Xiaoning asked me to lower my head as I spoke, slightly embarrassed. He also knew that the fact that I was kidnapped by a mummy had a lot to do with his temporary attack.
Because he felt that he had made a mistake, Xiaoning's attitude softened slightly. He talked about his experience just now. When he and I were preparing to search and observe carefully next to the mummy, he felt a strange movement behind him, very slight.
It was almost imperceptible that the moment he turned back, his eyes seemed to be caught by something.
At that time, he couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or reality. A black hole appeared in front of him, a very large black hole, slowly rotating. This black hole seemed to suck away Xiaoning's eyes, and his consciousness began to blur.
He just stood there dumbly until Zhang Qiao, who had been kicked unconscious, came to his senses. It took a lot of effort to get Xiaoning back to normal, and then he called people outside to chase the mummy together.
I lit another cigarette, and while smoking, I thought, black hole, black hole again, what does black hole mean? After I came into contact with these, this word may be the one I heard the most.
Moreover, as soon as the mood stabilized, the doubts that had arisen in my mind instantly expanded countless times. This place is far away from the Xihai River Underground Project, and the age gap is also very large. They are products of two different eras. They were both excavated.
A very deep and very big pit.
The most critical question is here, what are they digging for?
After smoking the cigarette, I subconsciously wanted to take one out, but Xiaoning stopped me: "You plan to live here? It's very comfortable, isn't it?"
"Okay, let's get started." I straightened up, looked down, then tentatively stretched out my foot and stepped on a solid place.
"What are you doing!" Xiaoning saw that I wanted to continue climbing down, and immediately followed me and dragged me: "Are you too energetic?"
"I lost my shoes, can I go down and look for them?" I suddenly felt a little disgusted. Growing up, what I resented the most was the feeling of being imprisoned and controlled, especially if I had a nagging person next to me who wouldn't let me do anything.
people.
I want to go down and have a look. I have traveled thousands of miles to this place. At least I want to know what they are trying to dig out such a big hole. I ignore Xiaoning's attitude because he is just a clerk sent by Uncle Lai.
, if I go down, he can't just watch.
"You'd better not do anything outrageous. As you've seen, this place is not like a city. If something happens to you, you won't even have a place to call the police."
"I know, I'm just looking for shoes."
As I said that, I started to crawl down, but I crawled very slowly, the environment was dangerous, and I always had something going on in my mind. I had to say that the story about the mummy was like a bombshell, which made me unable to calm down for a long time. My unsmiling father
, what exactly is he like? Is he really, as the mummy said, a person who can easily kill others? I cannot accept this statement.
"It will probably take a long time to climb down like this." The person behind Xiaoning followed us for a while and said, "This place is very rare. I don't know how it happened."
According to my experience and what I have seen after climbing for so long, the excavation form of the deep pit behind the Loulan Ancient Tomb is very similar to that of the Xihai River Project. That is, at regular intervals, there will be a suspended platform.
, people who go up and down can stay, and can also hold some things.
There are many places where we can borrow strength. Although we climbed slowly, we gradually approached the bottom of the pit. From what the mummy said, it is not as deep as the Xihai River excavation. After all, the age and technological level are too different. Climb through
I was about to get off the platform built by the last log. At this time, Xiaoning grabbed me and said, "You wait, I'll get off first."
"It seems like you still care about me." Even though my head was covered with sweat, I smiled and said to him, "Go down and help me find shoes first."
The situation was generally safe. Nothing unusual happened after Xiaoning went down, so I jumped down too. Xiaoning told the person above him to stay where he was.
The two of us walked slowly down there, but after walking back and forth for a while, my scalp felt a little tight because I couldn't find my shoes. Not only that, I couldn't even find the mummified body.
"Isn't this impossible?" I subconsciously looked up and saw that from where we just stopped to here, the elephant would die if it fell.
"Slow down." Xiaoning's movements became very gentle, but I could still see him reaching out and holding a gun. For ordinary people who grew up in peaceful times, this thing is very strange, and guns appeared.
This means that this matter has gone bad. Who are the people who hold guns illegally?
I didn't say I was nervous, but I didn't dare to take a step away. I followed him closely and glanced left and right. Xiaoning walked in front for a while and said softly to me: "Do you feel that the bottom of the pit is very messy?
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"Chaos? Why is it chaos?"
When he said this, I focused my attention. No matter in the past or now, the scale of this kind of project should be said to be huge, requiring careful planning and rigorous scheduling. Along the way, the logs on the pit walls
The metal fulcrums are neatly arranged and very solid. However, the bottom of the pit is completely different. It is a mess, with all kinds of messy things and piles of excavated rocks and stones everywhere. This shows that at the beginning,
The people who were working here seemed to have evacuated in a hurry, and even gave up the project midway without even having time to clean up the site.
Next, we discovered a lot of disturbing things: the remains of dead people, in huge quantities.
"So many people should have died at the same time." I became even more nervous and wanted to stick it to Xiaoning: "Is this why they gave up the project?"
I don't know why Xihaihe was abandoned, but the place in front of me was probably because so many people died that it could no longer be carried out. Panic and the reduction of labor force were serious problems, so it was abandoned.
"Should we take it slow for a while and discuss it in the long term?" I felt increasingly uneasy.
"Now that you're here, keep reading. Aren't you curious?"
People died in droves. It is estimated that the people who were working at the bottom of the pit at the time, including the subsequent rescuers, all died here. I don’t want to go any further. Putting aside other dangers, no one can guarantee whether there are ghosts here.
The original carrier of the shadow curse. But Xiaoning refused. He forced me to walk a few more steps and stood in front of a pile of large rocks.
I felt that his gaze was attracted again, and I stood still, and more importantly, I couldn't see anything.
"What's wrong with you?" The sweat that had just disappeared on my head started to flow down again: "Don't scare me!"
"Don't make any sound." Xiaoning turned his head sharply, startling me. He squatted down and pointed at the large pile of rocks in front of him: "These rocks have content, so you have to take a good look at them."
I couldn't tell what the contents of these stones of different sizes were, but Xiaoning was very interested and slowly moved closer. These stones were piled up intentionally. I squatted behind Xiaoning and looked at him.
I started to examine the stones. He felt that looking at them like this might not be satisfying, so after looking at them for a while, he reached out and dug out a corner of the stone pile. The sound of rolling stones was very muffled at the bottom of the pit. I complained that he was too careless.
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"If you knew what these rocks were, you would do the same."
"What is it?"
"If I look right, they should all be fossils."
Xiaoning's words suddenly reminded me of what Mummy once said. Although Mummy only mentioned it in one sentence at the time, I remember it very clearly. He said that at the deepest part of the Xihai River Project, something was blasted out, which was fossils.
Fossils cannot all be so intuitive. Some fossils look very blurry. Professionals may be able to distinguish the clues after just a few glances, but for people like me, it is very difficult. I followed the clues.
Ning was looking in the direction he was looking at, but he couldn't see clearly. What kind of fossils were these? Animals? Plants?
"These fossils were piled up by the people who originally excavated this place? What exactly are they?"
Xiaoning was probably completely attracted by these fossils and didn't answer my words. He pushed aside a few smaller stones that had fallen down, moved closer to the main body of the stone pile, which had collapsed in a corner, and turned on the originally darker light.
Twist. As soon as he stared at these stones, his eyes seemed to be motionless again. He was startled and shocked. I couldn't stand it.
"You can't move more slowly! The situation here is unknown!"
"I'm sensible, don't talk about this yet, come here and help." Xiaoning pointed to a stone that was pressed under the pile of rocks: "Get this stone out."
I was completely speechless. This long stone was at least two or three meters long. It was pressed down by many stones and only a small section was exposed. Before I could reply, Xiaoning had already started to move the stones one by one.
, I had no choice but to follow along and pray in my heart that nothing would happen.
The two of us followed the same steps as when mining, and finally cleared away part of the rocks on top. The rocks Xiaoning wanted to get out were flat, so one of us turned the rocks over with all our strength, little by little.
It was brought out.
"It's so well preserved." Xiaoning almost put her face on one side of the stone, wiped off the dust on it, tapped the stone gently with the tail of the flashlight, and said to me without looking back: "Please be careful.
Look, this is a jaw-dropping discovery. After reading it, slap yourself in the face and tell yourself that you are not dreaming."
"I haven't seen anything. What you said is too exaggerated..." As I said this, I squatted down next to Xiaoning and glanced over. Under the light, the stone revealed something. I will tell you later.
I couldn't say anything, and I actually wanted to slap myself in the face to see if I was dreaming.
"Do you see clearly?" Xiaoning had a teasing smile on her lips.
"Holy crap!" I couldn't stand it anymore. I backed away suddenly and sat down on the ground: "How can this be a fossil!"