We got out of the car with our luggage, Long Yi immediately stepped forward, took the backpack from Dong Xiaodan's hand, and without saying anything, he led us to the gangway in a hurry.

As soon as I stepped into the cabin, I was shocked by the situation in front of me, and saw that there were already more than 20 heavily armed soldiers sitting in the cabin. These soldiers were all wearing the combat uniforms of the Red Dragon Special Forces, and their faces were expressionless, looking very strict. In addition to those soldiers, there were two men in civilian clothes, one of whom was Batur, who met us at the gate of the Cultural Relics Bureau, that is, the leader of the archaeological team, and the other one, who looked like a Uyghur boy, about thirty years old.

Long Yi arranged for us to sit in the front row of seats with Batur and the other Uighur boy, and we learned that the Uighur boy's name was Aishan, and Aishan and Batur were colleagues and members of the archaeological team of the autonomous region. He had entered Lop Nur more than 20 times, and he had a lot of experience, and during this time, he and Batur were actually in Lop Nur, that is, they were conducting an in-depth investigation of the ruins of the ancient city where the giant soul stone was found, because the search and rescue team needed experienced guides, so they were transferred.

The plane soon took off, and on the way, Long Yi told us that there was a secret military base in Lop Nur, and there was a military airfield, which was the destination of our trip, and that secret military base was less than a hundred kilometers from the place of the incident. Therefore, the temporary command center of this rescue operation is temporarily located there.

At the same time, he warned us that any information about the military base was top secret and that we should never disclose it to the public. Hearing him say this, I suddenly thought of a saying circulating on the Internet, saying that Lop Nur is China's 51st District, which seems to be really not groundless.

The plane flew very fast, I felt much faster than a normal civil aircraft, and of course it was quite turbulent, and after about forty minutes, the plane landed at a small military airfield located between several sand mountains.

After getting off the plane, I turned my head and looked around, and found that there were almost no buildings around except for a navigation tower about seven or eight stories high, and I couldn't help but wonder a little, because when I was on the plane, Ryuichi told us that this was a secret military base, but now I can't see it at all.

I turned to Long Yi and asked, "Brother Long Yi, didn't you say that there is a secret military base here?" Where is the base? ”

Long Yi smiled, pointed to the bare sand mountains scattered around the airport, and said, "These are the bases. ”

I couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "You mean to say that the secret base is hidden in the mountain?" ”

"Hehe, it's not just the mountain, almost all of the ground has been hollowed out, so to speak, this area of one square kilometer belongs to part of this secret base."

When I heard this, I couldn't help but be startled: "One square kilometer!" Wouldn't that be the equivalent of building a dungeon!? ”

"Hehe, so to speak!" As soon as Long Yi's words fell, he suddenly heard a "boom" sound, and a hole suddenly appeared in a mountain not far away, and the mouth was getting wider and wider, I was stunned for a while before I reacted, it was clearly a gate!

When the gate was fully opened, several of us were shocked, and I can say that I had never seen such a magnificent gate, which was eight or nine meters high, and I am afraid that it had to be twenty or thirty meters wide, and its width occupied more than a quarter of the entire mountain.

The point is that it is such a large door, but it is well camouflaged, and I didn't even notice it just now.

I was shocked when six or seven desert jeeps sped out of the gate, came to a stop beside us, and an officer in a desert combat uniform got out of the car and saluted us with a standard military salute.

I, Wen Qingshan and Dong Xiaodan sat in the same car with Batur and Ai Shan, although they had long known that this area was a military restricted area, but it was also the first time to come to this military base, when the convoy drove into the gate, looking at the scene in front of us, a few of us were shocked and speechless, only to see that inside the gate was a large hall, not only parked in the hall with a number of desert off-road vehicles, but also armored vehicles and several planes, I then understood, why the gate at the entrance of the base should be so wide, In fact, it is to facilitate the entry and exit of aircraft.

The convoy did not stop in the hall, but drove directly into an arched passage about five or six meters wide on one side of the hall, which arced deep into the ground, with no end in sight. However, despite the opaque underground, the passage was very bright, and the convoy drove along the passage for nearly ten minutes before finally stopping.

When I got out of the car, I found a stainless steel door about four or five meters high and very thick, and the officer who had just come out to pick us up walked to the side of the gate, reached out and pressed a few times on a PIN pad, and the gate quickly opened slowly.

The officer led everyone into the gate, and when I looked up, I saw that it was a somewhat similar place to a cruise ship's cabin, in an arc, divided into three floors, each with about a dozen rooms. Although this place is located deep underground, there are many fluorescent lamps shining on the top, so the light is very good, and it feels not much different from the outside, but you can't see the blue sky and white clouds.

The officer took a bunch of keys out of nowhere, stuffed the keys into Long Yi's hand, and said, "You live here, the room is assigned by you, remember not to move around at will, and you must not leave this gate without permission, otherwise you will bear the consequences!" ”

After the officer finished speaking, he immediately turned around and walked out of the gate, Wen Qingshan hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Then when are we going to find Professor Dong and them?" ”

The officer didn't pay any attention to it, as if he hadn't heard. The officer walked outside the gate, pressed the keypad next to the door, and closed the stainless steel gate again.

At this moment, we are completely cut off from the outside world, and for some reason, I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, as if I have been imprisoned in my personal freedom.

Batur and Aishan were obviously a little dissatisfied, and they muttered a few words, but they spoke Uyghur, so I don't know what they were talking about, but it felt like they were complaining.

Dong Xiaodan said even more excitedly: "Didn't you say that you were going to find someone!" How can you keep us here! ”

Long Yi hurriedly comforted everyone and said: "Please don't be impatient, let's just rest here first, and Captain Chen and I will go to have a meeting later, and after the search and rescue plan is determined, we will set off immediately." ”

As soon as the dragon finished speaking, he began to hand out the keys and let everyone go to the room to rest first.

There were a total of thirty rooms in it, and because there were exactly twenty members of the Red Dragon Secret Service Team, Long Yi handed over the keys to the rooms on the second and third floors to Chen Biao, and the rest of us lived on the first floor.

Walking into the room, I found that the situation in the room was much better than I imagined, each room is about 20 square meters, there is a separate bathroom, in addition to a single bed and a desk, there is an LCD TV embedded in the wall, it feels like a hotel room, the only fly in the ointment is that there is no window, but I don't feel stuffy at all, which shows that the ventilation system of this base is still quite good.

Because Long Yi said that he would stay here for a few hours, so I went to take a shower first, and just after washing, I heard a knock on the door, I opened the door and saw that it was Dong Xiaodan.

I let her into the house, and she looked at me with a sad face and said, "Mo Shiyu, do you think my dad will have an accident." ”

I hurriedly comforted: "Don't think nonsense, Uncle Dong is blessed with a great life, not to mention that their detachment also has Brother Hai and several other experienced expedition members, there will definitely be no accident." ”

"But it's been four or five days, so there's no news at all. Moreover, they brought satellite locators and satellite telephones, and now not only can the satellite phones not be contacted, but even the satellite locators cannot search for signals at all. ”

"I heard from Boss Wen that the magnetic field in Lop Nur is abnormal, and sometimes the satellite signal is interfered with, which must be the reason."

"But even if the satellite signal is abnormal, it should be intermittent, how can it not be searched at all!" Dong Xiaodan asked rhetorically.

I was speechless when she asked, but I didn't know how satellite phones and satellite locators worked, so I couldn't answer them at all.

And at this moment, Wen Qingshan's voice came from the door: "In my opinion, they are only afraid that they have entered some underground cave." ”

"Underground caverns!?" I was slightly stunned.

Dong Xiaodan immediately asked, "Uncle Wen, why do you think so!?" ”

Wen Qingshan replied: "Xiao Dan just mentioned a key point, that is, why can't the signal of the satellite positioning device they carry be searched at all. If they were on the ground, the signal would have been searchable, and even if it was interfered with by the magnetic field, it would have been intermittent. Now that they can't be searched at all, there is only one explanation, they must have entered an underground cavern. ”

"Is it true that under the ground, the satellite locator can't locate it?" I asked.

Wen Qingshan didn't say a word, took out a mobile phone shaped like a brick and handed it to me, saying: "This is a satellite phone for explorers, even in a very harsh environment, it can search for satellite signals, but if you look at it now, there is no signal at all." ”

I took the phone and looked at it, and it was really in a state of no signal.