Volume 2 The Stone Man of the Western Regions The Stone Man of the Western Regions Chapter 52: The Walkie-talkie of the Crossing
With his shout, all of our attention shifted to the wind-blown sand in the distance.
The originally boundless Yadan landform is now covered by a layer of yellow sand. Underneath the yellow sand, many white objects loom out.
Looking closely, I gasped, those white objects were nothing else, they were actually piles of white bones.
Around these bones, there are also several corpses dressed in modern costumes. I am no stranger to the clothes of those corpses, they are the clothes of the "Europa" company that I have encountered many times in Altay!
Seeing the corpses in our familiar clothes from a distance, I glanced at the fat man, who knew what I meant, stepped forward and came to Sister Ning, and told Sister Ning about the strange things that had just happened in our car.
After listening to the fat man's narration, Sister Ning immediately reacted and asked the two people beside her to go to the yellow sand in the distance to investigate. I wanted to be with those two people, but the fat man stopped me and told me to wait and see.
Sister Ning's thoughts are the same as those of me and the fat man, and the murmuring of distress from the walkie-talkie in our car is a distress signal from those wearing the costumes of the "Europa" company in the distance. Quite possibly, in those piles of bones, there are still alive people.
Just as we were all nervously watching the two people in Sister Ning's team approaching the white bones in the yellow sand step by step, the satellite phone in Sister Ning's car rang.
After polishing the mirrors on both sides of our car, Shodou wiped the front windshield. Then he stood behind us and approached Sister Ning's car. Therefore, the moment the phone rang, Xiaodou opened Sister Ning's car door and picked up the phone.
Soon got out of the car and called Sister Ning over. The call came from the depths of Lop Nur, and on the other end of the phone was the group of people who Sister Ning stayed here to continue to search for Master Liu's whereabouts.
When Sister Ning went to answer the phone, I saw the two brothers who were close to the yellow sand and white bones waving to us. I looked at the fat man and asked for his opinion, and the fat man nodded at me.
Yiyi and Xiaoqian followed behind the two of us, and our convoy left a few people on guard, and the others followed us towards the yellow sand and white bones.
The white bones covered with yellow sand are hundreds of meters away from us, and under the thin layer of yellow sand are patches of saline-alkali land. Stepping on it, there is a noticeable creaking sound.
Yiyi usually likes to collect information about these places, seeing that I am interested in the saline-alkali land under my feet, I told me that this is the drop in the bucket of Lop Nur, and when we enter the depths, the spectacular Yadan landform will make you sigh at the magic of nature.
After listening to Yiyi's words, I glanced into the distance, and I couldn't see the Gobi Desert at a glance, not even a hill. As far as the eye can see, there is a straight line that merges with the sky. It feels like it's the end of the sky.
The fat man ignored me and Yiyi, and walked towards the front with his chubby body alone, and I followed closely behind him, and I heard him complaining while walking: "This Lop Nur is really evil, and this situation has just entered the periphery!" ”
We walked forward for a few dozen meters, and when we passed a pile of white bones, the fat man joked: "Xiao Su, even if I bring a large plate of chicken, this climate is not suitable for maggots to survive." If you look at these dried skeletons, there is no meat at all, and they are all "eaten" by the wind and sand. I'm afraid that the air we breathe now is filled with volatile meat chips! ”
"You're just fucking thinking about eating!" I interrupted him.
Yiyi stood with me, laughing and scolding the fat man's disgusting words.
The two people sent by Sister Ning to investigate were dozens of meters in front of the white bones we passed. Don't look at the fat man's taste every time he sees a corpse, he likes to compare with food, but every time his analysis is more spectra.
According to his experience, it will take hundreds of years to be able to turn into the kind of white bones in front of us. And the place where these white bones are located is certainly not dark and damp, but only in a kind of sun-exposed place.
I roughly counted them, and there were dozens of such air-dried white bones, not counting some stumps and broken bones.
Along a straight line of nearly 100 meters, it is arranged irregularly.
The two team members who arrived here before us stood in the middle of the white bone arrangement, and from where they were standing, the white skeleton could be seen in the distance.
Moreover, the place where there are the most white bones is where we are standing with the corpse of "Europa". In front of us, a total of five corpses appeared in the clothes of the "Europa" company that we were familiar with.
"How?"
Bean asked them.
They didn't speak, just shook their heads.
The fat man was the first to lean down and inspect the corpses. Instead of looking down at the corpse like a fat man, I was caught by the few walkie-talkies at my feet.
After the fat man and Sister Ning finished narrating what happened in our car, Sister Ning sent two to investigate, and at the same time, she also asked Xiaodou to adjust the walkie-talkie to the frequency of receiving the strange distress signal.
I took Xiaodou's walkie-talkie, pressed the button, and the wind immediately came out of the walkie-talkie under my feet.
At first, Xiaodou didn't understand my actions, but after hearing the rumors, he immediately knew my intentions. Then he quickly bent down and picked up the walkie-talkie that was still whirring, glanced at the screen and told me that there was still a grid of electricity.
I let go of my hand holding the Takebo walkie-talkie, knowing what was going on in our car. Presumably, those cries for help were made by these Europa people in front of us.
But when I turned my head to look at the corpses, my mind immediately buzzed!
At this time, the fat man no longer looked at the corpses, but got up and took the walkie-talkie in my hand, followed my example, and pressed the button a few times.
After I looked at the corpse, I stood there in a daze. The guess that was already in confidence suddenly became funny at this moment.
Because the appearance of the five corpses has been in the form of skeletons. The skin on his face is almost honeycomb coal!
The corpses are in this state, and they will die for a year or two, even if the climate here is changeable, and the degree of weathering of the corpses is faster, it will not be less than a year to form the appearance of the five corpses in front of me!
Could it be that these corpses will still be able to ask for help?
After I discovered the anomaly of the corpse, many members of Sister Ning's team who came with us found clues, especially Xiaodou, who was the first to hear the murmuring sound in our car.
Yiyi pulled Xiaoqian, some distance away from the honeycomb coal-like corpses, and also stared around with puzzled eyes.
After the fat man had enough of the two walkie-talkies, he put the screen of the walkie-talkie in front of my eyes. I thought he was going to show me that the frequency band of the walkie-talkie was the same as the frequency we adjusted, so I heard him say: "Xiao Su, look at the factory number posted on this walkie-talkie, it was shipped at the beginning of this year." ”
As soon as I pondered the fat man's words, I immediately felt the hairs on my body explode!
It was shipped at the beginning of this year, so that is to say, this walkie-talkie did not exceed ten months from its "birth" to its arrival in this Gobi!
"This walkie-talkie, it's not... These corpses! ”
The fat man said word by word.
As with my analysis, those bodies were also dead for at least a year. And that time, and the factory time of the walkie-talkie in the fat man's hand, didn't match at all! Moreover, no matter how good the walkie-talkie is, it is impossible to use it without charging it for so long.
After listening to the fat man's analysis, Yiyi immediately squatted down and picked up the remaining walkie-talkies. As a result, the factory dates on those walkie-talkies have passed for two years! And! It's all out of battery!
This discovery has left us all in silence.
The situation in front of us has overturned all our previous conjectures!
If the appearance of these bones and five corpses can be explained by the wind and sand, then this problem does not correspond to the date of death of the corpses at all.
This situation is even more bizarre than the sudden appearance of an unfamiliar frequency distress signal in our car!
Could it be that the intercom will cross? From the distant walkie-talkie production base, it traveled thousands of miles to Lop Nur, and it happened to be obtained by these expeditions?
These unrealistic thoughts of mine were interrupted by the words of the fat man.
"Do you remember what happened in Altay?"
Yiyi was the first to react, and responded to the fat man: "Senior brother, I know what you mean, you mean that what appears here is not the same thing, it is the same situation as the strange forest you encountered in Altay!" ”
After Yiyi said this, I also thought of this possibility!
In all the weird events we have experienced, there has been an aerial view of Lop Nur, the "Ear of the Earth"!
On the wall of the enclosed stone chamber space where Yiyi and I were trapped, the advanced thermal image was the "Ear of the Earth", and the bronze coffin that I and the Fat Man saw when we were trapped in the forest was engraved with the "Ear of the Earth", and even the shape of the "ghost clouds" that rained heavily was also the "Ear of the Earth"!
And right now, we are in the area of the real "Ear of the Earth"! I don't know if there are also these "ears of the earth" in the tomb deep in the snow-capped mountains of Shigatse in Tibetan area where the fat man and Master Liu went. Thinking of this, I have an idea in my heart, if we can successfully rescue Master Liu, the snow-capped mountains in Shigatse will be the place I must explore.
With this set of ideas in mind, we began to analyze the possibility of such a scenario.
Eventually, we all agreed with the fat man's point of view: the abrupt wind and sand just now activated some kind of mechanism, blowing the bones and the five corpses of Europa's expedition at the same time. And this walkie-talkie is not the same period as them, it should be in Master Liu's team, and the distress signal is also sent by the real owner of the walkie-talkie in their team! In other words, Master Liu and they are still alive!