Chapter 13: The Land of the Dead
Only Li Jie, who has always been comfortable drinking and drinking, shook in his heart, the reason why he didn't want to participate in the questioning was because it was imperative, but there was a more important reason, that is, the fear of Shenyuan Division!
Even this Kamihara President couldn't see the reality clearly, like a deep sea hidden in endless darkness, completely unaware of how vast and deep it was, and he was definitely not a simple character.
At this moment, however, he was more interested in the so-called Usanga clan in the mouth of Kamihara Division, because although the tone sounded strange and twisty due to translation problems, the pronunciation was very similar to that of the earliest Sumerians.
The Sumerian civilization is the earliest civilization in the entire Mesopotamian civilization and the earliest civilization in the world, which can be regarded as the origin of human civilization. But few people know that they weren't originally called by that name, and that the word "Sumer" actually comes from the Akkadian name given to the Sumerians by the Akkadians, who spoke Semitic.
The Akkad, a tribe of Semites, ended their nomadic life around 3000 BC and settled in southern Mesopotamia, a region known as Sumer, and established the city-state of Akkad.
The name of this race is of course very unfamiliar to modern people, but the civilization they created is still alive today: they were the creators of the ancient Babylonian civilization and the successor to the Sumerian civilization.
Today, of course, these two ancient civilizations have long since ceased to exist.
According to archaeological discoveries, the earliest Sumerians called themselves "ung-sang-gi-ga", which means black-haired people. And this pronunciation. and Kamihara Tsukasa's weird accent imitation of Usanka. Very similar, so to speak. It can't help but remind people that this so-called isolated ancient and mysterious clan is the remnant of some Sumerian descendants that have been handed down?
Things have developed now, and they are getting more and more confusing.
But this also made Li Jie firmly believe that the Shenyuan Division must have investigated much earlier than himself, and I am afraid that there is still some information that he has not revealed, and a strong person like him has not personally understood it. It's tricky to confirm the situation, so how can you need to call outsiders?
The so-called welcome dinner ended hastily in everyone's own thoughts, and Kamihara also said that he would all set off early tomorrow morning and enter the territory of the Usanga clan.
After the meal, Li Jie casually found an excuse to go around the neighborhood, but in fact, he spent some effort to find a local old man and absorb the memories of the other party.
As a multi-ethnic country. Iraq's languages are also diverse, and the existing ethnic groups alone belong to the four major language families of Semitic (Afro-Asian), Indo-European, Altai, and Caucasus. Even with his abilities. It is also difficult to learn completely in a while, so you can only take the most convenient and effective way.
And a deep grasp of the Semitic language is obviously conducive to taking the initiative in the following actions.
As soon as dawn broke the next day, everyone was fully mobilized and set off. Looking at the appearance of the Kamihara Society, it turned out that except for a few ordinary people, they were ready to go out in full!
Such a move not only made Leonid and others vigilant, but also strengthened Li Jie's guess that the other party must have a plan.
At the same time, in the team of nearly two hundred people, he also saw a familiar face, archaeologist Tani Shinmichio.
This sage-haired, shoulder-length Sumerian authority, although he had some unshaven and unkempt beard, did not seem to have been treated roughly, but because of the experience of being kidnapped, he was inevitably a little uneasy, and his spirit was quite good.
In order to avoid being noticed by the Kamihara Division, Li Jie just glanced at it as if nothing had happened, and then didn't pay attention to it. As the long motorcade drove out of Muguayir, the local residents were obviously shaken by the huge battle, and through the car windows, many people wearing traditional local clothes and turbans could be seen standing on the side of the road, pointing and pointing in this direction.
The convoy drove out of the city along the main road, and at first, it was possible to see some people, vehicles, and abandoned buildings destroyed by bombs on the side of the road, but as they gradually moved towards the Mojara Mountains, they gradually lost sight of any people in the same direction, and there were no vehicles and pedestrians on the road, and even after dozens of kilometers of progress, even the road came to an end.
As the sky gradually brightens, the desert and rocky ground are everywhere you look, and the vehicles become bumpy.
Fortunately, this boring trip was not too long, and after about an hour, you could already see the river beach not far ahead, and the mountains on the opposite side of the river beach.
The convoy stopped here because there was a local government garrison guard in front of it, and the stone bridge over the river beach was too dilapidated to support vehicular traffic.
After everyone got out of the car, it was obvious that the soldiers stationed there had long been accustomed to the days of no one, and they were extremely frightened by the huge team that suddenly appeared in front of them, and hurriedly put on their uniforms, waved the guns in their hands, and shouted at them.
"What are they talking about?"
Leonid didn't seem to understand the Arabic language in these people's mouths, and he didn't quite understand what these guys were shouting.
"They said that the front has been classified as a restricted area and is not allowed to pass, so let's go back immediately, it's naïve."
This Russian man has been constantly conveying goodwill to Li Jie from the beginning, and he is obviously quite wary of the people of the Shenyuan Society, and has the intention of being allies of each other.
And Li Jie is also happy that he has him to come out in everything, of course he can understand the shouts of those soldiers, so he can explain a few words to the big man next to him at will.
Hearing his answer, Leonid also grinned:
"These idiots, not forbidden areas, how can there be benefits left for us."
Li Jie couldn't help but move in his heart, this big man seemed to be wild, but in fact, his words meant something.
Those Iraqi soldiers were obviously not so easy to dismiss, and even if the people of the Shenyuan Society offered a lot of Iraqi dinars and dollars to bribe them, they still couldn't convince them for a long time.
But there is the temptation of this large sum of money. The attitude of the soldiers was obviously much better. Eyes were almost greedily fixed on the money in the hands of the leader of the Kamihara Society. just regretted and resolutely shook his head, obviously because he had some scruples and was unwilling to accept money and let him go.
Soon the leader of the Divine Origin Society came back and reported:
"These soldiers said that the mountains were off-limits, and that they would never want to come out alive after entering, and that the Iraqi government had already strictly forbade outsiders to break in."
Hearing this, Kamihara didn't seem surprised at all, but just said lightly:
"Hurry up and deal with them, don't waste time."
"Hi Yi!"
One word. It decided the fate of these ordinary soldiers.
And everyone in the team seemed to take it for granted, and there was no surprise that Kamihara had spent so much thought, energy, and financial resources to plan, how could he give up moving forward because of the obstruction of a few soldiers stationed there.
After a few minutes, the garrisons were slaughtered like pigs and sheep, and even the corpses had been completely disposed of, and the people of the Kamihara Kaild quickly opened the barbed wire gates that had been firmly sealed, and the brigade moved again, crossing the broken stone bridge into the mountains.
At the entrance to the mountain. The people of the Kamihara Society found a stone monument that had been erected an unknown number of years ago, even because of its age. After the surface of the soil and vines were cleaned and removed, the original face of the stele was revealed, and several twisted and twisted symbols were engraved on it, which looked like some kind of writing, but this time the congregation who knew Arabic and Kurdish could not read it.
At this time, Michio Tanigami, an archaeologist, came in handy, he pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, frowned and recognized, his face suddenly became ugly, and he said:
"This ...... It's probably Old Semitic and Sumerian, and I can only make out the approximate...... The land of the dead, the abode of eternal rest, the intruder will be turned into a soul...... This ......"
Tani Shin Michio gestured, his voice became a little trembling, obviously frightened by the ancient text engraved on the stone tablet.
"Trick up! Leave him alone! Executive Minister Takayama Yuo sneered and shouted a few words to the congregation behind him, Li Jie and others. There are obviously people from the Wusang tribe living in it, and what they say about the land of the dead is just nonsense. ”
There was a point in what he said, and it resettled some of the congregation, which had been looking uneasy.
The team continued to move forward, but Leonid kept exchanging glances with several invited masters around him, apparently not believing what Takayama said at all.
Li Jie is even more conclusive, there is no doubt that Shenyuan Division must have something to hide, and it seems that only he and Takayama Yufu are clearer about the inside story, and even those senior cadres and congregants are kept in the dark, but they are a little afraid that others will back down.
When they arrived in this group of mountains, everyone obviously felt desolate and secluded and inaccessible, and there were almost no intact roads, so they could only barely walk through the dense forests and earth and rocks, but fortunately, these nearly 200 people were not ordinary people, only a little troublesome, but they could still move forward as usual, nothing more than using the machetes prepared in advance to cut the weeds and vines to open the way.
After walking for about ten minutes, looking at the surrounding terrain, I should have reached the entrance of the valley, but I heard an exclamation from the leader of the Shenyuan Society who opened the road in front of me, and everyone knew that there was a discovery, so they immediately accelerated their pace, only to see a large open space appear in front of them, as if it had been forcibly opened up by man, and all the trees and vegetation were removed, and a large area of tall piled spire-like objects suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
The thick layers below the spire looked like broken stones and dust, and it was impossible to see what it was, but when I looked up, I could clearly see that they were all round objects slightly smaller than footballs, and the raised shapes and holes were all human skulls!
This minaret is more than tens of meters high, and if you add the fragments of ashes at the bottom that have accumulated for an unknown number of years, weathered and corroded, I am afraid that tens of thousands of lives have been piled up here nakedly, which makes people suddenly creepy when they look closely......
Li Jie could already clearly hear the sound of people gasping around him, obviously frightened by this situation.
"It is about the custom of this savage people, it is estimated that those people of the Wusang clan will save the skulls of the deceased, and they will become what they are now, and if they want to deter outsiders, they may not be the skulls of the intruders."
Takayama Yuo stood beside Michio Tani and said in a loud voice, while casting an inquiring gaze, obviously hoping to get his affirmation. The archaeologist was already frightened, if it weren't for the people of the Divine Origin Society beside him, he would have run away a long time ago, but now he had to nod mechanically.
After a brief moment of shock and pause, the group became more silent, and soon continued around the skull spire, and as they got closer, they could clearly see that the skulls at the top were yellowed, and it was impossible to tell the date.
At this time, Tani Shin Michio's professional psychology made him puzzled, although he was afraid, he still carefully observed the skull under the minaret, obviously he didn't know how many human bones he had seen in his archaeological career, so he naturally had in-depth research and understanding.
"Why have these skulls been preserved for so long in an exposed environment, and looking at the weathering of the color and appearance, they are at least dozens or hundreds of years old, and they are still intact as a whole? It's really unreasonable......"
After hearing his words, the expressions of the others became more complicated, Li Jie and the others were thinking about each other in their hearts, feeling that this place was becoming more and more strange, but since they had been mentally prepared, they could only continue to move forward.
In this strange atmosphere, the team continued to move forward, and there were many birds and beasts along the way, but the environment became more and more primitive and wild, and the ancient trees and vines that had grown for an unknown number of years made it more difficult to travel, and even obscured the sky above their heads, only a little light faintly penetrated, and the vision became much worse.
Even the most sluggish people feel puzzled at this time, most of Iraq is a tropical desert climate, even in the northeast, it is at most a subtropical Mediterranean climate, high temperature and little rain environment, vegetation is not dense, how can there be such a huge primeval forest, it is simply a feeling of time and space confusion, as if it is not in Iraq on the Arabian Peninsula, but like crossing into the tropical primeval forest of the Amazon.
And just half an hour ago, they were still feeling the heat near Muqayil outside the mountain, why is there such a big difference in such a close distance?
"Poof!"
After marching for a while, a small leader of the Kamihara Society, who was in charge of chopping down trees and opening the way, suddenly fell down without saying a word, and the other person who followed him didn't even react at all.
"Watanabe-san! What happened to you! Yes! ……”
He hurriedly stepped forward to help the little leader called Watanabe up, but he turned the other party over and looked at him, and was immediately frightened by Watanabe's tragic situation and shouted loudly.
I saw that the other party's face and other exposed parts of the body had appeared with large net-like dark lines, as if they were born in the skin, and what was even more terrifying was that they didn't know when they were completely out of breath, only their eyes were still open, and the expression on their faces was extremely calm, as if they died suddenly without noticing the accident. (To be continued......)