Section 18 Bairentan (2) -- Amendment
An important change has been made at the end of the episode in this section that relates to later episodes. Please note this.
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After chatting, I learned that the family borrowed a boat to travel to Hainan, and suddenly encountered a storm ruck, and then was caught on the boat. The old man Mingqiu once served in the South China Sea Fleet of the Navy in Hainan Island for many years, and after changing jobs, he worked in the civil affairs department; The old lady Li Mei has been a leader in a trading company for many years - no wonder she is calm and speaks decently; As for the son Minglang, who has been silent, he is a civil servant in the safety production supervision department. The family still has no clue what happened to them.
"What kind of committee member surnamed Xiao, what does he say all day long This is Lingao County in 1628, isn't this nonsense? Our old man has been in the navy in Hainan for 22 years, and he has been to Lingao I don't know how many times...... I don't think he's a good young man, and he doesn't look like a psychopath. ”
It turns out that like them, Guo Yi thinks that in fact, we are also a smear. As he was talking, the old man, who had been walking around the river beach to look at the stone carvings in a daze, suddenly walked back, his face was extremely ugly, and his eyes were dull.
Li Mei hurriedly helped him sit down, looking at his appearance, she panicked, when did this old man become so depressed? Isn't it evil in the wilderness? Speaking of which, the corpses I encountered on the road just now are really weird.
Asked him how he was doing for a long time? Only then did Old Man Ming raise his head and say two words:
"It's over."
This can make the whole family anxious, the old man is usually stubborn, he is a master who does not admit defeat, why did he suddenly come up with such a sentence?
"Dad, don't scare us......" Minglang hurriedly helped his father.
"What the hell is going on? You're so headless and brainless, you're going to scare me to death? Li Mei was so anxious that she jumped to her feet.
"Here, it's really Lingao!"
"What?!" The other four people sitting on the stone all screamed. The two ATF agents had no idea about Lingao and looked at them with a puzzled expression.
"That's right," Old Man Ming trembled and pointed to the stone engraved with the three big characters of "Bairentan", "This is Bairentan." As he spoke, he took out a small yellowed photo album from his bosom and opened it to contain old photos taken in the past.
"Look at this!" Everyone turned their heads together. In the photo, Ming Qiu, who is middle-aged, is wearing the uniform of a naval officer, standing next to an identical stone with his comrades, and the words "Bairentan" are also engraved on the stone!
"That's nothing," Minglang opened his mouth hesitantly, "Isn't it just to Bairentan." ”
"Look at the back!" The old man was anxious.
Everyone hurriedly looked again, the background of the photo is a dam in the distance, and then look up, behind the identical carved stone of Bairentan, but there is no dam at all!
(Note: The carved stone of Bairentan is just between the dam and the power station of the hydropower station.) So it's perfectly possible to take it in the photo)
Now everyone's backs are cool, what about the dam? Mu Min said: "Now that the small hydropower is being renovated, maybe it has been demolished......
"No, it can't be." The old man shook his head stubbornly, "Bairentan Hydropower Station has always been the main power station of Lingao, how could it be demolished?" My comrades-in-arms in Lingao have never said anything about it. ”
"Maybe he forgot to say it."
"I've been to Bairentan a few years ago, and the environment around Bairentan is not like this! There should have been a farm not far from here. The old man continued, "But the terrain is exactly the same as here! The stones in the water, and the stone carvings ......" The old man flipped through the photos, "When I was a soldier in Hainan, I came to Bairentan at least ten times, and I took pictures of stone carvings and strange stones......"
"Actually, from the moment I got to the beachhead, I was suspicious...... The surroundings are so strange...... "The old man's hands trembled, "I felt that I had been to this place before, as if I was in a dream. ”
Guo Yi grabbed the album and went down to the beachhead to look at it. Comparing photos one by one, the more he compared, the more panicked he became, he knew that the old man Weishenme would lose his soul, it was too evil. Unless there will be exactly the same terrain on this shijie, it is impossible to explain what it looks like now, and the stone carvings in those photos, regardless of the shape of the glyphs, the appearance of the stones, and the position in the water, no matter how they are compared, show that this is the same place.
If anything, it's something that isn't in the photos: a few particularly large rocks in the river. There are also things that are not present in the photos: disappearing dams, and some stone carvings. He looked carefully for a long time and found a terrible fact: the stone carvings were all from before the Qing Dynasty! Moreover, the stone carvings of the Ming Dynasty are the most clearly recognizable, and the traces of weathering are very small. There is a stone carving "Linjiang Tianlai" in the photo of Ming Lao, and the font is very large, and you can see the upper paragraph of the stone carving: "The spring of the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty". Guo Yi found this stone, but there was not a word on it, he did not give up, and called Xue Ziliang, who claimed to be an expert in trace science, and asked him to identify all the stones that should have been carved in stone, whether there were traces of grinding and chiseling. Xue Ziliang peeled off the thick moss, inspected it for a long time, and claimed that these stones had never been engraved.
(Note: The above stone carvings, can still be seen on the current Bairentan, at present, mainly preserved in the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is rare, but you can still see many stone carvings at that time in the county records)
Guo Yi's expression when he came back made everyone even more flustered, and suddenly, the other three members of the Ming family all went down to the river beach. The faces of the two ATFs, who have been inexplicable, are also difficult to see.
The current situation is in response to the "dilemma", no one originally believed that this was ancient China, but the evidence is so strong that it cannot be assumed with any reason. Will we continue up the river or will we return to the estuary immediately? A group of people have no bottom in their hearts, and their hearts are empty.
Go forward, God knows what will happen, there will be a first attack, there will be a second, they don't even know who the attacker is and what Weishenme is going to attack. A few people discussed it and felt that since they had arrived at Bairentan, it was only 4-5 kilometers away from Lingao County, so it was better to try to take a look. Don't say it, these wounded are still living in the people's hospital. If there is no people's hospital in Lingao, there is really only the county yamen, so I have to go back to Bopu, so I can see that this group of crazy people have no intention of killing, and there seems to be a red cross flag fluttering in the beach camp.
At the moment, the soldiers were divided into two ways, Old Man Ming himself, Xiao Guo and Xue Ziliang went to Lingao to reconnoiter together, and the others stayed here temporarily, the terrain of Bairentan was complicated, and it was not difficult to hide. Xiao Guo objected that he was getting older, and he was afraid that the long journey would be too tiring, and Mingqiu said that he was familiar with the terrain, and he knew it at a glance, and it was better than them to collide like this. Xue Ziliang was worried that the basic reason left behind was that women were too dangerous, Mingqiu said that it was not in the way, his son and daughter-in-law were all combat power, and his daughter-in-law was a policeman, not to mention, this son was also the master who often went to pick up a knife and cut people when he was in middle school, and he had rich experience in street fights - Xiao Guo was deeply suspicious of this.
The newly formed Lingao reconnaissance team left all their luggage behind, each carrying only sticks, daggers, and a small amount of food. Mingqiu instructed his wife: "If we don't come back in two hours, you can go back quickly." The separation of the family here is a little sad, the old lady burst into tears, and said that he should be careful not to be reckless, and asked two or two men to take care of the old man more, this remark probably stabbed the old man's self-esteem, and actually snorted, raised his ass and left on his own.
Xiao Guo and Xue Ziliang hurriedly chased after them, and the three of them trekked all the way to the county seat.
Their expedition was very smooth, along the way, the old man Ming recognized more of the scenery he was familiar with, and when the outline of Lingao County appeared in front of him, Ming Qiu was speechless for a long time after seeing the city wall that he had never remembered before. Seeing the camp being built outside the city gate and the ancient working people climbing up and down like ants, the three of them turned pale, and Xue Ziliang sat on the ground, holding his head in his hands, muttering something in English.
Such a terrifyingly small probability, no, what should be fundamentally possible, how could it fall on my head! Why didn't you win the 20 million lottery! Xiao Guo is similar to ten thousand arrows piercing his heart at this time.
Standing for a long time, there is nothing to discuss at the moment, hurry back to the Bopu. At least there is a group of modern people from the 21st century, and more importantly, they are all Chinese. Xue Ziliang was deeply stimulated, and muttered to himself in English along the way, talking non-stop.
At 13:20 in the afternoon, the Bopu-Bairentan Highway Survey Team reported on the radio that they saw many corpses floating down the upstream on the tidal flats of the Wenlan River, which should be local aborigines.
At 14:36 in the afternoon, the reconnaissance team under Lingao City reported that someone led a small group of villagers into the city.
At 15:02 in the afternoon, the Bopu-Bairentan Highway Survey Team reported that the two groups of people who set off in the morning were embarrassed and came back in despair, shouting vigorously to see the leader.
"Less, it seems that your jihua has achieved it." Xiao Zishan was half complimented and half worried, and said to Eshui.
"Lion poop is better than bear poop." Xiao Xiao was not shocked, and said lightly, "It is estimated that I have suffered along the way." ”
"Commissioner Xiao, do you want to see them?" Li Yuanyuan asked
"No," Xiao Zishan's anger was very rough, "you go and receive them, let them settle down first." By the way, notify Ran Yao and issue each of them a temporary ID card. ”
"Temporary ID?" Li Yuanyuan was stunned for a while, she had been handling copywriting for the Executive Committee for almost a year, and she had never heard of this thing.
"Yes, temporarily. Ran Yao knew. They are not yet officially traversal. ”