Several geologists came to our site, and among the maps they used was a military map of captured Japanese troops.

On that military map, it was clearly marked that there was a shortcut to take, but these geologists, at the designated location on the map, could not find the shortcut, and asked several locals in our area one after another, but they all said that they did not know that there was such a road.

Since even the locals don't know about this shortcut, could it be that the Japanese army's map is wrong?

But as it happened, they finally asked an old medicine farmer in his eighties, and the old medicine farmer said that there was indeed such a road, but the location was extremely secret, so not many people knew about it.

Under the guidance of the old man, the geologists slashed with their knives for a long time, and a rugged path appeared in front of them.

It turned out that the path was hidden in deep bushes from which the entrance, especially the entrance, was more difficult to find. To the shock of these geologists, this secret trail, which even the average locals did not know, was actually on the map of the Japanese army!

When my cousin heard this, he was also surprised, and the pervasiveness and incomparable meticulousness of the Japanese spies left a deep impression on my cousin.

This time, his superiors arranged for him to receive these Japanese scholars, and his cousin had the opportunity to get close to the Japanese, and this was the first time he had interacted with the Japanese.

This was not only my cousin's first contact with Japanese people, but also ours.

Among these Japanese, the three historians and the Japanese female translator were all very kind and polite, but Tanaka, who was in a wheelchair, always had a cold face, and rarely spoke to us.

In addition, to our surprise, before coming to China, these Japanese had all seen the documentary film of the "sheep-faced human body" monster and the killing of Japanese soldiers.

Because of our previous experience, we are all too familiar with that documentary.

It was during the Japanese invasion of China, and the Japanese soldiers stationed in our area were often mysteriously killed, and although the Japanese army took various measures, they still could not prevent the Japanese soldiers from being killed, and they were very confused about this matter.

In order to solve the mystery, the Japanese army deliberately set up film equipment to shoot secretly, and through guò this set of film equipment, they finally discovered that the mysterious killing of the Japanese soldiers was done by a monster with a "sheep-faced human body".

Of course, we are no strangers to that monster, and we have fought it many times, and it is still one of the most important helpers of the blind man.

The terrible thing about that monster was the smell of it—the smell that could paralyze people and make them unable to resist.

And these Japanese people were very curious about that monster, and they even asked their cousin if they had heard of it, but of course, their cousin did not tell them the truth.

In addition, we also found that these Japanese were very interested in the site park where the strange pit was located, which was once the headquarters of the Japanese army invading China in this area.

On the first day they came, they asked me to go to the heritage park. What we never expected was that it was in the process of accompanying them to visit the heritage park that we discovered the strangeness of the behavior of these Japanese people, which we could not understand for a while.

On the day of the visit, the weather was not bad, the autumn was crisp, and there were a few white clouds floating in the clear blue sky.

The three Japanese historians, although they are not young, are still in good health, and only occasionally need our help on very steep mountain roads. Usually he walks like a fly, and the most troublesome is the "old devil" Tanaka who is in a wheelchair.

When going up some steps, Xiao Lei and I need to lift the wheelchair. Therefore, the three Japanese historians and female translators kept saying to us, "I'm sorry for you", "thank you", and so on, but Tanaka, who was in a wheelchair, did not even say a kind word, and sat in the wheelchair with peace of mind, enjoying our services.

Xiao Lei and I were angry in our hearts.

The few of them walked around the ruins park, not showing interest in some of the ruins, but only absentmindedly asking their cousin a few questions.

But the place they stayed for the longest and was also the most interesting was not the memorial room or exhibition hall in the heritage park, nor the strange pit in the depths of the woods, but a place that looked like nothing special - that place was the bottom of a cliff, and when you stood below and looked up, there was a mountain tens of meters high, and the cliff was 90 degrees steep, like a knife.

Strange to say, when visiting other places, these Japanese people are all looking at it in a flash, but only at the bottom of this cliff, they keep looking up, and they keep hammering the stones on the cliff wall, and they are discussing something in Japanese.

I was curious to ask the Japanese translator, the Japanese historians, what they were discussing, and she only vaguely said that they were talking about the rocks and the battles that had taken place.

For some reason, my gut told me that these Japanese people were probably not talking about this at all, and although I didn't understand Japanese at all, the unusually focused and mysterious expressions on their faces when they were discussing made me feel as if there was something unusual secret in them.

But since the female translator is reluctant to elaborate, we can't ask anything more.

Later, I learned that not only me, but also my cousin, Xiaolei, Sister Li and Hongmei, they more or less also felt that the practices of several Japanese people were a little strange.

Even if, as the Japanese translator said, they were talking about stones, but these Japanese people are historians, not geologists, so why do they care so much about the stones on the rock wall?

We went home in the evening and had a serious discussion about it.

Xiao Lei is a soldier and is very familiar with the history of the war, about why historians should pay attention to stones, he talked about an incident during the War of Resistance against Japan.

It was the famous Battle of Tengchong in Yunnan.

At that time, the Chinese army and American fighters launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army cowering in Tengchong City. But when attacking the city, they found that the Tengchong city wall was very strange - no matter how powerful the bomb bombed, the Tengchong city wall was unharmed, generally speaking, such fierce fire, even steel, would have been blown up a long time ago, is it possible that the stones on the Tengchong city wall are harder than steel?

After repeated observation and research, the U.S. military and the Chinese army discovered an astonishing secret -- the stones on the Tengchong city wall are elastic!

In this way, after the cannonball hits the city wall, it will be ejected, and it will not explode on the city wall at all, so it will not be able to blow up the city wall at all.

Later, the U.S. military came up with a solution, that is, to tie steel bars to the bomb.

After tying the steel bar, after the cannonball hits the city wall, the steel bar will be inserted into the city wall, so that the cannonball will not be bounced off. This trick really worked, and the American artillery fire quickly blew up the Tengchong city wall, thus capturing Tengchong and annihilating the Japanese army inside.

After listening to Xiao Lei's story, we all felt very novel, and hurriedly asked our cousin, is the stone on the stone cliff as elastic as the stone of Tengchong City Wall? Is it for this reason that those Japanese historians are so interested in rock walls?

My cousin shook his head with a smile and said: "The story that Xiao Lei told is indeed a historical fact, and it can be found in many historical materials, but the stones we have here are hard and brittle, and they are not suitable for building houses and foundations, let alone have any elasticity, and the stones on the cliff are nothing special."

However, when the Japanese were carefully observing the stone wall, there was one detail that I don't know if you noticed or not: when they hit the stone wall with a small hammer, they were not looking at the stone, but listening to the sound of the stone wall.

If geologists were looking at stones, they would definitely use a hammer to knock down a few sample stones, and then carefully observe the structure of those sample stones. How can they be like these Japanese historians, who only knock on the stone wall and don't look at the stone at all? ”

When my cousin said this, we seriously recalled it, and it was really like this.

The cousin continued: "This is not the strangest thing, the most puzzling thing for me is that the female translator has a very small movement - she pulls out her lipstick and secretly makes a mark on the stone wall."

When my cousin said this, we were all surprised, none of us noticed this, why did my cousin notice?

Next, my cousin revealed to us an even bigger secret - these old Japanese men are not really historians, but at least one thing is certain - they were all once professional soldiers, that is, not only the Tanaka in the wheelchair was a professional soldier, but the other three historians were also professional soldiers, and they are likely to have all been in actual combat for a long time.

When my cousin said this, we felt even more strange - how did my cousin suddenly become a fortune teller? How did he know that these old Japanese men were all professional soldiers?

How did my cousin know this? When we were extremely curious to ask him for verification, my cousin did not answer us directly, but asked Xiao Lei: "Xiao Lei, you are a soldier, do you have this kind of experience - when using a rifle, you should try to press the shoulder blade as tightly as possible, if you don't press tightly, the recoil generated by the rifle when shooting will hit the shoulder blade violently, so that after a few bullets are shot, the shoulder blade part will be broken through the skin." Even if the top is tight, after a long period of shooting, the shoulder blades will swell up because of the recoil of the rifle. Therefore, all servicemen who shoot for a long time will have a very thick layer of calluses on their shoulder blades, and it will be difficult for this part of the calluses to fade".

After listening to his cousin's words, Xiao Lei nodded again and again: "Oh, cousin, your old man even knows these details, what you said is not wrong at all, it is indeed like this."

My cousin smiled indifferently, and then explained: "Ha, after all, I eat more salt than you, and of course I have more experience and experience than you, just now you asked me, how did you find out that those three Japanese historians were also professional soldiers, in fact, this is also very simple, this matter is like this - you all know, Japanese people are very fond of hot springs, it just so happens that in our provincial capital, there are several hot springs, and our hot springs here have a special fragrance, which is rich in minerals. I accompanied the three Japanese historians to soak in a hot spring hotel in the provincial town -- the Tanaka, which I didn't soak in because of physical reasons -- and it was in the process of soaking in the hot springs that I was surprised to find that their shoulder blades had large calluses left by long-term shooting, which are common to professional soldiers.

Even more bizarrely, when I tentatively asked them if they had ever been soldiers, they all explicitly denied it, and it was clear that they were deliberately hiding their experience as a professional soldier. ”

After listening to my cousin's account of the ins and outs of this matter, we were all completely impressed - who of us but my cousin could do this kind of care and sophistication?

Things seem to be getting weirder and weirder, and these Japanese people don't seem to be pure academic expeditions at all. The purpose of their trip seems to be hidden with an ulterior purpose, so what is the real purpose of their visit?