desert abyss

After getting serious, Lee Jin shook hands with me again.He is about the same height as me. Because of his small frame and narrow shoulders, he looks weak from a distance, but he is not.Like Huang Kun, he is a very intimidating person.The two of them slapped and pinched my face and body like picking vegetables and melons, making a lot of comments.

"You're as thin as a monkey, and you don't have any meat on your back. Let the team doctor do a physical examination for you tomorrow," Li Zhen said, "I'll make a training plan for you after I have the report. In addition to listening to the team in the big class, your I will take care of the physical training, as for other big and small things in life, I can ask you Liao Xiaodan, you are following her team."

When I heard that there was physical training, I thought I was jealous. Is it really possible for a person like me to do physical training for geological survey projects?If the so-called Xinzang area refers to Xinjiang and Tibet, it will be troublesome.

"There are other things..." Huang Kun looked at Li Zhen.

"Oh, come, let me introduce you," Li Zhen pouted at Huang Kun, "Our family, Huang Kun, is omnipotent in the world, and the best thing is dancing. You learn folk customs from him. You want Study hard and make progress every day, otherwise it will be very painful for him to beat someone."

Huang Kun frowned, raised his hand towards Li Zhen and cut it up, Li Zhen raised his hand to block.I was taken aback because they didn't look like they were playing around, but Xu Jin didn't seem to care.She was writing down something in a small notebook by the light of the bonfire, and when she saw me looking at her, she hurriedly put it away.

"The two of them have always been like this, don't worry about it." She paused, and leaned into my ear, "Except for weirdos like them, they are all bad people. Be careful, senior."

There is always a supply of fresh food in the base. Although it is on the same level as the canteen of SISU, it is not easy to store it here.After Li Zhen took me for a physical examination the next day, we really started the rigorous training process.When we were together with Li Zhen during that time, we were usually either in the mud or in the sand, crawling on the ground or on the vertical surface.From long-distance running and parallel bars at the beginning to fighting, rock climbing, and finally armed cross-country, every training can break through my previous bottom line.

In addition to these basic trainings, I also learned self-rescue in emergency situations such as extreme weather, getting lost, lack of food and water, broken bones and bleeding, and learned how to disassemble, assemble and use three types of firearms.Li Zhen didn't tell me why I should learn these things, only that I would definitely use them.I lost weight quickly at first, and then began to gain muscle continuously. In a few days, my weight skyrocketed by more than ten pounds.When the muscle gain reached the bottleneck, I was forced by Li Zhen to drink protein powder and eat eggs every day, and I was punished by him to run away when I secretly threw the eggs away.It's physically painful, like getting out of bed some days, but it's also fun in a way.I felt like I was back in my student days. Although I was asked to do this and that, I opened my mouth and stretched out my hands without taking responsibility for my actions.

Lee Jin and I quickly became good friends.He is straight-hearted, with a knife mouth and a tofu heart. Xu Jin and I often argue with him.Although Li Zhen would force me to do many things and would scold me when he lost his patience, he always took good care of me in life, and once brought me a box of fried rice.I asked him how he knew that this was my favorite food, and he said casually that he thought Shanghainese people liked it.I don't know where he got this barren mountain.He seldom goes back to his bedroom at night, and he doesn't know where he sleeps.

Xu Jin was laughing and joking all day long, showing no scruples about the people in charge.She doesn't train with me, but I haven't seen her at the assembly point of many female team members, but once I saw her standing alone on a balance beam more than ten meters above the ground, covering the sun with her hands and looking into the distance. at the mountain.

Before long, I got to know most of the people on the base.

The team I belong to is led by Liao Xiaodan and consists of a group of diverse people.In addition to the captain Liao Xiaodan, my translator, and Li Zhen who didn't know what to do, there were also assistant Xu Jin who was in charge of recording and taking pictures, and two experts in charge of geological surveys.There were two other Germans, both young and handsome, who claimed to be mercenaries; an extremely beautiful Russian girl named Yenia, with red lips and white teeth like a porcelain doll, said that she was a researcher sent by a certain organization.

There were two other teams, one led by Huang Kun, almost all Russians.There is also a team that is almost entirely German. I have rarely seen this team, and I don't know who leads them.

Gradually, I also understood the purpose of this so-called "geological investigation".

In the winter five years ago, several meteorological stations in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region detected very unusual weather conditions, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and these severe weather were all concentrated in the Taklamakan Desert.The hurricane disappeared after appearing in place, and the seismic waves did not have much impact beyond the desert.At the same time, a strong magnetic field appeared in the local area, but it disappeared soon.An expedition team was on its way to Lop Nur to inspect some ruins, and the whole team disappeared in the desert.

The team was privately funded and included investigators from Russia and Germany, so the matter went to the embassy and the central government.However, human beings have not yet mastered geological and climate changes to such a high level, and Taklamakan is a place where weird incidents occur frequently like Bermuda. This incident was regarded as an ordinary field exploration accident at that time and was ignored.

At the end of that year, an even stranger thing happened.Several people showed up in Beijing, shocking the capital.These people were the survivors of the expedition team, including Huang Kun and Li Zhen.Somehow they managed to get out of the desert and brought a message to the Central Committee.This news was blocked by the central government, and no one except the central government knew about it, not even most people in the expedition team.Everyone in our three teams (except me) is educated or has a background, and they are all specially recruited by the central government, but most of them were only told that the central government felt that the situation was serious, and contacted the German and Russian sides to prepare to reorganize the team , Secretly entered the desert again for investigation.Only Li Zhen and Huang Kun who came out of the desert alive can tell us what the expedition team who disappeared in the desert saw.And they were not only silenced by the central government, but they also seemed to be very taboo about this matter, and they didn't want to mention it at all.

I also learned that the training I received was much more rigorous than that of some recorders and geological surveyors in the same industry, but it was nothing compared to others, such as the extreme physical training that Li Zhen and Huang Kun went to It can directly kill me suddenly.I don't know why some people are so "preferred" to me.

All the Chinese said that we were sent by the central government to conduct geological surveys in Xinjiang this time. We were divided into three teams to go to the depths of the desert by different routes, and they came out together after meeting.Although I was skeptical, but seeing how aggressive they were, I didn't say much.

I'm good at gagging, thick-skinned, and get along well with a group of people.

There is only one thing that makes me particularly uncomfortable, and that is that Huang Kun will give me two "folklore lessons" every week.

Although I accept who I am, I haven't forgotten what happened when I was kidnapped.I have always been a little hostile to Huang Kun, he doesn't seem to like me very much, but we both don't like confrontation, so every time it makes us extremely embarrassed.The relationship between Huang Kun and Li Zhen is also not good, but although they often quarrel and fight, they are usually very close.When Li Zhen and I were eating together, as long as Huang Kun came and sat next to us, the two of them chatted on their own, and I felt like a mistress.I have no relatives here, and Lee Jin has become my best friend, so it makes me feel bad.

The night before my first "folklore class," I had a nightmare.

In the dream, I was back in the bus that came here, sitting by the window, outside was like the day when Li Zhen was injured, thunder and lightning, and the rain was pouring.Huang Kun sat beside me, his whole body was bright red.

"You can't escape." He said to me with a smirk, stretching his hand towards my neck, "You can't escape."

A lightning bolt lit up the car, and I saw a long white scar on his hand and blood in his teeth.I didn't dare to move, he stretched out his hand, touched the amulet around my neck, and suddenly retracted.At the same time, I heard a "hiss", as if something was scorched.I looked again, and there was clearly a headless little girl next to her, wearing a bright red skirt, with two small floral shoes protruding from under the skirt.I yelled, a thunder exploded above my head, and the little girl disappeared.Sitting next to me was still Huang Kun, with a very painful expression.He glanced at me as if asking for help, and then spat out a mouthful of blood.Only then did I see clearly that the headless kid was lying on his shoulders, with his hands pinching his neck.

"Before dawn...don't open the door..." Huang Kun tried to speak, and stuffed something into my hand.Then he disappeared with the little girl.

I woke up from the dream and sat up suddenly.It was raining heavily outside, but through the sound of the rain I heard someone knocking on the door and the sound of a child crying, singing softly while crying:

"On the fifteenth day of the first day of the new year... the gate of the temple is open, and the bull's head and horse face... are lined up on both sides. □□ sue! □□ sue!"

The knock on the door became louder and louder, and I thought of what Huang Kun said in my dream, "Don't open the door before dawn", and I broke out in a cold sweat.Looking down again, I have a peach pit in my hand.I don't know which tendon was stuck at that time, so I threw the peach stone to the door and threw it.The peach pit hit the door, and the sound outside the door stopped immediately.

I remembered what Xu Jin said, and I repeated it to myself, "The snake is in the middle of the line; the master is falsely surprised, and the disaster of prison. It's all fake, it's all fake." Then I lay down again and put the quilt over my head , When I woke up again, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, the room was brightly lit, the peach pit was still lying on the floor by the door, and my amulet was gone.

I went to see Huang Kun with two dark circles under my eyes. He also looked in poor health, with no blood on his face.

"You look pale." He said.

"You're not much better, kidney deficiency?" I sat down angrily.

"It's okay." Huang Kun probably quarreled with Li Zhen a lot, and said without blushing.He pulls out something.

When I saw that it was my amulet, I instinctively stretched out my hand.He didn't give it to me.

"What's the hurry, this is mine." He gave me a blank look, "I gave this piece of jade to Li Zhen before. He knew that the past two days must have been rough when you first came here, so he lent it to you." He looked Look at the amulet. "It ended up being broken after you blocked it. It's a pity, this is a good material. When you are free, find a place with better Fengshui and bury it with me."

"This is really jade!" I blurted out, "How much?"

"This is my heirloom. My parents are going to let me keep it for the rest of my life. What do you think?" Huang Kun gave me another look.

I faltered, felt it was not my fault, and felt embarrassed.

"What you saw yesterday was a headless zombie," Huang Kun put away the jade pendant, "he has the strongest temper. Most of them were soldiers and officers in their lifetime. After they were killed, they stayed to harm the living. They have a very evil spirit. There is a legend about the second After the grandfather died, he turned into a headless ghost and made a lot of trouble. You are lucky this time."

"What I saw..." I was dumbfounded, "How do you know? That thing is you? Are you a soldier? Are you dead?"

"Are you sick?" Huang Kun asked me back.

I fell silent.Fortunately, I am not an atheist, otherwise I am afraid it would be even more difficult to accept.

Huang Kun sighed.

"I am indeed an instructor of the armed police. I am not dead. I will never harm you."

I said "oh".

Then I thought again, no, what I saw last night was a little girl, the little girl was a soldier?Scouts?Just about to ask, Huang Kun raised his hand.

"Enough," he said, "I'm here to give a lecture, not to chat with you."

"Do you think people can come back from the dead? No?

Once there were two good friends who got lost in an underground labyrinth, out of ammunition and food, and with no backup.One of them was wounded and very weak, and finally died of thirst.Another person dragged his body and continued walking until he came to a long corridor in the underground palace.

The aisle is broad and majestic, tens of meters wide and tens of meters high, with huge statues of gods standing on both sides of the aisle.The first idol had two legs of the god, the second had a torso added, the third had arms added, the fourth had a head added, and the fifth had a heart carved out of it.After passing through the corridor of the underground palace, you will come to an underground river, and you can walk out along the underground river.

The living man thought for a moment, and returned to the beginning of the aisle with his friend's body.He divided his friend's body into several pieces with a knife, and placed his legs under the first statue, his torso under the second, his arms under the third, and his arms under the fourth. Under the statue was the friend's head, and under the last statue was the friend's heart.Finally, he closed his eyes and walked back to the starting point.

He sat there for a while, when he heard his friend calling him.

He opened his eyes and saw his friend back, just as he had been alive.They went to the underground river together, drank the water, ate the blind fish in the water, and went out together. "

"And then?" I couldn't help asking, "Is that friend still the same person?"

"Of course it was the original man. That friend was fine. It was his own fault. Two years later, his legs were paralyzed, and a few years later, the rest of his body was also paralyzed. Brain dead, vegetative, and finally heart stopped. That's the end of the story."

In every folklore class after that, Huang Kun told me stories.Sometimes it brings a little bit of "after seeing dirty things, you should brush off your shoulders before going home" or "the veins connecting the middle finger to the heart are the most energetic in the heart", etc., but most of the time, Huang Kun is just giving I tell stories.

At that time, I didn't like him very much, and every time I was with him was the most embarrassing time.I didn't know at the time how many times he had saved my life and how many times he would save my life again.I didn't know at the time that his attitude towards me was because he had sacrificed too much for me.

Time passed like this, when the team gathered once, Liao Xiaodan announced that the official inspection was about to start, but what she said was not "investigation", but "going to the field".Then the training is over.

It was early summer when I was brought to the base.I drew a calendar on the wall, and calculated that almost three months had passed, and it was already early autumn.I don't know how my family is doing now, whether my parents have called the police.

In the week after the training, big trucks covered with army green canvas often drove into the base.During that time, Huang Kun was not around, Li Zhen was very anxious, and Xu Jin was even more solitary, often sitting on the top of the climbing rock, not knowing what he was thinking.

The crowd was restless.

I kept thinking about what Xu Jin meant when she asked me to be "careful", and sometimes I suspected that I had heard it wrong.

But it was clear that someone did want my life, or at least one thing.Li Zhen and the others also collected some things, one of which is related to me.

For these I am at a loss.I don't understand the importance of me in this expedition team. When I asked Liao Xiaodan, she said that these were ordered by the "boss".But according to everyone's words, this matter was sent by the central government.Then this so-called "boss" must be related to the central government, and he is definitely not a simple person.Three generations of my ancestors have been ordinary people in the city, how could I get involved with such a big boss?These questions keep chasing and thinking about it, and it can drive myself crazy.