Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen Secret Base

The fireball was getting bigger and bigger, Yuan Sen and Ai Kailamu simply turned off the flashlight.They could already see the ground, and the fire that gave them hope was not a firefly, but a bonfire.When they were tens of meters away from the iron frame foundation, they saw many bonfires on the ground, and the distance between the bonfires was not far away. They could also see patches of green tents beside the fires. The two quietly slid down from a hidden corner. There was very thick concrete on the foundation of the iron frame, and the military shoes they wore were easy to make noise when they knocked on it. The two could only slowly leave the cement platform of the foundation.

The concrete platform was so wide that there was no end in sight, as if it was made up of many football fields and basketball courts.They took cover in the darkness and slipped into the group of tents.The bonfire was piled on a concrete road between the cement platform of the foundation and the tent group. They counted carefully, and there were more than 20 piles. The concrete road was nearly 20 meters wide. The bonfire was still burning, but no one could be seen. people wonder. Ai Kaila said: "Look, there are still so many dry logs on the fire, which are obviously newly piled up. The person who lit the fire must have not gone far."

When Yuan Sen came down from the iron frame, he smelled a stench. The stench penetrated into his nose. It was extremely unappetizing and made people want to vomit.He waved his hand and fanned his nose, and said to Ekailam, "Don't you smell the stink?" Ai Kailam shook his head, nodded again, and said: "It seems to be there, but it seems not to be. I still have sand in my nose, so I'm not working." Yuan Sen walked behind a tent in front and looked towards the cement road. He saw black smoke rising from a campfire farther away, so he walked through several tents and approached the campfire.Ai Kailam didn't know what he wanted to do, so he could only follow in confusion.

Yuan Sen hid behind a tent, and the bonfire emitting black smoke was less than ten meters away from the tent.He walked over quietly, and suddenly saw the things on the fire, and was startled. Ai Kailam was also taken aback, and scolded: "No wonder it smells so bad, damn it, the corpse is being burned." The blazing fire surrounded a corpse, and the flames quickly devoured all parts of the corpse. Only a human figure could be seen roughly. The black smoke rose vertically to the sky, and the stench from the burning corpse became more intense. Yuan Sen squatted down and vomited. up.

Ai Kailamu patted his nose, and a lot of sand fell out of it. He smiled triumphantly: "Sometimes bad things can turn into good things, thanks to the sand blocking the smell—" he said Before he finished speaking, his complexion suddenly changed, he slapped Yuan Sen fiercely, and said anxiously, "Brother, someone is here." Ai Kailam pinned Yuan Sen to the ground, and the two of them were lying behind the tent, seeing six tall men in camouflage uniforms carrying the corpses, and then throwing several corpses into the fire one by one.Among them was a corpse that Yuan Sen could see very clearly. The corpse was a man, wearing a khaki tunic suit and black-rimmed glasses, like a person from the last century.

The body was thrown into the bonfire, where it was consumed within a moment by the flames.A burst of thick black smoke floated over the fire, and the corpse turned into a lump in the flames, which gradually shrank and disappeared. Six people in camouflage uniforms wore gas masks on their faces. Their camouflage military uniforms did not know which country they belonged to, but they were definitely not Chinese.In other words, they are not Chinese soldiers.This fact completely negates the claim that this place is a secret military base of the Chinese military. After the six people finished burning the corpses and circled into the tent group again, the two stood up.

Ai Kaila said woodenly: "They are not Chinese soldiers, their uniforms are not like that, and their ranks are not even marked, they are definitely not." Yuan Sen nodded and said, "They lit so many fires to dispose of the corpses. Look at the other side, and someone came over again. This time there were twelve people, and they all carried the corpses." Ai Kailam stuck out his tongue, and said, "It's not a Chinese military base, and there are soldiers. Could it be that a foreigner built a military base here? Who has the guts to build a base in China?" Yuan Sen interrupted him, and said, "Don't make random guesses. Let's go to the back and find the person who placed the order. We'll find out when we ask."

Ai Kaila said woodenly: "I don't know how many of them there are, it's better to be careful." Yuan Sen nodded, took out his dagger and put it in the sheath on the side of the leather boots, pulled the safety of the gun, and inserted it into the leather holster at his waist. Ai Kailamu also prepared his fighting equipment, and the two slipped into the Behind the tent group. The distance between the military tents is very small, less than two meters, and they are of different sizes and shapes. The only thing that is the same is the uniform military green. Every ten tents, there was a bonfire burning. Yuan Sen roughly counted, and he had seen more than 20 bonfires, and countless tents, but he didn't see a single living person.The soldiers in camouflage uniforms didn't know where they went.Yuan Sen passed several tents, and those tents were all empty without even a piece of paper, as if all the military personnel had been evacuated.

Ai Kailamu ran away without a trace, and Yuan Sen didn't care about him now. He slipped to a rather big tent and saw the curtain of the tent shaking slightly by the light of the fire, as if someone had moved it . He drew his dagger, opened the canvas curtain and got in.As soon as he entered the door, a black shadow rushed over.The black shadow was so big that it seemed to be startled when Yuan Sen came in. Yuan Sen wasn't too polite, this black shadow was neither an enemy nor a friend, so he jumped up and rushed towards the black shadow.The black shadow reacted extremely quickly, took a step back, and before that step was finished, he rushed over again, seemingly holding something in his hand.Yuan Sen dodged him, struck him with a slashing hand, lowered his body, turned the dagger upside down, and hit the hilt on the black shadow's waist.Hei Ying snorted and wanted to take something out of his waist.Yuan Sen concluded that the guy was about to draw his gun, so he kicked the guy's hand, and the gun fell to the ground and slid far away.Yuan Sen kicked again, hitting Hei Ying's chest, and the man fell to the ground with his head up.

Yuan Sen rushed forward with all his might, grabbed the man's neck with both hands, and the man struggled for a while and then stopped moving.Yuan Sen didn't dare to use any more force, he just pressed his dagger against his throat, and said in a low voice, "Say, who are you? If you dare to bark, I will kill you." The man coughed for a while, Yuan Sen waited for him to finish coughing, and stabbed a little forward with the dagger. The man hurriedly begged for mercy, and what he said was English mixed with Russian. Yuan Senqi asked, "Which country are you a soldier from?"

The man's English was poor, and after a lot of confusion, Yuan Sen finally understood that the man was from overseas and was a professional mercenary.He is just a member of the lowest rank. Apart from knowing that many partners crossed the border with him to Xinjiang, China, and then entered the desert, he didn't know anything else. After he finished speaking, he kept begging for mercy. Yuan Sen knew that it was difficult to get words out of his mouth, so he punched him unconscious. Yuan Sen got up, turned on the flashlight, and turned over the tent. This tent was also empty, but there were still a few solid wooden tables. On the table was a corpse. Chinese tunic suit.The corpse was sitting on a chair, lying on the solid wooden table as if asleep, with both hands resting on the table, in a half-suspended state. Yuan Sen approached the solid wooden table, and the corpse was covered with a thick layer of dust, as if it had been plated with a layer of grayish yellow.Yuan Sen raised the head of the corpse, and under the influence of the center of gravity, the corpse slid down from the chair, and firmly grasped the table with both hands.To be exact, it's not a pick, but a finger deeply inserted into the table.The corpse's buttocks slid off the chair, and most of its body got under the table, but its hands were firmly inserted into the table to prevent its body from sliding down, showing a very strange posture. Yuan Sen was attracted by the bizarre hands of the corpse, and he immediately thought of the corpse in the corridor with its fingers inserted into the floor tiles.At this point, they're very much alike. Human physical ability is limited, limited by genetic factors, no matter how much human beings train, it is difficult to obtain some ordinary limbs of ordinary animals, such as sharp claws.And on the same day, he actually saw two corpses inserting their fingers into the floor tiles and the solid wood tabletop respectively before they died. This was really a very surprising thing.According to people's normal physical ability, it is completely impossible to do this, even after intensive training, it is very difficult to do. These two corpses looked quite elegant, and they should have been researchers and scholars. With their physical strength, even if they were in great pain before death, they could not go beyond the limit of normal people, inserting their fingers into solid wood tabletops and floor tiles Inside something hard.But the truth is, both corpses did. The more Yuan Sen thought about it, the more strange it became. The two corpses must have experienced some strange things before they died, which caused some kind of change in their bodies to dig such a deep hole, but what caused them to undergo such a change? The corpse still maintained that half-hanging posture, Yuan Sen grabbed the shoulders of the corpse and lifted him, put him back on the chair and sat down.The whole body of the corpse was extremely hard, and the semi-hanging posture just now changed his body. When he sat back on the chair again, he changed into a particularly strange posture. There are still a few centimeters away from the chair. Yuan Sen took out the corpse's hands and put them down, moved the chair back a bit, and searched the pockets of the corpse's tunic, but found nothing.He was getting discouraged when he suddenly heard gunshots outside. He didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't care about the corpse, so he hurriedly opened the canvas curtain and went out.A tent not far away was on fire, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.After that shot, there were gunshots everywhere.A dozen mercenaries in camouflage uniforms surrounded the burning tent, all holding advanced weapons. After such a commotion, Akailamu didn't show up. Yuan Sen cried out inwardly. Could it be Akailamu who fired that gunshot? Taking advantage of the mercenary's focus on the burning tent, he slipped away to the direction where Ekairam was going, and searched the tents one by one, but he didn't even see anyone.The more he searched, the more he felt that Akailamu had fired the shot. Yuan Sen kept finding a distance of less than ten meters from the burning tent, and hid behind a small tent to spy, trying to find the trace of Ai Kailamu, and then waited for an opportunity to rescue him. More than half of the tent was burned, and the place was extremely dry, and the tent canvas was something that could catch fire, and the fire became more and more fierce.After a while, Yuan Sen heard the leader of the mercenary yelling into the tent in English, telling him to give up his weapon and come out with his hands raised, but no one inside spoke. Yuan Sen cursed secretly: "Ai Kailamu is not stupid enough to set fire to the tent and still sit there waiting for someone to catch him, right?" The footsteps around him became more dense, and they were all made by military boots. Yuan Sen guessed it was The surrounding mercenaries found that the fire had surrounded them. In this way, I'm afraid Ekailamu's life would be in danger. Yuan Sen was almost spotted by a mercenary when he was peeking, and he was too scared to poke his head. He could only judge by the sound that there were more than fifty mercenaries.He was worried, and there was no sound after several shots were fired in the tent. How is Ekailam's condition, is he dead or alive? While he was anxious, there was a sudden chaotic shout from the mercenaries. He hurriedly turned his head to look, but saw the mercenaries cast their gazes forward, looking further away.It was only then that Yuan Sen noticed that three tents were on fire in front of him, and other tents around him also burst into flames. He immediately understood in his heart that someone was arson. In other words, there were people trapped by mercenaries in the tent, and a group of arsonists outside. He had no way of judging where Akailamu was. A large number of mercenaries were quickly dispatched from here to catch the arsonists over there.The tent here is almost burned, less than one-third of it is left, and it is about to collapse. Suddenly, the gun rang out, and three mercenaries around the tent fell down at once. Fire back.The people in the tent were very accurate with their marksmanship, and quickly knocked down a few more people. The tent shook violently, and then collapsed with a crash.Yuan Sen's heart tightened, and he saw a black figure rushing out of the flames at an incredible speed, fired several shots, and several mercenaries got down on the ground. The shadow didn't turn back after being hit hard by the enemy, and rushed towards Yuan Sen quickly. Yuan Sen took the opportunity to shoot the mercenary who was about to shoot in the back, and the remaining mercenaries were confused and hid one by one. In the blind spot of shooting, dare not show your head. The figure ran straight to Yuan Sen's side, and Yuan Sen could see his appearance clearly through the firelight.His face was black and gray, and except for his eyes, no part of his face was white. He was wearing a fat mercenary camouflage uniform that didn't fit him very well.Seeing this person, Yuan Sen opened his mouth wide. The man said: "What are you looking at, don't you recognize me?" Yuan Sen was excited, and said, "I know you, why don't you know me, why are you here, where is Bahar Guli?" It turned out that this person was none other than Wang Hui who had been separated from them in the sandstorm.Wang Hui pointed to a large sea of ​​flames behind her, and said, "Then, these are all her masterpieces, the little girl is quite dexterous." Yuan Sen nodded, and Wang Hui still remained indifferent, saying, "Why are you in a daze, hurry up and help her, she must be too busy to deal with so many mercenaries by herself." Yuan Sen hastily followed her into the group of tents. The flames became more intense, and a wave of heat rushed towards his face. When he touched his bare skin, he felt a burning pain on his body, as if being burned by fire.There was loud gunfire around, and only the mercenaries could be seen pressing towards them in an encircling manner.Those mercenaries were all well-trained, and their marksmanship was exquisite. Yuan Sen looked around, but he couldn't see the shadow of Bahar Guli. Wang Hui pulled Yuan Sen to hide behind a tent that was closer to the mercenary group. When the mercenary approached, she untied a dark thing from her waist.Yuan Sen recognized it as a grenade at a glance. It was the first time he had seen this kind of weapon. When they left the 755th Division, they were all equipped with the same equipment, only a gun. I don't know where this woman got it from. this kind of thing. The grenade rolled out along the edge of the tent, and the sound of gunfire, human voices, and flames surrounding the sea of ​​fire merged together, and they didn't notice the approaching danger at all.Ten seconds later, there was only a loud bang, and three people flew out from there. The nearby tent was ignited by flames, and then several other tents were also ignited. Wang Hui led Yuan Sen to shoot guns and throw grenades around, tricking the group of mercenaries into a circle. The two of them took the opportunity to shoot indiscriminately. There was a lot of gunfire in the tent area. With the sound of the explosion, the gang of mercenaries completely lost their direction and shot indiscriminately. The two quarreled for a while, and escaped from the burning tent area. Suddenly, the curtain of a small tent was lifted. Yuan Sen reflexively drew out his gun to aim, but a girl's face appeared in the tent. Seeing that pretty face, Sen narrowed his big black eyes and said, "Xiao Li, why are you running faster than us?" Baharguli dragged Yuan Sen and Wang Hui into the tent, and said, "Sister Hui is so smart, I guessed that you were here too, but I didn't believe it at first." Yuan Sen was taken aback, went to look at Wang Hui, and said, "Assistant Wang guessed that we came here too?" Wang Hui nodded and said, "I'm just judging with conventional logic, and there's nothing strange about it." She looked suspiciously at Bahar Guli, and said, "Aren't you the one the mercenaries are chasing?" Bahargul said with a smile: "Yes, I set the fire for a while, and I met the bearded Ekairam in a tent, and he said that setting fires is what men do, let me rest here." Wang Hui said: "Okay, our goal has been achieved, these mercenaries are all in disarray, and that thing should appear." Yuan Sen was confused and didn't know what Wang Hui was talking about. He asked, "Assistant Wang, what is that thing? What do you mean it should appear?" Wang Huidao: "We tracked a person to the base. The person disappeared quickly after entering. He only let the mercenaries guard the outside. He didn't know where he went. To force him to come out, we set fire to the tent." Yuan Senqi asked, "Who is he?" Wang Huidao: "It's the strange man we met in the Populus euphratica forest. We saw him again in the sandstorm, and we chased him all the way here, and now we have really fought him." Yuan Sen was shocked. The man, Germain, and Ali Pu disappeared in the psychedelic ancient city. He once thought that these people had gone where they should go and would never come back. Why did they appear again lingeringly? ? Wang Hui paced back and forth in the tent. After walking around twice, she said, "The gunshots have stopped. Ai Kailam is about to come back." Sure enough, Ekailam opened the cloth curtain of the tent and ran in with a smile on his face. Most of his beard was burned off, and he looked silly and funny. Seeing that the three of them were all there, he was startled for a moment, then he grinned and said, "It's all there, so I don't have to find someone. Little girl, tell me what to do next, I'm so happy to set the fire on fire. " Pointing at Wang Hui, Baharguli said, "What to do next is up to Sister Hui. I also follow her orders." Wang Hui nodded to him as a greeting.Ai Kaila said: "The mercenaries outside have dispersed and searched for tents. They will come here in a short time. Let's withdraw." Wang Huidao: "Which direction are they heading?" Ai Kaila said woodenly: "They are scattered, there are people in every area, they hate us now, let's be careful, those people are still very accurate with marksmanship." Wang Hui opened the canvas curtain, probed for a while, and said, "They all retreated behind the fixed frame, and the strange person may be there." The burning tent was still spitting out flames, and all the bonfires in other areas were extinguished. The four of them passed through several tent areas, crossed the concrete aisle, and climbed onto the iron base, under which there were some mercenaries standing upright. Patrol with guns. Yuan Sen and Ai Kailam used daggers to deal with the two mercenaries who got in the way.The four of them crossed several concrete walls and pits on the base, stood in the middle of the iron frame, and found the bottom of the giant column, which was biting into the ground, like a huge ancient clock firmly buckled on the ground. Yuan Sen patted the surface of the column, and there was a slight echo from inside. Yuan Sen said, "It's hollow from top to bottom. I really don't know who would go to great lengths to make this thing." Wang Huidao: "We need that weird man to tell us about this, but I can tell you that there is an ancient city above the cave." There is an ancient city in the cave, and Yuan Sen and Ai Kailamu were already mentally prepared. They thought of this when they found the corridor and ancient wall bricks, but they didn't know if the place Wang Hui found was the same as them. Wang Huidao: "The center of the sandstorm is an ancient city buried in sand. The huge sandstorm swept away the sand covering the ancient city, exposing a part of the ancient city wall. When the sandstorm stopped, Baharguli and I entered the city and found the city It is the ancient city of Iberis that Germain said. We found traces of other people in the city and followed them all the way here." Ai Kailam was very surprised, and said: "We are actually under the ancient city of the devil in the legend of the Rob people. exist." Wang Hui nodded and said: "There are indeed many strange things in the ancient city, and the most bizarre thing is this building under the ground. I saw this huge building and couldn't believe its authenticity, but it is indeed Before my eyes." Ai Kailam couldn't believe it, and said, "Assistant Wang, even you don't know who made this strange thing?" Wang Hui shook his head slowly, and said: "The ancient city of Iberis is the legendary holy place of the Rob people. There are many inexplicable things in it. I can't explain it all at once. If this underground building is unlocked The secret of the other problems can naturally be solved." They struggled with this problem, and suddenly a group of mercenaries came from a distance, and the four of them hurriedly hid in the darkness. The mercenaries lit up the front with a powerful flashlight. Wang Hui whispered: "The mercenaries have entered behind the fixed frame in batches, and that strange man may be about to come out." Yuan Sen nodded, and the four of them separated a certain distance and quietly followed the mercenary squad of less than fifteen people.The team crossed the protective walls on the base, got off the base, walked forward for a while, and found a hidden entrance near the cave wall.The entrance is also part of the engineering facilities, and iron gates are set up. The iron door was unlocked, the leading mercenary opened the door, and other team members filed in.Wang Hui's attire was exactly the same as those of these mercenaries. She took advantage of the time when those people entered the cave one by one, found a gap to knock down a person, threw the body to Yuan Sen, and walked into the cave like that man. Wang Hui's attack was very ruthless. The neck of the corpse thrown to Yuan Sen had been broken. It was still alive, but it could not survive.Yuan Sen handed the body to Ai Kailamu who was behind him, and Ai Kailamu checked his breath and threw it away immediately.He said to Yuan Sen, "Brother, Assistant Wang has gone in, what should we do?" Yuan Sen said: "Anyway, the iron gate is not locked. When they go a little farther, we can sneak in again. I always feel that the secrets of this building will definitely be shocking." Akailamu said: "Brother, do you really not know or are you pretending not to know? The ancient city of Iberis is one of the oldest legends in Tarim, and even the Rob people believe it exists. These legends are amazing. In the ancient city Any secret would shock the world, not to mention this modern building built by no one knows." Yuan Sen said: "Legends are legends, facts are facts." Ai Kailam had no choice but to tell the secret at the bottom of the box. He whispered: "Brother, I just want to tell you privately that when I came to Kauna Abu Dan with others, it was not simply to dig treasures. We just came Looking for the ancient city of Iberis." Yuan Sen became interested all of a sudden, and said, "Ai Kailamu, someone as smart as you would definitely not come to Gucheng because of a few illusory legends, tell me what you know." Ai Kaila said: "Don't believe me when you tell me. I heard that the ancient city of Iberis is related to the ancient Loulan people, and it contains the mystery of Loulan's extermination. I spent a lot of effort and didn't find any clues. Assistant Wang's little girl I found it as soon as I looked for it, don't you think it's strange?" Yuan Sendao: "Germain mentioned that when Tokta Ahong and Sven Heding found the ancient city of Iberis, I saw you staring at him and almost eating him. The reason is here. You The boy hides really deep, I will guard against you in the future." Ai Kailam shook his head and said: "Brother, think about it for me. I almost turned Kauna Abdan upside down back then, but I just didn't find anything. This time I heard some real clues. Do you think I can't be excited?" Yuan Sen probably understood, he patted Akailamu on the shoulder, and said: "They have gone far away, let's follow up and take a look, and uncover this big secret. Whether those legends are true or not, we will naturally know."