C63 (1/2)

Five months and seven days ago.

The three of us stood at the top of the mountain, staring at the brightly lit egg-shaped building. As the sky darkened, its transparent dome became brighter and the shadows inside became more and more conspicuous. The massive Boeing 777 slowly revealed itself like a ghost in the night.

”Yes …” that plane...? ” I swallowed hard.

San Mao was so shocked that he could not speak, and could only nod his head mechanically. On the contrary, Mao Tou didn't know about the situation nor why we were so shocked.

”Do you still want to go down?” After staring blankly for a long while, Mao Tou finally could not hold back and said.

”You f * cking found me a path!” San Mao regained his senses, he pointed at the cliff and bellowed: You still say you aren't messing with us?

Mao Tou smiled sinisterly, bent down, and began to grope around the edge of the cliff. After a while, I heard the sound of metal clanging against metal. ”Clangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclanging.”

”Found it!” Mao Tou cheered softly. We went over to take a look and saw Mao Tou pulling a chain that was as thick as an adult's arm, leading him straight into the depths of the pitch black cliff.

”Damn, what is this?” San Mao squatted down and stuck his head out of the cliff to have a look, while smacking his teeth at the flower, he said, ”Is this smuggling, or is this drug trafficking?”

”Of course not …” Mao Tou laughed and replied, ”These are for gathering medicinal herbs, Dendrobium!”

”Dendrobium?” The Daoist originally stood a meter away from the cliff, but after hearing Mao Tou's words, he became interested and also walked over. He bent down in an exaggerated manner, almost lying on the ground, and only peeked out of the cliff to look around.

”Wild?”

”En!” Mao Tou nodded his head and said: ”There is no need to grow them here, all those years ago, our village relied on this cliff and lived a good life.”

”That's …” The Daoist lied on the ground like a chick pecking at rice as he nodded his head, ”The wild Dendrobium is almost extinct, its price is even higher than wild ginseng!”

”Back then, the villagers said that they …” Mao Tou pointed to the glowing egg-shaped building and said, ”Why did you set up this base? It's because of this, you have to harvest Dendrobium to extend the old leader's life!”

”Right!” Mao Tou suddenly turned his head and said to me: ”It's written on this book, every time it's a Feng Shui Treasure, there will be a heavenly resource appearing. Isn't this the evidence of an ancient tomb?”

”Ugh …” I was immediately speechless. I thought to myself, 'This dwarf is really obsessed with robbing tombs. He changed the topic and said, ”I can't even get down that chain. There's no other way!”

”There's a way, there's a way …” Mao Tou quickly complied, and just as he finished speaking, he jumped off the cliff.

Ah!” The three of us simultaneously let out exclamations of surprise, I immediately stuck my head out to look, only to see Mao Tou floating one or two feet under the cliff, laughing at us.

”Fuck you!” San Mao grabbed a stone and threw it towards Mao Tou. Mao Tou dodged and then used his legs to rub on the cliff beside the iron chains.

Following his movements, the moss on the cliff started to peel off, slowly revealing a shallow notch. San Mao placed one leg into the groove to stabilize his body, and then started to kick the other side of the cliff. Immediately, the other side of the groove revealed itself.

”Come on, it's a good trip!” Mao Tou called out to us softly after he went down for a while. At this moment, his figure was already covered by the darkness of the night. We could only hear the sound of him kicking against the rock wall.

”How is it?” I swallowed a mouthful of saliva. My heart was beating like a drum, this road of iron chains looked extremely dangerous, plus the night was dark and the fires were dim, what was even more unpredictable was that no one had maintained this chain for many years. Who knows if it would be able to support the weight of the few of us who had already rusted and loosened.