curse

Chapter 20

Bai Bi wore an all-black dress, which made her blend into the whole night.She didn't know why she came here, but because of a premonition, she felt that she should discover something, or in other words, there was something waiting for her to discover.She didn't let the taxi drive into the small road, but stopped at the intersection and walked in. Some leaves fell and hit her. In a few weeks, these sycamores will devote all their leaves to earth.It was cold on the road at night, she lowered her head and grabbed her collar with her hands, and quickened her pace.After a few steps, she came to the door of the Archaeological Institute.

The door was closed tightly, looking a little formidable and terrifying in the night.Bai Bi reached into her bag, and then took out a bunch of keys. In fact, she decided to come here after seeing this bunch of keys.It was this bunch of keys that she found in Jiang He's drawer a week ago, which made Bai Bi feel that Jiang He deliberately put them in the drawer for her. Through this bunch of keys, a door might be opened, a door leading to The door to another world.So here she came, with this bunch of keys.

From the bunch of keys, she picked the biggest one and stuffed it into the keyhole of the institute's gate.Sure enough, it was this one. Although it took a lot of effort, the big lock was slowly opened, and the door was opened a crack.Bai Bi pulled out the key, pushed open the door, walked in gently, and then locked the door again inside.She walked into the path among the bushes. The trees here are all evergreen all year round, so the shadows of the trees are still dancing, and the leaves are rustling in the wind.The small building in front of her was pitch black, like a sleeping castle, without a single gleam of light, she took a deep breath, and walked into the small building cautiously.

There was no light in the dark corridor, so she took out the small flashlight she had prepared, and that beam of faint light illuminated the front.The light from the flashlight was pitifully small, and it was only as small as the mouth of a bowl when it was near, but it was blurry when it was far away.Looking at this ray of light in front of him, it is even more frightening.Bai Bi's footsteps could be heard clearly in the corridor, and she suspected that in such an environment, someone might be scared to death by her own footsteps.Relying on the light of the flashlight, she finally found the room where Jiang He's accident occurred, and tried to insert several keys from Jiang He's bunch of keys into the keyhole one after another.I kept trying until the last one, and finally, I opened the door.

The moment she walked into the door, she suddenly felt that something was looking at her, which made her hand holding the small flashlight tremble a little. Is it Jiang He?she said softly.There was a dead silence in the room, and no one answered.The light from the small flashlight shone around, and she finally found the eyes looking at her, which were actually just two empty eye sockets, from the skulls of dead people displayed in the cabinet.The weak light from the flashlight shone on the skeleton, which made Bai Bi a little sick. She immediately shifted the direction of the light, then reached out and groped on the wall, and finally touched the light switch.The light in the room was turned on, illuminating the whole room, and her eyes were so stimulated by the light that she suddenly entered the light from the darkness, and it took a while to get used to it.She turned off the flashlight and looked across the room again.Compared with the last time she came, there seemed to be some changes, the position of the chairs, the arrangement of things on the table, she was sure that someone must have been here since the last time.Bai Bi looked at her watch, it was already 11 o'clock, and Jiang He's incident happened shortly thereafter. She saw the phone, and Jiang He's call was made from here that night.She grabbed the phone, only to hear a burst of dial tone, she really wanted to call Jiang He, but she didn't know Jiang He's phone number in another world at this moment.

Bai Bi finally put down the phone and sat down in front of Jiang He's computer. Seeing that the power cord had been connected, she turned on the computer.Soon I entered the interface of WIN98, which is the same as ordinary office computers, with monotonous colors and few icons on the desktop.She saw a logo for an application in it, and turned on the system.It was a software that had been Chineseized. Its name was "KGD Archaeological Comprehensive Analyzer Application Software", followed by a long list of manufacturers' names of instruments and software.Next, she entered an optional interface, all of which were archaeological terms, some of which she could understand, such as carbon-14 determination, and some of which were inexplicable.

Bai Bi ignored these, and she opened the history column at the top of the interface.The last record was the day Jiang He died.Bai Bi carefully opened the last record, and a graph immediately appeared on the screen.There is no explanatory text next to the graph, those curves that look similar to stock charts may only be understood by Jiang He, but Bai Bi really can't understand, so he can only exit the system.

She opened Jiang He's "My Documents" and saw that there was a shortcut hidden in it, which was called "Bai Bi Comes in".Is that Jiang He calling me?she said to herself.She immediately opened that shortcut, which seemed to be another software system.As soon as it came up, a picture with the yellow desert as the background appeared, and two lines of blue words gradually emerged in the picture——

There is no trace left in the sky, but the birds have already flown.

Bai Bi suddenly felt caught by something in her heart, followed by heart palpitations. She only felt that those two sentences were very familiar, as if these words contained some extremely profound meaning.She read it again softly—

There is no trace left in the sky, but the birds have already flown.

Immediately, a person's name flashed across her heart - Yu Chunshun.

Yes, these two sentences were said by Yu Chunshun. Bai Bi remembered that more than 5 years ago, when she was only 18 years old, she once went to a symposium given by Yu Chunshun.She still remembered that on the stage not far from her, the Shanghai man with messy hair and long beard, known as China's first explorer, talked endlessly to the participants about how he had traveled all over the world on foot. Amazing experience in China. Five years have passed, and she has forgotten a lot of the legendary story she heard in front of Yu Chunshun, and only remembers his two words clearly - the sky has left no trace, but the birds have flown by.

At that lecture, Bai Bi heard Yu Chunshun personally tell people that he planned to cross Lop Nur in a few months.Just one day in June of that year, when she was carrying her portfolio and passed by the large electronic display screen in People's Square, the TV station's news was broadcast on the large screen, and the scene when Yu Chunshun's body was found appeared in the news. A tent that almost collapsed was photographed by the helicopter searching for him, sitting alone in the desert of Lop Nur.Seeing the news on the screen, 6-year-old Bai Bi suddenly couldn't control her tears, and wept while covering her face at the bustling sidewalk. At that moment, she suddenly realized: the first man she fell in love with , is Yu Chunshun.

Although Yu Chunshun didn't know her, she always thought so. As for the second man she fell in love with, it was Jiang He.And up to now, the two men she loved have died, one died in the wilderness of Lop Nur, and the other died shortly after returning from Lop Nur.

Bai Bi finally regained his consciousness from daydreams and memories, and looked at the computer screen again.Those two lines of words and the background of the desert have disappeared, and on the white screen, a few lines of words suddenly appeared automatically——

Dear Baibi:
Seeing the two words "The sky has left no trace, but the birds have already flown" on the screen just now, you must think of something, yes, I am now in another world just like Yu Chunshun.At this moment, I just want to say to you - I'm sorry.

I know, you will definitely come, you will take the key I left behind, come to this room, turn on this computer, and come to me.Darling, I really want to kiss you, but I don't have the chance, please forgive me, I can't appear in front of you like the hero in the movie we saw "Ghost Love", it's just a movie It's just, it's not real.

Tell me, what do you want to say to me now?
Suddenly, a long dialog box popped up at the bottom of the screen, and the cursor was blinking in the box.Bai Bi's fingers on the keyboard were trembling. She didn't know what she was seeing. Could it be that Jiang He was really talking to her through the computer?She stared at the screen, looked at the dialogue box, maybe Jiang He was waiting for her to answer now.Can't make him wait any longer, she typed three words without thinking——

"I love you."

Immediately, another line of words appeared on the computer screen——

"Honey, me too."

Bai Bi then tapped the keyboard - "Jiang He, tell you, I believe in that movie. I want to see you."

Another line—"No, honey, you can't see me, never, sorry."

Bai Bi's eye sockets were already moist—"Then why did you leave me?"

Answer—"This is a mistake, a mistake that has already been made, and the end of this mistake is death. I was involved in this mistake, so death found me. No one can escape, please believe me. "

Bai Bi shook her head - "Why is it you? It's not fair."

Answer - "No, it's fair, fate is just and unselfish. I'm not the first, and I won't be the last."

She continued to ask—"But, what is all this for? What have you done?"

Answer - "I can't tell you these things, because, I love you, I hope you live a good life, get happiness and joy."

Bai Bi didn't want to give up—"Jiang He, tell me the reason, why?"

Finally, two large black characters slowly appeared on the screen - "Curse."

Seeing these two words, Bai Bi finally felt scared. She felt that the room seemed to be filled with the smell of Jiang He, or that Jiang He had already merged with this room.After thinking for a long time, she still boldly typed out a few words - "I'm not afraid."

Answer - "Come on, don't stay for a moment, get out of here, get out of here."

Just as Bai Bi was about to answer, the computer screen suddenly went black. She looked at the host again, and it turned out that it had turned off automatically.She didn't expect the computer to turn off the system by itself, so she put her hand on the computer switch, but stayed there for a long time, and finally didn't press it again. She felt that since it was the computer's own will, it should not be changed.She simply turned off the main power of the computer.His eyes suddenly hurt, and his mind was dizzy, so he bent down, put his head on the table, and closed his eyes.Thus, she had a feeling of being with Jiang He, she felt that Jiang He was beside her, watching her quietly and caressing her.A burst of dizziness struck her, and her mind was filled with Jiang He's last warning: leave, leave immediately.

She didn't want to go against his will.

Bai Bi struggled to stand up, and found that she was sore all over, she looked up and looked out of the window again, the leaves were trembling by the autumn wind.She took a last look at the room, and then raised her wrist to look at her watch. It was already 12 o'clock.She opened the door, then turned off the light, and the room fell into darkness again, then went out, closing the door behind her.

The sound of her footsteps continued to echo in the corridor, and she turned on the flashlight again, and the faint beam of light shone ahead.Walking in the dark, listening to her footsteps, she gradually recalled something.She remembered that when she was a little girl, one night, her father and mother both worked night shifts in the unit to process a batch of cultural relics, so they took her with them.That night, while her parents were busy at work, she sneaked into the dark corridor. At the age of 9, she couldn't see anything in the dark, and there was no one around her.She only knew how to walk forward, until she came to a door with a faint light, and the door was ajar, so she pushed open the door forcefully and walked in.That was many years ago, and she only remembered that the light in that room was very weak, and there was a hint of air-conditioning, and there were many safes in the room, each with a thick big lock.In the innermost part of the room, she saw a big glass cup with a child in it.The child is so small that it can be completely contained in a glass. It looks like a newborn. The whole body is dark and the skin is wrinkled. It looks like an old person. She can't see the glass. The child in the cup is male or female. I only remember the strange face of the child or baby, facing the 9-year-old Bai Bi, with a strange smile.She was very scared, to the extreme, at this moment, her father rushed in, dragged Bai Bi out, then closed the door and locked it with a key.Dad turned on the light and looked very scary. He said loudly to his daughter: "Baby, did you really see the child mummy? It scared you, I'm sorry, Dad forgot to lock the door of the warehouse Now, baby, you have to remember, this door is not something you can go in casually."

Now, Bai Bi has come to the door of the storeroom based on his memory.She touched the heavy iron door, and seemed to touch her father's serious face that night.She took out Jiang He's bunch of keys again, and tried to insert each key into the keyhole of the warehouse door.After trying for a long time, a steel key finally opened the door.The door was very heavy, and Bai Bi pushed it open forcefully, just like the time when she was a child, she slipped into the warehouse quietly.It was pitch black, and the room seemed to have no windows, so there was no light from the sky.After some difficulty, she touched the switch on the wall with her hand, turned on the light, and then saw the mysterious room clearly.

This is a fully enclosed room without a single window, and the lighting is very dark and soft, presumably to prevent the light from harming the cultural relics.The room is very large, with several spaces separated by cabinets and partitions. There is a sink for washing hands at the entrance, and there are a few white clothes hanging there, which may be to ensure the hygiene of those who enter the room.Bai Bi took a few steps forward and saw those safes. Compared with the heavy boxes when he was a child, the current ones seem to have been replaced with more advanced digital smart ones.A question suddenly arose in her heart, does she have the right to enter this room?She suddenly felt that her current behavior was no different from a thief who broke into a house and stole treasure.Although he kept asking himself in his heart, Bai Bi continued to move forward.

Now she is very afraid to see the child in the glass again. Her father called this child mummy. The strange face and strange smile in the glass made Bai Bi terrified all the time. When she was 9 years old, she often dreamed of that smile, which may have been accompanied by the child in the ancient tomb for 2000 years. She seemed to see the wrinkled face of the child, swelling from the glass, Until the glass was crushed to pieces, she jumped out of the glass and rushed towards her with a smile. At this time, she would scream and wake up her parents.But now, after all, she has never seen the glass cup again. Maybe the child mummy has been handed over to the national cultural relics department as an important unearthed cultural relic more than ten years ago.This made her heave a sigh of relief, but also slightly disappointed, which made her feel that there might be something wrong with her psychology.What happened to me?She didn't know how to describe her state of mind at the moment.

She was still going on, and seeing that there was another door ahead, and it was locked, she wanted to retreat, and wanted to turn around and leave here.But for some unknown reason, she took out the bunch of Jianghe keys again, and tried to insert the keys into the door one by one.She didn't know why Jiang He had so many important keys, and now she opened the door again.It was a small room, she turned on the light, the light was dim, the surroundings were closed, and the temperature was very low, she noticed that the air conditioner was being placed in this small room.In the center of the room, there is a fully transparent glass cover. In the dim light, Bai Bi saw that a woman's mummy was lying inside the glass cover.

Bai Bi's body was cold, and her heart was also cold, as if it almost stopped beating. In the cold air, she stared blankly at the woman in the glass cover.In fact, it was a mummy, a stiff corpse, without the golden mask and staff of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, only a long faded skirt.The skin he sees now is black. Of course, it was definitely not this color when he was alive. His whole body is stiff and full of wrinkles, just like the child in the glass that Bai Bi saw many years ago.The hair is very thin, it is probably weathered, and it is coiled on the head, and there is a very eye-catching golden hairpin in the hair.Although it was just a mummy, more precisely a mummy, its face was basically recognizable.The bridge of the nose is well preserved, it looks very high, and the eye sockets are deep, the eyes are closed, the head shape is a bit longer, the lips are thin and long, it is obviously Caucasian, that is, Caucasian, if it is more accurate , should be said to be Indo-European, that is, the Aryans.

What was this woman supposed to look like before she was alive?Bai Bi is not so scared now, she quietly looked at the mummy in front of her, yes, it is just a mummy in front of her, nothing to be afraid of, like Bai Bi, she is a woman, so there is nothing to be afraid of.She had heard of a 3800-year-old female corpse unearthed in Lop Nur, which was said to be well preserved and was called "Loulan beauty".Later, when she saw the photo of the female corpse, she was very disappointed. Only then did she realize that the so-called "well-preserved" in the newspaper was actually a relative term, and there was no real "good".She believes that everyone who has seen the jade photos of "Loulan Beauty" will not agree with the title "beauty".Just like the dark and shriveled mummy she saw now, although she believed that this woman must have had a fair and smooth complexion during her lifetime.This is the real world touched by archeology, and it is by no means as romantic as people imagine.

Looking at the mummy under the dim light, Bai Bi really couldn't imagine what this woman looked like when she was alive. Perhaps no matter how beautiful and beautiful a woman is, she will become like this after many years of death.Thinking of this, she suddenly felt that those craftsmen who made women's corpses into mummies were simply committing a crime, especially for those beautiful women.The beauty of a woman is fragile and definitely not eternal, just like the woman in the glass cover that Bai Bi saw in front of her eyes.Thinking about it, she suddenly had another damp feeling in her heart, she couldn't help but gently touched her face, how long can she keep this face, youth is fleeting, life is even more fleeting.

Gradually, Bai Bi's body became colder and colder, and she was almost frozen to death. She thought that if she was really frozen here and spent the night with this mummy, she might become a mummy too. up.Trembling in her heart, she softly said to the woman in the glass cover: "Goodbye." Then she turned off the light, turned and walked out of the small room.

She closed the door, then turned off the light in the warehouse, walked out of the warehouse door, and closed the door carefully.She didn't bother to look at her watch, she didn't even have time to turn on the flashlight, she walked through the corridor by feeling, and walked out of the small building slowly.When she came out, she looked back again, and to her surprise, suddenly found a light in a window on the ground floor.Bai Bi's heartbeat immediately accelerated, could it be that she forgot to turn off the lights just now, no, she remembered that she had turned them all off.So, trying to control her uneasiness, she tiptoed into the bushes, just like when she was a child catching crickets in these bushes to play, she tried not to make a sound, and quietly approached the window on the ground floor.Bai Bi raised his head and saw a person sitting in the room with lights on, holding a golden mask in his hand.

Then, the man turned his head slightly so that Bai Bi could see his face, it turned out to be Lin Zisu.

Bai Bi was startled, why is it him?But she didn't dare to think too much, and quietly left the window, walked out of the bushes, walked out of the gate softly, and then locked the gate carefully.

Finally, she exhaled a long breath, leaned her back against a sycamore tree on the road, and looked at the endless stars in the sky.

The starry sky is beautiful.

Only the beauty of the starry sky is eternal.Bai Bi said softly to herself.

(End of this chapter)