Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 37 Horror Notes

I shook my head, and Lao Yan said slowly: "Back then he was young and energetic. He heard that there was a treasure of Genghis Khan in the Mongolian desert, so he went in alone! The last person came out from there, blind in both eyes. But he held out a national treasure in the ruins."

Lao Yan didn't tell me the specific national treasure, but there are usually many institutions in the tomb that can have national treasures. The blind man entered the tomb alone and lost only a pair of eyes. It seems that there are indeed two brushes.

Now I know why Lao Yan is worried. If such a capable person died before entering the tomb, then one can imagine the danger along the way.

I had no choice but to comfort Lao Yan and say that maybe they were trapped somewhere like us. After all, when I received the telegram before, it was impossible for Lao Yan to reply immediately.

"I hope!" Lao Yan put out the cigarette in his hand, obviously not relaxed because of my words.

After Lao Yan said this, he was silent for a long time before asking me, if he could go back alive this time, would I agree to his recommendation for me to go to the department?

"Am I qualified?" I rubbed my head.

Lao Yan laughed, and said that just because of the Nine Dragons tattoo on my back, and the rich experience I showed during this trip, I have already passed the test.

"It's just that you have to think clearly, in this line of work, life and death are commonplace." He added at the end.

"Come here, there is a dead body!"

Just when I was thinking about how to answer him, the poisonous snake not far away suddenly yelled, and we hurriedly surrounded him.

I saw that the corpse had already turned into a skeleton, and the clothes wrapped outside had also rotted into strips of cloth. One could tell that it had been dead for some years.

I glanced at it and said that it should have been dug out by a sandstorm recently.

I didn't care about it. I don't know how many people's lives will be swallowed up in the desert all year round. This is just one of them.

On the contrary, Lao Yan seemed to be very concerned. He squatted beside the skeleton with a frown, and groped for it. After a long while, he found a notebook wrapped in a plastic bag from the ragged clothes.

Lao Yan frowned and said: "If I remember correctly, this should be the notebook prepared by the expedition team five years ago."

He said that before entering Lop Nur, he read all the materials about five years ago. Among them was this kind of notebook, which seemed to be specially made, waterproof and moisture-proof, so it was very suitable for field records.

I immediately became interested: "So, this person belongs to that expedition team?"

Lao Yan hummed, then took out the book from the plastic bag, he froze when he opened the first page, I saw that he hadn't moved for a long time, so I asked him what's wrong?
He moved the notebook towards me, and I looked down, only to see a name written on the title page: Yu Chengze.

"This person is Yu Chengze?" I exploded instantly: "It doesn't look like he died for a few months..."

The poisonous snake on the side also came over, saying that the skeleton would be turned into powder if it was pinched casually, and it had been dead for at least three or four years.

Lao Yan frowned into the word Chuan, and after a long while decided to look at the contents of the notebook before saying:
July 1965, 7: I finally entered Lop Nur today. Everyone was very excited, and I was even more excited.I have studied the 13 countries of the Western Regions all year round, and I am naturally full of expectations for the No. 36 Seven Kingdoms that turned out to be born out of nowhere!
July 1965, 7: Although the route was set, I didn't expect so many changes along the way. Now I have deviated from the original route. I hope I can still find the ancient country.

July 1965, 7: After several days of hard work by Chinese and Japanese experts, I finally found the correct route again. It was not far from the ancient country, and my blood was boiling.

……

For the next four or five days, all the twists and turns along the way and Yu Chengze's mood were recorded in the notebook.

It was not until August 8th that there was a major turning point, because they had found the big crater blown out by the Air Force. It was recorded like this: Finally arrived at the destination. I am sure that there must be a place under the chains. A civilization that has not been discovered by human beings. When I think that this civilization will be excavated by me, I am so excited that I cannot sleep. It is already late tonight, and we decided to go down early tomorrow morning.

August 1965, 8: I can't believe that the ancient country appeared in front of us in this form. When she appeared, I was deeply impressed by her...

August 1965, 8: Everything in it shows that this was a very prosperous country at that time, but I don’t know why there is no historical record. Could it be that it was buried in the desert overnight like Loulan?
August 1965, 8: I can't believe my eyes, what is that, we can't escape, none of us can escape!
The handwriting is already a bit scribbled here, it seems that the situation at that time was very urgent.

In the next few days, he recorded some more, but the words were vague, and he kept emphasizing that no one could escape, but he never wrote down what specifically made them unable to escape.Presumably it's either that I really don't know, or that I can't tell the key points in a highly tense environment.

August 1965, 8: I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune, I escaped, but they were all buried with the ancient country, no, there was it, it also followed...

Then there was another blank space, and it jumped directly to number 26. The handwriting on it was very scribbled, and it was obviously written in a panic: Here it comes...

Lao Yan turned back again, then frowned and said that this was the last page.

"What exactly does this 'it' refer to?" I asked without knowing why.

Lao Yan said angrily that he didn't know, but it seems that Yu Chengze didn't die in the ancient country of Chang Ye, but died in the desert.

I asked him if he was sure that the body was Yu Chengze?
Lao Yan glanced at me and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, judging from the above records, only Yu Chengze and 'it' escaped. I don't know what it is at the moment, but the one in front of me should be Yu Chengze who didn't escape." wrong."

With a gloomy face, I said after a while: "So Yu Chengze has been dead for five years? What is the purpose of our trip?"

Lao Yan didn't answer, I looked at Yu Chengze, who had become a skeleton, and asked again with a dark face: "Lao Yan, what do you mean by tricking us into this ghost place?"

Lao Yan had a bitter face, puffed on his cigarette, and said after a while that he didn't know what was going on, but he could use his head to guarantee that Yu Chengze had indeed lived a good life in the past five years.

"Lao Yan, didn't you think Yu Chengze was weird before? Could it be that the one who survived was not...human at all." I stared at the skeleton, feeling chills all over my body for a while, I could tell that Lao Yan was not lying, Then the only problem is Yu Chengze.

Lao Yan let out a sigh of relief, and then said that the department had investigated Yu Chengze, and there was nothing wrong with him except what he thought was weird, so he really couldn't figure it out.

Drop drop drop...

I wanted to say something else, but the transmitter in Lao Yan's backpack rang again. He answered it and listened for a while, showing the most gloomy expression ever, and I could even see a trace of panic in his eyes.

"What happened?"

Seeing Lao Yan's dark face, I asked with some concern. Logically speaking, Lao Yan should be happy when the other team has news, but seeing him like this now doesn't mean he's happy at all.

He didn't speak, but took out a cigarette, smoked three full before uttering: They found Yu Chengze.

We were confused, isn't Yu Chengze's body right under our feet?

But before we could ask, Lao Yan added another sentence: Alive...

(End of this chapter)