Chapter Thirty-Nine: Two White Mists?
"So you're just going back in disgrace?" Lin Yiru glanced at the women's watch on her wrist. "You'd better hurry up and tell what's going on, it's nine o'clock in the evening, and there are three hours left at most."
"I can't help it, a few people in the task force were obviously shot, so how can we go down with peace of mind." I cried out.
I felt like I had been talking to them for a long time, and I sent Ah Hui to borrow some water for me, wanting to moisten my throat. This simple request also caused Yutong sitting next to her sister to roll her eyes, did this little ghost really treat that kid as private property or what? I secretly wondered.
"Like I said before, I didn't go down with Ivan and them." Lin Yiru took advantage of the fact that I couldn't speak when I drank water, and continued. "However, there are some things I can deduce for you."
I reacted immediately, and hurried to ask her what that meant. But there was still a big mouthful of water in his mouth that he didn't have time to swallow, and he was so anxious that he couldn't swallow it more and more, and it took a long time to get it right. Her words almost choked me to death on a mouthful of water.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked, coughing. "Can it be deduced? You're also a fortune teller? ”
"Regardless of how your words came out, yes, I can deduce something." She said slowly. "But it's not by calculation."
Then she started to talk at length that I am accustomed to, although Lin Yiru usually doesn't talk much, but there is something similar to a switch. As soon as she touched the switch, she would keep talking, like a faucet that couldn't be turned off. After my long observation, this quality is especially evident when encountering academic or in-depth analysis issues. I always have the feeling that Lin Yiru is actually a teacher or university professor, and when she encounters the instructions, it is like being addicted.
She told me that first of all, although she did not go deep underground with Ivan, they still acted together in the forest for a while. They have also encountered the kind of white fog I am talking about, and they have suffered a lot of losses for it. This immediately intrigued me, and they have also encountered it? Could it be that there are other lighthouses in that forest?
"Brother Su, are you stupid?" Yutong immediately interrupted my nonsense. "Of course there is only one lighthouse that stands out. I had almost run through the woods and didn't see another one, and who said that white fog only occurs near the lighthouse. ”
I thought about it and said yes, we also encountered that kind of white fog when we were besieged by the lice in the tunnel, but we didn't realize the so-called toxicity with gas masks. And there is no obvious Sanskrit sound to follow us to the engineering soldiers, which is a bit strange, this white fog is also divided into two types: poisonous and syphilis?
"You're right, there are really two kinds." No way? Lin Yi is like I'm joking.
"Brother Su, it seems that when you are joking, it is more effective than when you are serious." Yutong wasted no time in quipping. And I can't refute this, and I almost choke out internal injuries.
"Okay, okay. I'm such a person, and you're all top students. Tell me what the hell is going on! "In the end, I gave up resisting and simply let Yutong fall.
Lin Yiru had no choice but to stop her sister so that she could continue. After our experiences, we were sure that the forest was a volcanic area, as evidenced by the hot springs underground. Then the underground water system there seems to have been developed for a period of time. These two points contributed to the formation of the first type of white fog.
"The kind of white fog you encounter in the tunnel is the first one." She explained. "It's actually water vapor, which may be evaporated from the groundwater that hits the deep active magma layer. The strange solid particulate matter that you feel is actually a colloid. I won't explain what colloids are here, you just need to know that they are a special state of the mixture between liquid and solid. ”
So that is to say, the first kind of white fog is completely harmless, and the fact that those bugs will escape has nothing to do with the white fog at all. Eighty percent of them are the trains behind that are slowly materializing. Lin Yiru didn't have a clear grasp of what that thing was.
"And then there's the second one, the poisonous mist you encounter next to the lighthouse." Saying this, Lin Yiru's expression became very serious. "It's an incidentally produced neurotoxin that contains organophosphates."
Organophosphorus? I kind of didn't realize what was going on. Isn't there a lot of organophosphorus in general pesticides, and how can it appear in that kind of place?
"You're right. Organophosphorus is indeed found in a significant amount in pesticides. "She tried to remind me." But there is another way to produce phosphorus"
Another way? I'm going to ask her to stop selling it and say it quickly. Then she told me two words that at first glance had little to do with the topic. But after I savored it for a while, I knew what it was all about. My heart sank with a thump, and I said it couldn't really be like this, right?
The two words Lin Yiru said are very simple, they are ghost fires that often appear in ghost stories or strange stories.
Ghost fire, I'm not unfamiliar with this thing. If you patiently gaze at the place where there are many wild graves on a hot summer night, you may find a faint blue spark. This is what superstitious people say: "It is the ghost of the dead that lingers there," or the so-called "ghost fire." Some people also said that if someone passed by there, the "ghost fire" would follow the person.
She said that this thing was not meaningless and wanted to be scary, but that we all knew what the hell the hell the hell was in fact.
"Ghost fire" is actually phosphorus fire, which is a very common natural phenomenon. In addition to the vast majority of the three elements of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, the human body also contains some other elements, such as phosphorus, sulfur and iron. These are all basic knowledge that our teachers taught us when we were in college.
Moreover, the bones of the human body contain more calcium phosphide. If a person dies, the body is buried in the ground and rots, and various chemical reactions occur. The phosphorus in the bones will be volatilized, and then it will undergo various changes with the environment, and eventually become a substance that is already there, and I can't remember what this thing is called. But that doesn't stop me from thinking about the whole thing.
The most terrifying thing was that our teacher at that time specifically emphasized it to us. Most of the substances containing phosphorus are toxic and very dangerous. And Lin Yiru just told me that the second kind of white mist contains this kind of thing.
"You mean, the second gas is actually" I'm kind of afraid to go on.
"That's right. Organophosphorus, in addition to fertilizers, has another way to produce, and that is corpses. "She eventually spoke up about the fact that I didn't want to face.
"But how many of these things can a dead man emit." I still want to struggle a bit. "That's a bit far-fetched, isn't it?"
She paused, looking me straight in the eye. It was as if I was looking at a child, which made me very uncomfortable. The silence of the four tables suddenly became tense, and after a few seconds, Lin Yiru said that I didn't want to accept anything other than that conclusion.
"There's really not enough phosphorus produced by a corpse, which is why phosphorus fires are always found in cemeteries or cemeteries." Her tone didn't fluctuate vaguely, as if she was preaching something that was extremely commonplace. "But, ten. What about a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand? ”
I hung my head weakly, and I had to admit that Lin Yiru was right. Just like what she said, a dead person can't produce the kind of white mist that permeates the deep forest, and ten thousand dead people should be enough. It's a simple stacking problem, so simple and ruthless.
Eventually, she told me that Ivan had stumbled upon such a qualifying place in the forest. A group of people were suddenly released into a large area by this poisonous gas, and if it weren't for the gas masks they carried with them, the consequences would be unimaginable. She herself was sent back to the regiment commander because she was late with the gas mask.
Once Ivan had calmed down the chaos, we found a huge pit behind a wooded field. It was a slope of more than 200 square meters, and there were overlapping white bones, including children's bones, women's bones, and old people's bones, but more bones that couldn't tell what they were, and it looked like it made people's scalps tingle. It's so many that you can't even count the number of people.
To their shock, some of these bones were detached, some were severely twisted and deformed, some of the skulls had obvious marks of stab wounds, and some of the bones still had iron nails that had been driven into the human body......
"Now you understand, don't you? There was a mass grave, a place where the Japanese used to deal with Chinese laborers. She said. The white mist mixed with organophosphorus came out of that pit. After that, in order to prevent future troubles, Ivan burned down the whole place as soon as he could. A group of us stayed there in gas masks for three days and three nights, knowing that we were sure that we would not cause a fire. It didn't take long for Ivan to find the railroad tracks to go down, and I was sent back to the regimental commander. ”
This was the end of Lin Yiru's story, and she told me about an experience that Ivan didn't tell. It also made me realize at once how unfathomable Ivan is, and how long we have been in that shipyard with him, and he has not allowed us to find any clues. At the same time, I also understand why Wang Weiguo is in that state, this mass grave is really a good explanation
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