At that time, I couldn't think about anything else. I just wanted to open the wall so that I could catch up with Qingyu. I called her while using my ice pick to remove the bricks at the entrance of the hole.
"North...see you again..." Qingyu retreated to the end of the two-meter-wide passage, turned back to me for the last time and said: "Live well."
"Wait for me!" I panicked, my shouts escalated again, and the ice pick in my hand hit the bricks near the entrance of the cave.
There was a vaguely small door at the end. When Qingyu retreated to the door, his figure flashed and was no longer visible. I quickly pried the bricks on the wall and went back and forth several times. The sound finally broke the sound of my sleeping body.
Fan Tuan woke up with a start.
"What's wrong?" He opened his eyes drowsily, but the light was too dark and he couldn't see clearly what I was doing.
"Hurry up!" I called back to him: "Help me get the wall open!"
My tone was very urgent, which made Fan Tuan wake up immediately. His big fat body rolled out of bed in a fit of excitement, came over and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Don't ask so many questions! Hurry up!" I couldn't explain it to him clearly, so I just kept urging him. Fan Tuan didn't know what was going on, but looking at my anxious look, he quickly found the tools in his bag and reached me.
Be there to help.
The bricks on the wall are very strong, but a hole has already been dug out, so it is relatively easy to dismantle the bricks. I moved very quickly, from the time I quietly exited the small door to when the hole was widened enough to fit in, it only took ten minutes.
I thought it was almost time, dropped the ice ax in my hand, stepped on Fan Tuan's legs, turned over, and crawled in through the hole.
Ten minutes is only a short moment in a person's life, but for me now, it is too long.
I ran to the end of the passage in a few steps and kicked open the shabby little door. Behind the small door was an empty room. Apparently, there were two rows of houses back to back in the basement. The passage behind the wall
, connected two rooms. I rushed out of the room, and the small corridor outside was empty.
I refused to give up, because I had a premonition that even if we would meet again in the future just as Qingyu said, it would be very long. I ran along the corridor to the basement stairs in one breath, and then rushed out of the small room.
The door of the hotel. It was still dark at this time, and the empty Shipegaya was completely immersed in the darkness before dawn.
My steps slowed down, and finally stopped on the spot. I couldn't see Qingyu's figure, and those ten minutes were enough for her to disappear from my world.
As she disappeared, I also completely woke up in the cold night wind. With the emergence of the whisper, many unexplainable questions were placed in front of me.
Whether she can completely come back from the dead like Wu Shengli did back then, I don't know, and that's not the point of the problem. The most important thing is that she can accurately find the room where I am at night, which already explains some things. Then
A passage behind the wall and a small hole provided us with the opportunity to meet, but we could only talk, but I could not touch her.
What is her purpose in doing this?
I remember every word she said. The beak inscription, the essence of the world, the key, opens all closed doors...
But now, these answers are gone as the whispers disappear.
I slowly walked back to the shabby hotel, walked back to the basement room, and then fell down on the bed. Fan Tuan didn't say anything and looked at me with his eyes open.
"It's okay." I lay down on my side, with my back to Fan Tuan, not wanting him to see my expression: "Just keep sleeping."
For the next time, I stared at the wall in front of me and stayed up until dawn. After getting up in the morning, we left directly. I didn’t say anything about what happened last night, and no one asked. Fan Tuan reminded me privately that in the team
It is best not to cause any trouble here. Lao An has a bad temper and strict rules. If it is a small matter, it is not a big deal. If it really makes a big trouble, he will get angry.
I thanked Fan Tuan for his kindness, but when I turned around I couldn't help but sneer, "Lao An, does he know nothing?"
The convoy is on the road. Lao An is very concerned about the secrecy of the operation. No one is familiar with this place, but he does not find a guide. He would rather use navigation and maps to find the way. In this way, our speed will be slower, but after leaving Ma
Wow, after entering the real no-man's land, there are a lot less chores to do. Now that we have not reached the real activity location, there is almost nothing to do except rushing.
Kunlun is a sacred mountain. Before seeing it, everyone may have a lot of daydreams, but only through personal experience will you know that walking among the Kunlun Mountains, you can feel nothing but fatigue and desolation. This season
Here, the Kunlun Mountains have emerged from the bitter cold winter. After passing through the Yadala Pass, you can often see the camel's hair, Kunlun chrysanthemum, and other unknown shrubs that have emerged. This is part of the Chelchen River
The watershed is more lively than near the mountain pass, and wild antelopes can occasionally be seen passing through the bushes in the distance.
Before taking action, Lao An would not disclose too much detailed information, so until now, I and others did not know exactly where we were going or what we were going to do. We walked on the Gobi desert around the vast mountains for five or six days.
Around the day, everyone is tired. I still don’t want to say anything to others.
We are relatively well prepared, but the car's load capacity is limited and we cannot carry too much fuel and other things. Because there is no guide, we sometimes take wrong paths. Lao An may have made careful calculations secretly. If we continue like this,
Then on the return trip, at least one car would have to be abandoned due to lack of power. So we kept taking shortcuts as much as possible. In the middle of the afternoon on the sixth day, we were stopped by a deep river valley.
This river valley has probably dried up for ten or eight years, because there is no mark on the map, indicating that when the map was drawn, this was a dry river bed. The source of almost all rivers in Kunlun is melted water from snow-capped mountains and glaciers.
Once there is a change in the upstream side, it will affect the river behind it.
"Lao An, what should I do?" Biaozi looked at the edge of the river valley, lay down by the car window, and asked.
If we walk along the edge of the river valley, we will probably go in a big circle, and it will be a shortcut to go straight through the river valley. Lao An took people to survey and found that the slope of the river valley is not too steep, so crossing it diagonally should be no problem.
The weather was a bit gloomy, with a cloud covering the top of the head, but it was unlikely to rain. The annual rainfall here is pitiful. The convoy stopped for a while, and then slowly drove from the top of the slope under the leadership of Biaozi.
to the bottom of the river valley, and then follow the terrain to the other end.
The river valley is completely naturally formed, and the bottom is very undulating. Driving on it feels like being tossed around, which makes people like me who never get motion sickness feel a little nauseous. We slowly walked diagonally along the bottom of the river bed.
After driving for about twenty meters, the riverbed was undulating, but overall it was flat, and the field of vision could be seen far away. Immediately afterwards, the first car stopped. Biaozi and the others got out of the car and looked ahead for a while, and then came back
Tell Lao An that there seems to be a wooden pole standing more than ten meters away.
Lao An and the others all got out of the car to take a look, and Fan Tuan, Su Xiaomeng, and I also followed. Looking from a distance, there was a straight section of wood that looked like it was burnt, standing upright more than ten meters away. It was not too high, and only
Measuring 161.7 meters. A piece of wood is nothing at first, but when it appears in such a desolate place, people will think that the wood is man-made. It may be a sign, or it may also be a kind of sign.
Warning, it's impossible to judge now anyway. But now that it appears, you must see it clearly.
"Fat man, come over and take a look." Biaozi turned around and shouted to Fan Tuan. His qualifications in the circle were second only to Lao An, and he was tough by nature. He usually shouted around Fan Tuan and assigned most of the messy work.
Fan Tuan will do it.
"Okay." Fan Tuan agreed, but he was very dissatisfied. When he turned around and took off his backpack, he whispered: "Am I your father in the previous life? How much do you owe you? Let me do everything."
"Let's go, I'll go with you." I also picked up my bag and walked that way with Fan Tuan. In this environment and interpersonal circle, I felt lonely. Only Fan Tuan made me feel at ease, so subconsciously
I'm relatively close to him.
It took a few steps to reach a distance of more than ten meters, but when I approached the piece of wood, my heart suddenly thumped, and my steps immediately slowed down. Because under observation from this distance, I suddenly realized that
Probably not a piece of burnt wood.
"Wait!" I grabbed Fan Tuan and said, "That's not wood."
"Huh?" Fan Tuan's eyes may not be as good as mine. He turned to look at me doubtfully, then looked at the piece of wood and said, "What is it?"
"It should be a person." I swallowed involuntarily. In the endless river valley, I suddenly felt a nervous and uneasy atmosphere spreading. I couldn't be 100% sure, but I always felt that the piece of wood was actually a person.
A person who has almost turned into carbon.
"Holy shit! Brother, don't be kidding me! My blood lipids have always been very high." Fan Tuan also became nervous.
The two of us walked very slowly until we were only two meters away from the piece of wood. Everything was clearly visible. My feeling was accurate. It was indeed a person who had been dead for a long time.
Because the body was carbonized and there were no strong winds or rains at the bottom of the valley, it was preserved. Behind the man, a rifle was tilted against its remains. Because of this, the body did not fall.
"What did this guy do!" Fan Tuan looked at the almost carbonized corpse. The flesh on his face trembled. He took two steps back involuntarily, turned around and shouted to Lao An and the others. As soon as he heard this
Something was wrong, and those who were resting beside the car came running over.
When they saw clearly the corpse that was standing here due to an accident, they were all baffled. To be honest, the corpse looked disgusting. Su Xiaomeng was a girl after all, so she immediately turned away and didn't dare to look at it anymore.
He spat and said, "It's so miserable."
Others were talking, but Lao An said nothing. He inadvertently raised his wrist to look at the watch on his hand. I found that the compass on the dial was rotating at a very chaotic speed and direction.
Lao An's brows suddenly wrinkled, and he suddenly shouted at us: "Run!"