Chapter 21 Chapter 20 The Ancient Country of Grapes

Yuan Sen abandoned the grape corridor.They found a shade room for drying raisins in front, and the shade room was also covered with stone-carved grapes, and the stone holes on the wall were tightly covered by stone leaves and stone grapes.They arranged the stone carvings almost the same as the real grape corridors and shade houses, which are perfect works of art. Yuan Sen said: "Kangbasa, have you ever heard of someone using grapes to accompany the funeral?" While the three were talking, Kang Basa suddenly exclaimed: "Look, the thick stems have grown again!" Yuan Sen and Wang Hui hurriedly looked at the ground, isn't it? In the excavated pit, there were only messy broken roots a few minutes ago, and in such a short time, many long roots were drilled out of the pit. Come, the roots are tangled together, like the shaggy hair of a madman.

Yuan Sen was very surprised. This was the first time he had seen such a fast-growing plant, and he had never even heard of it before. This time he saw it.Pointing to the tangled roots, he said, "Assistant Wang, is there such a plant in the world?" Wang Huidao: "As far as I know, moso bamboo grows very fast. It can grow one meter high overnight. The growth speed of this thick stem is probably many times that of moso bamboo." While talking, Wang Hui squatted down, took out her white gloves, a blade and an iron box, cut off a few roots, carefully put them in the iron box, and stuffed them into her backpack.

"I'll take its roots back and check them. There must be an important reason for those fake special forces to pull out the thick stems." The three of them left the cave. It was pitch black outside the cave, and no trace of the fake special forces was found.Yuan Sen turned on the flashlight, and saw that the place they were in was a huge cave, the cave was surrounded by open space, and there was a large pond, or a lake in the middle of the mountain, more than ten meters away. Yuan Sen took a photo into the water. The lake water was unusually clear and looked very deep. There was a mixture of red and yellow at the bottom, which should be something like sulfur.

They walked along the lake, and when they walked more than a hundred meters, they found a promenade by the lake.The promenade is tens of meters long and about four meters wide. There are stone-carved grape trellises on the promenade. Long and curly stone-carved grape vines hang down from the trellis, and large bunches of stone grapes hang from the vines. Looking around, the grape racks, vines, leaves, and stone grapes hanging on the grape racks are all carved lifelike. From a distance, it looks exactly like the grape corridor in the grape valley at the foot of the Flame Mountain. Yuan Sen walked into the grape corridor, and the inside was tightly blocked by long vines and bunches of grapes. There was an inch of dust on the stone bars of the corridor, and it was the same on the ground and on the roof.There is no sign of anyone coming in the grape corridor, obviously the pseudo-special forces have never been here.Their goals are very clear, they never do useless work, and their understanding of the underground space is amazing.They have never entered the grape corridor, which means that what they are looking for has nothing to do with the corridor.

Yuan Sen abandoned the grape corridor.They found a shade room for drying raisins in front, and the shade room was also covered with stone-carved grapes, and the stone holes on the wall were tightly covered by stone leaves and stone grapes.They arranged the stone carvings almost the same as the real grape corridors and shade houses, which are perfect works of art. Yuan Sen said: "Kangbasa, have you ever heard of someone using grapes to accompany the funeral?" Kang Basa said: "Yes, comrades in our army from southern Xinjiang often talk about this custom, especially in Turpan. It is said that some ancient tombs are dug up, and the closest to the tomb owner is the dried grape."

Yuan Sen said: "They bought so many stone-carved grapes, is it also for burial?" "Maybe not. As early as the Han Dynasty, there were records that the grapes in Turpan were particularly famous. And the beauties lived under the Flaming Mountains. They should have a deeper understanding of grapes, or grapes may be one of their staple foods. You can see that these grape corridors and shade houses are somewhat different from those used by Turpan people today, but it is really remarkable to be able to do this more than a thousand years ago." Wang Hui said. Yuan Sen nodded thoughtfully, and said, "The reason why the beauties carved grape corridors and shade houses is because grapes are very important in their lives. Did they record this as part of civilization?"

"That said, it's a pity that we don't take a closer look at what the beauty left behind with so much thought." Yuan Sen climbed up to the high platform of the shade house after speaking.The shade house is dozens of square meters in size, and the flower hole walls and grape trellises inside are tightly covered with stone-carved grape bunches.In the middle of the shade room is a rather large stone tablet, which is full of strange symbols.Looking at the symbols connected together, it looks like a strange text. Yuan Sen took a photo of the stele with a flashlight, turned to Wang Hui and said, "Do you want to trace this, take it back and ask an expert to analyze it?"

Wang Hui looked at the inscription in a daze, then turned on the flashlight, and squatted in front of the inscription to examine it carefully.Her fingers touched the symbols on the inscription one by one, and she touched each one very carefully.Yuan Sen and Kangbasa looked at each other, feeling very strange in their hearts.Does Wang Hui know these weird symbols? Wang Hui touched it for a while, and then read it out softly. At first, her voice was very small, like talking in a dream, very vague.After watching half of it, the voice became louder.After listening to this passage, Yuan Sen couldn't help but turn pale with shock.He turned his head to look at Kangbasa. Kangbasa's eyes widened, his face full of horror, and he was also startled by Wang Hui's voice.

What she said was actually very similar to the strange speech they received on the walkie-talkie in the underground space. The voice was different, but the way of speaking was exactly the same.In other words, Wang Huinian's inscription is the language in which they received the strange signal, which is too horrifying. Yuan Sen patted Wang Hui on the back and said, "Assistant Wang, what language did you—you—speak just now?" Wang Hui looked at him strangely and said, "An ancient Cypriot language." Yuan Sen became more and more suspicious, and said, "How do you know this language?"

Wang Huidao: "I really don't know. An old expert in our army once introduced the civilization of the Gusai people and their language. I wrote down part of the pronunciation. I just saw these characters that seemed familiar, so I read them out. " Yuan Sen heard that what she said made sense, so he told Wang Hui what happened to them in the underground space.Thinking of the bizarre voice on the walkie-talkie, a cold sweat broke out on his back now. Wang Hui listened carefully, frowning and drew out the process at that time on a piece of paper, drawing circles on important places from time to time.After she finished listening, she asked, "Did you record that sound?"

Yuan Sen shook his head, Kang Basa had made such a proposal, but when they woke up Akailamu, the voice disappeared. "Do you remember the pronunciation of a few of these sentences?" Yuan Sen shook his head and said, "This language is so special that we can't find its rules. How can we memorize it?" Wang Hui took out her laptop, switched to handwriting mode, and drew the symbols on the stele on the touchpad of the computer. She drew about 20 characters and clicked the translation function.The computer quickly translated it, translated into Chinese as "I was imprisoned underground——" This sentence leaves a lot of room for imagination. Who is imprisoned underground? And isn't the beauty always living underneath?How were they imprisoned?Who will imprison them? Most importantly, is this sentence what the ghost woman in the underground space said?If this is the case, it undoubtedly proves that the woman who spoke is really a ghost lurking in the underground space. Wang Hui drew more than a dozen symbols according to the same pattern, but this time the computer did not translate it. What came out was a line of garbled characters. The computer, which claims to have stored countless data, unexpectedly got stuck at a critical moment. Wang Hui was not discouraged, she drew more than 20 characters, but the computer translation was still garbled. Yuan Sen became nervous and prayed secretly that he could only translate such a sentence, causing people to hang their hearts in mid-air, unable to go up or down, confused, and going crazy under the ground. Wang Hui intercepted the last 20 characters and drew them. The translation result was still garbled characters, and Yuan Sen was completely speechless. This also declared that their deciphering of the stele had reached a deadlock.The only hope was lost again. Yuan Sendao: "Assistant Wang, what's going on? Isn't your computer claiming to be all-encompassing, and how many museums are the materials hidden in it?" Wang Hui frowned, and said, "I couldn't find out the reason for a while. This is the first time I have encountered such a situation while using this computer." Yuan Sen sighed helplessly, feeling quite desperate in his heart. He looked up and saw Kangbasa lying on the wall of the flower hole, poking his head over the hanging stone grape bunches, then walked over and patted, and said, "Kangbasa, are you here?" What are you doing?" Kang Basa turned around, made an opening, pointed to the outside, and said, "Mr. Yuan, look——" Yuan Sen looked at Combasa with strange eyes, knowing that he had made a new discovery, and leaned over. As soon as he got his head through the bunch of grapes, he saw a very faint light in the darkness.Looking at the position of the light source, it seems to be in the middle of the lake. "Why is the light so weak? It's like a firefly." Yuan Sen whispered. Kang Basa was very calm, and said: "The light source shoots out of the water. I observed it just now, and it sometimes disappears. It should be that when someone is diving, the direction of the lighting equipment has changed." Yuan Sen said: "I said that this group of fake special forces disappeared as soon as they came, and they all went into the water. Are they looking for something in the water?" Kang Basa said: "Everything they do seems to be very planned. I think it is likely to come down to find something. Mr. Yuan, should we take a closer look?" Yuan Sen agreed very much, and Wang Hui was still fiddling with her computer. Yuan Sen briefly talked to her, and then slipped out of the shade room with Combasa.They didn't turn on the flashlight, just stared at the dim light that came and went at that time, and walked to the lake in the dark. The two were lying on the edge of the water, staring at the dim light dozens of meters away, and could clearly hear the sound of someone hitting the water in the lake. It seemed that the fake special forces were right in the water.No wonder there was no sign of them in the cave. They stared at each other for a while, and Yuan Sen suddenly remembered a question, and said to Kangbasa: "Kangbasa, have you ever thought about it, there are many doubts about our encounter in the iron gate corridor." Kang Basa whispered: "Mr. Yuan, what do you say?" Yuan Sen said: "Wang Hui entered the iron gate before us, and the heart-to-heart lock was opened before her. After she entered, the door was locked again strangely. After we entered, the iron gate was locked in the same way. What do you think?" Isn't that weird?" Kang Basa realized it, and said: "Mr. Yuan, you mean that someone has been operating behind this matter, and they let us in on purpose?" Yuan Sen did not make a clear statement, he continued: "Think about it again, as far as we know, the other people in the cube are only fake special forces. If you say that they are the ones who let us in and locked the iron gate, you say they will accept What will you do next?" Kang Basa said: "The fake special forces have vicious methods and clear goals in doing things. If they are the ones who locked the iron door, they must have a very strong purpose." Kangbasa said: "We were trapped in the corridor. The most bizarre thing we encountered was the soul lock box. After the fake special forces killed the one-horned bull, they went straight to the remnant box and went down to the cave. The soul lock box has been cracked. The cow has come out, they all know it very well, and they are very calm when facing this, that is to say, all this is in their plan, including our actions." Kang Basa was surprised: "That is to say, we broke the soul lock box, and the unicorn in the box rushed out, and they all knew it clearly." Yuan Sen gave a "hmm" and said: "Our every move is under their calculations, or under surveillance. At first I couldn't understand the iron gate at the exit of the corridor. Who would sneak open it?" Now that I have sorted out my thoughts, I have fully figured it out. It is impossible for fake special forces to be predictable. They can see our actions clearly, and they should be behind us, and they always have a pair of eyes watching us. " Kang Basa said: "Mr. Yuan, what you mean is that the fake special forces come in through the other end of the corridor to monitor our every move." Yuan Sen said: "The fake special forces don't know us. Even if we do, we can't even guarantee that we can crack the soul unlocking box. How can they be sure that we can crack it? So there must be something watching us." Kambasa questioned: "They locked the entrance and opened the exit. It doesn't make any sense." Yuan Sen said: "Of course they wouldn't do such a stupid thing. The biggest possibility is that they let someone in, and after investigating the situation clearly, they slipped out. Because they went out in a hurry, and the one-horned ox was in the corridor. They went crazy, so scared that they just ran away and forgot to lock the iron gate. There were too many corpses in the corridor, and the surrounding area was dark. We were in a very dangerous situation at the time, and we didn't notice a living person among the corpses." Kang Basa was silent for a while, and said: "Yes! According to this calculation, the unicorn has been staying at the entrance of the corridor and cannot come out. It should be that the fake special forces did something there. They burned the unicorn to death with a flamethrower. At that time, the unicorn could not struggle, which is unreasonable, probably because it was injected with anesthesia and its strength was limited." Yuan Sen nodded and said: "With such a guess, the process is clear. It's just that after they come in, they treat us as if we don't exist, and don't search or take precautions. This is a bit puzzling." Kang Basa pondered for a while, and said: "Do they think that the one-horned ox is too fierce, and we will die in the corridor for such a long time? Besides, the iron gate at the exit of the corridor is not locked, and they must think that we have passed through the corridor. Go out and never come in again." What Kang Basa said was also reasonable, and Yuan Sen fell into deep thought. Although this statement was reasonable, he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't find a clue for a while. Kambasa touched him suddenly, and said, "Mr. Yuan, look——" The light on the lake gradually brightened, and it was estimated that the people under the water were about to come out.After a few minutes, the sound of splashing water in the lake became much louder, and they saw a man in a diving suit get out of the water and swim towards the lake.The direction the man was heading was tens of meters away from where they were hiding. Before the man swam to the shore, two more people emerged from the water, and they also swam towards the shore quickly.Then two more people came out of the water at the same time. The five people swam in a general direction. After swimming away, they saw that there was a certain distance between them. The five people swam towards the shore of the lake like an open fan. Yuan Sen whispered, "Are they forming formations in the water?" Kang Basa said: "No, Mr. Yuan, look behind them, the water is moving very fast, there must be something big under the water." Yuan Sen's eyesight was not as good as that of Cambasa, and he could only see the rough water behind him by the light of the headlamp of the last swimmer, and he could still hear the sound of the waves. The five of them swam for a while, about seven or eight meters away from the shore.They hit the water with all their strength, but their speed was very slow. After several struggles, Yuan Sen could already see thick iron chains protruding from the water. All five of them were tied with a thick iron chain. The tracker-like posture was very spectacular.The five of them dragged the thing in the water and swam forward at a very slow speed. It can be seen that the thing in the water must be a huge monster. They swam forward another two meters, and two people emerged from the water. They quickly swam around the five and joined their team.With two people added, they swim slightly faster.A group of seven people spread the fan shape even wider, beating the water surface "slapping" indiscriminately. Seven people tried their best, and it took more than half an hour to swim less than five meters.Yuan Sen lay on the shore and was worried for them.At this moment, there was a loud wave sound in the water, and it became louder and louder, until it completely overwhelmed the sound of seven people hitting the water. The center of the lake was pitch black, and what they could see was limited to the area around the seven of them.The seven of them swam towards the lake, but their headlights could only reach the shore.The seven people didn't turn their heads to look back, and tried their best to move towards the shore. As the water churned, the seven iron chains twisted together indiscriminately, several people bumped into each other in the water, and the fan-shaped formation became chaotic. Yuan Sen was surprised: "They dragged a living thing?" Kang Basa said: "It should be, the movement is too loud, I'm afraid it's something like a lake monster." Yuan Sen said: "The lake monster is very tough in the water, it's not logical to be caught by them even if it's so quiet, and it doesn't follow logic after dragging it out of the water." The seven men were entangled, and in this way, they were exhausted, but something in the water dragged them back.In just a short while, they even retreated more than ten meters away, and it was useless no matter how frantically splashing the water.Several people's oxygen cylinders were knocked off and fell to the bottom of the lake. Kang Basa said: "The fake special forces have lost their ability to resist. They were dragged into the water. The thing is stronger in the water. If these seven people don't untie the chains now, they will definitely die." Yuan Sen said: "Looking at their appearance, they only know that they are struggling to drag that thing out of the water, and they don't intend to untie the chain." Soon, the seven people were dragged into the bottom of the water, and the surface of the water returned to darkness.Only the sound of waves stirred up by living creatures in the water, and the faint sound of seven people hitting the water, these sounds gradually disappeared, and the turbulent waves in the lake also became quiet. Yuan Sen took a breath and said, "They are all finished." Kang Basa said in a low voice: "It must be over. The pseudo-special forces have precise plans and are very cautious in their actions. How could they expect this to happen?" Yuan Sen turned on the flashlight and shone the light on the lake tens of meters away. There were still waves on the lake. In a large area, water waves kept gushing out.These traces all showed that the fight just now was extremely brutal.The swaying corrugated line pushed all the way to the lake, and there was a faint layer of red in the water by the lake, like blood. Wang Hui also ran out of the shade room, and said, "I heard the sound of waves outside, what's going on?" Yuan Sen said: "Didn't you see? The fake special forces tried to drag something out of the lake, and all seven people were dragged under the water. They probably wouldn't survive." Wang Huidao: "I was concentrating on studying the symbolic text, but the sound in the lake was very strange, and I didn't notice the movement outside." Yuan Sen nodded and said, "How is it? Have you found anything new?" Wang Hui nodded and said: "By breaking the characters at different positions and translating them in sections, I translated another sentence. The original text of that sentence is 'Whoever trespasses here shall die—'" Yuan Sen blurted out, "Damn it! Is there anything else?" Wang Hui frowned, disgusted by Yuan Sen's performance, and said, "I can only translate this sentence." Yuan Sen thought about it, and said, "Curse? Must die?" Kambasa suddenly pointed to the surface of the water and said, "Mr. Yuan, someone has surfaced." Yuan Sen looked in the direction that Kangbasa pointed, and saw a corpse wearing a diving suit slowly drifting towards them more than ten meters away.The man in the water was motionless, apparently dead. After the body floated over, Kangbasa hung the body on the hook of a climbing rope and dragged it ashore.Yuan Sen helped to put the body away, and took off the mask on his face. The mask was loose, and the tube connecting the oxygen cylinder was disconnected.This person's pale face was covered with a layer of dark blue, and he looked very scary. There were no obvious wounds on his body, so he should have been suffocated to death. When Wang Hui saw the face of the corpse, she was startled, and said, "Why is it him?" Yuan Sen was surprised and said, "You know him?" Kang Basa said: "He is indeed a member of the 755th Division and belongs to the second communication unit. I have seen his body next to the big pit in the Flame Mountain." Yuan Sen thought he had heard it wrong, and said to the two of them, "Are you sure you read it right? The resurrection of the dead?" Wang Hui took a deep breath, the expression on his face was indescribable, and said: "That's right, he is indeed a member of the second communication unit, and I have seen his body. His name is Li Guoxun. When he was in the military academy, he was older than me. Freshman year." Yuan Sen said: "So, those fake special forces are all real? I don't really believe in the theory of fraudulent corpses, I believe in conspiracy theories more, that is to say, the corpses on the Flame Mountain may be just illusions." Wang Huidao: "The autopsies were all done by military doctors in the army. It stands to reason that there will be no fakes. We all know Dr. Tian's character. He has the highest power in the Huoyanshan garrison. I believe he will not create such a huge conspiracy. " Speaking of Dr. Tian, ​​although Yuan Sen hasn't had much contact with him during this period, he knows what he is like.He is a convincing man, so he is not a schemer.But this person who was clearly dead reappeared underground, which is too strange. Three corpses floated up in the lake one after another. Kangbasa hooked them one by one to the edge of the lake and took off their diving masks, but they were all unfamiliar faces. Only that one corpse had a problem. Yuan Sen came up with an idea: "It's not a solution for us to guess, why don't we go down and have a look." Both Kangbasa and Wang Hui agreed, and the three took off the diving suits of the three corpses and put them on.The oxygen cylinders of these three corpses were all quite full of gas, but during the struggle, some died of serious injuries, and some died of suffocation because the air pipe was torn off. Yuan Sen and others hid the equipment they carried at any time in a secret cave, and entered the water lightly.They did not have a clear goal like the fake special forces. They could only dive from the place where the fake special soldiers were dragged into the water. They dived to a depth of more than 50 meters underwater and saw a corpse floating up. Kang Basa went over to take off the mask of the corpse, it was an unfamiliar face, so he abandoned the corpse and continued to dive deep.When the water pressure gauge showed that the dive depth was 100 meters, they could already touch the crimson ground underwater.In their field of vision, the bottom of the water presents a very steep slope. Standing on the slope, they cannot see where the slope slopes downward.Next to the slope is an underwater canyon side by side. The canyon is deep and deep. Their headlights can illuminate less than ten meters away, and it is impossible to see the whole picture of the underwater canyon. There are many strange-looking fishes at the bottom of the water. Yuan Sen has a lot of research on firearms, but he knows little about fishes.Blue, red, cross-eyed, straight-eyed, flattened, flattened, and stick-shaped, all dazzled him.The fish in this kind of underground deep-water lake are not afraid of people at all. When they see three people swimming towards them, they don't avoid them and swim on their own. The underwater intercom is installed in the diving suit, and they tried it. This kind of intercom can carry on a conversation completely undisturbed in the water.Kang Basa reminded the two not to step on the ground at the bottom of the lake. The mud at the bottom of the lake is very deep, and it is difficult to get out after sinking in.It is also possible to encounter underwater mountain landslides. Once the center of gravity falls to the bottom of the water, causing the steep slope to collapse, you will definitely be buried alive by rocks. They swam at the bottom of the lake in the direction of the center of the lake, but they didn't find the corpse of the fake special soldier, nor did they find the strange thing they were trying to drag ashore. They swam for a while, and found a towering sloping mountain near the center of the lake.They accidentally swam under the mountain, and when they looked up, they felt that the mountain was about to collapse, and the situation was very dangerous. Yuan Sen drilled deeper, and soon reached the bottom of the sloping mountain.As soon as Kang Basa realized that the terrain was not right, he immediately called Yuan Sen on the intercom to come out quickly.This kind of baroclinic mountain is very prone to collapse. Once a person is buried, there is probably no possibility of getting out. Yuan Sen received Kangbasa's call, took two steps back, and was about to turn around and turn back, but unexpectedly tripped over a stone pillar in the water, and fell face down. When they were swimming in the water, they were more than ten meters away from the ground, and when they fell down, they sank straight down.Yuan Sen was taken aback and hurriedly stabilized his body. Kang Basa called loudly on the intercom and asked him how he was doing. When Yuan Sen mastered his balance, he had already sunk to less than two meters from the bottom of the water. Diving is not his specialty. He messed up the surrounding water just now, which shows how deep the silt is.Yuan Sen calmed down, briefly reported the situation to Kangbasa, and headed upstream.However, he didn't realize that after all the tossing just now, his position had changed a lot. Just as he sank down in a hurry, he had already slipped under an arched slope under the mountain. Yuan Sen saw that the mountain was only a few meters away from him, and he could almost touch it.On the surface of the mountain, there is also a small cave entrance. Yuan Sen briefed Kang Basa and Wang Hui about the situation at the entrance of the cave, and Kang Basa and Wang Hui dived over one after another. When Kang Basa saw Yuan Sen, he cut his face and said, "Mr. Yuan, this terrain is very dangerous for diving. .” Yuan Sen pointed to the entrance of the cave and said, "Look, there are obvious traces of man-made chiseling at the entrance of this cave. The half-moon-shaped arch is well trimmed around it." Kangbasa was immediately attracted by Shimen, and swam over to have a look.Wang Hui was behind Kangbasa, she swam up to Yuan Sen and said, "Be careful, we were all worried about your safety just now." Yuan Sen smiled at Wang Hui through his diving mask and said, "Thank you." Wang Hui didn't speak, and swam to the side of the stone gate. Kang Basa said: "Mr. Yuan, there is a man carved on the stone gate. The posture of that man is exactly the same as the sitting posture of the Tang army general who left the blood book." Yuan Sen was secretly startled, and also swam forward two meters. Kang Basa pointed to the relief on the stone doorpost, and said, "Mr. Yuan, there are two on the left and right gateposts, and they are symmetrical." Yuan Sen looked over and saw that on the upper half of the stone pillar, there was a human-shaped relief slightly larger than the palm of his hand. The man was sitting cross-legged, and the gestures of his hands were exactly the same as the gestures of the Tang soldiers sitting in the stone room.He remembered what Akailam said, the postures of the generals of the Tang Dynasty were very similar to the gods they enshrined in the Wu Nu Cult well he saw in the Altai Mountains. What does this place have to do with the Wu Nu Cult? With the light of his headlamp, Yuan Sen saw the darkness in the cave, and he didn't know where it would lead. A strange feeling filled his heart, whether the secrets of Professor Yang Jian and Wu Nu Cult had something to do with this cave Woolen cloth?