Chapter 3 The Pisces Jade Pendant Incident I
readx; Lop Nur was the second largest inland lake in our country, Mongolian Lop Nur is the meaning of "the lake where many water flows", in ancient times, it was also called Si Ze, Yanze, Puchang Sea, etc., before 330 A.D., the lake was more, the lake surface was very broad, the widest lake in history was estimated to have exceeded more than 10,000 square kilometers,
However, due to the decrease in the flow of the Tarim River, the surrounding desertification was serious and rapidly degraded, until the end of the seventies of the twentieth century, Lop Nur has completely dried up, and now only a large area of salt crust remains.
Lop Nur used to be an oasis of life with herds of cattle and horses, surrounded by green forests and clear rivers, but now it has become an endless Gobi desert, with no grass, not a stream, and the temperature in summer is as high as 71C.
Of course, the decrease in the amount of water flowing into the river is only one of the factors, and the real reason for the drying up of Lop Nur is actually very complicated, because even if there is no river water flowing in, the evaporation rate of its water is far beyond the normal rate, so the mystery of Lop Nur drying up is also included in the top ten unsolved mysteries in nature.
Lop Nur once gave birth to a brilliant human civilization, the most famous of which is the ancient city of Loulan.
Located in the northwest of Lop Nur in Xinjiang, it is named after the Chinese documents unearthed in the ruins, which are called the city by "Loulan" and Luwen antiphons as "Kuro Laina".
The ancient city of Loulan is also known as "Pompeii in the desert", very mysterious, the ancient country of Loulan belongs to one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, adjacent to Dunhuang, and has a close relationship with the Han Dynasty after BC, according to the "Historical Records? The Biography of Dawan and The Book of Han? The Legend of the Western Regions records that as early as the second century ago, Loulan was a famous "city of the city" in the Western Regions, it led to Dunhuang in the east, Yanqi and Yuli in the northwest, Ruoqiang and the end in the southwest, and the south and north of the ancient "Silk Road" branched from Loulan.
The Loulan civilization has only existed for a few hundred years in the long river of history, and this paradise where people once lived and thrived was abandoned almost overnight.
Judging from the signal sent by the GPRS positioning chip embedded in the remnant map of the ancient tomb by Bo Xinwen, the place they are going to this time is about 50 kilometers away from the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan, which has long been abandoned, and it takes about an hour to drive, which is already a fairly close distance in the vast desert.
After everyone finished reading the information about Lop Nur in their hands, Bo Xinwen took out a brown paper file box again, and said to everyone: "In this place of Lop Nur, there have been some strange and bizarre events, which cannot be explained from today's scientific point of view. Maybe it will help. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
As he spoke, Bo Xinwen handed the file box to Yu Fei, who was sitting closest to him, "There is only one copy of the archive materials, let's circulate it, in addition, all the files recorded here are confidential files, please keep them strictly confidential to the outside world." ā
Yu Fei took the file box, and at first glance he saw several large blue characters printed on the upper right corner of the box, "Class A confidential", and nothing was written on the file box except for a number.
Yu Fei didn't care about the level of secrecy of this "Class A secrecy", so he couldn't wait to open the file box and look at the materials inside.
The title of the first material in the file is "Pisces Jade Pendant Incident", and there is a line of subtitle under this title, which turns out to be the mystery of Pengamu's disappearance,
Yu Fei couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, Peng Jiamu, isn't it the famous scientist who disappeared during the investigation in Lop Nur in the eighties, could it be that his disappearance is also related to mysterious events,
He looked at the first paragraph recorded in this material: Peng Jiamu, a Chinese plant virologist and president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, disappeared in 1980 while leading a comprehensive expedition to Lop Nur.
It's really him, Yu Fei became more and more curious in his heart, what mysterious events such a great scientist encountered in the first place, and how did he disappear, so he continued to look down carefully,
According to the materials, it turned out that Peng Jiamu led a comprehensive expedition team to Lop Nur to investigate, claiming that it was to find heavy water and other resources for the manufacture of nuclear energy, but in fact it was just a pretense, and the real purpose of their trip to Lop Nur was actually related to an extremely mysterious plant virus, and Peng Jiamu himself was an experienced plant virologist.
Regarding the mysterious plant virus, it involves the bizarre incident recorded in the second material in the file box, the collective mutation and injury of the villagers of Lop Nur.
This incident has to start from the early sixties.
About 100 kilometers away from Lop Nur, there is an ancient Uyghur village, inhabited by native-born Uyghurs, due to the difficult natural conditions, local villagers often travel hundreds of kilometers to find food or daily necessities.
Once, some villagers inadvertently found an ancient city ruins in the sand dunes near Lop Nur, so some young people in the village thought about going there to find some antiquities, they found some broken clay pots in the ruins of the ancient city, but also found a strange plant, Lop Nur is known as the Sea of Death, not only very dry, but also very high pH value of saline-alkali land, almost no creatures can survive there, and this plant, not only grows vigorously, but also blooms gorgeous flowers, local villagers feel curious, So he brought these plants back to the village along with the crockpots, and who knows that it was not long before most of the people in the village contracted a strange disease.
At first, it was just a common cold, but after taking the medicine, it did not get better, and began to have a large area of fever, rapid heartbeat and other symptoms, the barefoot doctor in the village thought that there was an outbreak of the plague, so he quickly reported it to the higher health department.
But it didn't take long for the body structure of the villagers infected with the strange disease to change, their eyes slowly turned blood-red, their backs gradually bulged, and they began to crawl on the ground on all fours.
They crawled very fast, their strength became very strong, and their personalities seemed to become more and more aggressive and aggressive, until one day, a villager actually attacked a camel in the village, he rushed directly to knock the camel down, and then bit through the camel's neck and began to suck its blood, the amazing explosive power is completely beyond the limit of human strength,