Mu Weixiong is in his early forties. His family has been the most famous hunter in Wangshan Town at the foot of the Qinling Mountains for generations. He had joined the army and returned to his hometown after he was discharged. He gave up the job arranged by the government and continued to be a hunter.
With the development of the country's economy, there are more and more wealthy people, and more and more people have time and energy to hunt for novels.
The Qinling Mountains are one of the most famous mountain ranges in China, and are also an important symbol that geographically divides China's north and south.
Surrounded by the huge Qinling Mountains, there are countless Qinling-themed tourist resorts, and an endless stream of people come here every year.
Some of these tourists are not satisfied with the artificially arranged tourism projects, and hope to experience the charm of the real primitive mountains and forests in depth. Therefore, being a guide responsible for leading groups into the mountains has become a popular profession.
Compared to a profession like a hunter, which depends on the weather, is subject to many policy restrictions, and is highly dangerous, being a guide is much easier.
They only need to take the guests to see the scenery according to their needs, hunt a few wild animals with little attack power, and satisfy the guests' curiosity, which is enough.
Mu Weixiong is one of them. With his experience, reputation, and diligent and loyal character, he soon became a well-known guide, and hunting became his part-time job.
For this current job, someone from the town government came to him and asked him to lead Professor Kamemoto Tomoshige of Japan's Hayata University and several students to go deep into the Qinling Mountains to conduct a study on plant evolution under different environments. A research topic with contrasting directions.
This expedition to the mountain is planned to last ten to fourteen days. The number of guests entering the mountain is five. In addition to Professor Kamemoto Yucheng, there are also three of his graduate students and their hired a translator.
At this time, there was a seventh person in the team, an eighteen-year-old young man named Mu Tiezhu.
He is Mu Weixiong’s only son. He graduated from high school this year and just took the college entrance examination. Now he is wandering around the mountains with Mu Weixiong.
Today is their third day in the mountains. The Mu family father and son have been in the mountains all year round, but they don’t feel anything at this time. However, the freshness of the three students who entered the forest for the first time had mostly worn off. Each of them had a trace of fatigue on their faces, and the large mountaineering bags they carried seemed to be getting heavier and heavier.
Professor Kamemoto, who looks fifty years old, is extremely energetic. From time to time, he will find one or two plants along the way, explain them to the students, and ask them to take photos and collect specimens. .
The translator they hired is a Japanese named Minako. She is a former student of Professor Kamemoto. She just graduated a few years ago and has been working in a branch of a large Japanese fine chemical company in China. Engage in new product development.
After learning that Kamemoto led a team to China for research, Minako volunteered and became the translator and external contact for this event.
In fact, not only Minako’s Chinese is very good, but even Kamemoto’s Chinese is normalThere is no problem in communicating. Chinese culture still has a strong mass base in Japan, and is no worse than the imported product - English culture.
Mu Weixiong’s suggestion was recognized by everyone, so everyone divided the work and began to clean up the site, and took out camping tents to set up a temporary site.
Although we have entered the mountain at this time, we are still not too far from the outskirts. The government has sent people to deal with several nearby places suitable for camping, so in less than an hour, we have finished here. .
The rest of the time is to sort out the various materials collected during the day, and already make a fire to cook. It has been professionally treated and has a safe camping stove for use, so you don’t have to bother setting up a campfire to cook, and it will naturally be much faster.
Three students, two boys and one girl, were responsible for sorting out the information. The Mu family and his son were responsible for preparing dinner for everyone. Kamemoto and Minako left the temporary camp and wandered around.
"Teacher, why do you need to bring those three oil bottles into the mountain together? If there were only two of us, we would be almost there by now." Minako was very dissatisfied with the current speed of travel, so she said with some complaint .
Kamemoto glanced at her and replied: "No one can tell what will happen deep in the Qinling Mountains. What if there is a sect of Chinese cultivators stationed inside, or there are masters hiding there? Xiu, if we two Japanese people come here secretly, we will simply die.
We all know that although the Chinese cultivators are hidden in the world, they will not go against the government, so we ask the Chinese people. The government applied for formal procedures and went into the mountains to carry out research.
Even if we did encounter Chinese cultivators there, given their arrogance, they would not pay attention to us as long as our identities were not exposed. ”
“Teacher, what will happen in the Qinling Mountains? Will there really be a treasure from heaven and earth as predicted by Elder Yamada?”
“No. Yes, that's why the headquarters sent me to investigate. You know, my last mission was to excavate the ruins of a medieval jungle warrior tribe in South America. Before the final work was completed, I was transferred to China. In that case, the headquarters didn't want to wait any longer. Go down." Kamemoto said.
"Teacher is the most outstanding outer priest of our Shiman Shrine. When encountering such an important matter, the headquarters will definitely ask you to take action personally." Minako complimented.
Kamemoto smiled and shook his head and said: "You have been stationed abroad in the past few years and rarely return to the headquarters, so there are some things you don't know.
The headquarters always wants to The power was withdrawn from the outer palace, and the president has been sitting idly by, so it is difficult for people like us from the outer palace to be reused by the headquarters.
The energy fluctuation deep in the Qinling Mountains occurred two years ago. In fact, the headquarters has sent people to investigate several times in the past two years, but they all failed.
The worst thing was the time not long ago, when an elite squadron of 30 people from the headquarters secretariat was used. Official priests or ninjas account for almost 20% of the total strength of the shrine.
As a result, they first entered the mountain.Encountering a poisonous bee, I finally escaped and accidentally entered a group of ancient tombs.
They originally wanted to collect Yin spirits to feed the Shikigami, but instead they angered the zombies and Yin spirits inside, and were hunted down all the way. Most of them died in the mountains, with no bones left. In the end, only five people came out alive, and two of them were basically destroyed. "
Kamemoto sighed, but a smile appeared on his face unconsciously. Minako was so excited that she almost clapped her hands in joy.
Shiman Shrine's The dispute between the inner and outer palaces has started since the establishment of the shrine. It is nothing more than conflicts over rights and resource distribution, and it will cause big troubles at Shiman Shrine almost every few decades.
Their strength is only second-rate in Japan, just because their internal friction is too serious.
In the past few years, the old president had great skills, whether it was fighting or pulling, he could control it with ease, and suppressed it by himself. Internal disputes.
But in recent years, the newly appointed generals have focused on personal cultivation, and most of the people in the outer palace are out of reach. Therefore, the headquarters of the shrine is now gradually controlled by the inner palace.