Chapter 43: The Fog of Lanpa Village 3

  "Damn it, how can you be so stupid!" Yu Gang suddenly scolded me, his face extremely ugly.

  I was stunned for a moment, then I reacted and suddenly got angry. I don't know who just looked at me with a flirtatious gaze like a monkey, so I said: "You didn't let me say that, I originally wanted to go to that place, I don't believe they're all dead."

  "You're telling me not to tell the truth." Yu Gang's face turned white with anger.

  "I wasn't just asking you guys if lying would get me killed, I don't want to be beaten to death by you guys."

  "You..."

  "Shut up, all of you..." Hu'er said with a calm and collected expression.

  We shut our mouths again, and that guy just moved his mouth lightly, I knew he was scolding someone, or rather me. I also wanted to scold him, and especially wanted to beat him up. Now thinking about it, beating him up in the iron room was great.

  "That place is not somewhere the two of you can go, no matter who goes in will die, this isn't a joke." Xiu Er spoke softly, but her voice was emotionless.

  "You haven't been in before." Yu Gang muttered softly, but still got heard by Huier. Huier immediately looked at Tiebu Li with a fierce gaze.

  Tiebu Li immediately cried out and said, "I didn't say that."

  "Don't 'force' me, it's your business if you want to go and die, I won't stop you. Just don't come crying to me later." Xiu'er threw down these words and left without looking back.

  I think it should be a secret of the family that Yu Gang poked, and only a few people know about it, including Xiaohua who has been there. It's obvious that Xiaohua is not satisfied with us outsiders knowing about it as soon as we arrived.

  The three of us were left standing there, not saying a word, just staring at each other. After a while, all three of us couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "I couldn't help it, Tiege, I'm still pretty good at pretending." Yu Gang burst out laughing, his mouth corners twitching upwards, his laughter a bit forced.

  "Not bad." Tie Bu Li also smiled and started speaking with a good mood.

  Wait, what's going on?

  Yu had just walked over and patted me on the shoulder, saying: "If it weren't for you, this little brat, I would have almost blown my cover. I've never seen anyone as stupid as you."

  "Never mind about this for now, we can ask questions later," said Tiebu Li.

  I was in a fog, completely unaware of what had happened. It seemed like the two of them knew each other, but I knew they didn't.

  The home in the iron cloth is a distance from the main road, and after walking for nearly fifteen minutes through twists and turns, I saw a small house in front of me. The interior decoration was very simple, without even an electric rice cooker or a TV. This guy's home was really simple.

  However, Tie Burlie didn't care about these things at all. He took us to his home and didn't mention anything about paying him. If it were someone else, they would have opened their mouth wide like a lion.

  "My father has gone to Urumqi, and for this half month, he won't be back so soon. You two just do as you please, it's like your own home." Tiebu said, then he went into the kitchen.

  I sat on a wooden chair and looked at Yu Gang, feeling a bit strange, and asked: "Do you two know each other?"

  Yu Gang heard this and shook his head, saying: "I didn't know him before, but now I do. That kid was really ruthless when he beat him up just now. Next time you should try it too."

  "Hmph." I said disdainfully, "Just now that was Tiege beating you up, your skills are simply no match for his."

  Yu Gang lowered his head with a somewhat embarrassed expression and stubbornly said, "I also beat him up, his eyes are all deformed now."

  Humph, that's also a fight, taking advantage of someone's weakness, launching a sneak attack on them.

  So I changed the subject and asked him: "Do you really want to go in there?"

  Yu Gang nodded and said, "They all say that my brother is still inside."

  "Alright, forget it. Iron Brother won't listen to us anyway, no need to pretend like it's real." If it were Tie Bu Li or someone else around, or just saying something casually, it wouldn't be a big deal.

  "This is true." Yu Gang's face was serious as he opened his mouth: "Lin Wu Xuan is indeed my brother."

  "Real brothers, this is impossible! You two look nothing alike." In fact, I wanted to say that Lin Wu Xuan was much more handsome than him. How could these two people possibly come from the same womb? I wouldn't believe it even if you killed me.

  Besides, one is surnamed Yu and the other Lin, they are unrelated.

  "What the hell are you thinking? In the whole team, who else can be brothers with us?" Yu Gang's face sank, and he said angrily.

  "I must declare, he and I are not brothers. His kind that can 'kill' people in a split second won't be friends with this handsome and gentle warm man." I stood up, patting my chest to guarantee it. I still remember Lin Wu Xuan, that guy broke someone's leg just because they listened to Tang Guang Ze's orders and woke them all up, and also the time Lin Wu Xuan threatened me.

  "Never mind, anyway we two must go there, as long as Tang Guangze doesn't die for a day, I still have to protect you." Yu Gang said, in fact, we all understand that going back now is not possible.

  Right after we finished dinner at Tiebu's home, Tiebu went out. The two of us didn't go out to have fun either, because before Tiebu left, he warned us saying: "In the village, move around less, especially for outsiders like you."

  I saw no hint of joking in Tiebu's words, and I knew that some people were very prejudiced against outsiders, whatever they did.

  I was discussing with Yu Gang, and we plan to set off tomorrow. If the iron cloth doesn't have a road, can't we just ask him for a map? We can find our way there ourselves. It's a place considered forbidden, but I don't believe we won't be able to find it.

  After an hour or so, Tiebu rushed back excitedly, shouting "I found the way there!"

  He was panting heavily and excitedly waving his arms and legs.

  I and Yu Gang have already decided not to let anyone take us there. I looked at Tie Bu Li and said: "You..."

  "There is a group of people in the village who are here for sightseeing, and I heard that they have been making trouble for several days..."

  He hadn't finished speaking, but I already knew what he was going to say next. Thinking of those people, I suddenly interrupted him and said, "You want them to go with us two together? Are you crazy?"

  "Of course not," he explained with a shake of his head. "They are professional adventurers, different from ordinary tourists."

  Yu Gang said somewhat angrily, "It's all the same, according to your village's way of speaking, you clearly know there's danger there, but you still let them go. Isn't this obviously setting someone up? How could you do something so despicable?"

  "It's just, I thought you were different from that Hachiko or whatever, but now it seems like you're all the same." I couldn't believe those words came out of Tiebu's mouth. Is the life of those people not considered a life at all? It sounds like they're talking about slaughtering pigs.

  Tiebu was anxious, he jumped up and said: "No, they have a professional exploration certificate in their hands, I don't know where they got the news from, saying that after being approved by the provincial government, even the town mayor came out to say that no one can stop this matter. I think, you'd better go with them together, so that there will be someone to take care of you."

  This remark gave me quite a start.

  What's going on in the province?

  I remember Yu Gang also said that our action this time was also approved, but I don't know who approved it. Moreover, Tang Guangze is just a team leader, and his level is even lower than Huang Daxian's. So, who is actually controlling this matter?

  Now another expedition team has emerged?

  How did they find this place? Did Tang Guangze report to his superiors before entering?

  It must be so, otherwise how could someone come to this village in such a short time and obviously know the specific location of that place.

  "So it seems they are related." Yu Gang's voice sounded somewhat curious, but his expression didn't reveal what he was thinking. One thing was certain, though - he knew something I didn't, especially when it came to things about the research institute.

  I am not one of them and I don't know what's going on in their circle.

  "I don't even know who's backing them, the town mayor has even stepped in, they're dead set on going there, other people's advice they won't listen to at all, just like two cows that can't be pulled back."

  Yu Gang nodded and said with great interest: "Take us to see them, who knows what good things might happen."

  He said so, I was sure they were probably Tang Guangze's men.

  We followed Tiebu Li out of the 'door' and walked along a small path to the side, finally stopping in front of a large red fan-shaped 'gate'. With a creaking sound, Tiebu Li pushed open the gate, and inside stood seven or eight young people, each with unfamiliar faces.

  Yu Gang furrowed his brow tightly, looking at those people, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, not saying a word, seemingly deep in thought.

  "Anu, these two are the ones I told you about. Their friends went there too. Can you please help us out and see if we can bring them along?" Tiebu said to a man wearing Uyghur clothing, who looked at us two and didn't say anything disagreeable.

  "Why go with them?" Yu Gang looked somewhat displeased, frowning as he gazed at the young people.

  I reached out and pulled him down, then lowered my voice and said, "I don't want to go with them either, they don't look like good people."

  Those so-called expedition teams, estimated to be fake, probably used fake certificates. They don't look like good people to mess with either. This matter is already troublesome enough, and adding more trouble would make it hard to 'withdraw' from it.

  "We'll talk about it with Tiege later." It seems that Yu Gang doesn't like those people either, and has made up his mind.

  Yu Gang and I are both seasoned people. Those with dyed hair should be 'mixed' 'mixed'.

  One look and you can tell he's no good egg.

  "What's with you two?" a young man with blonde hair asked us, his tone overpowering and looking very arrogant.