Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen Gathering
I went out and went to the ward to check on Bai Feng again, she was still in a coma, maybe I hit it a bit too hard, I'm afraid this will make her lie down peacefully for the whole night.However, this is not a bad thing, at least she can have a good rest, after all, she must have never rested so quietly in the past three days.My only hope is that she can forget all the memories of these three days when she wakes up!
It was already midnight when I left the ward, the moonlight was like water, and the autumn night was slightly cool. When I ran out quickly, I shivered uncontrollably.In the hazy moonlight, a shiny dark black car stopped at the door. Mayor Ren rolled down the window and called me.
Mayor Ren drives a good car, an Audi A6, which is atmospheric and comfortable, which suits his status very well.
In my impression, city-level officials like Ren Yuansheng are usually equipped with private drivers. Whether you can drive or not, you must have a driver. This is not only for convenience, but also to show a person's identity.It's like in the period of the Republic of China, everyone with status would hold a civilized stick, whether you need it or not, this is the rule.
But Mayor Ren was an exception, because he was the only one in the car, sitting in the driver's seat.
The car drove out of the hospital very smoothly. Ren Yuansheng was very skilled in driving. The car was not only stable but also very fast. His driving skills were good.
We were silent with each other for a long time, the atmosphere was a bit depressing and dull, I coughed dryly, intending to break this dull situation: "Mayor Ren, you have good driving skills, you should have many years of driving experience, right?"
Ren Yuansheng smiled slightly: "Mr. Yi has won the prize. I just took the driver's license test the year before last. My skills are not good, but I haven't had any accidents, not even the smallest car accident. This is something I am very proud of. In terms of driving skills, Secretary Lin is the best in the municipal party committee. And let me tell you a little secret, Secretary Lin loves to drive fast and is an advisor to a racing team in the city."
I felt a little curious, and couldn't help saying: "I can't see that such a peaceful person as Secretary Lin is also a racer!"
"At that time, there was a team of drivers in the city, but after Secretary Lin took office, the first thing he did was to let leaders at all levels obtain driver's licenses, and then disband the team. All the leaders who were able to get a car were driving by themselves. This move lasted a year. It will save the government a lot of expenses!" Ren Yuansheng said slowly while looking ahead.
"Really? I really can't tell when Secretary Lin took office?"
"Six years ago, he was originally a deputy mayor of a nearby city, but because of his excellent work performance, he was exceptionally promoted by the province!"
"Then what about Director Wang?" I was very interested in this powerful and hot-tempered leader, and I didn't know where his political career started.
Ren Yuansheng smiled and said, "Director Wang was directly transferred from the province!" He glanced at me as he spoke.
I understand what he means, which shows that Director Wang is a person with a lot of background, no wonder he can still speak loudly in front of the leaders without any scruples.I have never been interested in politics, and I don't want to comment on the relationship between an official's official authority and his background, so I changed the topic: "How much do you know about Cuishan?"
"Not much, I just know that it is a very special hill. The reason why it is called special is not only that its soil is very green, but also that no other plants can grow in this soil, except for one plant!"
I've always wondered what those big, sparse red plants were, and hearing him say this made me ask, "Oh, what's that plant?"
"It's very common, it's Bupleurum!" He smiled and continued, "Isn't it special? Ordinary Bupleurum is green, but the Bupleurum here is red. I heard from many plant experts that , this Bupleurum bupleurum is a different species, except here, the same species has not been found in the world, and it can be regarded as a specialty here, let alone grow so tall!"
Although I don't know what ordinary Bupleurum looks like, I also know that this plant is a kind of medicine, and it is a good medicine for treating colds.So he asked, "Can this Bupleurum be used as medicine?"
"Of course, not only can it be used as medicine, but the potency of the medicine is several times higher than ordinary ones! However, the small quantity cannot form a scale, so it is impossible to become an industry!"
While we were chatting, the car drove out of City S quickly and headed towards Qingming Town.
After a while, Ren Yuansheng asked again: "Mr. Yi, what do you think the stone you found is?"
"I can't tell, it's not like a crystal, because I've never seen a crystal containing something like an egg yolk!" I said, not because I was cautious in speaking in front of him, but in fact I did Can't figure out what the piece is.
"So, do you really think it has something to do with this disease?" Ren Yuansheng asked again.
"It must be related!" I said with certainty, "Otherwise Captain Lu Hualu wouldn't have brought Bai Feng here for no reason."
"So, what is the relationship between the two?"
This answer is not only what he wants to know, but also what I want to know.But, unfortunately, I don't know how to answer.
After driving for about an hour, we finally arrived at the foot of Green Mountain. There were already several cars waiting at the foot of the mountain, including police cars with sirens on and several black cars.
Liu Zheng was talking nervously with several people.Seeing us coming, we all greeted us.
The first thing I asked Liu Zheng when I saw him was: "Have you met Captain Lu?"
Liu Zheng shook his head and said, "We have searched everywhere on the mountain, but we haven't found any trace of Lu Hua."
I am a little disappointed, but also a little relieved, which at least shows that we are safe for the time being.
Those people first shook hands with Ren Yuansheng, and Liu Zheng introduced me to them.Since they didn't have many opportunities to appear in the whole incident, in order to prevent everyone from being confused by too many names when reading, I can only make a brief description based on their appearance and surname here.
There are five people in total, and they are all engineers from the Geological Institute in the city. We can call them Old Man Zhang, Fatty Li, Eye Liu, White Face, and Thin Hu!
After exchanging pleasantries with everyone, I led the way, and a group of eight people walked up the mountain.
As I said before, the mountain is not high. With the help of the dim moonlight and eight miner's lamps, we quickly reached the top of the mountain.
Although Liu Zheng and the others searched the entire Green Mountain, as I expected, they did not find the cave I entered. It was not because I was much better than them, but because the place was hard to find, not to mention that there was no cave there. What an obvious mark!
Even from memory, I searched the mountain for a long time before I found that gap.I jumped down first, followed by Slender Hu, but he jumped down after looking up at the starry sky for a long time, not because he was suspicious, but when he was jumping down, a meteor dragged a Tail across the night sky.Slender Hu is not very old, maybe he still remembers the old saying that making a wish is the most effective when the shooting star is over, so he is busy making a wish at the corner of his clothes.
Watching the shooting star flash away in the palm-sized sky above my head, I felt a sudden movement in my heart, as if I had a bold idea, but it was not clear, and I didn't know what I thought of.
The entrance of the cave is still narrow, which limits the number of people we can enter, including Liu Zheng, Ren Yuansheng, and Fatty Li. Because they are slightly fat, they can’t get out even if they fully unfold their bodies, so they have to guard the entrance of the cave. I and others Four people go in.
Since I went down once before and knew the structure inside, I didn't need to take the slow way of going backwards this time, but slid forward on my stomach, and we also brought a long rope, which was also tied to the last one. People's waists, after all, we carry some small instruments, and when we come out, it will be faster for people outside to pull them.
When I took them one by one into the cave, the four geological engineers couldn't help screaming when they saw the slippery stone egg.Hearing their exclamation, I am sure that not only I am curious about this stone egg, but they have never seen it before!
They circled around the smooth stone egg several times and praised it a lot, then took out various equipment to test the stone egg. I knew nothing about this meticulous scientific examination work, so I was the only idler among the five, so while they were busy, I began to search this small stone room carefully to see if I could Nothing else of greater value could be found. I searched carefully and found that there was nothing but stones, some bread bags and mineral water bottles thrown everywhere.This showed that Lu Hua and Bai Feng had indeed stayed in this stone room for several days. But the stones here are a bit weird, unlike the rocks in the outer stone room, which are uneven, sharp and corrugated, they seem to have been carefully polished with sandpaper. The entire stone room is like the inner wall of an eggshell, extremely smooth!And the surface is black, as if it has been ironed evenly with high temperature. I asked the old man Zhang who was walking past me: "Look, why is this rock such a color?" Old man Zhang leaned close to the wall and licked it with his tongue, then made a small hole with the electric drill in his hand, put the stone chips dug out in his palm, looked carefully for a long time, sniffed it with his nose, and answered with absolute certainty. Said: "This place must have been scorched by high temperature. After the stone melted, it condensed again!" At this time, Liu Yanyan was holding a meter in his hand and kept turning around the stone egg, as if he was grinding, and the meter in his hand made irregular creaking noises. While looking at the instrument, Liu was busy writing something down in his notebook. But Huang Bailian kept drilling holes in the stone egg with an electric drill. It can be seen that the stone egg is very hard, because the electric drill broke the drill bit after drilling for a while, and he had to squat down and replace it with a new one. Yes, I kept changing four drill bits before I finally made a hole the size of a little finger in the stone egg, took out the stone sample and put it in a sealed bag. Another geological engineer, Slender Hu, was using a flash camera to take pictures of the stone eggs, making the whole stone room seem to be lighting up with lightning, flashing fluorescent light on and off. I walked around the stone room several times, but found no other traces, so I squatted aside to watch other people's work. The four of them tossed and tossed for more than an hour before it came to an end. Old man Zhang said, "Have you got the preliminary test results?" Huang Bailian said: "The stone is abnormally hard. It can be preliminarily determined that it is a stone crystal obtained after forging, but as for the composition, we can only determine the formation age and stone composition after going back for inspection!" "Judging from the radiation value detected by the instrument, this stone egg has a strong radiation wave. It is preliminarily estimated that this radiation wave is no less than the amount of radiation brought by a nuclear bomb explosion, but it is hard to say whether it is harmful to the human body. I can analyze it further!" Liu said slowly while looking at the notebook. Slender Hu said: "I just recorded the shape of the stone egg as a picture, there is no conclusion!" The old man Zhang pondered: "The stone wall was baked at high temperature. I suspect that this stone egg once released a violent high temperature, which forced the entire surface of the stone wall to melt under high temperature, and then cooled and condensed again! Now I think our main The research direction should be the green stone eggs wrapped in the stone crystal. I suspect that all the radiation and high temperature may be emitted by it, but the tools we carry are not enough to dig open the stone crystal for sampling. My opinion is to go back and get the tools , come back and sample!" After speaking, old man Zhang and the other three looked at me, wanting to hear my opinion. In fact, listening to their analysis, I already had a rough picture in my mind. Perhaps this idea had been vaguely produced since I saw Skinny Hu looking up at the sky, but there was no clear picture at that time. After their analysis, my idea suddenly became clear.I was just about to tell everyone what I thought, when I suddenly saw the rope going into the hole being slightly pulled a few times—this was the secret signal when we entered the hole, as long as the rope was pulled, it meant that something unexpected happened outside. We must go up immediately. My heart tightened, I don't know what happened outside? Seeing the rope move twice, Skinny Hu hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab it. I grabbed his wrist, shook my head at him, and said softly, "You guys wait here for a while, I'll go up and have a look!" The four engineers are guests, and they should be sleeping at home with their wives and children in their arms. To be on the safe side, I can't let them take risks.Moreover, although they are experts in deciphering the mysteries of stones, it is their turn to react and fight hand-to-hand, and they are not my opponents tied together. So I climbed up the cave lightly, using my hands and feet to prop up my body as much as possible to avoid touching the rope and arousing the vigilance of the people above. I'm not being cautious, let alone playing tricks, but the first possibility that comes to my mind, and also the biggest possibility - Lu Hua is here! Although I used my words earlier to stir up his thinking disorder and escaped, but this disorder cannot last for a long time, maybe he has recovered now.Or worse, his whole brain may be completely confused, completely controlled by pustules, and he doesn't even have any normal memory. If this is the case, Liu Zheng and the others will be even more dangerous. Except for Liu Zheng, a policeman who has undergone formal fighting training, the others above are either pampered government officials or cultural people who study and study, and they cannot be Lu Hua's opponents.But even if it was Liu Zheng, he definitely had no chance of winning because he was already old.To be honest, even if I am on it at this time, the chance of winning is almost completely non-existent. I crept up quickly, trying not to make noise with my movements.Even breathing is as low as possible. Getting closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, there is no sound outside, I don't know if I guessed wrong or they have already suffered misfortune, I hope it is the former, I prayed secretly in my heart. As I climbed forward, I took out the electric baton I had prepared before from my waist, and slightly twisted the switch. Maybe the high-voltage current released in an instant could catch Lu Hua by surprise (I want to explain here, before I came, just now I borrowed this police weapon from a police comrade. Although I am not a policeman, this comrade was obviously unprepared for me, so he lent it to me trustingly. I would like to express my thanks here). Just when I was five or six meters away from the entrance of the cave and walked forward holding my breath, the rope under me moved slightly again twice, and I saw in my eyes that the spirit of high tension was finally slightly relaxed-to be able to calm down like this Pulling the rope violently showed at least one thing, they didn't have an accident! It was already very close to the entrance of the cave, and the voices of several people's conversations could be faintly heard. "Why is there still no movement? Shall we go down and have a look?" It was Ren Yuansheng who said this. "Wait a little longer, this cave is very slippery, it's not so easy to climb!" Liu Zheng replied. "Did they not pay attention to us pulling the rope when they were busy? How about we call twice?" The voice was very strange, I think it was Fatty Li's voice. After a while of silence, he heard his voice, which was indeed much louder than before, and it should have been yelling against the entrance of the cave: "Come out quickly! There is a situation up there..." Before his yelling stopped, I turned over and climbed up the crack of the stone, which startled him, and immediately let out a cry of surprise. Seeing his panic-stricken expression, I knew that my appearance without sound, especially in the dark night, looked even more like a ghost. For a person who has been dealing with stone scrolls all year round, I am afraid it would be a shock. Ren Yuansheng and Liu Zheng also looked at me in surprise, this is because I climbed up by myself without the help of ropes. I didn't want to explain too much, so I reached out and turned off the switch of the electric baton, and asked, "What happened?"
Liu Zheng raised the walkie-talkie in his hand and said, "Something happened down the mountain. Many nearby villagers surrounded our vehicle, as if they were going to make trouble!" I was taken aback: "How could this be?" Liu Zheng shook his head: "Just now the policeman at the foot of the mountain just said a few words, the signal was cut off, and we didn't dare to leave rashly, leaving you here, so we pulled the rope and wanted to call you up first! They Woolen cloth?" "Still down there!" Fatty Li has now reacted from the panic, and then reached out and pulled the rope a few times.But he pulled it several times in a row, but the rope still didn't respond. It’s really a secret, and when we go down, we really should be equipped with a walkie-talkie, at least we won’t communicate by vague “rope language” when making contact.This is also my fault. I only asked the engineers of the Institute of Geology to study the stones, but forgot to tell them the field conditions here. But fortunately, after Fatty Li pulled the rope more than ten times in a row, the bottom end finally responded. It should be that the people inside understood the meaning of the above and pulled it to show acceptance. After another pause, the rope was pulled again, and Fatty Li and I began to pull it upwards together. The weight on the rope was about 100 catties, which was the weight of a person. Fatty naturally has some strength. Although I am also helping, the main strength is on him. However, it seems that he is not struggling. Not long after, Huang Bailian was dragged up. As soon as he came up, he raised his eyes and asked straight up, "What's wrong?" While explaining to him, the fat man tugged the rope again, and a force began to pull it downward.It stopped after a while—the rope was very long, about three times the length of the narrow hole, and a good length remained below.So even if one person is pulled up, there is still a long section left in the stone room below. Ren Yuansheng's face was a little anxious, and he suggested: "Xiao Li, you two quickly pull up the comrades below, and I, Liu Ju, and Mr. Yi will go down to see the situation first, and you will go down to find us after a while. !" Fatty Li and Huang Bailian hummed at the same time, and Liu Zhengren and Yuansheng and I hurried down the mountain. This mountain is not high. If you shout from the top of the mountain, you can hear it clearly below.However, we have all walked halfway up the mountain, and we still haven't heard the noise that should have been there below, and the silence is almost a vacuum. This made us feel even more anxious, not knowing what is going on below? Looking down from the mountainside, it was pitch black. I remember that the car lights were on before I came up, but now there seemed to be no one down there. Liu Zheng kept calling on the walkie-talkie, but there was no response.Vehicles and police officers seem to have left, or rather, they have disappeared. When the flashlight shines down, the strong beam of light is diluted by the mist rising from the field into a large halo, making it impossible to see the situation below clearly. The more I went down, the more I felt that something was wrong. In the middle of the night, when people were sleepy, why did the nearby villagers rush here to make trouble?Even if they were dissatisfied with the city government or the Public Security Bureau, then who leaked the news that we came here late at night?Wang Xiaoer?Impossible, he only knows that I went up the mountain alone, and I have no grievances with him, so why should he incite the surrounding residents to make trouble against me?Or the lights of the cars that were always on disturbed the nearby residents, so everyone came here together, but why? After walking down for a while, I estimated that I was about to reach the bottom of the mountain, but there was still silence in my ears. I suddenly felt that this silence was not a good sign. Seeing that the flashlight in Liu Zheng's hand was always on, I motioned him to turn it off quickly. Liu Zhengshun obediently turned off the flashlight and asked softly, "What's wrong?" I stretched out my index finger and made a whispering gesture, and said softly: "Something is not right, come with me!" After finishing speaking, without waiting for any reaction from the two of them, I walked diagonally to the left lightly. It can be seen that they were very puzzled, stood there for a while, and then followed gently. I was the first to lead the way, not going down, but going obliquely to the left. After walking for more than two hundred meters, I turned and went down again. We walked another two to three hundred meters, and the ground suddenly became flat, and we finally descended the mountain. It took me half an hour to get down from the top of the mountain. It seems that the night is coming to an end, because at the top of the mountain, the moon was still able to shine dimly, but now the surroundings are pitch black. This is the darkest time before dawn. . When I reached the bottom of the mountain, I turned to the right again and covered it gently. As soon as I walked a short distance, I vaguely heard the sound of tapping and tapping in front of me, as if someone was walking, but the sound was messy, and it seemed that there were many people walking around in front of me. I hurriedly stopped, reached out to grab the two of them, and squatted down gently, because the sound of tapping and tapping was too familiar, and it frightened me so familiarly. Ren Yuansheng leaned close to my ear and asked softly, "Mr. Yi, is there something wrong?" I also replied softly: "These are not ordinary people!" Ren Yuansheng naturally couldn't understand this sentence, because he didn't know my experience that night, and asked, "Isn't it an ordinary person? That's..." Before he could ask "who is that?", five beams of light suddenly shone down on the top of the mountain. I knew that it was the light of the flashlights in the hands of five engineers from the Institute of Geology. The mist was thin, so I couldn't see the figures of the five of them, but the five broad halos had vaguely illuminated a place not far from us. I could feel the vibrations in the bodies of Liu Zheng and Ren Yuansheng, and even my sixth sense could detect that Ren Yuansheng had opened his mouth and wanted to scream out, so I hurriedly stretched out my hand to cover it without waiting for the sound to come out. shut his mouth. Yes, his mouth was indeed opened, almost, if I was one step later, the scream would have already sounded! It's not how smart I am, and it's not how good my sixth sense is, but the scene in front of me is enough to shock anyone.The reason why I didn't yell out was because I had been vaguely aware of this, and Liu Zheng was able to keep silent, probably due to his various dangerous experiences in the police force for decades. How can I describe what I saw then?Later, whenever I described this to others, I hesitated for a while, not knowing what words to use to describe the feeling at that time!Although I have said it many times to different people, when I wrote this, I still couldn't help stopping my fingers, looking at the keyboard and computer screen and thinking for a long time.Not for anything else, just want to truly express my true feelings at that time. At that time, five broad halos shone down, almost illuminating the entire area with a radius of several hundred meters!In the foggy halo, hundreds of stiff figures stood upright together, with a halo of yellow halo on their hair.These people—or bodies—moved constantly, stiff and stiff, perhaps attracted by the light of the flashlights on the top of the mountain. They all turned their backs to us without exception, with their faces facing the top of the mountain. Maybe you will say, there is nothing special about it, isn't it just that there are hundreds of people standing in the halo?But if you've seen it yourself, maybe you wouldn't say that. Because in the middle of the night, in the wilderness, hundreds of people gathered together straight, neither talking to each other, nor acting casually, let alone talking or laughing, just moving their stiff bodies like puppets, kicking—tapping—nothing Restless, unspeakably weird and terrifying! Not far from the crowd, several dilapidated vehicles rolled over, and several people in police uniforms were lying on the ground, motionless. The halo only swayed here a few times, and then retracted. I think they are the same as us just now, it is impossible to see these shadowy people.Because, the light spots of the five flashlights did not turn, but moved straight down.In front of us fell into complete darkness again, as if those figures were just shadows cast by the halo. After a while, I felt that two chubby palms took the palm of my hand covering Ren Yuansheng's mouth away. Ren Yuansheng's voice trembled slightly, and he said softly in my ear: "This...what is this? What's going on? What should we do?" My mind is also in chaos, but one thing is clear, that is, we must take action, otherwise, it won't take long for the five people from the Institute of Geology to crash into the crowd unconsciously, and the result is predictable Know. After a while, Liu Zheng's voice came softly: "They must be led away!" Yes, now there is only this way to save the five ignorant people who are about to crash into danger, but that will put us in danger, but can we just watch them fall into the "trap"?Needless to say, the answer is that we have to take this risk both morally and humanly. "Mayor Ren, Bureau Liu! You stay here and don't move. I am young and have quick legs. I can't catch up with them when I run, so you take the opportunity to run in another direction. Let's meet at the Central Hospital!" I said with a smile, The tone is relaxed.But, in fact, I really don't know if these people will run as fast as Lu Hua, and if I can get away?This also only God knows. "No!" Liu Zheng and Ren Yuansheng said in unison. "It's too dangerous for you to be alone! I think we split up into three groups and run in different directions, so that everyone's pressure will be much less!" Ren Yuansheng said with a firm tone.Listening to his tone, it doesn't seem like he is discussing with us, but like giving an order.This was the first time he spoke to my guest with such indisputable force. I glanced at the two of them, knowing that they would never hide and watch me and this group of people entangle with life and death, so I had no choice but to say: "Well, let's run in three directions, and each person must leave here a hundred meters before returning." Turn on the flashlight and try to buy yourself some time, I can't tell how fast they are running!" The two nodded, so the three of us stretched out our hands and stacked them together to encourage each other. We didn't say anything more, and ran away separately, because time was running out, and the five beams of flashlights were less than two hundred meters away from here. Rice! I turned around and walked lightly to the left. After walking about 30 meters, I stopped! After all, I am young, and I still have a bit of kung fu. I have already taken advantage of the two old men who have known their fate. I am sorry for my conscience if I don’t make some sacrifices.What's more, this danger was largely caused by me. If I hadn't chosen to act at night, I'm afraid I wouldn't have encountered such a dangerous situation. I stood on the ground, took out the electric baton from my waist, turned on the switch, and counted silently in my heart. When the two of them had reached a distance of 100 meters, I suddenly pushed the switch of the flashlight open, and a flash of lightning shot forward, shining on the straight bodies of the group. The group of people turned their faces away, and everyone had the same smile on their faces—weird and cold! I yelled, "Come on, come here!" The crowd moved instantly, and there was a sound of tapping and tapping, and several figures had already arrived at my side like galloping leopards. The speed far exceeded my expectations. At this moment, two more beams of light shot over from the darkness on the left and right, and the crowd began to disperse, but most of them still ran towards me. It will not be the first choice for anyone. The five people at the foot of the mountain also noticed the abnormality, and the light of the five flashlights shone over together and condensed on the spot.
They circled around the smooth stone egg several times and praised it a lot, then took out various equipment to test the stone egg. I knew nothing about this meticulous scientific examination work, so I was the only idler among the five, so while they were busy, I began to search this small stone room carefully to see if I could Nothing else of greater value could be found. I searched carefully and found that there was nothing but stones, some bread bags and mineral water bottles thrown everywhere.This showed that Lu Hua and Bai Feng had indeed stayed in this stone room for several days. But the stones here are a bit weird, unlike the rocks in the outer stone room, which are uneven, sharp and corrugated, they seem to have been carefully polished with sandpaper. The entire stone room is like the inner wall of an eggshell, extremely smooth!And the surface is black, as if it has been ironed evenly with high temperature. I asked the old man Zhang who was walking past me: "Look, why is this rock such a color?" Old man Zhang leaned close to the wall and licked it with his tongue, then made a small hole with the electric drill in his hand, put the stone chips dug out in his palm, looked carefully for a long time, sniffed it with his nose, and answered with absolute certainty. Said: "This place must have been scorched by high temperature. After the stone melted, it condensed again!" At this time, Liu Yanyan was holding a meter in his hand and kept turning around the stone egg, as if he was grinding, and the meter in his hand made irregular creaking noises. While looking at the instrument, Liu was busy writing something down in his notebook. But Huang Bailian kept drilling holes in the stone egg with an electric drill. It can be seen that the stone egg is very hard, because the electric drill broke the drill bit after drilling for a while, and he had to squat down and replace it with a new one. Yes, I kept changing four drill bits before I finally made a hole the size of a little finger in the stone egg, took out the stone sample and put it in a sealed bag. Another geological engineer, Slender Hu, was using a flash camera to take pictures of the stone eggs, making the whole stone room seem to be lighting up with lightning, flashing fluorescent light on and off. I walked around the stone room several times, but found no other traces, so I squatted aside to watch other people's work. The four of them tossed and tossed for more than an hour before it came to an end. Old man Zhang said, "Have you got the preliminary test results?" Huang Bailian said: "The stone is abnormally hard. It can be preliminarily determined that it is a stone crystal obtained after forging, but as for the composition, we can only determine the formation age and stone composition after going back for inspection!" "Judging from the radiation value detected by the instrument, this stone egg has a strong radiation wave. It is preliminarily estimated that this radiation wave is no less than the amount of radiation brought by a nuclear bomb explosion, but it is hard to say whether it is harmful to the human body. I can analyze it further!" Liu said slowly while looking at the notebook. Slender Hu said: "I just recorded the shape of the stone egg as a picture, there is no conclusion!" The old man Zhang pondered: "The stone wall was baked at high temperature. I suspect that this stone egg once released a violent high temperature, which forced the entire surface of the stone wall to melt under high temperature, and then cooled and condensed again! Now I think our main The research direction should be the green stone eggs wrapped in the stone crystal. I suspect that all the radiation and high temperature may be emitted by it, but the tools we carry are not enough to dig open the stone crystal for sampling. My opinion is to go back and get the tools , come back and sample!" After speaking, old man Zhang and the other three looked at me, wanting to hear my opinion. In fact, listening to their analysis, I already had a rough picture in my mind. Perhaps this idea had been vaguely produced since I saw Skinny Hu looking up at the sky, but there was no clear picture at that time. After their analysis, my idea suddenly became clear.I was just about to tell everyone what I thought, when I suddenly saw the rope going into the hole being slightly pulled a few times—this was the secret signal when we entered the hole, as long as the rope was pulled, it meant that something unexpected happened outside. We must go up immediately. My heart tightened, I don't know what happened outside? Seeing the rope move twice, Skinny Hu hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab it. I grabbed his wrist, shook my head at him, and said softly, "You guys wait here for a while, I'll go up and have a look!" The four engineers are guests, and they should be sleeping at home with their wives and children in their arms. To be on the safe side, I can't let them take risks.Moreover, although they are experts in deciphering the mysteries of stones, it is their turn to react and fight hand-to-hand, and they are not my opponents tied together. So I climbed up the cave lightly, using my hands and feet to prop up my body as much as possible to avoid touching the rope and arousing the vigilance of the people above. I'm not being cautious, let alone playing tricks, but the first possibility that comes to my mind, and also the biggest possibility - Lu Hua is here! Although I used my words earlier to stir up his thinking disorder and escaped, but this disorder cannot last for a long time, maybe he has recovered now.Or worse, his whole brain may be completely confused, completely controlled by pustules, and he doesn't even have any normal memory. If this is the case, Liu Zheng and the others will be even more dangerous. Except for Liu Zheng, a policeman who has undergone formal fighting training, the others above are either pampered government officials or cultural people who study and study, and they cannot be Lu Hua's opponents.But even if it was Liu Zheng, he definitely had no chance of winning because he was already old.To be honest, even if I am on it at this time, the chance of winning is almost completely non-existent. I crept up quickly, trying not to make noise with my movements.Even breathing is as low as possible. Getting closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, there is no sound outside, I don't know if I guessed wrong or they have already suffered misfortune, I hope it is the former, I prayed secretly in my heart. As I climbed forward, I took out the electric baton I had prepared before from my waist, and slightly twisted the switch. Maybe the high-voltage current released in an instant could catch Lu Hua by surprise (I want to explain here, before I came, just now I borrowed this police weapon from a police comrade. Although I am not a policeman, this comrade was obviously unprepared for me, so he lent it to me trustingly. I would like to express my thanks here). Just when I was five or six meters away from the entrance of the cave and walked forward holding my breath, the rope under me moved slightly again twice, and I saw in my eyes that the spirit of high tension was finally slightly relaxed-to be able to calm down like this Pulling the rope violently showed at least one thing, they didn't have an accident! It was already very close to the entrance of the cave, and the voices of several people's conversations could be faintly heard. "Why is there still no movement? Shall we go down and have a look?" It was Ren Yuansheng who said this. "Wait a little longer, this cave is very slippery, it's not so easy to climb!" Liu Zheng replied. "Did they not pay attention to us pulling the rope when they were busy? How about we call twice?" The voice was very strange, I think it was Fatty Li's voice. After a while of silence, he heard his voice, which was indeed much louder than before, and it should have been yelling against the entrance of the cave: "Come out quickly! There is a situation up there..." Before his yelling stopped, I turned over and climbed up the crack of the stone, which startled him, and immediately let out a cry of surprise. Seeing his panic-stricken expression, I knew that my appearance without sound, especially in the dark night, looked even more like a ghost. For a person who has been dealing with stone scrolls all year round, I am afraid it would be a shock. Ren Yuansheng and Liu Zheng also looked at me in surprise, this is because I climbed up by myself without the help of ropes. I didn't want to explain too much, so I reached out and turned off the switch of the electric baton, and asked, "What happened?"
Liu Zheng raised the walkie-talkie in his hand and said, "Something happened down the mountain. Many nearby villagers surrounded our vehicle, as if they were going to make trouble!" I was taken aback: "How could this be?" Liu Zheng shook his head: "Just now the policeman at the foot of the mountain just said a few words, the signal was cut off, and we didn't dare to leave rashly, leaving you here, so we pulled the rope and wanted to call you up first! They Woolen cloth?" "Still down there!" Fatty Li has now reacted from the panic, and then reached out and pulled the rope a few times.But he pulled it several times in a row, but the rope still didn't respond. It’s really a secret, and when we go down, we really should be equipped with a walkie-talkie, at least we won’t communicate by vague “rope language” when making contact.This is also my fault. I only asked the engineers of the Institute of Geology to study the stones, but forgot to tell them the field conditions here. But fortunately, after Fatty Li pulled the rope more than ten times in a row, the bottom end finally responded. It should be that the people inside understood the meaning of the above and pulled it to show acceptance. After another pause, the rope was pulled again, and Fatty Li and I began to pull it upwards together. The weight on the rope was about 100 catties, which was the weight of a person. Fatty naturally has some strength. Although I am also helping, the main strength is on him. However, it seems that he is not struggling. Not long after, Huang Bailian was dragged up. As soon as he came up, he raised his eyes and asked straight up, "What's wrong?" While explaining to him, the fat man tugged the rope again, and a force began to pull it downward.It stopped after a while—the rope was very long, about three times the length of the narrow hole, and a good length remained below.So even if one person is pulled up, there is still a long section left in the stone room below. Ren Yuansheng's face was a little anxious, and he suggested: "Xiao Li, you two quickly pull up the comrades below, and I, Liu Ju, and Mr. Yi will go down to see the situation first, and you will go down to find us after a while. !" Fatty Li and Huang Bailian hummed at the same time, and Liu Zhengren and Yuansheng and I hurried down the mountain. This mountain is not high. If you shout from the top of the mountain, you can hear it clearly below.However, we have all walked halfway up the mountain, and we still haven't heard the noise that should have been there below, and the silence is almost a vacuum. This made us feel even more anxious, not knowing what is going on below? Looking down from the mountainside, it was pitch black. I remember that the car lights were on before I came up, but now there seemed to be no one down there. Liu Zheng kept calling on the walkie-talkie, but there was no response.Vehicles and police officers seem to have left, or rather, they have disappeared. When the flashlight shines down, the strong beam of light is diluted by the mist rising from the field into a large halo, making it impossible to see the situation below clearly. The more I went down, the more I felt that something was wrong. In the middle of the night, when people were sleepy, why did the nearby villagers rush here to make trouble?Even if they were dissatisfied with the city government or the Public Security Bureau, then who leaked the news that we came here late at night?Wang Xiaoer?Impossible, he only knows that I went up the mountain alone, and I have no grievances with him, so why should he incite the surrounding residents to make trouble against me?Or the lights of the cars that were always on disturbed the nearby residents, so everyone came here together, but why? After walking down for a while, I estimated that I was about to reach the bottom of the mountain, but there was still silence in my ears. I suddenly felt that this silence was not a good sign. Seeing that the flashlight in Liu Zheng's hand was always on, I motioned him to turn it off quickly. Liu Zhengshun obediently turned off the flashlight and asked softly, "What's wrong?" I stretched out my index finger and made a whispering gesture, and said softly: "Something is not right, come with me!" After finishing speaking, without waiting for any reaction from the two of them, I walked diagonally to the left lightly. It can be seen that they were very puzzled, stood there for a while, and then followed gently. I was the first to lead the way, not going down, but going obliquely to the left. After walking for more than two hundred meters, I turned and went down again. We walked another two to three hundred meters, and the ground suddenly became flat, and we finally descended the mountain. It took me half an hour to get down from the top of the mountain. It seems that the night is coming to an end, because at the top of the mountain, the moon was still able to shine dimly, but now the surroundings are pitch black. This is the darkest time before dawn. . When I reached the bottom of the mountain, I turned to the right again and covered it gently. As soon as I walked a short distance, I vaguely heard the sound of tapping and tapping in front of me, as if someone was walking, but the sound was messy, and it seemed that there were many people walking around in front of me. I hurriedly stopped, reached out to grab the two of them, and squatted down gently, because the sound of tapping and tapping was too familiar, and it frightened me so familiarly. Ren Yuansheng leaned close to my ear and asked softly, "Mr. Yi, is there something wrong?" I also replied softly: "These are not ordinary people!" Ren Yuansheng naturally couldn't understand this sentence, because he didn't know my experience that night, and asked, "Isn't it an ordinary person? That's..." Before he could ask "who is that?", five beams of light suddenly shone down on the top of the mountain. I knew that it was the light of the flashlights in the hands of five engineers from the Institute of Geology. The mist was thin, so I couldn't see the figures of the five of them, but the five broad halos had vaguely illuminated a place not far from us. I could feel the vibrations in the bodies of Liu Zheng and Ren Yuansheng, and even my sixth sense could detect that Ren Yuansheng had opened his mouth and wanted to scream out, so I hurriedly stretched out my hand to cover it without waiting for the sound to come out. shut his mouth. Yes, his mouth was indeed opened, almost, if I was one step later, the scream would have already sounded! It's not how smart I am, and it's not how good my sixth sense is, but the scene in front of me is enough to shock anyone.The reason why I didn't yell out was because I had been vaguely aware of this, and Liu Zheng was able to keep silent, probably due to his various dangerous experiences in the police force for decades. How can I describe what I saw then?Later, whenever I described this to others, I hesitated for a while, not knowing what words to use to describe the feeling at that time!Although I have said it many times to different people, when I wrote this, I still couldn't help stopping my fingers, looking at the keyboard and computer screen and thinking for a long time.Not for anything else, just want to truly express my true feelings at that time. At that time, five broad halos shone down, almost illuminating the entire area with a radius of several hundred meters!In the foggy halo, hundreds of stiff figures stood upright together, with a halo of yellow halo on their hair.These people—or bodies—moved constantly, stiff and stiff, perhaps attracted by the light of the flashlights on the top of the mountain. They all turned their backs to us without exception, with their faces facing the top of the mountain. Maybe you will say, there is nothing special about it, isn't it just that there are hundreds of people standing in the halo?But if you've seen it yourself, maybe you wouldn't say that. Because in the middle of the night, in the wilderness, hundreds of people gathered together straight, neither talking to each other, nor acting casually, let alone talking or laughing, just moving their stiff bodies like puppets, kicking—tapping—nothing Restless, unspeakably weird and terrifying! Not far from the crowd, several dilapidated vehicles rolled over, and several people in police uniforms were lying on the ground, motionless. The halo only swayed here a few times, and then retracted. I think they are the same as us just now, it is impossible to see these shadowy people.Because, the light spots of the five flashlights did not turn, but moved straight down.In front of us fell into complete darkness again, as if those figures were just shadows cast by the halo. After a while, I felt that two chubby palms took the palm of my hand covering Ren Yuansheng's mouth away. Ren Yuansheng's voice trembled slightly, and he said softly in my ear: "This...what is this? What's going on? What should we do?" My mind is also in chaos, but one thing is clear, that is, we must take action, otherwise, it won't take long for the five people from the Institute of Geology to crash into the crowd unconsciously, and the result is predictable Know. After a while, Liu Zheng's voice came softly: "They must be led away!" Yes, now there is only this way to save the five ignorant people who are about to crash into danger, but that will put us in danger, but can we just watch them fall into the "trap"?Needless to say, the answer is that we have to take this risk both morally and humanly. "Mayor Ren, Bureau Liu! You stay here and don't move. I am young and have quick legs. I can't catch up with them when I run, so you take the opportunity to run in another direction. Let's meet at the Central Hospital!" I said with a smile, The tone is relaxed.But, in fact, I really don't know if these people will run as fast as Lu Hua, and if I can get away?This also only God knows. "No!" Liu Zheng and Ren Yuansheng said in unison. "It's too dangerous for you to be alone! I think we split up into three groups and run in different directions, so that everyone's pressure will be much less!" Ren Yuansheng said with a firm tone.Listening to his tone, it doesn't seem like he is discussing with us, but like giving an order.This was the first time he spoke to my guest with such indisputable force. I glanced at the two of them, knowing that they would never hide and watch me and this group of people entangle with life and death, so I had no choice but to say: "Well, let's run in three directions, and each person must leave here a hundred meters before returning." Turn on the flashlight and try to buy yourself some time, I can't tell how fast they are running!" The two nodded, so the three of us stretched out our hands and stacked them together to encourage each other. We didn't say anything more, and ran away separately, because time was running out, and the five beams of flashlights were less than two hundred meters away from here. Rice! I turned around and walked lightly to the left. After walking about 30 meters, I stopped! After all, I am young, and I still have a bit of kung fu. I have already taken advantage of the two old men who have known their fate. I am sorry for my conscience if I don’t make some sacrifices.What's more, this danger was largely caused by me. If I hadn't chosen to act at night, I'm afraid I wouldn't have encountered such a dangerous situation. I stood on the ground, took out the electric baton from my waist, turned on the switch, and counted silently in my heart. When the two of them had reached a distance of 100 meters, I suddenly pushed the switch of the flashlight open, and a flash of lightning shot forward, shining on the straight bodies of the group. The group of people turned their faces away, and everyone had the same smile on their faces—weird and cold! I yelled, "Come on, come here!" The crowd moved instantly, and there was a sound of tapping and tapping, and several figures had already arrived at my side like galloping leopards. The speed far exceeded my expectations. At this moment, two more beams of light shot over from the darkness on the left and right, and the crowd began to disperse, but most of them still ran towards me. It will not be the first choice for anyone. The five people at the foot of the mountain also noticed the abnormality, and the light of the five flashlights shone over together and condensed on the spot.