Chapter Ninety-Two: The Great Indian Adventure (Strange Feeling!) )
What does no man's land in the rainforest represent?
It represents a variety of animals that are getting more and more difficult to walk and more and more diverse!
The total mileage of India's roads is not high, and the continuous war has brought the maintenance of the roads to a standstill, and the roads are still hard to walk before entering the no-man's land, but there are still cement or asphalt pavements, and after driving into the no-man's land, only the rudimentary gravel roads are left to walk.
Two years have passed since the evacuation of government forces from the Padmanaba Swamy Temple, and the overgrown vegetation has encroached on most of the already unruly gravel road, which is not very wide and unmaintained, and fast-growing shrubs and unknown lianas have covered almost the entire road, leaving only a narrow path that winds for pedestrians.
Even if the slender tuktuk car wants to pass is not easy, from time to time will be blocked by a variety of obstacles that pop up, there is no way but to manually remove the obstacles before passing, along the way stop-and-go speed is very slow, the speed of forward per hour is from more than a dozen kilometers per hour to a single digit.
Soon after entering the no-man's land, Wu Liang, who was at the forefront of the team and opened the way with a machete, noticed that there seemed to be some abnormalities in his body, and as he went deeper and deeper into the rainforest, a strange feeling became stronger and stronger in his heart, as if something was calling him from afar, as if he had issued a vague invitation to himself.
This feeling was even stronger when he passed a small river, and Teddy, who had passed by, pointed in the direction of the upper reaches of the river and asked, "Is this going to the Padmanaba Swami Temple?" ”
"This direction? Boss, the temple is in the northeast of us, and the upper reaches of this small river point to due north, so it should be a little off! I didn't notice such a river when I went to the temple before, and I don't know exactly where it is upstream! Teddy replied apologetically, shaking his head apologetically.
"Let's go upstream and take a look, maybe there will be some gains." Wu Liang looked at the small river that disappeared into the jungle and made a sound like a whisper.
Teddy, who was squatting by the river to pick up the river water to wash his face, opened his mouth and asked, "Boss! What did you just say? ”
"I said, let's go upstream and have a look!"
After speaking, Wu Liang cut through the roadblock plants growing in the upstream direction with a few knives, and walked over in the direction of the upstream alone.
"Boss, wait for me!"
"Wu Sang, slow down a little! The road is too narrow for the car to drive into! ”
Behind them, the three people who were repairing by the river drove after them.
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After passing through the half-kilometer-long dense forest with a little difficulty, Wu Liang unexpectedly found a wide passage along the river that was large enough for two tuktuk cars to run in parallel. Could it be the legendary "Elephant Road"? ”
The so-called "Elephant Road!" "As the name suggests, it is a forest passage stepped out by wild elephants walking in the wild, and according to common sense, the passage formed by the elephant should never be so neat, and there is not even a single elephant's footprint on the road, this road is really contrary to common sense.
"Boss! Don't stand still in the middle of the road! Teddy, who was following closely behind, braked suddenly, brushed Wu Liang's backpack, and narrowly stopped the car.
"Teddy, are there any other large structures near the temple?" Wu Liang asked Teddy with a sluggish expression.
"Large buildings? Yes! Nearby is the Manor House of the Varmar family, who have been responsible for the management and maintenance of all the day-to-day affairs of the Padmanaba Swamy Temple, where my father was a senior assistant to the Varma family and took me to many meetings when I was a child! However, Varmar Manor was completely burned down by government forces after being looted by government forces more than two years ago because of the looting of the temple by local Hindus resistance, and now only a pile of ruins remains. Teddy, who was full of confusion, pondered for a moment before replying.
"That's not right! If it had been destroyed two years ago, who had built the road in front of you? Wu Liang asked, pointing to a flat tree stump that had obviously been sawn off by a chain saw.
The stump must have been sawn off for a while, and the shaded side was already growing small patches of moss and patches of mushrooms, which looked a little dry but definitely not as long as two years.
The eyes of Wu Liang and the three people behind him were also attracted by the wide passage that inexplicably appeared in the depths of the dense forest.
"Teddy, Michael! You two hurriedly turned around and parked in the woods, and Lucy came over to help with the canvas. ”
Regardless of the purpose of the road built in the jungle, Wu Liang believed that the builders of the road should not be very welcoming to the sudden appearance of visitors, for fear that the noise of the tuktuk cars would reveal the traces of his group, Wu Liang with the help of the three of them used camouflage canvas mixed with tree branches to hide the two tuktuk cars in the depths of the woods.
In order to prevent him from finding a place when he came back, Wu Liang used the marker pen prepared in advance to draw two large arrows on the branches of the trees that were not very conspicuous, pointing to the trees where the car was parked, and moved four large stones to build a triangular stone pile on the side of the road as a mark.
Not only Wu Liang, but also Teddy, Lucy, and Michael were also very curious about what kind of surprise would appear at the end of the road, and the four of them decided to quietly go over to have a look.
Fearing something unexpected, Wu Liang lent the AK-74 to the tall Michael, and Lucy took the Luger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle left by the producer, so that all four of them were armed and walked to the end of the road with a little food and drinking water on their backs.
As the four of them continued to advance, the strange feeling in Wu's conscience became more and more serious, as if something was calling him not far away.
"What a beautiful flower!" Lucy exclaimed, pointing to a neat field of flowers.
Flower field? Or a field of flowers in the middle of a dense forest? The builders who are more and more confused about the road first painstakingly carved out a road in the dense forest, and then it is even more strange that they have built a large field of flowers in the middle of the uninhabited rainforest?
If there had been no war, the scene would not have been surprising, after all, it is not surprising that the rich have some quirky habits. But it is very incomprehensible that in the miserable times when most of the poor people are busy for a full meal, there should be strange guys who grow flowers in the jungle.
Wait a minute! Why do these flowers look so familiar?
Red, pink, pale blue, and white flowers are blooming enchantingly, dotted with fist-sized green buds.
Bud? No, these are buds there, aren't they the bones left behind after the poppies are gone?