Chapter 5 Chapter 4 Fire Island Cannibal Valley

After the convoy crossed the Gobi, the National Security Bureau's convoy found a secret canyon in the middle of the Flame Mountain according to the marks left by the first and second communication teams. Members of the two teams died collectively in the canyon, and the cause of death was shooting. The convoy climbed over several low mountains and entered the range of the Flame Mountain.Scores of car headlights shone on the ground and hillside, all red, as if dyed by the setting sun, the whole land was submerged in the red ocean, the scene was quite spectacular. Ai Kailam was very frustrated when he heard that the place he was going to was Lukeqin. This guy was a tomb robber. After Lieutenant Liu Shi disappeared in the Altai Mountains, he urged Dr. Tian to send a large force to search for them in the Altai Mountains. Take the opportunity to dig gold.At that time, Dr. Tian did not believe Ekailam's ghost phone call, and felt that Lieutenant Liu Shi's team had not found any direct and useful clues in the Altai Mountains.The Altai Mountains are densely covered with primeval forests and the environment is extremely harsh. Ever since the Kuomintang started to make Western Region parchment scrolls, countless soldiers have disappeared in the Altai Mountains.

This time, Dr. Tian sent someone to bring Ai Kailam back from Beijing. Ai Kailam was secretly happy. He thought that Dr. Tian already had the idea of ​​exploring the Altai Mountains again, and asked him to be a guide. windfall. Yuan Sen, Dr. Tian and Ai Kailam took the same desert king off-road vehicle. Ai Kailam sat next to Yuan Sen. He was in high spirits, but kept silent. Dr. Tian made several calls with his mobile phone, but no one answered. Then he used the car walkie-talkie to call the person in charge of the third communication unit, and asked him to use the internal communication equipment to contact the first and second communication units.

After getting off the road, the Desert King off-road vehicle drove directly into a canyon on the north slope of Lukeqin Town. The cliffs on both sides of the valley are high, the ground is rough, and there are rocks everywhere. Some are as big as cattle, lying in the middle of the road. .After the convoy entered the canyon, the speed dropped significantly, getting slower and slower, and the Desert King off-road vehicle swayed forward in the canyon. Dr. Tian's car stopped on the side of the road, and asked his guards to contact the comrades from the National Security Bureau who had passed by earlier, and asked about the road conditions ahead and the estimated time of arrival.

The guards reported that the convoy of the National Security Bureau had just passed through the canyon not long ago, and they had cleared the roadblocks and rocks along the way for the rear troops, and they were heading towards the target position with all their strength. Soon, the person in charge of the third communication unit also came to report, saying that their satellite communication device lost contact with the first and second communication units, and they called for more than 20 times, which lasted for half an hour, but there was no response. The team encountered an accident at the target location.

Dr. Tian knew that the situation was not good, so he commanded the troops to advance at full speed. At the same time, he called the convoy of the National Security Bureau to quickly arrive at the target location, and reported the situation immediately after finding out the situation. Ai Kailam saw the sudden change in the situation, and his depressed mood immediately became quite open, so he said loudly to Yuan Sen: "I think this matter has something to do with the Altai Mountains. The current situation is the same as when I went deep into the Wunu Cult. Jing is very similar, we also lost contact with the main force for more than 20 days at that time, and old man Tian almost reported the martyrs to our unit collectively, tsk tsk."

Dr. Tian's face was covered with a layer of frost, and he had no time to take into account Akailam's cynicism. He used his mobile phone to keep in touch with the National Security Bureau convoy from time to time, directing them to move forward. Dr. Tian's convoy walked in the canyon for more than an hour before going out completely, and crossed a not-so-short Gobi on the way.When the huge convoy crossed the Gobi, it was like a long dragon, and the beam of xenon headlights shot far away.Ikela stuck his head out of the window to watch all this, dancing with excitement. After the convoy crossed the Gobi, the National Security Bureau's convoy found a secret canyon in the middle of the Flame Mountain according to the marks left by the first and second communication teams. Members of the two teams died collectively in the canyon, and the cause of death was shooting.

Ordinary signal soldiers seldom carry weapons. The 755th Division is a special force and is allowed to carry light weapons when performing tasks.What's more, the special forces of the 755th Division are all soldiers who have undergone high-intensity basic training. Even if they meet their opponents with guns with bare hands, they will not be completely wiped out. Dr. Tian asked the National Security Bureau to protect the scene and do a good job of safety and security, and immediately ordered the convoy to speed up and reach the target location as soon as possible. The convoy climbed over several low mountains and entered the range of the Flame Mountain.Scores of car headlights shone on the ground and hillside, all red, as if dyed by the setting sun, the whole land was submerged in the red ocean, the scene was quite spectacular.

After crossing the Gobi, the road surface is relatively stable. Although there are gravel pits from time to time, the cars in the team are either warriors off-road or desert kings. Of course, there is no problem in dealing with such road conditions.After Dr. Tian gave the order to speed up, the convoy marched forward on the fiery red land of the Flame Mountain, like hunting tigers and leopards.At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and the convoy entered an open canyon. The low mountains on both sides of the valley looked into the distance, and the terrain in the valley was stable.The convoy went deep into the canyon. After driving for half an hour, the canyon gradually closed, and then divided into several directions, going deep into the center of the Flame Mountain.

The convoy found an entrance based on the grinding marks on the ground. The inner valley was so narrow that it could only accommodate one car to pass through. If there was a boulder in the middle, the car would be completely blocked in the middle of the valley. The convoy walked in the valley for more than 20 minutes with nine twists and eighteen turns, and finally drove out.Outside the valley is an open space, like a big square.There are seven or eight cars parked in the center of the square, including military vehicles and off-road jeeps.Even without guessing, this is the car of the two communication teams and the National Security Bureau.

At this moment, the sky is not yet bright, and the red earth is covered with a layer of gray color. The wide square is covered by the surrounding mountains, like a huge pit, giving people a sense of mystery and awe. The National Security Bureau sent two people over to respond. Dr. Tian briefly asked about the situation and asked the two to lead the way and immediately went to check the scene. Under the leadership of comrades from the National Security Bureau, the troops straddled the more than 1,000-meter red clay square.At first glance, the Red Clay Square seems to be relatively flat. When you actually walk up, you will find that there are countless pits in the middle of the square, and the whole is inclined to the opposite side.The cliff on the opposite side is more than hundreds of meters high, and the mountain in the middle is sunken in, forming a deep arc, like a big gourd.

The cliffs on this side of Hongtu Square are full of narrow valley caves, some of which are several meters wide, and some of which cannot even accommodate a person. Large caves cover small caves, and the caves are intertwined with each other. Two comrades from the National Security Bureau took the lead in getting into an inconspicuous small hole. The hole can only accommodate one person in and out. The person with the equipment on his body needs to take off the equipment and hand it over, and then go in by himself. After entering the entrance of the cave, walk about five meters, and the space inside the cave becomes slightly larger, allowing people to turn around in the cave.After walking for a while, I came out of the cave, and in front of me was a valley about several feet wide. As soon as Yuan Sen came out of the mouth of the valley, he was taken aback. He had never seen such a strange valley in his life.The two walls of the valley were covered with red stalagmites that were ten feet long, and the stalagmites and stalagmites were intertwined, forming a dense cubic network at the height of two meters in the valley. Ai Kailam took Dr. Tian's arm and said: "Old man, it's very interesting. I, Ai Kailam, have traveled all over the northern and southern borders and seen all kinds of strange things, but I didn't expect there to be such a magical valley in Huoyan Mountain. " Dr. Tian was in a hurry to reach the target location to check the casualties. If he had time to pay attention to him, he just agreed twice and walked forward with the guards. Yuan Sen secretly observed as he walked, the sunlight shot down from the fiery red stalagmite net, illuminating the whole valley like a purgatory.Wherever the sun shines, it will be as red as a ball of demon fire, and the scene is quite spectacular. The troops hurried through the valley for tens of minutes before they saw a dozen or so people gathered in front of them.When the busy National Security Bureau staff saw Dr. Tian approaching, they put down their work and saluted Dr. Tian.A person in charge of the National Security Bureau said: "Doctor, the thirty-five corpses are all in that fork, and they all died of gunshots." Dr. Tian followed the person in charge into the fork in the valley. On both sides of the fork were flat fiery red rocks, which looked like two unclosed stone doors. Passing through the stone gate, the valley inside is almost as wide as the outside. Around a huge square pit, there are scattered corpses. There are thirty-five corpses. They are all members of the two communication teams sent by Dr. Tian. . Dr. Tian glanced at it, and said to the person in charge of the National Security Bureau: "Why are they all suicide?" Yuan Sen ran to the corpse and inspected it carefully. Judging from their postures, they seemed to have killed each other, which is strange. Dr. Tian asked the person in charge of the National Security Bureau: "What do you think?" The middle-aged man who looked quite capable said: "My first thought was to kill each other, but our responsible comrades thought about it and couldn't find a motive for them to kill each other, so we waited to do it." After comparing the ballistics, we will make a decision. We have taken some bullets and sent them to the headquarters, waiting for the results." Dr. Tian waved his hand and asked the technical team to take the bullets from the corpse and compare the ballistics on the spot.Several army cadres who accompanied him were talking in low voices, the bullets were all the right type, and in all likelihood, it was his own people who fired the shots. With a cold face, Dr. Tian said to the person in charge of the National Security Bureau: "You guys arrived more than an hour early, did you find any clues around?" The person in charge of the National Security Bureau shook his head and said: "It's normal. Some of the marks around are left by the communication unit and animals. Take a step back and say, even if we are ambushed, our special forces will not be so useless. Like a headless chicken, there must be something wrong." Dr. Tian heard that what he said made sense, he noticed this question as soon as he came, and asked, "What do you mean?" The person in charge said: "Looking at the posture of the corpses, they were shooting at each other when they died, and looking at their faces, they all looked heartbroken, as if they were frightened and shot indiscriminately in a state of mental breakdown. .” Yuan Sen said: "What fear can make this group of well-trained special forces soldiers shoot at their comrades? The psychological pressure ability of the special forces of the 755th Division is simply incomparable to ordinary people." Dr. Tian nodded and said nothing.The various types of teams he brought over have already started working, inspecting the corpses on the spot, monitoring the environment, analyzing various traces, quickly drawing various conclusions, and constantly reporting to Dr. Tian. Ai Kailam looked and looked around a pile of corpses, and even turned over some corpses to examine them carefully. After looking at them for a while, he ran to Dr. Tian and said, "Old man, don't mess with those phony things, mess with so many people. It's very majestic to mess around there. I've checked, and all of your soldiers are blind. Look at their flustered looks, much like Old Blind Li from Panjiayuan. Whoever touched Old Blind Li's mess, Who is this ghost." Akailam's words were finally confirmed by the team's health guards, and the thirty-five corpses were all briefly blinded before they died.They fired at their teammates with light machine guns, must have been blind and under some serious threat. Ai Kailam's words made sense, which surprised Yuan Sen.He originally thought that Ai Kailamu was just a gangster selling cultural relics, but he didn't expect this guy to have such good eyesight, so he couldn't help but look at him with admiration.Ai Kailam looked at Yuan Sen's surprised eyes, glanced at him twice, and smiled triumphantly. Dr. Tian asked the person in charge of the National Security Bureau: "Earlier, the communication team reported that there was a pit filled with bones. I don't know which dynasty left the mass grave. Have you found any nearby?" He pointed to the empty square pit next to the corpse. The person in charge of the National Security Bureau said: "We found this place according to the marks left by the communication team. After discovering their bodies, we searched nearby. When it comes to the big pit, this is the only one." Dr. Tian thoughtfully walked to the side of the big pit, and found that the pit was more than ten meters deep, and the bottom of the pit was covered with red soil, and not even a single skeleton could be seen.This matter is too outrageous. In just a few hours, two of his communication teams, who were originally from special forces, committed suicide.During these few hours, what strange things happened in this uninhabited valley of Huoyan Mountain? At this time, the sun has risen to the sky, and the white light shines in the sky. The temperature around the valley seems to rise in an instant, and even the air is steaming. Everyone in the valley is sweating hotly, and then The sweat was evaporated, and my body was sticky and uncomfortable. Akailam said to Dr. Tian: "I said, old man, we must withdraw from the Flaming Mountain within two hours, otherwise we will be roasted into meat naan in this valley. I, Akailam, don't want to make dried meat Naan." The person in charge of the National Security Bureau also said: "Yes, once the sun rises to the top, the temperature of the surrounding rocks will rise to 70 degrees. This is the center of the Huoyan Mountain, and in some places it will reach more than 80 degrees. If we stay here for too long, we will all be roasted to death." Ai Kailam laughed and took out a cigarette from his pocket. He put the cigarette butt on a red rock and pecked it. Yang Yang look. Of course, Dr. Tian knew that the temperature in the Flame Mountain was so high that it was difficult for ordinary people to adapt to it, but when he came here this time, the clues of the ghost phone were completely cut off, and all thirty-five elite communication soldiers were lost. News, bizarre incidents one after another, so many things have not been resolved, how can he withdraw at this critical point? At Dr. Tian's insistence, each team set up tents in the valley, some of them disposed of the corpses, and some of them collected the information left by the two communication teams. clues. Huoyan Mountain is located in the center of the Turpan Basin, and it is extremely hot and windless. They were divided into a group of thirteen people, and just after they walked out of the valley, their bodies were burned red by the hot sun, as if they had been pricked by needles.Looking around as far as the eye can see, there are ups and downs of red earth mountains all around, and the sky is so high and bright that it hurts the eyes of those who watch it. The reconnaissance team turned up the cliff from the red earth square, and carefully checked for possible traces along the cliff in the inner valley. Ai Kailam cursed repeatedly as he walked, and the people in the team ignored him. They circled a half-circle within a radius of one kilometer of the Neigu cliff, but found no trace of any living people, not even the slightest trace of wild beasts, which was really frustrating. Ai Kailam walked up to Yuan Sen and said, "Brother Yuan, let me tell you, Huoyan Mountain is not a place where living things haunt. For thousands of years, people have known that there are living people in Lukeqin, but who has heard of it?" Is there anyone else living in the Flame Mountain?" Yuan Sen nodded and said, "There is no grass growing here, so there must be no living things. But I heard that there are several ditches in the Huoyan Mountain that are rich in water and grass and have raised hundreds of families." Ai Kailam shook his head straightly and said: "Brother Yuan, you don't know, what are Mumugou and Tao'ergou, and what is this place?" As he said that, Ai Kailam lowered his voice and said, "I, Ai Kailam, have seen a lot of strange things when traveling all over the world. The thirty-five corpses in the valley must not have been killed by living people, but dead people." Yuan Sen said: "How to say?" Ai Kailamu lowered the brim of his helmet, and said mysteriously, "Brother Yuan, do you know whose territory the Huoyan Mountain area was before the Tang Dynasty?" Yuan Sen shook his head and said, "During the Tang Dynasty, Lukeqin belonged to the Tang Dynasty, and it was Liuzhong County in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Four Towns and Beiting Dufu Jiedushi were often changed. Whose territory is it? It's hard to say." Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "Hey, I said Brother Yuan, you scholars are just dumb. I'm talking about Huoyanshan, not Lukeqin." Yuan Sen asked, "You mean Taoergou once had other civilizations?" Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "Brother Yuan, can you stop interrupting me? I'm talking about this part of the Huoyan Mountain, which is the place under our feet." Yuan Sen was completely stunned. The Huoyan Mountain had a radius of hundreds of kilometers. It was a desolate place without any living things. How could there be civilization? Ai Kaila said: "This civilization is very mysterious. No one knows when it started, but there are many different legends about its destruction in southern and northern Xinjiang. out of town." Yuan Sen said: "What does the death of the thirty-five members of the communication team have to do with this slaughtered civilization? Could it be that they came out after thousands of years to seek the lives of modern people?" Ai Kaila gave Yuan Sen a dumbfounded look, and said, "Hey, brother Yuan, don't believe me. I collected things in Wushi and Lukeqin's bazaar a few years ago, and many Uyghurs digging graves for treasures I said this. They dug in the coal mines around the Flame Mountain and dug many large corpse pits. The skulls in the corpse pits range from hundreds to tens of thousands. The coal diggers can still hear the corpse pits when they sleep at night. Women's cries, and coal diggers are often attracted by women's cries, so scary. I just suddenly remembered this incident today. Don't mention it, the location mentioned in those rumors is right here Within the range of Katayama.” Ai Kailam's statement is just a legend, there are no historical records to test, and this kind of statement has been found everywhere in China, so Yuan Sen didn't care. Suddenly, the leading sub-captain in front shouted: "Hey, come here, I found something is wrong down here." The team members walking behind hurried to catch up, and saw the team leader lying on the cliff, looking down with a telescope.Below the cliff is a valley that is not wide open. The color of the mountain walls and ground in the valley is very dark, a kind of deep red that is almost dark brown, which is very different from the color of the red stone and red soil on the cliff. Yuan Sen and Ai Kailamu also lay down on the big rock scorched by the sun and looked down. They saw that the bottom was full of blood-stained sand and stones, and there was a road less than two meters wide in the valley. On the road, several places on the road were blocked by piles of rocks that fell from the collapse of the mountain wall.There seemed to be several pits farther away, and the line of sight was partly blocked by the protruding cliffs below. It was impossible to see how deep the pits were. Yuan Sen and Ai Kailam looked around, but they didn't see anything special.Before Yuan Sen could analyze it carefully, the team leader ordered to go down the cliff to check. Several well-trained special forces assembled the climbing rope, fixed the safety hook, and slid along the rope to the valley more than 20 meters below.Although Yuan Sen and Ai Kailam were not from special forces, their many years of experience in field exploration and tomb robbery made them as skilled as special forces, so they quickly fixed the safety hooks and slid down the valley along the rope. A group of people quickly climbed over several piles of rocks and ran to a distance of several hundred meters.In front of him was a small pit less than 20 square meters, and the team leader was staring into the pit. The soldiers who didn't know were talking about what was going on, and Yuan Sen couldn't help but said, "Captain, did you see anything strange in this pit from above?" The team leader said: "No, it's very wrong. What I saw is obviously not the case." The other soldiers of the detachment surrounded the pit, and dozens of pairs of eyes stared at the bottom of the pit. Except for the rubble inside and the bare bottom of the pit, they did not see anything else. The team leader was still muttering to himself: "No——No—It's totally wrong—" A group of soldiers looked at each other and looked at you. They didn't know what strange things the team leader saw at that moment on the cliff, but they couldn't rush to ask. The squad leader said to a soldier: "Zhang Jie, how deep do you think the bottom of the pit is from the ground?" Zhang Jie replied very simply: "Based on my experience, it should be around ten meters." The team leader nodded, and said: "It is consistent with my judgment. I just looked with a telescope on the cliff. At first, I didn't see the bottom of the pit at all, but in the blink of an eye, the bottom of the pit was almost flush with the pit. What do you say about this?" Is it strange?" Zhang Jie replied: "Report to the captain, I think this is a visual error caused by strong light. The bottom of the pit is only ten meters away. It's not an elevator. How could it go up and down at will?" The team leader did not speak. He stared at the bottom of the pit and looked again and again. He even lay down on the edge of the pit, poked his head in and looked carefully. There was no change in the bottom of the ten-meter-deep pit. Possibility of floating to the edge of the pit. The team leader was very stubborn, so he ordered Zhang Jie to hang down the pit with a rope to have a closer look, to thoroughly investigate this strange incident, otherwise how would he explain to Dr. Tian when he went back. Without saying a word, Zhang Jie drank a few sips of water, put a thick rope of more than ten meters into the pit, tied it with a loose buckle, and the three men pulled the rope, snorting along the pit wall and descending to the bottom of the pit. The pit was only about ten square meters in size, like a small room. Zhang Jie walked back and forth in the pit, almost every inch, and found nothing strange. The team leader saw that Zhang Jie was just walking around in the pit, so he lay down on the edge of the pit, shouted into the pit, asked how Zhang Jie was doing, and came up quickly if there was no problem. As if Zhang Jie didn't hear the words of the team leader, he suddenly squatted on the ground, as if he had found something valuable.The people above were all around the edge of the pit, either standing or lying down, regardless of the scorching sun, staring at Zhang Jie's every move. The team leader yelled down two more times, but Zhang Jie just ignored him, and the whole person changed from squatting to lying on the bottom of the pit.The people in the pit are really puzzled. The first duty of a soldier is to obey orders. No matter how small a leader is, as long as he has the right to give orders, his words are indisputable in front of you, let alone senior special forces like the 755th Division. force.The onlookers felt that something was wrong. Zhang Jie lay on the bottom of the pit like a toad, with his limbs spread out and his face down, as if he was studying a very small thing.The people on the pit shouted Zhang Jie's name downwards, but he didn't pay attention at all, and lay motionless on the bottom of the pit, staring at the things in front of him. A special soldier said to the team leader: "Captain, Zhang Jie must be dead, isn't he? If we shout so loudly, even if he doesn't answer, he should at least look up, right?" The sub-leader's face changed color, and he hurriedly ordered another soldier to go down to have a look. The soldier agreed, immediately hung up the noose, and slid down sharply. The soldier was only halfway down the slide, and Yuan Sen suddenly realized that something was wrong. He shouted at the sliding soldier: "Wait a minute, stop first, there is a situation below." The team leader said to Yuan Sen: "Mr. Yuan, what did you find?" Yuan Sen pulled the team leader to his side and said, "Look, Zhang Jie's hands and feet are gone, as if buried in the soil." At this moment, although the sunlight above the head is very strong, the distance from the bottom of the pit to the ground is more than ten meters, and because the angle of the pit wall is vertical, when reaching the bottom of the pit, the sunlight is blocked by the pit wall for more than half, and the bottom is dense The shadow of Zhang Jie, so everyone did not see Zhang Jie's abnormality for a while. After being reminded by Yuan Sen, the team leader took a look through the binoculars and shouted, "No, Zhang Jie was buried. Most of his body was buried in the soil." Everyone saw that most of Zhang Jie's body had been buried in the soil, but this guy remained motionless and didn't know how to call for help. This was too strange.From the moment he went down to the present, everyone had dozens of eyes on him, and he didn't show any signs of being attacked, but why did he get down so silently all of a sudden? As soon as the soldier who had slipped halfway heard the shout of the squad leader, he immediately slid towards the bottom of the pit.At this moment, everyone could see very clearly that the soil seemed to be alive, and it automatically crawled onto Zhang Jie's body inch by inch.Zhang Jie's body was being buried bit by bit by the red soil.First, all the limbs were submerged in the soil, then the buttocks disappeared into the soil, and finally even half of the head sank in. A special soldier said to the team leader: "Captain, Zhang Jie must be dead, even his head is buried in the soil." With a cold face, the squad leader yelled at the soldier: "I know, help them pull the rope quickly." After that, he rushed down the pit and shouted: "Hurry up and get up after Zhang Jie, don't delay." The soldier responded, and he had already descended to the bottom of the pit.He knew that the pit was dangerous. One of the major missions of their 755 Division Headquarters stationed in Xinjiang was to carry out various secret missions. During the mission, he saw and heard countless strange things. One look at the scene and he knew it was not easy.The soldier jumped into the pit, without saying a word, without looking around, ran over to pull Zhang Jie up, touched his breath, it seemed that he was still venting his breath, and without thinking too much, he carried Zhang Jie on his shoulder and wrapped the rope around his body , Let the brothers above quickly pull the rope. The people above were also unambiguous. As soon as they received the signal to pull the rope, five or six people desperately pulled the rope up. There is even a downward trend. Seeing this, Yuan Sen was taken aback. Before he had time to think about it, he called Ai Kailamu and the team leader to pull the rope. The other team members also saw that the situation was not right, so they all joined in and pulled together.With the efforts of more than a dozen people, the rope moved up inch by inch, and finally raised it by more than one meter. The team leader shouted into the pit: "What's going on, why are we pulling harder and harder?" It took a long time for the soldier in the pit to reply: "I don't know, I can't hold it anymore." The team leader was very anxious, this matter is really evil, there are only two of them, ten or so big men with big arms and waists can't pull it, this thing is too outrageous, could it really be the evil thing that hit the Flame Mountain up? Ai Kailamu said to Yuan Sen: "Brother Yuan, do you believe me? The rumors in Bazaar say that Huoyan Mountain is a paradise for the dead and a forbidden place for the living. I think it is correct." Yuan Sen let go of the rope and said, "There is no way for us to stalemate like this. I'll go and see what's going on in the pit." He came around behind the rope-towing crowd and ran to the edge of the pit to look in.He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that the soldier was carrying Zhang Jie on his back, with several pieces of thick rope wrapped around his body, and the hoops were tightly bound. Zhang Jie was lying on his back, his life and death unknown.But the strange thing was that the soldier was still standing on the red soil at the bottom of the pit even though the rope had been pulled upwards for several meters.Yuan Sen suspected that his brain was covered by the scorching sun, so he grabbed the kettle and poured half a pot of water on his head. He touched the water on his face and looked into the pit again. It was true, the soldier was still standing At the bottom of the pit, he didn't seem to have discovered this situation himself. Seeing Yuan Sen's shocked expression, the team leader knew something was wrong again, so he said, "Mr. Yuan, what's wrong?" Yuan Sen said: "Captain, come and take a look. We dragged it for a long time, but they are still standing there, nothing has changed." When Yuan Sen said this, the special forces soldiers pulling the rope exploded, and the team leader also ran over, lay down on the edge of the pit and looked down, his heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Sure enough, it's the same as what I saw on the cliff. Similarly, the bottom of this pit can really move up and down by itself, we have hit the devil." The team leader said to Yuan Sen: "Mr. Yuan, you just stay here and watch what's going on in the pit. Let's pull them out of the ghost pit with one effort." After that, the team leader ran back to the middle of the rope pulling team and adjusted the formation. A dozen or so people pressed the rope and dragged back in a tug-of-war position. Seeing the rope move up inch by inch, they managed to get up half a meter.Then, a strange thing happened again, the rope was pulled down inch by inch by everyone's hands, as if a group of people underground were also pulling the rope, and were engaged in a tug-of-war competition with the group of people above. This group of special forces was in the hot flaming mountains, but everyone was covered in cold sweat. It was really a ghost in broad daylight.Yuan Sen stared at the bottom of the pit. The soldier at the bottom of the pit was holding onto the rope tightly, almost in a state of collapse.In the process of everyone pulling the rope up, the soldier's feet never left the bottom of the pit from the beginning to the end. A group of special forces tried their best to not pull the rope any more, and as time went by, the rope continued to slide down gradually.But it's not an option to stay in a stalemate like this, because human power is limited after all, they can't do anything, the collapse of momentum is only a momentary thing, as long as the momentum collapses, all the effort will be in vain. The team leader came around from the team again, lay down on the edge of the pit and looked down, and saw the soldier carrying Zhang Jie clutching the rope tightly, muscles all over his body tensed, sweat billowing on his body, and his face was red, obviously exhausted physically. , will face exhaustion at any time.He kept this posture all the time, motionless, and the squad leader yelled down twice, but the soldier didn't answer, not knowing what was going on. The team leader said to Yuan Sen: "Mr. Yuan, why don't we loosen the rope and call the headquarters for help, otherwise this is not the way to go?" Yuan Sen shook his head resolutely, and said: "Captain, have you thought about one thing? What we see now is that they are standing on the ground at the bottom of the pit, but there is a hidden secret at the bottom of the pit. The combined weight of the two people is not too heavy. With so much manpower, it is difficult to pull the rope. If you look at the standing posture of the soldier, although his feet are in contact with the ground, but judging from his standing posture, it seems that he has not stepped on the ground. In other words, maybe the pit we saw The subsurface isn't real, it's just an illusion." What Yuan Sen said made the team leader break out in a cold sweat. Speaking of which, this was indeed the case.If the bottom of the pit he saw was not the real bottom of the pit, and even the bottom of the pit Zhang Jie was in had undergone bizarre changes, and the distance between the two was greater than before, then if they let go, they might fall into the abyss and die . The team leader frowned. It was too late to ask the headquarters for support. This tug-of-war situation could not last for more than ten minutes. He glanced at Yuan Sen, and the two nodded almost at the same time. Judging from the current situation, most of Zhang Jie has already died, and the immediate plan is to bring one up first, otherwise both of them will die. The two wanted to be together, and immediately yelled into the pit, telling the soldier to put Zhang Jie down and come up first.Unexpectedly, after they yelled more than ten times, the soldier didn't respond at all, just like Zhang Jie, he didn't make a sound, but his body still maintained a stiff posture, holding on to the rope tightly. The squad leader's face changed drastically. He has been a special soldier for more than ten years and has a lot of experience, but this is the first time he has encountered such a bizarre thing today.In such a normal environment, encountering such a sudden change and losing the lives of two teammates is too unacceptable. Yuan Sen saw that there was not much time left, so he said to the team leader: "Captain, how about this, you put another rope down, you pull the rope, and I will go down to see their situation. I don't touch the ground at the bottom of the pit, Presumably there is no great danger." The team leader was helpless, and had no other better way at the moment, so he had to agree.Yuan Sen slid along the rope to get close to the soldier, about half a meter away from the bottom of the pit. He grabbed his own rope with one hand and the other rope held by the soldier with the other, trying to get closer to him.But the rope was extremely tight, one end was tightly held by more than a dozen people on the pit, and the other end seemed to be rooted in the bottom of the pit. The soldier and Zhang Jie were like two grasshoppers strung on the rope, tightly holding the rope. Yuan Sen had no choice but to grab the soldier's rope and leaned over. In the shadow, he saw that the soldier's face was red and black, as if it was full of blood, his eyes were closed, his teeth were clenched, and he grabbed the soldier with one hand. Holding the rope, the other hand dragged Zhang Jie who was on his back. His veins were bulging and he was shaking constantly. Seeing the soldier's situation clearly, Yuan Sen breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried that the soldier was dead, but now it seems that he must have exhausted his energy and gradually entered a coma, so he could neither move nor answer the call from above. He tried to break away the soldier holding Zhang Jie's hand, but after several efforts, all failed. The soldier's hand firmly grabbed Zhang Jie's belt, and at the same time wrapped a few rounds of thick hemp rope around his body. Resolute, in the coma state, the only consciousness is to hold on tightly, no matter how hard Yuan Sen tried, he couldn't break his hand. Yuan Sen supported his body with a slanted groove on the wall of the pit, but he still couldn't move the soldier at all. In desperation, he had to take out the military dagger he carried with him, and hit the soldier's elbow joint with the iron handle of the dagger.After several knocks, the joints loosened, and Zhang Jie's body slid down the rope. It was too late to say that, General Yuan Sen held the dagger in his mouth, moved his other hand down, grabbed Zhang Jie's elbow and pulled it up.He pulled suddenly, and his body sank down, as if Zhang Jie was dragging him to the bottom of the pit. It sank seven or eight meters. Yuan Sen was horrified, and Zhang Jie dragged him down like a huge boulder, without delaying even a second.The team leader yelled from above: "Put Zhang Jie down quickly——Put Zhang Jie down—" 袁森来不及细想，急忙松手，身体这才缓了一缓，却见张杰掉在七八米以下的坑底，几秒钟时间，他的身体就没入坑底的红土之中，消失不见。 袁森被吓得喘不过气来，活人遁地之术他这辈子没见过，但是死人钻土的奇事他这次算是开了眼界。张杰在坑底砸出一个大坑，接着周围的红土自动翻落下去，将那大坑覆盖了起来。 救张杰的那名战士已经被众人拉了上去，接着一拨特种兵一起使力，又把袁森拉上了地面。袁森这才想起来，在他解开张杰的过程中，坑底居然离奇地下降了十多米的距离，因为他最初是估算好了的，一直滑落到距离坑底半米多，不到一米的位置，但是眨眼之间，他被张杰拖下一段不小的距离，而张杰又掉进七八米以下的坑底。 分队长走上前去，紧紧握住袁森的手，道：“袁先生，冒险了——冒险了——” 其他特种兵一起为袁森鼓掌，艾凯拉木走过来，拍拍袁森的肩膀，说：“袁小哥，不错，有胆子，反应够敏捷。” 这帮特种兵熟悉各种急救方法，那战士被拖上来之后，就被平放在地面上，有人给他松筋活络，放松肌肉，再给他灌了一大口水，掐了几处穴位，人就醒了过来。 分队长对袁森和那名战士道：“你们有没有发现是什么东西在坑里作怪？” 那战士道：“报告队长，我下到坑底，都没有发现奇特的地方，把张杰扛上背的时候，发现他还有呼吸，只是很弱，出气多进气少。我把他背上后捆好，绳子升到两米的时候，突然发现张杰回过劲来，死死地箍在我身上，而且越箍越紧，简直要把人箍死。就在这个时候，他不但箍住了我的胸口，而且另一只手还箍住了我的脖子，我一时喘不过气来，就昏了过去。” 袁森道：“这就奇了，我下去的时候，你已经陷入昏迷状态。张杰用手臂箍住你的脖子不假，但是显然没有用什么力，反倒是你紧紧地抓住他，避免他掉下去，直到我后来敲击你的肘关节，你才放开他。张杰被你放开，人就跌了下去。” 那名战士歪头想了一下，道：“不对啊，张杰箍我的时候，我的意识还很清醒，他的确是紧紧地箍住我的，而且他的力气太大了，简直就不像是一个人能够发出的力量。而且他的头就耷拉在我肩膀上，鼻子贴着我的耳朵，他箍住我的时候，似乎是没有呼吸的，他使这么大劲，怎么可能没有丝毫气息？” 艾凯拉木插嘴道：“有可能是尸变了。” 分队长道：“最奇怪的是，他下到坑底，先是蹲下来，接着趴下，最后就离奇死去。这个过程进行得非常流畅，但是咱们根本就看不到他发现了什么，在他身上又发生了什么。康巴萨下到坑底地面，却非常正常，这中间的疑问实在让人想不明白。” 袁森这才知道那名战士叫康巴萨，听名字他像是藏人，后来康巴萨告诉袁森，他是哈萨克人，来自阿勒泰。 袁森道：“我从康巴萨身上解开张杰，张杰下坠的重量完全不像是人，更像是一块千斤重的石头。而且他掉到坑底的时候，坑底被砸了一个大洞。也就是说，坑底下面应该是空的，坑底的泥土只是架在中间的伪装物。” 康巴萨说：“我觉得我可以再下去一次，挖开坑底的泥土，看看下面到底是什么东西，谜题自然可以解决。” 分队长大摇其头，断然否定了康巴萨的提议，道：“我们已经损失了张杰，不应该再贸然行动。而且现在太阳升到当空，咱们要找个地方避一下，否则火焰山的高温会要了我们的命。” 小分队在这座山谷里找到一处凹进去的山洞，山洞因为避开了太阳的直接照射，所以温度比其他地方低了几十度。小分队在洞里避了几个小时，不断地分析古怪的坑底到底是怎么回事，讨论来讨论去也没有一个讲得通的说法，最后只得作罢。在太阳开始西斜的时候，他们回到了总部所在的那座山谷。