After returning to the camp, we first checked the communication equipment on our hands. But sadly, we found that because we were in the hinterland of the volcano, our mobile phones even highlighted them just in case.
The satellite phone that was re-equipped for us had no signal at all.
As for the communication equipment originally equipped in the archaeological camp, it had been completely destroyed in the attack.
Therefore, after once again confirming with Li Shengli and others that the only way from the camp to the outside world was the cave, everyone finally realized that this time, we were completely trapped here.
However, things have not reached the point of complete despair for us. Because we have just experienced the incident in Changshou Village, when I parted with Gao Liang, I made an agreement with him that in order to ensure that we are safe and sound,
This time when we came to the archaeological base, Lin Qianyi and I had to maintain regular contact with the bureau.
Therefore, as long as tomorrow passes and Gaoliang and others who have not received our call will immediately know that we have had an accident, and the rescue personnel sent by the bureau will arrive accordingly.
I slightly modified the situation and told everyone using the name of the Research Institute. After hearing the news, Li Shengli and others, who had already lost control of their emotions due to fear, felt a little more at ease.
Since the rescuers will arrive in a few days at most, then we have to consider how to spend this period here.
Of course, there were not many choices left for us. Although Officer Hu and I carried some dry food and food when we went up the mountain, the amount could not sustain us for more than two days.
There were three more mouths of Li Shengli and others, so our only choice was to wait for rescue to arrive in this camp full of corpses.
Because only in this place can we get sufficient water and food.
In order to maintain the operation of the base, the archaeological team has always kept water and food in the warehouse that can sustain the thirty-person archaeological team for two weeks. During the daytime attack, although the unidentified attacker
Most of the mechanical and electronic equipment in the base were destroyed. However, for some reason, those people did not touch the warehouses where drinking water and food were stored. Thanks to those people's noble treatment of the warehouses, we are not able to do so at the moment.
As for starving to death here due to lack of food and water.
After working hard all afternoon, it wasn't until the hands of the watch on my hand pointed to seven o'clock that we finally sorted out the camp. Centering on the warehouse that was the most critical to us at the moment, we cleared a space around it.
A tent was set up on the spot in an area where the seven of us could rest.
We chose to live in tents because we found some new corpses of archaeological team members in the rooms around the warehouse, so those rooms cannot be inhabited. Although the tents are simple, they are better than not having to smell the smell of blood in those rooms.
.Only two women, Lin Qianyi and Chen Meiyang, moved directly into the warehouse for safety and convenience.
After packing everything up, Officer Mu originally proposed to search the ruins of the ancient city to see if he could find Professor Tang. In his words, although we don’t have to worry about starving to death in the cave at the moment, if we don’t
Find out Professor Tang who may have blown up the exit. No one can wait here for rescue with peace of mind. Maybe while we are sleeping, Professor Tang and the attackers who are not dead may once again replicate what happened during the day.
Attack, another attack on our small temporary camp.
But just after Officer Mu finished speaking his opinion, his stomach growled unsatisfactorily, and as if in response to his hungry voice, other people's stomachs, even mine, also growled.
It was then that everyone remembered that since arriving at the camp, we had not eaten a grain of rice or drank a sip of water due to successive accidents.
Not only the four newcomers like us, Li Shengli and the others were also like this. Officer Mu saw that their legs were shaking from hunger and they looked weak. In the end, he had to give up his original plan and let everyone make a fire to cook.
Let’s wait until tomorrow to discuss Professor Tang’s matter.
During the daytime attack, the kitchen in the camp had been completely destroyed by a fire. Even without the fire, no one was brave enough to cook among the pile of corpses in the kitchen.
So everyone took out the pots and pans that were still usable in the kitchen, and found some things that could burn in the camp. They lit a bonfire next to the warehouse and heated some cans in the warehouse.
eat.
The taste of those cans can only be said to be average, but because everyone was so hungry, they tasted particularly delicious, especially Li Shengli, who probably had been hungry for a while, so he ate them ravenously, eating three in a row.
, four cans are not enough, as if they are starving to death.
However, the atmosphere of this dinner was not very good. During the meal, almost everyone lowered their heads and ate from their own bowls, and no one was interested in saying a few words.
But it's no wonder. After all, if you think about what happened today and our current situation, if you weren't really too hungry, maybe no one would be in the mood to eat, let alone chat while eating.
However, I can't stand such a dull dining atmosphere, because since I graduated from high school and started working, almost every time I eat, there are always people around me chatting non-stop. Whether it is at the auction house
Those security colleagues, or the three fat guys after joining the 749 Bureau, each of them is a guy with a foul mouth that makes you want to sew his mouth shut. So, in order to improve the atmosphere of everyone's meal, I turned
Turning my stomach, I thought of a question I had always wanted to ask but had no chance to ask.
I asked: "Professor Li, you also know now that Sister Lin and I were sent by the Research Institute to inspect your work. Although the archaeological team has an accident now, and our work may not be able to continue, there is one thing
, I still want to inquire."
Maybe it was my words of "Professor Li" that made Li Shengli so useful, or maybe it was because he finally had a full stomach and his mood improved.
So after I said these words, Li Shengli put down the can in his hand, touched his lower lip, squinted his eyes and smiled at me: "Comrade Lin, if you have anything to ask, just ask. I will tell you whatever I know.
What, if you don’t know, I won’t make up lies to deceive you.”
Seeing how cheerful he was, I quickly got to the point and said, "Professor Li, your archaeological team has been here for so long, so you should already know what dynasty the ruins here are from, right? This place is really ancient Yunnan."
The city of the kingdom?”
"Yes." Li Shengli replied cheerfully, and at the same time, the expression on his face gradually became a little proud, "And to tell you the truth, we have made new progress in the excavation of this ruins recently. According to my research, I am now
There is every reason to believe that the ruins here are not only a city of the ancient Dian Kingdom, but more likely the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom before its demise!"
"The capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom? Is it in this extinct volcano?"
I almost screamed in surprise. Officer Mu and others, who had been eating with their heads covered, also raised their heads and looked at Li Shengli curiously. This made Li Shengli's vanity seem to be more satisfied.
The sound gradually became louder.
"Isn't it unexpected? In fact, in the archaeological community, there have always been different opinions on the location of the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom. The most commonly accepted view is that the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom was at the bottom of Dian Lake in the southwest, because people found it there
After discovering the ruins of an ancient city, I thought that the ancient Dian Kingdom probably perished due to crustal changes caused by earthquakes, which caused the kingdom to sink to the bottom of the lake. However, my recent discoveries have completely overturned this view. Ancient Dian Kingdom
The demise of the kingdom had nothing to do with the earthquake. Their disappearance was actually because the entire kingdom moved to this extinct volcano. For a certain reason, they built a city in the heart of this extinct volcano and lived there.
Got here.”
[Author's digression]: I wish you all a new beginning in the new year.