The crowd sat around the ground and discussed what to do. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Alexander insisted on moving forward, Lao Wang insisted on returning, Zi Yang sat there silently and did not say anything, Su Rui looked hesitant. Timur's eyes were still wandering, and this guy was very slow to do everything except for the quick reaction to escape.

The final decision is in the hands of Ziyang.

Zi Yang looked at the sunset on the horizon and smiled with a lonely expression: "It's all come to this point, the return journey is as dangerous as moving forward, it's better to move forward and die heroically." ”

A few days ago, Ziyang's last sentence might have been taken as a joke, but when it was said in this situation, everyone had a sense of immediacy that the strong man was gone.

In fact, Zi Yang was also a little curious in his heart, what was it that Alexander was chasing desperately?

While everyone was packing up their things, Zi Yang quietly asked Alexander, "Even if I voted against it just now, you will still move on, right?" ”

Alexander looked at him and said, "When you are old in 50 years, will you regret that you didn't go on in the first place?" ”

Zi Yang was stunned, how could this sound so familiar.

Alexander was facing him, two deep blue eyes staring at Zi Yang and said, "Mr. Li, do you know? When I first heard Su Rui introduce you, I only thought of you as a boring teenager, thinking that you were like ordinary Chinese college students, full of ignorance, arrogant and lazy, just treating this expedition as a tourist pleasure. So, I didn't really take you seriously at first. ”

Zi Yang smiled generously, saying that you are not mistaken, the mountain people have long known.

Alexander continued: "But along the way, you, your friends, and Lao Wang have become an indispensable backbone of this team, and I hope you can continue to cooperate with me, and we will find the secret of the source of life together!" ”

At this moment, the words "thesourceoflife" popped out of Alexander's mouth, and with Ziyang's superficial English skills, he could barely guess the meaning of "the source of life".

Zi Yang nodded and said, "I am very excited to get the affirmation of the doctor, and I also hope that the doctor can be honest with each other in the future, and don't hide all the secrets, we always find 'surprises' in the province." We Chinese have a saying called helping each other in the same boat, and at this time we are grasshoppers tied to a rope, and we must work together. ”

Zi Yang's sanctimonious words were mixed with a lot of idioms, and I didn't know if Alexander could understand it, but I saw him nodding his head constantly: "OK, OK, OK, NOPROBLEM." ”

Although it was a pleasant conversation on the surface, the two men were still suspicious.

Alexander thought that these people brought by Su Rui were not inconspicuous, but they were all non-idle, the guy surnamed Li was surprisingly familiar with the knowledge of history and archaeology, and the little black man was even more stunning.

Zi Yang also thought to himself that this Alexander was sneaky all the way - deliberately breaking away from the archaeological team and crossing the military forbidden zone, he didn't know how many secrets he was still hiding in his heart. But now the two groups of people are grasshoppers strung together, and no one can do without the other. Only with full cooperation can we leave this dead place. There is Xiao Hei on his side, and Alexander definitely doesn't dare to underestimate it, he just hopes that Lao Wang, a guy who has a bad brain, can put his tricks on the spot.

Zi Yang looked at Su Rui and thought, if it weren't for this woman, Lao Wang's IQ should be able to reoccupy the high ground.

After counting the supplies and instruments, Alexander lit the Alpine stove to make a fire and cook, which Ziyang appreciated, no matter how difficult the conditions were, foreigners are more particular about their diet, and if they can eat hot, they will never go cold. And this Alexander coffee addiction is very big, and he has to drink several cups in the morning and evening.

Probably to show his sincerity, Alexander took out a stack of maps and shared the information he had in his possession - after a few days of wandering, the people finally knew the ultimate goal of the trip.

This stack of maps is actually an 8-carat sized satellite hologram.

Alexander pointed to an area on the map in the shape of a large ear and said, "This is the center of Lop Nur, where our goal is. ”

Zi Yang looked at the photo, and suddenly thought in his heart, this vein was very similar to a piece of human skin paper in his hand. The twelve chapters of the human skin paper Zi Yang has thought about it many times, and has long formed a clear impression in his mind, among which there is an area of the seventh chapter of the paper skin that has been outlined with a few simple strokes, and he has always wondered what it is, and now he thinks that it is very similar to the shape around this big ear. Could it be that the cowardly Xue Jun was also active here back then?

Lao Wang said: "For a long time, our destination is this ear and eye? I really didn't expect Lop Nur to look like this bird from space. ”

Alexander explains: "In 1972, a satellite image taken by NASA found for the first time that there was such a clear shape of a large ear in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China, which not only had several 'ear ring lines', but even 'ear holes' and 'earlobes'. Later, it was confirmed that this was the original Lop Nur, because the long drying up of the stagnant water formed a unique texture. Later, the United States published this information, which caused controversy and speculation around the world, and even formed a controversy over the Lop Nur lobbying theory. ”

Zi Yang said, "You're not doing this time to verify whether Lop Nur will run on his own, right?" ”

Alexander smiled and said, "Look at these pictures, what's so strange about these pictures?" ”

Su Rui pointed to the ear hole and said, "This place has different changes in each picture. ”

Alexander said appreciatively, "Yes, you see this is a satellite image from 1972, this is from 1989, this is from 1998, this is from 2005, this is from January '05, this is from March '05......"

Ziyang also saw that in these pictures, at the point of the ear hole, the imaging of the satellite images continued to shrink and expand, forming a regular change, as if a layer of tangible and qualitative dense fog was shrouded above. And as the year approaches, the change cycle becomes shorter and more obvious.

Lao Wang said unhappily next to him, "You American satellites don't take a good look at your own home, and run to our Chinese's house to see what!" ”

Su Rui smiled and said to him, "Science knows no borders. ”

Lao Wang smiled and said, "Yes, then in this case, we will cooperate across borders and study it together, you have the equipment, we have the strength!" ”

Zi Yang shook his head secretly, he hadn't changed Lao Wang's values for so many years, and Su Rui's words made him change from a blind patriotic thief to a selfless internationalist warrior.

Alexander also enthused, "According to our speculation, this imaging change is not the result of a change in geological tectonics, and it is quite possible that a large, independent magnetic field has appeared here." It is not known what the exact connection between this magnetic field and the Ear of Death is. It's just that in recent years, many mysterious phenomena have been discovered in this vicinity one after another - recently a mysterious dried corpse has been discovered, and it is even rumored that he is the legendary missing Pengamu!! ”

Zi Yang said, "Since there is such a huge discovery, all countries in the world, including Chinese expeditions, will flock to it, right?" ”

Alexander said, "The information you see is the world's top secret, and it is discovered by the detection satellite through the latest imaging technology, and a large number of computer simulations and comparisons in the later stage, and there are not many people in the world who can grasp these materials." ”

Lao Wang next door asked, "Why do you have such confidential information, which unit are you from?" ”

But Su Rui stopped him with his eyes, meaning not to ask any more. Lao Wang immediately wilted honestly.

Looking at Alexander's excited eyes, Zi Yang was silent beside him, the most worrying thing in his heart still happened, Alexander's purpose was not as simple as a simple expedition, the scope of this matter was too large and too deep, and it was already beyond the scope that he and Lao Wang could bear.

Seeing Zi Yang frowning, Su Rui probably guessed what he was thinking. Said sincerely: "The purpose of our expedition is actually to study an ancient European race, in the lower reaches of the ancient city of Loulan Sun Cemetery and Xiaohe No. 5 cemetery, there have been some dried corpses, archaeologists after DNA analysis, found that about 4,000 years ago, there lived in the Loulan area to live a nomadic, blonde and blue-eyed primitive European race. And by that time people had learned to use words and tools. Some speculate that they may have been the earliest Loulan people.

However, it is very strange that in the 2,000 years after this, there is no trace of this Loulan civilization, and there is no record in the history books, it seems that they suddenly disappeared. It was not until the Han and Jin dynasties that the remains of civilization reappeared here. ”

Zi Yang asked, "You mean, there have been more than one extinction of civilizations in the history of Loulan?" ”

Su Rui nodded: "There are too many mysterious events in the Lop Nur area, historians even call it the 'Devil's Triangle', our expedition this time, one is to study the relics of this disappeared civilization, and the other is to investigate whether these mysterious phenomena are related to the magnetic field anomaly of Lop Nur." ”

Alexander said: "From the information we have, in recent years, the magnetic field in the Lop Nur area has changed more and more obviously, and the frequency is getting higher and higher. This situation has aroused our great attention - this aberrations may be the root cause of the mysterious phenomenon of Lop Nur. ”

Su Rui said softly: Not only prehistoric civilization, but in modern times, there have been many mysterious events in Lop Nur.

In 1949, a plane flying from Chongqing to Dihua (Urumqi) disappeared in the sky over Shanshan County. In 1958, it was found in the east of Lop Nur, and all the people on board died.

In 1950, a guard of the anti-bandit unit disappeared, and after more than 30 years, the geological team found his body in Hongliugou on the south bank of Lop Nur, which was more than 100 kilometers away from the accident site.

On June 17, 1980, the famous scientist Peng Jiamu disappeared during an expedition in Lop Nur, and the state dispatched planes, troops, police dogs, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to conduct a carpet search, but found nothing.

In 1990, seven people from Hami took a passenger and freight car to Lop Nur to look for crystal mines, and never returned. Two years later, three bodies were found lying down a steep slope. The car was 30 kilometers away from the deceased, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown.

In the summer of 1995, three Milan farm workers went missing in a Beijing jeep to explore treasure in Lop Nur. Later explorers found the bodies of two of them 17 kilometers away from Loulan, the cause of death is unknown, and the whereabouts of the other are unknown.

In June 1996, Chinese explorer Yu Chunshun disappeared during a solo trekking expedition to Lop Nur.

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These are all recorded and publicly available information, as for some bizarre folk legends, there are countless legends, some people say that undead zombies have been seen in the desert, some people say that unknown creatures have been found here......

Su Rui stopped at this point, everyone remembered the smoke spirits and monitor lizards they had encountered before, and those legends that sounded ridiculous before actually happened in front of their eyes, no wonder Alexander was so excited, it seems that there is indeed some kind of mysterious power in Lop Nur, a mutation that can make "creatures" violate the laws of life and death.

Zi Yang suddenly remembered something, "There have been many nuclear tests in the Lop Nur area, is it related to this?" ”