Chapter 5 (Part I) The Strange Barn
"I think you two should come to the train first." Tang Shuxing pressed the intercom to reply, and at the same time probed the position of the freight car with his hand, "There seems to be something in the freight car emitting high temperature, the temperature is very high, and the chimney above is still emitting black smoke. ”
Not long after, Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng rushed to the train separately, listened to Tang Shuxing talk about the previous situation, and climbed up to see what was going on. After going up, the three of them found that the chimney no longer emitted black smoke, and the freight car did not emit that high temperature, but when Gu Huaiyi touched the surface of the wagon with his hand, he could also feel the faint heat.
"It's weird, it was obviously hot before." Tang Shu touched it and felt incredible.
Ji Kefeng turned around and went into the locomotive to check, Gu Huaiyi jumped down, stood on both sides of the wagon and searched carefully, after looking for a while, Gu Huaiyi waved his hand and called Tang Shuxing down and said: "I suspect that it was not because they were in a hurry that they dropped something, but they threw things on both sides of the rails when they left, you can come and see." ”
As he spoke, Gu Huaiyi used a folding shovel to dig away the soil on both sides of the rails, and after digging through the topsoil, there were many objects exposed underneath, including clothes, daily necessities, pipes, glasses, and so on.
"Throw it away yourself?" Tang Shuxing walked to the other side of the railroad tracks again, dug with a shovel, and dug out a lot of similar things.
Gu Huaiyi stood next to him and looked at the shredded banknotes scattered inside and said: "You are right, there is no doubt that this must be the workers of the former Soviet Union, otherwise it is useless to hold the ruble." ”
"I want to think about it." Tang Shuxing took the shovel and plunged into the ground, walked slowly towards the line on the right, and then dug out a lot of objects, which were a certain distance from the railroad tracks on the left and right.
At this time, two speculative pictures appeared in Tang Shuxing's mind - first, before these people got into the car, they were stopped by someone and ordered them to throw all their things out and get into the car; Second, after the group got on the train, they poured out all the contents of the box out of the train window.
But. Why pour things out? If you're in a hurry, you shouldn't be pouring things, but you're throwing all the boxes out.
Thinking of this, Tang Shuxing turned around and asked Gu Huaiyi, "What did you find in the factory?" ”
"Large equipment. A thing that looks like a generator set, but it's not a generator set, and there's a door underneath it, and the lock of the door has been broken, and it's broken from the inside, that is, someone has smashed the door through it, causing it to break. Gu Huaiyi looked in the direction of the factory, "In addition to that thing, there is only one tightly knit jar after another." The high-density jar is very sturdy, and I don't know what it is for. ”
Tang Shuxing pointed to the freight car next to him and said, "Look at this carriage, it's the same, it's tight." I don't know what it's used for. ”
"Oil?" Gu Huaiyi guessed, "There are oil wells here?" ”
"Impossible!" Ji Kefeng jumped down from the locomotive, "This is an alpine region, and it is a mountainous area, when have you ever seen oil produced at this altitude?" They are all plains and basins, and a small part of them are hilly, and it is impossible to be at such a high altitude. ”
"Maybe it's another oil?" Tang Shuxing touched the surface of the carriage. "It was so hot before...... You touch! It's starting to get hot again! ”
Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng hurriedly stepped forward and found that it was really hot, and the low chimney at the top of the carriage also began to emit billowing black smoke, this time the concentration of smoke was even more exaggerated than last time, and the black smoke was as thick as ink.
"What the hell is in there?" Tang Shuxing became more and more confused.
"No matter what's in it, it's not people doing this work here." Ji Kefeng said at this time. Looking in the direction of the dormitory, "You really should go and see the so-called workers' dormitory, it's not a dormitory, it's just a place to raise livestock, and there is not a single bed." Everything remains the way it used to be. ”
"Let's go! Check it out! Tang Shuxing immediately walked towards the "workers' dormitory".
Ji Kefeng led them to the gate, and when he got closer, he found that there was a very high barbed wire fence wall outside the entire workers' dormitory, judging from the wires connected around it, it should have been electrified before, and the height of the barbed wire wall was also about ten meters, unless you have wings, even if you are a person who knows kung fu, it is impossible to jump so high in one breath.
"This is a dormitory, this is a prison." Tang Shu touched the barbed wire with the dragon blade, although it was rusty, it was still strong, and it was not something that could be broken easily, maybe it was not only iron that was used, maybe there were other things.
"Let's go, go inside." Ji Kefeng used a shovel to open the very strong door, because the lock had been broken a long time ago, it could be easily opened with one top.
Entering the gate, you can see the passage separated by barbed wire, at the position of the entrance, there are five things like a sentry box, said to be like a sentry box, but in fact it is very similar to the airport security gate, the difference is that there is definitely no electronic equipment inside, but there are a lot of locks fixed in the door up and down, left and right four directions, and a lot of iron chains are discarded next to it.
Tang Shuxing stepped forward and stepped on the iron chain with his foot and said: "It really looks like the livestock are imprisoned, it seems that the animals are allowed to walk here, and after being fixed inside with the iron chain, they will be inspected or do something else." ”
Gu Huaiyi nodded, walked to the larger room next to him, and saw that there were spear-like things on top of the things that looked like gun racks inside, but each spear had a wire connected to the spearhead, and the wire was very long, and it was always connected to something that looked like an electric box on the side.
Gu Huaiyi subconsciously touched the switch of the electric box, and after pulling it down, sparks appeared, and then bursts of green smoke were emitted - after a few decades, it is estimated that it is aging and can no longer be used.
Gu Huaiyi grabbed a spear connected to a wire and walked out, handed it over and asked Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng: "Look at this thing, it's weird, right?" Spears attached to wires, not animals, are held here, but some kind of large animals, and have strong attack power, otherwise there is no need to use these. ”
"In that case, why not use a gun?" Ji Kefeng looked at the spear carefully.
"I guess it's that the big animals imprisoned here are very aggressive, but they are also very precious, and only this kind of thing can work for them in some kind of harsh environment, and killing one will reduce the production speed by several percent, so it can only be coerced. Deadly force cannot be used. Tang Shuxing looked at the spearhead of the spear, after so many years, the spearhead had turned black.
Tang Shuxing looked at the spearhead and felt that something was wrong. The yin bee who subconsciously pulled out Gu Huaiyi's sharpened the spearhead, but it didn't have much effect, he thought for a while, took out the toothpaste from his backpack, and carefully rubbed it on the spearhead, and it didn't take long for the spearhead to turn silvery-white, that is, it returned to its original appearance.
"It's silver!" Tang Shuxing showed it to the other two, "It's too long." The silver spearhead has turned black due to oxidation, and the toothpaste has fluorine and acidic substances in it, which will change back to its original appearance when wiped off, but it can only last for a while. ”
Ji Kefeng nodded. And there he said to himself, "Silver, copper, gold, aluminum, tungsten, nickel, iron...... In general, the metal with the best electrical conductivity other than superconductors is silver. ”
Gu Huaiyi looked at the silver spearhead: "What kind of thing needs to use such a thing?" Need such a large current? ”
"You come with me." Ji Kefeng walked towards the dormitory, approached the concrete house, passed through the three gates outside, and after walking in, he found that there were all compartments of less than five square meters inside. In Tang Shuxing's words, this is no different from the cubicles of those small hair salons on the back street of Zhenyang City, but it is dirtier.
Every cubicle was pretty much the same, and from the outside it looked like the dormitory was so big and had so many windows, but it was actually only one floor. The upper and lower windows are sealed, and the windows are just decorations. There are also locks in each compartment, many of which have large chains the thickness of a wrist.
And there are also monorails on the ground, which have pulleys inside them and locks above the pulleys. The locks were attached to the chains, and it seemed that the monsters imprisoned here were not only large in size, but also powerful, and even in this kind of barn, they could not be completely released, so they could only be forced with the kind of charged spears, dragging the chains along the monorail on the ground.
"Look at this!" Ji Kefeng pointed to the door of one of the compartments, where there was a pile of completely dry dung, and there were thick hairs on top of the dung.
Tang Shuxing didn't care about the nausea, leaned over and looked carefully, picked up the hair, took off the night vision device, turned on the shoulder lamp and shone it, judged carefully, and sniffed it again, and a very strong animal smell was wrapped on it.
Tang Shuxing handed it to Gu Huaiyi: "You have traveled everywhere all year round and have a wide range of knowledge, you smell what kind of hair this is." ”
Gu Huaiyi looked at the hair with black hair mixed with yellow hair, sniffed it, immediately took it farther away, and then slowly got closer and sniffed it carefully, judging in his mind: "It's not one kind of animal hair, it's two or three kinds, the smell is too strong, even if the smell is strong in ordinary wild animals, it can't compare to this, and the hair has been dry for decades, and it should have dried up long ago after being separated from the body, but this handful is different, it doesn't seem to be completely necrotic." ”
"And over there, you see." Ji Kefeng turned on the strong flashlight and shone on several iron hooks hanging in the center in the distance, on the iron hooks were seven or eight whole cows that had turned into bones, and only the bones of the whole cow were hung there, and there was no fur or anything left around, only the big skeleton remained.
"Whatever it's up within, they have a good appetite and eat raw." Tang Shuxing said, walking around in the entire livestock shed, counting how many compartments there are, counting in detail, there are a total of 50 compartments, that is to say, there are at least 50 such monsters, if each compartment is closed to two, it is 100.
100 powerful monsters with great threat, and how many guards are there in this camp? Even if the number is not multiple, at least it is equal, right? These people must also live in this neighborhood, and there is still a place to be found.
"Go and look at the place to guard, and find it to solve a little mystery." Tang Shuxing turned around and walked outside, Ji Kefeng followed closely, Gu Huaiyi stood there, thinking about something with the handful of hair, and took out the former Soviet Union coin that Tang Shuxing gave him from his pocket before, thoughtfully.