Chapter 13: Revisiting the Ghost Gate (Part II)
"Wind? In what direction is the wind? Wang Xingguo asked again.
"Then I don't know, who still understands the southeast and northwest at that time? The wind was blowing from behind, and then I heard a loud buzzing sound, and I looked back half-squinted, and there was a big golden-bodied beetle, so big! Wu Lao drew with his thumb and index finger, the beetle was about 10 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide, and when such a big beetle flew, it would indeed be very loud.
"The golden-bodied beetle flew around me a few times, and then flew away in one direction, I thought to myself, come and go, this is the ancestor apparition to show me the way, just follow the direction of the beetle's flight, the beetle is not fast, I can't keep up with it, I stop, I keep up and fly forward, I can't see anything, just look at the shadow of the golden-bodied beetle walking, walking, and suddenly I saw the ghost gate in front of me, as if a door was suddenly opened in the dark, just in front of me......"
"And then?" Xia Ruobing asked, this story of Wu Lao is really thrilling.
"At that time, where could I take care of so much, even rolling and crawling to the ghost gate, for fear that the ghost gate would be closed, ran into the passage, and fell down, the beads in my hand were scattered, rolling on the ground, I picked up the beads, but how to find it, it was one less ......"
"Uh...... What about the golden-bodied beetle? Wang Xingguo asked.
"I entered the ghost gate, it was gone, I didn't dare to stay for a long time, picked up the beads and ran out of the ghost gate, ran back along the mountain road, when I got home, it was already the second half of the night, and then I got seriously ill, and almost died again, this ghost gate, I really can't go, it's dark but three bends, there is no illness and disaster!"
"And then? Later, did you continue to do the send-off? It's all like this, you still dare, Wu Lao, you are so bold! Xia Ruobing asked again.
"Where is it, when I was sick and dying, I found Dao Gong, Dao Gong asked me, I had to tell him the original, Dao Gong listened, I had to see my beads, as a result, sure enough, 7 less one, or missing the one that went up the mountain and was knocked out of the white spot, Dao Gong said, this is the ancestor apparition blessing, the bead turned into the golden beetle to show me the way, looking back and thinking about it, it is really, the golden beetle, the back of the buttocks is white, it is just the white spot of the bead knock...... I originally wanted not to send people back, Dao Gong said that I was accumulating merit, and the Yin soldiers did not harm me because many people were carried in by me, left and right, and said that I would be 62 years old and my merits would be complete, so I continued to do the ...... of sending people back" After listening to Wu Lao's explanation, although there is a feudal superstition part, but under the circumstances at the time, this is also the best explanation, and it seems that there is no information that can be used in the second half.
"Elder Wu, some people say that there are still some spells on the ghost gate, what do those mean?" Mr. Min saw that Wu Lao was interested, and asked.
"Spells? What's the spell? Although Wu Lao was drunk and dizzy, he immediately became alert when he heard Mr. Min's words.
Mr. Min felt that he was still too anxious, and quickly explained: "20 years ago, there was a person in the scientific expedition team who came back from Coffin Mountain, and he said that he saw some incomprehensible spells at the Ghost Gate......
"The Japanese? Isn't that crazy? Wu Lao asked vigilantly again.
"He drew something, but no one could read it." Mr. Min felt that Wu Lao was going to be angry if he continued to talk about it, so he quickly stopped the topic, "Some people say that it is a spell. ”
Mr. Min wanted to take advantage of Mr. Wu's high interest to find out where their ancestors migrated from, and it seemed that he was very vigilant about this, and Mr. Min felt a little embarrassed.
Xia Ruobing saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly pulled Wu Lao aside, pulling the topic aside, seeing that the wine was almost the same, it was getting late, Wu Lao enthusiastically beckoned everyone to live here, Xia Ruobing and Chen Badai made Wu Lao happy with one sentence on the left and one sentence on the right, and almost immediately recognized Xia Ruobing as his goddaughter, Mr. Min was not strong enough to drink, and went to the courtyard to breathe, Wang Xingguo also followed, sitting on the bench in the courtyard, Wang Xingguo was thoughtful.
"How credible is what Elder Wu said?" Mr. Min asked as he blew the wind and the strength of the wine slowly passed.
"Half true and half false." Wang Xingguo replied.
"Huh?" Mr. Min thinks that Wang Xingguo should be past the age of listening to stories, how can he still believe such half-truths and half-truths? After all, no one has seen it with their own eyes, and in Mr. Min's opinion, there are many exaggerated interpretations of Wu Lao for the sake of boasting, and there is almost no "true" information he wants......
"No, no, no, you're wrong." Wang Xingguo explained, "They are based on their own lack of knowledge, but Wu Lao doesn't need to lie to us, there may be some coincidences in it, and some parts can be explained, but they don't know." ”
"For example?" Mr. Min asked.
"For example, when he saw Boss Yan for the first time in the ghost gate, there was a phenomenon called visual error, he looked down from the top and felt that the grass was not high, but when he walked in, the grass was actually very high, and crooked, the road was still bifurcated, and the visibility was insufficient, which would cause him to get lost, and the uneven grass made the visual error even larger, making him mistakenly think that the distance was not far, and at night, as the visibility decreased, when he looked back at the ghost gate, he felt that the distance was far away, in fact, I judged, At that time, he was about no more than 300 meters away from the Ghost Gate......" Wang Xingguo said, Mr. Min nodded, according to Wang Xingguo's analysis, there is some truth, in this way, the complex terrain made Wu Lao lost, and unconsciously stayed away from the Ghost Gate, and coincidentally ran into Boss Yan again, which is also reasonable, but how did Boss Yan enter the funnel of the coffin mountain from the ghost gate?
"Of course, there are some things that can't be explained now, but when he saw Boss Yan very closely, he mentioned ghost eyes, voices, and Yin soldiers, and Chen Badai and I both saw the Yin soldiers he mentioned, which was on the edge of the cliff." Wang Xingguo said.
"Ghost Eyes and Yin Soldiers are legends that have been circulating here for a long time, could it be that Wu Lao was wrong in his nervousness?" Mr. Min asked confusedly.
"Probably not, the human eye is very sensitive to light at night, if it is really dazzling, Wu Lao is already in a very serious state ......of mental failure, and it is impossible to come out, but I am very interested in why people who have been dead for so long can still move their joints, there is no corpse stiffness, and I haven't figured it out now" Wang Xingguo shook his head, he didn't drink much tonight, he was used to keeping a cool head, but these questions still made him puzzled.
"Is this a secret that can't be solved?" Mr. Min was a little frustrated.
"To unravel it, you can only see ...... with your own eyes"
"You mean, you agree to go again?" Mr. Min asked.
"Mr. Min, are you sure that this place must be related to Loulan? As far as I know, it seems that Luwen was still used in small quantities in the Western Regions 1500 years ago. Wang Xingguo asked rhetorically.
"I'm not sure, isn't that what fascinates me? If this is really the immigration of Loulan, it is a sensational archaeological event around the world. Mr. Min struck while the iron was hot, hoping that Wang Xingguo would agree immediately.
Wang Xingguo just smiled and didn't pick up Mr. Min's topic, which made Mr. Min's hope sink again, at this time it was getting late, and the wine was finished, Xia Ruobing helped Wu Lao to the courtyard to sober up, Wu Lao insisted on letting everyone live here tonight, everyone was not easy to excuse, cleaned up, and washed up......
Sherpa drank a lot of wine, his face was full of red light, his steps were a little staggering, although the temperature was a little low at night, but the stimulation of alcohol made him hot, insisted on taking cold water, and poured the well water from the well in the yard on his tendon meat, and suddenly a stream of steam came out, and under the stimulation of cold water, Sherpa wine also quickly woke up.
Xia Ruobing had already finished washing and went back to the room, today she also drank a lot of wine in order to set Wu Lao's words, and fell asleep after returning to the room, Wang Xingguo saw that Sherpa was about to go back to the room after taking a bath, and stopped him: "Sherpa, didn't you say that you have some channels in geology?" Can you find something? ”
"What do you need?" Sherpa asked.
"Satellite remote sensing data from Coffin Mountain, didn't you say that the funnel was formed because of the collapse? I wonder how the cavity beneath it develops. Wang Xingguo said.
"No problem! I'll call right away. Sherpa made an OK gesture.
When Wang Xingguo was about to take a bath and get ready to rest, Sherpa found him and said: "The remote sensing data in this area can be found for 20 years at the earliest, and all the remote sensing data can be found, but there is a big problem......
"What's the problem?" Wang Xingguo asked.
Sherpa looked embarrassed: "There is hematite interference in this area, and the remote sensing data is very vague, according to my classmates, there is no reference value at all......
"Oh...... Let's take a look at it first. Wang Xingguo didn't expect this, but at this time, it is better than nothing.
Wang Xingguo...... In fact, we have already thought of what you have thought of, and I think you should be mentally prepared, remote sensing data does not have much reference meaning. Sherpa said vaguely that in fact, he and Xia Ruobing had already studied remote sensing data.
"How do you know if you don't look at it?" Wang Xingguo smiled and said goodnight to Sherpa.
Seeing that everyone was resting and the people in the mountain village were used to going to bed early, Mr. Min couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, so he got up, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, pushed open the courtyard door, went to the open space outside, and dialed an international number.
The microphone and the lazy voice came along with the sound of intense music, mixed with the coquettish laughter of women, and Mr. Min frowned: "Dick, you are going to spend time drinking again." ”
"Hah! Min! My dead father didn't even care about me like that. Dick, who was on the other side of the microphone, heard Mr. Min's voice, waved his hand, asked his subordinates to turn off the music, and put one hand in his arms to a bikini girl, and laughed in the microphone.
"Don't you want to find Loulan's treasure?" Mr. Min was a little unhappy.
"Huh? yes, it's serious, but aren't you doing it? Dick laughed presumptuously, his eyes a little red from the stimulation of alcohol, "Well, did you find the wizard's golden mask in that coffin mountain?" ”
"Nothing." Mr. Min wanted to say something, but now it doesn't seem necessary.
"Oh! It's too bad, Min, I don't think you should waste your time there, as a descendant of the Loulan royal family, I remind you that the treasure of the royal family is the point. Dick put away his cynical smile and said earnestly.
"For Loulan, I am more familiar than you, the descendant of the royal family, and I have my plan." Mr. Min also said seriously that they were discussing a serious issue instead of the frivolous bikini chicks around Dick.
"Well, for the sake of old friends, I'll give you a little more time, but ...... Tchaikov seems to be on the verge lately......" Dick seemed to say lightly, but he knew how lethal it would be to Mr. Min.
Mr. Min was stunned for a moment, and then said: "It's not my responsibility to deal with Tchaikov, Dick, if you want Loulan's treasure, you'd better be serious." ”
“OKOK!” Dick laughed, "But until then, you don't want to die in that ...... Well...... Coffin in the mountains. ”
Mr. Min hung up the phone in annoyance, and Dick looked at the phone with the black screen, threw it on the couch, hugged the bikini chick, picked up the wine glass and poured it into her mouth.
"My dear, I didn't expect you to be a royal family." Another bikini beauty leaned up and put her arms around Dick's neck and said delicately.
"Hah! I'm a dying royal family, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it, right? Dick laughed cynically.
Mr. Min in the clearing blew a cold wind, which cleared his mind a little, and he carefully recalled his plan, but the mystery of the coffin mountain made him a little jealous, and he hesitated whether to follow Dick's advice and start with the treasures of the Loulan royal family.
But no matter where you start, the three holy relics of Loulan are something that Mr. Min must collect! It was an obsession that had haunted him for 20 years, the moonlight slowly paced out from behind the clouds, the Persephone coat of arms on his collar reflected the moonlight, reflected in Mr. Min's eyes, he lowered his head and gently rubbed the shining badge with his hand, it gave him courage again.
"Anyway, Min Rui, you have to go again!" Mr. Min said to himself secretly.