Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 43 Giant Tortoise
I puffed out smoke and asked Professor Ye: "Professor Ye, I heard you call out the name of the wolf-faced bat just now. You must know the origin of the wolf-faced bat, right?"

Professor Ye nodded: "This is the second time I have encountered a wolf-faced bat!"

"The second time?" Gu Meidi said: "The wolf-faced bat should be a very ancient species in the bat race. In my knowledge memory, I don't seem to have seen any information about the wolf-faced bat!"

Professor Ye exhaled a puff of smoke forcefully, with a dignified memory expression on his face, he said: "In the mid-80s, I was only in my 20s at that time, and I had just joined the archaeological team not long ago, and I was still in the learning stage. Speaking, I was a fledgling intern at the time. My supervisor was named Zhang, and we all called him Dao Zhang. Dao Zhang was very well-known in the archaeological circle at that time. He had participated in major archaeological excavations many times, such as participating in Discover the famous Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and more.

That year, we received a mission from our superiors to go to the Gobi Desert, which is known as the forbidden zone of life. The cultural relics workers of ZS County in XJTLF area discovered a large area of ​​rare and mysterious strange rock circles in the northern Gobi of Huoyan Mountain. It is said that these strange rock circles cover an area of ​​more than [-] mu, which is magnificent.

We set off from Xi'an and headed northwest all the way, and finally entered the Gobi Desert after a few days.The word Gobi comes from Mongolian, which translates to a land where vegetation is difficult to grow.The terrain of the Gobi Desert is undulating and gentle, and the ground is covered with large pieces of gravel. The natural environment here is extremely harsh. In addition to the dryness and lack of water, the temperature difference between day and night is also very large. It is too hot to wear short sleeves during the day, and it is too cold to wrap in a cotton jacket at night. trembling.The wind and sand here are also very large, and last for a long time. The scene of flying sand and rocks is like the end of the world.

Under the leadership of the local guide, after nearly half a month of long journey, our archaeological team finally arrived at the destination.Standing on a slightly higher soil slope and looking down, we saw several strange rock circles distributed in a large area on the vast and boundless Gobi Desert. Those strange rock circles were big or small, round or square. , some of which are in the shape of a zigzag series, and some are a mixture of square and circular stone circles.One of the giant stone circles, known as the Heliosphere, consists of four concentric circles, the largest outer circle is about eight meters in diameter, and the smallest inner circle has been destroyed.

After countless wind and sand erosion and baptism, these strange rock circles have been devastated, but they still lie quietly on the Gobi Desert, full of a strong sense of mystery.The locals call these strange stone circles 'God's building blocks', and they do not believe that these strange stone circles were designed by humans.

After several consecutive days and nights of investigation, more and more doubts surfaced.The Gobi Desert used to be the birthplace of Mongolian tribes and Turkic tribes. Even when these tribes were the most powerful, they did not have enough manpower and financial resources to pile up these strange stone circles. So who left behind these strange stone circles?Also, what is the purpose of these strange stone circles?Is it an altar to worship God?Or an ancient and mysterious astronomical observatory?However, the strangest thing is that the stones used to pile up these strange stone circles are hard to find in the nearby Gobi Desert. That is to say, these stones are probably transported from afar, which is really puzzling.

Three days later in the evening, the crimson sunset fell on the horizon and dyed the sky red. We packed our things and prepared to end this expedition.At this moment, there was a thunderous roar in the distant sky.We looked up and saw a dark cloud floating in the distant sky. At first we thought it was going to be a sandstorm, but we soon realized that something was wrong, because the black cloud came so fast and covered the sky. , and came to the sky above the strange stone circle in a blink of an eye.

The sky suddenly became very dark, and the setting sun could not penetrate the black cloud at all.We looked up at the sky in horror and found that it was not a black cloud, but countless huge bats.Each bat was about the size of a basketball, and countless bats flapped their wings at the same time, creating a thunderous roar.The appearance of those bats is very ugly, with pointed and long heads, which looks somewhat similar to wolves, which is indescribably weird.

The face of the guide Carlo changed suddenly, and he told us to leave this place quickly, because God has been angry.These bats are the guards sent by God to drive away all the people who break into the strange stone circle.It was also the first time for us to see such a spectacular formation, and we were nervous and scared.

Director Zhang asked us to go back to the car to take shelter, but many of our equipment and instruments were still outside. At that time, these instruments were very expensive things. Several team members were reluctant to leave them behind and wanted to carry them into the car.With such a delay, it was too late for them to escape, and those bats fell from the sky like raindrops, covering those team members in the middle in an instant.

At first we could still hear the screams of those team members, but soon we couldn't even hear the screams.In just the blink of an eye, those team members were gnawed into bones by those terrifying bats one after another.One of the team members was already dead, leaving only a white skeleton, which was still standing in place, like a human bone prop in the laboratory.

The other team members only realized how terrifying these bats were after seeing such a tragic situation.We scrambled to get into the car body and locked the windows tightly. Many bats landed on the windows, making a loud bang.

At that time, we were riding in Jiefang trucks. There were two trucks in total. I was in the first truck, and the driver’s hand was shaking when he started the ignition.After lighting the fire several times, the engine was finally ignited, and the truck rushed out of the encirclement like a running cheetah.We looked back, and the big truck behind was not so lucky. After several ignition failures, hundreds of bats landed on the vehicle body densely, and the big truck was tightly wrapped in a black mass. .From a distance, it looks like a big black stone standing on the Gobi Desert.

Night fell quietly in the thrilling escape, we could not turn around to rescue, we could only drive a large truck and run away.When we looked back again, we found that the bats were covered with a strange ice-blue color, like ice-blue light spots, which became a ghostly landscape on the Gobi Desert.

Because of its resemblance to a wolf, this bat is called the wolf-faced bat.Unexpectedly, inside this ancient underwater tower, I would encounter a wolf-faced bat again, which is really frightening! "

After listening to Professor Ye's narration, the cigarettes in our hands were almost exhausted.We patted the dust off our clothes, and walked down the plank road to the spire again.

But in a quarter of an hour, we have come to the bottom of the spire.Compared with the bottom of the tower, the bottom of the tower is very narrow and cramped. This inverted ancient tower is like a huge funnel, and we are at the bottom of the funnel at this time.

We have tried to think about what is hidden under the spire many times before, but when we actually came to the spire, we found that the things buried here are really beyond our imagination.Under this spire, which is only half the size of a basketball court, there is actually a huge giant turtle buried!

Of course, the giant tortoise is long dead, and all we see is the corpse of the giant tortoise.But we are still very shocked, because this giant tortoise is really too big, which is beyond our cognition.It makes people feel that this is not a turtle, but a terrifying alien creature.

This giant tortoise is like a hill, lying quietly under the spire. Four thick bronze chains bind the four feet of the giant tortoise respectively, pulling the giant tortoise's body into a "big" character.The size of the giant tortoise is larger than that of a locomotive, and its back is wrapped with a huge cyan bone plate, which has a strange cyan light glowing on it.

We walked down the plank road and came straight to the back of the giant tortoise. The cyan light was flowing on our faces, making the expressions on our faces look cloudy and cloudy, which was very weird.

Gu Meidi said in shock: "This giant turtle is really too big, more than twice the size of the deep-sea turtles I know. This... Did this thing also live under the Yellow River back then?"

I said: "The thousand-year-old king and the 8-year-old tortoise, maybe this giant tortoise has become a spirit, so the Xixia people tied it up and suppressed it at the bottom of the ancient pagoda!"

Professor Ye pondered for a while and said, "I think you may have guessed wrong, this is not a giant tortoise!"

"Ah? It's not a giant tortoise?" Gu Meidi and I looked at each other with doubts in our eyes. This thing looks like a turtle.

Professor Ye said: "I don't know if you have heard of a creature called Yuan (yuan)?"

"Yarth?!" Gu Meidi and I shook our heads at the same time. We have never heard of such a weird creature.

Professor Ye pointed to the huge monster at his feet and said: "Plutosanctus has long been recorded in Chinese history. Although it looks like a turtle, it is actually more similar to a turtle. Its head is blunt, wide and flat. , the nostrils are small, located at the end of the snout, the snout is short and not protruding. The body is flat, round, flat and thin, the back is flat, the carapace is not raised, and it is round. The biggest feature is that it is not like turtles Its back and belly are covered by bone plates, and the left and right sides are connected to form a special armor. But to be honest, although this thing is huge in size, I really didn't expect this giant turtle to be so powerful. It is so huge that it is several times the volume of ordinary turtles. This thing can definitely be regarded as a monster in the Yellow River Ancient Road.

According to literature records, turtles have survived for 1.75 million years, which is indeed an ancient creature.In Chinese history, turtles have also been regarded as a symbol of divine power. Many temple steles and emperors' tombstones are usually carried by stone turtles.

(End of this chapter)