Xixia dead book

Chapter 133 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (18)
"Hehe, we are materialists, and of course we don't believe in ghosts and gods. Do you know Genghis Khan?" Burtenko asked suddenly.

"Of course I know! Conqueror of Eurasia."

"Do you know where Genghis Khan died after his expedition to Europe?"

Makarov shook his head, he didn't know much about the history of the East.However, in an instant, a familiar yet unfamiliar face suddenly flashed in his mind - Liang Yunjie!Makarov suddenly remembered that in the scientific expedition team, Liang Yunjie once told him the history of Xixia: "Oh! I seem to have the impression that Genghis Khan died in Xixia in the end."

"Yes! The land on the other side of the border is the land of Xixia hundreds of years ago, and the north of the border is the Mongolian plateau, and the Wild Wolf Valley we are in now happened to be located between Xixia and Mongolia at that time."

"You mean, when Genghis Khan attacked Xixia, he marched from the Wild Wolf Valley?" Makarov asked in surprise.

"I'm not a historian, so I can't say for sure, but I speculate that it is very likely that Genghis Khan's army and the Xixia people fought fiercely here."

"So this mountain of bones are all left over from the fierce battle that year?"

"I think so. But who knows? The East is always a mystery to us Westerners." Burtenko threw away the bone in his hand.

"But what about the mysterious patterns on these skulls?"

"It may be a mysterious ritual of the local tribe!"

Makarov carefully put down the human skull in his hand, and then took two steps back.He didn't know why he retreated, maybe it was out of awe of the warriors in front of him.

Buldenko turned around and wanted to go back, but Makarov suddenly stopped him: "Where is the number A711209?"

"Don't worry! You'll see him soon." Saying that, Buldenko led Makarov up the small mound on the left.

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Makarov followed Buldenko up the small mound to the left.After a while, Makarov discovered that there was a long gun stuck in the mound, with the point of the gun pointing down, and it was deeply inserted into the sand dune.Surprised, he pulled out his spear and looked it over carefully.

"Why is there an AK-47 here?"

"Look carefully, this is not an AK-47."

Makarov was taken aback, and Buldenko explained: "This gun is very similar to the AK-47, but to be precise, it is a Chinese-made Type 56 semi-automatic rifle."

At this time, Makarov also noticed the difference between the gun in his hand and the AK-47: "Why are there Chinese guns here? Could it be that there have been Chinese troops here?"

"Maybe there is, like we're here today."

"No! Didn't you say that no one can cross the Wild Wolf Valley?"

"Maybe they crossed the border from somewhere else and got here," Brdenko speculated.

"Why did they come here? Are they like us, out of curiosity? Why did they drop this gun again? Look at this gun, it hasn't corroded much, maybe it was left over recently!" Makarov said, instinctively Feeling nervous, he looked around, but found nothing unusual.

"Don't be nervous, you have to know that there is no rain all year round in this place, so the corrosion rate of everything will be slower than other places, and it is very slow." Burdenko explained.

"Where is number A711209?"

"It's right under your feet."

"Ah!" Makarov took a step back in shock.

"Li Guowen and I buried him, and we happened to find this gun in the valley, so we put the gun here and left a mark," Burdenko said.

Makarov took out the small engineering shovel he brought from his backpack, and prepared to dig up the sand dunes under his feet to make sure that A711209 was indeed buried here.

But at this moment, Buldenko shouted: "Wait! Before you dig, I have two things to remind you."

Makarov looked up at Buldenko and said, "Say it!"

"First, after you confirm that No. A711209 is indeed buried here, you are not allowed to mention this matter again, and you are not allowed to let other people in the base know, let alone sue me." When Burdenko said this Unusually firm, completely commanding tone.

Makarov felt a little annoyed when he thought that he had to hide this matter for Buldenko. If he had known this, he might as well have left it alone!But this is the end of the matter. Judging by Buldenko's appearance, if he doesn't agree, I'm afraid... Thinking of this, Makarov nodded: "Okay! I promise you. What about two?"

When Buldenko saw that Makarov agreed to himself, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he said, "Second thing! Don't blame me for not reminding you that there is drought and no rain all year round, and human corpses may not rot for many years. Although A711209 has been buried It's been more than half a year, but I can't say what kind of terrifying appearance he will turn into, you'd better be mentally prepared."

"Thank you for your reminder. Yuri, we are all agents, are we still afraid of seeing dead bodies?" Makarov seemed to be mentally prepared.

After digging a few times with the engineer shovel, Makarov found some broken clothes in the gravel.He carefully identified and confirmed that these broken clothes were the uniforms worn by the students.Digging further down, soon a mummy that was not completely decomposed appeared in front of Makarov.

Although he was fully prepared, when Makarov saw the horrible mummy with his own eyes, his stomach couldn't help but churn, and finally he vomited up all the food he ate at noon come out.

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Buldenko hurriedly helped Makarov up.Makarov waved his hand, and took another look at the horrible mummy. The eye sockets were empty, the face was shameless, the dried meat was tangled together dryly, and a deep scar appeared on the back of the mummy's neck. Hole.Makarov vaguely saw the mysterious pattern again on the not completely decomposed skin around the hole, his heart sank suddenly, and he didn't dare to look at the mummy again.

"I warned you earlier, you have to watch it." Burdenko helped Makarov up, with a hint of contempt in his words.

Makarov ignored Buldenko and stumbled down the mound.Behind him, Burtenko hastily reburied the mummy, and hurriedly followed Makarov.

The two returned to the Valley of the Wild Wolf.Makarov stood at the bottom of the valley feeling lost, he looked back at the pile of bones piled up like a hill, and shook his head helplessly.Suddenly, a burst of mist rose from the wolf valley, and the mist floated from the depths of the wolf valley towards the mouth of the valley.Makarov looked at the white mist drifting towards him in surprise: "How can there be fog in such a dry place?!"

Buldenko also stared at the depths of the Wolf Valley in horror: "I have been here several times, but I have never seen this... this white mist."

As the white mist advanced, there seemed to be the sound of people yelling at the bottom of the valley, and Brdenko instinctively pulled out the grenade on his body.The white mist was getting closer and closer, and the sound of people yelling for horses became louder and louder. Makarov and Buldenko involuntarily backed away.

Buldenko threw two grenades, and after two loud bangs, he yelled at Makarov: "Run!"

The two of them ran away, galloped out of the mouth of the valley, and when they turned around to look again, the white mist subsided, and the sound of people shouting and horses bleating disappeared.The two leaned against the jeep, panting heavily.The two of them didn't know whether the grenade had blown away the demons or ghosts, or it was just their hallucinations, and they returned to the base in a trance.

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"After I returned to the base, I became seriously ill. I often had nightmares. The horrible mummy and this strange pattern always appeared in my dreams. But it's strange to say that after I left the base, I never dreamed about these things again. It was a terrifying scene. I thought I had forgotten those horrible past events, but unexpectedly, the nightmare has returned.” Makarov finally finished talking about his terrifying experience in the Wolf Valley.

Han Jiang's brows were tangled together: "An ancient totem? Is this the totem of the party members?"

"Maybe, so here we see this disturbing pattern again." Makarov said.

"Hearing what you said, your colleague Buldenko is very problematic!" Han Jiang said.

"You mean he tattooed this pattern on disobedient students?"

"Yeah! Cruel or not, let's not care about it. Why did he tattoo this pattern? Could it be that he just saw that pattern in the Wild Wolf Valley and got it on a whim?" Han Jiang asked back.

"I also thought about this question at the time. After listening to his explanation, I didn't think about it deeply. But when I met those men in black with this tattoo on their bodies, I had to rethink this question."

"Can I speculate that, back then, the members you trained also had such tattoos on their bodies? Is this a symbol, a sign of a secret group? Maybe it's a secret group run by your KGB!" Han Jiang Take a wild guess.

"What? You mean those students all have tattoos like this?" Makarov was shocked, "Secret group?! No, it's impossible. If it was done by the KGB, it's impossible for me not to know."

"In short, I think this is very important. I suddenly feel that what you just said has some kind of internal connection with Stechkin, Brenning and others that Yelena investigated before!" Han Jiang continued to deduce.

"Since Stechkin escaped from prison and Brenin was burned to death, I have also thought about this issue. Now I can be sure that there must be a problem within the KGB. But it is difficult for us to investigate this issue clearly from the parties involved back then, Isaac Husband died in Afghanistan, Buldenko died in a plane crash, Brynin was burned, and many others are gone.”

"There is also Stechkin, it seems that to solve the mystery inside the KGB, we can only find this Stechkin!" Han Jiang kicked Tang Feng who had been silent all this time, "Hey, What are you thinking? I haven’t spoken all the time.”

Only then did Tang Feng regain his senses: "Just now, after listening to Lao Ma's story about the experience of Wild Wolf Valley, I suddenly thought of a question, is this Wild Wolf Valley the Hanhaimi City we have been looking for?"

Tang Feng's words made Makarov's eyes shine.Tang Feng went on to say: "Before, the old horse told us about the situation of the scientific expedition team, and Liang Yunjie also said something about it. From their description, the place where the scientific expedition team disappeared in the end is the same as the wild wolf that the old horse said this time. Valley has many similarities."

"Yes, when I saw Wild Wolf Valley, I felt that the place had a feeling of deja vu. However, I can tell you clearly that the scientific expedition team never went to Wild Wolf Valley. The memory of the last few days before the disappearance is too deep, although we have entered the depths of the Badain Jaran Desert, we can be sure that we have not come to the Wild Wolf Valley."

"In any case, Wild Wolf Valley must have something to do with Xixia, and it has a lot to do with the disappearance of the scientific expedition team." Tang Feng insisted on his own judgment.

"It is true that it is related to Xixia, but whether it is the so-called Hanhaimi City or the place where the scientific expedition team died that year is still difficult to determine." Makarov expressed his objection.

"Okay! You two don't say it's useless, that's for the future, we're still trapped here!" Han Jiang interrupted the discussion between Tang Feng and Makarov.

All three fell into an eerie silence again.

[Chapter Ten Desperate Escape]

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After a while of silence, Han Jiang suddenly asked Makarov again: "You saw the mysterious pattern at the base, what happened afterwards? Buldenko is dead, what about the other students?"

"Han! That's what I'm going to tell you that really scares me." Makarov's face was heavy.

"Oh? Is there anything more frightening to you?" Han Jiang and Tang Feng were surprised.

"Do you still remember the old man I met at Petersburg Railway Station?" Makarov asked back.

"Remember. You said that person was your colleague in the KGB." Tang Feng said.

"Well, that person is the lieutenant colonel who came to the forward base to replace me later. His name is Sheidrin."

"Oh? It seems that this person knows a lot!" Han Jiang said.

"Before I went to the forward base, I worked with Shedrin for a while, so we are old acquaintances. But since Sheidrin took over the forward base, I haven't met him again, so the matter about the forward base I didn’t know anything about it. He didn’t tell me until I ran into him in Petersburg that something happened to the forward base!”

"What happened?" Both Tang Feng and Han Jiang were shocked.

"Just as the scientific expedition I went to China changed my fate, what happened at the base also changed Xie Delin's fate. Because of an accident at the base, Xie Delin was dismissed for review, and finally ordered to retire early. The later successful businessman Schedrin."

"I don't care about the fate of this Schedrin. What happened to the forward base?" Han Jiang couldn't wait to ask.

"Han, don't worry. Later, I asked Yelena to go to Schedrin again and asked for many details. Let me think about it. I... Where should I start?" At this moment, fragments of memory and Schedrin's narrative They were constantly intertwined and collided in Makarov's mind.In the end, a bloody and terrifying picture slowly gathered and unfolded in Makarov's mind...

After Burdenko's death, the investigation team sent from above quickly determined that Burdenko died in a plane crash.After dealing with Burtenko's funeral, Makarov received an order from the headquarters, and the headquarters will send a lieutenant colonel to replace Burdenko.Makarov didn't know if this Shchedrin was the Shchedrin he had worked with, because the Shchedrin he knew was only a major.

On this day, Lieutenant Nikolai Makarov dragged to the base, drove to a helicopter landing site outside the base, and waited for the newly dispatched lieutenant colonel.Makarov looked at the sky, and saw the rare sunny weather, so he sighed: "Nicholas, Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin is luckier than me! On the day I arrived at the base, the sandstorm caused us to land only in a dozen or so Kilometers away at the landing field. Maybe my bad luck and Brdenko’s began then.”

"Yes! I was the one who picked you up. Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, with all due respect, why did you become superstitious? I don't think you were like this before! Was it because of Comrade Bultenko's death?" Lieutenant Nikolai ask.

"Perhaps it is! Anyway, after staying in this place for a long time, people will lament the impermanence of the world." Makarov sighed.

While the two were talking, a strong wind blew in the distance, and a Mi-8 helicopter flew from the north.Makarov and Nikolai hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and hid sideways behind the jeep.After the helicopter landed and stopped, the two got out from behind the jeep.

The helicopter hatch opened, and when Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin appeared in front of Makarov, Makarov was sure that this was the Shchedrin he knew.After the two embraced tightly, Makarov said with a smile: "I didn't expect to see you here. When I received the order, I was still wondering why Shchedrin became a lieutenant colonel? So you have been promoted."

"What a promotion! If those people in the headquarters don't give me an exceptional promotion, who would want to come to this hellish place!" Xiedlin complained.

"It seems that you didn't come in vain!"

"It is of course a good thing to be promoted beyond the rules, but if you lose your life in this barren desert like Buldenko, it is not worth it!" Lieutenant Colonel Shchedrin's calculations were quite shrewd.

"Hey! I didn't expect Buldenko to... In fact, he will be transferred back soon. Life is impermanent!" Makarov sighed.

After Schedrin greeted Lieutenant Nikolai, the three returned to the base together.Shchedrin was arranged to live in Burdenko's original room.

(End of this chapter)