Chapter 32: The Secret of the Garrison (Part II)
"Do you hear that? It was the voice of the dead in vain. Tang Qianlin said coldly to Takahashi Jiro, "I roughly counted, there are at least more than fifty tombstones here, all of them are in Japanese, there is no doubt that the people buried in this cemetery are all Japanese, and it is impossible for Japanese expatriates to be buried here, only it may be a soldier, and it is also your soldier, what happened?" You've got something to hide from me. ”
Takahashi Jiro didn't explain, but said, "Let's go, keep going, and talk about it when we get to the outpost above." ”
Tang Qianlin didn't ask, just continued to follow the footsteps of Jiro Takahashi and climbed towards the mountain.
It was already two hours before they reached the outpost at the top of the mountain, which was the fastest speed they could climb.
Tang Qianlin didn't understand why he didn't rest all night and go up the mountain the next day, even if he cared about his own life, he should know how dangerous it was to go up the mountain on a cold winter night.
When Takahashi Jiro pushed open the door of the outpost, Tang Qianlin saw the Japanese soldiers lying in the middle of it.
When the commander came, it stands to reason that the soldiers should get up immediately, but except for one of the soldiers, the others were still lying there, not moving, and Tang Qianlin also heard the low cries of two soldiers in the corner.
Looking at the haggard face of the military Cao, he didn't even have eyebrows, if he was on weekdays, he would look funny, but in this environment, it looks so terrifying.
"Chief Takahashi!" Jun Cao raised his hand and saluted, but for some reason, his body was weak, and he fell directly to the ground, and his military hat slipped off as a result.
The crowd found that there was not a single hair on the head of the soldier.
Jun Cao hurriedly got up, put on his military hat, and saluted and apologized: "I'm sorry, sir. ”
Jiro Takahashi didn't blame him: "You rest, by the way, no one has come to check on you these days, right?" ”
Jun Cao shook his head: "No, everything is as usual, do you want to enter the cave?" ”
Jun Cao said, looking at a rudimentary wooden door inside the outpost.
Jiro Takahashi patted him on the shoulder: "It's hard work, let's rest, I'll just go by myself." ”
Standing at the end of the cigarette butt to observe this outpost, the messy outpost has obviously not been tidied up, which is completely different from the Japanese troops they see on weekdays, although the Japanese army is cruel, but the discipline is strict, and they are not lazy in housekeeping, and this outpost in front of them is like a chaotic field hospital.
Takahashi Jiro stepped forward to remove the simple wooden door and motioned for Tang Qianlin to enter.
Tang Qianlin asked, "What is the place inside?" ”
Jiro Takahashi explained, "The Buddha statue was found here, and you will know it when you go inside. ”
Tang Qianlin walked into the wooden door and saw a cave inside that had been dug up in a mess and full of wasteland.
In the right corner of the cave, there is also a large hole that is clearly excavated by hand.
After everyone walked in, Jiro Takahashi said to the cigarette butt, "You, close the door." ”
The cigarette butt glanced at Takahashi Jiro, Tang Qianlin nodded at him again, this kid reluctantly closed the door, he really didn't want to listen to the command of the Japanese.
After the door was closed, Takahashi Jiro said in a deep voice: "You have also seen the situation here, the situation in the cave under the mountain is a hundred times worse than here. ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head: "What happened?" ”
"The next thing I'm going to talk about is the top secret of the Kwantung Army." Takahashi Jiro took a deep breath as he spoke, "Before I do that, I have to tell you some bad news. ”
Qingquan said: "What news?" ”
Jinguth leaned aside, playing with the lighter in his hand, and glanced at Takahashi Jiro with a strange gaze, seemingly not curious, nor interested in the series of strange things that happened here.
Jiro Takahashi lowered his voice and said, "The clear order I received is to take this team to find out the mysterious events in this mountain, and determine who in this team can maintain long-term cooperation with us, and those who can't cooperate will never be able to leave here." ”
Everyone understands that Takahashi Jiro's words are very simple, that is, to use this incident to test this team, and those who have no use value will be wiped out and buried forever in the mountain.
But this incident did not shock everyone, Tang Qianlin just asked: "What I want to know is, why are so many soldiers dying here?" What's inside the mountain? ”
Takahashi Jiro pondered for a moment and said, "Everything has to start from six years ago......"
Jiro Takahashi finally told the whole story of what he had experienced here six years ago.
After listening to Takahashi Jiro's story, Qingquan directly pulled out a gun and aimed it at his head: "Brute! ”
Takahashi Jiro faced the muzzle of the gun without the slightest fear: "I must obey orders, just as you now feel that I must die." ”
Tang Qianlin motioned to Qingquan to put down the gun: "Now is not the time to settle accounts with him." ”
Qingquan reluctantly put down the gun, and the tragic situation of his younger brother Qingyu before his death appeared in front of him, and he kicked on the mound next to him and cursed.
Tang Qianlin said: "Go on, what about later?" Also, where are Professor Quan Qianzhang and Assistant Professor Fu Beixue? ”
Takahashi Jiro said: "After that strange thing happened, the Kwantung Army Garrison Headquarters immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation of the non-Bishan Mountain, and then we found that kind of coal soil in the process of excavation, and the news reached the Army Headquarters, which made those high-level people very happy, they thought that there were other new resources available here, and sent troops to blockade this area, and with the Kwantung Army Special Intelligence Department as the core, they began to establish a permanent military station, just for continuous exploration and investigation......"
At the same time as the permanent military station was built, the Japanese army also built a new railway on the basis of the original Fushun Coal Mine Railway, which could go directly to the foot of the Feibi Mountain.
When all this was done, the Japanese army also tried their best to dig the hardest stone wall under the coal seam, but unfortunately, what they found behind the stone wall was not coal soil, nor other new energy sources, just ordinary earth.
The Japanese army was not reconciled, continued to excavate, and dug to the end, and found that there was a layer of granite inside the soil layer, and the area was very large, with the existing technology to excavate, it would take a long time to excavate, and explosives could not be used, because they were afraid that the coal and soil in the outer layer of the mountain would be ignited, and then the mountain would become a volcano and burn everything to the ground.
"We found a crack in that stone wall, and there was a narrow passage in the crack, forty-one meters from the cave in the mountain." Speaking of this, Jiro Takahashi looked at Tang Qianlin, "Mr. Tang, you expand your imagination and imagine what is in that cave behind the crack." ”
Tang Qianlin thought for a moment: "You shouldn't tell me that you really discovered Qinglong Temple, right?" ”
Takahashi Jiro nodded slowly: "Yes, and it's the remains of the Qinglong Temple house floating in the cave, incredible, right?" ”
When the rest of the people heard this, they looked at each other, and Jinguth suddenly came to his senses, and for the first time he spoke: "The wreckage floating in the cave? There's an underground lake in the cave? ”
"No, you misunderstood." Jiro Takahashi gestured with his hand, "It's floating in mid-air, like a palace in mythology." ”
Qingquan looked at Tang Qianlin, and the cigarette butt also turned his gaze on Jiro Takahashi to him.
At this moment, Jingusi burst out laughing: "Mr. Takahashi, have you drunk too much?" Or is it sick? ”
Takahashi Jiro just sneered, pointed to the cave next to him and said, "If you don't believe it, won't you go down and see it yourself?" ”
As soon as Takahashi Jiro said this, Tang Qianlin suddenly realized something, and he asked, "You mean, this place is connected to the cave below?" ”
Takahashi Jiro nodded: "That's right, otherwise why would I divide into two groups, the purpose is to investigate at the same time." ”
Tang Qianlin walked to the dark cave and turned on the flashlight to shine downward, but he couldn't see anything, and it was so dark below that even the light could swallow it.
Takahashi Jiro said: "I continued what I just said, after we found the secret in the cave, we immediately sent an investigation team, I was the captain at the time, and I went with Professor Quan Qianzhang and Mr. Fu Beixue, we went to a total of twenty people, but not long after entering, I encountered a current, this air flow blew us all away, I hit a stone and fainted, and when I woke up again, Professor Quan Qianzhang and Fu Beixue were gone, and there were only two soldiers left around me, As a last resort, we had to go back the way we came. ”
"Wait, I didn't understand." Jinguth stepped forward and asked, "What do you mean by encountering a stream of air?" Where did you encounter that? In that narrow passage or not? ”
Jiro Takahashi said two words simply: "In mid-air." ”
Qingquan frowned and said, "What? You've drunk too much, haven't you? Midair? Do you really think you can fly? ”
Tang Qianlin also looked at Jiro Takahashi, waiting for him to continue.
Jiro Takahashi patiently explained: "I just said, everything in the cave can float, people are no exception, this is what we found by chance, we wanted to climb to the bottom of the cave, who knew that as soon as the rope was thrown, it floated in mid-air, I tried to slide down, who knew that it also floated, so we tried to swim towards the wreckage of a certain temple, it was really swimming, just like in the water, at this time, we encountered air currents......"
After listening to this, Tang Qianlin asked, "What about after that?" Why didn't you continue to investigate? Waiting so many years? ”
"Because there was another accident, the soldiers began to get sick one after another, a strange disease." When Jiro Takahashi said this, he took out a cigarette and lit it, and everyone saw that his hand holding the cigarette was trembling.
One of the masterminds of the massacre of Zhengjia Village was even afraid.
Takahashi Jiro took a few deep puffs of cigarette and calmed down, then continued: "Many people have hallucinations, emotional instability, hair on their bodies begins to fall out, and their bodies begin to fail, and our military doctors can't find out what happened at all, and then, rumors spread, and those migrant workers we arrested said that we angered the mountain god, and the mountain god was punishing us......
The soldiers died one after another, and more than a hundred people died in just a few days, and Kyoji Miyake led a team to investigate and study it himself, and also brought the elite of the Kwantung Army's epidemic prevention to the water unit to investigate and study, and wanted to know what happened.
As a result, the soldiers here were collectively poisoned, and there was no antidote to the poison.
Jiro Takahashi took the cigarette from his mouth: "The upper echelons are unwilling to give up here, even if they can't investigate the strange things in the cave, they have to take away all the resources here, and the excavation can let those migrant workers do it, but who will supervise the work?" The militia will die, and the soldiers will die, and this is like a black hole in hell, and if you want to take away what belongs to hell, you must continue to sacrifice human lives to it, and in the end, the Kwantung Army Command came up with a way, that is, to send non-Japanese soldiers to be stationed in the non-Nishiyama. ”
Jinguth nodded and said, "No wonder the soldiers here speak with accents, and they are not really Japanese." ”
Tang Qianlin also understood: "Just like the ten soldiers in the carriage that day, the soldiers here are either North Korean soldiers or Taiwan soldiers?" Only a few officers are Japanese, and the commander is you, because you are the one who is most familiar with the situation, so, you can't be transferred, you can only wait here to die, am I not wrong? ”
Jiro Takahashi took a puff of cigarette and nodded slowly: "I don't want to die, and others don't want to die, so we have to find a way to save ourselves, and at this time, the person who can save us appears......"
Speaking of this, Jiro Takahashi raised his eyes and looked at Tang Qianlin: "This person is the person who almost killed me on the day Zhengjia Village was destroyed by a mudslide six years ago, his name is Chu Lekang, that is, your senior brother." ”