Chapter 201: Death Diary
Reading the notes, I was surprised, as early as thirty years ago, the Vientiane Shrine was excavated on a large scale, and it was an army without a number, judging from the notebook left by Yang Xun, it was recorded by him later, although the font on it was neat, but many words were scribbled.
The army is strictly disciplined, not to mention such a major matter, just knowing that the little corps will be sent immediately, and the consequences of unauthorized recording are even more serious, Yang Xun should not dare to violate the military order, if I am not wrong, the content of this note should be Yang Xun began to write in the Vientiane Divine Palace, and it is only after his leg is broken that all those handwriting will be scribbled.
"117 rounds?" Tian Ji scratched his head and said hesitantly. "I have been a soldier, and the number of the unit has characteristics, but I have never heard of 117 bureaus, and it is not a trivial matter to transfer a corps, and the power of this 117 bureau is too great."
What I care about now is not how much power the 117th Bureau has, but what Yang Xun mentioned in his notes that the secret that was discovered in the Vientiane Divine Palace could not be made public.
I hurriedly flipped through the notes, each page taking a long time to be revealed, and on the second page was a date.
September 8, 1954.
But apart from this date, there is no record on the blank page except for the red bloodstains, and it is estimated that this is five months after the discovery of the ruins under the Red and White Mountain.
We looked at each other blankly, not understanding Yang Xun's intention of leaving only one date in his notes for no reason, so I continued to carefully flip back, and the third page was the same, leaving no words except the date.
September 9, 1954.
Then there are pages 4, 5......
Every page is the same, the only thing that changes, only the date at the top, until the ninth page is turned.
September 17, 1954.
We finally saw the text again, and it was no longer neat and scribbled compared to the previous text, and I slowly read it.
Nine days have passed, the last food and water are gone, I don't think anyone will come here anymore, I have recorded everything I have seen in the past few months, and for a dying person, I am not worried about violating the record, but what I have seen and heard during this time is too unbelievable......
It dawned on me when I read this, and understood the reason why the blank pages before only had dates, judging from the words left by Yang Xun, he should have been left here, and at first he pinned his hopes on survival that someone would come back, so he left the date in his notes, so as to calculate the time he was trapped.
At the beginning, Yang Xun didn't want to leave any records, it should be when he finally knew that he couldn't leave anymore, and left these words before he died.
I continued to draw the scribbled text that almost needed to be recognized, which shows how painful Yang Xun was when he wrote this
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On April 23, 1954, a relic was discovered in Hongbai Mountain, and three days later, all my comrades in the corps were taken over by the 117th Bureau, counted the number of people overnight, and sent away.
Because I knew photography, the No. 1 head of the 117th Bureau stayed, and for the next five months, my job was to record and photograph the progress of the excavation of the underground ruins of Hongbai Mountain.
It was a large unimaginable ruin, more than 3,000 people in 117 rounds, and it took three months of excavation to clear out an area the size of a basketball court, and under the yellow sand that was more than 100 meters deep, there was a huge sealing stone characteristic of the Tang Dynasty.
I stayed in the 117th Bureau for more than three months, and I still didn't know the origin of this unit, to some extent, I wasn't sure that this was a combat unit, although the soldiers in it were all brave and good at fighting and experienced, but there were many experts with their own strengths in the 117th Bureau, involving many fields, especially the No. 1 chief, who seemed to be particularly concerned about the ruins found under the Red and White Mountain.
After the analysis of the sealed rocks found one after another, it was inferred that it should be a building remains built in the early Tang Dynasty at the foot of Hongbai Mountain, but according to the topography characteristics of Hongbai Mountain, rash excavation is likely to lead to collapse, so it was finally decided to carry out directional blasting with relatively little destructive power.
On July 17th, the sappers successfully blasted the sealed stone, blowing up a hole that could accommodate twenty people at the same time, and I followed the first leader to enter the ruins, and there was a shocking palace complex at the foot of the Red and White Mountain, and I was responsible for photographing everything in the palace.
According to these summarized information, experts could not find a single word about this relic in the relevant history of the Western Regions, and later after comparison, it was finally determined that the building complex found at the foot of Hongbai Mountain was very similar to the Seven Days Building destroyed in Luoyang in the war.
And the most shocking thing is that in the ruins, a coffin of unknown material was found, and a woman wearing Tang Dynasty costumes was found in the coffin......
"Alive!" I looked up suddenly, dumbfounded.
"Only Ling Xuan is buried in the Vientiane Divine Palace, from the construction of the early Tang Dynasty to the entry of the 117th Bureau, spanning thousands of years in between, how can he still be alive?" Tian Ji was also surprised.
"Xuan is waiting here...... What we thought before was right, Ling Xuan was waiting for the person she was waiting for in the Vientiane Divine Palace, but it was not separated by yin and yang, but she was always alive! "The palace lord has a grim expression." It's just that...... How could she survive so long in this Vientiane Shrine? ”
"Ancestor, ancestor, she is still alive, alive?!" Ling Zhihan was shocked and didn't know what to say at all. "So, where did the ancestor go now?"
Ling Zhihan asked me anxiously, I have finished reading the contents of the note, I feel that my thoughts are becoming more and more confused, and I slowly shook my head, Yang Xun recorded in the note that after finding the woman who was still alive, the No. 1 leader immediately asked people to transport it out together with the coffin of unknown material.
As for where it was transported, Yang Xun didn't know, but at least one thing we inferred was correct, Yang Xun described in his notes that after the people of the 117th Bureau entered the Vientiane Divine Palace, a large number of experts also arrived here one after another, and after investigation, it was found that there were two closed stone doors in the front and back of the palace.
The stone gate leading to the south could not be opened by any means, but the stone gate facing north was opened by an expert, and this text confirmed that the people of the 117th Bureau did not see the building in front of the Tianji Palace, which is why I didn't notice that anyone had been here all the way.
The 117th Bureau carried out directional blasting directly on the Vientiane Shrine, and the location of the explosion was just above the Tianji Palace, and they found that the position of the woman who was still alive should be in the first hall, which also explained clearly why we only saw the platform inside.
"Didn't Yang Xun say that in addition to this woman, there was also a coffin for that woman to be taken away, but we were in a heavy palace and saw that the platform was still there?" Tian Ji asked.
This question, when I read the notes about this, I also wondered, Yang Xun explained at the back of the notes, after they entered the Tianji Palace, they reached the second hall, and found that there were four tables symmetrically placed on the left and right inside, three of which were taken away along with the woman who was found.
"Four?" Ye Zhiqiu touched his chin and thought for a moment. "If the function of this platform is a coffin, but Ling Xuan is the only one in the Vientiane Divine Palace, why does she have to put four more platforms in it?"
"She's waiting for ......," said the palace lord when he suddenly raised his head. We always thought that Ling Xuan was just waiting for one person, she left four platforms, it can be seen that Ling Xuan was waiting for four people! ”
"It doesn't make sense, building such a big palace just to wait for four people?" The general was a little puzzled. "Why are you waiting underground?"
"No matter who Ling Xuan is waiting for or what his intentions are, in Yang Xun's notes, it is mentioned that only one woman was found in the 117th Bureau, which means that Ling Xuan did not wait for the person she was waiting for." I say.
"And then? What did these people find in there? Bai Jin asked curiously.
I closed the notes and told everyone that Yang Xun and the others had also found the destroyed map of Yutai, so it can be seen that the location of the three dragon veins on the map should have been destroyed by Lu Qiao when he opened the Vientiane Divine Palace that time.
However, the progress of the 117th round was significantly slower than ours, and they only opened the stone gate to the north a month later, and the No. 1 leader personally led people deep into the depths of the Vientiane Shrine, and found a large number of murals and inscriptions inside.
According to Yang Xun's account, these momentous discoveries were wrapped in layers, and only a few people knew what was on them, but everything was transported, and when they were about to continue their exploration, the people who entered the Vientiane Shrine were suddenly attacked.
According to Yang Xun's description in the notes, what they encountered should be Qi Poor and Black Gold Corpse Armor, even the well-equipped 117 Bureau was vulnerable in front of these monsters and fierce beasts, most of the soldiers who entered were slaughtered, and the No. 1 leader had to order to return to the Tianji Palace, in order to ensure that all the things in the palace could be transported, the No. 1 leader led the soldiers to organize a defensive line to resist.
At the same time, the retreating soldiers were ordered to quickly clean up all the places they had arrived to ensure that they did not leave any traces, but in the face of the overwhelming black gold corpse armor and the unstoppable Qi Qi, the fragile defense line could not resist at all, so they had to retreat while fighting, and Yang Xun's left leg was bitten off alive by Qi Qi at this time, but fortunately he was dragged back, otherwise he would have been in a different place.
The people in charge of the defense were killed and wounded countless times, and when they retreated to the Tianji Palace, there was not much left, the No. 1 leader led people to try to close the stone gate, but was bitten in two by Qi Poor, Yang Xun recorded that the No. 1 leader had died in the Tianji Palace, but fortunately the stone gate was closed in time, and the surviving soldiers were able to get out of trouble.
This is also the reason why we found messy shoe prints in the first hall, but after going deeper, we couldn't see other traces, and the people who retreated to the first hall left in a hurry, so it was too late to erase them, and the body of the first leader was taken out of the Vientiane Shrine, but Yang Xun fainted due to excessive blood loss.
In the panic at that time, no one found Yang Xun who fell to the ground, and when he came to his senses again, he was the only one left in the palace, and the retreat had been resealed, and he was lucky to hope that someone would come back, until he ran out of ammunition and was dying, he didn't know that he could not leave again, so he climbed to the remaining platform that had not been transported away before he died, and recorded everything that happened in his notes.