Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Random Survival Marshal Missing

Batu's voice was full of doubts: "These days... It's been more than three months, where is he?" The female voice took a breath: "No one knows." Batu yelled: "This is incomprehensible──" The female voice said: "Our people's report is completely trustworthy." Batu was a little impatient: "Who is that fucking 'our man'?" The female voice replied: "It is one of the many generals you have seen in the photo, working for us, and his report is here, you can read it." Next, there was the sound of flipping paper. (I have no way of knowing what the report says, so I have to be sure that the marshal disappeared after taking that photo, but on the Mongolian grasslands, there is no means of transportation, no horses, and it is absolutely impossible to go far. This is common sense.)

Sure enough, Batu immediately asked this question. The female voice replied: "Of course, our people knew that he was still alive. It was three hours after he met the shepherd. He was carrying a large box, which seemed to be quite heavy. It is estimated that in three hours, he moved at most ten kilometers, but he was chased in the direction he went, but he was not found." Batu said stubbornly: "Impossible, it makes no sense." The female voice was a little annoyed: "That's the truth. There are many seemingly impossible things happening in the world. Otherwise, why would there be people like you?"

Batu snorted: "He hasn't appeared since then, and no one has seen him again?" The female voice gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, about three kilometers away from him, there are several tents. The adults have gone out to graze, and there are several children. They are very young, and we can't ask anything. People strictly kept secrets, so there was no large-scale search, and later the KGB also found out that it was probably at the scene of the crash, and his body was not found, so they became suspicious, and they did a search, but there was no result." Batu snorted again.

The female voice asked: "Are you clear about your mission?" Batu replied loudly: "No matter how clear it is, sending me there has one of the biggest advantages. Once I arrive on the Mongolian grassland, I will be like the local herdsmen—I am originally from there." The first part of the tape ends here. I stayed with Bai Su for a long time before I said, "Where did this once prominent Marshal go? No matter how big the underground imperial mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is, it is absolutely impossible to extend to Tannu Wulianghai." Bai Su glared at me. She naturally knew that I was referring to the incident of Ma Jinhua's mysterious disappearance and entry into Qin Shihuang's underground palace - this incident was recorded in the story "Living".

She said: "There are so many underground palaces." I spread my hands: "So, where did he go?" Bai Su frowned: "It may be an accident──" She didn't go on, because she knew that this possibility was unlikely, she thought for a moment, and then said: "Is there a connection between the two disappearances? They are both mysterious disappearances." I was stunned for a moment, and disappeared twice, one was the disappearance of the marshal on the Mongolian grassland, and the other was the disappearance of a primary school teacher and a dozen primary school students in the mountains of northern Finland ten years later.

The two disappearances seem to have nothing to connect. Moreover, it's not quite the same, Marshal, everyone knows that there is such a person, but his whereabouts are unknown. But no one knows where the teachers and pupils came from. So my tone was hesitant: "It won't matter." Bai Su also showed a hesitant expression: "I have this feeling..." No further discussion, because there are still many tapes waiting to be listened to. The second part of the audio tape sounds more chaotic, but it can also be known that Batu has already arrived in Mongolia, and he also met the shepherd and the general whom the lady called "our people", most of them are them The conversation between the three was in Khalkha Mongolian, and Bai Su and I could understand most of it at the time, and we could understand everything we didn't understand afterwards.

The first is the conversation between Batu and the general. They did not explain where they met. As a general, working for a foreign intelligence agency is a serious crime of beheading. It is conceivable that their meeting must be very secret. Anyway, on the land of 1.56 million square kilometers in Outer Mongolia, it is not difficult to find a place where the two secretly meet. The conversation between Batu and the general was naturally accepted at an appropriate distance. The general's voice sounded urgent: "You didn't come until this time." Batu lowered his voice: "It's too late? Have you found him?"

The general said angrily, "No, after such a long time, I'm afraid that the corpses found have already turned into dry bones." Batu said in a deep voice, "No body was found." The general seemed very impatient: "The grassland is so big, we have tried more than a dozen soldiers who were killed by bandits, and the bodies were only found after two years." Batu said: "My mission is to find him." The general said angrily: "I wish you success. When you find him, contact me again. I can help you leave. During your search, I don't think we need to contact more."

Batu replied coldly: "There is no need to contact at all." (It sounds like Batu and the general broke up, but the general must have arranged for Batu to meet the shepherd. It sounds like Batu and the shepherd were riding on the grassland while talking, so this tape, In addition to the sound of dialogue, there is also the sound of wind blowing grass and horse neighing, using some imagination, it feels like the grassland scenery is in front of you.) The shepherd described the situation at that time: "We all saw the fire in the sky and the sound of an explosion. We only saw a thick smoke rushing down. Everyone, yes, there were five of us together at that time, and we all rushed over to see it." , I'm at the end—"

Batu asked: "No, five people, the four in front should see him first." The shepherd was a little annoyed—Batu had been away from Mongolia for too long, and he had forgotten that Mongolians disliked doubts about his words.So the shepherd raised his voice: "They didn't meet, but I did. What's wrong?" Batu repeatedly apologized, and the shepherd said again: "I don't understand what he said, my Russian is not very good──" Batu's voice sounded surprised: "He speaks Russian?" Then he said to himself: "He should be able to speak Russian."

The shepherd continued: "I only understand that he said that he is a very important person, greater than our Marshal Choibalsan, at least the same, and he took out his camera again and asked me to take a picture for him. Here... probably right here." At that time, Batu and the shepherd must have arrived at the place where the shepherd met the marshal that day, so the shepherd said so. It was the same everywhere on the grassland, and the shepherd himself was not very sure. The shepherd continued: "After taking the photo, he said that someone will definitely come and ask me about seeing him. This photo can be exchanged for many horses... Huh, he lied. The camera was taken by a soldier, and he didn't even give me back." Batu said something in a low voice, but he couldn't hear it clearly, and it seemed to be insignificant. The shepherd was indignant: "He also warned me not to tell anyone. After taking pictures, he dragged the box away. The box looked very heavy, and he couldn't take a step for a long time. I wanted to help him, but he didn't want to. .” Batu asked: "He walks very slowly, where can he go?" The shepherd laughed: "As far as I can see, there is nowhere to go. I told him that there is our camp three kilometers away, and he was stunned for a long time." Batu sighed: "But he disappeared." The shepherd paused for a moment, and then said: "On the grassland...sometimes there will be some strange things, which are beyond human comprehension." Batu asked very carefully: "According to your opinion, is it possible that the contents of his box are valuable, and after someone killed him...buried him, and took away the contents of the box?" The shepherd said angrily: "In the past, when there were robbers on the grassland, there might have been such things. Now, we are all legitimate shepherds. Who would do such an outrageous thing?" (Batu and I exchanged glances. Batu is indeed quite capable. His hypothesis is the best explanation for a person disappearing on the grassland dragging a box.) (I even thought that was the only possibility.) (Bai Su just said: It is possible.) Batu said "hmm", "Of course, on the grassland... well, no one else has seen him except you?" There was some hesitation in the shepherd's voice: "This...it's strange. In the camp...he seems to have been to the camp." Batu's voice was full of excitement: "Those camps three kilometers away? How do you know he seems to have been there? But what did he leave behind?" The shepherd said: "No, but little Nasi said something vaguely, which is very strange." ("Nasitu" is a fairly common Mongolian name. Add a word "small" to indicate that it is a child.) Batu hurriedly asked: "Little Nasi spit, how old is it?" The shepherd said: "I'm just over two years old and just learning to speak. Children on the grassland are dull, and adults are busy, so they don't have much time to talk with the child, and the child is slow to learn words, so—" Batu quickly interrupted the shepherd: "What did little Na Situ say?" The shepherd said, "For a child—" Batu said anxiously: "You don't remember? Please take me to see little Na Situ." The shepherd was shocked: "What can you ask from a child's mouth?" Bako didn't answer, and then he was talking with a child. The child's speech was intermittent and inarticulate. Many times, it sounded like he was sucking his fingers while talking, and then suddenly burst into tears. . (Batu cherishes the tape very much. When the child cries and is ambiguous, he doesn't record what he induces the child to say, and skips it, so it sounds even more messy.) (Among the words the child said, there were only a few words that were really useful for finding someone. The child's language skills are quite poor. Could it be that, as the shepherd said, children on the grassland learn to speak because they have few opportunities to see adults? too late?) (Guo Jing grew up on the Mongolian grasslands and did not speak until he was four years old.) After repeated questioning, the child said: "Someone...someone he has never seen before...brought a big box...asked for water...he asked for water...asked for water..." Batu was patient and said a lot of good things before asking, "Did you give him water?" But the child turned away again, and said a lot of incomprehensible words, and the shepherd's voice came out: "The child is still young, and he doesn't know how to fetch water for the guests. Most of the guests go to fetch water by themselves." The child suddenly yelled again: "Water, water, over there." The shepherd said: "Water, or kumiss, are all in that big tent." Batu gave a "hmm" - he naturally glanced at the big tent, and then asked: "That man, have you never seen it?" Yes, went into the tent to get some water to drink?" The child finally agreed quite quickly: "Yes." Batu tried his best to speak slowly: "When he left, which direction did he go?" This sentence was quite complicated. When Batu said it, he probably gesticulated and spent a lot of effort, but when the child heard it, , and burst into tears. At this time, there was another woman's voice comforting and patting the child, and the woman said: "Don't ask him, he doesn't know anything." As the woman spoke, it sounded as if she was holding the child and ran away, because the child's crying was rapidly moving away.The shepherd said: "The child himself told people about the stranger. That night, when the adults came back from herding, the child said it. In the end, it was the question you asked." Batu was anxious: "What did the child say?" The shepherd paused: "The child said, that man...has never come out since he entered the big tent." Batu made a choking sound: "Haven't come out? What's that?" The shepherd said: "Yes! At that time, the adults who heard it all laughed, but the child's father was very angry. He hit him and told him not to talk nonsense, so when you asked him just now, he cried. I said a long time ago. However, in the child's mouth, there is nothing to ask." Batu groaned. The recording is another paragraph here. (At that time, I said: "Batu should at least go to the big camp to take a look.") (Bai Su said: "I think he must have entered that big camp immediately.") Bai Su was right, the conversation that followed was obviously held in that big camp. The herdsman’s camp usually has a tent that is bigger than an ordinary yurt, and it has many uses. At night, it is used as a gathering place for many people, and many objects belonging to the public are placed. Inside, sometimes private and large items are stored—mostly large boxes and the like. When the recording started, there was the sound of something colliding, and Batu was saying, "It's so messy." The shepherd said: "It's always like this. After camping for a long time, and then moving out soon, who will clean it up?" Batu said: "Not to mention hiding one person, ten people have also hidden here. There is water, wine, and dry food." The shepherd obviously never thought about it, and he was shocked: "He has been hiding and hasn't come out? No way... It's been so long, and the inside is so chaotic, because someone came to look for it. More than a dozen, more than half of them came. It's Russian." Batu hurriedly asked, "Did they search carefully?" The shepherd said angrily, "Why didn't you be careful? You brought out everything one by one, even opened a few big boxes, and searched in every tent. It seems that he is here." Batu took a deep breath, and the shepherd continued, "It's not that I haven't found it yet." Batu asked again: "If people are hiding here, will it be difficult for you to notice?" The shepherd was impatient: "Who would think of it? Who wants to hide here?" (The shepherd's impatience was well justified, and his rhetorical question was also very justified. Batu seemed to have no reason to suspect that someone was hiding.) (But then, the sudden change proved that Batu had extraordinary sensitivity.) As soon as the shepherd stopped talking, another man's voice suddenly came: "I, I want to hide here." The man spoke Russian, and, apparently, he came out of nowhere (I knew it immediately), so the shepherd let out a strange cry: "You... you man, what are you doing hiding in the box?" ?” It was a Russian, and it was so weird that it came out of a big box. But Batu didn't make a sound, so he couldn't know what he was doing in those tens of seconds, but from the sound that followed, he must be in extreme horror, so that he couldn't speak. Because next, the Russian was still talking: "Batu, my old friend, I already knew that if you want to send someone, as long as you are not dead, you are the only one." Only then did Batu let out an "ah" and called out, "Old fox, it's you, you're not dead, of course I dare not die." Batu also used Russian at this time, and his Russian was also extremely fluent.He then asked, "How long have you been hiding here?" The old fox (of course a nickname for a person) chuckled, "It's been more than two months." Batu made a constant sound of stamping: "As soon as I came in, I thought this place was very suitable for people to hide. As expected, what are you doing hiding here?" The old fox replied: "Wait for him to come out." (Because later, the sound recorded on the tape showed an extremely unbelievable strange thing, and Bai Su and I listened to it many times before we got a little clue, but we were not sure, so in the narration, add We speculated a lot, and the words we used were quite hesitant.) (At that time, I asked: "Who do you think this old fox is?") (Bai Su said: "I guess they are senior personnel of the Soviet intelligence agency, and they are old acquaintances with Batu. Most of them met as early as World War II, when they were all members of the Allied Forces.") (I agree with Bai Su's speculation: "And their personal friendship is very good, otherwise, the old fox wouldn't show up, so who are you waiting for?" (Bai Su said: "If you listen to it, you should know.") Listening to it, it was Batu who was asking, "Who are you waiting for?" The old fox's voice was a little tired: "Who are you looking for here?" Batu was obviously shocked again, cursed a curse, and said: "Our intelligence work is slow, we only know that you are looking for him, but you have already determined his location." The old fox was obviously approaching Batu, and was telling the shepherd to leave, and then said in a very mysterious voice: "We don't know, I alone know." Batu was surprised: "Secret?" The old fox sighed: "I can't tell anyone. I don't know where people's imagination is. If I tell them, no one will believe me. They will just think I'm crazy. Hmph, I don't know how many people want me to retire. I'm not a big official. But there are many people who are jealous." Batu smiled: "I still like to complain so much. What discovery have you made, and you have to use your imagination to accept it?" The old fox's voice was a bit hurried: "It's too strange. I've been thinking that only you and a few people can accept such a weird thing. It's God's will that you appeared." Batu was impatient: "Tell me, what did you find?" The old fox probably patted Batu on the shoulder at this time, and there was a "pat" sound: "You must start from the beginning before you can understand. I will try to make it as simple as possible." Batu mumbled, "The simpler the better, there is not enough time." The old fox asked: "What did you say?" Batu said: "Quickly talk about your business, and mine, you won't understand even if you talk about it." (I understand the meaning of Batu's words. Because at that time, there were not many left of that ultra-miniature tape. Batu must have kept the tape recorder very secret. If he ran out of tapes, he could not change them in front of the old fox. Put on a new tape, then the recording will be interrupted.) (When I think of this, I can't help feeling anxious and even sweating.) (Because the old fox said that he didn't know the extremely mysterious discovery, which seems to be the key to the whole thing. If it is not recorded, it will be really tantalizing.) (And when the old fox said "wait for him," it sounded like he knew where the missing marshal was.) The old fox quickly said: "We received the news and came to search. We have not left the range here, because no one has seen him again. The search was very careful, and the report sent to the superior was: 'Nothing was found'. But in fact, I But it was discovered." Batu took a deep breath. The old fox said: "Did you see those two big boxes?" Batu said: "Yes, you came out of one of the boxes. Could it be that the marshal is hiding in the other box?"