Chapter 5, The Bat Cave

Qinghai Lake is the largest inland saltwater lake in China, also known as "Tsowenbu" in Tibetan means "blue sea", located in the basin of northwest Qinghai Province, formed by the fault collapse between Datong Mountain, Riyue Mountain and Qinghai Nanshan in the Qilian Mountains. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's July now, I heard that Qinghai Lake at this time is the most beautiful time, what thousands of acres of rape flowers around the lake are blooming, the blue periphery of the blue waves is scattered with golden bright yellow, what alpine pastures of wildflowers are colorful, like silk, countless cattle and sheep fat and strong, dotted and so on. That's really the way it goes.

I took two steps forward and took a deep breath, the cool breeze blowing across my face, and I really felt like I was back to nature.

I only heard the woman shouting: "All those who want to go down to the ground, come, get their equipment, the rest of the way, can only walk on their feet,"

She walked to the back of the third car and opened the trunk, and everyone gathered around, each carrying a bag of equipment, and I also carried one on my back, and tried it, and it was heavy.

"The bag contains food, water, and a first-aid kit, and the rest of the stuff is your own." The woman said.

When I saw that in addition to boxes of water, compressed beef, and dry food, there were also a lot of probe shovels, probes, climbing ropes, sapper shovels, climbing pickaxes, cold fireworks, flares, wolf's eye flashlights, small detonators, and a series of equipment, and everyone had the equipment they needed. I opened the equipment bag and saw that it was all some compressed beef and water, I stuffed a set of climbing ropes, a lighting gun and a box of flares, as well as a wolf's eye flashlight, cold fireworks, and see almost, my cousin took the equipment and looked at me, and then stuffed a few more probes into my bag, saying that this is used to break the replica mechanism in the graveyard, a rod with half a meter that can be connected head to tail into several meters long, if you touch the replica mechanism, put the probe on the ground at both ends of the replica, you can walk on the ground.

I took a probe rod and checked it in my hand, it was very light, it should be made of aluminum alloy, I picked up a paratrooper knife and scraped the steel mouth with my hand, it was very sharp, and I also wore it on the belt like everyone else.

The old horse threw over a few detonators the size of little fingers and said, "You can pretend to be these and keep them for backup,"

I took it and stuffed it into my bag, and when I looked at his bag, it was full of plastic explosives. I said, "Where the fuck are you going to dig graves, you're going to blow up the mountain, you have to be careful!" ”

"It's okay, this plastic explosive is very safe, unless it is detonated with a detonator, otherwise it will not explode even if you use it to grab it. It's not certain whether it can be used, it's okay to be prepared," the old horse said, picking up the equipment on his back and shaking it on his body.

I also put on my backpack and got ready, at this time the woman said: "It's all ready, let's go now, the car and the driver will wait for us here until we come out, I am the person in charge of this operation, you all have to listen to my command, to ensure that the task is completed without fail," and then she pulled her cousin and said: "This is Mr. Guo, he is the archaeological experience consultant we hired, the place we are going to this time, he has been there before, and he will lead us to find the destination." So saying, a group of ten people walked up the hillside to the north.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the two hump-like peaks of the Sun Moon Mountain behind him were gradually moving away, and in front of them were the mysterious Qilian Mountains of more than 2,000 square kilometers.

The Qilian Mountains are a branch of the Kunlun Mountains, and the western end meets the Altun Mountains at the Dangjin Pass. The eastern end is connected to the Yellow River valley and the Qinling Mountains and Liupan Mountains. 1000 km long. It belongs to the folded fault block mountain. The widest point is between Jiuquan City and Qaidam Basin, with a length of 300 kilometers. The altitude is mostly more than 3,000 meters.

It is quite difficult for us people on the plains to climb mountains and mountains at such a high altitude, and I am still very excited to go out so far and walk in the uninhabited mountains for the first time. The saddest thing is the old horse, one hundred and eighty pounds of weight, plus more than forty pounds of backpacks, he was tired and panting over a mountain and shouted to rest, saying no, and then going to bubble, he said that climbing this mountain three years ago was still like playing, and now he is old.

The rest of us also felt tired, and every time he called a stop, we followed him, resting and chatting on the spot for a while, and we were in a hurry.

During the chat, everyone sat down to introduce each other, the female team leader is called Ahri, the old table said that the person who talked to him about cooperation on behalf of the old man Wang is this woman named Ahri, four of the five men are members of the original archaeological research institute brought by Ahri, the oldest of the four is surnamed Cui, is a professor, we call him Professor Cui, the young man with glasses is called Li Xiaogang, is a newcomer who has just been transferred from school to the institute this year, and he always looks polite and polite with a smiling face, and the two are called Wu Jie, One is called Xu Yong, the one named Xu Yong is tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist, and he looks like a powerful person at first glance.

The short, thin, malnourished man with a crooked cap was called Monkey, and he said that he was nicknamed by the people of the Tao, and he said that he was an orphan and had no name since he was a child. This time, I was introduced by a friend.

When I heard that it was really like us, he was a tomb robber recruited from outside, and I couldn't help but feel some sympathy for him. However, his high-pitched and deep voice makes people very uncomfortable to listen to.

By this time, it was already sunset, and I looked around, and there was a layer of fog in the air.

My cousin said that it takes less than two days to reach the mountain, that is, to rush during the day and rest at night, and it is expected that we will be able to reach the mountain tomorrow night, my cousin took us to find a pit of the mountain, there is a good shelter effect, and spent the night in this pit that night, Xu Yong and Xiaofeng took out the gas stove and burned some hot water, everyone drank hot water while eating compressed dry food, I chewed compressed beef in my mouth and felt like dry styrofoam, if I didn't drink water, I couldn't swallow it, and chatted for a while after eating.

My cousin said that the mountain was very special, and I heard that the local guide who came before said that it was called Niutou Mountain, and it looked like a big bull's head from a distance, and it was not difficult to find as long as you kept going north, saying that there was a big valley at the foot of the mountain, and the entrance to the ancient tomb was in the bat cave in that valley.

I listened to it and I felt tired for a while, this long day of walking on the mountain road, it was indeed tired, so I took out the sleeping bag and got into it, I didn't care about anything, I slept first, and fell asleep in a daze.

I didn't say anything all night, until the next morning, I heard someone talking before I opened my eyes and got out of my sleeping bag, and found that it was already dawn, so I packed my sleeping bag and continued to follow the road, and there was nothing to say that day, and another sunset went to the west mountain, and I walked to a hillside, and my cousin pointed to a larger mountain in front of me and said, "I have arrived at the front of a mountain,"

Seeing the joy on everyone's faces, the fat man leaned on and gasped, "Damn, it's finally almost here,"

I looked at the mountain that the old watch was pointing to, and it did look like a big bull's head lying there, much larger than the surrounding hills. The heart said that who is so lacking in virtue and came here to build a tomb, what a big project this is, the idea of the ancients is really difficult to understand.

An hour later we arrived at this large valley at the foot of Niutou Mountain, and after rounding several rocks, we came to the so-called Bat Cave. The entrance of the cave is not big, about two meters in diameter, close to the mouth of the cave, you can smell a very strong fishy smell, at this time, the cousin glanced at the female leader named Ahri, meaning that the place has been found, do you want to go in now? The Ahri nodded and walked into the cave first.

Others also followed in succession, at first I heard my cousin talk about the bat cave, I thought it was the name of the cave, I walked in and saw it suddenly dawned, it turned out that my cousin meant to say that there is a group of cave bats living in this cave, after entering the cave, turn on the wolf's eye flashlight and portable searchlight, only to see that the top of the cave is densely packed with bats, hanging upside down to rest on it, and there are also a few sporadic can not find a place to stay, flying back and forth in the air, making a chaotic sound of wings agitation.