Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen 7169

Yu Yanyan's arm injury was caused by a bullet. Although she bled a lot, fortunately she was not seriously injured, but it was still quite inconvenient when she went down the cave. Uncle Yan was the first to go down, followed by Professor Tan.Uncle Yan scattered his people between us, maybe because he was worried about us, or because we were not familiar with the situation and took care of us.After descending tens of meters, the eyes were completely dark.I've never been in such a deep place, and I feel a little panicked.But the cave is very small, people are almost stuck in it and descending, there is no panic of falling.

Before going down the cave, Uncle Yan introduced that the depth of the cave was about 300 meters. At that time, I saw Li Dazui's cheeks trembling.Now when I really come down, I don't have that sense of crisis from the top down. "Damn it, you stepped on my hand." Li Dazui yelled suddenly, which shocked us who were concentrating on going down. Old Wei said calmly, "You're playing too slowly, you're always slow. Besides," he added, "Pay attention to your quality, we are intellectuals." Lao Liu and Tudou laughed out loud, looking rather abrupt in the deep hole, like weasels carnival in the middle of the night.Everyone silently listened to their laughter. After a while, they realized their embarrassment and closed their mouths embarrassingly.But with such an interruption, the serious and tense atmosphere relaxed a lot, especially after hearing Uncle Yan's voice, at least a stone fell from everyone's heart.

"In the end, everyone will face each other one by one, follow me well, and absolutely not allowed to act without authorization." The bottom is tighter than I imagined.Touching the hard rock wall, I realized that this hole cannot be dug by a shovel, and must be drilled carefully to reach such a deep and hard bottom. Uncle Yan turned on the emergency lights and squatted on the ground: "Follow me, and be careful to bend over the hole." He leaned over and pushed away a boulder on his right. It was obvious that he was struggling, and the veins on his neck were bulging.Gengzi squeezed over to help, but Uncle Yan waved his hand to signal no.We were basically hanging on the pedals, watching Uncle Yan busy below.

Uncle Yan finally pushed the boulder far enough to allow a person to pass sideways.He took the lead and passed by, followed by Professor Tan. I am very happy that I can finally get off the pedals and stand 300 meters underground.If it weren't for the embarrassing situation, I really wanted Lao Wei to take a picture of me as a souvenir. This is the first time in my life that I have descended to such a deep place underground.I followed Old Wei and bent over the gap. In the flickering light, I straightened up and looked at it for a moment, and suddenly felt dizzy and a little out of breath.

In front of us was a huge rock wall with no top in sight.Climbing from the dog hole, the shelter here is less than one meter away. The huge contrast between the cramped turning area and the high rock wall makes people feel short of breath and chest tight. "follow me." Uncle Yan seemed to be familiar with the way, and he didn't care about our surprise. Uncle Yan turned off the emergency lights and turned on the flashlight.Although the light of the flashlight is limited in the dark, it is enough to illuminate the rough path in front of us.I held Professor Tan's hand tightly, for fear of encountering a giant abyss in the desert.Although Professor Tan's hands are a bit cold, they are dry and stable, which makes people feel at ease.

Uncle Yan took us for about half an hour, turned a corner, and said in a muffled voice, "It's started." What appeared in front of our eyes was a very different scene from the cramped and depressed scene just now.Although it is not spacious, it already makes people feel a lot more comfortable.It is a bit like the bottom of a canyon, with high rock walls on both sides and a deep passage in the middle, which looks like it was not done by human beings. "Where does this lead?" Gao Hong asked with some doubts. Behind him is the excited Dou Miao, touching the rock wall and muttering to Li Dazui.When I saw Li Dazui touching his chin and saying a deep "hmm", I knew that Dou Miao must be analyzing the geology with him.And based on Li Dazui's family background, I can conclude that he is fooling again.

"hell." Gengzi grinned, his face looked a little gloomy under the light of the flashlight.Lao Liu and Tudou laughed together again, and they could go directly to dubbing the comedy. No one in the archaeological team laughed.Except for Dou Miao who pulled Li Dazui to face the wall, everyone else looked at Uncle Yan.Uncle Yan took a stern look at Lao Liu and Tudou, and their laughter was cut off immediately, and it stopped abruptly, not at all excessive. Uncle Yan said indifferently, and his tone was even very relaxed: "Qin Suo and I have explored here, and the north is the exit of the seventh cave, but we can't go up. If we go south, we may gain something."

"But how did Qin Suo lose contact with you?" Xiang Zhiyuan asked worriedly. Uncle Yan took a deep breath and let it out slowly, which I interpreted as a concealed sigh. "Go south, and you will know. We didn't hurt Qin Suo and the others, believe me. It was the darkness here that engulfed them." He raised his head, looked deeply into the distance, and said in a low voice: "Let's go. This is the real palace of death, as Qin Suo once said." The darkness seemed boundless.Walking in this huge and limited space is like walking in another world.So long, so lonely.

The downward tendency of the channel is obvious, and there are even faults of about 10 meters in some places.The light of the flashlight is weak here, and the insignificance of people is not only felt in the sky, but also in the underground.When I leaned on those faults and jumped down, I could clearly feel that these faults have no sharp angles. In this dark and boundless underground, time can smooth everything out.I gradually realized that Uncle Yan's words might not be unreasonable. Human life might be the most humble thing here. In the dim light, I saw Yu Yanyan bit her lips lightly when she came down.I reached out to her, but she hesitated for a moment, and put her left hand up.

"Are you okay?" I asked her softly. She shook her head. I intentionally walked with her at the end of the line, and wanted to have a quiet chat with her.Li Dazui and Wei Datou immediately understood, stood in front of us, and slowly distanced themselves from the team. In fact, what I want to know most is of course what the four numbers 7169 mean.Lao Li put his hands behind his back and lightly clenched his fists. I understood that he was indicating to me a step-by-step routine.Back then, he used my set of phrases to pick up girls, and many girls were scared away by my straight-forward question whether they were interested in Li Dazui.From then on, whenever he had the opportunity, he taught me that everything should be detoured, and only by detours towards the goal can we reach the final core.

"A great figure like Confucius knows how to use cursive brushes, can't you be more tactful, you little girl?" Li Dazui's words were still in my ears, I took a light breath, and said with a vulgar head: "Yu Yanyan, you are so beautiful, how did you join the army and become such a powerful special soldier?" Li Dazui's clenched fist gesture turned into a thumbs-up gesture.This question seems plain, but actually contains several layers of meaning.I praised Yanyan's beauty without showing any signs of expression, and at the same time expressed surprise and appreciation for Yanyan's success in her career. I am very satisfied with myself because I have injected many elements into my daily chatter. Yu Yanyan's answer was dry, but it made me feel a little cold: "I am an orphan. In my opinion, going to the military academy is the only way out." I don't know how to proceed.After a moment of embarrassing silence, I decided to go straight to the point and stop making detours. "I want to know, what does 7169 mean?" After I finished speaking, I looked at Li Dazui's gestures with a guilty conscience, but Li Dazui didn't make any gestures, and Yu Yanyan didn't answer either. Because the line stopped. Uncle Yan turned around and asked us, his voice was still calm, but it made people shudder, "Have you all seen it, or is it just me?" Fragments of life are like punctuation marks.Mostly bland commas, sometimes heartbreaking full stops.And the exclamation mark that caught you off guard, especially in this dark underground, hits the heart like a moment of panic that makes you suddenly stop breathing. Almost at the same time that Uncle Yan's voice stopped, I raised my head to look at him, only to see a black shadow slowly disappearing into the darkness at the end of the light source of the flashlight in front of him, where the flickering lights intersect. No one spoke, and no one moved.In the extreme silence, I heard Xiao Fei gulp.Gengzi has already quickly opened the safety of the gun, holding the gun with both hands and pointing it into the distance.Lao Liu and Tudou also took out their guns. Tudou's hands shook a little, but the barrel and the gun pointed in the same direction. Uncle Yan stretched out his palm and stopped in mid-air, signaling them not to shoot.He took a few steps forward and fired a flash with his flashlight.Where the light swept, there was nothing but empty rock walls. "Have you ever encountered such a situation?" Professor Tan finally broke the silence. Uncle Yan didn't answer, Xiao Fei said: "We..." Gengzi grabs Xiaofei and glares at him.Xiao Fei gulped again and stopped talking. This group of people may still be vigilant and wary of us. I thought to myself, the so-called destiny is bound together, I am afraid that they are telling us to die, and they will profit in the end. Professor Tan took out the flashlight from his bag, turned it on, walked forward, walked to the place where the shadow disappeared just now, and observed it carefully. Yu Yanyan, who was standing beside me, stared at Professor Tan's back, and then turned her eyes to Uncle Yan and the others. She seemed to take a breath, and said softly: "In 1958, China established a secret force, code-named 7169. This secret force is a special engineering force formed for the construction of missile and atomic bomb test bases. General Chen is the leader of this force The commander and political commissar. Few people know the existence of this secret force, they are the shadow people behind China's huge nuclear test program." I fixed my eyes on Professor Tan's eyes, and didn't respond to Yanyan's soliloquy for a while.I can't describe my feelings for Professor Tan, from the initial rejection, to the later confusion, to the current love and dependence, she is more and more respected by us.I looked worriedly at Professor Tan's thin and firm back, fearing that she would be hurt by the danger lurking in the darkness. Professor Tan didn't hesitate at all in his steps, and the flashlight looked up and down at the place where the shadow disappeared just now. Old Wei and Old Li were attracted by Yu Yanyan's words.Old Wei is a person who is good at thinking. If he is not so good at thinking, he will probably fall in love with MM sooner. "If this army is so secret, how do you know the details? You are so young, even though you are a special forces officer, you have no reason to know these secrets." Although Old Wei's words were sharp, we felt that something was wrong. The place. Yu Yanyan's left hand subconsciously stroked her injured right arm, her voice was still very low, but every word she said made our hearts jump and our thoughts lingered. "Because my father and mother were engineers who participated in the construction of the two bomb bases. They," Yu Yanyan paused, quickly restrained herself and continued, "They died here." Her voice was low and sad, as if she had spent a long time and exhausted all her strength, but the head of her voice was still there, refusing to give in. "My father and mother are heroes who died on this land. If the so-called Uncle Yan is telling the truth, and he participated in the excavation of the shaft we came down just now, then he must have belonged to Unit 7169 and was an engineer. " Her gaze sharpened suddenly, and she looked coldly at the backs of Uncle Yan and the others, "It's just that this army may not all be heroes, there are also such greedy and bloodthirsty people. He betrayed his own beliefs, betrayed his own Life becomes a jackal looking for the wealth of the dead." It dawned on us.In this way, Uncle Yan's matter is logically clear.His and his men's meticulous planning, well-trained skills, weapons and equipment, familiarity with the area-everything became clear in an instant. The eyes of Lao Wei and Lao Li immediately converged with Yu Yanyan, staring at Uncle Yan's back with collective hatred.The power of this hatred is comparable to that of a nuclear bomb, and Uncle Yan was wiped out by them in his mind. But my gaze was on Yu Yanyan.This beautiful woman has a steely will and physical strength.She rarely reveals personal emotions.But in the car, when she looked out of the window and sighed softly, I saw her sadness inadvertently. ——"This place has been abandoned for a long time." Like her dusty thoughts and sighs, but also like her missing and loss, soft and fragile. Time did not allow me to recall too many things about Yu Yanyan. At this moment, Professor Tan's voice came from not far away: "Come here, I have a discovery." Her voice was a little uncontrollably excited: "Qin Suo's judgment is correct, there are indeed human remains here." On the hard rock wall, there is a pattern with a size of 10×15 cm. Although it is a bit rough, the texture is clear.At first glance, my first feeling is the portrayal with original aesthetic color.The people of the archaeological team crowded in front of the mural with their heads superimposed, their eyes fixed.What could be more exciting than the discovery of human remains hundreds of meters underground? After looking at it for a while, I slowly denied my first feeling and discovered the mystery.This is a figure that is superimposed, deformed and evolved from swastikas, and consists of two parts.The head part is superimposed by four swastikas, which is not completely symmetrical, and the swastika has missing strokes; the tail is connected by two elongated swastikas, like a monster with a big mouth that swallows everything. .But this is obviously not a random painting, but a composition with cultural significance. Whether it is a text remains to be considered. Professor Tan illuminated the mural with a flashlight, and looked back at Uncle Yan: "Is this the pattern of the human remains that you and Qin saw?" Uncle Yan nodded: "Counting this, we have seen a total of three, all with this shape." I noticed that Old Wei's nostrils moved, which was a sign of his excitement.Lao Li winked at me, and I immediately knew that Lao Wei's solo show was about to start. Old Wei folded his arms and fell into meditation on the rock wall: "I have seen similar patterns in Molesek's Kunlun Mountain Rock Painting Picture Album, which is similar to what happens when primitive paintings are transformed into words. Kunlun Mountain Rock Paintings at first glance It looks like a depiction of an animal image, but upon careful consideration, it is actually a graphic with animal shapes, decorations and symbols intertwined with a certain meaning. The rock painting in front of me is composed of swastikas. It... " Old Wei adjusted his glasses and got closer to the rock painting, as if he didn't want to draw conclusions prematurely, but stared at it seriously. Professor Tan nodded, and seemed to be quite appreciative of Wei: "The swastika symbol has been found all over the world, and it has been endowed with the meaning of light, happiness, eternal life, and sun worship. This symbol is the highest and most enthusiastic of early humans. One of the emotional manifestations. Worshiping the sun and immortality are the most persistent desires engraved in early human beliefs. This pattern was first found on a clay bowl unearthed at the Hassuna site, and its historical period is located in BC Between 5500 and 5000 BC. Four pieces of pottery from 2500 BC were also unearthed from the Shipengshan Cemetery in China. Among the 12 symbols engraved on them, there were 7 swastikas of different shapes. After 2500 BC, Pottery with this pattern has been found in the city of Troy in the northwest of Hittites, Liuwan in Qinghai, China, and Mohenjodaro in India." Old Wei slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Professor Tan, I know about the Liuwan site you mentioned. I have read its excavation report. This is a huge clan that has been used in different periods since the Neolithic Age. In the cemetery, archaeological excavations also show that the pottery unearthed here belongs to different historical periods. In particular, there are more than 10,000 pieces of painted pottery painted between 2300 BC and 2000 BC! There are a large number of swastikas on the more than 10,000 pieces of painted pottery Patterns or variants. This completely subverts people's perception of the swastika symbol. Before that, we always thought that the swastika symbol appeared in China because of the introduction of Buddhism in the 2nd century AD." Uncle Yan listened intently, with a very devoted expression.He hesitated for a moment, and finally asked: "Professor Tan, you just mentioned that the swastika is the meaning of the sun and eternal life. In fact, when Qin Suo and I met this rock painting, Qin Suo mentioned the development of the Tocharian language." History, and made some judgments on the migration of this language. But what I think is, do you think this graphic, engraved here, is the same as the boat-shaped coffin that you and Comrade Zha Haiyang dug in Xiaohe Cemetery, covered in black Is it related to the oath on the owner of the tomb? To be precise, is this a kind of witchcraft of death and rebirth mastered by early humans?" Uncle Yan's tone was very polite, even a little humble.He looked eagerly at Professor Tan, expecting an answer. Uncle Yan's words brought back my memories.In Professor Tan's story about her, the owner of the tomb in black is always intertwined with some parts of my memory, like a ghost, lingering. The blood-red oath, like a gloomy light, shone on the road between life and death.And the boat-shaped coffin we dug out in the Yingpan cemetery later, and the female tomb owner in the same costume, connected the two together in a strange way.Although the latter is also covered with the Scarlet Oath, but we don't understand Tocharian, so we can't decipher it. We looked to Professor Tan, looking forward to her analysis. Professor Tan didn't answer Uncle Yan's words directly, but looked at him slowly, and said coldly: "How did you know that I dug out a black-clothed blood coffin with Zha Haiyang?" We were all dazzled by this swastika-shaped petroglyph found hundreds of meters underground. It implied a long migration route, from the coast of the Black Sea to the Mesopotamia, to the Kunlun Mountains and the Tarim Basin, among which We still don't know the breaks and changes.However, it is conceivable that on the earth illuminated by the sun, the early human beings struggled to survive and wandered through many places that we do not know today. Professor Tan's words were like a basin of cold water waking us up.The experience of Professor Tan and Zha Haiyang was told by Professor Tan when Li Dazui initiated the story meeting in the tent on that windy day.No one else should know except us. Under the light of the flashlight, Uncle Yan's mask looked pale and hideous.With his eyes hidden behind the mask, he said in a low voice, "Professor Tan, I don't want to deceive, but I can't tell you why I know." We looked at each other, feeling a little cold in our hearts.There seems to be a huge conspiracy hidden in the middle. Although it is impossible to know why, it always makes people very disturbed. Li Dazui leaned over to me, and I could even feel the heat in his breath.He took a deep breath, and was about to whisper something into my ear, when Dou Miao suddenly covered his mouth with his hand, pointed to the distance with his eyes, and said softly, "Listen." Professor Tan and Uncle Yan in the confrontation did not move, but the stopped conversation left a blank space of silence.In the silence, we faintly heard a strange and eerie sound coming from a distance.To be precise, it was a woman's singing. The singing voice coming from the darkness is mournful and soft, with faint sobs, if it is not in this frightening deep underground, it may give people the illusion of an elegy. But at this moment, the song sounded like a lost soul, floating in the darkness. I feel my heart beating faster, but my ears can't help but follow the singing to distinguish the meaning.Anxiety and fear made me feel like the auditory hallucination I experienced in the desert, and I wanted to cover my ears to get rid of this disturbing singing. After Dou Miao listened intently for a while, her face was incredulous and unbelievable.He turned to us, his voice trembling slightly: "Do you understand the meaning of the song?"