Fortunately, this is not a real swamp, and there are no sinister traps. Otherwise, our group would have to perish here.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. After finally climbing up the hillside, the sun had already set halfway up the mountainside, and the five-color rays of rays of light spread on the turquoise lake, which was beautiful.
I was almost blinded by the beautiful scenery. I stood on the hillside and looked down, unable to control myself for a long time.
"This place is so beautiful." Xu Yaxian stood next to me and took a deep breath. "If you really lived in such a place, I would be no different from a god."
"Lin Kun, we can't stay here. It's best to enter the forest immediately. This area is open and our whereabouts will be exposed at any time." Ciwang reminded.
"Then let's go in from here!" I pointed to the rift valley in front of the mountain forest and said, "That place is like a cliff, a natural chasm. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is more likely that the Madman Village is on the opposite side."
Tsewang took out an antique telescope and looked inside. After a while, he shouted excitedly: "There is a house there, come and see."
I took the telescope and looked towards the place he pointed at. I could vaguely see the roof of a stilted building through the dense branches.
"Great, there really is a family on the edge of the cliff." I handed the binoculars to Ren Yonghai, "Old Ren, have you seen it?"
Although they walked on the mountain road for nearly a day, no one in the team complained about tiredness or suffering. Not even Xu Yaxian frowned. Everyone was eager to find the Madman Village before dark.
We were traveling deep in the dense jungle, and Tsewang's keen intuition allowed us to avoid traps many times. One of the traps was that they dug a large pit four feet square, more than three meters deep, and the bottom was covered with sharp points.
Thorny wooden stakes, if they fall accidentally, they will be riddled with holes.
After finally walking out of the forest, we arrived at a cliff. Looking down from the cliff, we saw a small village on the opposite cliff. They were gathered together and scattered. I guess this is where we want to go.
Looking for "Crazy Village".
"Look, we're here."
"But, how are we going to get there?" Qiangba found a cable bridge pile foundation above the cliff. Apparently there used to be an iron cable bridge connecting the two sides, but now the iron cable bridge has been demolished.
"This cliff should be a rift valley, extending from the foot of the mountain to here. The straight line between the two points is the shortest, so it is realistic that people here built an iron cable bridge here in the first place." I analyzed, "But now, the iron cable bridge
It has been demolished and we are standing on both sides of the cliff. It is really difficult to get over."
"How could they enter the village before the cable bridge was installed?" Ren Yonghai asked.
"This is very simple. Take a long way around, either from the other side of the mountain, or climb all the way up from the valley below. Look over there." I pointed to a trail on the cliff on the other side and said, "This section of the bird
The Tao should be the way they entered the mountain."
Overlooking the northeastern edge of the Hengduan Mountains, with its many peaks and deep valleys, this is the largest Yi settlement in China - the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. In the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, there is a village called Atuleer. It is located in the south of the Daliang Mountains
The Meigu River Grand Canyon area under Duan Shizi Mountain is located in the east of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and north of Zhiermo Township. It is a veritable "cliff village"
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The Cliff Village is located on the sloping platform on the shoulder of the Grand Canyon. The people here have lived on the cliff for generations. The location is like the middle step of the three-story staircase, with a vertical distance of about 800 meters from the ground. The village is open to the outside world.
There are 17 rattan ladders that need to be climbed intermittently along the cliff. The two almost vertical rattan ladders close to the village are about 100 meters long. The oral history of the cliff village can be traced back to 200 years ago. At that time, Atulel
The village is isolated from the rest of the world. Because of its special geographical location, there are no bandits or wars. The land here is fertile, the villagers are self-sufficient, and their lives are much more comfortable and prosperous than in other turbulent places.
The villagers there have to climb the cliff with a drop of 800 meters along the rattan ladder to get out of the mountain.
"This place is even better than the famous 'Cliff Village'." Ren Yonghai said.
"Madman Village" is about one kilometer long from east to west and several hundred meters wide. It is higher in the east and lower in the west, with a difference of about 400 meters. In addition to the original chain bridge leading to the outside world, there are several bridges that go down the cliff.
The rattan ladders are almost vertical at 90 degrees in some places, and you can see the cliff when you look down, with almost no obstruction.
These rattan ladders have a long history. Due to wind, rain, sun, and climbing up and down, the rattan ladders have been damaged in many places. There are hundreds of acres of fields and dozens of families scattered in the village. The houses have adobe walls.
Most of them are wooden roofs made from local materials. It is conceivable that villagers will not buy some large items because they cannot go up the mountain. Even if they go down the mountain, they still go to buy some daily necessities, production tools and fertilizers. In addition,
The cattle, sheep and pigs raised in the village cannot be transported to the mountains for trade, so they are all produced and sold by themselves.
"I didn't expect the environment in this lunatic village to be so bad. Why don't they move out?"
"If you move out, you may lose your land or even your source of livelihood. If villagers move to the nearest city, they can only choose hard labor work." Ren Yonghai analyzed that if the income in the city is not high, it will be difficult to face the high demand.
The high cost of living and the one-time resettlement fee of tens of thousands of yuan cannot fully guarantee their future lives. Therefore, relocation cannot completely solve the problem.
His statement has a certain basis, but it may not be applicable to the "Madman Village" because this village is in Heiyun Village. There is obviously a more suitable place to live at the foot of the mountain, but he has to choose such a "dangerous place".
"Environment" to survive has its own big problems.
The mountains of Madman Village have dense vegetation and suitable water and soil. It stands to reason that the crop yields here are high and the villagers can be completely self-sufficient. There is basically no problem with the food and clothing of the villagers. If they just wanted to survive, this village would not be as depressed as it is now.
"In the past, blocked roads could avoid wars and dangers, but now they restrict the development of villages." Ren Yonghai is quite confident in his judgment.
After all, villages like this are not unique in the Hengduan Mountains.
"Lin Kun, what do you think?" Ciwang walked up to me and asked.
"What Lao Ren said makes sense." I did not rush to refute Ren Yonghai, but squatted on the ground to investigate the structure of the cliff. I found that the cliff was mainly composed of basalt, and it was very difficult to dig a road on the cliff. "But, you guys
Have you ever thought about why this, the only passage leading to the outside world, was demolished?"
Although the valley at our feet is not too long, only two or three miles, it is very deep and majestic. Such a place, unless you are really determined to be a hermit, can be regarded as a "Peach Blossom Land".
Jin.
"what do you want to say?"
"Let's think about it from another perspective. Is a place like this worthy of the people in Heiyun Village who have painstakingly designed and created so many traps and defended it so tightly? Is there treasure or beauties here?"
Everyone shook their heads in confusion.
"I think this so-called forbidden area is not to prevent outsiders from coming in. In other words, it is not only to prevent outsiders from coming in, but more importantly, it is to prevent people from getting out!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was speechless.
"This..." Everyone looked at each other.
"Lin Kun's words also make sense. I wonder if you have ever heard of a disease called leprosy?" Xu Yaxian asked as she looked at the overgrown village.
Leprosy is a very old infectious disease. Before the invention of chemotherapeutic drugs such as dapsone, leprosy was difficult to cure. Leprosy patients would inexplicably develop skin ulcers on the face, eyes, hands, and feet, which would continue to penetrate deeply and slowly.
Slowly progress to deformation, paralysis, and death of relevant parts. What is even more frightening is that people who come into contact with them will gradually develop similar symptoms.
As Susan Sontag said in "Metaphors of Disease", as long as the cause of any disease is unknown and the treatment is ineffective, it is easy to be covered by some kind of metaphor. Whether in the West or China, limited by the limitations of medical technology, fearful people
Unable to explain these phenomena, they believed that these people with leprosy were "sinners and unclean people" and their illness was punished by God. In the 12th century, the Catholic Church decided that lepers must be completely isolated, and these "living dead" were
Driven to leprosy asylums established in various places, Foucault recorded in "Madness and Civilization" that there were as many as 19,000 leprosy hospitals throughout the Christian world; and the patients trapped in leprosy hospitals also lost all their human rights.
Rights and freedoms.
Now, this disease has been basically eliminated from the world, so that many people know nothing about it. However, in history not far away from us, leprosy has caused countless pain, disability, discrimination, panic and human tragedy.
Leprosy can cause hair loss, collapsed eyes and nose, limb deformities, etc. These terrible external symptoms, coupled with its contagiousness, make people extremely afraid of leprosy and stigmatize it. In the history of countries around the world,
It was not uncommon for lepers to be isolated, burned to death or buried alive.
As a result, most leprosy patients voluntarily or involuntarily gathered in these built leprosy villages and hospitals. In order to better eliminate the possibility of contracting leprosy, most of these isolation places were established in inaccessible mountains or isolated islands with good conditions.
Relying on the churches and office buildings left over from the Republic of China, there are only a few earthen walls and stone bricks in poor condition, especially in the remote southwest region.
I knew what she meant. Before I got here, I had made several turns around the lunatic village in my mind, but except for some fragmented clues, I didn't have any idea at all. I really couldn't think of a reason.
But when Xu Yaxian started talking, I asked her, "Did you think of something?"
As she walked, she said: "First of all, I have seen the news about the 'Crazy Village' in the newspaper. This thing cannot be groundless, it is very close. As for whether the white-haired thing they are talking about is a zombie?
It’s a different matter.”
Chapter completed!