Chapter 9 Chapter Eight

I turned around and was about to leave, but before I took a step, I was stunned and stood still.I saw a person standing at the door. This person stood there, giving the impression that a mummy was placed there.His expression is so weird, his face is so ugly, his body is shaking, it is an involuntary trembling, but it also looks extremely stiff. I had to gather myself together before I recognized that it was none other than Du Bao, who had an extraordinary appearance and could be called imposing manner.In Du Bao's hand, he was still holding a white robe—or more than half of it, because there was a torn place at one end of the white robe.

As soon as I saw him like this, I said, "What's wrong with you?" Dubao shook and started to make a sound. I didn't say he "started to speak", but just said he "made a sound", because at the beginning, he didn't know what he was talking about at all, and his voice was vague, adding From the "de" sound of his upper and lower rows of teeth touching because of trembling, no one could know what he wanted to express. I was shocked again, and looked outside the door, the door holding the white robe was already open, and the white robe in Du Bao's hand naturally belonged to those three mysterious figures.That person, after the white robe was caught by the door, tore the white robe and left.Now that Du Bao is so shocked, it is entirely conceivable that he has encountered something extremely terrifying.So, can it be assumed that after removing the white robes, those three people looked extremely terrifying?

Ever since I saw those three people, I felt that these three people were full of weirdness and mystery. Of course, Dubao's current panic had a great relationship with those three people. I took a breath: "God, Dubao, what did you see?" As soon as I called out, Du Bao's eyeballs turned, looking at me, even his eyeballs turned extremely stiff, from which we can see how terrified he was. He looked towards me, although the sound he made was still mixed with panting and teeth clicking, but he could finally hear what he was talking about: "I... didn't see anything, what... Didn't see it either."

For a moment, I didn't understand what he meant by that, and thought he was lying, so I immediately said, "I didn't see anything, why are you afraid of being like this?" Du Bao still repeated that sentence: "I didn't see anything." After repeating it five or six times, he said again: "It's because I didn't see anything that I was afraid." I was stunned for a while, still didn’t understand, and wanted to ask again, the virus had already screamed: “Don’t ask so much, let him speak for himself. God, can you shut up and ask less questions?” I have never been called out like this before, but at this time, because the atmosphere is really weird, I don't have time to talk to the virus, because I am also eager to hear Dubao's explanation.

Panting for breath, Du Bao took a few steps forward, picked up a wine bottle, and drank from the mouth of the bottle.His movements were so flustered that he did not have time to uncork the cork, which, as he lifted the bottle, fell and rolled a long way across the carpet. The wine flowed down from his mouth, but he didn't wipe it off, but just raised the white robe in his hand: "I saw those three people coming out quickly, and the corner of one of them was caught by the door." I wanted to ask again, but when I thought of the "comment" the virus had just said to me, I held back and stopped speaking.

Du Bao continued: "I wanted to stop them, but although the corner of that man's clothes was caught, he didn't intend to stop, he was still walking forward, the white robe was torn, and the big part from the head scarf part, stay by the door, and the man walks on." At this moment, Du Bao had already calmed down, and what he said sounded very orderly. I couldn't help but said: "Take off the white robe, you saw that person's body, so that's why you feel scared?" Du Bao first took a long breath, and then let it out very slowly, saying: "No, I didn't see anything."

As soon as I inhaled and wanted to speak again, Du Bao immediately said: "There is nothing inside the white robe, no body at all." I was shocked for a moment. Although what Du Bao said was very clear, I didn't understand it. "No body at all", what kind of situation is this?I looked at the virus and saw that the expression of the virus was in a daze, not panic.At the same time, I heard him murmur, "Really, really." I didn't know what the virus meant by "really", so I turned to Du Baowang again: "Please explain clearly." Du Bao took another sip of wine: "I've made it clear enough, after the white robe fell off—" He paused for a while, waved his hand, and regained his composure, although he was still terrified: "What? No, the inside of the robe is empty."

I quickly read, I heard Du Bao's words, but I couldn't accept his words based on common sense, the inside of the robe is empty, how is this possible?There must be a body inside the robe, even if he is not a human, but a monster, there should be a body of a monster inside the robe. But Du Bao said that the inside of the robe was empty.Empty means nothing.No matter how weird a body is, it won't be nothing. I suddenly thought of something, and immediately said "ah": "That person...you mean that person...is an invisible person?" If it is an invisible person, or a transparent person, after the robe is ripped off, of course his body cannot be seen, which is why Du Bao didn't see anything.

When I asked this question, I heard the virus groan.I thought that the virus must have some opinions to express. I looked at him and saw that he had his head in his hands, and I didn't know what he was doing.I looked at Dubao again, hoping that he would agree with the "invisible man". Du Bao shook his head: "No, they are not invisible people." I was a little annoyed: "It's not an invisible person, why can't you see that person's body?" Du Bao said: "After the white robe was ripped off, I didn't see that person's body, there are three of them in total." I hummed: "Yes."

Du Bao said: "At that time, the other two people—I couldn't see that person's body, so I pretended that he didn't exist—castrate faster. Because of their very fast castration, the white robes on them, raised up—” Du Bao said while making gestures. I understand the situation where a man in a loose white robe is rushing forward, the white robe will be raised. Seeing that I seemed to understand, Du Bao said again: "Their castration is very fast, so that the angle of the upward movement from the inside to the back reaches 35 degrees, maybe even worse." I blinked: "What do you want to explain?"

Du Bao said: "No one can use such an angle to keep their bodies moving forward. If there is a body in the white robe, they will not be able to move forward. There is no body in the white robe at all, not invisible." I still blinked: "How can you move forward without a body?" Du Bao smiled wryly and said: "At that time, I was really shocked, so I couldn't think of this. Now, I can explain it." I stopped blinking, raised my eyebrows, Du Bao said: "Let's talk about the one whose white robe was ripped off first, the white robe was ripped off, but the scarf is still there, covering... covering..." He couldn't go on talking until this point, and I smiled bitterly: "Under the scarf, the one covered, of course, should be the head." Du Bao's expression was also extremely bitter: "Yes, it should be the head, I mean, head...head...in..." He really didn't know how to word it, but I understood what he meant.What he meant was that the three people had no bodies at all, only heads, with turbans on their heads and white robes covering them, to put on a show.Because the white robe is wide and can reach the ground, and "has no body", it is beyond imagination, and it looks like a whole person.And once the white robe is torn off, of course only the head is left to move forward with the hood on. I figured out what Dubao meant, but it was extremely confusing: just wearing a turban on the head, of course, is not "walking" forward, but "flying" forward.This may explain why the three people moved forward so fast, and why the barbed wooden stick hit the white robe as if nothing had happened, because the robe was completely empty! But why did the big man with the stick fall to the ground?Why didn't the Panthers move forward?I thought about the situation of those three people sitting on the sofa. The three of them were close together. At that time, I just felt that the three of them were too close together, and I couldn't pay attention to whether there was a body in the white robe. Their heads... what are their heads like?I can't help but smile wryly.I talked a lot with those three people, but I didn't see their heads clearly at all. All I heard was voices, the voices they made, and saw their eyes—or rather, felt that strange light in their eyes.As for what they looked like, I couldn't see clearly at all, because their headscarves were pulled low and wrapped tightly. As I was thinking about it, I was running around, when the virus suddenly said a word: "As early as when they first came, I found out that these three people are not ordinary people, so they proposed to me." Promise, I believed them without hesitation." I said: "How unusual is it? Without a body?" Virus looked at me with a very sincere expression. At least, he made me feel that he was very sincere. The virus said: "The first time they came, they called out a name I used when I was a teenager. You know, I am too old, so old that everyone who knew me when I was a teenager has all gone to another world. No one will know I used that name." I shook my head and said, "Maybe they saw it from some records." The virus ignored my words, as if he said that no one would know his name when he was a teenager, so no one would know. He stopped arguing with me and said to himself: "When they come in── an outstanding tomb robber , there must be natural abilities that are unique in all aspects, one of which is to have an extremely sensitive sense of hearing, more sensitive than rabbits and gophers." I said "hmm", at this time, I didn't understand the use of a particularly sensitive hearing for an outstanding grave robber.Afterwards, I found out that in order to prevent people from stealing many ancient tombs, they played all kinds of tricks when building them. Generally speaking, there are many unpredictable traps in ancient tombs. If the tomb robbers who enter the ancient tombs are not careful, they will fall into the traps and be buried in the ancient tombs.And no matter how ingenious the trap is, there will always be a little noise when it is about to be activated. This kind of sound may be extremely low, so low that ordinary people can't hear it even in the dead and silent ancient tomb, but a person with a particularly sensitive hearing can hear it and escape in time. Therefore, hearing as sensitive as a gopher is one of the necessary conditions for an outstanding grave robber. The virus pointed to me: "For example, I am sitting here, although I am old enough, I can still hear your breathing and your heartbeat!" I nodded, subconsciously, and held my breath.The virus immediately said: "Now, you are not breathing." I don't doubt that viruses have this ability. In a quiet environment, I can still hear the breathing of people who are close, even if that person is very careful to control his breathing.But hearing the sound of a heartbeat, it's a bit unbelievable, but unfortunately I don't have the ability to stop my heart temporarily, so let's try him. The virus sighed: "When the three people came in for the first time, I didn't hear their breathing or their heartbeat." I felt a shock, and the virus said again: "At that time, I just thought, ah, I'm old, and my hearing is no longer as sensitive as before, but I can hear the breathing and heartbeat of other people around me, and I can hear it too. It can be heard that the heart of Ada who brought the three of them in was beating very violently, and he was feeling very scared in his heart." The more I listen, the more chill I feel.Virus's voice remained calm, but he could almost hear the strange fear in his heart, and he said again: "So, I can know that these three people are not breathing or heartbeating at all." Du Bao made a sound almost moaning: "Master, these three people are──" Virus said: "These three people are dead, but they talk again. Dubao, I am old enough, I have encountered and heard of all kinds of weird things. I am old enough that there are no more weird things Things can scare me to the point where I can maintain my composure, talk to them, talk to three people who are not breathing or beating!" When I heard this, I couldn't help but groaned. From the time I received Qi Bai's tapes, to Qi Bai's disappearance, to Shan Si's death, and somehow someone offered me something at a high price, until now, the situation has not gradually become clear, but has gone deeper and deeper step by step. More unfathomable mysteries. The three people without breathing and heartbeat, now it is proved that these three people have no body at all! No breathing, no heartbeat, no body, in such a situation, how can these three people be called "human beings"?I groaned: "Those three are not human beings." The virus said: "Yes, they are not human, I don't know what they are." Suddenly, I felt an extremely funny feeling, and I almost laughed: "I don't know what three...things are, what's the use of seventy-four corpses?" The virus said: "I don't know, may I ask, why do people want so much wealth and power?" The virus suddenly raised such a question, which made people laugh and cry. I said, "Then I have to ask you, because only you have so much wealth here." The virus murmured: "Wealth is of no use to me." My heart moved: "Then, these three...no matter what they are, what benefits did they promise you, which made you rush to find Qi Bai to steal the corpse for them?" The virus rolled its eyes and glanced at me: "I won't tell you, but I believe they can do it." I stared straight at him: "You found out that they are not human beings at all. You must regard them as gods in your mind. You will believe whatever they tell you. I think the promise they gave you is that they can prolong your life. Or rejuvenation, isn't it?" The virus shook for a moment, pursed its lips tightly, and remained silent. My guess is reasonable, considering the current situation of the virus, he has untold wealth, but only a limited life.This is the greatest tragedy of human beings: as death approaches step by step, the effect of wealth becomes weaker and weaker. If those three "persons" really have the ability to prolong the life of the virus, then the virus will be willing to do anything for them! I sighed: "However, you were fooled, they even asked people to rob graves, it seems that they don't have much ability—" The virus shouted: "No, no, even a god with great powers must have some things that he can't do." I said: "If you are convinced of their promise, why don't you go out yourself?" Virus smiled wryly, "I'm really too old." I said loudly: "Your movements are still very sensitive, and you are completely capable of a tomb robbery!" Virus was extremely angry by my words, he said: "Yes, but they refused to tell me where the tomb is, I will not do such a thing, before I act, I must make the place where I am going Clearly." I hummed: "Despicable! You feel that you are in extreme danger, so you don't go by yourself and ask Qi Bai to go. When something happens to Qi Bai, you ask me to go." Virus yelled angrily: "It's voluntary! No one forced Qi Bai to go, nor did anyone force you to go—" When he said this, his tone suddenly became extremely weak: "But... I beg you to... Really, they... promised me that with a method, I can even return to the way I was when I was twenty. vitality." I guessed it, only this kind of promise can touch the heart of the virus.I sighed: "Then, you are too stingy to only give one of the twenty collection rooms." The virus said: "As long as you can succeed, I will give it all to you." I took a deep breath, the reward given by the virus can be said to be the highest reward paid to a single action in the world.Of course I will not be tempted for this reward, but I do want to meet those three "persons" again. The words they said to me before leaving proved that they made the phone call, and the place where we can meet them is the manhole, which is located at 29.47 degrees north latitude and 29.47 degrees east longitude. Junction. With such precise latitude and longitude, it is not difficult to find that location. The three of them were waiting for me there, which was a great temptation for me. As I thought about it, the virus looked at me with a begging look, and I said, "I can't promise you for sure now, but I know where they are, and I'm going to see them." The virus said repeatedly: "That's great, that's great." I asked again, "What's the use of those seventy-four corpses?" Virus shook his head, and I smiled wryly: "It seems that they are very capable, and they are not afraid of attacks, even black panthers dare not attack them, but why don't they do it themselves, but spend a lot of time to invite grave robbers?" Someone to do this?" Virus still shook his head, it seemed that he really didn't know anything.I feel that the virus has confidence in them, mostly from the mentality of a dying old man.At the age of the virus, people can believe in anything for the sake of life extension. I didn't ask any more questions, and looked at Dubao: "Please send me out." Du Bao looked as if he couldn't wait for it, and agreed repeatedly.As soon as he left the door of the study, Du Bao lowered his voice: "Mr. Wei, in my opinion, those three... who came to ask the master to rob the tomb... don't look like living things." I was stunned, what conclusion is this?No matter how strange the three of them are, they can still speak and move. How can they not be living things? Seeing my suspicious expression, Du Bao hurriedly said, "I'm majoring in electronic engineering at university." I said, "Those three are electronic robots?" Du Bao thought for a while: "It's similar." I also thought about it for a while: "Electronic robots, flying on the principle of jets? It makes sense in theory. But who is the maker? Who is the controller?" Du Bao couldn't answer, so I patted him on the shoulder: "Your thinking is wrong. As far as I know, beasts, like American panthers, have an extremely keen sense of smell, and they won't be afraid of any mechanical parts. , the only thing that can scare them is the more powerful and ferocious creatures, or creatures that they have never experienced before." Du Bao took a deep breath, and I said again: "Your master's feeling is no worse than that of a beast. His feeling is that those three people have no breathing or heartbeat at all." Du Bao murmured: "That's why I don't think they are living things." I sighed: "It is a living thing, but a strange kind of living thing, a living thing beyond the scope of our knowledge." Du Bao suddenly laughed: "How can a creature from outer space have a relationship with a tomb robber? It should be with... It should be with..." For a moment, he couldn't imagine what kind of person he should have a relationship with.At this moment, there was a sudden movement in my heart, and in an instant, a link was connected. Of all the mysteries, none of the links could have been fastened, and that was the most disturbing part of the whole thing. But now, Du Bao's words—in fact, it was his demeanor that he didn't know how to say it—had inspired me.He said that extraterrestrial creatures should not have any relationship with tomb robbers. Indeed, extraterrestrial creatures have nothing to do with people who specialize in robbing and digging ancient tombs. What kind of people should they be related to?It should have something to do with people from the space agency. Among the many mysteries, there is one involving a certain space agency personnel.Several personnel from the space agency pretended to be employees of the auction company. They died in a plane crash. I still have the ID of one of them. I still don't know what roles these staff members of the space agency play, but if those three are alien creatures, the staff members of the space agency should be most connected with them. This knot may be fastened, but after it is fastened, no matter how I think about it, I have no idea what effect it will have.The car was driven by a driver and arrived at Hu Ming's residence. Dubao didn't send me in. As soon as I went in, I saw Hu Ming who was sitting and jumped up, while Ada was still there, looking at me with a grimace.Hu Ming went straight to me: "What did the virus tell you to do? Have you put forward any conditions?" I put my hand on his chest and walked forward until I pushed him to sit down on a chair: "You heard me clearly, as long as I can meet the requirements of the virus, he will keep all his treasures, completely Give it to me." Hu Ming and Ada opened their mouths together, and there were indistinct sounds from their throats.Hu Ming asked, "God, what does he want you to do?" I said: "The tomb robbers stole seventy-four corpses from one tomb room. It's just that Qi Bai didn't succeed. Qi Bai's whereabouts are unknown now, and the odds are good." Hu Ming gasped: "For those treasures, no matter how dangerous it is, it's worth it." I said coldly: "I can recommend you to the virus, and let you do this." When Hu Ming heard this, he opened his mouth wide. Looking at him, he seemed to want to blurt out "yes" immediately, but in the last tenth of a second, he considered that he couldn't agree indiscriminately, so he opened his mouth wide and did not make a sound. . When I set off early the next morning, I checked the equipment I had brought in detail.All gear, in a decent midsize jeep with enough fuel for three times what I needed for the trip.Early in the morning, I set off for the desert.Hu Ming got off the car at the edge of the desert and went back to the city alone. At noon, the weather was extremely hot, and all my clothes were drenched with sweat.Driving in the desert was tedious and monotonous, but I was always excited because I didn't know what weird experiences were waiting for me. The intersection of "29.47" ​​is about 200 kilometers southwest of Cairo.The speed of the car in the desert cannot be too high, and it can only move forward 20 to 25 kilometers per hour. When the sun sets, it is already close to the destination. I stopped the car, observed the sextant, and determined that less than 300 meters was my destination. I picked up the binoculars and observed intently. I saw that at a distance of more than two hundred meters, the sand grains were moving slowly. That kind of movement was going on at an extremely slow speed. I was impatient and could never see it. It was like looking at a clock. watch the movement of the minute hand. Going forward, you can see that the speed of sand grains is gradually accelerating.The movement proceeded in one direction, very slowly, and it took a long time to see a grain of sand suddenly turn over, and the shiny side turned into a backlight. Looking further ahead, the grains of sand move at an increasing speed until they reach that central point. To my surprise, the central point did not sag downwards, but bulged upwards, forming a small dune with a diameter of less than one meter and a height of only 20 centimeters. The tip of the dune seemed quite sharp, and on that tip, the grains of sand are rolling rapidly. Hu Ming once explained to me that the manhole is a phenomenon produced by the flow of sand in the desert, and it is exactly the same principle as the vortex produced by the water flow.So in my imagination, the center point of the manhole should be a sand vortex, which is sunken downward.However, instead, a force was produced that arched the sand grains, and the situation was somewhat different from the whirlpool in the water. I got out of the car, got a gun, pulled the trigger, and fired a flag. This kind of gun is specially used for shooting flags in the desert, which can make people have fixed targets when they are advancing.Because in the endless desert, even if the target is determined, if there is no obvious mark, it will go in the wrong direction due to the illusion of sight. From the long-range shooter on the gun, I aimed at the center point of the manhole and fired the flag.The flag is a 50 cm long pole with a small bright red flag attached to it. The flag was accurately landed on the center of the manhole, inserted on the sand, at least forty centimeters out of the sand, and the bright red flag looked very bright.But in a blink of an eye, the pole of the pole was gone, and half of the small flag was sunk in the sand. I opened my mouth wide, but before I could yell out, the whole flag was gone, being pulled under the sand by the swirl of sand.The weight of the whole flag is very light, it is hard to imagine how fast it would sink if someone stepped on it! I raised my voice and called, "Hey, where are you? I'm here. It's 29:47. I'm here. Come out quickly." I yelled, and at the same time pressed the car horn vigorously, making an astonishing sound.In the flat and vast desert, the sound can be heard far away, not to mention three hundred meters, it can be heard even three thousand meters away. Not daring to go forward again, the situation of the flag stuck in the sand just now seems shocking! I yelled for a while, but there was no movement on the desert. I snorted, picked up the rope from the car, buckled it around my waist, and wrapped the other end of the rope around a winch.There is a control button on the winch, and the rope will only be loosened by about one meter when you pull it hard. This was originally a special equipment for mountain climbing, and I can use it now.If a person is pulled down by the sand vortex, the rope will stop me from sinking, and I can pull the rope and break free from the sand vortex. When I was ready, I started to walk forward, and when I was only about ten meters away from the center, I looked down and saw that my feet had already sunk into the sand. I was stunned for a moment, then loosened the rope, took another step forward, sank even more, and even my ankle was gone, and took two more steps forward, the sand had already reached my calf!