Golden City Chapter 69 Ask Xinmi, the snow field is lost
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The jeep was walking on the snowy field. In the car, the heater was turned on to the maximum, and Yan Xiaowu was still yelling cold. Li Le said with a smile, warm in my arms. Yan Xiaowu was about to pounce, but halfway through, he turned around and plunged into Fan Qinghui's arms. Li Le looked disappointed, and said to Fan Qinghui, you dig into my corner, I hate you. Fan Qinghui said with a rare joke: "I want to give you a hug for a while." Fan Taohua pretended to be in pain, "I can't stand it, don't tell people that you are my sister." ”
Yan Xiaowu laughed at first, then suddenly stopped smiling, and said to Li Le: "Thank you for what you did last night, which brought me one step closer to that answer." ”
After a difficult trek last night, the distance between the hearts of several young people has narrowed a lot, and they have become more and more free to speak.
Including the new Kyakhta and Ao Boji, there were seven people in the car, which was far from crowded for the T-98. Stone and Ao Boji watched intently as Kyakhtu shoved a large handful of pills into his mouth.
"What kind of medicine is this? Eat so much at once? Stone asked.
"Valium, pain-fixing tablets, aspirin••••••" Kyakhtu said a long list of drug names in Mongolian.
Li Le asked: "You need to take so many sedatives, it seems that the pain you suffered is very unusual, is it related to your last adventure?" ”
Kyakhtu bowed and said, "Yes." It can be seen that he is very grateful to Li Le for saving his life, and his words and deeds show respect. It is not surprising that the steppe people admire the brave warriors the most.
"Are you feeling more stable now? Can you tell me about your last adventure? ”
Kyakhtu said respectfully: "Of course, I was about to tell you about it. ”
Fourteen years ago, when Kyakhta was eighteen years old, Kravitz, a native of the United States, came to the grassland with an archaeological team and began the first large-scale search and excavation of Chengling. Kyakhta was studying history at Ulaanbaatar University. The tutor's name was Zamulun, and he was a famous Mongolian historian of the time. He was invited by Kravitz to join his archaeological team. Kyakhta was also taken to the mountains of Kent with his teacher.
Hearing this, Li Le asked, "What season was it?" When did you find the so-called Chengling?"
Kyakhta said the archaeological team set out in the spring and spent three months in the Kent mountains, finding the tomb complex in mid-August that was so heavily organized that it is still difficult to distinguish the authenticity.
"Was it in Shannan or Shanbei at that time?" Fan Qinghui asked.
Kyakhta said in a very affirmative tone, it is at the northern foot of the Kent Mountains! Continuing to say, at first, the probe found that the soil structure in that area was blocky, Kravice decided to dig and see, and it was quickly discovered, and my teacher looked at it and estimated that it was the wall of the catacombs, so Kravice began to concentrate on excavating there. At that time, it was summer, the sun was scorching on the plateau, and people could be roasted to death during the day, and many foreign scientists in the archaeological team refused to work during the day, so they could only start work at night.
"Didn't encounter the wolves to obstruct you?" Yan Xiaowu asked.
There are no wolves, but there are things that are as terrible as encountering wolves. Kyakhta looked worried: in the three months since the discovery of the tombs, the archaeological team has been looking for the entrance to the tombs, and almost every day people have fallen for inexplicable reasons, some have not adapted to the soil and water, some have altitude sickness or heat stroke, but most of them have been mad and crazy due to the bite of a terrible bug.
It was a reddish, deep, sandy myriapod bug, usually the size of a finger, with occasional large individuals, but also limited in size, roughly the size of a thin carrot. The head is large and the body is thin, it looks like flesh, and when it attacks people, it swells up, and it looks bigger than usual, and its small mouth grows in front••••••
"Phew, this worm is a rascal." Yan Xiaowu, who was outspoken and unabashed, pouted and said, "Hey, this big brother, you don't need to describe it in such detail." ”
Kyakhtu knows English, Chinese and Mongolian, nodded, and continued, this insect has two long tentacles on both sides of its mouth, almost two feet long, they have no eyes, they rely entirely on these two tentacles to perceive the world, as long as the slightest vibration or touch, they will be immediately discovered. About a month after the excavation began, someone showed signs of being bitten, but no one noticed that the insect was responsible. It wasn't until one day, when the doctors of the archaeological team caught one of the insects when they were bitten, that Kraviz ordered everyone to keep an eye out for them.
Li Le asked, "Isn't this insect contagious after being bitten?" ”
Kyakhtu nodded and said solemnly: "Yes, it's the same as rabies, but the difference is that after being bitten by this kind of bug, I'm not afraid of water, I'm only afraid of sunlight, and the person who was bitten spontaneously combusted as soon as it was exposed to the sun, so many people died at first, and after discovering this phenomenon, all the people who showed symptoms of being bitten hid in the tent, and they couldn't die for a while, that is, they often went crazy and bitten, and many team members were infected in this way." Kraviz then ordered his mercenary team to shoot all the infected people. ”
Fan Qinghui asked, "What happened to those survivors who went crazy or lost their memories later?" ”
This virulent infectious disease will be reduced by the dilution of the blood, the first person bitten by the insect is the most serious, the person bitten by this person is relatively lighter, and the person bitten by the person will be further weakened by the bite.
"In the winter, the earth froze, strange things arose, and the archaeological excavations were unsustainable, and by the end of the archaeological team of more than 800 people remained, less than 300 remained, and everyone including Kraviz was abnormal," Kyakhtu said. But some of them did get infected and went crazy, such as my teacher Zamulun. Some of them were pretending to have amnesia, and I was one of them, I was just bitten by a member of the team who was relatively mildly ill, but the situation at the time was that Kravitz was red-eyed, and I had to pretend to be a symptom of amnesia in my brain to escape death. ”
It turns out that Kravitz committed heinous acts on the steppe, which is why he kept the archaeological operation secret.
Shi said, "Have you ever met a grave keeper?" ”
Kyakhtu showed uncertainty and said: "I can't say this well, I haven't seen a single person, but since the archaeological excavation work began, the drinking water in the camp has been drugged many times, and the vehicles in the camp are often broken down inexplicably, and the vehicles transporting supplies basically cannot reach the camp without armed escort." ”
Fan Taohua asked again: "I heard that you dug up the city wall made of gold bricks, and then encountered a lot of poisonous snakes?" ”
Kyakhtu solemnly nodded and said: "Yes, after discovering the city wall, at first Kraviz was not allowed to dig gold bricks, but only to find the entrance, but after entering October, the weather turned cold, and at the beginning of November, it snowed heavily and coldly, Kraviz couldn't wait, so he ignored my teacher's advice and ordered someone to dig a hole in the gold brick city wall, trying to force his way into the tomb, but the excavation equipment suddenly dug a hole in the wall, and thousands of poisonous snakes crawled out of it. Completely ignoring the cold, he pounced on everyone, and more than thirty people were bitten to death on the spot in the tunnel. ”
In the winter, it was so strange that a large number of poisonous snakes crawled out of the holes in the walls, and everyone in Ulaanbaatar, including me and my teacher, felt that it was the Heavenly Khan who had appeared, so they collectively decided to withdraw from the archaeological team. But Kravitz didn't think so, he persuaded the teacher to stay, but secretly deliberately let a few people who had been bitten by poisonous insects live with us•••••• Kyakhtu said this, gritting his teeth with hatred, and some of them were untenable. What happened next is not hard to imagine.
Li Le asked, "Did you sneak into his archaeological team again this time to take revenge?" ”
Kyakhtu nodded: "Exactly!" He gritted his teeth and said, "My teacher and sister Gasmail both died because of him, and I must get this blood feud back from him." ”
Li Le asked again: "So, the supplies and weapons in our car were deliberately left behind by you?" ”
"Yes." Kyakhtu said: "I mixed in with Bao Dejin's team in Ulaanbaatar, he saw that I understood a lot and could speak Mongolian, and he was very serious to me, when your car was caught in a snow pit and was overtaken, I took the initiative to ask Bao Dejin to drive this car, and he agreed without much thought." ”
Ao Baiji said: "That's true, I was with Niwa at the time. ”
Li Le looked at the navigation of the jeep, and doubts rose in his heart, according to the content prompted on the gold medal, the location of the tomb can basically be locked in the southern foothills of Kent Mountain, due to the vast area, the specific coordinates have yet to be determined. Now, Kyakhta says that Kraviz's archaeological team found a group of tombs in the northern part of the mountain. The distance between the two is too much. Could it be that there will be two tombs? Or did you misunderstand the words on the gold medal?
Li Le fell into deep thought, and suddenly thought that the Yuan Empire was the largest empire in human history, and in its most glorious period, more than 40 countries were attached, and the Mengyuan Empire included the four major khanates, with more than 700 ethnic groups under its rule, even if it was driven out of the Central Plains by Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, she was still the most vast country in the world for a long time afterward. In such a huge empire, there is no real imperial tomb that has been discovered by later generations. According to Fan Qinghui, it is more common to say that at least five generations of emperors were buried in the tomb during their most glorious period.
If this rumor is reliable, then the construction period of this tomb complex will take at least 100 years. The scale of its scale is probably beyond imagination. Could it be that Kraviz found only a ring of outer walls, and the gold medal suggested that the real entrance coordinates were the coordinates?
Just as I was thinking about it, the road ahead was gone, and it seemed to be buried by the smoke and snow blown up by the north wind. Li Le motioned for the others to stay in the car and get out of the car to investigate the road conditions. The north wind roared, and the sound was like a wolf howling in my ears, and the wind swept up the snow and filled the whole heaven and earth. Visibility was getting lower and lower, and the sky was so dark that it was impossible to tell whether it was fresh snowflakes or snow that had been rolled up on the ground. In this kind of weather, even the ace of the heavenly soldier with super survivability in the wild can't help but be difficult to distinguish between east and west, north and south.
Li Le stood in the snow for a while, but when he saw that on this bare and white snowfield, he couldn't see the sun, moon and stars when he looked up, and there was only snow when he looked down, and he really couldn't find a marker that could help him identify the direction. Sighing, just about to return to the car, suddenly, a very small sound sounded in my ears, mixed with the wind, completely different from the natural timbre between heaven and earth. After carefully distinguishing it for a while, it was finally determined that it was the sound of horses' hooves coming from far and near!
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