he could always see wild yaks, Tibetan wild asses, Tibetan antelopes, as well as wild wolves and brown bears that looked at him from time to time. Anyway, he gambled his life, so he had nothing to fear.
Not long after he walked forward, he suddenly felt his hair stand on end, and he shivered all over his body, and couldn't help but turn around and look around, and found that less than 20 meters behind him, a vigorous gray wolf was launching a sneak attack on him. When the wolf approached, he was unaware!
At first, he felt that he was just meeting this wolf. But it didn't take long for him to learn that the wolf had come to hunt him down. Because he walks with wolves, he stands with wolves. Moreover, the wolf's eyes are gloomy, his teeth and claws are open, and he is vicious, constantly looking for opportunities to attack him, and it seems that he wants to treat him as a snack.
Zhou Yun scolded himself: How can a person who wants to gamble his life be afraid of wolves eating? But he was really scared. Because when the wolf met him, he launched three attacks in a row, and each time he became more and more ruthless.
He couldn't help but swing his staff and fight back. He found a reason for himself: to gamble on his life, he is to gamble on life and death. If you don't fight back, how can you know if you can win the bet!
★ The donkey friend feeds the wolf, and the wolf chases closer
But this wolf is already like a dog's skin plaster, and he can't fight back, and he can't shake it off, and it stimulates his nerves all the time. Zhou Yun's heart was pounding and he was always uneasy. He suddenly realized that turning enemies into friends with wolves is a good way to gamble on his life.
In this no-man's land, in order to avoid the attack of wolves, you can only take the initiative to have a good relationship with the lone wolf. And the way to build a good relationship is to do what it likes. He has been up and down in the mall for many years and has a wealth of experience with it.
What is the lone wolf chasing him for? To eat. Wolves are greedy, can eat, and often hang on to their stomachs, so they are called hungry wolves. As long as you give the wolf food, you will definitely be able to spare yourself.
He suddenly felt that because of the lone wolf's pursuit, he actually began to cherish life. He strongly wanted to get out of Hoh Xil, return to his hometown, and make a comeback.
He then shouted to the wolf with joy: Thank you, wolf! So, he took out the food in his backpack and shared it with the wolf. Although he gave the wolf more food than his own, the wolf did not have any gratitude to him. That look is still greedy and cold, and full of murderous energy.
Helpless, he had no choice but to adopt Ah Q's spiritual victory method, even though the wolf could not become friends with him, but walking with the wolf would also avoid the loneliness of the journey in the no-man's land.
★ Overnight in no man's land, lone wolf tent
In the twilight, the first wolf howl was heard in front of the wasteland. Gradually, wolves howled there. Although Zhou Yun came to Ke Ke Xili to gamble on his life, he didn't want to die more and more. To avoid getting caught up in the wolves ahead, he decided to camp on the spot.
This night, Zhou Yun, who gambled on his life, couldn't sleep. In the middle of the night, my ears were filled with the howl of wolves. In particular, the lone wolf chasing and killing himself howled constantly. He has read a lot of information about the sound of the wolf's howl:
Some are demarcated territorial boundaries. Some are making friends, some are looking for relatives, some are venting, and some are statements.
He heard the howls of many wolves getting closer and closer to his tent. But he never came near his tent.
Zhou Yunmeng Province: It was this wolf who was stating to the outside world: This is its temporary territory, and the two-legged beasts sleeping in the tent are its food, and the wolves should be close. Otherwise, you will be severely punished!
Zhou Yunzheng was glad that the wolf had saved himself from falling into the mouth of the wolves, but he didn't expect that after midnight, the wolf would start to circle around his tent, and constantly slap and scratch his tent with its big paws. The wolf wants to eat himself alone!
Strangely, he wanted to live more and more intensely. He still wanted to continue to gamble with this wolf himself.
★ The next day, the people followed the wolf and drove them back
The next day, at dawn in the wasteland, the wolves retreated. It seems that he should not die. Zhou Yun continued to walk blindly into the depths of Hoh Xili according to the established gambling plan. Looking around, there are constantly wolves peeping. But none of them approached him. He wondered, didn't these wolves want to eat him, which meant that he shouldn't die?
Turning his head sharply, the lone wolf still followed closely behind him, staring at the surroundings. He immediately realized that the wolves did not want to eat him, but that he was already a "master of food", and for the time being, he could not afford to fight each other because he was a two-legged beast.
Zhou Yun continued to grit his teeth and gamble, betting on whether he would be eaten by one wolf or by many wolves. So he began to wave his trekking poles violently, turning back to drive away the lone wolf.
The lone wolf grinned angrily at him. He continued to move forward, and the lone wolf made a front-legged attack on the ground. He gritted his teeth and raised his trekking poles to rush at the lone wolf, who had to turn around and run away.
I chase the wolf, I chase the wolf back. Zhou Yun breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that wolves are also afraid of people who don't want to die!
However, when he looked back, the fleeing lone wolf chased after him from a distance, and it was getting closer and closer. It seems that this wolf sees itself as its own food!
★ On the third day, the man lived in the wolf, and he could not drive it away
On the third day, Zhou Yun's idea of gambling on his life was greatly shaken. For two days, the lone wolf's pursuit had exhausted him. He kept asking himself: Do you want to die or live when you come to Hoh Xil to gamble?
He became more and more clear: he wanted to live. But he found that the lone wolf chasing him watched him more closely. Because there were several wolves stalking him in the distance, probably because of the face of the lone wolf, it was inconvenient to immediately launch a joint attack on him.
He decided to bet on the fresh one more - whether to die from a lone wolf or from a pack of wolves! So, he deliberately walked towards the wolves that were tracking him in the distance. The lone wolf once looked at him coldly in confusion, but when he saw the excited look of the wolf in the distance, he immediately understood Zhou Yun's actions, so he began to frantically stop and kill him - the moves to intercept him were all dead moves!
Two days ago, it was people who chased wolves, and today it is people who walked wolves to intercept and kill. And the posture of the lone wolf intercepting him is much colder than the posture of sneaking up on him.
It seems that this wolf really thinks of himself as a bag. The lone wolf is forbidden in his eyes, how can he be allowed to intervene!
Zhou Yun feigned anger and brandished his trekking poles to chase after the lone wolf. The lone wolf dodges left and right, and does not flee.
On this day, Zhou Yun was very tired from gambling, and even had the idea of whether to continue gambling with himself.
★ At night, the lone wolf howls all night
On this night, the wolf howls around the tent came and went, sometimes far and sometimes near.
Zhou Yun was already familiar with the sound of the lone wolf chasing him. He could hear that the lone wolf was hoarse from howling all night. But it still howled, sounding like the screams of a dog about to be killed.
Through the cracks in the tent, he caught a glimpse of a pair of green fireflies getting closer and closer to his tent, flashing and flashing. He knew it wasn't a firefly, but the approaching eyes of a pair of wolves.
However, the wolves did not attack in the end. Otherwise, Zhou Yun's own gambling activities will inevitably end tonight. He knew that this was really the credit of the lone wolf who was chasing after him. Because he found that the wolf was covered in wolf fur almost all night, making its body look almost twice as large. This exaggeration is a manifestation of the wolf's fury and desperateness.
Probably the final assessment of the wolves is: for the sake of a two-legged beast, you can't make a brotherly rebellion, fight to the death!
Zhou Yun thought that if it weren't for the wolf's desperate threat, maybe he would have lost Ke Ke Xili tonight. The last sound I heard was probably no longer a wolf howl, but the sound of wolves biting their bones!
★ On the fourth day, the donkey friend chased the lone wolf angrily
This night, Zhou Yun figured it out. He suddenly felt that he had to win the bet, that is, he had to get out of Hoh Xil alive.
However, the biggest obstacle to getting out of Hoh Xil alive is not other factors, but this lone wolf who is reluctant to chase and kill himself.
The wolf chases thousands of miles just to eat! If you can't eat your own flesh, the lone wolf will never stop. So if you want to get out of Hoh Xil alive, you must first break through the lone wolf level. He decided to return the favor with his wolf way!
The next day, the heavily armed Zhou Yun no longer resigned himself to fate, but rose up to chase the wolf.
At first, the lone wolf once looked at Zhou Yun in confusion, looking very puzzled, and only when he saw Zhou Yun wielding a trekking pole to fight with him, he became timid. But a wolf is a wolf, and he will never give up until the last moment.
But I'm afraid I'm going to die. This time, it was Zhou Yun and Lone Wolf who gambled on you to the death. Wolves survive to eat people, but it doesn't make sense to die for the sake of eating people. Therefore, the wolf had no choice but to retreat.
Similarly, Zhou Yun pursued the lone wolf closely for three days. may have been in a panic, this defeated wolf actually brought Zhou Yun to the vicinity of National Highway 109.
Hearing the sound of the car motor, Zhou Yun knew that he had won the bet. And the lone wolf had to pick up his tail and walk into the wasteland lonely. (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer, has published 42 novels and other monographs, written more than 200 episodes of TV dramas, created dozens of TV films on history, culture, scenery, documentaries and other topics, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）