Episode 15 The truth is like a mystery

The cable TV pole outside the Fullot, which is more than ten meters high, is a very ordinary cement pole. This pole is less than five meters away from the outer wall of Fulto, and once it is climbed up by the zongzi, with their amazing strength, it is completely possible to jump onto the parapet of the window on our side. And those so-called window guardrails, those who know know that those guardrails are not with the wall. In fact, the guardrail is almost fixed to the outer wall with expansion bolts, although ordinary people can't pull it off, but for the zongzi who can break the anti-theft door, it is simply Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts, a piece of cake.

The pole was about thirty centimeters in diameter, and its appearance was so smooth that it was difficult for ordinary people to climb it with bare hands. Even the maintenance personnel of the cable TV station who want to climb the cement pole at this height must be equipped with the kind of rubber foot buckle of the inner circle.

But now, those problems obviously can't stop the dumplings at all, they climb one by one with their bare hands, and although the speed is not as fast as the monkey climbing the tree, it is not much slower. He hissed at us as he climbed, and saw if he was going to eat us raw.

The fat man saw that I was still there in a daze, and said angrily: "Brother Jiu, it can't go on like this, let's use explosives, as soon as the telephone pole falls, the zongzi can't climb up." ”

I was startled, and thought to myself, "You can come up with this bad idea?" Just as he was about to stop the exit, he heard Su Wan shouting: "Nonsense! What if that pole turns upside down on our side? Do you want the dumplings to climb directly to us? "After aiming, she fired two shots in succession, and looked back at me with the help of the bullets, and she didn't urge anything more, but the cold sweat on her face was dripping down.

I'm just a little deflated person who writes novels and cheats some manuscript fees to buy instant noodles, when did I become a military advisor? Why don't you let me be the president? I couldn't help but curse in my heart. But I knew in my heart that it was not so much a scolding of them as of my own incompetence.

I watched Su Wan's back as she struggled to aim and shoot, and her sweaty face appeared in my mind...... All of a sudden, I thought of a solution. I yelled, "You guys hold on for two more minutes, I've got a way!" Without looking back, he rushed all the way down to the second floor.

A moment later, I ran back again. The fat man turned around and saw me carrying a large bucket of salad oil pot in one hand, and said with a bitter face What are you carrying the oil pot for? Do you want to worship me as a teacher and a cook? Seeing that I didn't want to pay attention to him, he suddenly realized and said, "Lao Hua, you don't want to set fire to the zongzi, do you?" ”

I really had nothing to say about someone of this intelligence, so I ran to the window in one breath and pulled out the large water gun that I was holding in my other hand. This large water gun has a simple shape and is an extra-large and strong version of the kind of syringe we commonly use for doctors. This thing is not for children, it is a kind of game equipment for travel. Usually cruise ships going to sea are equipped with this kind of thing, when two cruise ships are close to each other, tourists on both sides of the ship will use this water gun to fill the sea water and shoot each other for fun. This kind of thing can absorb several catties of water at a time, and the range can reach more than ten meters away. If you are directly hit within 10 meters, you will definitely be poured into a soup chicken.

I cut the top half of the salad oil pot with a knife and filled a cartridge of salad oil with a large water gun. Salad oil is not seawater, it has a certain viscosity, I was worried that I would not be able to shoot salad oil out of my own strength, so I asked the fat man, "Do you want to live?" ”

He nodded vigorously, and I put the syringe of the big water gun into his hand, and said, "This thing is your life, if you want to live, you can catch me." The fat man looked at me with a puzzled face, and said nothing, but I saw that the knuckles of his fingers were covered with white marks, and it seemed that he had used all his strength to feed.

I didn't dare to slack off, grabbed the piston part of the syringe and pushed it in, I was so hard that the whole person rushed to the fat man. The flesh on his whole body was tense except for his stomach, and after he pounced on it, it felt like hitting an iron tower.

An oil line flew out diagonally, shooting directly on the cement pole, and a zongzi that had already climbed halfway immediately slipped its hands and feet, fluttered a few times and didn't catch it, and then fell. The dumplings below suffered from the fish pond, one by one, and the dumplings fell to the ground like dumplings.

The fat man's little eyes were as big as bells, and he laughed loudly: "You still play like this?" Seeing that a few more rice dumplings were climbing up, but we were not idle here, shooting one oil gun after another, and after a while, the cement pole was poured through. Although there are still a large number of zongzi who refuse to give up, they can't even climb two meters high, so they slide down.

Those of us who were hiding upstairs exhaled a breath of heat, and the fat man criticized me very seriously: "I found that you are really not a good person!" I'm unreliable enough, how can you be more unreliable than me? First he had the bad idea of letting me use a vacuum cleaner to poke the ghost's ass, and now I'm coaxing the dumplings to play on the slide...... I said, can you still be a little bit of a shape? Can't you come up with a solid idea? ”

I held on to the windowsill with a pale face, saying that I was wrong, I really shouldn't have saved you, I should have let the zongzi grab you and slice you into slices of shabu-shabu.

Su Wan asked everyone to check the equipment and report the remaining ammunition, and it turned out that this random fight consumed almost half of our bullets, and the fat man's condition was especially bad, with only a shuttle of bullets left.

The fat man complained: "Our big zongzi skeleton brothers won't send us arms anymore." Now that we have more people than guns, if we get mixed up with more guns than bullets, we don't even have the ability to adapt. ”

Su Wan gave him a blank look, and said that you are so easy to get as an armour? Regardless of whether it is a police station or a garrison unit, all departments that have guns have extremely strict regulations on the management of firearms, and most weapons are stored in arsenals in peacetime. The batch of guns and ammunition that Da Zongzi sent to us was probably also collected by him with great effort. In order to collect these ammunition and guns, Da Zongzi may not have turned over many corpses.

The fat man asked in surprise, "Then why didn't he go directly to the weapons depot of the police station to get it?" Now there are no police in the police station, and it's not like you can take whatever you want like your own home! ”

Su Wan smiled bitterly and said, "Do you think the weapons warehouse of the police station is made of paper paste?" Heavy munitions, there must be 24 hours a day guarded, and the doors of the warehouse are equipped with advanced electronic locks, even if there is no one to guard now, those electronic locks are not ordinary people can open, will you open electronic locks? If you know how to open it, you don't need to send us a big zongzi, wouldn't it be more convenient for us to pick it ourselves? When I heard this, my heart moved, and I knew that Su Wan was spying on the fat man's bottom again.

Unexpectedly, the fat man actually sighed and said, "I really can't open the electronic lock...... Before he finished speaking, Xiao MM hurried over, Su Wan's face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Is there a zongzi attack over there? Xiao MM shook his head and said, "Sister Wan, go over and take a look, Old Man Zhang can translate what the Spaniard said." ”

Me, Su Wan, and the fat man, the three of us took a look together, if it wasn't for Xiao MM suddenly mentioning it, we would have almost forgotten about the Spanish "black hole".

Su Wan looked at the zongzi here and wouldn't play any tricks for a while, so she ordered the fat man to continue to lead the team to hold on, and took me and Xiao MM back to the south side together.

When I went to the place, Huang Haihe, Bai Wujia and others were all lying near the window and watching outside the building, and there seemed to be nothing unusual. Look at Mr. Zhang, who is holding a pencil in his hand, using the bright light from the flashlight, listening to the radio and making notes.

I walked up and asked, "How's it going?" Old man, what did you find? I didn't expect you to be able to speak Spanish...... "I thought to myself, this old man is really not in vain, he is simply an old experience box."

Old Man Zhang nodded, motioned for us not to speak, listened for a while, wrote down a few words, and then turned off the radio and said to us: "I told you that I am a teacher, but I have not told you what kind of teacher I am...... Well, I am a retired professor at Dalian University of Foreign Chinese, and I used to specialize in Spanish and vineyard languages, but as for the usual teaching, it is very rare, after all, these two foreign languages are not so widely used. As for sign language, it was all because my old man learned it when he was bored after retirement and went to a school for the deaf and dumb to volunteer. ”

Oh, I see! A few of us suddenly realized, and Su Wan asked, "Grandpa Zhang, what does that Spaniard mean?" Why does it sound so scary? ”

Old Man Zhang shook his head and said, "I must tell you that a person like me, who studies foreign Chinese dialects in school, has little chance of going abroad for a long time. In general, it's okay to be an official foreign language translator, but many of the vocabulary in academic fields is very obscure, and I can't understand all of them. It seems that this old man adheres to some of the principles of life of their time, not exaggerated, not vain, and seeking truth from facts.

I know that although language is spoken from people's mouths, there is still a big difference between the two foreign languages, and the languages of the world are divided into eight major language families, dozens or hundreds of languages, plus the local dialects are simply impossible to count. And each language is vast and profound, with a wide variety of grammar, tone, and even word combinations. Even if it's your native language, when a word in a particular domain is brought up, you won't understand it nine times out of ten (I suddenly want to make a prank when I write this, my fellow readers, who of you knows which industry term 'U-turn' is, and what does it mean?). Hehe, I'll see if there are any peers with old flowers - there is a prize for answering correctly, and a dragon set name). Therefore, the so-called English level 4 and level 6 only refer to the language ability in the field of general communication, and it is by no means that you can understand everything after speaking to the highest level.

I nodded, and said that you can say it, old man, even if you only understand one-tenth of it, it is much better than us turtles. Xiao MM glared at me, said that you are the turtle, turned around and urged: "Grandpa Zhang, don't sell it, hurry up, what is that Spaniard talking about?" ”

The old man coughed dryly, and said very seriously: "That's what I'm going to say, the person talking on the radio is not a Spaniard, but a Mexican. ”

"Ahh It was a bit of a surprise, but I was relieved right away. Just as Britain successively occupied the United States, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and other places, Spain is also an old capitalist country, in that unprecedented tide of colonial reclamation, the Spaniards were not idle, Mexico was occupied by the Spaniards, and finally became Spain's largest overseas colony. Later, however, the overseas colonies of various countries became independent, and Mexico was among them. Of course, although the country became independent, the language could not be changed, and Spanish has always been the official language of Mexico.

I would have had no hope for this Spanish-language broadcast, because Spain is too far away from China, which is located in the easternmost and westernmost parts of the Eurasian continent respectively, and even if they can provide us with inexhaustible weapons and ammunition, they will not be able to quench our thirst. Now it's good, and a pole has been supported to Mexico on the other side of the ocean, which is even more out of touch with our wind and horses. If Spain hadn't fallen, then it wouldn't have been, and we could have walked to Spain on foot, which is a more outrageous idea, but at least theoretically plausible. But what does Mexico have to do with us? Can we still swim all the way across the Pacific Ocean?

I guess Su Wan also knew this idea, so I heard her calm her breath and ask, "Professor Zhang, how is the situation on the Mexican side?" It seems that she wants to learn from the Mexicans' anti-dumpling strategy.

Old man Zhang said solemnly: "That person said his name is Walle? Kuban, he saw that the Mayan Sun Pyramid had collapsed, and under the base of the tower was a large hole, and many blue monsters that looked like ghosts flew out of the hole. He said that the monsters were terrifying, and that the humans or animals that had been bitten by him came to life after death, and their eggs were parasitic in the human body and would soon feather and fly. In addition to the ghosts, there are other strange things that crawl out of the hole, and they all have the ability to kill people without exception. And the mission of these monsters seems to be to climb up and kill people, but whenever they pass through the area, they will immediately be covered with corpses and rivers of blood...... There are now few survivors left in the area. ”

My head just buzzed! I Grass, Mayan Sun Pyramid...... Big Hole ...... Ghostly monsters flew out...... Phantom! Phantom!! Phantom!!!

Could it be that the ghost-like monster we killed the other day flew from Mexico? Why did the Pyramid of the Sun collapse? How can there be a big hole in the ground after the collapse? With so much information and no reasonable explanation, my head turned into a mess in an instant, and it was almost confused.

In fact, when it comes to pyramids, many people directly think of the world-famous ancient Egyptian pyramids, those huge buildings stand alone on both sides of the Nile, and countless tourists visit them every year. People in the archaeological community also regard Egypt as a holy place, and they will feel uncomfortable without researching it.

In fact, the pyramids of the Mayans are not inferior to the pyramids of ancient Egypt in terms of scale and history, or even larger and older. The Mayan civilization began around 1800 B.C., while Chichen Itza was founded in the 5th century A.D. and covered an area of 25 square kilometers in the 7th century. The Mayans built hundreds of buildings out of stone here, a product of the development of the Mayan civilization to its heyday. These buildings are not only tall and majestic, but also carved with exquisite ornamentation, showing the high level of architectural art of the ancient Maya. The centerpiece of Chichen Itza is a huge pyramid called the Pyramid of Kukulkan, which rises in a tropical jungle clearing. The design data of this pyramid is astronomical, its base is square, its steps face due north, south, east and west, and it is surrounded by 91 steps, and the number of steps and terraces represents the number of days and months of a year, respectively. The 52 carved stone slabs symbolize the 52 years of the Mayan calendar as a reincarnation year, and these positions are clearly carefully considered.

In terms of architecture, the ancient Mayans built quite a few pyramids. In the absence of metal tools, large livestock and wheeled carts, the ancient Mayans were able to mine large quantities of stones weighing tens of tons, trek through mountains and rivers, and transported them all the way to their destinations, building majestic pyramids. The pyramid can reach a height of 70 meters, and its scale and difficulty in construction are astonishing. The pyramids of the ancient Maya and the pyramids of ancient Egypt are distinctly different in terms of architectural form. The top of the pyramid in Egypt is pointed, while the Mayan pyramid is flat-topped, the tower is square, the bottom is large and the top is small, layered, and there is a sacrificial temple on the platform at the top of the tower.

Su Wan couldn't help but tremble when she saw my pale face, so she asked, "What's wrong with you, Lao Hua?" I casually said, "I don't know...... I don't know......" After a pause, he said, "Actually, there is a question that has been trapped in my mind for a long time, but it has always been a question that is not very important, so I haven't deliberately studied it. But now this question has to be raised......"

Several people looked at me inexplicably and asked in unison, "What's the problem?" ”

I frothed at the mouth and said, "We all know that Egypt and the Maya built pyramids, and we don't need to study why the ancients in the eastern and western hemispheres built the pyramids, and we don't have to worry about why the Egyptians built the pyramids at least with bronze tools, and the Mayans built the pyramids in the Stone Age; I've been asking myself, the Egyptians built the pyramids as a mausoleum for the king, so what was the use of those pyramids that the Mayans built when they were almost incomplete? ”

Seeing that everyone was asked, I continued: "It was not an ordinary project, the building materials of the Mayan pyramids were twenty or thirty tons of large creatures, and without metal tools, the Maya used a stone knife to cut them out of the mountain rock piece by piece; In the absence of wheeled machinery, the stone is transported to a destination dozens or even hundreds of miles away by rolling wood paving...... At that time, the Maya population was not very large, and to complete such a project, the Mayans at that time had to almost all go out, why did the Maya do this? ”

"You mean......" Su Wan glanced at me and said in a sassy voice, "You mean, the Mayans built the pyramid to seal the big black hole that can crawl out of monsters?" ”