After setting foot on the road to the archaeological base, the story of Lin Qianyi and I in Changshou Village came to an end temporarily. As for the final outcome of Changshou Village, I didn’t get the news from Gao Liang until after the mission at the archaeological base was over.
Before that, we went to the archaeological base and encountered an unexpected danger.
However, according to the old rules, in order to maintain the integrity of the story, I will finish here the information I later learned from Gao Liang.
First of all, it was the villagers. After we left the village, almost three days passed before the recycling team finally completely suppressed the entire underground village. All the villagers, regardless of gender, old or young, were taken back by the recycling department.
They were detained in the detention base of Bureau 749. According to Gao Liang, most of these villagers will be permanently detained in the detention base for murder and kidnapping in the future.
As for the small number of villagers who were proven not to have participated in the kidnapping case, the bureau's treatment of them was to release them back into society after erasing their memories.
Although these people have not lost their freedom, according to Awu's father's experience, after stopping eating the elixir, the life-enhancing effect of the elixir will gradually weaken, so those villagers will eventually become ordinary people. Not only that, those who lose the elixir will
They will suffer extremely painful withdrawal reactions several times every month, and this pain will accompany them throughout their lives until the moment they die.
The last thing to explain is the fate of the monster hiding in the underground village. Because of its large size, the recycling department found that they were unable to contain the monster for the time being, and in the end they had to completely classify the village as a military restricted area, except for
Except for a scientific research team in the bureau that is responsible for studying monsters, no one is allowed to enter the village to ensure that the secret of this monster will not be discovered by the outside world. As for what these people have learned from the monster, then
It's not something that a small investigator like me can know.
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Having said that about Changshou Village, let us jump back in time to the time after Lin Qianyi and I left the town and headed for the archaeological base.
This time, with the detailed map provided by San Pang and the others, Lin Qianyi and I never got lost again. We galloped all the way and soon arrived at the small county town closest to the archaeological base.
This time the archaeological base is in the mountains and forests around the county. It is inaccessible and there are no roads, so we can only go there on foot. In order to avoid things like Changshou Village happening again, this time before we came here,
Gao Liang has already contacted the local police station for us in advance and asked them to send a guide to guide us to the base site.
At the door of the police station, Lin Qianyi got out of the car first and went in to look for someone. I found a place to park the car, and then waited for them at the door of the police station.
Because of the incident in Changshou Village, our mission was interrupted for several days, and we had almost forgotten the content of the mission. So while I was waiting for someone, in order not to waste time, I reviewed the mission again.
A mission briefing.
This time, Lin Qianyi and I disguised ourselves as staff from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, and came to an archaeological excavation site near this county in the name of inspecting the progress of the work. This excavation
The site was discovered almost three years ago. According to the investigation of the archaeological team at that time, relics of the ethnic minority regime in the southwestern region thousands of years ago were excavated in an extinct volcano near the county. In order to investigate the relics, with the approval of the cultural relics administration department
, the local archaeological institute organized an archaeological team, established an archaeological camp around the ruins, and began archaeological excavation of the ruins.
According to the information obtained by the bureau, just about two weeks ago, the archaeological team suspected of discovering a suspicious creature in the ruins. Because there were no biological experts among the archaeological team responsible for the excavation, during the regular inspection of the archaeological team
In the report, the specific information about this creature was not mentioned, but it was briefly mentioned in the report: This creature looks a bit like a large beetle, moves quickly, acts in groups, and has a strong attack on humans.
sex.
Although it was just a simple description, the bureau found that the description of this creature by the archaeological team was very similar to a long-lost cup worm of the Miao people in some files of the bureau. That cup worm was in the legend.
, possesses many miraculous abilities, and does not look like an ordinary thing. Out of caution, the bureau decided to send people to investigate and confirm.
Seeing this, I basically have an understanding of this mission. But I didn't understand the cup worm mentioned in the mission for a while. I wonder what the cup worm means? Is it some kind of special thing?
Insects?
Because I couldn’t figure out what the so-called cup worms were, I took out my phone. Just as I was about to call San Pang to ask him, I saw Lin Qianyi and two men carrying mountaineering equipment coming out of the police station.
When they came out, one of the two men had dark skin and the other had a short haircut.
Seeing them, I quickly put down the phone and greeted them: "Sister Lin, are these two our guides?"
Lin Qianyi did not explain immediately, but first introduced me to the two people next to me, and then told me that these two were not guides, but police officers from the local police station. The dark-skinned man named Mu, with a straight face
Those with short heads are named Hu.
As for the two policemen coming out with Lin Qianyi instead of the guide, the reason for this is because their destination is the same as ours, and they also want to go to the archaeological base.
It turned out that not long before we arrived in the town, the police station here suddenly received an alarm call. The alarm call was from someone from the archaeological team. On the phone, the other party told the police at the police station that there seemed to be outsiders near the archaeological base.
Break-in, many equipment in the base were destroyed by the intruder.
Because of this call, the police station decided to let these two police officers, Mu and Hu, who had been to the archaeological base before, take us to the excavation site instead of the originally arranged guides. On the one hand, they could guide us, and on the other hand,
You can also stop by to check out the situation there and see if any outsiders have sneaked in near the archaeological base.
As soon as Lin Qianyi finished speaking, Officer Namu said: "Two expert comrades, it's already getting late. Let's get on the road quickly. The road to the archaeological base from here is not easy. If we don't hurry up, we will
Went on a night walk in the mountains."
I immediately nodded and said, "Then I'll ask you two to lead the way."
Just like that, under the guidance of two policemen, the four of us started to enter the mountain.
Of the two police officers who took us up the mountain, Officer Mu was more indifferent and seldom spoke, while Officer Hu was a talkative one. Along the way, he asked us some questions from time to time, such as why we were doing this.
Come here, how could such a beautiful girl like Lin Qianyi think of doing archaeological research?
Although I found Officer Hu to be a bit annoying because he talked so much, thanks to Officer Hu diverting our attention, we didn't feel too bored on the way up the mountain.
Moreover, from Officer Hu, we also obtained a lot of information related to the archaeological team. For example, from Officer Hu, we learned that the person currently in charge of the archaeological excavation at the archaeological base is from a university in the province.
The archaeological team, with a total of more than 20 people, was led by a well-known professor from a university in this province. In addition to the staff of the provincial archaeological institute, the team also included many members brought by the professor.
graduate students.
Speaking of those graduate students, Officer Hu enthusiastically gave us a photo, saying it was a group photo taken of the archaeological team when they went to the archaeological base last time.
In the photos, in addition to some people who look a bit like old academics, we also see many young people.
However, we did not expect at the time that this photo would become the last image left by those archaeological team members in this world.
[Author's digression]: A new chapter begins, and updates will continue during the New Year