Chapter 18: The Stone Statue

After Elder Yue came in, he attracted everyone's attention, and everyone talked to each other around him.

In addition to the parties involved, only Yang Yang knows about Qianyuanzi's affairs, she is not a big-mouthed person, but she is both envious and a little unable to see through this Zhu Tianpeng from the same school.

The buffet lasted until late at night.

Back at his residence, Wu Liang took the initiative to talk about the composition of the archaeological team in order to divert Zhu Tianpeng's attention and prevent him from being too sad because of Shen Manru's refusal.

This time, the archaeological team was roughly divided into four groups, and a group of people from his school were the archaeological excavation team, and Captain Gu led two teams of special forces as a security team.

The one who talked with Shen Manru very happily was called Situ Hao, it is said that he was the descendant of a big guy above, and this time he came out more to increase his knowledge, and his group of practitioners was mostly to protect his safety, and Wu Liang jokingly called the sightseeing group.

Shen Mulan, Daoist Qianyuanzi and Lin Lao are a secret agency belonging to the state and have formed an advisory group.

Wu Liang's analysis is the same as Zhu Tianpeng's, this archaeological work is by no means so simple.

Seeing that Zhu Tianpeng was not as decadent and depressed as he imagined, Wu Liang also gave him a thumbs up in his heart, and the eldest husband could afford to put it down, so good.

Before dawn the next day, everyone was called up, and after ten minutes of breakfast, they each packed their bags and set off.

A huge military transport plane was parked there, and all kinds of equipment were constantly being transported inside.

Wu Liang knew this giant very well, and constantly introduced this military transport plane to the rest of the archaeological team, and opened his mouth to its various parameters.

Zhu Tianpeng was also very interested, looking up and down, left and right, seeing that he didn't seem to be affected in any way, Shen Manru had a strange feeling in his heart, this feeling seemed to have taken someone else's most beloved thing, but others didn't care at all, and he was a little lost in his heart.

Shen Mulan, who was also the original Yang Sili, was amazed, and originally wanted to comfort him a few words, but she couldn't say anything.

Zhu Tianpeng actually thought very simply, originally Shen Manru was more of a thought in his heart, or a beautiful bubble, but now that the bubble has burst, he must recognize the reality, how can his mother-in-law be a husband!

On the huge transport plane, the support group has the most things, and all kinds of boxes account for almost half of the military aircraft, and you can guess it just by guessing, most of them are all kinds of weapons, Zhu Tianpeng and Wu Liang are secretly amazed, these weapons plus these special forces are enough to affect the trend of a battle.

All the people were resting quietly, and the grouping could be seen by their attire, more than a dozen people dressed in camouflage uniforms, covered with various weapons, armed to the teeth, were the support group.

Like Zhu Tianpeng, who is also dressed in camouflage uniforms, but carries various bags, it is from the archaeological group.

Dressed casually, but also capablely dressed are the advisory group and the sightseeing group as Wu Liang jokingly called.

Since getting on the plane, Shen Mulan deliberately sat down next to Zhu Tianpeng, and looked at Shen Manru as if provocatively, but Shen Manru didn't look here and ignored her actions.

Regarding this girl with a strange personality and now dressed as a Thai girl, Zhu Tianpeng simply closed his eyes and ignored it.

Wu Liang seemed to know something about Shen Mulan, glanced at Zhu Tianpeng, and wondered how he provoked this ancestor.

The plane took off smoothly, kept climbing, and occasionally shook slightly when it encountered air currents, and there were few windows of the transport plane, but Zhu Tianpeng happened to be next to one window.

Looking at the white clouds outside the window flying backwards, his mind also didn't know where to fly, what he would encounter on this archaeological trip, he had no way of knowing, but the yearning for the unknown made him feel agitated and couldn't calm down for a long time.

Two hours passed, and the military transport plane slowly descended and landed smoothly at a military airfield.

Everyone rolled over and climbed into two military vehicles, and after all the equipment was loaded into the vehicles, the military vehicles drove out of the airport and sped off on the road.

Along the way, there are grasslands on both sides, and occasionally you can see various animals, Zhu Tianpeng guessed that this should be the grassland in the north, but where it is, but it is impossible to know, Longhua Country is vast, and such grassland pastures are everywhere in the north.

Another two hours passed, and the car finally stopped, Zhu Tianpeng thought that he had arrived at his destination, but after getting out of the car, he realized that it was just a temporary rest and dinner.

The entire convoy has more than 30 military vehicles, more than 10 military jeeps, and all kinds of support vehicles such as fuel tankers, medical vehicles, and cooking vehicles.

Zhu Tianpeng found that in addition to them, there were more than 100 border guards who followed them forward, and their equipment was not as exaggerated as that of the support group, but they were all loaded with guns.

After eating, continue on the road, as the deepening progression, the convoy entered the Gobi, because there was no road, so the road became more and more bumpy, everyone was issued a thick military coat, all of them were padded under the buttocks, slightly more comfortable.

The car drove on the Gobi for two days and one night, and finally arrived at its destination when the sun was about to set.

The military tents were quickly erected, and after the unloading of all kinds of supplies, the cars surrounded the outside as a temporary wall, and they traveled for days, which was very hard, and they rested after eating.

There was silence all night, and the next morning the sky was slightly bright, and everyone in the archaeological team quickly had breakfast, and they were gathered together, and Shi Lao reported the specific situation.

"Comrades, the first 10 kilometers is the destination of our trip, and some people may ask, why are we camped here? Why do we have to bring such powerful weapons? I believe that after watching this video, you may be able to find the answer. ”

As he spoke, the projection behind him began to work.

The camera in the projection shook violently, and a large stone carved beast head was exposed on the ground, and due to the angle, it was impossible to recognize which animal's head it was.

The cameraman wanted to take a detour to shoot in front of him, but suddenly, a gunshot rang out, accompanied by the howling of beasts and the shouts of people, he paused, obviously trying to figure out what was going on, and suddenly two soldiers ran over, their faces extremely panicked, and they pulled him and ran towards the car.

After stumbling back into the car, the car scurried forward, and after less than two minutes, a roar of a beast got closer and closer, and the people in the car kept urging them to drive quickly, and some people shot out through the window, but the car suddenly seemed to be overturned by something, and rolled several times in a row before falling to the side.

At this point, the camera only shines on the back of the seat, and the desperate screams and gunshots are heard from inside, and after a while, there is no sound.

The projection was turned off, and Shi Lao said again:

"Half a month ago, we got this video, and then organized experts to study the stone statues in the video, due to the lack of actual information, can not get accurate results, but experts unanimously speculate that such a giant beast head is also extremely rare in our country and even in the world.

The appearance of the giant stone head has the potential to advance the history of our Longhua civilization by thousands of years, and may even be traced back to the Sumerian civilization, and it can be said that its archaeological value is far greater than any previous one.

Originally, the country wanted to send troops to investigate again, but considering the suddenness of the incident and the attack of unknown beasts, in order to prevent the stone statue from being damaged by guns, we only set up an observation point 100 kilometers away, and did not venture in, so we had this expedition.

As the advance team of the entire archaeological work, this task is arduous and of great significance, and we hope that everyone will not take it lightly and must take it seriously.

Half an hour after I announced, we began our first exploration. ”

After Shi Lao finished speaking, he began to arrange the next actions.

In the archaeological team, Zhu Tianpeng and Shen Manru from the Department of History were the most excited, they could best understand what this archaeology meant, and they were able to witness and experience historical excavations, many of whom would never have encountered in their lifetimes.

Wu Liang from the Department of Chinese and Yang Yang from the Department of Religion were excited, but they were not so excited.

Three heavily armed military jeeps slowly drove towards their destination around a military transport vehicle.

The 10-kilometer journey was very short, and soon people saw a twisted and deformed military jeep, which was the same jeep in the video.

Looking at the huge paw prints on the body of the car that had been scratched by the beast, everyone took a breath.

The black dot on the distant horizon was the beast's head, where everyone stopped, the roof of the military vehicle had been removed, and everyone looked into the distance.

First, two small drones went to probe, and then a military jeep moved slowly, and after reaching the position of the beast's head, it made a few laps, and a voice came from the walkie-talkie:

"Safety, safety, drones and thermal testers show that there are no other creatures within five kilometers of the surroundings, so you can rest assured. ”

Everyone came to the head of the beast, and several human remains around the head of the beast were shocking, but everyone's eyes were fixed on this beast head.

"This is the dragon's head? Situ Hao asked questioningly.

Teacher Meng's cheeks were flushed, and he was a little incoherent with excitement.

"This is not the dragon, this is called Jairus, the second son of the dragon. ”

"This is what Jairus looks like!" Situ Hao said to himself.

"Wake up, everyone, now is not the time to be in a daze, there is danger here at any time, the archaeological team will start working immediately, and the other groups will do their jobs!"

After Shi Lao's order was given, everyone began to get busy.

Yue Lao took the magnifying glass in his hand, carefully looked at the stone statue, and said loudly:

"Strange, strange, Xiao Meng, come and see. ”

As he spoke, he handed the magnifying glass to Mr. Meng next to him, and Mr. Meng took it over to observe it carefully, and said in amazement:

"It's really weird. ”

The others didn't know why, and they also stepped forward one after another, but they couldn't see why.

Everyone was about to ask out loud, but Yang Yang seemed to have discovered something, and said:

"There are no traces of artificially carved heads!"

"Strictly speaking, the carving technique used for this stone statue is not what we know today!"

Yue Lao added.