Let's take the simplest example. Today's high-speed, fast, viaducts and high-rise buildings that these urbanites are proud of are all symbols of social civilization progress and financial development. But behind these prosperous civilizations, there are often some strange rules that are not very civilized.

For example, architecture, Chinese architectural design has a long history. For thousands of years, you will find several amazing architectural works anywhere in China. Among them, there is a world-renowned building, which has had two generations of owners, one surnamed Zhu and the other surnamed Aixin Jueluo.

That's right, that's the Forbidden City. When this building that shocked the world was first built, the strange and complex elements of the magic can almost be described as mythology. Of course, this is due to the prominence of its owner.

Although today's society will no longer have the fantasy color of the Forbidden City, where there is a construction site to break ground and drive piles, it is still necessary to fire cannons first, or even worship God, and find some 'professionals' to calculate which day is the most auspicious. Even the official construction team is no exception to this. Does this already have some supernatural colors in itself?

If we want to talk about the origin of this rule, we have to go back to the architectural god Luban. At that time, when building bridges and roads, it was common to encounter the phenomenon that the piles could not be driven, or even collapsed halfway through the building. Then the common people began to rack their brains to find a way, and when nothing worked, the common people would naturally pin their hopes on the gods.

Then, under the guidance of Lu Ban, he found a bloody and cruel but very effective way, that is, to drive raw piles. Boys and girls were buried alive as stakes, and then the piles were driven in the ground. In this way, there will be no more surprises in the construction process. Although it sounds extremely inhumane, the worst thing is that this method has been tried and tested!

With the development of human beings and the evolution of morality, they have begun to realize the cruelty of this method. And except for those powerful buildings and bridges, ordinary people can't afford to use this method, right? So slowly some people began to change this approach. For example, the use of live animals instead of virgins and boys, and later with meat sacrifices, and finally gradually evolved into the most common cannon fire today.

The main purpose is to remind the 'residents' under that land that we are about to break ground, so please let me go. Where you move people's homes, you have to inform them if you build roads and bridges on other people's land, don't you? And no matter what kind of ground is broken, it will destroy the feng shui of the local land. At worst, anger and resentment accidents are frequent, and at worst, natural and man-made disasters are full of bad luck. Therefore, whenever there is a large-scale construction project, there must be some necessary 'measures'.

In addition to architecture, there are many other examples like this, all of which are tacit secrets. China is a great country for 5,000 years, the history is too long, and the things that have been inherited are too mysterious. It's not just one or two scientists with glasses who can explain it with a casual sentence that science is the truth. Some things have been passed down from generation to generation and have long since become a custom, even a truth. This is the same for both the government and the people.

Therefore, Qin Zhen understands very well that in the case of avoiding slapping himself, some means or actions need to be carried out in the dark. This is probably the meaning of the mysterious departments that Yuto said.

"Then you mean, the team in this diary is the one you said about the occult department? So what is their mission? Qin Zhen asked Yudong directly.

Yu Dong thought for a moment, and then said slowly, "Their task is very difficult and complicated, that is, to find three things in this desert in the Western Regions. A piece of jade, a leaf, a treasure. ”

For the first time, everyone's expressions changed to be similar to Qin Zhen and Gu Jie, as if they didn't know much about it. And Qin Zhen listened more and more confused, the three things he said in Yudong didn't hit anywhere at all, they were completely a kick in the sky and a kick in the ground! Whose high-level whimsy is this?

Yu Dong looked at Qin Zhen's confused, confused and even slightly painful expression fixedly, and did not continue, but deliberately waited for Qin Zhen to ask.

For Qin Zhen, this is where Yudong owes the most! Seeing that he was tormented by curiosity, he seemed to enjoy it!! So Qin Zhen suppressed his feelings and asked, "You said you were looking for a treasure, I understand." Do you say that if you want to find a piece of jade, it will be He's bi? What kind of jade criminals are the military trying to find? Well, as if I was excavating the essence of Chinese culture, I reluctantly accepted this jade. But you say you're looking for a leaf, and I can't understand it! In this vast desert, it is not easy to find a tree, but to find a leaf here? Isn't that crazy? ”

Yu Dong seemed to understand Qin Zhen's strong reaction at the moment, so he nodded with a smile, and waited for Qin Zhen to finish speaking before he continued, "This does sound crazy. But what's even crazier is that the importance of these three things is exactly the opposite of what you can accept. Yu Dong paused as he took his cigarette and said, "The least important of these three things is the treasure. The second is the piece of jade. The most important thing is the leaf. ”

At this time, Gu Jie couldn't bear it anymore, and urged Yu Dong to hurry up and speak. If you listen like this again, you have to have a heart attack and cerebral infarction.

Yu Dong did not object to Gu Jie's suggestion, and while looking at the bonfire intently, he continued to say, "That batch of treasures refers to the treasures of the ancient kingdom that once flourished in the Western Regions, but then mysteriously disappeared. For example, Jingjue, Dawan, Loulan, Khotan and so on. As we said before, Stein alone took away an incalculable amount of precious artifacts from the desert of the Western Regions. These cultural relics are absolutely priceless, they condense the splendid achievements of a dying civilization, and they are an important basis for studying the reasons for the disappearance of the ancient kingdoms of the Western Regions.

Stein's discovery of the Lu Wen Slip is a proof of the true existence of these mysterious ancient kingdoms of Loulan and Jingjue. These texts from the Ashoka period of the Mauryan Empire in the 3rd century BC disappeared with the fall of the Kushan Dynasty in the 4th century AD. It became dead text that no one could read. But it is precisely because of these dead words that the task of that leaf is born. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Dong suddenly skipped this paragraph, "Let's talk about that jade, remember the story that Lan Qing told you about King Mu crossing the Tianshan Mountain, right?" Legend has it that the Queen Mother of the West gave King Mu of Zhou a piece of the town of the country, and the Yaobi hides the mystery of the eternal residence of the country and the fate of the country. No one knows how small this piece of jade is. However, there is a definite record that King Mu hid this piece of jade, which contains the fate of the country, on the dragon vein here in the Western Regions. ”

Qin Zhen shook his head in disbelief and said, "This is completely an ancient book myth, how can you believe it?" Isn't the town you talking about the same as the Hetuluo book? Also, isn't the dragon vein of the Western Regions the Kunlun Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West? ”

Yu Dong smiled lightly again, and then asked, "Qin Zhen, do you know what Lop Nur is on the satellite map?" ”

"It's a person's ear!"

"Well, have you ever heard of the legend of a dragon's vein and a broken ear?"

"What?" Qin Zhen only felt that one head and two were big. It's simply an unheard of term. As soon as he was about to ask, Yu Dong interrupted him, "You want to know too much, so we can't finish talking about death." Are you going to listen to this ear, or are you going to listen to that leaf? ”

This choice was undoubtedly painful for Qin Zhen! Because he wants to know everything! But thinking about the current situation, the mysterious notebook, and the mystery of Wang Bin's life and death, he gritted his teeth, and finally chose to listen to the leaf mission first.

After listening to Qin Zhen's choice, Yu Dong nodded and said, "As I said before, the origin of this leaf is exactly what Stein recorded in the Exquisite Ancient City. Legend has it that two or three thousand years ago, several eminent monks in India broke through the heavens and knew the fate and secrets of many countries. They wrote on fallen leaves and sealed them in a temple in India. It would take a hundred years for them to be revealed. As you can imagine, Buddhism spread from India to China through the Western Regions, and the 49 leaves carrying the fate of China's national fortune were also brought into China by the readers. But before it reached the hands of the emperor, it disappeared into the desert of the Western Regions. But fortunately, the task is not to find leaves in this vast sea of sand, but to find an ancient city. That is the royal city of Loulan, which reveres Buddhism. ”

"Holao Luojia" Qin Zhen couldn't help muttering to himself.

Yudong did not refute it, nor did he affirm. It was just silent all of a sudden, and the atmosphere was quiet and a little solemn. Because after Yudong started to talk about this history, almost no one interjected except Qin Zhen. Even Gu Jie, a person who would die if he didn't speak for a while, didn't interrupt Yu Dong's narration much.

Because everyone wants to know that story so much, and because these stories are so bizarre! It's so bizarre that a person who has lived in the real world for a long time can't believe it at all!

Qin Zhen bit his dry lip, then raised his head and asked a very stupid question, "Then did these three missions fail in the end?" ”

Yudong shrugged his shoulders: "I guess I didn't fail or succeed." If they had no clue, nothing would have happened to them. Nor will the last bizarre and horrific experience happen. They must have discovered something, but at the last moment when the mission was about to succeed, it ended in failure for some reason. ”

Qin Zhen nodded, he agreed with Yu Dong's statement. The team that was tasked with the task at the beginning not only did not fail, but in a sense, they even succeeded. And because of their success, I don't know why, it almost brought about a catastrophe. At that time, Lop Nur had become synonymous with horror and mystery. The rumors, the mystery of the military, and the resolute denial of the top brass have all made Lop Nur destined to become the military's biggest secret.

In terms of years, it was precisely after the great progress in the mission of that team that the military immediately wanted to cover up a large area within Lop Nur and set up a military base and a nuclear weapons base. No person or group is allowed to approach this restricted military zone. There are countless no-fly zones even over it, but the reason for this has never really been explained.

What exactly is going on here, what kind of practice and research is being carried out, the military has never revealed. Those leaks that occasionally only say a few words are also stifled as soon as they are discovered. In a sense, Lop Nur is the '51st Area of the United States' in the eyes of the Chinese people.