Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Death Notebook

Colonel Wang was still waving at me desperately, suddenly, I felt something was wrong, and Colonel Wang's flashlight came over.My heart trembled suddenly, and I saw a shadow lying on top of me and the old man, or more precisely, on the old man's body. A group of people sat together, and Xiaotian was smoking the "big front door" that he often smoked. The fire was bright and dim in the dark, and under the faint light, the expressions of the people sitting around were all equally stern and heavy.The surrounding area was surrounded by endless darkness and silence. A group of five people only had three flashlights, and the batteries were on the verge of exhaustion, so at this moment, no one turned on the flashlights.

I asked Oda again: "Has the signal been sent?" Xiaotian kicked the transmitter over and cursed: "At critical moments, it's useless at all!" Wang Guohui was the calmest among the crowd. He is the commander of the 7115th Division of the Army, the rank of colonel, and the leader of the expert team for this archaeology.During this top-secret archaeological survey in Altai Mountain, Xinjiang, we experienced the most difficult and terrifying things in our lives. Even people like me who have lived for more than half a century can hardly accept it all at once.In the less than three days of the Altay underground cave investigation, we have lost too many teammates. Just in the process of crossing the underground river, more than ten PLA soldiers who were in charge of security among us died in the underground river monster. mouth.

This is a huge underground cave that makes people feel horrible. We swim in a row for two days and two nights to reach the belly of the cave. Later, the water level ran aground and we had to climb ashore.This archaeological activity is the most powerful one I have ever experienced. In our group alone, there are ten top figures in the field of archaeology and scientific research. We also have a university teacher as the team leader, and nearly forty people in charge of security. PLA soldiers. As soon as I went down into the cave, I was frightened by the formation of this team. Subconsciously, I became inexplicably frightened. I had a hunch that this archeology must be extraordinary.In fact, our team is only one of the archaeological teams, and there will be more than ten such teams participating in this archaeological activity.

Colonel Wang suddenly frowned, put his ears on the ground, and listened carefully, Xiao Tian continued to smoke irritably, and in the light of the fire, I saw Colonel Wang's face getting more and more ugly. Several other people also saw that something was wrong, and they all held their breath, their eyes following the change of the colonel's face.Colonel Wang suddenly got up, turned on the flashlight, and yelled at us, "The underground river is high tide, everyone run to higher places, don't disperse—" The place we are at right now is the riverbed of the underground river, but this section of the underground river has long since dried up. The riverbed more than 20 meters wide is covered with cobblestones the size of eggs. There are two old experts in their sixties.Oda and I helped them run, one by one. The old man had been staying in the laboratory all the time, so it was very difficult for him to run.

We followed Colonel Wang and ran all the way to the high ground. After running for less than ten minutes, we could really hear the rumble of the water falling in our ears. Colonel Wang urged us to speed up the pace, and suddenly he reversed direction and ran towards the mountain wall.Following the light of the flashlight, I saw that it was something like a house, tens of feet away from us.The speed of the water flow was very fast, and it rushed down with a majestic momentum.I supported the old man's feet and almost fell down with me. In front of him, Senior Colonel Wang was calling loudly, "The flood is coming, run quickly—"

I dragged the nearly seventy-year-old man subconsciously and ran towards the house. The sound of rushing water was so deafening that I could only see Colonel Wang standing In front of the house, he kept opening his mouth to me. Although I am not too young, I will run to sixty soon, but when I was young, I ran around archaeological and digging graves, and exercised a strong body, and my running speed is no worse than that of a young man.The old man was dragged and dragged by me, and he couldn't take it anymore. He was about to collapse in the big water. I climbed up the terraced field ridge, dragged him up and carried him on my back, and the big water had already submerged my chest.I kept running upwards, getting closer and closer to Senior Colonel Wang, and I was overjoyed that Senior Colonel Wang still maintained a hysterical shouting expression.

My heart sank suddenly, and Colonel Wang yelled hoarsely, "Pull Xiaotian, Xiaotian and Professor Li were swept away by the water—" I turned around abruptly, and saw a bunch of Oda's hair dangling on the water twice before disappearing, and the national treasure-level geologist who was with him had long since disappeared. The torrential water that fell from a height of tens of meters rose violently, and I stomped my feet fiercely. The old man on my back was bumped repeatedly, and I was a little out of breath.Colonel Wang gritted his teeth in front of the house and waved at me with a ferocious face, telling me to hurry over.Before I could turn around, a big wave hit me head-on, almost knocking me into a daze.

Colonel Wang was still waving at me desperately, suddenly, I felt something was wrong, and Colonel Wang's flashlight came over.My heart trembled suddenly, and I saw a shadow lying on top of me and the old man, or more precisely, on the old man's body. That shadow was superimposed on the shadow of the two of us, with a part of the head sticking out, and the outline was a bit unhuman. Its head was very long, like the head of some kind of animal.The water was spreading faster and faster, and there was no time to dwell on it. I ran forward and finally stepped up the steps.The steps in the water are very long, and I stumbled and climbed for more than ten minutes before arriving in front of the house.During the running process, I kept paying attention to the shadows floating on the water. Yes, I read that right, there were three shadows floating on the water, and there was something lying on the old man's body.

Colonel Wang dragged me onto a wider flat ground in front of the house. I put the old man down and let him lean against the rusty railing.I inspected his back carefully. There was no other trace on his waterproof jacket except the cold river water. Colonel Wang shone a circle of water with his flashlight, and there was nothing else in the vast water except the turbulent waves.Although I've lived for nearly half a century, I still couldn't help feeling sad when my teammates were buried in caves and rivers.Colonel Wang patted me on the shoulder without making a sound. I couldn't help asking: "Did you see anything on my back just now?"

Colonel Wang nodded silently, turned off the flashlight, and the whole world became so dark, only the sound of turbulent water rushing past more than ten meters below. "What is it? Have you seen it clearly?" I asked anxiously. "Green sheep—it's that sheep again—" Senior Colonel Wang said sadly. My heart trembled suddenly, cold sweat ran down my back, it was it again, no wonder Colonel Wang watched us struggling in the water but could only wave and shout. There was no expression on Colonel Wang's stern face. He turned his head to look at me and said, "Maybe it was a mistake for the higher-ups to send us down. Although I am a soldier, I still don't think we should come here!"

After speaking, he turned on the flashlight and walked forward to push the door of the house. In the light of the flashlight, I saw Colonel Wang stop suddenly. He was stunned looking at the iron gate more than two meters high. I also ran to his side, and at a glance, my hands and feet were cold, and the big rusty iron gate was covered with evil and gloomy sheep's heads.It seems that these paintings are all painted with red paint, and some of the paint has been mottled and peeled off. With a few strokes, the strange and evil expression on the sheep's face is vividly displayed. Especially that eye, looking straight at you, with undisguised hatred and coldness in the eyes, what is even more frightening is that it seems to be smiling, a hypocritical and vicious smile.It's like a rude big man, but he just imitates a lady in drawing eyebrows and drawing eyes in front of the dressing table, which makes people want to vomit. Colonel Wang glanced at me, then stretched out his hand to push the iron door. The door was not locked, and the door shaft was not jammed due to years of underground corrosion. It was easily pushed open with a "squeak". At this time, my neck suddenly felt cold—— Yuan Sen put down his notebook, looked at Professor Yang Jian, and said, "What the hell is that one-eyed green sheep?" Professor Yang Jian didn't speak, he opened the window, the sunset painted the whole sky red, the cool summer wind blew the old sycamore tree in front of the window, and the leaves rustled. Stretching his head out of the window, he took a deep breath of the fresh air brought by the cool breeze, but the depression in his heart became more intense.Every time he looked at the diary again, he felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart, and his doubts would increase accordingly. The setting sun typed on the yellowed work diary, and the handwriting of the pen had become quite faint. Yuan Sen said to himself, "What happened that day? Sheep—— Qingyang——" This diary has dozens of pages. Except for the few pages at the beginning, the rest is either half a page, or a few strokes, and some even contain a sentence or two that cannot be understood. Not fluent. Yuan Sen turned a new page, the content written on this paper was much shorter than the first one, it was two extremes.Yuan Sen even found it hard to believe that in such a fearful and dark environment, why did he write the first article in such detail, so detailed that every action was recorded so accurately, but why was there no date marked on each record? ? It’s the fourth day, and now I can only determine whether it’s day or night based on my waterproof watch. In this terrifyingly large cave, there is darkness everywhere. The flashlight battery is on the verge of exhaustion, and the bottomless black hole makes people fall into despair. Colonel Wang and I analyzed the map several times, and suddenly realized that we had walked into a fork in the road, but this cave was very similar to the cave marked on the map, as if it was copied from the original model. We were all lost in thought, Xiaotian didn't die, he was washed into the underground river by the flood, and was caught by the stones on the shoal to save his life, but there was no news of Professor Li who was with him, and his life and death were uncertain.And Colonel Wang and I were already covered in trauma.So many strange things have happened in the past few days, even if we spend a few lifetimes of imagination, I am afraid that we will never think of what happened in the past few days. We were surprised to find a large number of fortifications left by the Japanese here, and even a huge gunpowder depot, as well as other power communication facilities.These things make us feel inexplicable, because in modern history, only Britain and Russia invaded Xinjiang, and the Japanese only invaded the Central Plains of China. How could they go to Xinjiang to build such a huge fortification? We squatted in the underground corridor built by the Japanese, Oda kept smoking, sparks flickered.Colonel Wang patted him on the shoulder, and Oda cleverly handed him a "Daqianmen". Leaning against the cold concrete wall, the old man said weakly: "Since we have gone the wrong way, we have to find a way to go back quickly. If we continue like this, we will die. Now we are out of ammunition and food!" Colonel Wang flicked on the lighter, and the torch illuminated his hard facial contours. He is our team leader, and if he wants to go back, he must nod in agreement. Colonel Wang shook his head, and said, "Now that the underground river is flooded, the route we used to take is submerged by the water, besides——" He looked at me with red eyes, "My soldiers can't die in vain. What is that sheep's head? I must find out!" Faintly, I saw a trace of uneasiness in Colonel Wang's eyes, and my heart gradually became depressed. The temperature in the underground corridor was very low, but I still broke out in a cold sweat for no reason. It seemed to me that something was spying on us, hiding in the dark, silently, looking for an opportunity to kill us all in one fell swoop. I recalled the situation at that time in my mind. In the huge cave, our bamboo raft hit the rocks of the hidden river and accidentally turned into a side cave.The water in the side hole sloped downwards, and some bamboo rafts almost turned over. After several turns, the water calmed down, and we went around into a small hole. Inside the entrance of the cave suddenly opened up, the underground river was not wide, and there was a shoal beside the river, covered with gravel.This cave is very strange, its structure is like a dome buckled, very open.We accidentally found many stone carvings on the shoal. Those stone carvings are either upside down or upright.The surface of these stone carvings is very fragile. It is estimated that the underground river was deep many years ago, and they have been hidden in the water. Later, when the water level dropped, they surfaced. A soldier helped up an inverted stone sculpture, and unexpectedly found that it was a bust of a person, whose face was rougher than a normal person, a bit like it hadn't fully evolved.But what is surprising is that it has only one eye, just like the Erlang god in Chinese mythology, which has one eye on its forehead, but the position of the normal eyes is flat. At this time, everyone noticed that the vague outlines of the stone sculptures all looked like sheep, and they were blind in one eye.Soon the soldiers who went to explore the road ahead ran back, and they found a large number of murals on the cave wall. The contents of the murals were strange, and all the paintings were villains with only one eye. Several experts and I followed the pathfinding warriors and walked more than 100 meters. At the top of the terraced fields in the shallows, we saw the murals carved on the wall.The murals are very long, but what attracted me the most was the villain with only one eye in the murals, and the one-eyed sheep who were regarded as gods by them. We were very excited at the time. We did not expect to find the mysterious remains of the one-eyed people in the Spring and Autumn Period in the caves of Altay. This tribe is famous for its mystery and is rarely recorded in the annals of history. special civilization. I looked at the scene on the mural, and an indescribable coolness spread all over my body. The sheep looked so weird, it seemed to be looking at you and smiling, but when you looked carefully, it seemed to be crying, which made people feel uncomfortable. Creepy.There was a sudden sneer in my ears, my heart sank, and the laughter turned into crying at midnight again. I was shocked and pulled the trigger of the pistol. The bullet flew close to Senior Colonel Wang's face and hit the rock wall. Senior Colonel Wang's face turned cold, and everyone else stared at me, and the strange sound suddenly stopped. I stared at Colonel Wang and said, "Did you hear that voice?" Colonel Wang continued to look at me suspiciously and shook his head. The others also shook their heads in a daze.My heart turned cold, and I said, "There's something wrong here, let's get out of here!" At this time, with a "boom", several soldiers pried open a stone door on the side of the rock wall. The door had been sealed for many years, and after opening, a white mist rose up, and the onlookers stepped aside one after another. Colonel Wang patted me on the shoulder and said, "Relax—" Then he put away his gun and walked towards Shimen.The technician judged that the air was non-toxic, and Colonel Wang stepped into the cave, followed by several of his guards and experts. The cave behind the stone gate is not big enough for two people to enter side by side. We walked around a few bends and saw a coffin looming in the white mist. Several guards pushed open the inner and outer coffins, and there was a golden coffin inside. The guards pushed together a few times, but the golden coffin remained motionless.The people behind handed over the crowbar, and put it under the golden coffin lid, three people on the left and right, counted one, two, three to pry it up together.I stood behind everyone in a daze. I have dug many graves in my life and encountered countless strange things, but this time I was still a little confused.Six soldiers of the People's Liberation Army shouted slogans, and the tough slogans of the soldiers shook the mountain wall. I suddenly came to my senses and shouted: "Get out of the way—get out of the way—" The lid of the coffin was lifted with a clatter, and a black shadow crossed the line of sight. Colonel Wang's guards were agile and fell to the ground in an instant, but two of them did not avoid it and were sprayed on their faces. I saw that thing when I participated in the investigation of ancient tombs in the Han Dynasty. It was called fire sulfur, but it was actually sulfuric acid with a relatively high concentration after some special treatment.In order to prevent the tomb from being robbed, the owner of the tomb often puts a fire sulfur wall in the brick wall.The faces of the two soldiers were blurred, and they rolled over and over on the ground. There was a burning smell in the air.Immediately, medical staff ran over and carried them down, and Colonel Wang kicked over the coffin lid. In the flashlight, a skeleton appeared in front of us, but to our surprise, it was not a human skeleton, but a beast, like a sheep, but nearly twice the size of a normal sheep. A sheep was actually put into a golden coffin. In ancient funerals, status was extremely important. Those who can enjoy the golden coffin must be rich or noble.But it's really surprising that a sheep should enjoy such courtesy, isn't it? My heart trembled. Sure enough, the sheep’s eye sockets were different. One was dark brown with irregular cuts in the eye bone, and the other was dark yellow. It was obvious that one of the sheep’s eyes had been traumatized before.That is to say, before death, it is blind, and it is the one-eyed sheep in the mural. My heart sank, and I somehow felt that this place was very strange. At this time, Colonel Wang untied something from the neck of the sheep. In the light of the flashlight, I saw that it was a piece of jade, crystal clear jade.The piece of jade was half the size of a palm, and it was carved with the outline of a sheep. Sure enough, it was exactly the same as the one in the mural, it was a one-eyed sheep. Colonel Wang looked at it for a while, then handed the jade to me. It was indeed a piece of beautiful jade, with a soft color, very good whiteness and smoothness, even far surpassing the jade unearthed from some ancient tombs. I turned over and saw Yu's face, that strange eye was staring at me eeriely, as if it had cut into my heart, and the sneer sounded in my ear again.I was so scared that my hands trembled, and the jade fell from my hand. Colonel Wang leaned over and took the jade. The other people in the cave were also very strange, and whispered: "What happened to him today?" Colonel Wang didn't speak, handed the jade to an expert for safekeeping, turned around and walked out of the cave. The geological survey here is basically over. According to the survey data, it should be a tributary of the underground river, and it will definitely merge into the main river in the front.Everyone boarded the bamboo raft and drifted down the river, going through big holes and small holes all the way, making countless turns.And I was recalling the content of the rock painting, and the frightening one-eyed sheep, why only I can hear that sound, but others can't, is it really an illusion? I extended my gaze and stared at row after row of bamboo rafts going down the water, and suddenly I found something was wrong.I turned to Colonel Wang and said, "We seem to be missing some people—" Colonel Wang counted the number of people and found that five people were missing, but before we left, we counted the number of people. When did those five people disappear under our noses without knowing it? And this is just the beginning of our nightmare—— Yuan Sen turned to another page, and there was only a single sentence on that page, the old man died. The following records are very scribbled, and the last few pages are all written with the same sentence, Qingyangyu, nightmare—— Twenty or so pages later, the rest of the work diary was gone, as if it had been forcibly torn off. Yuan Sen closed his work diary and fell into deep thought.Qingyangyu, what happened to them in the cave in Altai Mountain?Where did the remaining half of the diary go?All these put a big question mark in his heart. He looked up at Professor Yang Jian. Yang Jian was smoking a cigarette and looking at the gradually darkening sky outside the window. His eyes were so deep and melancholy. Is this also the mystery that has always troubled him?