Chapter 698: Notes from the Old Days – 1936 to 1945 (Part II)
After the miracle disappeared, it took the Japanese two full years until the end of June 1944 to dig through the rock formation, and on the 17th of this month, the National X Army was defeated in the Fourth Battle of Changsha and Changsha fell.
The first time the words "the fall of Changsha" appeared in the diary were after June 19, 44, and it seems that the Japanese in the valley still maintained contact with the invading army outside.
After the rock layer was dug through, what was presented to the Japanese was a huge hollow cave, which was distributed with a large number of caves, like a maze array, the Japanese did not dare to enter, so they wanted to force the coolies to go in to investigate, but at the end of 43 years, the village chief died of a serious disease, and the Japanese had a significant decrease in their ability to control the coolies.
In addition, Ishikawa Hideki said in his diary that the locals did not know where they learned the news of the Japanese invasion of Hunan, and these coolies were fierce and were not afraid of the guns in their hands, so in order to effectively control these people, the Japanese actually controlled the women and children in the stockade and forced the laborers to submit.
It was when the Japanese forced the laborers to enter the cave to investigate, and the laborers realized that the place might be a dangerous place for life and death, and they refused to go deeper anyway.
The actual person in charge of the Japanese squadron at that time was a man called "Lieutenant Takahashi", and Hideki Ishikawa described this person as a madman.
In order to force the laborers to submit, Lieutenant Takahashi shot and killed two elderly people who were very senior in the stockade.
Hideki Ishikawa wrote in his diary: "Those two men were shot in public, and the lieutenant thought that this would make the coolies afraid, and he made a very low-level mistake, and such an act would have cost us most of our labor." I spoke to him, but he was a madman and didn't listen to me. ”
Sure enough, after the two old men were shot in public, the laborers began a full-blown riot.
There is no record of the riot in the diary, except that one diary entry dated July 5 says: "Twenty-three people died on our side, and the rest disposed of all the bodies, many of them women and children." …… I killed a man, with a pistol, she was probably only thirteen years old, or even younger, and the bullet pierced her abdomen, and I saw her lying on her stomach in a pool of blood, like a cockroach that had almost been trampled to death. I said to myself in my heart that all this was for the sake of loyalty to the emperor. …… Lieutenant Takahashi ordered all the corpses to be thrown into the ground, and I told him that they must be disposed of properly, or they would likely cause a plague, but he did not listen to me. ”
"After the corpses were thrown into the ground, Lieutenant Takahashi had people watch around the caves day and night to see what would happen to them, and after several days, the corpses did not decompose, and I became more and more sure that in the depths of the caves, there must be a secret of immortality. …… On the night of July 13, all the bodies that had been thrown into the ground disappeared, as did the guards near the cave. ”
"Lieutenant Takahashi guesses that it may have been a miracle deep underground that melted the corpses overnight, and I don't agree with him, I think that those corpses may have been resurrected by some kind of force, and they may have entered the depths of the cave at this time. …… Lieutenant Takahashi decided to lead the group into the caves, but he did not allow me to go along. ”
"On July 18, five full days had passed since Lieutenant Takahashi entered the cave, and we were unable to contact them, and there was no response to shouting at the cave. …… This afternoon, Lieutenant Takahashi finally came out, and the person who had entered the cave with him was nowhere to be found, he was covered in blood, in a trance, and could not communicate normally at all. The accompanying military doctor took him into a tent for treatment. ”
"The lieutenant went berserk, he was slashing people everywhere with his saber, and we had no choice but to shoot him to death. He became less human, his pupils were as thin and long as snakes, and his vitality was so tenacious that it took the commandos more than sixty rounds to finish him off. The madman is finally dead. …… I had the entrance to the cave sealed, and now I am terrified when I see it. ”
"No one dares to enter the cave group, I can't control this squadron, I can only ask for support from the troops outside, hoping that they can send someone as soon as possible. …… Recently, the people around me have become very strange, they look at me with angry eyes, and I am afraid that if reinforcements don't come, I am afraid that they will kill me. …… On August 2, reinforcements finally arrived, and I was still alive. ”
"Nakamura Shaoza brought a squad of thirty people, and our army encountered many difficulties in Hunan, and he could only bring so many people. …… Nakamura had the rank of captain before he came here, and he was unusually promoted before he left. He used to be an academic, and I like to deal with people like that, who are usually more rational. …… Bullshit, it's all bullshit! Nakamura is also a madman, he is more reckless than Takahashi. ”
After this, the author of the diary did not write new words for a long time, and it was not until June 10, 1945, that the diary was renewed: "Bad news, terrible news, our army has been defeated on all fronts in Xuefeng Mountain, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and we are going to lose this war." ”
"On August 11, 45, when the Americans dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nakamura said that the time had come to be loyal to the emperor, and he called everyone together and decided to go deep into the cave, and he decided that what was hidden in the depths of the cave was the last hope to reverse the occupation. …… I sneaked out of the group, it's too dangerous in the cave, I still have my wife and children, I'm going to get out of here alive. ”
“…… The crane above the shaft got stuck, and I couldn't get back to the surface. …… I couldn't get in touch with anyone outside, and the signal was completely cut off. …… Today I tried to find another way out of the valley, but no matter how I went, I would somehow return to the same place. …… It's been two days, and Nakamura Shaozo has no news at all, and now I can only hide in the command post, hoping that Shaozo and they can come back as soon as possible, and I'd rather face the disposition of military law, and I don't want to stay here alone. ”
"Living purgatory. Shaozo was the first to come out, I saw him in the window of the command post, half of his face was smashed, but he was not dead. Clutching a string of tongues strung with steel wire in his hand, my stomach twitched violently from horror and nausea, and I stood in front of the window and vomited. …… A lot of people came out again. ”
It seems that due to excessive fear, the latter paragraph is written in a mess, and in a nutshell, all the people who returned to the ground have become monsters, they have killed each other with sabers, some of their hands and feet have been cut off, and some have been cut into two pieces directly from waist to waist, but these people seem to be unable to die, dragging their mutilated bodies to continue fighting, and the valley is filled with strong blood and stench.
In the meantime, some people grabbed the limbs of others scattered on the ground and put them on themselves, and these limbs were able to live in an instant, and everyone became not like people and ghosts.
Hideki Ishikawa didn't dare to stand in front of the window anymore because he felt as if some monster had seen his presence. He hid in the armory, and through the heavy barn door, he could hear the noise outside, and the sound of raindrops falling wildly.
"It's raining, and it's probably a huge rainstorm I've never seen before." This sentence was written in the diary.
The coward hid in the armory for a long time, and then because he was too hungry, he cautiously ran out to check.
The entire valley was washed by rain, the ground was glowing with greasy light, blood and stench were washed away, and almost all the monsters were gone, except for Nakamura Shaosa, who was standing alone in the middle of the valley, who cut off his tongue with a saber and bit it to pieces, swallowing it down his throat.
That night, the young man surnamed Nakamura also returned to the underground.
Hideki Ishikawa decided to flee the valley at all costs, and when he bravely returned to the well, only to find that it had been flooded by the rain, he did the last brave thing in his life...... Holding his breath, he dived into the tunnel, but unfortunately the water was too deep, and this breath was not enough at all, so he couldn't dive too deep, and in order to save his life, he still withdrew.
After that, this guy has been hiding in the stone building, during which he found that there were two monsters in the valley that looked like spiders, which should be the human spiders we saw in the village before, these spiders often wander around the stone building, and Ishikawa Hideki is even more afraid to go out, relying on the food and water stored in the stone building for more than two months.
In October 1945, he wrote his last diary: "Four days have passed since the day of the lack of food, and the belts and boots have been eaten by me as the last food, and the monsters are still roaming around. I can't hold on anymore and I hope my family is well. In the armory, I found a saber, it was sharp and should not cause me too much pain. ”
In the end, the diary was written in a mess, and the notes were erratic.
When Qing Yazi interpreted this, I also figured out that the bones I saw in Westinghouse before belonged to the author of this diary, and he finally chose to cut himself off in extreme despair.
In addition to the above, the diary also contains a detailed account of the construction of the Japanese underground, and when the town on the other side of the village was abandoned. Under the banner of doing business, this group of people got a lot of building materials from the outside, and the underground fortifications were also very complicated, and there was even a small hydroelectric power station inside.
To make such a large project, it is necessary to require huge manpower and material resources, the stone used in the construction is good to say, it can be replenished by excavating the rock formation, and some other materials similar to metals and precision instruments, its volume is large, the category is complex, almost to the extent of incredible.
It can be said that in addition to the regular consumption of the Japanese on the frontal battlefield, almost all the rest of the funds and material resources are spent in this place.
(End of chapter)