The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the feeling of darkness seemed to be suppressed in an instant. The vision of the space we are in is getting darker and darker, and it gradually blends in with the colors inside the stone gate.

At this moment, the scorpion also walked to my side from the mechanism of the stone gate, and for a while, me, Yiyi, the fat man, plus the scorpion who had just passed, the light of all of our flashlights was focused on the old photo.

The fat man and Yiyi were silent after seeing Master Liu on the photo. And at this moment, under the trance of the four flashlights, I actually saw the figure of the second uncle on the photo!

The last time I saw my second uncle through the crack in the door of the iron house was two years ago. At that time, the second uncle no longer had the kind of spirit that I had when I saw him in the same place in my childhood, and there was no trace of being washed away by the years. However, there was more wisdom in his eyes, and he exuded a very powerful aura. That kind of aura is difficult to have without experiencing big waves.

The second uncle in the photo, just like when I first saw him, is a little young, and his high-spirited appearance is still the same, and his confidence can be seen from his smile.

"Su ...... Mr. Sue! ”

As we all focused our eyes on the photograph, the scorpion suddenly spoke.

"Brother Scorpion, why are you suddenly so restrained, wasn't it still called Su Mo before? Now ......"

The fat man looked at the scorpion who was a little excited, and just halfway through his words, he found that his eyes did not look at Su Mo, but kept looking at the photo.

At first, I thought that the fat man was calling me, but later I realized that he should be calling the second uncle in the photo.

Sure enough, after the scorpion's mood stabilized, he said to the fat man: "Master Zhang, I'm not talking about Brother Su Mo, I'm referring to him, Su Mo's second uncle, Mr. Su......"

The scorpion explained as he pointed to the second uncle in the middle of the last row of the ten people in the photo.

Suddenly, the scorpion's hand swiped to the left again, as if to confirm that the person in the photo looked similar, but the target was not the second uncle, but another man with a full beard and a somewhat old appearance.

"What, there are still familiar people?"

I asked.

The scorpion didn't reply to my words immediately, but looked carefully for a while, and then looked up sharply in the direction of the fat man, and then looked at the bearded man in the photo.

I seem to understand something.

The fat man also began to frown.

"It's your father......"

The scorpion finally spoke, and this sentence was addressed to the fat man.

Hearing the scorpion's words, the fat man's emotions immediately became excited, and Yiyi also let go of his hand with interest. The whole picture went into the hands of the fat man.

We never dreamed that the current patriarch of the Zhang family, the biological father of the fat man, in Aunt Ming's mouth, would now meet his son in such a remote way.

As Master Liu said to him, it is really destined in the dark. As if God was joking with him, when the fat man had reached the age of standing, he saw his own biological father who was also the year of standing! Perhaps, at that time, it was the age when the fat man was just remembering. This day is destined to make up for the fat man's impression of his father in his childhood.

All stopped talking. For a while, the atmosphere in the space became a little depressing.

This oppressive atmosphere lasted for a long time.

Faced with this unexpected situation, I didn't know what to say to the fat man, so I could only reach out and gently pat him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

In front of us, the darkness inside the stone gate seemed to be the mouth of a giant beast that devoured people, revealing a trace of cool air at the same time, there was also an indescribable temptation.

Now I understand why Akin brought us here.

The people in the photo, the second uncle and the fat man's father, the current head of the Zhang family, have a close relationship with me, the fat man and Yiyi.

The only scorpion that is not related to them by blood is also extremely familiar with these two people.

"I was two years old that year......"

The fat man broke the silence and put the photo back into our sight.

"Senior brother, I remember my father once said that you came to our house when you were two years old. I was born in the second year after you came......"

Yiyi said to the fat man.

"Peerless Country...... It sounds familiar......"

Looking at the time they refer to in the photo, on the eighth day of May 1989, a few of them: the expedition of the Elite Country. I have the impression of this place name in my mind.

"Exquisite country", I silently recited in my heart.

Suddenly! I remembered!

The contents of the black notebook immediately popped out of my mind.

In 1989, in the middle of the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uygur region, the country was wonderful, "the land was hot and humid, and it was difficult to perform the "......"

"Su Mo?"

Seeing that I was not in the right state, Yiyi was still reading the contents of the notes in his mouth, looked at me with worried eyes, and asked me.

"It's the content of the notes left to me by my second uncle two years ago......"

I'm back.

At this time, both the fat man and the scorpion looked at me with inquiring eyes.

I told them about the phone call I received from Aunt Ming two years ago, the notebook I got and the arrangements of my second uncle after that.

The notes mention that trip to the Elite Country, and there is only such a few paragraphs, and the rest of the content has been torn out. I don't know the content later, I think maybe the second uncle didn't want me to be exposed to those contents too early, probably because he was afraid of affecting my judgment of future experiences. This was just my conjecture, and Aunt Ming never explained it to me.

Regarding my father's suicide, I mentioned it to the fat man when I saw my father's body again in the underground palace.

When I was studying archaeology at university, the university library was the place where I first met Yiyi.

The appearance of this photo in front of us, with dates and acquaintances, seems to connect the experiences that have happened around us in the past few years!

I, Yiyi, the fat man, and even the scorpion seem to be invisibly connected by this photo, or rather the archaeological expedition that took place in 1989 mentioned in the photo!

Coincidence, destiny, conspiracy, or rather fate......

Today, I am no longer the young student who only believed in materialism. I've come to believe in such mystical things as fate.

That's why Ah Jin brought us here! ”

The scorpion says what we say someone thinks.

"Why did this package that belonged to that expedition in 1989 appear in this pile of equipment? Those who have these well-equipped are obviously also an expedition team, so what about them? If we entered the stone gate behind us, why didn't we bring these equipment with us? Could it be that they were in incredible danger at that time that made them not have time to take these equipment and escape! Or when danger came, we retreated into this stone gate...... and what was the purpose of "Ah Jin" leading us here? ”

The fat man took the scorpion's words and brought out all the mysteries in front of us. In addition to these mysteries, there are many mysteries, and these are just questions that we need to think about and figure out right now. If you don't want to be clear, behind the stone gate, we definitely shouldn't step into it easily!

The scorpion didn't answer the fat man's question, but went straight to the MP5 submachine guns and UZI pistols scattered on the ground not far from the pile of equipment, and picked them up, one to me and one to the fat man. The pistol was given to Yiyi.

No more, no less, exactly four. Even the model of the gun suits us, as if it were deliberately equipped for us!

I've never used a real gun, and the cold tentacles of the gun make me feel a little uncomfortable.

Needless to say, the fat man dared to use even the "Gambadou" grenade, which was not sure whether he could open the fuse, or even if he could collapse after opening the fuse, he dared to use it, not to mention such a more advanced submachine gun! As he stroked the gun, he couldn't hide his excitement. He was still muttering, "This is a good thing...... It's good stuff......"

To my surprise, Yiyi didn't show the same discomfort as me, and was still playing with the beautiful pistol, and from time to time she was aiming at the location of the hole in the distance.

"It's ......"

While all three of us were looking at our weapons in novelty, the scorpion's words interrupted our movements.

In his hands, he had two more open document bags, revealing the contents of the papers.

It was a few photographs and a map. That map turned out to be the map inside the stone gate behind us!

The moment I saw the map, the fat man and I tacitly agreed to put the flashlight in our hands into the stone gate gate at the same time, and the deep inside was still mysterious under the trance of two beams of light.

The photographs are combined, and from the scene on them, they were taken from several directions in an open space.

All photos are in JPG format, which is a format that only a camera in the 80s would have taken. Obviously, the photo and the backpack are contemporaries. It should belong to the ten-man expedition team with the second uncle, the fat father, and Master Liu.

"It's ...... Ear? ”

Yiyi asked in surprise after seeing the photo.

I saw that one of those photos was a mural on the wall of that space. The shape that appears above, as Yiyi said, is exactly the same as the shape of the ear, and even the cochlear earlobe is particularly obvious. I can be sure, though, that it wasn't the ear at all. It is a shape in the shape of an ear formed by a hurricane vortex.

"This is an aerial view of Lop Nur!"

"Lop Nur?"

After the scorpion explained the location of the "ear" shape, Yiyi suddenly asked.

I know the reason for Yiyi's change in mood, at this moment, his father, Master Liu, is somewhere in the aerial aerial view picture mentioned by this scorpion. He naturally showed sensitivity to the place name Lop Nur.

"Well, this kind of aerial view is a picture taken by a modern American satellite!"

The scorpion continued to explain.

"In the near future?"

I'm a little puzzled by what he said. The location of this photograph is apparently in a hidden cave space, and it cannot be ruled out that it is in an ancient tomb. Judging from the degree of pigment in the mural, it will take at least hundreds of years or more. And the kind of satellite image that the scorpion said was actually captured recently!

The scorpion heard my question, and he shook his head helplessly.