Xue Xinrou said that this is a synchronous photo sent back to NASA by the near-geostationary orbit satellite codenamed Iris Project, and five minutes after the nuclear explosion, the satellite was strongly interfered with, and lost contact with the space agency and crashed after sending back the last set of photos.

The resolution of the photo was already very high at that time, and in the first photo, you can clearly see the outline of the building in the desert, and one of the places marked with a circle with a red pen, Xue Xinrou said that it was a test tower.

The second photograph of the successful nuclear explosion was a large spread of sand and soil that had previously been built and the outline of the previous building disappeared in an instant.

The picture of the third photo is a little blurry, Xue Xinrou said that it was the last one sent back before the NEO satellite crashed, in the shaky photo, in the sand that gradually began to dissipate, dense azure spots loomed, and the outline of an ancient building could be vaguely seen around these spots, and we vaguely saw a pattern in the center of the outline.

Ye Zhiqiu took out a magnifying glass from his bag, and we gathered around, and the magnified pattern appeared......

A winged dragon!

It was the pattern of the feathered dragon, I recognized it at a glance, it was exactly the same as the one in my necklace, we were completely speechless in shock, why the symbol of the Moon Palace Nine Dragons Boat appeared in the center of the nuclear explosion, and what surprised us even more, what was the outline of the ancient building that appeared, and how could these things be intact in such a large explosion destructive force.

Tian Ji said that to accurately confine the blast shock wave of 22,000 tons of TNT equivalent to two square kilometers, it must require more force than this equivalent.

"What are these azure spots?" Ye Zhiqiu asked.

"It's water! My father told me that it was a large amount of water coming out of the surface. Xue Xinrou explained unhurriedly. I have checked the information that Lop Nur used to be the second largest inland lake in China, and later because of the decrease in the flow of the river and the serious desertification around it, it will quickly degrade and completely dry up, but there should be a dark river under Lop Nur, and the nuclear explosion test led to the outflow of the dark river. ”

"The feather dragon is the symbol of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, why did it appear in the center of the nuclear explosion?" The palace lord was stunned.

"It may be a coincidence that the nuclear explosion test in Lop Nur inadvertently discovered the whereabouts of the hidden Moon Palace Kowloon Fang." Tian Ji said.

The vast Gobi area of Lop Nur is amazing, I don't believe that the mysterious feather dragon pattern will appear in the center of the nuclear explosion impartially, and Xue Xinrou has not spoken, seeing me and her look at each other, she took a deep breath: "According to the data and intelligence summarized by the CIA and the Space Agency, the 596 project of the Red Dynasty may not be just a simple nuclear explosion test, but it is impossible to know what it is until now, and the Iris program has never been terminated until now, The purpose is to find out the connection between this bizarre nuclear explosion and the patterns that appeared, as well as the outlines of ancient buildings. ”

"What exactly are you talking about the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat?" Although Ye Zhiqiu listened attentively, he was still confused.

"These are supposed to be top secrets, how did you know and get these photos?" Tian Ji asked cautiously.

Xue Xinrou told us that after the satellite sent back these photos, neither the CIA nor NASA could decipher the reaction of the patterns in the photos, so they summoned the most authoritative archaeologists at the time, and Xue Xinrou's father was among them, and that was also the time when her father left Xue Xinrou without saying goodbye.

If it weren't for Xue Xinrou's father being sent to the hospital for treatment in the advanced stage of liver cancer, I'm afraid Xue Xinrou would not know what his father was involved in in this life.

It's a pity that even the top archaeologists can't explain what is in the photo, but Xue Xinrou's father recognized it at a glance as the symbol of the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Fang, he knew about the Moon Palace Nine Dragon Boat from Xue Shuqiao, but he never really believed it, and he didn't understand that his father Xue Shuqiao wasted his life in a legend that couldn't exist at all.

Xue Xinrou's father was shocked at the time, that pattern was enough to show that what Xue Shuqiao was looking for did really exist, but her father did not reveal this secret, because the near-earth satellite crashed, and it was impossible to send back photos synchronously, the CIA was eager to know the progress of the situation, and sent a U2 reconnaissance plane at all costs, but because the Red Dynasty was strictly guarding the area, it was impossible to get close at all.

Therefore, the CIA planned to send personnel to secretly go deep into Lop Nur to investigate, it was already a year after the first nuclear explosion, but before departure, it received information that the Red Dynasty had conducted a second airdrop nuclear explosion test in the area, and the photos sent back from the satellite showed that the latitude and longitude of the target area was the center of the anomalous pattern of the first nuclear explosion.

And intelligence from the CIA indicates that the second airdrop test was conducted earlier than expected.

"Latitude 41.43, longitude N88.44......" I subconsciously licked my lips when I heard this.

"How do you know this coordinates?" Xue Xinrou looked at me in surprise. "This coordinate is the location of the second nuclear explosion target transmitted by the satellite."

Of course I knew that my father was in the target area on this very day, and I never understood why he was in the target area of the nuclear explosion test, but now I finally know that he was there to detect the appearance of the feathered dragon pattern.

Forty years ago, my father went to Kunlun Jinque, he knew that the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace existed, and at that time, it was definitely not ordinary people who could get close to this area, Xue Xinrou said that the time of the second airdrop nuclear explosion test was advanced, which also explained why my father appeared in the center of the target area, because he did not know that the nuclear explosion test would be carried out that day.

"After the second nuclear explosion test, the photos sent back from the satellite showed that the area where the two-winged wyvern pattern appeared, which is the color of the vitrification of the surface after the nuclear explosion, was pitch black, but those patterns and the outlines of ancient buildings disappeared with them, and they never appeared again in the long-term monitoring that followed." Xue Xinrou said.

"It doesn't make sense, the yield of the second airdrop nuclear explosion is even greater, and even the steel in the target area will be vaporized instantly, not to mention people, everything around you will be wiped out, and your father will definitely not survive......" Tian Ji looked at me in surprise.

I rubbed my face, I didn't know, but I was really pulled by my father, I thought about many possibilities, but there was never a single one that could explain how my father survived from the center of the nuclear explosion.

Xue Xinrou said that his father secretly told her all this before he died, and handed over the hidden information to her, until now the Iris Project is going on, but no more than ten people know the contents and secrets.

"That's why you want to go to Lop Nur." Tian Ji suddenly realized.

"No!" Xue Xinrou shook her head with an uncertain expression. "So many top archaeologists have spent more than 20 years to find nothing, how can I find out anything alone, I actually went to Lop Nur for another reason."

"What is the reason?" Gong Jue asked.

"Do you remember, I said before that after my grandfather returned from China, he once spent a day awake without warning."

We nodded.

"At first, I didn't care that my grandfather was awake that day, and it wasn't until I read the information left to me by my father that I realized that my grandfather's waking time was very strange."

"When did your grandfather wake up?" Ye Zhiqiu asked curiously.

"October 16, 1964." Xue Xinrou replied calmly.

……

Gong Jue and Tian Ji and I looked at each other in surprise, this time happened to be the time of the first nuclear explosion test of the Red Dynasty, and it was also the time when the feather dragon pattern appeared in the center of the nuclear explosion.

"I have already determined that grandpa's delirium may be related to the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, and after learning the secret that my father told me, I realized that grandpa's mental disorder is not so simple, why is it so coincidental that when the feather dragon pattern appeared in Lop Nur, my grandfather would suddenly wake up." Xue Xinrou nodded and took a sip of water. "That's why I'm going to go to Lop Nur to see if I can find some clues and solve the mystery that has been bothering me for a long time."

"Anyway, we're okay now, since this place of Lop Nur involves you and Xue Xinrou, and there are clues about the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, why don't we accompany Xue Xinrou on a trip." Tian Ji said.

I shook my head, Lop Nur is known as the Sea of Death, and I have checked the coordinates of the feather dragon pattern countless times on the map, it is the depths of the desert, and it is still a military area, it is not so easy to get close, even if we sneak in, just a few of us, we can't do anything in the vast yellow sand, this matter has to be discussed with Ye Jiuqing, and it requires a lot of manpower.

"At first, I just wanted to go to Lop Nur to investigate, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated, and my visa time is almost up." Xue Xinrou sighed regretfully. "I have to go back to the United States first, and I can only wait for the next time I want to go to Lop Nur."

We made an appointment with Xue Xinrou that the next time she returned to China, she would come here to find us.