Chapter 9: Chance Encounters 1 (II)
"This ......" Xia Ruobing hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Don't worry about this, I want to go in and see the tents and ruins you talked about, as well as the ghost gate of Lu Wen." ”
"Why are you so interested in Lu Wen? As far as I know, it's a dead text that no one knows anymore. Mr. Min thought for a moment and asked.
"Mr. Min, how do you know about Loulan's Lu Wen?" Xia Ruobing asked rhetorically.
"Uh...... By chance, I knew about Loulan, and I was very interested in this mysteriously disappeared country, but I couldn't read this dead text. ”
Xia Ruobing drew a symbol with a tree branch on the ground.
Wang Xingguo noticed that Xia Ruobing started from the right when she wrote this symbol, and Mr. Min watched in amazement as she skillfully wrote the characters, which were very simple, but also very familiar, and for a while he couldn't remember what the characters represented.
"This is Luwen 'Loulan', it's a dead text, but it doesn't mean that no one knows it." Xia Ruobing's words were a little stiff.
Mr. Min was stunned for a moment, and she mentioned Loulan again, Loulan that disappeared for 2000!
"But...... It's very unusual there...... "Wang Xingguo felt that Xia Ruobing's excuse was really not very good, and he wanted to ask further, but seeing Xia Ruobing's eyes glowing with tears, he couldn't bear it, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back.
"Ruobing, you go and rest first, I'll talk to them." Seeing that Xia Ruobing's emotions were a little excited, Sherpa spoke, Xia Ruobing wiped a handful of tears and returned to the tent first.
"How much will you pay to go again?" Sherpas got straight to the point.
There is still business to talk about in this place where chickens don't lay eggs and birds don't, this is really a ghost, Wang Xingguo muttered in his heart, Chen Badai suddenly became excited when he heard the word "money", and he was not even afraid of ghosts, so he hurriedly answered: "It depends on what you are going to do......"
"Wait, I need to know why you're going in, or I won't take this job." Wang Xingguo interrupted Chen Badai's words, and Chen Badai glared at him fiercely.
"You weren't the first to go in, and you weren't the first to come out, there was an expedition in 1998." Sherpa said slowly.
"Someone once came out?" Wang Xingguo asked.
"Yes, it was a Sino-Japanese expedition, coming to unlock the secret of Coffin Mountain, and they disappeared on the third day after they entered, and two days later, a Japanese expedition member came out of Longzhai on the other side."
"And now that he's out, don't you know what's going on?" Wang Xingguo asked.
Sherpa smiled: "Since someone came out, he should know the situation inside, even if it is partial, but this Japanese expedition member did not bring out any situation, because he was already crazy when he came out, and later he went back to Japan for treatment, and his condition improved for a while, and it is said that he also wrote a book called "The Corpse of the Ghost Gate". ”
"Now that the book is out, don't you know what's going on?" Mr. Min heard a strange aura and interjected, he was very interested in it.
"The problem is that what he writes is not understood by anyone, it is just some broken words and some strange symbols and patterns, some of which are in Luwen." Sherpa spread his hands and continued, "After that, this place has been restricted to the expedition queue, and no more field surveys and expedition development activities are carried out. ”
"What does this have to do with Xia Ruobing?" Wang Xingguo was keenly aware of some of the words between Sherpas's words.
"You are really smart, the leader of this expedition is Xia Ruobing's father, and there is also her mother in the team, they are professors who study the cultural changes of Loulan, and they are also experts in Lu Wen. Xia Ruobing was brought up by her grandparents, although the old people opposed her expedition, but she still chose geology and archaeology as her subject, she is now a double master's degree in geology and archaeology, and is studying for a doctorate. Sherpa said.
Mr. Min on the side listened to Sherpa's words, his eyes widened more and more, and he couldn't help but interject: "Is Xia Ruobing studying Lu Wen?" ”
Sherpa was not surprised by this kind of surprise, after all, no one believed that a beautiful and charming little girl would choose such a profession.
"To be exact, she is continuing her parents' research." Sherpa said.
"The history of Loulan's changes?!" Mr. Min was even more surprised.
"Hey, Mr. Min, didn't you also mention this Loulan ......" Chen Badai looked at what they were discussing, and he couldn't interject at all, a little anxious.
"It seems that you are also very interested in Loulan." Sherpa laughed.
"Yes, an ancient country that has mysteriously disappeared, and some people say that the people here will be descendants of Loulan." Mr. Min couldn't help but touch the notebook in his pocket, but he resisted the urge to continue the conversation.
"So you promised to go in again?" Sherpa asked.
"No, I didn't say that." Wang Xingguo refused.
"Hey...... Shall we talk about the price first? Chen Badai was anxious and hurriedly interrupted Wang Xingguo's words.
"150,000! Add another 150,000! Mr. Min, who had been silent, spoke again, "Let's go in again!" ”
Chen Badai turned his head and glanced at Mr. Min, which made Mr. Min feel very embarrassed, and said, "Since we can go in and out, we can be regarded as experienced, why can't we go again?" ”
"There are some things we haven't figured out yet, we didn't stay in there for too long this time, so it's okay, the missing people we know now are all in it for more than three days......" Wang Xingguo used his brain to analyze.
"So what do you think is the problem?" Sherpa asked.
"If you don't do your research and plan well, I advise you not to go in either." Wang Xingguo did not answer Sherpa directly.
"This is Xia Ruobing's heart disease, we have done a lot of homework on the coffin mountain, it is very likely that it is the descendants of a group of immigrants from Loulan, if it is true, this is a major discovery in archaeology, the demise of the Loulan civilization has not been conclusive in the scientific community so far, the land and population of Loulan in the heyday were the largest among the 36 countries in the Western Regions, and they accumulated a lot of wealth at the crossroads of the Silk Road, but where did they go?" Sherpa looked at Wang Xingguo, "Unraveling these secrets is of great significance to archaeology and Xia Ruobing." ”
"We're talking about a matter of life and death, not personal emotion." Wang Xingguo's words are a bit blunt, but they are also true.
"So how are you going to go in again?" Sherpa asked straight to the point.
"I need to think about ......," Wang Xingguo did not answer immediately.
"Well...... Sherpa stood up with some regret, and said, "there is still a spare tent, but the three of them are a little crowded, rest early, and we'll talk about it when we get out of the mountain." ”
"Thank you!" Wang Xingguo and Mr. Min spoke almost at the same time, and Mr. Min went to fetch the tent with Sherpa.
"Dog...... You don't even make any money, do you? Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Chen Badai complained.
"If you have money to make, you have to have a life to spend."
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After setting up the tent, Wang Xingguo asked Chen Badai and Mr. Min to squeeze in, and he was about to spend one night in the shed, Mr. Min did not sleep, and walked into the shed again, and said to Wang Xingguo very seriously: "I think, we should go again." ”
"We?"
"I remember our agreement that I would see dead people walking, and you would still be my expedition leader until I saw it."
"Is that all?" Wang Xingguo asked.
Mr. Min smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Wang Xingguo, you will be a good explorer...... Well, you'll understand later. ”