Chapter 21: Foreigner's Notes
Time was passing minute by minute, Wang Yuan and others were waiting anxiously outside, and suddenly there was a sound of Qi Zhuang in the cave, Wang Yuan thought that something had happened to Qi Zhuang and was about to enter the cave. But he suddenly noticed that there was a light shining in the cave, which meant that Qi Zhuang seemed to be fine. After a while, Qi Zhuang came out and said, "Let's go, there is a road inside, but there are still two corpses." ”
"Two ......" Wang Yuan seems to care about this number.
"It's unlikely that your parents, judging by their attire, are two males." Qi Zhuang said.
"You follow me, don't look at those things." Wang Yuan said softly to Xiaoying.
"Hmm." Xiaoying said.
The four of them began to move towards this pitch-black hole, Qi Zhuang led the way in front with a flashlight, followed by Zhao Bin, Wang Yuan and Xiaoying walking in the rear. Wang Yuan looked at the hole, the front of them was full of huge stones, but there was room for people to barely pass through, it seemed that the earthquake just now had shattered this place. It was so quiet that they could even hear each other's breathing, and after walking only a few meters, they felt as if they had entered a huge space through the light of the flashlight. After taking a few steps forward, Qi Zhuang stopped, and found the flashlight on a stone, although it shone on the other side of the stone, Wang Yuan already understood that the body Qi Zhuang was talking about was there.
"I'll go take a look." Wang Yuan said to Xiaoying.
Xiaoying nodded, but still followed closely behind Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan walked next to Qi Zhuang and saw that on top of a big stone, there were two mummy-like dried corpses. Qi Zhuang shone the flashlight to the other side again, and Wang Yuan saw that there was a passage there.
"Let's go." Qi Zhuang said.
"Give me the flashlight." Wang Yuan said that he still seemed to care more about the two corpses.
Qi Zhuang had no choice but to hand the flashlight to Wang Yuan, and Wang Yuan said, "Don't look here, give me a little time." ”
Wang Yuan looked at the two corpses, as Qi Zhuang said, judging from the dress, these are indeed two male corpses, not so much dry corpses as skeletons, and the moisture on the corpses is completely gone. One of the corpses was wearing a waistcoat with many pockets, a backpack next to it, and a completely rusty water bottle on the ground that shattered at the touch. He shifted his gaze to the backpack, and he emptied the contents of the backpack, all of which were notebooks and papers, but they all seemed to be rotting and damp. There is also a rope, but it doesn't seem to work, and it breaks when you pull it.
"Zhao Bin, you come over to take a look at these things, these seem to be two foreigners." Wang Yuan said.
Zhao Bin casually picked up a large notebook that looked like a diary, and the things written with a pen on his face had been damp and could not be seen clearly, and he could only vaguely identify that it was written in English. He looked at the other pieces of paper on the floor, and saw that there were a few drawings drawn in pencil that seemed barely legible, but he couldn't make out what was drawn in them.
Wang Yuan began to dig into the corpse's pocket again to see if he could find anything, and he took out a compass from the corpse's pants pocket, which seemed to be still usable. Then he took out a lighter from the pocket of the corpse's vest, but it was already completely rusty. He took out a small palm-sized square iron box from the pocket of the other corpse, which was still in good condition. When he opened the box, he saw that it was a small book, full of English. Wang Yuan walked to the side with the small notebook, obviously he didn't want to stay by the corpse for too long.
"Zhao Bin, look at it, what is written in it, I have a headache when I see English." Wang Yuan opened the small notebook and scribbled a bunch of English on the first blank page.
Zhao Bin looked at it and said, "IneverthoughtWewouldStilldieHereAfteresCapingFromTheGhostTownMethodHardships......"
"Hey...... Ay...... It's all Chinese, can you translate it directly! Qi Zhuang on the side said impatiently.
"I'll take another look...... I don't have a lot of vocabulary either......" Zhao Bin said, and he didn't seem to have much in mind.
Xiao Ying looked at it from the side and seemed to understand it, but Wang Yuan and Qi Zhuang looked at it for a while, and they were still confused. Zhao Bin and Xiaoying also discussed with each other, and finally said: "There may be some individual words and some problems, but I think the general meaning should not be wrong...... Listen up. ”
"What's wrong? What are you nervous about! Qi Zhuang saw that Zhao Bin and Xiaoying seemed nervous after reading this paragraph.
Zhao Bin translated the words: "I tried a lot of hard work to escape from that ghost city, I didn't think that I would die here, the research results of my life could not think of just a trap designed by the ancient Chinese more than two thousand years ago, if someone later saw this passage and was lucky enough to escape, please tell the people outside never to try to enter this devil's land, never!" Probably because of his nervousness and fear, Zhao Bin's translation voice was so loud that after he finished translating, his sentence "never" echoed throughout the cave.
"This ...... What, is he warning us? But we're already in. Qi Zhuang said.
"What does the trap of the ancient Chinese mean." Wang Yuan said. "It's like the last words he wrote, open the notes and look back, quick!"
Zhao Bin began to look back at his notes, "theqindynasty...... Is it the Qin Dynasty? ”
"Are you talking about the Qin State?" Wang Yuan asked.
"It seems to be an essay by this man, not a rigorous diary. The first page basically says that in 1957, the group came to China to search for the secrets of the Qin Dynasty for years of research, as if it was ......" Zhao Bin did not seem to be sure about the accuracy of his translation.
"What's the secret? Look down. Wang Yuan said.
"I don't recognize it many times, but there's the word longlife in it." Zhao Bin said.
"Immortal?!" Wang Yuan asked.
"It should be ...... translated"
"Look back and see why he said it was a trap?" Wang Yuan said.
Zhao Bin carefully flipped through the pages until he finished reading all the notes and said: "No, I don't understand it at all, he recorded half sentences and half sentences later, and some even only remembered a few words, and I don't know these words at all." ”
"Xiaoying, can you understand?" Wang Yuan asked.
Xiaoying shook her head and said, "With our vocabulary in junior high school, we really can't understand it. ”
"It's always a little bit ......," Wang Yuan said.
"Wang Yuan, I think we missed the best opportunity to learn the facts, do you remember the pile of murals we saw when we first came in? If it weren't for the appearance of the scarface man, we might have known the truth of the facts. Zhao Bin said.
"But we know the most valuable thing, don't we? This passage was the way to the city, and it was from the city that the two men had fled to here. Qi Zhuang said.
"But the note says it's a ghost town, what should we do?" Zhao Bin said.
"We have no way back, if we don't go we'll die here like them, and they don't seem to know about the exit, they're going in the wrong direction." Wang Yuan said. "Zhao Bin, what time is it?"
Zhao Bin looked at his watch and said, "Seven twenty in the evening." ”
"Let's go." Wang Yuan took the notebook from Zhao Bin's hand, put it in his pocket and said.
Once again, several people walked into an unknown passage.