Chapter 19 Chapter 18 Miracles

Uncle Yan had two bleeding points on his forehead and temple, and the large amount of blood made his face look bloody.In the impact that Uncle Yan received after grabbing Old Wei, he suffered most of the injuries, and Old Wei was slightly injured in comparison.Ordinary people would fall into a coma immediately after suffering such a severe injury, but Uncle Yan's superman's will made him persist until he and Old Wei were rescued.At this moment, Uncle Yan was lying quietly on the ground, his mask was lifted, it seemed that he was no longer the decisive leader, but just an old man in a coma.

We have been secretly speculating about Uncle Yan's mask for a long time.Lao Li analyzed that this is a good thing, because we can't see the true face of Uncle Yan, and the possibility of us being silenced is greatly reduced.But Lao Wei thinks this inference is flawed, because Gengzi and others did not wear masks.From the perspective of fear of legal punishment afterwards, the exposure of Geng Zi and others is actually the exposure of Uncle Yan.The two argued endlessly, but there was still no convincing conclusion. Uncle Yan's mask is made of linen, light and breathable, and he never takes it off, even when he is resting.At this moment, Uncle Yan's face suddenly appeared in front of our eyes, and the mystery that puzzled us for a long time was so easily solved.What I didn't expect was that when our curiosity was finally satisfied, the accompanying mood was so shocking and new doubts arose.

Uncle Yan's face can almost be described as ferocious and distorted.There was not a single piece of intact skin on his face, and there were scars and dents everywhere.At first glance, it doesn't look like a human face anymore, it's more like his face has been lifted and then stuck on the flesh indiscriminately.He has no eyebrows, and his mouth and nose have a strange and horrible shape, except for his crooked eyes. Blood stains were densely covered on his uneven skin, and he seemed to be a ghost who had gone deep into hell and crawled back to the world.In the dim and flickering light, every breath of his made our hearts jump suddenly, as if we saw a corpse revived after the destroyed body.

We looked at Uncle Yan silently, and even Old Wei looked sideways, with his mouth wide open, speechless. Qin Suo walked slowly towards Uncle Yan, knelt down beside him, and took his hand to hold.Qin Suo didn't speak, just looked at Uncle Yan silently. "Why, how could this be? He...is he still human?" Chen Wei hid behind Li Dazui, poked his head out and asked tremblingly. Qin Suo turned his head and looked at him coldly, there was emotion in his eyes that I couldn't understand.Chen Wei was stunned by his gaze, and lowered his head embarrassingly. "Qin Suo, you knew Uncle Yan before?"

Yu Yanyan lowered her head slightly and looked at Qin Suo carefully, as if trying to find clues from his face. Qin Suo stood up and nodded, with a straightforward expression on his face: "Twenty years. I have known him for twenty years." We were shocked, the relationship between Uncle Yan and Qin Suo really confirmed the faint speculation in our hearts before.The two archaeological teams and this team of mysterious professional soldiers are so inextricably linked. "Did Uncle Yan contact you before you arrived at the Yingpan ruins?" Yu Yanyan's words cut through the darkness like a knife, and forced her towards Qin Suo.

Qin Suo shook his head: "No, I received an anonymous message that the Yingpan site might be subject to a new round of tomb robbery, so I led the team in a hurry..." He stopped suddenly and took a breath, as if he understood what was going on. reason. He looked at Zhu Liang who was lying on the ground, twitching from time to time, with a sad expression on his face: "It's out of control, everything is out of control... This is far beyond my expectation." Qin Suo raised his head, and his voice became urgent, "Tan Professor, you lead the team to evacuate here immediately, hurry up! There is no time!"

We were anxious and anxious, and had thousands of questions we wanted to ask Qin Suo.Having already come here, and Lao Wei seems to have found something down there, leaving like this is really reconciled.But Qin Suo's expression was by no means intended to be sensational. He was expressing a message urgently, which seemed to have something hard to say. "Tell me, what are you hiding, and I will lead the team away immediately." Professor Tan's voice was as calm as ever.Thoughts are still clear. Qin Suo's chest was heaving and panting, he thought for a moment, and said, "I..."

"No one is allowed to leave." A black gun barrel was raised in the darkness, facing Qin Suo. The voice of the gunman was familiar yet strangely cold: "Gengzi, it's time for you to take over the team and take care of Uncle Yan." We looked at that person, that person was not tall, but under the dim light at this moment, his figure was faintly eerie.The people who used to squat together to eat, the people who used to clean cultural relics with a brush and joke, the people who shared weal and woe, the people who made Li Dazui want to please, finally showed their real bodies in such a way at this moment.

"Gao Hong! So the ghost is you!" Li Dazui roared angrily, raised his arms and took a few steps towards Gao Hong.Dou Miao grabbed him and dragged him back. Li Dazui struggled behind Dou Miao's arm, raised his face full of anger: "Son of a bitch, why do you want to be a traitor?" Gao Hong's face was as usual: "Everyone who comes here is looking for what they want, isn't it? Who is more noble than whom, and who is more despicable than whom?" His muzzle dangled in front of Qin Suo, " If you incite the team to retreat again, don't blame me for being rude."

Qin Suo shook his head and said in a low voice, "You have no idea what will happen here." Gao Hong looked around us, and smiled: "This is the fun. I am a scholar, and I will not use violence unless I have to. But I want to remind you, obey the order, and don't forget Xiaoqi's fate." This sentence shocked me, and I noticed that Yu Yanyan clenched her left fist, trembling silently.Old Li stands in front of Yanyan—Gao Hong is definitely not an ordinary character.Under his gentle appearance, there is an undercurrent of coldness. I believe his words are not simply intimidating.Even the old Wei who was lying on the ground realized it, and stretched out his hand to grab Yu Yanyan's foot.

Lao Liu and Geng Zi whispered a few words, stepped forward and called, "Chen Wei!" Chen Wei, who was hiding in the crowd, couldn't help shivering when he heard his name being called.He raised his head eagerly and murmured, "What... what?" Lao Liu grinned: "Hand it over." Chen Wei's face was ashen, as if he was dying. "Hand over... hand over what?" "Zhou Qian's things." Lao Liu showed his pitch-black fangs, and looked back at his tense face, proud of asking for credit. "Hand over the black cloth bag that your cousin Xiaotian brought out from the Department of Archeology of University S." Gengzi said in a low voice. The name "Xiaotian" is a little familiar, but I can't remember where I heard it.Seeing my puzzled face, Dou Miao said softly, "On the day when the sandstorm started, Lao Wei told a story about "The Phantom of the Archaeological Department" in the tent." It dawned on me.The protagonist of the story that once made us laugh so hard was Xiao Tian, ​​who unexpectedly turned out to be Chen Wei's cousin.I can no longer remember what kind of expression Chen Wei had when Lao Wei described his heroic deeds vividly, and whether he laughed with us with evil intentions.Of course, I didn't know until a long time later that it was Chen Wei who was responsible for Oda's decision to steal the Archeology Department.In return, Oda promised him to bring out the black cloth bag in the warehouse.The black cloth bag was carried by Oda in his underwear pocket, but was not found by the public security personnel. Thinking of Zhou Qian's pale face and his eyes looking up to the sky when he died, I felt sour, and then thought that this black cloth bag must be extraordinary, and the secret inside may be one of the answers we are looking for. Chen Wei realized that there was no way to hide it, so he gave a wry smile and slowly walked out of the crowd. "Lao Liu, I shouldn't trust you." The sixth child rubbed his chin with the back of his hand, and smiled: "Desperadoes like us who come here for money can't talk about feelings, talking about feelings hurts money." Chen Wei paced and said slowly: "It's useless for you to get this black cloth bag. Because it contains..." Old Wei listened engrossed, half propped himself up on the ground and opened his mouth wide open: "What is it? Is it another oath?" Chen Wei shook his head: "No, it's a Tocharian parchment document." Standing on the edge of the cliff, he took out a black cloth bag from his arms, shook it, and opened it in front of us.With his fingers, he carefully squeezed out a piece of yellowed parchment, like an artistic gesture for an exhibition on a stage, and proudly hung it on his chest. "This is a Tocharian document that was pierced with needles and smeared with blood. No one can understand it except me. After I got and understood this document, I made up my mind to come to the Yingpan ruins no matter what. .My dream is in it." "You may not be the only one who can understand it," Gao Hong said with a sneer on his face, with a look of obvious contempt, "Qin Suo can also read Tocharian characters." "Oh," Chen Wei nodded, "You reminded me." He smiled slightly, his eyes full of treachery and fanaticism.His arms suddenly raised high, and his thin, dark figure was like a statue standing on the edge of a cliff. "Leave the cliff!" "Don't do something stupid!" Almost at the same time, Geng Zi and Lao Liu seemed to have a premonition of what Chen Wei was going to do, and they all yelled out. A smile appeared on the corner of Chen Wei's mouth, and when he loosened his fingers, the bloody parchment floated feebly in the air for a moment like a kite with broken strings, and then fell to the bottom of the cliff. Gengzi and Lao Liu turned pale with shock, even Gao Hong was surprised.They rushed to the edge of the cliff in a hurry, watching the parchment fall silently into the darkness with resentment and powerlessness. Gao Hong turned his head and gritted his teeth: "Do you know how much foreign buyers are willing to pay for this piece of parchment?" Chen Wei raised his head and said contemptuously: "Now I am the only one who knows the secrets on the parchment. You ordinary people only have money as the most useless thing in your eyes. You have no idea what is buried here, and you have no idea what the dream I want to pursue is .It could change the course of the entire human race and make me the greatest and most powerful person in the world." Gengzi said in a low voice, "If it wasn't for you, I would have killed you with one shot." Chen Wei nodded: "I know," he said with a normal face, "Of course I know that you all look down on me, but soon you will know the mistakes you made." Gengzi raised his body from the edge of the cliff and walked back and forth on the platform for a few steps, as if he wanted to find a way out of the current situation.He thought for a moment, then walked up to Old Wei and poked him with his foot. "Wei Qifang, what did you see down there?" Old Wei whimpered, and I felt a pain in my heart. Just as I was about to step forward, Professor Tan stood up and separated Old Wei and Gengzi. "I hope you can respect my team members, just like Mr. Yan." Gengzi scratched his hair angrily, and waved his hand in the air: "OK, OK, Dr. Wei, please tell us what he found down there." Old Wei who was lying on the ground blinked slyly at me and Lao Li, and I let out a sigh of relief, knowing that he was pretending to be pitiful just now. Professor Tan looked at Old Wei: "Qifang." Old Wei understood, sat up with his hands on the ground, and muttered: "I fell very fast, and the flashlight and I fell at the same time. Although I can't see clearly, I can almost be sure that the place where I was just now , It should be a mural." He raised his head, his eyes sparkling, "Professor Tan, there are murals on the cliff here. What flashed before my eyes was the swastika pattern we saw just now." Professor Tan listened intently, and subconsciously folded her slightly raised fingers, as if she was thinking quickly about the meaning of the mural here. Gengzi's rage gradually came under control, he was not as aggressive as before, and he was more polite: "Professor Tan, there is an abyss under the cliff here, and it is very dangerous to do murals on the cliff, especially when thousands of Years ago. That...that doesn't make sense. Do you think we should go down and see?" Professor Tan didn't answer, she was immersed in her own thoughts.Neither of us said a word, only Lao Wei and Lao Li occasionally chatted in a low voice, probably discussing. The sixth child finally couldn't hold back anymore, and opened his mouth to ask, "I said, Professor Tan, you've been thinking about it for too long, don't you know if you go down and have a look?" "Oh," Professor Tan smiled apologetically, "Yes, it is definitely necessary to go down to see this relic. Just now I sorted out the ideas of our camp trip. From the perspective of the original intention of archaeology, we want to restore, Restore the original appearance and cultural form of the ancient Moshan Kingdom. The Xiaohe cemetery and Gumugou cemetery 3,800 years ago have always been a mystery. Around the fourth century AD, Loulan and the ancient Moshan Kingdom were almost empty cities overnight. This is a problem that has always troubled us. There is still no conclusion. As we arrived at Yingpan and the series of things that happened, I felt more and more that the disappearance of the ancient Moshan country did not seem to be accidental. The ancient Moshan country in Qin Dynasty was Xiaohe-Gumugou cemetery The conclusions drawn by the priests of the descendants of the culture are not unreasonable. They seem to have left some secrets from ancient times. These secrets may be related to the interpretation of the disappearance of the ancient Moshan Kingdom, or they may touch some areas that we are still unable to determine - such as the swastika The belief in rebirth pointed to by the shape pattern and the behavior of the ancient tomb ditch cemetery using the solar calendar as the burial cemetery...The disappearance of the ancient country and the belief in rebirth by early humans in northern Xinjiang are the two biggest mysteries that puzzle us." "Professor Tan!" Xiao Fei interrupted her exposition excitedly, "Do you still remember that Uncle Yan mentioned that the ancient tomb ditch cemetery is the password to enter here beside the 100-meter abyss in the desert? That's because we once I went down here alone, and once found the same mural composition as the top view of Gumugou cemetery in a hidden place! There are six centers, and there are seven layers of radioactive rings outside! So Uncle Yan has always believed..." "Xiao Fei!" Gengzi interrupted him roughly, "Don't talk too much!" Professor Tan smiled lightly: "What is there to hide now? Your purpose is to steal cultural relics, and our purpose is to discover the cultural significance of the relics and explain historical mysteries. If we still cover up now, I don't think any of us can hide it." It’s impossible to unravel the secrets here, and it’s even a problem to get out alive.” Gengzi hesitated for a moment, and seemed to think that what Professor Tan said was reasonable: "Professor Tan, I didn't mean that. It's just...it's just that the seven-story ring diagram was erased by something after we discovered it. When we went to look for it, we got lost and couldn’t find it.” Old Wei, who was sitting on the ground, stood up tremblingly at this moment, "Professor Tan," he gasped, as if trying to calm his excitement, "I remembered, in the mural I saw just now, there is a circle pattern, more than one!" Professor Tan looked at him for a long time, and for a moment seemed to be entangled in endless thoughts and fell into aphasia. Gengzi and Lao Liu re-fixed the safety point, Tudou and Xiaofei helped.Gao Hong looked at us coldly, he was already a member of Uncle Yan's team.Li Dazui glared at him, showing no sign of letting up. Yu Yanyan took two steps towards Gao Hong. Gao Hong looked at her and subconsciously took a step back. "Did you kill Xiao Qi?" Gao Hong looked at Yu Yanyan without answering. She raised her head slightly, with a quiet and cold expression on her face: "Professor Tan and I were talking in the tent, and after hearing Xiao Qi's shout outside, there was a gunshot. The moment I rushed out, the ricochet scratched me I always thought it was Gengzi who killed Xiaoqi, but what I still can't figure out is that Xiaoqi is definitely not a person who acts rashly, and Uncle Yan's purpose is not to kill people, so there is only one explanation for Xiaoqi's death. When it came to the scene of 'shouldn't watch', it was silenced. Gao Hong, am I right?" Gao Hong's eyes no longer met with Yu Yanyan's. He looked around and looked around, "I, I didn't do it on purpose. It was... the gun went off." After a while, he suddenly realized his current situation. He no longer belonged to the archaeological team, and suddenly his back straightened up again, "It was his luck that he saw me talking to Gengzi at that moment. The ancient Yang Zhu once said that if a man does not serve himself, heaven will destroy him. What's the matter, you Want to take revenge on me?" Yu Yanyan glanced at him contemptuously and stopped talking.Gao Hong walked up to Gengzi awkwardly and asked, "How's it going?" "It's almost time to go down." Gengzi said succinctly. Gengzi looked at Lao Wei and Lao Li, pointed to Li Dazui and said, "You, go down." I stood up and tried my best to get ahead and said, "I'll go." Lao Li pushed me, and said with a look of disdain: "Little boy, let's see your brother and I show my power." He buckled up his seatbelt, put a dome light on his head, and took a deep breath.Old Wei came over to hold his hand and patted his shoulder: "Brother, be careful, don't force yourself." Lao Li made an OK gesture, slowly lowered his body on the rock wall, and then began to descend.We lay on the edge of the cliff, watching with concern Lao Li's body slowly sinking into the darkness.A small cluster of shimmering lights above his head appeared so small in the vast dark void that he couldn't even see his figure clearly. "Okay, stop!" Li Dazui's yell came from a distance below, "Damn it...you will suffer a lot if you don't come down to see it! You can pass it on to the detective!" I opened the notebook connected to the camera of the probe, and Geng Zi, Lao Wei and others passed the probe down.The screen shows the camera passing over the rough rock walls, which are so dark that it is shocking.After falling for a while, I saw Li Dazui trying to grab the probe's hand, and at the same time heard a cry from below Li Dazui: "Come on, right down, down right down!" Professor Tan sat beside me, looking at the screen with concern.I looked up and saw that Qin Suo was still sitting beside Uncle Yan, silent.Professor Tan noticed my gaze and also looked over: "Old Qin, come over and have a look." Qin Suo hesitated for a moment, but finally stood up and walked beside us. Lao Li finally grabbed the probe with his hand and shouted "stop".We saw on the screen that Lao Li's hand was pulling the probe across the rock wall.From the old Wei's point of view, Li Dazui propped his feet on the rock wall, arched his body, and tried his best to let the probe shine at a relatively wide angle. Old Wei shouted: "Take it easy!" Lao Li didn't make a sound. Judging from the screen, he had pointed the camera on the probe to the pattern on the rock wall as much as possible.He first gave a maximum panorama of a mural, and then scanned each pattern one by one.At that moment, I suddenly forgot that I was in a dark place thousands of meters underground, and I was completely attracted by the murals on the screen. This shock made every pore of my body tremble with excitement.When I turned my head to look at Qin Suo and Professor Tan, I found that Professor Tan was staring at the pattern on the screen just like me, breathing rapidly. This is a mural group composed of seven circles.In the center of the first circle is a group of people depicted with simple brushwork, kneeling on the ground and worshiping the sky, which seems to be some kind of ritual.The second circle is smaller, and with it as the center, there are crowds walking in different directions in the four directions of up, down, left, and right, and the center of the circle is discrete.People from other directions are hidden around the third and fourth circles, and only the state of the people traveling to the right is recorded.Although it is symbolic, it can still be seen that the hardships of this journey, life, old age, sickness and death, alternate along the way.The sixth circle depicts the group of people walking back to the center of the circle.The leader is kneeling on the ground in the center of the circle, and behind him is a group of people with different postures holding certain objects.Around them, swastika-shaped and ten-shaped patterns frequently appear, especially the "ten"-shaped pattern, which not only appears in large numbers, but also has a small "-" shape on each of the four corners.The last circle, which is also the seventh circle, does not have too many patterns. It only depicts a pair of eyes, which are slightly opened and seem to be closing. Lao Liu and Gengzi watched by our side. Tudou couldn't help himself, and said, "What the hell are these? A few big circles. The things drawn are not human, ghosts or ghosts, and they are engraved On the rock wall, there is no way to pick it off and take it away!" Lao Liu stretched out his hand and licked Tudou's ears, and scolded: "You have shallow eye sockets, what do you know! The fat guy is behind, this is the map, do you understand?" Gengzi glared at the two of them, and they immediately bowed their heads in silence.Since Uncle Yan fell into a coma, Gengzi has become the new leader of the team.He didn't speak, but looked at Professor Tan and Qin Suo inquiringly. Professor Tan took a deep breath: "Old Qin, what do you think these murals imply?" Qin Suo's spirit was a little listless. I noticed that he kept clenching and releasing his fists, subconsciously repeating this movement.When Professor Tan asked him, he cheered up and said, "I think it has something to do with the calendar." The 'ten' pattern is recorded as a tool for measuring the relationship between the earth and the sky. Early humans often used this wooden structure tool Do basic astronomical and geographic surveys." "Yes!" Old Wei's big head popped out at some point, "This kind of pattern also appeared on Molechek's Kunlun Mountain rock paintings." His eyes shone brightly in the dark, and he completely forgot the pain on his body: "This group has an indissoluble bond with the sun, time, and calendar! I think this is also the basis of belief for the existence of this group. Professor Tan, what do you think?" ?” Professor Tan stood up and looked around slowly.There is both confusion and joy in her eyes, as if seeing the answer to a riddle, and wandering in a mysterious world full of time relics. "It's truly a miracle," she whispered. From Cha Haiyang to Uncle Yan, they all asked Tan Yundan the same question.Professor Tan has never given a definite answer.Like all archaeologists of the older generation, Professor Tan believes in the power of science and knowledge, and such issues have long been settled in her beliefs. The question of the existence of God is like a light in the maze, which has never been extinguished from a hundred years ago to the present.This light even shines in the long and slow evolutionary history of human beings, inspiring human beings to still have hope in the most difficult times.Those sacrificial utensils that we have dug up in various places are the relics of human beings praying for the mercy of God.Like my two senior brothers, I respect the memory of our ancestors, but do not believe in the existence of God.In our opinion, only those things that can be reasoned and verified by methodology and can be recognized in the sun are real.But now that Professor Tan suddenly said this, we were surprised and deeply confused. "Professor Tan, do you realize that..." Contrary to our doubts, Qin Suo stood up excitedly and looked at Professor Tan instead of his listless expression.He rubbed his hands and walked a few steps in place, as if his passion had no place to rest.After a while, he clasped his hands again, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "When we entered this cave for the first time, we also saw this group of murals. We discussed it for a long time, and finally we came up with something that we couldn't believe. Professor Tan, it may not be an exaggeration to say that this mural may subvert our understanding of human history. What I can’t figure out is, why did they do these murals here?” We looked at each other, wondering what kind of mystery was hidden in the conversation between the two archaeologists.Old Wei stroked his chin with his hands, frowned and pondered, as if trying to catch up with the two seniors in his thoughts.In the end, he still put down his hand in some frustration, and completely gave up the idea of ​​guessing. The sixth child, Gao Hong and Gengzi whispered a few words, and Gengzi stepped forward and said, "Does this mural...does it point out the real cemetery site of the ancient Moshan Kingdom?" Dou Miao said coldly: "You don't care about the cultural significance of the murals, you just want to make a fortune from the ancient tomb?" The sixth child reached out and grabbed Dou Miao's collar, and the smoke from his mouth made people dizzy: "Son, shut up! Good dogs don't get in the way!" Dou Miao didn't panic, turned around and smiled at me: "Xiao Liang, do you think he has a dog face and a pair of dog eyes?" These words actually rhymed, and when they were said in Dou Miao's go-it-yourself sarcastic tone, people couldn't help but want to laugh.Lao Liu's face tightened, and he raised his arm to hit someone.Gengzi stretched out his hand impatiently, picked up the sixth child, and threw him behind him.Lao Liu fluttered his sleeves embarrassingly, stared at Dou Miao, and cursed in a low voice. "Qin Suo, Professor Tan, we are all vulgar people. To tell you the truth, we made an agreement when we came out with Uncle Yan. He wanted to bring his wife back to life. Our other brothers came here because of the things in the tomb. ——Get a batch and go. Brothers and I will spend the rest of our lives eating. There must be big goods down here. You are all cultural people. If you want archaeology, you can test it as you like. There's no need to be so anxious, you're going to die, right? It's all about virtue now, brothers are dead, injured, and Uncle Yan is in a coma again. I don't have that much patience to play with you. Tell me the truth, Does this mural show any clues?" Professor Tan pondered for a moment, and just about to speak, Qin Suo stretched out his arm to stop her, and spit out a few words unhurriedly: "Gengzi, since we are all sensible people, then let's be clear about people and not speak secretly. I and My archaeological team has been here, and we have been to the other side. What you want is on the opposite side." Gengzi looked at Qin Suo suspiciously, then squinted his eyes and glanced at the glimmer of light in the dark depths of the opposite bank.The sixth child leaned forward and whispered to Gengzi: "Brother Geng, just now that kid Wei Qifang ran over there desperately. I think he's still a little inky. There must be something on the other side." Gengzi thought for a while, looked at Uncle Yan who was lying on the ground, and finally made up his mind: "Let's all go to the opposite side! Qin Suo, how did you get there last time?" Qin Suo whispered: "Come with me." He walked along the edge of the cliff for about 30 steps, stopped and said, "We made a cable here, which is the closest to the opposite cliff." Under the light of the flashlight, I saw two parallel ropes, fixed on a safe point, connecting the two sides.