"Are those people soldiers?" Cha Wenbin asked.

"Maybe, maybe not." Lu Liang's words were ambiguous, he said: "There is no evidence of what their identity is, but at least those people are very disciplined and organized, even if they start to disappear one after another, those who are still alive will still not hesitate to plunge into that bottomless maze as long as they are designated." ”

"Is there such a place in Anxian County?" Li An interjected: "In the past, I always thought that our place was a remote mountainous area, with no background or magnificent history. He turned his head to Cha Wenbin and said: "Cha Ye, there is one more thing I have to mention, brother, you are always a true god, why did these weird things in Anxian County finally fall on your head, and they are like doors waiting for you to open." ”

In fact, Cha Wenbin didn't know why, he didn't even know where he came from, many years later, Hetu told me that Cha Wenbin's hometown may not be from Anxian County, he should have come from somewhere else, and he was abandoned here as soon as he was born, and he should have been more than a month old when Ma Sufeng found him. And Anxian is like a star on the chessboard, he is the chess piece, and he is destined to be placed on the territory of Anxian.

Cha Wenbin did not take Li An's words, and continued to signal Lu Liang to continue.

The disappearance of more than forty people made the situation worse, but this was only the beginning, and gradually at night, some people began to sleepwalk. At that time, the construction site was in three shifts, some people stood guard and some people rotated, and at first, individual people were found sleepwalking in individual tents, and it was not uncommon for this kind of thing to occur in large numbers. And on the night of the fifth day, for the first time, there was a mass sleepwalking, in which two tented men marched in line toward the lake, so well dressed that the sentry, thinking that the men were going to work, did not react at all and let them go.

There were a total of sixteen people in the two tents, and these people lined up to react after entering the entrance, and it seemed that it was not yet their turn to work, and they immediately reported after realizing that something was wrong, and 003 arrived with a large group of people but it was too late, and these people seemed to be attracted by something. More and more sleepwalking began to appear, but only at night, and those who rested during the day did not experience a similar situation. The number of missing people soon exceeded sixty, and there was a possibility of an increase, and 003 gave the order to suspend all operations, and they began to mobilize and concentrate explosives, and for a time everyone was busy at the bottom of the lake, busy shooting cannon holes, and it is said that their leaders at that time issued an order to see people alive and corpses to die.

The laid-off people only carry drinking water with them, there is simply not enough food to support them for days in the darkness of the earth, and the explosion may lift the entire bottom of the lake several floors down, or bury those who are missing forever. Therefore, Lu Liang raised objections at that time, and he analyzed from the perspective of a scholar that the underground buildings here were not enough to support large-scale blasting, but suggested that an assault detachment should be formed again to conduct a search, and adopt the method of centralizing the scale and not dispersing, and marking along the way.

Everyone knew that this was a dangerous job, so 003 decided to draw lots to form a commando team of thirty people, I don't know if it was a real coincidence or a fake coincidence, and all eleven people, including Lu Liang, were drawn. The lottery was drawn by 003 at the collective meeting, and although the eleven people knew that they might be used as cannon fodder, you had no choice, and in that politically sensitive era, if you didn't want to, you would be considered a deserter, not only would your career be over, but even your freedom could be lost.

That afternoon, the team deliberately killed a pig, everyone knew that this might be the last meal, Lu Liang said that he did not remember how much meat he had eaten that day, and after drinking the bowl of Zhuangxing wine, he broke the bowl to pieces, and they entered the bottom of the lake like mortal warriors and the other nineteen men in full armor.

It is said that they are fully armed, their equipment is only miner's lamps and sapper shovels, and the nineteen people are all loaded with guns, I don't know where they got those weapons, these people are also divided into two groups, Lu Liang is in charge of his own group, and the other ones with guns are in charge of a person codenamed 019.

The method used by Lu Liang was very simple, at first it was a rope, and the last member of the team had a rope hanging from the waist from the outside to the inside, but this method quickly lost its effect, because the inside was bent around, and the rope could easily get stuck in the rocks and brick cracks. Then I used a marker pen to draw marks along the way, and I walked in this maze for about half a day and didn't see any missing people, but they found one of them, because there was mud in the water under it, so there were a lot of footprints from the search a few days ago, that is, the further back they went, the more concentrated the footprints in those mud became, concentrated in a few directions.

In this way, the search surface is relatively reduced, but soon a new problem arises, and in the end there are almost the same footprints in the two forks, and they are again faced with the choice of left or right. In fact, at that time, Lu Liang had no chance to choose at all, for them, everything was passive, because it was their people who lost.

The team is facing a split in two, and it looks like the end is near, are those missing companions in it? This is something they didn't find a few days ago, because a few days ago there was water up to the knees below, and the muddy water covered the footprints under their feet, under the balance of 019, Lu Liang and his group of eleven people went to the left side with four guns with relatively sparse footprints, and they were heavily armed to focus on finding the right side, and the footprints on that side seemed to be much more.

"Did you find it?" Cha Wenbin had been waiting patiently for more than ten minutes, and when he said this, Lu Liang had already covered his face and fell into a state of pain, and he seemed unwilling to recall.

Lu Liangwo nodded on the sofa and said: "Found it, they, they are all hanging there, like dried fish drying by the river, one after another, one after another, I will never forget that scene, there is a whole row of iron nails there, those people's necks are deeply inserted like candles, their twisted bodies are really too miserable......"

After Lu Liang discovered this problem, he faintly heard the sound of gunshots, which was very dense. Soon realizing that this was not something he could control, he began to retreat, and when he retreated with his brothers to the previous two forks, 019 was retreating from the inside covered in blood, and he was shooting like a madman into the culvert on the right, and from time to time he could hear someone howling in pain.

Cha Wenbin asked, "What did they find?" ”

Lu Liang shook his head and said: "I don't know, I don't know until now, 019 and the other five or six brothers who were still alive at the time began to retreat with us, and they didn't want to talk to us, since they entered the construction site." He yelled, 'Keep up!' Left! Get down! Run! 'Eleven of us are under his command, we are all scholars, to put it bluntly, the most ruthless thing we have done in our lives is to kill a chicken, where have you ever seen that kind of posture, they let us run and run, just like that, they followed 019 and they ran into a secret room. ”

Lu Liang said that 019 should have encountered something terrible, he was covered in wounds, it was a tough guy, there was a hole on the left side of his face that could see the bones, and the yellow fat under the skin was visible. After crashing into a secret room, 019 asked them to start blocking the stone door with their bodies, the space inside the door was very small, the walls were full of water stains left by the previous days, it was not difficult to see that this place was also once submerged under water, and through the layer of sand and mud, it was faintly visible that there were large murals and words on the walls of the secret room.

"That's where they were cursed." Lu Liang said: "I saw the appearance of the Grim Reaper, which was above our heads, with a huge grimace, as if staring at each of our intruders. 019 They bandaged each other, and we were responsible for holding our bodies against the stone gate, and from time to time there were some impacts outside, which were very heavy, and each time they made people's legs more and more weak. It lasted for a few hours, and the movement outside finally gradually subsided, and 019 still refused to talk to us, and they were gesturing with each other, both intentionally or unintentionally. One of my disciples was from Wu Zhuang, and his grandfather was a famous calligrapher who used to work with the master Wu Changshuo at the Xilang Printing Society by the West Lake. ”

"Wu Changshuo is a native of Anxian County," Li Ang added: "The four masters of the Mei School in the late Qing Dynasty, the master of art, and the founder of the Xilen Printing Society. ”

Cha Wenbin nodded to indicate that he knew, and Lu Liang continued: "My disciple also followed his grandfather in the Xilang Printing Society when he was a child, and he has seen a lot of ancient characters and ancient rubbings, Wu Changshuo is an expert in ancient characters, especially good at seal style. When he saw the strange characters in the secret room, he concluded that he had seen them on a rubbing, and then I went to look for the rubbing, and now it has gone to another museum, and the expert told me that the text on this rubbing, most likely one of the earliest hieroglyphs in China, came from a tribe of Qiangqi......"