Chapter 4: The Crop Circle
Just a few photographs bring a nameless sense of oppressive terror.
But Jiang Shan knew that this was not her field of vision at all, but should be the little couple who were holding the camera to take pictures at that time.
But why did Xiao Chen point at the couple and suddenly show such a distorted and frightened expression?
Continue, penultimate sheet.
The ever-closing focus showed the fear and fear on Xiao Chen's face almost vividly...... The extreme zooming of the camera also made Jiang Shan see that Xiao Chen's eyes were also full of surprise, stunned, and fearful.
And when Jiang Shan finally turned to the last one.
This shot doesn't zoom in any closer, and this last one is almost identical to the last one from any angle. It's as if two of the same photos were taken in a row.
But Jiang Shan felt that there was something wrong with it, she switched back to the previous one, switching back and forth between Xiao Chen's photos back and forth, and after the speed increased, she could clearly see the micro-expression changes on Xiao Chen's face when she turned her head and then to the back, like an animated movie, flashing, and finally distorting.
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Suddenly, Jiang Shan stopped.
She stared at the last photo.
Xiao Chen's raised right hand, under the palm of his hand, seemed to have a faint black spot.
This little bit of dark spot can easily be thought to be dust on the lens, or a shadow from the exposure of the photo.
So it looks exactly like the previous one.
But after Jiang Shan turned the photos so quickly, her naked eye caught some of the "black spots" that flashed in the photos in the gaps that quickly switched between photos.
Not only the last photo, but almost every photo since Xiao Chen turned back, there are all this kind of "black spots".
It's so tiny that it feels like a speck of dust or a speck cast by the shadow of a tree.
It's just the last photo that the dark spots have become denser and more prominent.
Jiang Shan looked at it for a long time, she didn't know what the spots in this photo were, but she vaguely felt that there was a strange and strange feeling spreading out of her back.
Looking at it, she seemed to experience a little bit of the fear that Xiao Chen revealed in the photo, the kind of indescribable and unexplained treachery......
At that moment, the camera screen went black suddenly.
The battery indicator that keeps flashing above the camera goes out completely, apparently running out of power.
At this time, Jiang Shan was sitting in the dark, and his back was already soaked with sweat.
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Flight RC3571, chartered with Tongcheng Travel Agency, a total of 17 passengers, disappeared on March 4, the year of the return trip, and their whereabouts are still unknown.
Photos of all the passengers circulating on the Internet, the last images left by everyone when they boarded the plane and passed through the security check, flashed past the photos, and many people could be seen smiling excitedly, including a couple of young people who looked like a couple and made mischievous faces at the camera.
Jiang Shan's photo flashed on the screen, his delicate and pale face was very young at first glance, and he should have a good life.
The first to be found was the airport and the airline, the passenger plane HC3571, which was scheduled to return on the 14th, suddenly lost contact, and the tower could not contact the flight crew.
After the police arrived, they also tried to contact the police, and after no response, they urgently contacted the local police and asked them to send someone to the cave hotel to find out the situation.
The local police went to the cave hotel and responded that there was no one in the hotel, not only the tourists, but even the staff were all gone.
And, they also lost a police officer.
One of the police officers saw the footprints left by the travelers when they went up the mountain, so they asked to go up the mountain to search, but never returned.
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The family members were the most excited, and the first to report the case was the parents of a couple of students, two students who were about to graduate from their senior year of college, and they hid from their families, saying that they were going on a graduation trip, but they never returned.
Subsequently, more and more people began to call the police, and after the uproar, the police found the travel company that had been hiding the matter for almost a month, and the head of the travel company stammered that they had been trying their best to find it, perhaps just a simple interruption in communication equipment.
The police seized the head of the travel company and obtained the identification information of all the passengers.
The family members wept and demanded a carpet search, and their loved ones must still be there.
The police initially dispatched drones, after all, drone reconnaissance is safer without understanding the situation.
As a result, more than a dozen drones were dispatched back and forth, and when they arrived in the area of the cave hotel, they all lost their signals. Later, I tried to retrieve the GPS satellite aerial image, and it turned out that the area was an abnormal dead gray color on the entire map.
Not only that, but soon everyone found that all the aerial photography equipment, when it came to the sky over this area, was all out of order, as if the mountain and the cave hotel formed a natural shielding field, perfectly isolating all electronic communications.
Then the local police of the cave hotel began to reward the people who entered the mountain at a high price, and several groups of people went forward to follow suit, but as a result, none of them returned.
Even with the most advanced equipment and escape guides, not a single person sent back even a single message.
There was a dead silence inside the mountain, and there was a dead silence outside the mountain.
No one wants to go near that area anymore, and even if the bounty is sky-high, no one cares.
All sorts of occult and gossip began to prevail, the most outrageous of which was that the cave hotel was connected to another dimension, and in case of indecision, quantum mechanics.
However, even the world's most famous physicists can't explain why.
It's not physics anymore, it's supernatural, right?
In the high-rise building of the Beijing-Hong Kong headquarters, someone pushed open the heavy double-opening wooden door, and everything here is antique, which does not match the modern shape of the building. This office belongs to one person, someone who seems to love all things old and traditional.
"Dr. Wei." Pushing the door open, the man shouted to the figure sitting in front of the window. "The lab has sent you all the hazmat suits you called."
The figure in front of the window turned around, and it turned out to be "turning" with a chair, and the sensor light in the room turned on, only to find that Dr. Wei was sitting in a wheelchair!
Dr. Wei slowly walked over to the wheelchair with his hand, "Okay, thank you." ”
Dr. Wei looked to be in his early thirties at most, and he belonged to a very young echelon, but his legs were limp and dangling among his trouser legs, and he was a disabled doctor.
"Are you really going there?" Secretary Xiao Xu couldn't help but ask. Hearing that Wei Yuan was going to call the latest protective clothing, the entire research institute was shocked.
Now only the grief-stricken families of the missing are still unwilling to give up, "There is a parent who chartered a private jet himself, but he did not even come back with the plane. ”
This is really suicidal and tragic.
But Xiao Xu couldn't say anything sympathetic or stupid, because if his relatives were missing, would he be willing to do so.
Suddenly, the projection screen in the office flashed, and a cross-sectional view of the mountain peaks appeared on it.
Wei Yuan was holding a miniature remote control in his hand and was controlling the picture, "This is the picture called up from the previous satellite image. ”
Unlike now, when the entire mountain and cave hotel were completely shielded, the entire mountain and cave hotel still appeared in satellite imagery quite normally. And now these former satellite images are the only thing they can study.
In total, more than 1,000 satellite images have been studied by experts for hundreds of rounds. Seemingly, everyone has found something.
"These black spots."
After a while, I saw that around the mountain, there seemed to be a circle of black, looming substance. It's like a crop circle.
Around this mountain, every satellite image (i.e., every day) can see this circle of black.
At first, researchers thought there might be some kind of rare mineral at the bottom of the mountain. And the Cave Hotel has been in operation for half a century, and there has never been an accident, even if the satellite map shows this mysterious black circle, no one minds too much.
There is so much matter on Earth that we don't yet have a way to explain.