Chapter 004: Archival Materials
After a little inquiry in the county, I found the place where the largest vegetable market went, and on the way to the vegetable market, I actually found the archives of Ning County. At the beginning, the plague in Hancun alarmed the provincial and municipal levels, and such a major event should be recorded in detail in the Ning County Archives.
Han Wei immediately went to the archives, just made a registration, and was taken to a not very large room, the upper and lower floors are full of materials and documents, and some video materials, but some audio tapes and the like, Han Wei can only read those books and graphics. The documents are organized by year, but they are easy to find, and you can walk to the second floor along the time mark, and at the end you find the 1975 material, only a few books.
Carefully flipping through it, I wanted to find something about the plague in Hancun, but I found that all the records were some livelihood projects and changes in social history, not to mention the information of Hancun, and there were very few cases involving the county. Han Wei refused to stop there, and checked the materials of the previous five years, which was already the latest in the archives. It took more than an hour, and I finally looked through the materials of the five years, but there was still no word in the materials that involved Hancun or the plague.
Suddenly, Han Wei remembered that he was looking for information before 1975, when there was no plague in Han Village, how could there be a record. Han Wei hurriedly checked the documents after 1975, looking through them year after year, not letting go of any detail. The hard work paid off, and finally found a sentence in the 1978 document, the army evacuated twenty miles east of the city.
Just a simple sentence, Han Wei did see countless information, twenty miles east of the city is roughly the location of Han Village, Han Village was blocked at the beginning, and the blockade was lifted after three years, all of which show that the plague in Han Village is real. And if it is now documented, why is it not in the 1975 literature? Han Wei wasn't sure if he had missed something, so he looked back again and found nothing in the end. Han Wei had to continue to check the information behind, but except for the sentence about the withdrawal of the army, he couldn't find anything else related to Han Village. Han Wei couldn't help but be a little disappointed, the clues were broken like this, and even the archives couldn't find useful information, and if he wanted to find the answer, he was afraid that it would be even more difficult.
Han Wei walked out of the archives, feeling a little depressed, and suddenly a voice came from behind him: "Brother Han." Han Wei looked back and saw that it was Li Chun.
"How did you get out of the archives, I'm most familiar here, and if you need my help, just ask." Li Chun seemed very enthusiastic, he was also a little helpless, what happened in the ancestral tomb of Han Village was too weird, he was worried that the five old men would come forward to stop him again, and there would be a lot of troubles at that time.
Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Han Wei saw Li Chun's enthusiasm, although he didn't want to pay attention to it, he still replied casually: "Check some previous information, but unfortunately there is no record at all." ”
"But something important?" Li Chun looked at Han Wei's expression, and also guessed that things were definitely not simple, and said: "If it is an important matter, there will definitely be a record, but some of them are confidential documents, and ordinary people can't see them." ”
When Han Wei heard this, his heart was filled with hope again, and he immediately said, "Then how can I see it?" Seeing Li Chun's hesitant look, he said again: "Brother Li help me with this, I will deal with the demolition and relocation." ”
What Li Chun wanted was Han Wei's promise, and said: "Since my brother said this, my brother can't help it, but the things I have checked must be more than thirty years, otherwise I can't do anything." ”
Seeing Han Wei's puzzled look, Li Chun explained that according to the provisions of the Archives Law, the materials and documents in the collection of more than 30 years would be open to the public, but some of the confidential materials needed a certain level to be viewed. And Li Chun's second uncle is the director of the archives and the leader of the archives, so he naturally has this authority.
Li Chun is really familiar with the archives, knows everyone, and finds a person who is responsible for managing the archives, who is called the deputy director, and took Han Wei to a room of about twenty square meters without a few greetings, the door is locked, and there is monitoring, which shows that the precautions are still very strict.
This house is where the deadline for placing those collections has expired, but some confidential documents are involved, and the deputy director has told Han Wei many times that he must look through them carefully and not damage anything. After a while, the deputy director left, and Li Chun actually left, Han Wei didn't think so much, and hurriedly went to look for documents, and soon found the files from 1975, a full 30 file boxes, all with seals, big red letters on them, all of which were third-level secrets.
Han Wei finally knew why the deputy director and Li Chun were leaving, many documents were attached with seals, and if they wanted to check them, they had to take off the seals, which was obviously a violation, and the deputy director and Li Chun obviously wanted to pretend not to know, if something really went wrong in the future, the responsibility would be much lighter. Han Wei was not dissatisfied with the two of them for protecting their lives, and it was too late to be grateful for being able to bring him in.
Carefully removed the seal, but the seal was still broken, and Han Wei didn't care about it, and when he opened the first box of files, what caught his eye was the Hancun plague, which was recorded by an expert from a provincial city.
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On September 3, 1975, I officially entered Han Village, and heard that more than 20 people had died in the village, but the bodies had been cremated and could not be checked at the first time. However, on the same night, three more people died in Han Village, and sure enough, as in the previous examination report, there were no scars, and the deceased himself did not have any fatal diseases. The most bizarre thing is that the corpse still maintains a normal body temperature, and there is no sign of coldness at all, but the blood that is drawn out has long been out of temperature, and what is the reason for the corpse to have a temperature???
On September 6, eleven people had died in Hancun in three days, all of them died suddenly without any trace. The villagers' diets have been inspected in detail, and there will be no mistakes. The village has long been disinfected, and all the clothes and bedding are sterilized medical equipment. More experts came, but still failed to find any deadly virus, and even no clues at all.
On September 8, there was finally a clue, and from the blood of the villagers, a substance that had never been seen before, which was a microcellular organism, and it was impossible to verify whether it was poisonous or not. It's just that only the people in the Han village carried this substance, and there must be some connection with their deaths, which is why none of the members of the medical team who came to die died. At night, suddenly there were gunshots, and many people screamed, I heard that someone from Han Village was leaving, and it was not clear what happened in the end.
On September 11, all means were used to prevent the people of Hancun from dying, and the origin of the plague has not really been found until now. Maybe it's not appropriate to call it a plague, but there's no other word to describe it. Many experts had been evacuated in batches, and the Han Village became more and more silent, and in the middle of the night, there was not even a trace of sound. In the vicinity of this mountain forest, it is so quiet, which always makes people feel extremely chilling.
On September 12th, today is the day of cremation, more than 30 corpses are piled up, there are elderly people, there are children, and you can still feel the temperature emanating from their bodies. When the flames burned, it only took an instant to envelop the area of ten meters around the pile of corpses, as if a large amount of gasoline had been poured into the sky. The fire was extinguished in less than four minutes, leaving behind only a pile of ashes, and if you had not seen it with your own eyes, you would never have believed that more than 30 corpses could be burned in four minutes, and there was not a single residue left.
On September 17th, I was about to leave Han Village, and I checked for the living for the last time, and still did not see any abnormal changes. It's just that there is already news that the special substance among the villagers is decreasing, which may be good news, and if someone survives, it will be worth the trip.
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There are some photos and records in the back few file boxes, the photos are the environment of Hancun at that time, and there are photos of Hancun people when they died. Looking at the photo, the current pattern of Han Village has hardly changed, but there are many fewer trees and flowers, especially the location of the ancestral grave, there are still lush weeds growing on the photo, which also confirms what the second grandfather said that the ancestral grave disappeared shortly after the plague.
As for the other records, they are the records of the Ningxian region, which clearly describe the history of Hancun, a very ordinary small village, and nothing strange has ever happened. If so, the only thing is that a villager was struck by lightning, and the sudden fire engulfed the house in an instant, and the family of six could not leave. Han Wei didn't care too much, there were too many of these lightning strikes, and there were not a few people who died under lightning strikes.
Han Wei put down the file heavily, and his heart couldn't calm down for a long time, although he knew a lot of details and some things were confirmed, but there were more mysteries. Han Wei was afraid that he had missed something, so he looked through those pictures again, but he still couldn't find something valuable. Regarding the mysterious substance in the Han family's body, the later records do not mention it, there are only two possibilities for this situation, one is a higher-level secret, and the archives of Ning County are not qualified to keep it, and the other possibility is that until now, it has not been studied what it is.
In Han Wei's mind, he still tended to the second situation, if this substance was really a higher-level secret, he was afraid that the information left in the Ning County Archives would delete the record of the mysterious substance. But this is really the case, with the current science can not find out this substance, can only show that it is extremely special, and where does it come from?
"Brother, it's getting dark, let's go quickly." While Han Wei was thinking, Li Chun came in at some point, and the deputy director was at the door, holding the key in his hand, obviously preparing to lock the door.
Han Wei suppressed the doubts in his heart and walked out of the archives, but from time to time the written records and photos he had just seen appeared in his mind, and suddenly a picture appeared in his mind, a raging flame, many corpses could be seen, and suddenly all the corpses opened their eyes, roared, and rushed towards Han Wei.