My brain screamed, is this going to die?

I couldn't believe my ears, and I couldn't trust Platoon Commander Zhao's judgment. At a glance at the flashlight, Song Guilong's row of footprints was completely protected by him, and was not mixed with other people's footprints. However, Song Guilong's own footprints were very messy, and after walking to the edge of this crack, he seemed to have done a lot of things, or hesitated for a long time, but the footprints did disappear on the edge of the crack in the end.

Xiao Guolin has always maintained his composure in this accident, even at the most dangerous moment. Now he seems to be a little unsure of his mind, looking at the crack and thinking about something, or what decision he is making, in short, his expression is very complicated, and it is by no means a simple nervous and frightened look.

I thought for a moment and said, "Simulate the scene." ”

Xiao Guolin nodded and said, "You are good at this, you come." ”

I was not modest, and bent down to observe Song Guilong's footprints.

The simulation scene can not only be used by the police when handling cases, but also often used in archaeology to restore the life of the ancients or the scene of major activities such as sacrifices. However, there is too little evidence that can be collected and used now, the most obvious is these footprints, and these footprints of Song Guilong are very messy, with overlapping and round-tripping, I have to distinguish the order and direction from these footprints, and even analyze where he stayed from the weight of the footprints. The process is slow and they can only wait.

After a while, I said, "Okay, I'll simulate what he's doing here." The flashlight followed me. ”

I walked to the edge of the crack, paced back and forth a few steps, turned away from the crack, and stood in front of a square stone platform about a meter high. Pointing to a small piece of cigarette ash, he said, "He smoked a cigarette here." ”。 Then he walked to the crack again, and circled around the crack, and stopped, "He went down from here." ”

The process was simple, I didn't explain it, and I didn't publish my own guesses. When Platoon Commander Zhao and the others were thinking and discussing the reasons for Song Guilong's actions, I returned to the stone platform and said to Xiao Guolin, who was also standing in front of the stone platform in a daze, "Is it that piece of iron?" ”

Xiao Guolin took a penlight to shine on a dent in the center of the stone platform, did not look at me, nodded, and did not speak. I finally knew that this matter was more complicated and scary than I had imagined.

This stone platform is not far from the crack and stands very abruptly in the basin. The square stone platform, about one and a half meters long, has a smooth and flat surface, the stone is the same as the ground, and there are no joints with the ground, and it seems to be one. There is a stone platform here, which is an extremely strange thing in itself, and when digging the water storage basin, it is very incomprehensible to set aside a platform that is not high. But what shocked me and Xiao Guolin the most was not this, but the dent in the middle of the stone platform.

This indentation is in the middle of the stone platform, the size of a palm, and it is an unconventional hexagonal groove. There was mud and dust deposited in the groove, and there was no way to accurately determine the depth, so I stretched out a finger and gently scraped it with my fingernail, and the groove was not deep, less than two fingers. When I did this, Xiao Guolin was very nervous, his lips moved, as if to say no. No sound came from it, though.

I have only seen the hexagonal piece of metal from the pictures that Song Guilong showed me, and of course I can't judge the size of the piece of iron from the pictures. When I was observing Song Guilong's footprints just now, as soon as I saw this hexagonal groove, I immediately thought of the hexagonal metal in the photo. The matter of this piece of metal should be confidential information for these soldiers, and I quietly observed the clues left by Song Guilong, and simulated Song Guilong's actions at that time. I noticed the change in Xiao Guolin's face, he also saw this groove, and he also didn't show it on the spot.

Xiao Guolin saw that I didn't cause anything abnormal when I scraped the soil, so he reached in and put it in the sandwich of the sleeping bag on his body, and took out a shovel and a brush to gently clean up the soil in the groove. I felt completely speechless when I saw it, in this case, you still carry archaeological tools with you, you are too dedicated.

Platoon Commander Zhao and the others discussed for a while, but there was no result, but there was a dispute, so they had to gather and ask Xiao Guolin to help him get an idea. Cao Mingzhe's face changed a few times when he saw this groove, but this thing's mind seemed to be sober, and he didn't say anything that shouldn't be said. I focused on squad leader Liu's face, seeing how his expression would change when he saw this groove, I was very disappointed, I don't know if he was too capable of pretending, or if he really didn't know about it, his face didn't change in the slightest.

Squad Leader Liu came over and immediately asked Xiao Guolin to have an idea, because Xiao Guolin was the most senior here, and what he said was more influential than Platoon Leader Zhao. Ignoring their discussion, I asked Cao Mingzhe for a piece of paper and a pen, and lay on the stone platform to draw a sketch.

Starting from the rescue capsule and walking all the way here, although it is not walking in a straight line, the general direction has not changed, it is to the north, and from the corresponding ground position, it is facing the direction of the black sandstorm. I don't know to others, but I have memorized the number of steps along the way, and the straight-line distance is about 20 kilometers. This cistern, if it is a cistern, should not be on the outskirts of the city from an architectural point of view, because it is too inconvenient to get water in this way, it should be in the city, or even in the center of the city. In the same way, there shouldn't be just one aqueduct, there should be.

After sketching out the known part, I interrupted their contentious discussion and exclaimed, "We're here to find water, should we search this basin first and make another decision?" ”

"It's clear at a glance, we've reached the lowest point of the basin, the water has flowed down the crack deeper into the ground, and we have to go down to find the water." Squad leader Liu immediately asserted.

I know he has a point, and I know what his potential purpose is, and I have that purpose as well. But platoon leader Zhao must be convinced that there is indeed no water here, and let him know that going down the crack is the only hope. In addition, I want to confirm my judgment of this reservoir and draw a more detailed and realistic sketch to lay the foundation for finding a way out. All of this requires me to search the basin again.

So instead of echoing his point of view, I said, "What you say makes sense." But if we haven't searched the basin, no one will support you. It's like if you didn't come here, would you think that there would be a stone platform here? ”

My words immediately made squad leader Liu speechless, and Platoon Leader Zhao immediately echoed me and said, "Professor Zhang is right, we should search the basin first before making a decision." ”

Squad Leader Liu turned his head to look at the crack in the mouth of the black hole like a slightly open beast, and said silently: "You are wasting time." ”

PS: Yesterday I revised the first ten chapters and found that the background of a key character was wrong. Damn it for making such a serious mistake. Readers greatly later find this error please remind me, criticize me so that I can change it in time, thank you. There will be two chapters tomorrow, so let's report first. Also, are the moon cakes hairy?