Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 33
Professor Ye used a windproof lighter to bake the edge of the dagger until it was hot and red.There are two purposes here. One is to use the high temperature of the flame to sterilize the dagger; the other is that when the red-hot knife cuts carrion, the high temperature will burn the flesh. Although it is painful, it can quickly stop the bleeding.

Professor Ye gritted his teeth and said, "Tuobagu, hold on, I'm going to attack!"

I nodded, biting the blood-stained clothes in my mouth, with a death-like expression on my face.

Professor Ye said, "I'll count to three! One!"

Just after counting, Professor Ye suddenly inserted the dagger into my wound.The sharp pain mixed with the burning pain severely tormented my nerves and made me tremble violently.Bean-sized beads of sweat rolled down my cheeks in clusters, and I rolled my eyes weakly, feeling like I was going to die at this moment.

Professor Ye quickly spun the blade and cut off the carrion near the wound. I could clearly hear the strange sound of the knife cutting the meat.The severe pain made me almost faint, my body was stretched like a steel plate, and the left arm seemed to be no longer my limb.

Gu Meidi held my hand tightly, seeing me in such pain, tears overflowed from her eyes.

Just when my soul was about to be pulled out of my body, Professor Ye put down the dagger, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Okay! Gu Meidi don't just stand still, take the medicine quickly!"

"Oh! Oh!" Gu Meidi hurriedly took out the anti-inflammatory medicine powder, poured a small bag of anti-inflammatory medicine powder evenly on my wound, then wrapped it with hemostatic gauze, and finally tied a beautiful wound on my arm. bows.

I took out a pack of cigarettes from my backpack, handed one to Professor Ye, took one from my mouth, and said vaguely, "Fire! Let's light it!"

Gu Meidi frowned and said, "You still want to smoke after being injured like this?"

Professor Ye said: "Let him smoke one to relieve the pain."

Gu Meidi set me on fire, and I took a big breath, panting heavily.

I puffed out the smoke and asked Professor Ye, "Professor Ye, you just called out the name of the wolf-faced bat in one bite. You must know the origin of the wolf-faced bat, right?"

Professor Ye said: "That's right! This is the second time I have encountered a wolf-faced bat."

"The second time?" Gu Meidi said, "Wolf-faced bats should be a very ancient species of bats. In my knowledge base, there seems to be no information about wolf-faced bats!"

Professor Ye exhaled a puff of smoke forcefully, with a serious expression on his face, he said, "Let me tell you a story about a wolf-faced bat!"

Gu Meidi and I nodded, and listened to Professor Ye's slow talk, "In the mid-80s, I was only in my 20s at that time. I hadn't joined the archaeological field for a long time, and I was still in the learning stage. In today's words, I was a fledgling intern at the time. My supervisor’s surname was Zhang, and we all called him Director Zhang. Director Zhang was very famous in the archaeological circle at that time. He had participated in many major archaeological excavations, such as participating in the excavation of The famous Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and so on."

"That year, we received a task from our superiors to go to the Gobi Desert, which is known as the forbidden zone of life. Cultural relics workers from Shanshan County, Turpan, Xinjiang, discovered a large area of ​​rare and mysterious strange stone circles in the northern Gobi of the Flame Mountain. It is said that these strange stone circles The stone circle covers an area of ​​more than [-] mu and 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 shivering with cold when wrapped in a cotton jacket at night. There is also a lot of wind and sand here, and it lasts for a long time. Long, the scene of flying sand and rocks is like the end of the world."

"Led by the local guide, after nearly half a month of trekking, our archaeological team finally arrived at the destination. We stood on a slightly higher soil slope and looked down, only to see the vast and boundless Gobi On the beach, there are countless strange rock circles distributed in a large area. Those strange rock circles are big and small, round and square. The giant stone circle 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 years of wind and sand erosion, these strange stone 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 ’, they don’t 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 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, then who left 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? The strangest thing is However, the stones used to build these strange stone circles are hard to find in the nearby Gobi Desert, which means that these stones may have been 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 up 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 Yes, in a blink of an eye, we came to the sky above the strange stone circle."

"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. The size of a basketball, countless bats flap their wings at the same time, making a roar like rolling thunder. Those bats look very ugly, with pointed and long heads, which look somewhat similar to wolves, which is indescribably weird."

"The face of the guide Carlo changed drastically. He told us to leave this place quickly, because God is already angry. These bats are the guards sent by God to drive away all the people who break into the strange stone circle. So do we. Seeing such a magnificent formation for the first time, I was 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. In those days, these instruments were very expensive things. Several team members were reluctant to leave them behind and wanted to carry them into the car. That is After 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 an instant."

"In the beginning 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 eaten into bones by those terrible bats one after another One of the team members is dead, only a white skeleton is left, and it is still standing in place, like a human bone prop in the laboratory."

"The other team members realized how terrible these bats are after seeing such a tragic situation. We scrambled to get into the car body and locked the car windows tightly. Many bats fell on the car windows and made a loud bang. "

"At that time, we were riding in Jiefang brand trucks. There were two trucks in total. I was riding in the first truck. The driver's hands were shaking when starting the ignition. After several ignitions, the engine was finally started, and the truck seemed to be running. The cheetah rushed out of the encirclement fiercely. We looked back, and a large truck behind was not so lucky. After several ignition failures, hundreds of bats landed on the vehicle body densely, forming a black mass , wrapped the big truck tightly. From a distance, it looks like a big black stone standing on the Gobi Desert."

"Night fell quietly in the thrilling escape. We couldn't turn around to rescue, so we could only drive the big truck and run away. When we looked back again, we found that the bats were covered with a strange ice blue color, like The icy blue light spots become a ghostly landscape on the Gobi Desert."

"Because this kind of bat looks like a wolf, we call it a wolf-faced bat. I didn't expect to meet a wolf-faced bat again inside this ancient underwater tower. It's 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 along the plank road to the top of the tower again.

(End of this chapter)