Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Map Puzzles

Yuan Sen stayed in the underground cave, all his attention was attracted by the fake special forces.He felt a little strange about the deciphered spell inscription, because there were no other clues at the time, so he didn't think about it carefully. Now that he thinks about it, he suddenly feels very wrong.This strange feeling is not clear, but it really exists.Wang Hui glanced at him and said, "The following may be more complicated than we thought. We walked too hastily, and maybe lost valuable clues." Yuan Sen agreed, and said, "I also think it's necessary for us to go down again, maybe we can find clues, and Professor Yang Jian has left, so there should be no obstacles."

Not far away, the special forces were fighting fiercely with the group of pigs.The special forces had a limited number of flamethrowers, and the yin pigs followed one after another like moths to a flame, gradually forming a momentum to overwhelm them, forcing the special forces into a dead corner of defense.The circle formed by a group of people became smaller and smaller, and Yuan Sen and Wang Hui were surrounded in the middle.Yuan Sen was secretly anxious, there was no possibility of escaping if this went on, and at worst, he would return the Human Pitu to these beasts.After returning to the camp, it would not be difficult to mobilize a large number of fire-breathing equipment, find the Yinpig's lair, snatch back the Human Pitu, and exterminate these monsters.

After thinking about it, he felt that this approach was a helpless move. There are so many evil pigs, throwing a human skin picture to them, God knows where they will hide! When Yuan Sen was heartbroken, a special soldier suddenly said "Hey" and said, "It's strange to see them running there—" Many beams of flashlights illuminate the herd of Yin pigs, and they are huddled together.At this moment, everyone retreated to a corner diagonally opposite the soul lock box, some yin pigs blocked the crowd, and other yin pigs crawled towards the fracture of the soul lock box.The box was crawling up and down with this kind of gray stuff.The flashlight illuminated these dense wriggling things, and they crowded into the soul lock box in groups for more than twenty minutes.Except for countless scorched and smelly yin pig corpses on the ground, there was not a single one alive, and they all got into the soul lock box.

When a group of people look at me and look at you, it's like a dream.Ai Kailam slapped himself twice, looked at Yuan Sen and said, "Xiao Yuan, am I dreaming? Didn't they come for Ren Pitu?" Yuan Sen is also in the fog.Wang Hui said in a low voice: "The mystery is underground, we have to go down, there must be something wrong down there." Ai Kaila kicked over several dead pigs, and there was a large piece of scorched meat on his feet. He didn't wipe it off for a long time, so he didn't wipe it off. It is enough to provoke something once, we have already escaped from their sharp teeth twice, if we continue, I will not accompany you."

Wang Hui glanced at Ai Kailam, without speaking, went straight to Captain Li Kejian, and briefly stated her guess.The woman persuaded the captain with a few words of good news.Ai Kailam gritted his teeth with hatred, and was pushed into the soul lock box with a gun. Yuan Sen looked at Wang Hui handling all this calmly, and he was even more impressed with her.She not only has profound professional knowledge, but also excels in other aspects. The hole under the soul lock box was covered with a thick layer of fluff, which was obviously scraped off by the crowd of Yin pigs when they hurried down. "These bastards are jostling to and fro, even fighting to get off the ground." Ai Kailam sighed indiscriminately.

When they went down to the cave, a few fire-breathing soldiers climbed out of the hole that blocked their view. Yuan Sen and captain Li Kejian followed behind, but it was strange to find that there was not a single pig outside. Everyone flashed their flashlights and looked around, but they didn't see the shadow of the yin pig. It wasn't until they passed the shady house that the stone-carved grapes in the shady house were covered with fat yin pigs, just like mice stealing oil. It became a ladder hanging upside down. Ai Kailam took a step back in shock and said, "What are they doing?"

Wang Hui waved everyone back, and she called two flame-breathing soldiers to cover from the side, and she and Captain Li approached the entrance of the shade room.Yuan Sen hastily followed. The flashlight passed through the shady room and shone on the Yin pigs on both sides. They were either hanging upside down or squatting, with hideous faces, which made people frightened.Wang Hui's gaze was fixed on the opposite side of the shade room, which seemed to be half collapsed, and upon closer inspection, it seemed to be the place where the stone monument was erected. Yuan Sen and Captain Li soon saw it, and Captain Li explained: "Professor Yang ordered us to blow it up, and there is a coffin inside."

"coffin?" Both Yuan Sen and Wang Hui had expressions of surprise on their faces. They never thought that there was a universe under the stele, and how did Professor Yang Jian know this secret? "The big movement of the Yin Pigs is not directed at the human Pitu, but the tomb under the stone tablet? How did they get attracted here?" Wang Hui patted the two flame-breathing soldiers, signaling them to expel the Yin Pigs . Yin pigs are naturally afraid of fire, two beams of flames rushed into the shade room, startled many Yin pigs to explode their nests, and there was a commotion.There was such a big movement on one end, but the pig on the other end was unmoved, and still maintained its previous posture, looking at the place where the stele was, as if it was being baptized or praying.

Wang Hui told the flame-breathing soldiers to stop breathing fire, and the Yin pigs did not fight back.Under the light of the flashlight, the Yin pig near the burnt position moved inward, then fell silent again, maintaining its original posture. They stayed for a while, then retreated in formation, and went around the lake into the dark depths.Everyone was anxious to see the blown-out Yinfang, but no one followed to see where the Yin pigs had retreated. When they got close to the exit of the shade house, they found that the roof of a small piece of shade house had just collapsed, the stones were scattered, and the ground was full of gravel.Yuan Sen guessed that the explosion sound more than an hour ago should have come from here.

There is a large pit under the slanting roof of the shade house, with a visual depth of more than six meters. There is a pile of dry red soil on the side of the pit, which has been patted very firmly by the engineer shovel. The pit was empty, and two special forces went down to dig a couple of shovels, then dug out a long wooden box, removed the red soil on it, and revealed a piece of dark gray. Captain Li said: "Yes, this is it—" He called the others to throw the rope to the people below, and asked them to tie the two ends and pull the wooden box up. After all the boxes were unearthed, everyone could see its whole picture clearly.The box was wrapped in thick cowhide, narrow and long, with the outline of a human body carved from a log, and the cowhide on both sides was partially torn.

This is the coffin Captain Li mentioned.Four or five people carried the coffin, placed it between the pile of red soil and the tilted stele, and erected it. Seeing the coffin, Ekailam immediately woke up from the fear of the herd of Yin pigs, and regained his previous bravery.He lifted the lid of the coffin ahead of the special forces, a few beams of flashlights shone into the coffin, and a shriveled woman's face came into view.The female corpse is wrapped in silk, with a pointed felt hat on her head, and a gold pendant on the front of the hat.Ai Kailam was secretly happy when he saw the funeral objects of the corpse. Yuan Sen looked at the gloomy face of the female corpse illuminated by the flashlight, his heart suddenly tightened, and a kind of fear gushing from his heart filled his brain.He clearly recalled the strange echo he heard in the underground space, and the moment he saw the face of the female corpse, he felt that the voice must be from the female corpse.That kind of murmuring was like the sound of the female corpse's tightly closed mouth. "I am imprisoned here! Anyone who enters this place will die!" She was warning modern people who bothered her in an ancient Cypriot language, and she said a lot, and this was the only line they could understand, and it was probably the scariest line. "Assistant Wang, what do you think?" Yuan Sen looked at Wang Hui. Wang Huidao: "To put it simply, the inscription on the stele should be the epitaph of the female corpse. Looking at her funeral objects - silk and gold ornaments, she should not be an ordinary nobleman." "This is an inseparable judgment. Let's copy the text on the tombstone and ask experts to decipher it. The ancient underground kingdom and the identity of the female corpse should be revealed," Yuan Sen said. Wang Hui nodded, gritted his teeth in a thoughtful state, and said, "I was thinking, Professor Yang Jian left in such a hurry, and he didn't forget to dig up the coffin before he left. Did he find what he was looking for?" Yuan Sen's heart skipped a beat. He had thought about this for a long time, but he didn't say it.It has only been a few months since Helan Mountain left, but Yuan Sen feels as if he has been separated from Professor Yang Jian for a long time, so long that Yuan Sen feels that he has been dead for a long time.Until now, Yuan Sen still feels that the appearance of Professor Yang Jian is very unreal, and the secret that the professor concealed from him makes him unable to guess, all of which are bizarre mysteries. Ai Kailam wanted to uncover the silk on the woman's body, but failed to uncover after several times.Yuan Sen walked over curiously.The closer you are to the female corpse, the deeper the feeling of being on your back. "Why haven't you revealed it yet?" Ai Kaila's face was a little ugly, and the others surrounded the coffin. Wang Hui saw through him at a glance, and said, "He is embarrassed to see so many people watching him take off women's clothes." Ai Kailam's small thoughts were seen through by Wang Hui. After a while of embarrassment, his face as rough as bark turned red as a pig's liver. He yelled at Wang Hui: "You are a woman, you come to expose it!" Wang Hui walked over and carefully uncovered the silk, and saw that the female corpse was wearing a linen jacket, which was so gray that it could be torn with a finger.Wang Hui took off her little coat, and the woman's skeleton was covered with a layer of oily skin, and the flesh had shrunk. "This person must be a beautiful woman. Although her skin and flesh have collapsed, but judging by her face shape, she must have been a beauty in her lifetime," Yuan Sen said. Wang Hui nodded and said, "You are very accurate." After saying that, she put on her gloves.Kangbasa helped her carry the female body out of the coffin.There was a layer of dry red willow branches under the corpse, and nothing else. A team member spread a general blanket on the ground, and they put the female body on the blanket.Wang Hui asked several team members to check the contents of the coffin with her. They found some scratches and debris, but they were of no value. The literacy of professional scouting makes the surrounding team members automatically start searching within a certain range.A team member accidentally opened a pile of red soil and found a map about one meter long. The map was drawn on the ground, very scribbled, and drawn with broken stones and the like. Yuan Sen could tell at a glance that the map was drawn by Professor Yang Jian himself, and he was too familiar with his teacher's handwriting. However, what shocked them was not this, but the content on the map.Those who read the map clearly were shocked at first, and then felt enlightened. They almost thought that they had read it wrong. The map drawn by Professor Yang Jian was exactly the same as the skull on the human skin map.It's just that the picture on the ground can be seen as a map at a glance, while the human skin picture is more like a painting, or something like a totem. Yuan Sen attributed this to the fact that the map is an enlarged version of the human skin map. In addition, Professor Yang Jian added a few lines when drawing the map, so as to depict the content on the map more realistically. The skeleton on the map looks like an irregular basin. The symmetrical eye sockets on both sides are water areas, and the water area at the third eye on the forehead is shallower than the left and right sides. This is really a strange map. Yuan Sen can almost conclude that such a place will never exist in the world. Such a three-eyed skeleton with precise structure may be a man-made prank. Obviously, it is impossible for a rigorous scholar like Professor Yang Jian to do such a boring thing. In addition, he is carrying something more terrifying than a time bomb. Time is comparable to life. It is absolutely impossible to spare time to draw such a a picture.This is really a headache, and everyone present can't figure it out. Wang Hui also found a line of marginal notes under the map, which is a scale of 1:10000000.This side note was drawn at random. It is unclear whether there are six "0"s or seven "0"s behind the "1". This scale undoubtedly proves that the map drawn by Professor Yang Jian does exist, and even the area has been calculated. Yuan Sen was in a cold sweat from fright. If the area of ​​the Skull Basin is calculated according to the scale, it should be thousands of square meters. Such a large place can definitely be seen on the satellite. If the mysterious shape of the Skull is made public, I don't know how many people will be crazy about it.But he had never heard of this strange place, it was so strange. "Professor Yang Jian said he was going to Lop Nur with an iron box. Could this map be a certain location around Lop Nur?" Wang Hui frowned. No one can answer her question, but thinking about it the other way around, if this idea is true and the scale drawn by Professor Yang Jian is correct, what is the purpose of drawing a map with a size of thousands of square kilometers?If it is a place where iron boxes are hidden, it is obviously very impractical. Wang Hui continued to look for traces that Professor Yang Jian might have left on the ground. She pushed aside all the soil on the ground, revealing messy traces. There were some words and pictures, and some strings of numbers similar to scales. There seemed to be eight "0", are all scratched out, which is very different from the previous scale. "The scale of 1:10000000 is very problematic. Why did Professor Yang Jian leave that one unmarked?" Yuan Sen was very puzzled. "Look at this one—" Wang Hui suddenly exclaimed, and everyone looked in the direction she pointed. A line of words appeared one meter away from the scratched scale: If you see this line, leave this place immediately, otherwise your life will be in danger, remember! This is the handwriting of Professor Yang Jian.He has been emphasizing the danger here, but the most dangerous iron box has been taken away by him. The fake special forces are either dead, injured or fleeing, and the underground space is quiet. What exactly does Professor Yang Jian mean by danger? Captain Li Kejian said: "Mr. Yuan, I haven't been with Professor Yang Jian for a long time, but I feel that he is a rigorous person. If it wasn't really dangerous, he wouldn't have warned us several times not to stay here." Yuan Sen nodded and said: "He is my teacher, I know him better than you, let's withdraw quickly." Li Kejian ordered the team members to pack the female mummy hastily and bring it with them.During this gap, Wang Hui has already simply traced Professor Yang Jian's skull map on paper.After everyone buried the wooden coffin, they quickly withdrew from the soul lock box. After they withdrew from the cube, they sighed while walking on the way they came.Back then when they were hunted down by the astonishingly powerful pseudo special forces, they almost thought that there was no hope of escape, and they just tried their best to avoid it. They never thought that they would survive under the hands of the "inhuman" pseudo special forces. It is simply a miracle that they were able to walk back smoothly. Wang Hui pointed the torch at the stone slab that separated the corridor, shook it a few times against the portrait of the bearded man on the slate, then handed the torch to Yuan Sen, took out the paper and traced the portrait on it, and inserted the data after tracing folder. Wang Hui's actions were skillful. After she dealt with it, she said: "The portrait of this person has appeared in the cube many times. I think this is a clue. Although we went down to the underground space, we know this place very well." few." Yuan Sen spoke highly of her rigorous work style.At this moment, the walkie-talkie at Li Kejian's waist suddenly rang, like a loud noise when switching channels. Captain Li seems to have encountered such a situation for the first time. He picked up the walkie-talkie in disbelief and said, "Why did it turn on automatically? I've already turned it off?" Yuan Sen, Ai Kailam and Kang Basa picked up their walkie-talkies almost habitually.At the same time, everyone's wireless devices were automatically turned on, and the sound of "hissing—rustling——" was heard randomly in the silent stone room. Yuan Sen felt excited and wanted to hide in the underground space The ghost appeared again.He pressed the synchronous recording button, and the display screen of the walkie-talkie flickered with faint green light. In the dark stone room, it was like a will-o'-the-wisp, which made people's hearts tremble.All the team members did not dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the ghost hiding in the dark. After a while, more than a dozen walkie-talkies simultaneously emitted a low-pitched sobbing sound, very quiet at first, then louder.At first it was crying, and then it turned into a scream like a shrew cursing.When the people in front of the walkie-talkie heard the voice, they seemed to see that the speaker was yelling at someone, but the other party didn't respond and just let her vent. The people present were terrified, looking at each other, the faint green light of the monitor set off their frightened expressions, and there was a strange atmosphere in the air. Yuan Sen glanced at these faces with terrifying expressions, and the female corpse on the stone tablet was reflected in his mind.In his mind, the female corpse is no longer shriveled, but still alive, she can laugh and get angry, and she is bossing around and furious at someone who can't see her face clearly.She was very emotional, almost hysterical.It was as if she was standing in front of Yuan Sen, arguing with someone like a cloud of fog, and Yuan Sen could feel that she was getting more and more real. When Yuan Sen saw the female corpse, he felt that the ghost hiding in the underground space was her.This kind of judgment has no basis, it is just a feeling, but he thinks it is very correct. A well-built team member carried the female corpse on his back, and wrapped her up with military blankets and plastic sheets. Yuan Sen glanced at it, feeling a wave of fear in his heart. He also thought that Professor Yang Jian found the tomb, opened the coffin, but put the coffin back intact.This kind of ancient corpse is of very high archaeological value, why would the professor throw it away hastily?There must be a reason for this.Ignoring anything, this group of stunned youths carried the corpse and left. Could there be anything wrong?Thinking of this, the strange curse popped out of Yuan Sen's mind, and a chill ran down his back. The hysterical yelling on the radio gradually weakened with crackling noises, and then there was another burst of crying. Slowly, the voice weakened again, and finally became inaudible, as if it had disappeared. Yuan Sen said to Wang Hui, "Assistant Wang, did you hear anything?" Wang Hui shook her head and said, "Her speech is too fast and the syllables are very complicated, I can't understand at all." Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "This place is full of dirty things. You can see that the bones in the mountain pass are piled up like a mountain. I don't know how many innocent souls there are. Don't listen to it anymore. Get out quickly. If it drags on for a long time, we will all be buried together." Although Yuan Sen's thinking is different from Akailamu's, he also thinks that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. It is the best policy to go out as soon as possible to find an expert who is good at this native language to decipher the content.He echoed: "That's right, Captain Li, let's go out first. I've already recorded the strange sound, and I'll go out and find experts to decipher the content, so I can figure out the weirdness inside." Captain Li looked very strange. He put the walkie-talkie to his ear and tried to listen to the voice inside. His eyes were wide open, and his expression was more exaggerated than when he first found the walkie-talkie turned on automatically, as if he had been possessed by an evil spirit. Yuan Sen called Captain Li again, but he still didn't hear him, his ear pressed to the walkie-talkie, wishing he could get in. A group of people panicked, and one team member yelled: "It's broken, the captain is bewitched, let's go and save him." When the team member yelled, the others came to their senses, and two of them immediately went to grab Captain Li's walkie-talkie.Captain Li took a step back, put the walkie-talkie in his arms, and shouted at the team members: "What, rebellion?" The two team members hurriedly said: "Captain, Mr. Yuan called you a few times just now, but you refused to agree, scaring us to death." Captain Li glared at them, and said, "Idiot, listen, all of you, who is talking on the walkie-talkie now? It's Professor Yang Jian!" Yuan Sen's brain exploded with a bang, and he quickly held the walkie-talkie to his ear to listen.It didn't matter if I heard someone whispering. The accent must be Professor Yang Jian, but the voice was too low, and I didn't know what he was talking about. According to Yuan Sen's experience, Professor Yang Jian's words were mostly analyzing the case. The more Yuan Sen heard it, the more frightened he became. Professor Yang Jian came back from the dead, and unexpectedly appeared on the radio with the female ghost at the same time.The death of Professor Yang Jian underground in Helan Mountain is an ironclad fact. There is no reason for a living person to fall into a cliff without dying.Later, there was news of his reappearance, which completely overturned Yuan Sen's logical deduction.Between facts and logic, he couldn't help but believe in facts, as ridiculous as they looked. After a minute of weak voices and noisy radio waves on the walkie-talkie, they suddenly became stronger, and Professor Yang Jian's voice immediately became clear. "There are traces of the ancient Saiyan civilization everywhere in the underground space, but the burial method of the female corpse is completely contrary to the Saiyan civilization. This is a suspicious point." Ai Kaila shrank his neck, and said to Yuan Sen and Wang Hui: "He's talking about the female corpse—" After speaking, he pointed to the parcel bag on the back of the big man. Yuan Sen was startled, his first thought was that Professor Yang Jian wanted to provide them with clues in this bizarre way.There are various indications that Professor Yang Jian's understanding of the underground space is something that they can't even figure out. He knows many things that they have never heard of, and these things make his image even more mysterious and unpredictable. "The female corpse obviously has no blood relationship with the Gusai people. This should be a cross between two different civilizations... "The murals here have one thing in common. They are all carved out of stone tools, which are similar to the stone carvings of deer in the Altai Mountains. This practice is a habit of the Serbian people. During the Tang Dynasty, all tribes in the Western Regions used gold tools. But the Sai people still follow the stone carving techniques of their ancestors, which is a respect for their ancestors. Their stone carving images are generally animals, but there will be another image, that is, King Sai.” Professor Yang Jian said a few more words, the intercom switched to the noise state, and after a while, his voice came again. The next words were cloudy and foggy, he seemed to be ordering others to do something, and the voices of other people's answers could be heard through the chaotic noise. Li Kejian suddenly turned off the walkie-talkie, and said to several other team members: "Did Professor Yang Jian take the walkie-talkie with him before he left?" A team member shook his head and said, "No, he will be handed over to me when he lands." Captain Li nodded and said: "I can't understand it, I can't understand it at all. He doesn't have a walkie-talkie, and he can't read the frequency band when he talks to us. Let us explain things that can't be explained by modern science." Hearing what Captain Li said, Ai Kailam suddenly felt complacent, and said, "Captain, you are such an idiot. Since we went down to the underground space, we have encountered this kind of thing countless times. We thought it was four The stone sculpture with hands and feet borrowed corpses to bring back the soul, and now it’s a female corpse and an old professor, it’s all messed up.” Ai Kailam's words aroused the curiosity of other team members, and they chased down to inquire.Ai Kailam proudly recounted their experience of receiving strange signals several times, which made the team members dumbfounded.There is no way to explain this strange phenomenon. If the vision is some kind of invisible ghost in the underground space warning them through the walkie-talkie, then how can the appearance of Professor Yang Jian make sense?Calculated according to the time, he has already left the Flame Mountain, how could he keep his voice in the underground space? Captain Li Kejian said: "I don't think that the non-band signal received by the walkie-talkie is the ghost in the underground space trying to communicate with us. I couldn't understand what the woman said, but I could hear what Professor Yang Jian said clearly. He didn't intend to communicate with us. We communicated, especially the last few words, he was talking to me, and I heard myself answering him in the noise." He paused, and said to his soldiers: "You are also present, did you find the problem?" After being reminded by him, the other team members suddenly realized, and said repeatedly: "Yes—yes—why didn't we hear it? Thinking about it this way, we got it right. What the professor told us before was playing on the walkie-talkie." Yuan Sen's heart suddenly became clear, and he said: "That is to say, for some reason, this space has a special function, which can remember the previous voice, then automatically search for wireless devices, and play it? What the professor said about the female corpse It should be what he said when he was talking to the gravedigger, the female voice may be the voice of thousands of years ago?" His guess can completely explain this phenomenon.After listening to his conjecture, Wang Hui said: "Assuming that Mr. Yuan's idea is valid, how did the beauty civilization come about? Professor Yang Jian gave us some answers. And the beauty is actually a kind of Serbian. For this reason, they came to the Flame Mountain and took root here, making a living by attacking the local residents and looting their property, until the Tang army retaliated, and the Qili civilization came to an end." "Yes, I agree." "This is just a guess. If the age identification and DNA comparison of the female corpse match, it will be conclusive evidence. The clue of Human Pitu has no clear direction. Even if you go to Lop Nur, it is difficult to get the answer. Another point, Professor Yang Jian was in a hurry to take the iron box to Lop Nur and had no time to communicate with others. Yuan Sen had expected this a long time ago. After a brief contact with the professor, he had countless questions.Yang Jian has been his confidant and teacher for many years, and the two have always talked about everything, and they have only seen each other for a few months. He feels that Yang Jian has become mysterious and strange, and he is completely different from him a few months ago. Wang Huidao: "So the breakthrough to unlock the secrets of the underground space is not Lop Nur, but the civilization of the Serbian people. After leaving the Flame Mountain, I immediately sent my doubts to Dr. Tian and asked him to call experts to study and try to quickly decipher the beautiful language. We went to the primitive village at the foot of the Altai Mountains. Kangbasa once said that he had seen murals and stone carvings in his own tribe. As far as I know, the ancient Sai people were expelled by the Yuezhi, Wusun, and Huns successively from the Hexi Corridor Migrated to the south, as far as South Asia. The tribe of Kangbasa is regarded by many archaeologists as the purest descendant of the Serbian people. The stone carvings of the Serbian people will only be the king of Serbia, and the Serbian tribe passed down from the tribe of Kangbasa The portrait of Wang is very similar to the Qili mural, there must be some kind of connection." Wang Hui's speculation is very reasonable. Kangbasa is usually taciturn in the army. Except for his high military literacy, there is nothing special about him. Everyone's impression of him is average.Hearing what Wang Hui said, the other team members immediately looked at him with admiration. Someone came over and patted him on the shoulder, saying that it was up to him to discover this shocking secret.Digging out the secrets of his tribe and solving the mystery of the underground space is a great achievement. Kang Basa accepted everyone's pursuit there in a daze, and Wang Hui's speculation made him a little confused.