Chapter 39: No One Survives
Li Luant moved his gaze upward, but when he saw that in the sun, a looming black dot suddenly flew out, swaying, as if drunk, and approached a little hesitantly: Could it be that this is the stain on the TV screen at the beginning? I sighed "ha" and wiped it with my sleeve, but found that the outline of the black spot was getting bigger and bigger, and I retreated a little frightened: It's not a stain!
Wogua also shook his eyebrows, "Yes- did an asteroid hit the Earth?" ”
"No, it's not an asteroid, asteroids fall very fast, you see this black shadow is getting bigger and bigger, but the silhouette is shaky, and there are even phantoms, and the speed is also very slow, not like a falling object, but like-" It looks like something flying over.
But the question is, what is this thing flying over, shining such a big black dot in the sun, and slowly approaching the people in the desert, and still staggering?
But the photographer herself leaned the camera against the sun, as if it was just to tell the judge that the current environment was bad, because after all, the human eye was not as direct as the lens of the machine, so she just shook a little, or her lens shot at the sun, and she did not distract too much of her gaze, and kept watching the movement in the field, the strange lens only appeared for about a few seconds, and then quickly moved away, even Li Luant and Wogua almost thought that the image in their minds just now was just a short-lived illusion.
However, because of the photographer's own negligence, the expedition team caused great damage, so that many people died later, because this one mystery was not solved in time.
"Come on!"
The photographer pointed the camera at the crowd again, and one of them suddenly focused his gaze on the photographer himself, waved his hand, and shouted, according to his lips, which should mean "come" or something.
"Damn, no sound." Wogua angrily smashed a sentence, knocked the TV with his hand, and the set-top box on the TV suddenly "scandium" trembled, and an unstable "clang" fell to the ground, and suddenly the TV picture was like a snowflake, and began to "clang".
"Wogua!" Li Luant screamed in a deep voice, scolded him, shrank his head weakly, reinstalled the set-top box, and the two of them made a fuss, and finally saw the picture again, but it was already four minutes later.
The previous scene is of a person calling for her to come over to the photographer, but four minutes later, the scene suddenly turns around, and two skeletons suddenly appear on the ground.
Skeleton?!
Li Luant and Jin Yuan Bao glanced at each other in disbelief: the picture just now was only missed for four minutes, and there was no trace of the car on the sand, so at least for an hour or so, none of these cars drove away.
This military jeep, although Li Green Ant can't see its tire logo, but most of the tire marks of this Hummer model are 215/70R15, that is to say, the tread width is 215mm, the interval is 10mm, and the flat ratio is 70%, under normal circumstances, ordinary cars should not use flat ratio >The aspect ratio is recommended for 75% of tires, luxury cars and high-performance sports cars
Unless there is a very large tornado in this square inch of land in the next four minutes, which rolls up the entire area of sand and re-lays it, then it is possible to create the situation that is speculated.
Compared with other places, the dust and wind in the Lop Nur desert are more frequent, just like snow, there are traces that will soon be blown by the wind and the yellow sand to blow and wrinkle, leaving no traces, in terms of average speed, combined with the weather conditions and dust wind speed of Lop Nur, and the area of the entire Lop Nur, and the distribution of green plants, it will take at least an hour to smooth out the traces of the previous moment.
Although there are many deserts in the world, because of the previous walkie-talkie communication situation, Li Luant and Jin Yuan directly subconsciously thought that the scene must have happened in Lop Nur, and they didn't think about it at all.
In other words, the car did not move for an hour, but in four minutes, there were inexplicably two more skeletons? How is this possible?!
Depending on the size of the corpse, muscles, bones, fat ratio, environment, temperature, humidity and external organisms, it all has different effects on the decay of the corpse.
There are a large number of spoilage bacteria in the air, at temperatures above 30 degrees, the humidity is large, and there are more external organisms, so they become the skeletons the fastest, and the fastest is exposed to the air to be bitten by insects, and they are basically eaten clean in 200 hours. If it only decays naturally, it will be completely skeletal in about 3 months. If the temperature is relatively low, the rate of decay will be greatly slowed down, and when the temperature is below 0 degrees, the rate of decay will be very slow. The rate of decay in the soil and water is slow, the speed of decay in the soil is the slowest, there are actinomycetes in the soil, which can restrain the spoilage bacteria, and it takes more than several years to completely decay in the soil.
From the point of view of the essence of decay, the process of decay is a very complex chemical change process, which is generally an aerobic chemical reaction process, so it seems that the root cause of the decay rate is only temperature and oxygen concentration.
When considering the role of organisms in the decay process, biological factors must also be considered, so if the environment is high temperature, rich in oxygen, and rich in microorganisms, then the corpse will decompose into a skeleton very quickly; On the contrary, in an environment of low temperature, lack of oxygen, and no microorganisms, the rate of decay is very slow, and it is difficult to form skeletons quickly.
Finally, if the corpse is artificially disposed of, then in the fastest time, the corpse can be turned into a skeleton, and the only way is to cremate and burn it.
The current cremation furnace is to start heating up from 200 degrees, the first stage is to burn paper coffins and human clothes and fat, the best burning temperature at this stage is 400-500 degrees, the second stage is to burn human muscles, organs and blood, the best burning temperature is about 600 degrees, the third stage is to burn bones, the temperature at this stage is adjusted to 800-900 degrees, that is, 1600-1800 °F, to ensure that the body can be disintegrated.
Even if it is burned, the human body has fat and water, and it takes time to burn a person into a skeleton, and it can't be done in just a few minutes. What's more, if you can't reach a high temperature of hundreds of degrees Celsius or above, or if you don't have a burning environment like a crematorium, you can't complete this job, not to mention that those skeletons look clean, not even a little bit of meat scrap, but it's a bit like the criminal law of the ancients: a thousand cuts. No, such a clean skeleton is cleaner than a thousand cuts.
Because there will be scars on the skeleton of thousands of cuts, but these two skeletons have not left any knife wounds.
What kind of power can make two fresh lives become two clean white bones in an instant in four minutes?
The scene was out of control, and more than two dozen people began to scream, although they couldn't hear the sound, but this hoarse voice of extreme fear was exhausted, almost showing it from the screen through the back of the paper, Li Green Ant and Jin Yuanbao's scalp was numb, and an invisible coolness swept over the brain.
The rest of the people ran in all directions, and the screen trembled badly at this time, and the scene was full of dust and yellow sand because of the appearance of emergencies, so what exactly was going to escape was not clear at all.
"Woo-" The four jeeps were driven away by the tall man and the people in his camp, rolling up a gust of wind and sand, the exhaust of the jeep seemed to be a black ruthless monster, roaring and starting to leave, abandoning the vast majority of people, Li Luant and Jin Yuan Bao saw it really, in those four jeeps, there were only seven or eight people at most, that is to say, almost two people snatched a jeep for nothing, and the seats of a jeep were five people, there were more than a dozen people left at the scene, only one jeep, how could it be possible?
The photographer himself was also in the abandoned camp, and he couldn't care about the camera, and in the panic, the camera was thrown on the sand, and the picture didn't shake, but because of the commotion just now, the scene was like a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke everywhere, and the yellow sand everywhere was like a thick fog in the morning, and it was directly piled up and couldn't see clearly.
However, the danger is not over.
After about forty seconds, the situation at the scene calmed down a bit, and the yellow sand subsided, because the camera was dropped on the top of a small mound, so in a condescending posture with an inclination of 90 degrees, the state of the eight people who had just seized the car and fled was recorded.
But seeing the four jeeps running like snakes and fled, scurrying around like headless flies, I don't know what they were dodging, the original video started, the co-pilot's window of the jeep was open, and now it is also tightly closed.
Jin Yuan muttered in his heart: These people are running away like headless flies, and they can see that time is pressing, but there is still this leisure to deliberately close the window, is it because of the water in the brain?
Because there is no sound in the video itself, and the four cars are far away, Li Luant and Jin Yuan thought that the situation at the scene was almost the same as the separation of the four cars from the people present, and it came to an end, but who knew that after the four cars drove out for four or five hundred meters, they suddenly stopped in unison, "bang", as if they were suddenly blocked by someone, and they all stopped.
"What's the situation? Aren't these people busy running for their lives? I don't even want so many people's lives, why did it stop again? ”
As soon as Jin Yuanbao's words fell, the passenger window of a jeep was suddenly shattered by a shot. The windows of this kind of military jeep are bulletproof glass, which may not be broken with a hammer, and can be easily shot through with bullets?
On the night of February 9, 1998, Georgian President Shevardnadze was on his way home in a Mercedes-Benz car, when more than 20 killers suddenly burst out of the dense forest under the cover of night, fired wildly at the presidential car and threw grenades, the car was scarred, but fortunately Shevardnadze was unscathed, thanks to a Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car worth $500,000 presented to him by the German government.
The use of some bank bulletproof vehicles has led to the invention of one-way bulletproof glass, which will resist the incoming small arms shooting on the outside of the glass, but will allow shooting on the opposite side of the glass, i.e. on the inside, for example, the defender will shoot from the inside of the bulletproof car and thus shoot at an external threat through the glass.
Bulletproof glass is a composite material obtained by special processing of plexiglass and high-quality engineering plastics, which is usually a transparent material, such as PVB/polycarbonate fiber thermoplastic, generally known as lexan resin, also known as LEXAN PC RESIN. It has the appearance of ordinary glass and the behavior of transmitting light, providing some protection against the firing of small arms. The thickest PC board can be 136 mm thick, the maximum width is 2166 mm wide, and the effective time is 6664 days.
Like the latest Hummer military jeep in front of you, its bulletproof glass is most likely to use the same equipped technology, that is, type B: that is, DFB10 + polymer material + DFB10, 10mm high-strength monolithic cesium-potassium fireproof glass + polymer material + 10mm high-strength monolithic cesium-potassium fireproof glass.
This kind of glass, as long as it is not artificially opened from the inside, if the people outside want to penetrate from the outside, they must at least be equipped with a detonator that can blow up the building.
Li Green Ant saw it clearly, it was obvious that there was a small shooting hole first, and then many dense small holes, which were the people inside who wanted to come out!
Because the material design of the inner glass of bulletproof glass is different from that of the outer glass, it can be penetrated from the inside, but this is not a pistol that can penetrate this high-strength glass from a cat or a dog.
It must be said that the American XM109 25mm large-caliber sniper rifle can complete this impossible task.
For some long-range sniper missions, the common 12.7mm caliber bullet is not powerful enough. As a pioneer in advocating the development of 12.7mm caliber sniper rifles, Barrett recently designed and manufactured a 25mm XM109 sniper rifle, which is so powerful that it might be a more figurative name if renamed "shoulder gun". Prototypes of weapons have been produced for near-term testing.
In addition, the XM109 sniper rifle, which has the ability to destroy light armor, is a semi-automatic 25mm rifle with a barrel of 447mm and a total length of 1168mm. It weighs about 20.9 kg and is equipped with a 5-round capacity magazine. The Barrett M107 12.7mm caliber sniper rifle has a barrel length of 960mm, a total length of 1448mm, a weight of about 15 kg, and a magazine with a capacity of 10 rounds.
So far, these two models are the only guns in the world that can shoot through bulletproof glass from the outside or inside, regardless of any physical obstacles.
That is to say, this group of people came to the desert of Lop Nur, at least equipped with an American XM109 25mm large-caliber sniper rifle, or an XM109 sniper rifle, what is it, as long as Li Luant sees the bullet, or does not need to see the bullet, as long as he sees the bullet hole on the bulletproof glass, he can know what the piercing weapon is according to the situation at the scene, but unfortunately he can't see it.
But this is very intriguing, what kind of task, need to be equipped with such weapons, and these two kinds of guns, now even some poll military weapons processing factories are not allowed to produce and manufacture, unless instructed, otherwise-
The car window was smashed by someone, obviously trying to escape, but when they saw that something was about to come out of the window, they stretched out with all their might, and now what the two of them saw was a skeletal arm.
"Whew-"
The gold ingots gasped, almost thinking that the skeleton had become a refinement, but who knew that the skeleton arm seemed to be because of the muscle memory of the person who died in an instant, and the rapid reaction broke free from the traces, so after the brain was dead, it hung coldly on the broken glass slag in an instant, motionless, and there was no more sound.
This man, dead.
This man, who tried his best to leave a dozen people to flee for his life, still died after thinking that he had picked up a life and left the danger zone, and the death was unknown, and it was obvious that the same thing had happened to both the people in the same car and the other three jeeps.
These people, all dead.
The outcome was exactly the same.
It turned out that the two skeletons that the two of them began to see were the appearance of those who were still alive just now after they died, not specially transported to the scene, nor were they there originally, but the living people suddenly died after something happened, and finally appeared like this. It's all skeletons, and they're all so weirdly dead.
The whole picture adds up to less than fifteen minutes, and by the time we got here, the progress bar was already 12 minutes.
Jin Yuan Bao was suddenly frightened, "What about the black glasses?" ”
yes, what about the dark glasses? Eight people escaped just now, and what was left at the scene was a big head, if the person wearing black sunglasses was black glasses, then black glasses were also among the abandoned people, so what about the rest of the people?
However, there is no answer to this question, because it is a coincidence that the current camera, which was thrown away because of the riots just now, can now photograph the situation of those who fled behind, how can it be possible to suddenly turn around and then photograph the situation of the remaining people?
But the worst is already prepared: if those who seem to have fled are dead on the way, then the fate of those who cannot escape is feared—
This is an indisputable fact, irrefutable, even if the black glasses themselves are powerful, everything that happened just now is really incredible, even Li Luant didn't know what the mysterious power that can take away people's lives in an instant is after watching it for a long time, maybe the camera can't be photographed because of various changes, but the black glasses and others are in personal contact, and even those who escaped are dead, and the black glasses left at the scene -
The two watched quietly for another two minutes, and the picture was almost over, and the camera angle stayed on the four jeeps, one of which had a broken window, and the skeletal arm that stretched out kept clutching the hearts of the two.
Is that all?
Jin Yuanbao's face was itchy, scratched, and suddenly asked, "You say, this picture is a total of fifteen minutes, it seems that if the worst plan is that more than 20 people at the scene all die, then who sent you this belt?" ”
Asking like this, Li Luant's head seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water: yes, the worst plan is that everyone at the scene is dead, all of them are dead, who sent the belt to him?
"Moreover, even a camera, like a copycat, has a standby time, right, why is it only fifteen minutes? That doesn't make sense. ”
Li Luant reluctantly said, "Maybe I filmed something else at the beginning, but the tape was pulled out, and in the end there was only fifteen minutes of power left, which was used to shoot this, and it automatically turned off after fifteen minutes when the power ran out." But even so, it still can't explain the question that Jin Ingot just asked.
This is too unbelievable, since they are all dead, this belt and even the camera, obviously, will be buried in the yellow sand together, and will never be shown in front of everyone, how can it come into their own hands? Was it also seen by the gold ingots and himself?
The two of them were worried in their hearts, and they always felt that something big was happening, although there was nothing going on yet.
The gold ingot's eyes suddenly lit up, "You say, could it be black glasses?" Didn't you have the sound of black glasses on that walkie-talkie? ”
Li Luant sighed, "To be honest, I was very sure of him before, but now that I look at this tape, I am not so sure, because you think, if it is black glasses, he will send me the tape and walkie-talkie, which proves that he must find a courier point that can send express delivery." The nearest express point in Lop Nur is in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, at the intersection of Loulan Road and Jianshe Road in Ruoqiang County.
"That is to say, if the black glasses come out of Lop Nur, even if he really wants to tell himself something, it is inconvenient for him to come, and he must pretend to be mysterious and send me the tape and it is reasonable, but he has no reason to send me the walkie-talkie with him, do you remember? As I told you, Black Glasses told me on the walkie-talkie that he was trapped, and if it was really the voice of Black Glasses on the walkie-talkie, presumably he didn't come out of Lop Nur at all, then all the previous speculations were overturned, and we were stuck in a loop. ”
It's dark glasses, part of it makes sense, part of it doesn't; It's not black glasses, part of it doesn't make sense, part of it makes sense, if it's not black glasses, why is it black glasses on the other end of the walkie-talkie that answers you? If it is black glasses, how can it be that he has entered Lop Nur again?
Li Luant was distraught, the belt was facing the vast desert, and it looked like it was about to enter the end, and there were thirty seconds left, and it was estimated that it was the same scene, and the two fell into a long silence because of this extremely strange photography.
At that moment, the camera, which had been standing still, suddenly began to move around as if it had been held in someone's hand.
!!
The eyes of the gold ingots and Li Lubao widened, and the person holding the camera seemed to know that the camera was recording, so they took a picture around, which also made Li Luant and the gold ingot just see the fate of those who were abandoned.
Sure enough, there were many skeletons on the ground, and it was estimated that there were more than a dozen—
Wait a minute!
Li Luant's eyes froze: the number is wrong!
One two three four...... plus the first two, there are only twelve in total, and there are at least eighteen or so people left, why are there six people missing here?!
"And the photographers." Jin Yuan reminded him, Li Luant still insisted, "Think about it, so many people have died, and there are inexplicably six fewer people, even if those people don't die, they must be hiding somewhere now, fleeing far away, not even daring to breathe, only a few minutes have passed since the shocking change just now, anyone who has not calmed down after facing such a death apocalypse, how can he still come out in a dignified manner?" ”
"Maybe it's dark glasses." The meaning of gold ingots is that black glasses have great powers, and what others can't do, black glasses must be able to do, and they can't be seen by common sense.
"No, look at her hands!" Li Luant pressed "pause", observed it, and the figure of a person in his mind suddenly floated by, déjà vu, and in an instant, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the golden ingot, "I know the identity of this person." ”
The third volume of "Thief One Foot High" "Xianshui Penglai" (Fan Li Jinzang) is finished.
The next volume: "The Blue Mound Loulan of the One Foot High"