Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 313
"What? What did you say? It's impossible for us to catch the plague? Why?" Chen Ziyang's words made Yang Lei break out in cold sweat. Hearing what the team doctor said, he hurriedly asked.

"Plague bacteria must rely on the metabolic system of the host cell to replicate their own nucleic acid, synthesize proteins and assemble into a complete virion, that is to say..."

"Hey! Hey! Old girl, can you speak Chinese? Can you say something that I can understand." Yang Lei's head grew dizzy when he heard these technical terms.

"To put it simply, it means that these plague bacteria have all starved to death because they have no food. The plague happened 2000 years ago. During these 2000 years, all the corpses have rotted. Coupled with the dry environment here, It is not conducive to the breeding of plague germs, so I can say with certainty that the plague germs here are all dead."

"Old girl, you saved my life before, and you also treated our family's Er Yang's injuries. We all regard you as a good person. I believe what you said. You can't lie to brother Me." Hearing that the five people might not be infected with the plague here, Yang Lei was finally relieved, and his mouth began to grow thin again.

"Even if you get infected, what's so scary? The current medical methods are not 2000 years ago. Maybe this so-called plague is just a common cold. Don't make a fuss. Let's move on." Because of this episode, Liu The instructor had no intention of taking a rest, so he urged everyone to move forward.

Although the team doctor's words gave Yang Lei a reassurance, but seeing so many people died in the previous plague, Yang was still a little worried, so when walking, Yang Lei kept using his sleeves as a mask , tightly covering his mouth and nose.

Chen Ziyang's mentality is very calm. Anyway, he has been here for so long, and he has already contracted the virus if he should be infected. It is useless to worry now.Although he was a little nervous just now, after listening to the team doctor's words and changing his mentality, Chen Ziyang looked away instead.

Instructor Liu still led everyone to lean against the wall on one side and walk along the plant roots on the wall, but Chen Ziyang felt that his move was a bit unnecessary, because the structure of this underground space is very simple , is a straight road without forks, so even if you don't follow these roots, you won't go in the wrong direction.

From this point, Chen Ziyang saw the cautiousness of Instructor Liu.But he still couldn't figure out what the treasure that instructor Liu was looking for was.However, from the exaggerated length of these roots, Chen Ziyang felt that this plant was very unusual. He had never heard of any plant whose roots could grow so long.

After walking for a while, everyone finally walked out of the cemetery.After passing a few sporadic corpses, there was nothing on the ground in front of him except weathered sand.

After a rough calculation in his mind, Chen Ziyang calculated that there were about three or four thousand people buried here.This number is very large. In the Western Han Dynasty 2000 years ago, how many people could there be in an ancient country on the edge of the desert? It is estimated that half of the people in the ancient country have been buried here. This is still a conservative estimate.

Chen Ziyang was surprised by the number of people who died in the previous plague, but instructor Liu stopped at this moment, he was surprised by the length of this underground passage.

"It's not right, why is this passage so long?"

After being reminded by Instructor Liu, Chen Ziyang also reacted.When he was on the ground before, he took a rough look at the size of this ancient country. If he had done his best, the longest distance between the east and west sides of this ancient country was only more than two kilometers, but the distance traveled by a group of people in this underground passage was already far exceeded this length.

Fortunately, there were still roots of these plants on the surrounding side walls, so Instructor Liu knew that he was going right, but he turned and looked at Chen Ziyang, hoping to get some hints from Chen Ziyang.

"You don't need to look at me. I'm good at Fengshui. If it comes to the experience of going to the tomb, I'm still very lacking. And there's only one road here, and there's no mechanism like Qimen Dunjia. We shouldn't have any." Wrong way." Seeing what Instructor Liu meant, Chen Ziyang said.

Although he said so, Chen Ziyang also felt a little strange.The existence of this underground space is very unreasonable. It is impossible for the ancient Yumi country 2000 years ago to have such manpower and material resources to build such a huge underground passage.

Moreover, the existence of this channel has no meaning at all. Could it be that this channel is for these people to enjoy the cool in summer?Thinking of these strange places, Chen Ziyang took out the compass and planned to calibrate the direction, but when he saw the direction pointed by the needle on the compass, a solemn expression appeared on his face.

"What's wrong? What did you find?" Instructor Liu asked.

"Our direction seems to have changed..." Chen Ziyang said in a hesitant tone.

"How is this possible? Haven't we been walking in a straight line!" Instructor Liu said in surprise.

Not only did Instructor Liu react like this, but other people were also very shocked when they heard Chen Ziyang's words.Since entering here, everyone has been moving forward.No one noticed that they had passed a bend or something, so it was impossible for everyone to suddenly change their direction.

"Are you sure? Did you read it wrong? Or did you remember it wrong?" Instructor Liu asked.

Without answering Instructor Liu's question right away, Chen Ziyang stood where he was, carefully looking at the compass in his hand.When he first entered this underground passage, he glanced at the direction on the compass, which was a habit he developed after going to the tomb several times. He clearly remembered the direction everyone was heading when he first entered here is due north.But now the pointer on the compass points to the southwest.

After checking the compass and finding that there was no problem with the compass, Chen Ziyang calibrated the direction again.That's right, the direction of everyone's progress has indeed changed. "There is absolutely nothing wrong with it." He replied with certainty.

After listening to Chen Ziyang's words, the others felt very strange. Yang Lei approached Chen Ziyang and said in a low voice: "It can't be so evil, do you think we have encountered ghosts hitting the wall? We have been in the original So many people died here, it’s not surprising that there are [-] or [-] ghosts left, or if you do something like pioneering and exorcising ghosts, let’s move on.”

"Don't scare yourself. It's not a ghost hitting the wall at all. It's been 2000 years, and all the ghosts have disappeared. I think there should be other reasons for this.

I thought about it just now, it is very likely that the road we are taking is not a straight passage, but an arc, but because the passage is relatively long, the arc of the passage is relatively small, and the surrounding area is relatively dark, we The field of view is not good, so no one noticed this. "

"Don't worry about these things for now, let's keep going." Although Instructor Liu also felt that there was something strange in it, after all, the surrounding scenery was not repeated, and there were no other forks, as long as we continued to follow the roots of these plants There will be mistakes. Now the root system of the plant has become obviously thicker, and it seems that it is getting closer and closer to the main body of the plant.

Although Instructor Liu told everyone not to worry about these things, everyone felt a little restless, and the team's progress slowed down a lot.

This time Chen Ziyang learned his lesson, he kept staring at the compass in his hand while advancing.It wasn't until the pointer on the compass obviously deviated by another grid that he affirmed his idea that this passage was indeed arc-shaped.

At this moment, Instructor Liu, who was walking at the forefront of the team, stopped suddenly. Everyone saw that Instructor Liu's flashlight was shining directly on a wall in front of him.

"Have you reached the end? Why is there nothing here? Did we go to the wrong place?" Xiao Ren asked beside him.

Because they were far away, everyone could only vaguely see that the front of the passage was blocked.All of a sudden, Instructor Liu became a little hairy. He hastily quickened his pace and walked forward quickly. It wasn't until the crowd followed him that they came close to see that there was a huge stone tablet lying in front of the passage.

The area of ​​this stele is very large, almost blocking the entire passage, and those strange plant roots protrude from between the stele and the side wall of the passage.

Because the edge of the stele is very close to the side wall of the passage, the gap between the two is very small, and the roots of these plants are very thick, so there are many broken places on the edge of the stele, which seems to be caused by the roots of these plants. destroyed during growth.

I found a relatively large damaged place on the edge of the stele, and instructor Liu lay down there, using a flashlight to illuminate the back of the stele along the gap.The other people also approached and found some gaps to look behind the stele.

Through these gaps, everyone could see that the stele was about two feet thick, and there was still a large space behind the stele, and the light from the flashlight could not reach the end at all.

After tapping the stele a few times with an engineer shovel, Yang Lei said: "This is really a solid stone, it looks like a whole piece, it's really strange, how can such a big stone run away?" Came to the desert? It is impossible for these guys in our hands to break through this stele, can we turn our heads and go back?"

While others were focusing on the back of the stele, Chen Ziyang was attracted by the surface of the stele, because he saw the same pattern on the stele as on the two altars before.

While stroking one of the lines with his hands, Chen Ziyang suddenly felt a palpitation.At this moment, he saw as if a huge blood-red eye flashed in his mind.

Although the blood-red eye was fleeting, the feeling was very real, and Chen Ziyang felt as if the blood-red eye was calling to him. This strange feeling frightened him and quickly withdrew his hand.

Feeling this strange feeling, Chen Ziyang was a little at a loss. He didn't know whether he should continue to move forward. After all, judging from the previous events, Chen Ziyang felt that the person who left the clues of this ancient country was not I hope that future generations will come to open the treasures of this ancient country, but the feeling of calling in his heart is very strong, making it difficult for him to refuse.

After taking a few deep breaths to relieve his palpitations, Chen Ziyang made a decision, and he said, "This stele should be able to be opened.

Have you noticed that the edge of this stele was squeezed and broken by these plants, but if you look along these gaps, no matter whether it is in front of or behind the stele, there are no broken stones on the ground at all.

The one in front of the stele is okay, it may have been cleaned up, but how did the broken stones behind the stone wall be cleaned up?Judging from the broken marks on the side of the stele, several relatively large pieces of rubble should have fallen behind the stele. The width of these rubbles exceeded the width of the gap. The block was cleared out, which means that someone must have been behind the stele.

Moreover, the pattern on this stone tablet is very similar to the pattern on the square altar that opened this underground passage before. There should also be a place like a keyhole where this diamond can be placed to open this stone wall, or It is this stone gate. "

After listening to Chen Ziyang's words, Instructor Liu hurriedly said to everyone: "Separate them all, and look along this stone tablet to see if there is a place where the stone tablet can be opened."

Instructor Liu immediately walked along the edge of the stele to the other side, carefully looking for the keyhole on the stele, while Chen Ziyang stayed where he was, quietly staring at the lines on the stele. .Seeing that he did not act, Yang Lei also stayed.

After staring at the lines on the wall for a while, Chen Ziyang stretched out his right hand tremblingly, and touched the lines on the stone tablet again.

But this time, when his finger touched the gap on the stele, nothing happened.After touching the other lines a few times, Chen Ziyang knew that the feeling he had just now would not reappear.

"Er Yang, what's the matter with you? Why do I feel uneasy looking at you?" Yang Lei asked with concern.

"Nothing, I just don't know if I should move on."

Seeing Chen Ziyang's tangled expression, and seeing the three instructors Liu walking towards the distance, Yang Lei said in a low voice: "Let's turn around and run, anyway, they don't have guns, so we can run while they are not paying attention." Even if they find out and catch up, the two of us can force them back with pistols, and we should be able to leave here safely."

"I thought about what you said before, but what if I escaped? The car's engine got into the sand, and it couldn't drive very far. We still couldn't leave this desert.

Instructor Liu has a satellite phone in his backpack. I guess it is his last resort. After the things here are over, he will call for backup, and someone will come to pick him up. "

"Those people picked him up, not the two of us. If this kid has evil intentions and really does us two, then it's over. Why don't you let it go and gamble."

(End of this chapter)