Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Usman's Head

The iron box was carried out of the cave by Kangbasa with difficulty, and they walked out of Brunjapu's den. Brunjapu excitedly shook Yuan Sen's hand and said, "I have done half my life for Yao Lebosi, thank you You told me that Yao Lebos has passed away, and the secret I kept for him for fifty years is finally coming to an end! Thank you!" The old man Brunjapo said, and shed tears.Yuan Sen didn't know how to comfort him. Brunja Pu looked at the crowd, waved to them, and slowly returned to the den, closing the wooden door. A thin line of whiteness appeared in the depths of the horizon, and after a night of tossing, it was almost dawn.

Yuan Sen and the others loaded the iron box into the car and drove to Urumqi.They all knew that the iron box was of great importance, and they did not rest along the way. When they passed through the urban area, they sent people to buy food and ate it, and then they took turns driving to Urumqi.Wang Hui had contacted Dr. Tian in advance, and the doctor arranged for someone from a secret agency in Urumqi to meet them.They completed the handover of the iron boxes before dark, and a group of people escorted the iron boxes out of the agency compound and headed for the 755th Division's garrison.

Yuan Sen watched the convoy that received the iron boxes drift away, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.If it can be confirmed that the iron box belongs to one of the two boxes that led to the destruction of Loulan, the mystery of Professor Yang Jian's whereabouts and the mystery of the mutation of the four-handed and four-legged monster can be easily solved. A happy ending for all. However, there was a faint uneasiness in his heart, and he felt that the development of the matter would not be as simple as imagined. Since he intervened in the mystery, strange things have happened one after another, and it has never been smooth!

That night, Wang Hui arranged for them to stay in the nearest hotel. After getting ready to rest, he rushed to the headquarters of the 755th Division early the next morning to report the expedition experience to Dr. Tian in detail. Yuan Sen had a big meal at the hotel, then went back to his room to take a hearty hot bath, and then climbed into the large and comfortable bed.In order to reward everyone this time, Wang Hui specially applied to Dr. Tian for a luxury suite in a five-star hotel.Yuan Sen lay comfortably on the bed and fell asleep. He slept until dawn. He didn't open the door sleepily wrapped in a bath towel until he heard the sound of banging on the door.

When he opened the door and saw Wang Hui outside, he was shocked.Wang Hui gave him a cold look and said, "Something happened to the iron box. We will meet downstairs in ten minutes. I will explain it to you in detail." Yuan Sen closed the door, patted his head in frustration, and sighed secretly: "It's hard to sleep even for peace of mind. Sure enough, something happened—" He washed up hastily, put on his clothes and went out. Wang Hui and Kang Basa were already waiting for him at the hotel entrance.After arriving at the door, Ai Kailam glared at him and said, "Brother Yuan, look at you, what happened to you, you are the only one who moves slowly."

Yuan Sen waved his fist at him and jumped into the co-driver's seat. Wang Hui started the car, and the off-road vehicle accelerated rapidly around the parabola of the hotel gate, and soon got involved in the vast traffic on the street. Wang Hui drove the car to a suburb of the city and said: "Last night, the convoy escorting the iron boxes was ambushed on a large scale, causing huge casualties. " Yuan Sen glanced at the others, everyone was very confused, he said: "I think, is it another mysterious organization that has been following behind us to make trouble? Pseudo special forces, strange people from the ancient city of Iberis, and Song Qing , I always feel connected to that organization.”

Wang Huidao: "It's possible, but what's ridiculous is that we have such powerful resources, but we have been manipulated by this organization all the time, and we don't even have the power to fight back." Having said that, Wang Hui slapped the steering wheel with a slap: "If something goes wrong, I will always just check and check—" A group of people looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Ai Kailam looked at Wang Hui and Yuan Sen cautiously, and said, "Then—is this the end of the next clue?" Wang Hui took a deep breath, suppressed her emotions, and said, "No, Dr. Tian found a clue recently. He found a soldier who collected Usman's body when he shot the Ashan bandit. According to him, , after Usman died, a vision appeared on his bones."

"Vision?" "Usman was shot and cremated after being judged. After burning, his skull could not be burned, and it was burned into a black mass. The soldiers in charge of the cremation were very scared and reported to their superiors. Engaging in sports, advocating atheism, and cremating the soldiers was criticized, and he dared not report any more.” Yuan Sen and the others were very surprised. They had never heard of people who could not be burned. Is there anything special about Usman's head? Wang Huidao: "I agree with Dr. Tian. Usman's inability to burn his skull may have something to do with the fact that he saw the bronze mirror in the Boneyard of Civilization X."

Yuan Sen also thought of this section, but couldn't believe it.In his opinion, people who looked at the bronze mirror died strangely afterwards.The biggest possibility is that after looking at the bronze mirror, they will have hallucinations, and what they see in their eyes has changed, which led to them all dying in a bizarre way.He didn't expect that the body of the person who saw the bronze mirror would change. "Are you sure about this?" Yuan Sen asked. Wang Huidao: "Dr. Tian heard the news, and the reliability is more than 90%. He told us to ignore the robbery of the iron box and go to Kaziwan immediately to find an old corpse burner named Wang Dongjian."

After all, Wang Hui drove the car and went around the road.On the way, she warned everyone that a secret mysterious organization may have been following them, and may have left a bugging device on their car or someone, so everyone must be careful not to let others get ahead of them in everything. Half an hour later, they arrived at Kaziwan, which is the second crematorium in Urumqi. After notifying the guard room of the visitor's intention, Wang Hui revealed her military identity again. The guard on duty made a phone call and finally decided to meet in a reception room. What Yuan Sen and the others saw in the reception room was an old man in his fifties. The old man was sitting drinking tea. He looked up at the five of them and said, "Are you from the military?"

Wang Hui nodded and said, "755 Special Combat Preparedness Division." The old man invited them to sit down, handed them teacups one by one, and said, "We don't seem to have any contact with the military. What's your purpose?" Wang Huidao: "The old man Wang Dongjian we are looking for is already seventy-eight years old, it can't be you, old man?" The old man smiled and said: "My name is Wang Zhonglin, and I am the director here. The Wang Dongjian you mentioned is my father. He passed away at the beginning of this year." When Wang Zhonglin said this, everyone's hearts sank, and Yuan Sen sighed secretly, breaking another important clue. Wang Hui sipped tea, pondered for a while, and said to Wang Zhonglin: "Is this reception room of yours soundproof? We need a secret place to talk about military secrets. I know your father was a soldier before, and I learned that he passed away. , We are very sad, and some things still need your cooperation." Wang Zhonglin nodded, thought for a while, and said, "There is a very secret place, which is my old office." He took Yuan Sen and the others to a small room on the bottom floor of the building. There was an old-fashioned iron lock on the door, and there was a layer of rust on the lock.Unlocking the lock, Wang Zhonglin explained that this office has been useless for three or four years. He used to be in charge of the safety work of the crematorium. It is close to the crematorium, so it is convenient for work and rest. He has lived here for many years.Later, when he was promoted, people thought the house was too dark and dared not use it, so it remained empty. Wang Zhonglin turned on the light, and the room was really covered with dust.Wang Zhonglin wiped the old sofa clean with a rag, and invited Yuan Sen and the others to sit down. Wang Hui closed the door of the room and said straight to the point: "Mr. Wang, have you heard of Usman's head?" Wang Zhonglin was cleaning the table, he raised his head, Yuan Sen saw his face was covered with dim light, a terrified expression flashed, and then returned to normal.Yuan Sen knew in his heart that Dr. Tian's news was probably true. Wang Zhonglin smiled calmly, and said, "What are you talking about? It happened decades ago. If my father hadn't been upright and insisted on reporting to the leader, he wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable situation later on, alas!" "How to say?" Wang Zhonglin said: "Usman's body was burned by my father. If you can find it here, I believe you know about it. After the burning of Usman's body, there is only a black skull left. No matter how you burn it It didn’t melt. My father felt strange, so he added fuel and burned it for three days and three nights. The skull was burned like black iron, but not even a layer of skin was burned. My father panicked, thinking he saw a ghost, and reported it. To the leader, the leader criticized my father without asking about the facts. Later, during the "Cultural Revolution", when the army rectified, someone took this matter and forced my father to retire from the regiment. After retiring, I My father could have gone to a unit with good treatment, where is the rank of the army, but he strongly demanded to be transferred to the crematorium. He has been worried about Usman's skull all his life, and because of this retirement, he always feels that he doesn't know why The thing is, he will never live in peace in this life. He burned the corpses for decades, but he has never found a corpse that could not be burned, and it is difficult to rest in peace until he dies." After listening to Wang Zhonglin's narration, Yuan Sen's heart trembled. Usman's corpse could indeed be said to be of a different kind.It's a pity that the bones of other people who have seen the bronze mirror of Civilization X's burial ground are hard to find. Song Qing fell off the cliff, and the archaeological team died for so many years. If the unmelted bones are dug up and compared, it can be determined whether it was caused by the bronze mirror. Wang Huidao: "Where did Usman's skull go, do you know?" Wang Zhonglin said: "My father discovered that there was something wrong with the skull, but he didn't dare to report it, so he secretly took the skull and buried it in a secret place. According to his old man, when he was seventy years old, he secretly dug the skull by himself. It’s been almost half a century, and the skull is still intact.” Wang Hui said: "We came to you this time to understand the situation because there is an important matter related to Usman. His skull will be the key to solving the problem. After solving the puzzle of the skull, it may be able to solve your problem." Father's heart knot for many years." Wang Zhonglin said very sincerely: "I understand the situation, and I am willing to cooperate with you in finding Usman's skull. I am also eager to unlock this secret." Wang Hui stared into Wang Zhonglin's eyes and said, "Then do you have time now? This matter is very urgent." Wang Zhonglin nodded, picked up the receiver of the phone, and said, "I'll make arrangements and I'll accompany you to set off right away." After Wang Zhonglin arranged the crematorium, he drove a car to lead the way, and the two cars went one by one to a suburb of Urumqi.Decades ago, it used to be a military base. Later, the army adjusted and revoked the base. When they passed by the ruins of the base, they could still see the abandoned barracks and the mottled propaganda murals on the barracks. Wang Zhonglin parked the car by a river not far from the barracks, and said, "This is the army my father used to be in. Now this army has withdrawn even the designation, and my father has passed away." Ai Kailam comforted him and said: "I said, old man, don't always be so sad. You see your father is gone. A young and ideal guy like me has come to this wonderful world again. There is always hope in life. ,Yes or no?" Yuan Sen kicked him and said angrily, "Stop making trouble." Wang Zhonglin made gestures on the river beach for a while, and then determined the location. Yuan Sen found tools such as engineering shovels from the car and distributed them to Akailamu and Kangbasa. The three strong men dug about two meters on the river beach, and sure enough, they dug out an iron box half a meter long.The iron box was severely corroded, and when it was picked up and pressed, the iron sheet collapsed, and it was completely corroded. Wang Hui took the box, handed it to Wang Zhonglin, and said, "This is your father's property. It's best for you to open it." Wang Zhonglin nodded, took the iron box solemnly, and placed it on a flat ground.He bowed to the iron box a few more times to comfort the souls of his father and the bandit leader Usman. Then, with both hands, he lifted the lid of the iron box upwards, and the fragments of the iron box flew like pieces of paper. stand up.A jet-black skull suddenly appeared in the iron box. This is the head of the bandit Usman, who once dominated the situation from the Altai Mountains to the Zhenxi Grassland, frightened the herdsmen and once caused headaches for the supreme ruler of Xinjiang.He was the Batur of the Kazakhs, and he was once the spiritual leader of the Kazakhs. He blew all over Ashan and Zhenxi like a gust of wind, and finally turned against the people. He was defeated and executed by shooting. Yuan Sen squatted down and touched Usman's skull. There was a layer of metallic luster on the pitch-black skull. Yuan Sen's hand touched the skull, and even felt like touching metal. A terrible idea popped up in Yuan Sen's heart, could it be that Usman's skull is made of metal?This is incredible. Wang Hui found an exquisite cardboard box from the car and put the skull into it. She said to Yuan Sen and the others: "Get in the car immediately and evacuate here quickly. Things will change after a long time." Yuan Sen came back to his senses and jumped into the car.They soon broke up with Wang Zhonglin at a crossroads. Wang Hui confessed some confidential things to him, and promised that if the mystery of Usman's death was solved, he would be notified as soon as possible, so as to comfort his father's spirit in heaven. Wang Hui drove very fast. They crossed the urban area of ​​Urumqi, went to another suburb of the urban area, entered the grassland, and successfully arrived at the barracks of the 755th Division that afternoon. Wang Hui had already called Dr. Tian, ​​who received them in a conference room. When Dr. Tian saw Yuan Sen, he exchanged pleasantries for a while, but soon got to the point.Wang Hui put Usman's skull on the conference table and opened the cardboard box. Dr. Tian's eyes suddenly widened.He circled around the shiny black skull, and then sternly scanned everyone present, saying: "I guess this skull is made of refractory metal, no wonder it won't burn out." Yuan Sen was startled, and looked at Dr. Tian blankly, his guess turned out to be right.However, how can a human skull turn into metal? Isn't that outrageous?As an intellectual with a background in natural science, he can hardly believe the facts in front of him no matter what. This transformation is impossible due to emotion, reason and logic. How did it come true? Dr. Tian made a few phone calls and arranged for someone to come and take the skull for testing. After further scientific analysis on the age, material, and cause of formation, he would issue a report. No matter what the result was, he would report it as soon as possible. After everything was arranged properly, someone brought tea and snacks. Dr. Tian smiled at everyone and said, "It's dangerous to eat and sleep outside. I'm going home today. Try my Wuyishan Dahongpao. It's all natural." Yuan Sen took half a sip of the tea, the tea tasted sweet, and a refreshing tea fragrance entered his throat, and slowly spread to all parts of his body, Yuan Sen couldn't help but feel refreshed. Ai Kailam took half a sip, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Old man Tian, ​​you officials know how to enjoy it. Master Ai has never had such a good tea in his life. It is sweet and fragrant. , It’s really good. Remember to give me two boxes when we leave later.” Dr. Tian laughed loudly and said, "It's easy to talk about—" Wang Hui said seriously: "Doctor, is there any news about the iron box? It has a lot to do with it!" Dr. Tian sighed, and said: "People from all walks of life have been sent out. The intelligence department, national security, and police are all stepping up their work, but we haven't got any clues yet. There has always been such a force behind us, elusive, and I have also Arranging people to track them, but with little success, which led to us being pinched and played by others." Dr. Tian communicated with them for several hours this time, inquired about their encounters during this period in detail, and then arranged a sumptuous dinner for them.After the meal, the doctor arranged for them to stay in the highest-level guest house in the army.Yuan Sen and the others lived in the guest house for about a week.One day he was bored after dinner and was reading a novel about mysterious events in Xinjiang. He was fascinated by it when he suddenly received a call from Dr. Tian’s secretary, saying that Dr. Tian asked them to have a meeting in a conference room in half an hour and there was progress. up. Yuan Sen got ready immediately, and a car came to pick him up after a while, and he jumped into the car.At that time, Wang Hui and Kang Basa also arrived, and the doctor's seat was still vacant.Not long after, Dr. Tian, ​​Ekailam, and Bahargul entered the office one after another.The doctor asked his secretary to connect the projector, he turned on the laptop and signaled the secretary to go out. The secretary closed the door of the conference room, Dr. Tian opened a computer document, and the title of the document appeared on the projector: Analysis Report of Usman's Skull. Yuan Sen and the others all stared wide-eyed. They were looking forward to the results of the test, but they began to fear inexplicably in their hearts. Dr. Tian clicked on the first page of the report, and a row of text appeared on the projector. Yuan Sen suppressed his excitement and read the content word by word.The more he looked down, the more frightened he felt. The results of Usman's skull test report were completely unexpected to him, or in other words, the contents of the report completely exceeded his speculation.After seeing it, he actually felt as if something was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't even speak. According to the report, the dark skull has been tested and determined to be neither metal nor non-metal, it is something in between, so far, in the known field of chemistry, it has not been found over such substances.It has high heat resistance. In order to test its heat resistance, experts once put this skull into a high-temperature steelmaking furnace at 3000 ° C. The skull is still intact, and even a layer of skin has not been melted.This test result shocked all the experts present, and it could almost rewrite many theories in the field of natural chemistry. Medical experts have confirmed through inspection that, except for the material, this skull is exactly the same as a normal person's head, and there is nothing special about it.However, the appearance, shape, and details of this skull are no different from normal skulls. If it is just a mold, it is too similar, right?There are some details that can only be formed by natural growth, which cannot be made by artificial molds. It is really strange that this skull has these natural growth details.In theory, this should be a normal human skull.It's just that normal human bones should be composed of calcium and phosphate, but this skull looks a lot like metal. A group of experts finally concluded that after research and analysis, it is temporarily impossible to determine the composition and origin of the skull. It is preliminarily speculated that the skull belongs to extraterrestrial organisms. In fact, the owner of this skull is Usman, the bandit leader who has been in Xinjiang for many years, a very normal person. Dr. Tian looked at the final conclusion of the report, smoked a cigarette, exhaled the smoke ring and said, "After researching for a long time, the conclusion is that it belongs to the skull of an extraterrestrial creature, nonsense!" Ai Kailam was there drinking Wuyishan Dahongpao vigorously, and he also responded: "Sure enough, it's nonsense, what are you talking about chemical experts, medical experts. After checking and checking, the conclusion is just one sentence, and I don't know it. What is it. I don’t know what it is, it’s an alien, right? It’s nonsense.” Wang Huidao: "Doctor, have you found the tomb of the member of the archaeological team who discovered the burial site of Civilization X?" Dr. Tian blew a smoke ring and said: "That organization destroyed all their files, and we found a vague list after a lot of effort. We sent people to check it a few days ago, and there were two The corpses were buried, and the others were cremated, and the people who cremated the corpses also went to the crematorium, and they haven’t heard of anything that can’t be burned.” "Did the results of those two buried corpses come out?" Dr. Tian shook his head. Suddenly the phone in front of him rang. Dr. Tian picked up the receiver and said hello. After talking on the other end for about ten minutes, Dr. Tian hung up the phone. Dr. Tian took a few more puffs of cigarettes, and then said to everyone: "The corpses of the two buried archaeologists have also been inspected, and one of them has completely melted away, and the remaining part of the bones has been analyzed. It is similar to normal people. The bones are the same." Yuan Sen has been pondering the contents of the report, the material of this skull can't be identified, and it doesn't belong to any known substance, which makes him unacceptable.He also didn't believe that this skull belonged to extraterrestrial creatures, because Usman had been active in the history of Xinjiang, he was a normal person, how could he leave such a thing after death? The examination of the corpses of the archaeologists completely negated the claim that Wu Siman had illuminated the bronze mirror in the Boneyard of Civilization X to cause the mutation of the skull, and all the clues seemed to be at a dead end.Yuan Sen tried to recall his encounters during this period several times, trying to find a new point of connection, a new fire flashed, so that he could find a direction, no matter whether it is absolutely correct or not, at least there is a direction. He thought for a long time before giving up.The office was very quiet, Wang Hui looked at the curtains in the office, seemed to be lost in thought, Kang Basa carefully took notes, Akailam still did not give up tasting Dr. Tian’s famous tea, his junior sister Bahargul was secretly watching he. Dr. Tian, ​​on the other hand, has been smoking a cigarette, looking preoccupied. After smoking his last cigarette, Dr. Tian said, "Go to the ancient city of Rafjok to find Brengapu, the guard captain of Yaolebosi. He seems to have said that Usman had a strange experience in Beita Mountain." Dr. Tian looked at Yuan Sen and Wang Hui, and Wang Hui said: "Yes, it is said that Usman surrendered without a fight in the end of the bandit suppression operation. What happened to the tens of thousands of Kazakh militiamen he led in the Beita Mountain area? The situation was severe, non-combat attrition accounted for more than 50%, most of the remaining remnants surrendered, Usman fled to Altun Mountain, and was later captured." Dr. Tian listened quietly to Wang Hui's speech, and said, "I went to check the documents of the suppression of bandits, and there is indeed such a thing." Yuan Sen asked in surprise, "How?" Dr. Tian said: "This matter is very strange. With Usman's appeal in the Kazakh tribe, the possibility of internal strife is very small. He may have encountered something in Beita Mountain on the border between China and Mongolia." After a pause, he said , "So, I hope you can go to Beita Mountain again."