Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Videotape

Dr. Tian said: "This incident happened a year ago. Our special forces have always left a detection team in the Altai Mountains. The few people on the video are one of the team. They accidentally entered a deserted virgin forest. , found the place where Wunu worshiped in the forest, found the entrance to the well, and took pictures of what they saw and heard." The entire office was pitch black, and Dr. Tian said in a hoarse voice, "Xiao Yuan, look carefully." The projection screen gradually lit up, and it was a black and white picture. The effect of the picture was like an old photo from the 1970s and 1980s, with rice grain-like snowflakes flashing from time to time on the picture.A forest with lush branches and leaves appears on the screen, with thick trunks in front of them, and the distance between the trunks is very close.The screen is constantly switching in the woods, and it shakes a few times from time to time.During the movement of the picture, the ground often appears, which makes it easy to think that the person shooting is going uphill. He is walking and shooting, and the sound of leaves being plucked when they move is heard in the stereo.

They walked like this for a while, and the only things that appeared in the picture were big trees and hanging branches and leaves. The branches and leaves were intertwined with each other, and the photographer walked quite hard.No one spoke in the video, only the sound of branches and leaves hitting people and things, which made the environment in the video terribly quiet, giving people a psychological hint that something was wrong. Such a scene lasted for more than ten minutes, and sporadic voices could be heard in the middle, but the voice was so low that the content could not be heard at all.

The more Yuan Sen watched, the more puzzled he became. He couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Dr. Tian's gourd. If he kept watching them walk, what could he see?After watching for a few more minutes, he couldn't bear it any longer. Just as he was about to ask Dr. Tian, ​​Dr. Tian hurriedly raised his index finger to signal him to keep silent, and then pointed to the screen. Yuan Sen had no choice but to be patient, staring at the screen and continuing to look down. The screen slowly cut into the darkness, and he could only vaguely see a few figures shaking in front of the camera.He secretly wondered, why did it get dark so quickly?Then it became clear that the person taking the camera must have entered a cave.

After a few more minutes, the picture became darker and darker, and even the human figure was completely invisible.Then, the picture became pitch black, and only the sound of people walking and their small conversations could be heard.Yuan Sen listened carefully several times, trying to understand what they were saying, but the background sound in the video was too noisy, and he could only hear the sound of "rustling—" and the voices of people were almost drowned out. At this time, the noise of "shashasha——" in the video suddenly became much quieter, and Yuan Sen heard a person speaking in substandard Mandarin saying: "This is the ritual well of Wunu sect—"

"Unus religion?" Yuan Sen's heart tightened, he hit the point!The other person in the video gave an "um" and then sighed, as if helpless.Suddenly, the noise in the video was amplified many times, as if the camera hit something, and there was a sound of "pa-pa-pa-", and the conversation between the two was completely drowned out.The curtain was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.The background sound gradually changed from "crack" to "rustle" of radio waves being disturbed, and those people became silent, making it difficult to guess what happened to them.

The darkness in the video gradually faded, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in front, and slowly the figures in the screen could be seen shaking again.Suddenly, the screen shook violently a few times, the hazy darkness became very bright, and a hole that could allow one person to enter and exit appeared in the screen.A beam of light shot out from the opening of the cave, and looking at it like this, the light seemed extremely unreal.There is a faint cloud of mist coming out of the hole. Against the background of the light, the hole in the picture is like the gate of hell, which makes people feel terrified.

The camera stayed in front of the cave for a few minutes, and the background sound of the video was still a "rustling" sound as if radio waves were being disturbed. The screen shook a few times, and then a figure appeared in front of the screen. Walk towards the entrance of the cave. Yuan Sen's heart rose to his throat. As the picture deepened, he himself seemed to be in that environment. Judging from his experience in many expeditions, this cave is not easy, and it may be difficult to get out after entering. The screen shook violently again.During the continuous switching of the screen, Yuan Sen could vaguely see that the cameraman was trying to hold the person who was about to enter the cave, but the person seemed to be possessed by a demon, only knowing to face the direction of the light and move forward slowly. The way of walking is extremely mechanical.This situation reminded Yuan Sen of his time in Muzhai in Helan Mountain. The aboriginals of Muzhai lined up like corpses, stiffly and mechanically walked into the depths of the primeval forest, enduring the bites of animals, which was extremely terrifying.

After the camera lens continued to shake for a while, it returned to normal. The figure on the screen followed suit, as if being summoned, walked into the light from the cave entrance, facing the white mist, he slowly turned his head. Yuan Sen's eyes widened, staring fixedly at the shaking picture, his heart rose to his throat, and his intuition told himself that there must be something wrong with that person's face.The recording time on the screen is constantly changing, the person's head is slowly turning back as the seconds roll, and the screen is shaking more and more. It is obvious that the hands of the person taking the camera are shaking.In the background of "rustle", someone could be vaguely heard shouting: "Don't - don't go over -"

In the end, the person in the picture still didn't turn around. He hesitated for a while, then turned his head away amidst the shouts of his companions, and walked mechanically into the cave entrance, submerged in the thick fog, and his figure turned into a touch of gray. Dr. Tian suddenly said: "Look in the white mist, there are a few figures, do you see them?" Yuan Sen didn't pay attention at first, but after being reminded by Dr. Tian, ​​he saw a few dark shadows next to the familiar gray. Those black shadows surrounded the gray shadows, as if the person who had just walked in Already held hostage in the cave.

Those shadows gradually disappeared in the thick fog, and then the screen jumped a few times, cutting into the darkness, and there was a strong electric current sound from the speaker, and there was a "cracking" sound from time to time.After a while, the video playback ended, and the CD was automatically ejected from the computer's CD drive. After the disc was ejected, the projector screen was coated with blue light, and a row of white characters without signal input kept jumping. This blue and white light made the dark office deep. Dr. Tian closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about what.

Yuan Sen said: "Doctor, where is the place in the video?" Dr. Tian said: "Northern Xinjiang Altai Mountains—" "It's the Altai Mountains again. Didn't the "Secrets of Religion in the Western Regions" say that the Wunu religion was preached in the Turpan area? How could its sacrificial well be in the Altai Mountains?" Dr. Tian said: "This incident happened a year ago. Our special forces have always left a detection team in the Altai Mountains. The few people on the video are one of the team. They accidentally entered a deserted virgin forest. , found the place where Wunu worshiped in the forest, found the entrance to the well, and took pictures of what they saw and heard." Yuan Sen pondered, "Did you send someone to check that sacrificial well later?" Dr. Tian shook his head and said: "We have mobilized several teams, but we can no longer find the place of worship of Wunu, let alone the well. If it is just this video, it has nothing to do with what we are encountering now. Big, but the problem is that a few months after I saw this video, one of the guides in that unit suddenly came to me, claiming that he received a distress call from the team member who walked into the cave in the thick fog in the video. The situation when he answered the phone The situation is almost exactly the same as when I answered the phone call from Yang Jian. That incident also happened a year ago. The guide was a local aborigine. His statement was so magical that I didn’t believe it at all. I still can’t believe that something like this is going to happen.” Yuan Sen heard that there was a way. Some of them came back alive from that expedition, and they encountered the same ghost phone call as Dr. Tian. This means that the team member who disappeared in the Wunu Cult's sacrificial well and Professor Yang Jian died at the bottom of Helan Mountain. There must be some connection between them.Although one is a call from Turpan and the other is a call from the deep mountains of Altai, as long as you find the connection between them, maybe the clue will be clear. Dr. Tian saw what he meant, and said that the native guide had been invited to the division headquarters as a guest, and the guards had arranged for him to come.The indigenous guide is a Hui nationality, named Ai Kailamu. As soon as Ai Kailam pushed open the office door, he yelled at Dr. Tian: "Hey, old man, you finally believe me. Did you come to me again because your conscience found out?" Yuan Sen followed the sound and found a middle-aged man with a big beard standing at the door, about 30 years old, not tall, slightly fat, with a gloating expression on his face, looking at Dr. Tian with a smile . Dr. Tian also laughed and waved to him: "Come on, Akailam, sit here." Ai Kailam was also polite. He patted the guard on the shoulder and said, "Young man, you can go out now, bye." Then, he closed the door and separated Dr. Tian's guard from the door, and then strode forward Go to Dr. Tian and sit down. After Dr. Tian introduced Yuan Sen to him, Yuan Sen extended his hand to him politely, Ai Kailam waved his hand, and said, "Old man, why are you causing so much trouble every day? You didn’t come to Beijing to accompany you to watch young men, Ai Kailam only likes pretty girls, your Captain Qiao is not bad, just introduce her to me.” Dr. Tian was not annoyed, and said: "Xiao Yuan will be an important helper for us to uncover the ghost phone call. Don't underestimate him. I asked you to discuss matters this time because I also received a ghost phone call. The person is indeed dead, and the situation is exactly the same as when you received the call from Lieutenant Liu Shi." Ai Kailam slapped the table in surprise: "Old man, did you see the hell?" After finishing speaking, he smiled triumphantly at Dr. Tian. Yuan Sen also couldn't help laughing. It seems that Dr. Tian didn't believe that he received the ghost call, which made him hold his breath. Now he found a chance to vent. Dr. Tian said: "If I hadn't experienced such a strange thing, I really wouldn't be able to believe it. We have already found a clue, and we will follow this clue. Once the secret of this ghost phone is revealed, I believe it will be helpful to uncover it." The secrets of the Altai Mountains will have a great effect." Ai Kailam frowned and looked at Dr. Tian with a suspicious look on his face, which looked very funny, and said: "Old man, I know you are very capable, can you really catch ghosts' tails?" Dr. Tian smiled and said: "It's hard to say, but our communication team found the line and cable that made the call in Turpan, and now we are gradually investigating in depth. No matter what the final result is, if we find the source of the cable, the truth will probably be Not far from ten." Ai Kailam looked suspicious, and said: "This is wrong, your ghost call was made by a cable, but Lieutenant Liu Shi died in the mountains of Altai. Not to mention the cable, even a living person is Difficult to find, how come there is a cable? Your ghost phone must be different from mine, not the same." When Akailam was talking to Dr. Tian, ​​Yuan Sen kept staring at him. He had a question in his mind. This question must have been asked by Akailam and Dr. Tian when they returned from the Altai Mountains.Yuan Sen wanted to ask Dr. Tian when he was watching the video, but Dr. Tian said that the witnesses of the whole incident would come, so he waited for Ai Kailam to come and ask him in person. Yuan Sen said to Ai Kaila: "Why is Lieutenant Liu Shi the only one entering the entrance of the well?" Ai Kailam didn't even think about it, and said, "That's not a sacrificial well, it's the gate of hell." Yuan Sen was stunned. There is no hell in Islam, only the Hell of Ibris, so he asked, "Isn't your belief Hu Da?" Ai Kailam took a look at Yuan Sen, smiled mischievously, and said, "My parents believe in Hu Da, and I want to do business with Han people, so I believe in Buddhism." Yuan Sengang wanted to ask him what kind of business he was doing, Dr. Tian said: "He used to make a living in Panjiayuan in Beijing, and he was very familiar with the hidden caves and mounds in Xinjiang. The lieutenant asked him to help us find the secrets in the mountains of Altai." Yuan Sen understood in his heart that this guy was a tomb robber. Ai Kaila said: "The old man has asked me this question many times. Lieutenant Liu Shi's soldiers can testify that he touched something that should not be touched, and he was hit by Wu Nu's spell, and his soul was taken away by Wu Nu King. Hell. When he was about to leave, I was the only one who dared to pull him. No matter how I pulled him, I couldn’t pull him. His soul was taken by King Wu Nu, so I couldn’t pull him.” Yuan Sen and Dr. Tian looked at each other, and Ai Kailam spread his hands to Dr. Tian and Yuan Sen, saying that you don't believe me, and I can't help it. At this moment, Dr. Tian's guard knocked on the door and came in, saying: "Doctor, the fingerprint comparison report is out—" He said, and handed over a kraft paper information bag. Dr. Tian took the materials and immediately took them out to read.When the guard left the office, Akailam kept making funny faces at him, and the young guard gave Akailam a look, which made Akailam laugh out loud. Dr. Tian glanced at the fingerprint comparison report, and said in surprise, "Strange, how come there are only three fingerprints in that book?" "Three?" Dr. Tian said: "Yes, me, you, and Yang Jian." Yuan Sen was no less astonished than Dr. Tian. He never expected that Professor Yang Jian had read this book before, and he directly took the part of Wu Nu Cult.In this way, most of the fingerprints in the book were left by Professor Yang Jian. He was the one who flipped through the book taught by Wu Nu. What exactly was he looking for in this book? Dr. Tian said: "Xiao Yuan, do you think it's a coincidence that you can read this book?" Yuan Sen was also aware of this problem: "You mean, Professor Yang Jian arranged all of this? Not only did he not die at the bottom of Helan Mountain, but he also returned to Wushi and Xinda. But why didn't he see us?" Dr. Tian said: "For a long time, deep down in my heart, I didn't believe that Yang Jian would die, otherwise their Yang family's Secret Art of Breaking Jade would have been lost so easily. I don't believe it. From this point of view, Yang Jian must still be alive. He didn't see us. , there must be something else hidden. And the ghost call was made by him himself, there is no doubt that he encountered trouble in the Flame Mountain, and he knew that only I could save him." At this point, Dr. Tian started dancing. He put his hands on his hips, picked up the phone, dialed a few numbers, and ordered his subordinates to immediately call the security team, the detection team, the third communication team, and the core members of the Turpan National Security Bureau to go to Shandong. Keqin Town. That night, Dr. Tian, ​​Yuan Sen, Ai Kailam and the three teams formed a mighty team and went to Lukeqin Town.Lukeqin Town belongs to Shanshan County, Turpan. It is a famous historical city in ancient China and an important town on the Silk Road.