Chapter 45: The Man in the Video Appears
It's been a long time since that discarded video recorder, so let's reflect on what it was like at that time......
It was about two o'clock in the afternoon, and I was in a car with Pulp Juice and Zhang.
There's a black slimy thing in the desert.
I walked over and looked, and it was a black rucksack, half-buried in the sand. Inside, a video camera was revealed, a large area of paint had peeled off, and the recesses were covered with sand.
I picked up the VCR and took it back to the car.
After driving a little further, I saw a male corpse leaning against a sand dune with his head tilted, his right hand awkwardly resting on his left side of his neck, and one of his left legs bent outward. His face was already bone-barred, and his clothes were beginning to rot. Not far away, a tourist shoe was lost, half in the sand, half outside the sand.
It took two years for the fibers to rot, and I guessed when he died.
I thought the VCR was his belonging, but I later learned that he had nothing to do with it.
Moreover, I thought that VCR must be useless, but I didn't expect that I charged it with Yiwu's charger, and it was still working!
After setting up camp, I walked out of the tent alone and opened it......
A total of 8 video files were recorded inside, and none of them showed the date.
The first video file β
Ruoqiang County. Early in the morning, a woman, about twenty-six or seventeen years old, with an average appearance, waved her hand at the camera and said, "Let's go!" β
A bald man, about 30 years old and unusually tall, stood next to her, and he also waved his hand at the camera.
Another man was putting something into the car, with only one back.
The VCR staggered forward, aiming at the man with his back to the camera, and that's when I heard the person with the video recorder say, "Big thing, say something." β
His name is Big Thing.
Dawu turned his head and looked a little younger, his appearance and voice were a little silly, he said: "Everything is ready, even the east wind is not owed, go!" β
The video recorder is on the car, the picture is shaky, the saddle, the gear, the toolbox...... Then the video was gone.
The second video β
They had already arrived on the Gobi Desert, the car was bumping, the windows were covered with dust, and the video camera was filming the bare scenery along the way.
The bald man was driving, and he spoke: "Li Hua, you can sleep for a while, there is nothing to shoot here, see Yadan and shoot again." β
Now we know that the person who likes video is called Li Hua.
At that time, I judged that there were only Li Hua and the bald man in the car, and Dawu and the other woman were in the other car.
The third video β
Sure enough, they came to the bottom of the Yadan group.
The woman climbed up.
The camera was on her from afar. The whistle of the wind is sounded in the video.
I heard the simple voice of the man called Dawu: "Midou, be careful!" β
One is called Dawu, the other is called Li Hua, and the female is called Mi Dou.
Midou stopped at a height of a few meters, did not dare to continue climbing, turned around and shouted: "Birch, shoot closer!" β
Li Hua slowly approached her.
The bald man called him Li Hua, and Mi Dou called him Huazi, and it can be judged that these four people knew each other in life and came together. At least the rice beans and plum birch are very familiar.
Li Hua handed the video recorder to the person next to him: "You shoot, I'll go up and take a look!" β
The person next to him didn't know if it was a big thing or a bald man, so he took the video recorder and continued to shoot. Li Hua's back ran out from the side of the camera, and he was wearing a black jacket. He climbed up an earthen platform, stopped at a height of more than ten meters, turned his face, his hair was blown backwards, and he opened his arms and shouted.
The fourth video β
In the picture, the vast salt crust appears, and the camera turns to a tablet in the middle of the sand and gravel, which reads "Tomb of Yu Chunshun 1952-1996", with Yu Chunshun's head engraved on it. There were wreaths under the tombstones, shaking in the gale.
They have reached the hinterland of Lop Nur.
Mi Dou and Dawu walked to the tombstone, offered a bottle of mineral water, and then bowed their heads in silence.
Except for the sound of the wind, no one spoke.
Ten minutes later, everyone got in the car and continued to walk. End of video.
The fifth video β
They reached the center of the lake, which was a square stone with the words "Lop Nur in the middle of the lake" written on it. However, no one cheered, and the four seemed to be calm.
Except for Li Hua, several other people took pictures of each other.
In this video, I still haven't heard anyone call out the bald man's name.
The sixth video β
In the endless Gobi Desert, the video camera is silently shooting.
The person with the VCR was sitting in the back seat, the man with the big thing was driving, and the bald man was sitting in the passenger seat.
Suddenly, the big thing said worriedly: "Will the police find out?" β
The bald man said: "Absolutely no problem, ghosts don't come to this kind of place, the main thing is a unified caliber, Mi Dou, do you remember?" β¦β¦β
As he spoke, he turned around, saw the VCR, and immediately said, "Turn it off!" β
The video is gone.
It seems that the person who took the video recorder at that time was Mi Dou, and Li Hua was not in the car.
The seventh video β
It is surrounded by a compacted salt crust, and it is gray.
The person with the VCR sat in the passenger seat.
The bald man returned to the driver's seat, listening to the sound, and the big thing was in the back seat.
None of them spoke.
The high and low salt crusts did not change, and the shot lasted for seven or eight minutes.
The bald man suddenly said, "We seem to be lost......
Midou was obviously startled, and the video recorder moved to his feet.
Then, only the voiceover remains.
Midou said, "Don't scare us. β
The bald man said, "What do you see that is?" β
Midou said, "Where is it?" β
The bald man said, "Right side, right side!" β
Then, the car stopped, and there was the sound of the door opening, the sound of getting out of the car, and the bald man was heard shouting, "Look, aren't these the shoes you threw away yesterday!" β
Midou said desperately, "It's over." β
Then, the video recorder was turned off.
The eighth video β
The videographer is not in the car, he or she seems to be sitting on the ground, and the landscape has become the boundless Gobi Desert.
I didn't see a few other people in the camera, and no one spoke except for the wind. Therefore, it is also not known who is holding the VCR.
The videographer just filmed silently for more than ten minutes.
I kept looking at the boring salt crust, patiently waiting for voices to appear, so that I could judge how many people they were, and what their situation was.
It was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was shining.
The videographer is silent, slowly moving the camera.
Suddenly, the camera was pointed in one direction and stopped moving. The person who was recording the video quickly zoomed in on the camera, and a convoy appeared in the desert, as small as a matchbox, and was heading in the opposite direction.
The first was a green Cherokee.
The second is a black Mitsubishi Pajero.
The third is a pink Humvee.
The fourth is a sky blue motorhome.
The fifth is a white Land Rover Defender.
That's exactly what we're constructing for!
Later, we met another man in the desert who waved at us for help, and at that time we thought he was Pengamu.
The man was of medium height, wearing a black jacket, carrying a shriveled satchel and a sandy face.
At first, he said that he was the head of the feed oil processing factory, named Li Zhao, and that there were more than a dozen of them, all of whom belonged to the off-road vehicle club, and traveled to Lop Nur from Puyang......
He joined our team and I've been on his toes all the time.
After his physical condition recovered, he made a posture of spreading his wings against the wind, which made me suddenly remember that he was very similar to the murdered Li Hua who appeared in the video!
Later, Wei Zao and I found the black Toyota Prado he discarded, with a license plate of Yue S, and saw his driver's license, and the name was indeed Li Zhao. It's just that the issuing unit is not Puyang, but Baoding, Hebei.
Li Zhao said that he brought a video recorder, I didn't find the video recorder, only found a lockbox, Wei and I opened it and saw three ID cards, the photos on them are all Li Zhao, but the names are different, one of the names is: Li Hua.
I went back to the camp and had a private conversation with him, and he confessed that he was not a serious person and that he lived by scamming. But he refused to give his real name.
Let's call him Li Zhao.
According to Li Zhao, Mi Dou is his wife, the bald head is called Spoon, is his friend, and he has a leg with Mi Dou. The big thing is the driver of the spoon. Spoon and Midou took him into Lop Nur and tried to kill him, but he found out and ran away, only to meet us......
Later, I was guided by a couple of quirky babies and found a white Cherokee in the desert. The license plate is Kyo G.
I walked over and saw three corpses, two men and one woman, all poisoned, and I thought they were spoons, rice beans, and big things.
When I got back to the camp, I tied up Li Zhao.
Li Zhao suddenly bit back, saying that the money in his lockbox was lost, 300,000 cash. He said to everyone, "I'm here to kill for money."
I had no choice but to take everyone to find the three corpses.
Unexpectedly, I never found the car again. After driving dozens of kilometers, I unexpectedly saw another closed pickup truck that broke down, with a new G license plate, and a person walked down from the car, he said that he was from the scientific expedition team, named Zheng Taiyuan, who had been trapped in Lop Nur for many days. There was a lot of arsenic on the car, which he said was used for hydrological experiments. We didn't know he was humanoid at the time, and just like that, he got into our team......
Back at the camp, I talked to Li Zhao again.
He added that there were five of them, and one was his younger brother. He said that since I saw the three bodies, it is likely that his brother also ran out, and in the future, his brother will prove his innocence.
I asked him, who killed those three people?
Li Zhao said that he suspected that it was Zheng Taiyuan because he had poison!
In the end, I let Li Zhao go.
Since then, we have let Zheng Taiyuan and Li Zhao sleep in a tent.
One night, we suddenly heard Zheng Taiyuan's shout, and when we went out to see, it turned out to be Li Zhao who had an accident. He went crazy all of a sudden.
After he went crazy, his mind seemed to turn faster, and he told me another storyβ
He said that his real name is Wu Yisha, there are five of them, it is a fraud gang, and he has just defrauded 20 million, and he came to Lop Nur to avoid the limelight.
After entering Lop Nur, two of them made a murderous move, trying to kill Wu Yisha with the other two. Sure enough, they poisoned Wu Yisha. There was a person here who was the driver, he reported to Wu Yisha in advance, Wu Yisha pretended to be poisoned, and the driver carried him to bury him, but actually let him go. Wu Yisha promised the driver, and after the matter was completed, he and him would each have 10 million.
After he fled, he had been following the accomplices like a ghost, and he had a tracker. In the middle of the night, he snuck into their camp and poisoned their breakfast.
He wanted to cut the grass and kill the driver together, but he didn't expect the driver to be on guard and escape......
Later, the team moved on and tried to escape from Lop Nur.
Bai Xinxin's RV had an accident, riding on a pile of salt shells, and she couldn't walk. We pushed the RV out, sat on the ground and rested for a while, and then returned to the car, Li Zhao died very mysteriously, he was lying flat on the back seat, his head drooping into the space between the front and rear seats, his eyes were bloodshot red, and his eyes were wide open. No wounds, no blood.
No one knows who killed him.
Unexpectedly, the TV on the RV later showed us the "surveillance video" of the time of the crime - when we were sitting on the saltshell floor resting, the door of the Mitsubishi Pajero opened, and then, a person walked down silently, a brown leather jacket, jeans, black hiking boots...... He is Zheng Taiyuan.
At the same time, Zheng Taiyuan has disappeared......
The reason why I retell the rough idea of this story is because it is so complicated. Or rather, people are too complicated.
Now, I've found this trap near the ancient tomb where the humanoids live, and it's filled with spoons, rice beans, and big objects from the video!
It seems that the three poisoned corpses I saw were not them.
In addition, Li Zhao said that he killed the three of them, which was actually a conjecture after madness.
We have to get them up.
It's not that easy. Linghu Shan appeared, and he shouted behind us: "Don't you want to die!" β