Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The Inexplicable Tape

One midsummer noon, I was a little drowsy due to overeating, lying on the sofa, listening to a very strange tape, which was sent by a person with a very strange occupation. According to his self-proclaimed occupation, there are no more than thirty people in the world who can do his job.Of course, people who pretend to be fake are not counted. There are only three people who are truly professional. Please remember the names of these three people. In the following developments, these three people will appear separately and occupy a certain position. These three people, two professional, one amateur.

Two professional players, one is an Egyptian, the name is quite long, very weird, and hard to remember, so I will omit it, and only introduce his nickname: "Virus".Virus is an extremely tiny organism that can only be seen under a high-magnification microscope. It is so small that it can pass through filter paper, and it is smaller than ordinary bacteria and microorganisms.The origin of this nickname is related to his profession, which means that he can see through any small gap. Virus is ninety years old this year and has retired. It is said that he is training a group of newcomers, but he has not yet achieved any results.Virus lived quite well in his later years. He lived in a large villa in the suburbs of Cairo.

The second one is the person who handed over the recording to me, his name is Qi Bai.Of course, that was a transliteration, and the original text was CIBE. This name was chosen by himself, and it was spelled with the first letters of the four ancient countries.According to Qi Bai, he has the blood of these four ancient countries, so he is most suitable for his kind of industry, he is simply a natural genius in this industry. How old is Qi Bai, I have known him for a long time, but I can't guess, it is about twenty-five to forty-five years old, this person's life experience is a mystery, and his whereabouts are a mystery, I only know his Occupation, not much is known about him.

The third one is an authentic Chinese named Shan Si.Shanxiang is the younger brother of Shanxiang. When I met Shanxiang, I used to make fun of his name. He told me solemnly: "My younger brother is called Shansi." The Shan family is very rich. There are two brothers, Shanxiang and Shanxiang. You can live a very comfortable life without working at all.Both of them are very good. Shan Si studied archeology, so he later developed into an amateur master in that industry.Shan Si's appearance is very interesting. He is called "interesting" because his attire is always at the forefront of the times. He is by no means like an archaeologist. He often sticks a golden star on his forehead, And dyed his hair light blue, people who see him will definitely think he is a singer of pop songs.

These three people have been briefly introduced, and after talking for a long time, what kind of work are they doing? According to their own words, it is "discovering the great heritage of mankind", "discovering the mysteries of ancient people's life", "revealing the unknown history and ancient way of life in front of modern people" and "making the world full of "Great work" for more rare gems. But in fact, to put it bluntly, their job is really very simple. They are robbers of ancient tombs: tomb robbers. What the tomb robbers do is to steal into the ancient tomb and steal the things in the ancient tomb.But don't underestimate the tomb robbers. Tomb robbers need to have rich historical knowledge to judge the identity of the owner of this ancient tomb and decide whether it is worth stealing.Tomb robbers also need to have a wealth of engineering knowledge, because generally speaking, most of the ancient tombs worth stealing are built very solidly. It is not that there is a detailed plan in advance. hands, countless.Jointly and jointly, they also need to have a wealth of knowledge about the use of various equipment in order to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The tomb robbery records of "Virus", Qi Bai, and Shan Si are not public, but there are a few of them, which are well known, such as the British explorers, after entering the Great Pyramid of Egypt, they discovered that before them, Someone has entered, and that is the masterpiece of "Virus" when he was young. According to Qi Bai, "Virus" did not get many treasures in the Great Pyramid, no more than five pieces, but when those treasures were sold to collectors who did not want to be named, "Virus" could rely on the rewards he got, Live a lifetime of comfort.

As far as I know, on the day of "Virus"'s 90th birthday, the three greatest grave robbers in the world had a meeting.What they were discussing in the meeting, of course no one knew. Just two months after the meeting, I received a telegram from Qi Bai. The content of the telegram is quite simple: "At the same time as generating electricity, send a roll of audio tape, I hope to listen to it in detail, and I will communicate with you later." The telegram was sent from a small place in Egypt, which can only be found by checking a detailed map. In the central part of Egypt, the place name is Iber Shewit.

After receiving the telegram, I received the tape for half a month.The belt is an ordinary cassette belt, packed very carefully, wrapped heavily with a piece of old sackcloth, and packed in a thick and thick box. So strong that it took me twenty minutes to pry the box open.The old linen exuded an extremely unpleasant musty smell, so I threw it into the trash can. He took out the tape, put it into a small tape recorder, and lay down on the sofa.As I said at the beginning, the weather was quite hot that day, making people drowsy. When I lay down on the sofa, I had already yawned twice. I hope the content of the tape is better, so that I can refresh myself .

However, when the tape started to rotate and within five minutes after the sound came out, I had already scolded Qi Bai more than a hundred times.Because I really don't know what is the purpose of him sending me this tape.The sound I heard was completely inexplicable. At the beginning, the sound was a bit like the soundtrack of a horror film. It sounded very hollow and echoed, as if a person was walking forward in an echoing space. Then, for a full five minutes, there were all the same sounds, and occasionally there were one or two sounds that sounded like the wind. I reached out and pressed the tape recorder to stop, thinking about whether to throw this tape into the trash can as well.

If Qi Bai hadn't sent this tape, I would have thrown it away.But Qi Bai is such a special person, and it is difficult for him to send things from such a long distance. Even if the entire tape is full of those empty footsteps, it seems that I should listen to it. I sighed, cursed Qi Bai a few more words, and then turned on the playback button of the tape recorder. The hollow and echoing footsteps came out again. After another three minutes, there was another kind of sound. sound. It was a gasp, and no doubt someone was gasping.Moreover, the mouth of the panting person must be very close to the receiving part of the recording equipment at that time, because every inhalation sound is very clear, and the "hissing" sound sounds terrifying.

Feeling refreshed, I sat up.After sitting up, he heard Qi Bai's voice. Qi Bai was panting and talking at the same time, his tone of voice sounded abnormally rapid, and it was unknown whether he was excited or afraid.His words are sometimes intermittent, and in the intermission, it is his panting. I took the trouble to explain how I felt after hearing his voice, because if the content of his speech matches the content of his speech, we can know that he was in a very strange environment when he said these words. The following is what Qi Bai said after the gasp: "I don't know where I am, and I don't know how long I've been here. What did I... what did I see? It's indescribable. I don't know I can’t say it, but I have to describe what I saw. By the way, it can be said to be a corridor, but is it a corridor? Let’s count it as a corridor.” (Qi Bai’s words lasted quite a long time, about fifteen minutes. Many of them were incoherent. When I listened to them, I just felt inexplicable. Here, what I wrote down are completely the original sentences in the tape. There are many unsolvable words, but all have answers in the end, that is a matter of the future.) (When Qi Bai was talking, he might have been walking forward, because the sound of hollow footsteps was still there, and occasionally there was a wind or two. Of course, there was also the sound of Qi Bai's breathing.) "How long have I been walking in this... hallway? Why is my mind completely numb? I thought... why did I end up in this place? Yes, I... remember, I'm going to try really hard , to remember...I have to try to remember it, I must figure out...the reason why I came here..." (Here, Qi Bai repeated these few words three times. Maybe only he knew why he went to a certain place, but he couldn't remember it. It can be seen that his mind was a little fuzzy at that time. clear.) (Hearing this, I naturally felt nervous, but I was not worried about his safety, because he was able to post the tape afterwards, so I knew that no matter how weird the situation was, there would be no danger.) "I...why did I come here? I...remember, it's a virus, and it's related to the virus. This old man, he...did he call me here? Or Shan Si called me here? Wait a minute ! Wait a minute!" (Qi Bai said "wait a minute" twice, and called out in a very sharp voice, followed by a burst of rapid panting and rapid footsteps. The "acoustic effect" is quite good, and one can tell that he is suddenly Suddenly, seeing something that surprised him, he screamed and ran forward.) (Qi Bai called "Wait a minute", I think, he didn't really ask someone to wait for him when he said that, but a colloquial expression after discovering something that surprised him. ) (Rushing footsteps, about half a minute.) "What is this, what is this? God, where the hell have I been? I haven't done anything bad. I shouldn't have such retribution. Who's spell took effect? ​​Who's spell? I never Believe in what spell! If I did, I wouldn't be able to do my work at all, but now... now... someone's spell must have worked, it must be..." (Qi Bai invites here, and there is a burst of whimpering. This can't help but make me horrified. Qi Bai's whimpering sound is very scary. Listening to a tape of unknown origin, it is very strange, because only Hearing voices and not knowing exactly what's going on.) (Qi Bai mentioned "spell" in his words. I believe that the spell he refers to must be the spell cast by the owner of the ancient tomb on those who entered the ancient tomb. In Egypt, many pyramids are engraved with curses, and the pyramids , it was originally a tomb. Qi Bai’s audio tape was sent from Egypt, and he is a tomb robber. So, is he in an ancient tomb?) (I spun quickly while still listening to the sound on the tape.) "I don't believe in spells, I don't believe... I must have come to the wrong place, old man Virus, why did he lie to me?" (After this sentence, there was another continuous sound of footsteps, empty and reverberating. Judging from the sound, Qi Bai was still walking forward. If he started recording as soon as he entered the place, then there have been two Ten minutes long. Walking forward for twenty minutes, the length of that "corridor" can be said to be quite long.) (If it is said to be one meter per second, he has not stopped. In twenty minutes, he has walked about 1,200 meters. Of course, the "corridor" may have corners, and it is also possible that he has been going around in circles. But this cannot be judged from the sound.) "Yes... I'm here, I'm really here, look! look! come and see Tron, all of you!" (Qi Bai's voice is hurried and excited, and it sounds like there is a certain degree of fear in his voice, but I can't help cursing "fuck". Qi Bai is really an asshole to the extreme. What he sent is not a photo , it’s not a film, it’s just a tape, but he keeps yelling: “Everyone come and see Chuang!” Who can see things from the sound? He must be so confused that he doesn’t know what to say.) "I... have arrived. This is probably the ultimate goal of my pursuit. I have finally arrived, here I am!" (Qi Bai yelled "Here we are", the echo was deafening. Then, there was a "boom", like the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Then, there was a buzzing sound, and that buzzing sound was quite It's hard to tell what the sound is. It's like a swarm of bees flying, or like the air is convected in a small space, like the sound you hear when you put your ear to a cup.) "I'm enough, I've had enough, my life... activities, here, can be regarded as an ultimate, I can't find any... any progress, I want to tell all mankind, I saw the ultimate , saw everything!" (Qi Bai still didn't understand that people who listened to his tapes couldn't see anything, so they had no way of knowing what the "ultimate" he was shouting about meant.) (Qi Bai didn't even describe what he saw. Maybe he couldn't describe what he saw at all? He didn't even know if he was in the "corridor".) (Qi Bai’s words stop here. However, his activities obviously did not stop, because there were other sounds, including “dong dong”, some sounds that sounded like moving heavy objects, some air The sound of convection in a confined space, his panting, a few exclamations, and finally, a "ping-pong" sound that sounds like glass breaking.) The entire tape with sound is twenty-eight minutes long.I turned the other side and it was completely blank and there was no sound. I listened to it over and over again, and when I heard it for the sixth time, Bai Su came back, she didn't make a sound, and I just made a gesture to her to signal her to listen attentively. She sat down and listened attentively. After the sixth playback, I stopped the tape recorder: "Qi Bai sent it from a small city called Iber Xiwei in Egypt." Bai Su frowned: "The grave robber?" I nodded and said, "Yes." Bai Su said "hmm": "It sounds like he has entered a mysterious and unfathomable place—" I couldn't help interrupting Bai Su's words: "Where else can he go, of course he entered some ancient tomb." Bai Su said: "It can be said like this, but at that place, he encountered something that he has never encountered in his life." I hummed: "I saw 'Ultimate'! I'm not interested in robbing tombs or selling antiques. I really don't know why he sent this damn thing here, wasting my time." Bai Su made a disdainful expression: "You are feeling itchy because you have no clue. I suggest you make a phone call with Shan Si. They are colleagues and should know what Qi Bai is talking about." I couldn't help laughing, picked up the phone, and called Shan Si.It was Shan Si's butler who answered the phone, and he said, "Mr. Er went to Egypt. He went there three months ago and he hasn't come back." I hurriedly asked, "Do you know where he is now?" The steward said: "He is in Egypt. If you want to find him, you can call Egypt. He must still be there." I didn't ask any more questions, so I put down the phone. The butler, he thought Egypt was a small inn?I can find his master just by calling? Since Shan Si couldn't be contacted, naturally he had to put the matter on hold.I can only judge from the sound that Qi Bai has arrived at a very strange place, where he had a very strange experience, that's all, I don't know the actual situation at all. I entrusted a friend in Egypt to find Qi Bai, but to no avail.Until a month later, I received another tape. As soon as I saw a rough wooden box delivered by the postman, I couldn't help being ecstatic. It was similar to the wooden box last time. I took the box and looked at the sending location. The name of the sender is still Qi Bai. I went to the basement and split the box open with an axe. The tape was wrapped in an old sackcloth. I took the tape in my hand and rushed into the study impatiently to put it into the tape recorder.Five minutes later, I began to scold Qi Bai's ancestors, and I continued to scold him from generation to generation. The sound I heard was just the same constant sound, the sound similar to breaking glass, which also appeared in the last part of the last tape.But at this time, the constant voices like this are really unbearable, and they must be scolded. I scolded Qi Bai's ancestors every half a minute, until the thirty-sixth generation, and then I heard another sound, which was a deep breathing sound. Until the tape was played, there was no other sound. I took out the tape, threw it up, and when it fell, kicked it to a corner of the study. What kind of joke is this, Qi Bai must have joked enough about dead people, and he also knows that I am a very curious person, so he made such a joke on me, and I was fooled. I was so angry that I didn't tell Bai Su about the second tape. I was working in the study, when I heard an exclamation and a violent dog barking, I hurriedly looked out the window, and saw two wolf dogs I raised were pounced on a person.Looking down from upstairs, I could only see the man's ragged clothes and couldn't see his face clearly. That person is dodging, dealing with the two big wolfhounds, I don't know where the man came from, because the iron gate of the yard is locked, I opened the window, scolded loudly, calling the two big wolfhounds Name, the big wolf dog fell silent, and the man raised his head. Although he was full of beards and his face was filthy, I could tell at a glance that the beggar-like person was Shan Si. Seeing that it was him, I couldn't help shouting: "Shan Si, what the hell are you doing?" Shan Si didn't answer me, the two wolf dogs stopped chasing him, he rushed towards the house, and I hurriedly left the study and ran down.When I came to the living room, he was already banging on the door ferociously. I hurriedly opened the door and wanted to accuse him, but he had already called out: "Bring it, get it quickly." I said angrily: "You are crazy, what do I owe you?" Shan Si's expression showed that he was extremely excited, and he shouted again: "Bring it, take it out quickly." I took a breath, and first pressed his shoulder hard, making him calmer: "Here, but, you have to tell me, what do you want me to give you?" Shan Si stared at me: "The things Qi Bai gave you." I was taken aback for a moment: "Qi Bai?" I immediately remembered the two tapes Qi Bai sent me.Since I thought it was Qi Bai's prank, I don't know where to put it.At this time, I didn't know why Shan Si was so nervous.I had no choice but to say: "Oh, what Qi Bai gave me, those two tapes?" Shan Si was stunned for a moment, and asked, "A tape?" I said: "Yeah, the two tapes don't sound interesting at all. It seems that he entered a place that he didn't even understand. While walking in that place, he was probably joking." As I spoke, I asked myself that what I said was all the truth, but Shan Si's expression became extremely angry in an instant.He suddenly shouted: "Wesley, stop putting on airs, take it out quickly, you and I both know that what Qi Bai gave you is not some tape." I couldn't help being furious: "Fuck you, it's not a tape, what else would Qi Bai give me?" I turned around, trying to find the two tapes.I am by no means incapable of adapting, and for a ship to sneak up on me from behind is by no means an easy task.But Shan Si, hey, Shan Si usually gives me the impression that he is extremely gentle, except for mentioning some unknown ancient tombs, touching his special hobbies, and making his eyes shine strangely, he He is such a quiet person. I would even guard against the sudden drop of the chandelier from the ceiling, and I was determined not to guard against Shan Si's sneak attack on me.However, at that moment, Shan Si suddenly attacked me. Afterwards I found out that what Shan Si used to attack me was a glass sculpture.Moments before I was knocked unconscious, I heard glass shatter. I heard the sound of shattering glass, but I still didn't know that I was being attacked. I just suddenly thought that in Qi Bai's second volume of tapes, there were continuous sounds of shattering glass. I was in a coma for about an hour. First, there was a needle-like pain on the back of my head, and then I heard Bai Su's voice. Bai Su was asking hurriedly, "Who has been here?" Bai Su was asking about Lao Cai, our old housekeeper, and Lao Cai replied, "I don't know. The dog is barking in the garden. It seems to be an acquaintance. The man's clothes are as tattered as a beggar." I felt a burning pain again, Bai Su used alcohol to disinfect the wound before bandaging it, which irritated the wound.I snorted, "It's Shan Si." After I said that, I opened my eyes.When I opened my eyes, I couldn't help being stunned.It was a real daze, and even made me forget the pain in the back of my head. Immediately afterwards, I felt extremely angry, Bai Su helped me sit on a chair, and I jumped up from the chair.Due to excessive anger, I opened my mouth and couldn't say a word.After a long while, I suddenly yelled, "Shan Si, that bastard, I'm going to crush him to death." Shan thought if he was in front of me at this time, would I pinch him to death and dare not speak, but I would definitely pinch his neck, at least until his eyes rolled white and his tongue was completely stuck out. All I saw was chaos. The mess in the study was indescribable, every drawer was opened, everything in the drawer fell to the ground, and all the books on the bookshelf also fell to the ground.Even some of the audio equipment has left its original location, the wires are tangled and hung everywhere, the membrane of a pair of speakers has been torn, and the seat cushions have been cut open... I really have no way to describe it. In short, when I saw such a mess in my study, my first thought was anger, and the second thought was: I can never restore the study to its original state. I jumped up, clenched my fists tightly with both hands, Bai Su frowned, pressed me down, and made me sit down again, only to find that the chair I was sitting on was also cut open. Bai Su asked: "Single thinking?" I hated it so much that even my voice changed a bit: "It's him." As I spoke, I couldn't help panting: "Thinking about him...he thought I was a dead person who had been dead for a long time? He thought I was an ancient tomb ?” When Bai Su heard the name of "Shan Si", she obviously couldn't remember who he was for a while, until I mentioned "Ancient Tomb", she said "Oh", "It's him!" , that weirdo." She made me half lie down, and then said: "The injury is nothing, it will recover in a few days." I reached out and touched the back of my head, and said angrily: "I can't wait a few days, I'll go find him right away." Bai Su immediately agreed: "Alright, ask him why." I immediately jumped up, went downstairs with Bai Su, went out, and got in the car. Shan Si is a bachelor who lives in a huge garden house. In his elder brother Shanxiang's residence, there are all kinds of plants, while in Shansi's residence, there are all the antiquities he stole from ancient tombs all over the world, including the well-equipped In his cellar, there are three corpses preserved by freezing and medicine—one of them, according to him, is the corpse of a short-lived Mongolian emperor Tutemur. . Bai Su was driving the car, on the way to Shan Si's residence, she asked me: "Why did Shan Si attack you?" I said: "Yes, he insisted that Qi Bai gave me something, I told him that Qi Bai just sent two bastard tapes, making fun of me, he didn't believe it, I turned around and wanted to take the tapes to him, he suddenly hit me in the back." Bai Su complained: "You are too careless." I smiled wryly: "Anyone will be fooled, Shan Si is such a gentleman on weekdays." Bai Su snorted: "At least when he came to see you, Lao Cai said he was like a beggar. I think his demeanor and behavior must be different, but you just don't care." I was sullen and didn't say anything more, Bai Su said again: "You mentioned two tapes, I only know one tape!" I said, "The second volume arrived this morning." Bai Su glanced at me: "What's the content?" I took a breath, stretched out my hand and pressed on my brain again, and told the contents of the second tape.