Lao Zhao agreed with Xiao Hu's conjecture. If the old man in the village did not add water to his story, then the abnormalities in the crops were probably only closely related to the soil.
After Mustache deduced this conclusion, he asked Lao Zhao the specific location of the village, but Lao Zhao only knew the approximate location, because the Germans attached great importance to the village, and the information sent back was blocked. Those messages were all from Lao Zhao.
Zhao secretly inquired about it. He took out a map and pointed out the approximate location to Mustache.
Seeing the location pointed by Old Zhao, Mustache immediately discovered that the approximate location of the village was not too far from Gedanli. Of course, there was still some distance between the two places, but it was only a small corner compared to the vast Tibetan area.
place.
"The Germans have a very thorough plan, but their current actions have fallen into passivity and chaos, because the most critical hardware has never been found, and they themselves doubt whether there is an imperceptible loophole in the data or some aspect. Xiao Xiang,
What I mean is, if you rush to the village, I will follow the team."
The specific location of Lao Zhao's action this time is actually the fifth point on the ancient Xiangxiong map, which is the fifth migration place of the Blood Worship Cult. The general migration route has always been westward, and the conditions in that place have changed.
It was very bad. Mustache was weak and had no choice but to take action in one place. He thought about it and felt that Lao Zhao's opinion was still right.
"The Germans have been in the village for a few days. You have to hurry up."
Lao Zhao was absolutely unwilling to suffer a loss. When he brought the information, he asked Xiaozhu about the harvest information. The two talked for a while, and Lao Zhao ran to find Duoji and then hurried back.
Mustache was also in a hurry and took Jialuorong on the road. On the first day on the road, Mustache felt that after arriving in the village, he was the only one who could do things. If he was hindered due to language and identity issues, he would
It's even more difficult. In a small village like that that has been isolated for many years, it is estimated that no one can speak Chinese.
He stopped at a stop along the way to buy some Tibetan clothes. Those kind of robes and felt hats made Mustache very uncomfortable. But when he put on these clothes, Mustache felt that he was really connected with this place.
The land was tightly connected. Jialuorong looked at him quietly, with a smile in her calm eyes. Maybe she thought the mustache looked good in this outfit.
It's still the same during the journey. You have to hurry, and you have to always check if anyone is following you along the way. Among the pilgrims, there are some people like Lute who have ancient magic. They can't be escaped just by their sharp eyesight and quick hands. They need to be fully alert.
It took Xiaozi and Jialuorong about seven or eight days to get to the approximate location. The location of the village was not yet clear, but there was a general direction. They searched for more than a day, but the first thing they saw was not the village.
, but a crop field located near the village.
At this time, the highland barley has matured. Looking from a distance, it seems that many people are harvesting grain in the crop fields. However, a closer look reveals that it is not the case. Those people gathered in a small area in the crop fields, so busy that they did not know.
What are you doing? There are several tents set up next to the crops, and there are a lot of things piled up in a mess outside the tents.
Mustache secretly observed for a long time. Those gathered in the crop field included Germans, Tibetans, and a few Han Chinese. They shoveled down a mature crop and dug out a long and wide area like a fish pond.
In the five to six meter square pit. During this period, the originally busy crowd suddenly started arguing. Although no sound was heard, it could be seen that they were arguing fiercely. It was a few Han and Tibetans arguing.
The Germans behind were also gesticulating and talking.
The Germans had obviously taken action first, and their speculation was similar to that of Mustache, who felt that there was something wrong underneath the land where crops were grown. Mustache felt that he should figure out the previous situation as soon as possible and go directly to attack the Germans.
Definitely not, so he thought, this crop is the basis for the villagers' livelihood. There must be a reason why the crops are not harvested when they are ripe, and the villagers will probably know something.
The crop fields were still some distance away from the village. Xiaozhu didn’t dare to move the car anymore, so he took Jialuorong on foot and took a detour to the village.
This is a very ordinary and peaceful small village. However, at this moment, this tranquility seems to have been broken. Many villagers gathered in the village, talking in twos and threes. Mustache first looked to make sure that no other Germans were present.
Then he tried to make contact with some villagers. Although he and Jia Luorong were both wearing Tibetan clothes, there were almost no outsiders in the village. The two of them attracted the attention of the villagers.
As Mustache thought, these villagers did not know how to speak Chinese at all. Jialuorong could not speak, but gestured to the villagers and wrote Tibetan with pen and paper. This young, quiet and beautiful Tibetan girl has a strong
The villagers looked at her as if they were seeing angels flying from the top of the snow-capped mountains, and quickly dispelled their suspicions about the two of them. Especially Jialuorong, who was born unable to speak, it is easy for people to feel pity and sympathy.
pity.
Xiaowu quietly told Jialuorong what she wanted to ask, and asked her to use words and gestures to ask some villagers who could read. After that, Jialuorong had to use gestures to relay it to Xiaowu. In short, the process was very troublesome, but it took a long time.
, they still figured out the general situation.
When the Germans first came here, they did not show up in person. They brought some Tibetans with them, and these people went to talk to the villagers and took over the entire mature crops. The villagers were reluctant at first because the crops were ripe.
The harvest could be completed in two days. They wanted to wait three to five days, but the Germans were probably too impatient to wait even a minute. They paid several times the price and finally took over the crops.
These people surveyed the crop fields for a long time. Two of the Han men also took out something like steel pipes connected with each other and beat them deep into the ground. When they mentioned this, Mustache became confused. According to the villagers
According to the description, this thing is most likely a Luoyang shovel, a tool used by soil crawlers to take soil samples.
Finally, they circled a range and hired villagers to dig the ground. The villagers didn't know what they were going to do. After clearing a field of crops, they dug down four meters deep and were ordered to continue digging. The scope of the pit was six meters in radius.
About 7 meters, I dug until it was about 7 meters, and water came out of the ground.
The villagers were surprised. They had lived here for thousands of years, and no one had ever known that water could be drawn from under the crop fields. The water emerged from below, like a quiet mountain spring. At this time, the villagers were called
Come up and go down by the German team.
The people who went down were a Tibetan and a Han. They were clearing out the things at the bottom of the water like mining sand. The water overflowed very slowly, but gradually the bottom of the pit was covered. Looking at this trend, if it continues
Go down, you can't do it without diving equipment.
But on the second day, several villagers on standby saw the team getting busy. Water more than one meter deep seemed to be leaking out of a loophole, flowing cleanly. The Germans would not allow it.
The villagers were too close, so the villagers did not know the specific conditions in the pit. After the water dried up, the Tibetans and Han people who went down on the first day continued to go down, but this time the pit was different from the first day.
Everyone carries many things with them.
The person was suspended and put in. At first, everything was calm. People around him were watching from the top of the pit. After about twenty minutes, the two ropes hanging the person suddenly started to shake violently.
The people had a premonition that something was not going to happen, and then there were hurried shouts from the bottom of the pit, and the people above anxiously pulled the rope upwards.
The Han man they pulled up first was the Han man. Although he was far away, several villagers were still startled. The Han man's clothes were spattered with blood, as if he had just fought to the death with someone.
At this time, the hurried shouts below the pit had turned into shrill howls. The sound made people feel a chill in their bones. The people above tried their best to pull the people out of the pit.
But the person they pulled up was no longer a person or not.
This Tibetan man's clothes were all gone, and his whole body was covered in blood. When he was pulled up, blood was still dripping down his toes. He looked very much like he had been skinned and hung on an iron plate.
A sheep on a hook.
The man is not dead yet, he keeps twisting, and when his limbs are flicked, a string of blood drops appear. His scream is very miserable, like an unjust ghost who has just escaped from hell. There are medical staff in charge of first aid in the team, and they immediately treat him.
The person was carried to a nearby tent. But it was likely that the person could not be saved. After about half an hour, the screams in the tent gradually disappeared, and the medical staff came out of the tent and shook their heads at the leading German.
The scene was so tragic that it caused several villagers to have nightmares for several days, but this did not make the Germans give up. Instead, they kept urging the people below to continue their work. The tragic death of the Tibetan caused some people's uneasiness and agitation.
, after all, they were hired just to make money but not to lose their lives. The remaining Tibetans were very emotional, and the Germans spent a lot of effort to suppress them.
In the end, it was a Han man in the team who was in his forties and nearly fifty years old who solved the problem under the pit. The villagers could not see the specific process. The Han man went up and down many times. Every time he came up, he was covered in blood.
There were patches of blood everywhere. And while he was going down, the villagers could often hear faint sounds coming from under the pit.
They couldn't describe the sound, but it sounded like a baby crying.
After the problem was solved, the Germans were very happy, and then four or five people went down and worked there for half a day. Then the people above started to set up simple mechanical pulleys, and a bunch of messy ropes were lowered.
They were obviously trying to hoist something up from below.