Chapter 7: Lao Chen (5)
I came out of the small pharmacy, the sun was getting higher and my body was getting hotter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info I looked around, making a record of each building, roughly in which direction, what it looked like, and at the same time lived in my mind the things I learned for a while:
Wangxing Village, we know that ten years ago, the whole village mysteriously disappeared. Prior to this, there had been an influenza outbreak in this village, and the entire village was quarantined by the local disease control department. But now it seems that this "flu" may have to draw a question mark. Although I am not a medical expert, I have been a scientific researcher in the military for so long, and I know that this is not a simple flu.
In fact, there has been speculation about this incident. The main suspicion lies in Cen Xiao, Bai Yuelu, and what they found at the astronomical observatory. However, all their reports at that time had already been sealed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and this time the higher-ups sent me to "draw a map and understand the situation" by investigating the land reuse.
And these two key figures, Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu, I am also confused by the two of them so far. We know that Bai Yuelu is a native of Wangxing Village, and her father died when she was in college, leaving only her mother Zhou Aiping and her mentally handicapped brother Bai Fenfen. And Cen Xiao is a native of Shanghai, studied in the United States, and returned to China to work at the University of Science and Technology, which is Bai Yuelu's superior. But the two seem to have an ambiguous relationship, and they also engaged in a private frequency to use shortwave communication. I wonder if they were afraid that their mobile phone communications would be monitored, or if they were afraid that the signal in the mountains would not be good, so they made this choice.
The rest of these people, Chen Zhongzhong is a fairly conscientious village chief. There are also Dr. Xing, Second Sister-in-law Bai, and Aunt Mi, who are just ordinary villagers who don't matter.
With this in mind, I opened the wristband 3D display and found that my previous question had been answered. A colleague from the headquarters sent back a message that the stone grinding plate I found at Baiyuelu's parents' house might be an ancient astrological disk, and attached a similar map of cultural relics, with a huge stone plate engraved with 28 constellations. Horned wood Jiao, willow soil roe deer, Bi Yuewu, all of them are matched with the four palaces of east, west, north and south, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, plus animals.
Among them, the one that attracted me the most was Zhang Su-Yuelu. This explains the fine division of the Bai family's parents in naming their children, and I guess the youngest daughter's name is probably found on the millstone at home.
Thankfully, the headquarters said that the thing was badly worn out and had no archaeological value, so I didn't have to carry it back. But they said that there might be buildings similar to the Sing Sing Tai in the nearby high grounds, and told me to pay attention and take more pictures.
Lingxing Terrace, Lingxing Village, Astrology Village. Could it be that people in ancient times also built facilities for observation and astronomy on the top of the mountain here? The thought of a thousand years later, when we are so developed, have done the same thing in the same place, looking up at the same starry sky as the ancients, it makes me feel inexplicably staggered in time. The astrological village is like a rock formation of time, an era dies here, its shell is sealed, petrified, and forever remains the same as before death, waiting for someone to knock on this thick rock one day and see the evidence of their life in this world again.
As I was investigating the eighth house, I suddenly heard a noise in the woods overhead. Afraid of some wild animal and afraid of missing the clue, I quickly pulled out my gun and walked cautiously towards that side.
Far away through the trees, I heard Lao Chen's familiar voice. "Lao Xing, Lao Xing, what are you doing here?" His tone sounded a little hurried, and there was something unbelievable.
"This isn't the flu, this pair isn't the flu!" Lao Xing's voice was hysterical, with a hoarse and ugly voice. "I was wrong, I was so wrong, I bastard, Lao Chen! I'm sorry folks! I hurriedly pushed away the knee-deep dead grass and moved forward, and I saw Lao Xing's thin and tall light and shadow squatting on the ground, hammering his head like crazy. Lao Chen couldn't stop him next to him, so he could only ask anxiously: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" ”
"Boss Bai, he just now..." Dr. Xing's voice was shaking, and I could see that his outstretched hands were also shaking violently. He looked at his hands, and I didn't know what he was looking at, all I could see was pure light.
"Endeavour? What happened to him? The village chief asked anxiously.
And he ran in, and... Bleeding..."Lao Xing suddenly coughed, and when I saw Lao Chen's light, I quickly took out a tissue, but he flashed away as if he was electrocuted. The tall and thin figure got up from the ground in three or two steps, and ran halfway through the rolling belt, as if he was hiding from Lao Chen.
"No, you can't touch me. This thing is contagious! Lao Xing was crying and coughing, and he rubbed his mouth and nose with his sleeve.
"Lao Xing... Oops, then. Village Chief Chen had no choice but to throw the tissue to him. Lao Xing picked it up from the ground and wiped it on his face indiscriminately. "Old Chen, no, I have to tell that... That's what, the unit of epidemic prevention. Tell them to come quickly, this is definitely not the flu! ”
"Lao Xing, this road is blocked, and people won't let us go out." The village chief is embarrassed.
"No, no. Over this slope, there was a railroad track in front of me, and I walked out along the track to the town. Lao Xing said as he got up tremblingly and wanted to go up the mountain. Lao Chen rushed over to stop him, but was stopped by Dr. Xing. "Lao Chen! Don't come here, and don't stop me. If no one goes, our village will die! Dead you know? That boy from the Bai family..."He couldn't go on, just desperately walked up to it. The dirt slope is also quite sloping, and I estimate that Dr. Xing's age is almost 50 years old, and it is quite difficult to climb up, basically dragging the grass roots.
"Lao Chen, go back and tell the villagers to stay at home, and no one is allowed to go out. This thing is contagious..."I watched Dr. Xing's figure disappear over the highest part of the dirt slope, and when I looked back, Lao Chen's light and shadow stood there stunned for a moment, and immediately pulled out his legs and ran down the mountain. So I hurried to keep up with Lao Xing, wanting to see where he went.
I quickly caught up with Lao Xing's light, and at that time, the tall and thin figure was holding on to the tree next to him, and he was talking to a rectangular thing in his hand: "I am Xing Shiming, the doctor of Wangxing Village... Heck, I'm not a doctor at all, I'm just a junior apprentice in a pharmacy. I, I, but... Yes, I now have a headache, chest tightness, purpura, and nosebleeds. I felt that my vision was a little blurry, my head was dizzy, as if I was drunk, and I felt like my whole body was about to collapse. He put the rectangular object, I guess a voice recorder, back in his trouser pocket, and walked on. I followed him for almost a kilometer, and suddenly his light and shadow faded and disappeared in front of me.
It made me lose my bearings, but soon I noticed the blood on the ground and continued to follow it. At this moment, my conjecture was confirmed: the disease that broke out in Wangxing Village was definitely not any common infectious disease! According to Dr. Xing's oral symptoms, I even suspect that it may be some kind of radiation.
This thought made my heart cold, and when I thought of the bullet casing I had found in the village government earlier, I was now a little skeptical about what really happened in Wangxing Village, and why I was sent to investigate again after ten years. What is there that makes the top so uncontrollable?
Along the trail of blood, I stopped halfway up the mountain, speechless at the sight of an old-fashioned freight train crooked on abandoned tracks, blocking the tunnel out of it. At this time, I heard footsteps behind my head, and hurriedly turned around, and saw Lao Chen's light and several figures running towards me together.
"We heard the sound and rushed over, oops... It's miserable..."I heard one of them say. Hurriedly followed them into the valley.
I felt a chill in the rusty mass of the train, especially the blackened splatters of blood beneath its wheels. I bumped into someone, and I immediately guessed who it was, but I didn't want to admit it.
Beside me, Lao Chen's light was also so stunned that he couldn't speak for a while. After a long time, the middle-aged man slowly squatted down, rubbed his face with his hands and sighed: "Eh... Lao Xing said that he was going to walk out along the railroad tracks, but I didn't expect that..."He stayed there for a while before he looked up and asked the person next to him, "Did you call the police?" ”
The light and shadow beside him shook his head, "The phone can't get through." ”
At this moment, there was another sound of footsteps from the side, and I saw the figure of a woman running over. She glanced at the railroad tracks, "Oops! He was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and then asked, "Who is this?" What's wrong? ”
The village chief was speechless, and a young man next to her told her, "It's Dr. Xing." ”
"Oh... Oh—" The woman's light patted her chest, but she seemed to be relieved, which made me suspicious. With this glowing figure, I look a little familiar, as if it is the mother of the white moon deer, but I can't be sure.
At this time, the light and shadow of another young man next to me confirmed the identity of the person who came, and he said, "Aunt Bai, what is the matter with you coming here?" ”
"I heard there's an accident on the train, come and take a look..."The White Mother was still shocked, and turned her head not to look at the bloodstains here, but I guess the smell was enough. Do you see my Endeavor or the fawn? Endeavor is sick and doesn't know where to run. The dead child of the fawn..."Seeing a few people shaking their heads, she turned around and walked back, "Then I'll look elsewhere, these two children, hey, I'm really heartbroken..."
I watched the tragic scene. It was so tragic that ten years later, I can still feel the tragedy in this large patch of blood and scattered fragments of clothes. There was a trouser leg, with a belt attached, flying in the grass not far away, and it had long since turned into decay.
"But..."I suddenly remembered the light of Lao Xing I had seen earlier, and quickly took out rubber gloves from my bag, squatted down and carefully lifted the black rotten cotton wool-like fabric on the ground.
The pocket was still there, and I took out the recorder he had from inside and put it in the evidence bag. I didn't want to stay here any longer, so I returned the same way with a heavier heart.