Chapter 12: Dusty History
"Thank you!" At this time, Lu Qing didn't have time to be sentimental, just showed confidence as much as possible and let them retain a hope.
"And what about him?" After changing his clothes, Lu Qing looked at the stripped soldier and frowned.
At this time, the old cook and the middle-aged cook were silent, just staring at the cauldron in front of them with blank expressions. Lu Qing glanced back at the rice jar that had bottomed out, and then shifted his gaze to the white fuel burning under the cauldron, and his heart was extremely shocked, and he finally understood the source of the rancid smell in this room.
"Brute!" Lu Qing's face suddenly turned pale, and the last moral shackles in his heart were finally broken.
Lu Qing picked up the food and left the room, because he didn't know where the cell where Professor Peng was held, so he could only take the next risky move.
When entering the cave, Lu Qing was stopped by two guards.
"What for?"
"Deliver food." Lu Qing pulled the brim of his hat very low.
"Deliver food to whom?"
"To the guy surnamed Peng." Lu Qing replied stubbornly.
"Go in, don't go to the torture cell, he's been transferred to cell 19." One of the guards said indifferently.
"Okay."
Lu Qing endured the ecstasy in his heart, and his heart was really merciful. Just as he was about to enter the cave with his head down, he accidentally skimmed the faces of the two guards. Suddenly, a rich chill rushed from the tailbone to the back of his head, is this still human? Through the starlight, Lu Qing could clearly see that their faces were covered with green muscles, filled with a strange cyan, like evil ghosts from hell. Could this also be a sign of poisoning?
After entering the cave, Lu Qing found that it was a huge underground military engineering facility. Could it be that this is also built by these remnants of the national army? How did they do all this in the middle of nowhere? But just when Lu Qing saw the lighting lamp used above the passage, a line of illegible words came into view at the same time. It didn't seem to be in English, but after careful identification, I realized that it was German.
In that chaotic period of history, Lu Qing could not think of any other possibilities except the Nazis. It's hard to believe, but it's likely to be the base of the Nazi military industry during World War II. Could it be that the Germans came here thirty or forty years ago? At this time, Lu Qing remembered the Nazi high-level who had always been keen on supernatural powers, and the shock in his heart gradually calmed down. I had only heard of the secret military base of the Nazis in Tibet, but I did not expect to see their shadows in the desert of Xinjiang. This fully illustrates how terrifying the Nazi German sphere of influence was back then.
But how did the Nazis know about the Pisces Jade Pendant? During World War II, the Pisces jade pendant did not appear in the world at all. Lu Qing secretly thought, if his expectations were right, since the Nazis had appeared here a long time ago, they must be the first digger of the Pisces Jade Pendant, and it was also that mysterious hidden power. So what happened to them in the first place that led to the annihilation of the army? If there are still remnants of the Nazis, what do they have to do with the remnants of the defeated Nationalist army?
At this time, Lu Qing felt a thick mist floating in front of him, and he also remembered the warning of the mountain beaver, and the organization where the mountain beaver was located issued the highest level of crisis warning. It shows that Lop Nur in the 80s was much more terrifying than imagined, so what kind of secrets are hidden here?
At this time, Lu Qing had already gone deep into the underground passage, and met two more guards at the corner of the passage.
"I'm here to bring food to that guy."
"He's in cell 19, three basement floors, the innermost room." One of the guards said lazily.
Could it be that God is helping me? Hearing the information given by the guards, Lu Qing's heart beat wildly, he was about to meet the legendary figure who disappeared mysteriously in history, and he was getting closer and closer to returning. When Lu Qing came to the third basement floor, the stench became stronger and stronger, almost fainting him.
In the three basement floors, there are enclosed rooms everywhere, and the iron doors are made of a single piece of iron plate. It seems to be a special cell for prisoners. Why did the Nazis build cells in the desert? What do they want to detain? When Lu Qing walked to cell No. 19, the excitement and contradiction in his heart were mixed, his heart had already jumped to his voice, and his legs were a little paralyzed.
The lock of the cell is very strange, this does not require a key, but a kind of anti-jamming barb that can only be opened from the outside. Why such a strange lock? Every part of this underground base seems to be full of puzzles.
Lu Qing easily opened the door and walked in cautiously. The cell was very dark, except for a flickering oil lamp burning on the dark walls. He put his meal down and saw a dark figure curled up in the corner. As he walked towards the dark shadow, he suddenly felt a surge of air around him, and realized a hidden danger, there must be something else in this cell!
Just as Lu Qing just took out the handle of the alloy knife, a sharp pain suddenly came from his shoulder, as if he had been bitten by something, and he could even clearly feel the separation of a large piece of skin and flesh from his body.
"Ahh
The intense pain aroused Lu Qing's sense of resistance, and he suddenly swung the alloy knife and slashed behind him, but it was cut into the air. He looked around, trying to find an enemy, but there was nothing but a dark shadow in the corner. At this moment, a stream of air swept overhead, and Lu Qing suddenly raised his head and saw a thing covered in black hair rushing towards the top of his head.
Since time travel, Lu Qing's physique and reflexes have become stronger and stronger, as if it is related to the revelator potential that the mountain beaver said. Just as the thing pounced, Lu Qing dodged its attack with a side dodge. As soon as the thing missed, he wanted to escape, but Lu Qing's left hand grabbed the back of the neck, and his arms slammed it down against the wall of the cell.
Lu Qing's anger in his heart did not subside, and he slashed at its chest with an alloy knife in his hand. But at this moment, the dark night in the corner of the wall suddenly shouted anxiously.
"Don't kill it!"
But the alloy knife in Lu Qing's hand did not put it away, but quickly flipped the blade and smashed the thing to death with the back of the knife. He walked up to the black shadow with a grim face, his shoulder still bleeding and in severe pain. In this case, no one will be happy.
After getting used to the darkness, and then the moonlight that came through the window of the cell, Lu Qing had already seen the appearance of the black shadow clearly. This is an old man who is scarred all over his body and is as thin as a skinny corpse. I saw that he was wearing a pair of broken black-rimmed glasses, and the hair on his head was about to fall out, and it was hard to believe that this withered old man was only 55 years old now. Although his appearance is very different from the photos Lu Qing has seen, it can still be determined that he is the person who disappeared in history.
"You're Professor Peng?" Lu Qing asked in a deep voice.
"Who are you?" The old man raised his head with difficulty, straightened his glasses, and glanced at Lu Qing.
"It's going to be hard to explain to you for a while, but I'm definitely not the one who wants to hurt you. I just want to know the whereabouts of the Pisces Jade Pendant. Lu Qing tore off a few pieces of clothing and wrapped the wound on his shoulder indiscriminately. At this time, he was not worried about any bacterial infection at all, if he died here, it would mean that the two major organizations behind the big snake and the mountain beaver were blind, and they actually chose a short-lived ghost as the revelator.
"Die for it! The jade pendant is not in my hand. The old man sighed softly, and then chuckled inexplicably.
"If you insist on keeping the jade pendant a secret. So why are you still trying to survive until now? At this time, Lu Qing was upset, and he really couldn't maintain a respectful attitude towards this legendary scholar.
"Say whatever you want. I am not alive because I am greedy for life and afraid of death, but because I hold on to a hope. The old man coughed dryly a few times and lifted up the glasses that had slipped off the bridge of his nose.
"Well, since you don't say it. I had to kill him. Lu Qing raised the alloy knife again and pointed at the black-haired creature that I had smashed and fainted.
"If you kill him, then I'll die with him." The old man closed his eyes and muttered. But Lu Qing didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all.
"What the hell is it?" Lu Qing asked.
"You can't understand it." The old man replied.
"Don't play dumb riddles with me!" Lu Qing said angrily.
At this time, the old man was silent.
"Well, I'm not going to force you anymore. But you have to tell me, what the hell is a Pisces jade pendant? At this time, Lu Qing sighed deeply, after all, he was not mad, and he couldn't torture this fragile scientist like those crazy national soldiers. And it turns out that it won't work either.
It took about ten minutes before the old man spoke again.
"If you really want to know the answer, then promise me one condition."
"You say." Hearing that there was finally a turnaround, Lu Qing suddenly came to his senses.
"Help me destroy the jade pendant." The old man gritted his teeth.
"Why did you change your mind?" Lu Qing was a little puzzled.
"It's not that I've changed my mind, it's that time is running out. The first ten minutes are just a simple test, and you don't seem to have any ambitions. The old man struggled to squeeze a smile out of his face.
But I don't know why, seeing the old man's smile at this time, Lu Qing felt uncomfortable for no reason. It's hard to imagine that I'm sitting with a legend as a futuristic person, and I'm also participating in a shocking secret that has been sealed in the dust of history.