Chapter 19: "Hope"

As you walk down the steps, the dull feeling that has been hanging in the air all this time deepens as you go deeper and deeper.

With a large searchlight on his head, his eyes swirled around, and the walls on both sides began to arch upwards in a "U" shape, and the three of them were in it, like crabs foaming at the mouth and rampage in a crab trap.

"You've noticed, haven't you?"

Jing Qiongshuang stroked the wall and asked Li Luant in front of him, Li Luant focused on the wall with a flashlight and looked at it carefully for a while, "That's right, the craftsmanship of this tomb brick is very similar to the craftsmanship of the Western Han Dynasty in Country C." ”

Because there are about two types of common bricks in the Western Han Dynasty, one is the square brick that paves the ground, mostly carved into geometric patterns, and there are auspicious characters between them, and the other is the hollow brick used as a wall, some are more than 1 meter long, and the brick surface is mostly printed with pre-carved impressions into various ornaments, and often different ornaments, such as geometric patterns, characters, chariots and horses, hunting, singing and dancing, etc., are repeatedly and continuously printed on the same brick surface, which appears rich and colorful. Because the brick surface has been printed with chariot and horse figures similar to reliefs, it replaces the decorative reliefs on the tomb wall, and its artistic effect is quite similar to the stone chamber tombs that are common in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The bricks on the walls are very similar to the style of the Western Han Dynasty in terms of pattern, firing process, and even style.

There is no problem here, because according to the specifications of just a corridor, it is not something that ordinary people can enjoy, so at least it must be a nobleman here, and there was no hybrid rice at that time, so no one will eat too much hybrid rice to support it, and deliberately get their tomb to this place where the village does not touch the ground, and in history, Lop Nur is the closest civilization to the Western Han Dynasty, which is Guloulan.

Speaking of the mystery of Loulan, it is simply said that three days and three nights can not be finished, strange things are here, according to the situation of the scene, it is speculated that this may be a small part of the extension of the ancient country of Loulan, that those modern civilizations encountered before, and this ancient Loulan is simply incompatible, what is the situation?

After walking a little further, even the air began to become stagnant, and they only felt that the atmosphere was depressing before, but after seeing a tightly blocked bluestone door, the three of them felt that even their breathing began to be unsmooth.

On the west side of the tomb gate, a unicorn is depicted struggling to reach the tomb. The unicorn is the "hedgehog" in Chinese literature. According to ancient records, all the unicorn images found in the ancient kingdom of Loulan were transmitted to the Loulan area from the Hexi Corridor. This also illustrates the success of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions.

There is a fresco on the stone gate that depicts a dynamic picture of a white camel and an ochre-colored camel battling fiercely, and two servants in white clothes and black boots each holding a wooden stick to pull them apart. The left edge of the gate is depicted with a horse with its front hooves in the air and its hind hooves kicking the ground, and on the right edge a horse with its front hooves in the air. The heads of both horses are mutilated, and the whole thing is supposed to be to express the meaning of a fighting horse. The top of the stone gate is painted with lotus patterns like wheels, and the color has peeled off, but it can be imagined that the magnificent colors, diverse patterns, and peculiar techniques presented in those years are the material evidence that the Eastern and Western cultures in the past collided and merged in the Loulan area.

It's just a door, only showing a corner of the glory of the ancient Loulan in the past, which has made the reader sigh, and he is more eager to know what is behind the door? Whose tomb is it?

When the three of them approached the stone gate and stood on a square tomb brick in front of the stone gate, they only heard a "click", as if it was a movement of iron cables decorated with lead balls falling from high altitudes, and the stone gate slowly lifted from the bottom to the top, showing the appearance inside, but the scene inside made the three people look at each other.

In the darkness of the other side of the world—

"Whew-whew-" There seemed to be a lot of blood mixed with a dying gasp, and the dark glasses were closing their eyes.

If a person wants to survive in a desperate situation for a longer time, he must save his physical strength as much as possible and recharge his energy.

Suddenly, the ears of the dark glasses trembled slightly, the eyelashes under the protective glasses trembled slightly, and a sharp and piercing look flashed, "It's not good, those things have just brushed the water!" ”

That buzz can't be wrong!

That's not the pollination of insects and flying animals in nature, but the sound of death, those things, those devils, in an instant, as long as they touch people, can gnaw away the living creatures in an instant, if it wants to, it will leave some of your bones and other animal bones that are eaten and piled up together, as the cornerstone of the building greenhouse, if it doesn't want to, you will only be left with a pool of ashes.

"Quick! Everyone, grab your gear and get out! ”

"Team leader, that thing outside will kill us, so many of our brothers have been in its hands-"

"Do you stay here and those bugs will let you go?!"

The dark glasses looked calm, put on his backpack, and kicked the stone barrier blocking the exit in front of him with one foot, and the gravel rolled down, making a "kalakala" sound, which was very loud, and sure enough, after a brief pause, some faint and wonderful feeling filled the air, which was the fear and oppression of being stared at by a pair of death-like bloodthirsty eyes.

Originally, there was a small pond outside those rocks, and the stones hanging down at the top of the pond were also dripping, after such a long time of exploration, they also saw that although those things have a short lifespan, but the reproductive ability is stronger than that of pigs, and the combat effectiveness is far beyond that of pigs, and those who touch it will definitely die, but only when they touch the water, it seems that there is no backbone in general, and they no longer attack in an orderly manner, but "buzz" into a ball, just like mosquitoes in summer, mosquitoes become thunder but have no purpose, and will only bump around.

This shows that they need to avoid interference to a large extent to distinguish the direction or object, and the biggest interference is the water source, whether they will die when they touch the water, I don't know, but they can resist it, which is enough, but now for some reason, after blocking them for so many days, those things have successfully flown over from outside the pond, which means that they have evolved, or because of some accident to overcome this difficulty, towards them.

Either get out of here and be torn apart by the monsters outside, or stay here and wait to be gnawed clean by those bugs—

The black glasses were obviously unwilling to be restrained, but they were also keenly aware that no matter which threat, they were all rushing towards their side with great fanfare, and looked back deeply at the remaining four, who were almost all over their bodies with large areas of decay, but their eyes flashed with their unwavering trust in him.

"At this point, you must be curious, we have thrown in the country's most elite special forces, brought the most advanced equipment and weapons, what is the purpose of our coming to Lop Nur? Soldiers take obedience to the mission as their duty, but even if they sacrifice their lives for the country, they also want to know what they are for and what the purpose is, after they go out, they may die, stay here, and they will die, and I, Zhang Qing, even if I die, I can't divulge a single cent about the top-secret mission, this is the oath we made under the sickle on the first day we became a snow leopard commando. ”

The black glasses threw out the submachine gun shell in his hand, pulled the trigger and prepared to fire, turned his back to the danger, and looked squarely at these soldiers who might not return.

"I, Zhang Qing, just want to tell you, the glory of our death, the greatness of death, we came to Lop Nur, not purposeless and meaningless, what we came to look for is not a mirror, what we are looking for is a hope, a hope that can save our nation and country, if we find that hope, not only can we not take so many detours, those mistakes can not be made, those who should be remembered will never die again, but also let our entire nation never be bullied, Always have the power to protect ourselves and turn the tide, if it is for this hope, even if we die today, we are still glorious!! ”

"Though dead—still honored!!"

Everyone's lips twitched and trembled slightly: although the captain did not directly violate the discipline and told himself what the purpose of the mission was, he had already solved the confusion to a large extent, but the aggrieved death here still made people feel sad and lonely.

"So—Captain—" One soldier licked the corners of his lips, his voice hoarse, but with a hint of anticipation, "So, Captain, have we done our job?" ”

The dark glasses wanted to answer the truth in an absolute tone, but looking at these eyes full of expectation, how could they tell the truth?

He has been chasing that clue, he thought he could get the answer in the tomb of King Guangling, but he lost it, all the way from Fangla Digong to Fan Li Jinzang, there was no trace of him, the last century was burdened with the biggest clue about this "hope", and the most secret person mysteriously disappeared, and he could only pin his hope on the one thing he left in this Lop Nur, so that the thing is as important as the key, but that person still did not find it, and did not know how to find a way to open hope.

By any measure, the mission failed, but – but – how could he say it?

As a military commander, there are four situations on the battlefield that can be said to be the pinnacle of this enjoyment: first, you have accurately judged the enemy's situation; Second, your assumption or deployment is understood by your subordinates and proven correct by victory; 3. When you give your deployment a medal and stand on your legs are sore; 4. When hordes of captives with no end in sight walk past the countless weapons under your feet.

Zhang Qing looked deeply at the decay on the team members: those things outside are very terrible, and the places they touch will leave irreparable decay, and they are irreversible, not to mention that they cannot heal themselves, and they will expand as the wounds are not treated in time, if they are outside, with such a developed level of medical care, they may be able to effectively strangle and deal with them, but in this bottomless desert-

Sometimes, what eats away at people's vitality is not necessarily aging, and there are some irresistible and irresistible.

Will they die? Maybe, will he die? Maybe. But he-

Li Luant, you must live, you must go out alive, you must live to find him, find your father, find the last thing he left in this Lop Nur, and follow the vine to find "hope" to realize this possibility.

"We-" Zhang Qing struggled, "we succeeded." ”

"Huh-" It may be true, it may be false, the soldiers looked at each other and laughed: who cares if he is true or not, as long as the team leader thinks that they have done it, then they have done it, and the affirmation of the team leader is their "hope".

Tonight, I don't want to care about humans, I only care about you. At this point, I didn't want to defend my family and country, and I was affirmed by the commander, which is the best medal I have ever received.

"Life is short and urgent, don't get drunk and don't give up!! Brothers, did you hear it, the team leader said that we succeeded, then we are successful!! Brothers, isn't it just a bunch of bugs and a bunch of ugly monsters? Are you afraid?! ”

"Don't be afraid!"

"Are we cowardly?!"

"Don't coward!"

"What are we?!"

"We are warriors!"

"What kind of warrior?"

"It's the soldiers of the Snow Leopard Commando, we will defend the country, protect the people, and we will become the sickle warriors in this world, even if they are buried in the sand for thousands of meters, the bones are rotten, and the flesh and blood are blurred!!"

"Brothers, rush, ——!!!!!"

"Rush, !!!!"

In this land of Shenzhou, in the boundless desert deep underground, there was such a group of people, who once shed their blood for this country, and they never understood what the purpose of coming to Lop Nur in the forbidden area of death was? Even the answers you get before your experience may just be a white lie, but so what? So what?

The fire-like glow dissolved into the mountains, the earth and the turbulent years, and dissolved into the most tragic scene experienced in the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and the tragedy and justice will always exist.

There is a sentence in "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang": "The lotus blooms in summer, but the lotus of the summer resort opens in autumn, and it is more than a month later in the city." However, although the flowers bloom late, they also thank each other late, and by the beginning of September, the green cover is still there. Every time the garden is in the same bottle with the chrysanthemum, it is often seen in the holy poems. It is cold in the field, and spring comes late, so summer is also late. It is not clear that it is cold early in autumn and does not wither early. ”

Splendid things often wither earlier, and some things are not widely seen in people's eyes, but even if they wither, they will always be fragrant in the world.

Treading on the shore sand, stepping on the moon; I look at these thousands of rivers and mountains, all in a moment.

Go west to the broken bridge, sparse autumn water mushrooms, deserted clear moon reed flowers.

Stepping on the sand bank, the sedge is frosty and slippery; Wet Hunan skirt jade yarn, how much moss dew cold Lingbo socks.

Look at the painting on the river at night, playing curling up and down the sky, like a piece of jasper flawless.

Zhang Qing walked in front with a submachine gun in one hand, and for the first time, he took off his glasses for the first time in front of the team members, and under the glasses was a pair of eyes that had already been gouged out, but they contained a nightmare that could kill a black zombie in the tomb of King Guangling.

In country C, there is a special existence organization - the Snow Leopard Commando, they are 108 people from the 13 detachments that terrified the world, and they are reorganized into the Snow Leopard Commando of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, and each of the 108 people has a great background.

Zhang Qing still remembers the first time Li Luant introduced his origin to Wogua with an excited and scared look: I have never been afraid of death, I am only afraid of death, I don't know why I died, why I died, I was afraid of being too lonely, but the special forces of the Snow Leopard Commando were never allowed to say the word "lonely": because pigs and dogs were in groups, and beasts were all alone. But I, a beast of prey, know two pig teammates, and these two pig teammates don't know if they are in Lop Nur now, but I want to say that in fact, at this moment, I am not alone at all, because I finally did not die alone.

There is a saying that human death is divided into three stages: the beating of the heart means physical death; The end of the funeral means death in the social sense; And the last death is to be forgotten by the last person in the world.

I saw the girl's rouge,

I opened a box,

There are no keys in the world,

There is a woman hidden in the mirror.

The sharp blue point is blue, and the fairy paints the pen to drive the night makeup, the rain is heavy and the lights are dim, the light is condensed and overflowing, and the sky is not full of flying sky. It is a pity that the six tombs are burned, and then there is no repetition of the green mountains to redden, only the people in the mountains have so far called him the red of the mountains.

I have never built a star-picking tower all the time; Don't say that he Yiyin Futang, then say that the king of Nawu is warn. Once after arriving at Huangquan, if you stay with him to wait for Si Yu, are you ashamed of it? You lie down heavily, eat the top of the list, ride a fat horse, and wear light clothes. You have to see the dancing spring breeze and tender willow palace waist thin, how to teach him to shake the green mound moon around the peiying, and the sound of the pipa breaks the black river autumn.

The buzzing sound was endless, and behind the rubble, there was a large area of black shadows, and those things, intertwined with those demons, became a tragedy that tested the unknown warrior in this corner of the world.

If you can no longer stand and go out, at least you must be safe.

"Ah!!!h

After a few violent firefights, there was a deathly silence, a thick smell of blood in the air, and the incessant "buzzing" sound began to subside, as if to confirm that the target had been eliminated, followed by an orderly exit, and soon after, the sound of reptile tentacles leaving the rocks, and finally complete silence.

These are two different calamities, with two different devils, they make a pact, but the deal between the devil and the devil destroys the life of the warrior.

I walked into the lifeless forest

It's pitch black there, and I hate joy,

Its fleeting traces have cooled over my heart.

In vain you handed me the harp,

The harp can't drive away the pain of melancholy,

The illusions of the past have been extinguished,

The singing voice has been disappointed on the strings of no feeling.

You, the leaves of yesterday's roses, have withered!

It has not been open until the dawn of tomorrow.

When the three of them approached the stone gate, standing on a square tomb brick in front of the stone gate, they only heard a "click", as if it was the movement of the iron rope embellished with lead balls falling from the sky, and the stone door slowly lifted from the bottom to the top, showing the appearance inside, but the scene inside, so that the three of them looked at each other.