"Are you sure you want to go to Xihai River?" Xiaoning seemed a little unbelievable. He felt that my courage had been frightened after seeing the mummy.
"That's a place I should go, I must go." My tone calmed down with my mood. I can't say I wasn't nervous, but I don't know why. At this time, I suddenly remembered the letter my dad left for me.
What you have to do is not to complain, not to escape, nor to be brave. You have to be thoughtful and a thinking person.
I remember this sentence very clearly.
"If we go to Xihai River, we may not be prepared enough. The situation there will probably be more complicated than here." Xiaoning looked at me and said, "My uncle mentioned Xihai River, you should also know."
"I'm not prepared enough, so I have to ask your uncle to help." I don't want to trouble Uncle Lai all the time, but except for a sum of money, I have nothing else.
"Then leave here first, go to a place where you can contact him, and then take a look."
Xiaoning's happiness surprised me, and we left here immediately. Soon, I got in touch with Uncle Lai. After hearing what I said, he said I was joking.
I really want to ask Uncle Lai what happened in Xihaihe back then, because this matter put too much pressure on me. I don’t know whether it is appropriate to ask. If I ask directly, I am obviously questioning Uncle Lai. But I really
I couldn't help it, and after hesitating several times, I finally spoke.
"Little boy, why do you ask that?" Uncle Lai didn't understand a bit after hearing this. He asked me. I couldn't explain why. I wanted to tell him the truth about the conversation between the mummy and me, but I swallowed the words again.
.
"What happened back then was indeed like that. There is no need to question this. You have to believe that your father is an upright man."
I didn't ask any more questions, because I knew that from Uncle Lai's perspective, he would not and could not say anything unfavorable to my dad. The two have been friends for so many years and have maintained it to this day. I can understand Uncle Lai,
So I don’t want to say more about these, whether the mummy lied or Uncle Lai lied.
Uncle Lai was trying to convince me, but I insisted on going. Before I knew the place of Xihai River, it was nothing, but once I knew it, the passion in my heart could not be extinguished. I always thought that in the ruins of Xihai River, there were still
There may be secrets hidden that I don't know about.
"Little boy, I really can't spare any time recently." Uncle Lai probably felt that he couldn't convince me, so he said in his usual helpless tone: "If you are determined to go, I can only try my best to provide you with some help.
To be honest, I don’t think you need to go anymore, it’s very dangerous.”
We argued for a long time, and finally I won. Uncle Lai couldn't come by himself, so he could only promise to call two friends to help me. This would take at least a few days, and we had to wait.
The conditions here are very poor. Although the weather is getting warmer, I can't feel any warmth in this place. I waited for maybe three days. One night, I just fell asleep when I was woken up by the sound of the phone next to my pillow.
Because I didn't fall asleep for a long time, my mind was clear immediately after I woke up. I picked up the phone and the four words "unknown number" were displayed on the screen.
The phone buzzed, like a vibrating machine in the quiet room. I hesitated for a moment, then pressed the answer button and called.
But no one spoke, and the phone was not disconnected. I heard that the environment over there seemed not to be so quiet. There was a rustling sound, much like the sound of wind. I fed several times in a row, but still no one answered. Then
A rustling sound filled my eardrums, and my nerves immediately became tense.
About a minute later, the phone hung up. This was not the first time I received such a call. I felt strange and casually dialed the number. However, before I could dial the number, the phone rang again, and it was still an unknown number.
I felt a little inexplicably nervous and a little impatient. I didn't speak even though I was on the phone. This was obviously a test of people's patience.
"Who are you! Speak!" I sat up from the bed and raised my voice. Zhang Qiao across from me woke up and looked at me in confusion with his messy hair.
There was still a rustling sound. When I couldn't help but want to increase the volume again, a human voice finally appeared on the phone, a very strange human voice.
It was a gurgling sound as if the throat was stuck, or a strange human voice simulated with an electronic synthesizer. In short, it sounded like goosebumps all over the body. The sound vibrated for a while,
Then several distinguishable notes came out.
"your eyes……"
I was stunned for a moment. The call was suddenly hung up at this moment. I reacted and quickly called back, but the message I received was that the number was empty.
The sleepiness disappeared without a trace, and I sat there with the phone for a long time.
Your eyes... This was the only understandable thing the other party said, but I didn't know what he wanted to express. I subconsciously touched my eyes, which was normal.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhang Qiao still looked confused. I told him it was okay, and he really thought it was okay. He fell back and fell asleep again. Within three minutes, he heard the sound of snoring.
Looking at this heartless companion, I had nothing to say, but it was at this moment that I suddenly understood that sentence. Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. Knowing too much means that
There is a lot to bear. Some people are strong-willed and can bear it, but some people cannot bear it.
I didn't sleep well that night, maybe subconsciously I was waiting for a call, but the unknown number never called again.
The friends Uncle Lai called may have arrived as quickly as possible. After they arrived, I discovered that there were more than two of them. I was secretly moved and felt that Uncle Lai still cared about me. But not long after,
These people separated, leaving only two of us.
"Your uncle is really a promise worth a thousand dollars." I looked at the retreating figures of those people and smiled bitterly: "If you call two people, call two people. Will you die if you call two more?"
"Don't talk nonsense. It's good to have these two. Everyone else is busy."
According to the direction those people left, I judged that they went to the Kongque River again. It is estimated that after Xiaoning reported the situation, Uncle Lai called someone who specializes in fossils. I don’t know what use those fossils are, and Uncle Lai
Not from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
But after I met these people, my trust in Uncle Lai dropped a little bit. According to Uncle Lai's story, he has been doing business for so many years, and sometimes he would do some errands for my dad, and his life was pretty normal.
Human life, but these people he called do not look like normal people. I don't know about the few who have left, but the remaining two are very capable, with strong muscles, and they have obviously been trained.
The taller one is named Pang Bin, who doesn't like to talk much and is gloomy. The other one is named Ai Guobao. His accent sounds like he is from the northwest.
Uncle Lai gave a detailed route, including to the Xihai River and within the Xihai River. We strictly followed this route. Ai Guobao was very familiar with the conditions in many places in the northwest and played the role of a guide. Xihai River
This road was completely deserted, and I couldn't see a single soul after walking for several days. The road was generally smooth, but when I was about to approach the Xihai River, the national treasure felt a little uneasy.
He said that if we walked at our usual speed, we would pass by a place called Santaihezi. It was already a deserted place and no ordinary people had ever lived there. If we were not familiar with the situation here to a certain extent,
You probably don’t even know there is a place named Santaihezi.
Ai Guobao said that more than ten or twenty years ago, some soldiers were stationed in Santaihezi. Why these soldiers were stationed in this inhospitable place, no one knows. But Santaihezi may be
It is a transfer station on a transportation line, and vehicles like an assembly line pass by it every day.
When he said this, I understood that the national treasure probably didn’t know about the Xihai River Project. The project lasted for at least several years, and the consumption of various equipment and supplies was huge, and a special transportation line was necessary.
to protect.
Later, something happened in Santaihezi. Ai Guobao couldn't tell whether it happened after the Xihai River was abandoned or before it was abandoned. At that time, everyone in Santaihezi seemed to have died overnight. It was said to be a plague.
.
"So many people have died, it's so scary." Ai Guobao chuckled. He said scary things, but I could tell that he was not afraid at all. He was a good character and very courageous.