Team Leader Chen looked straight at me. I thought he would criticize me for asking what I shouldn't ask. I didn't expect him to tell us in a gentle tone, Little Zhou's guess from five years ago was correct. This stone ball was indeed a religious token. It could attract and restrain some things that science could not explain at the same time.
Mosquito said,"So, the Taklamakan yellow beetle we encountered is also related to this stone ball?" Team Leader Chen, may I know which race the owner of this stone ball belongs to?”
Team Leader Chen seemed to have something he couldn't say. His mouth moved slightly, wanting to say something, but he hesitated.
I mustered up my courage and said,"Team Leader Chen, if I may be so rude, I've actually wanted to ask this question for a long time. Since we've already…"
I glanced at Mozzie, but he didn't stop me. I mustered up my courage and continued,"Since we're all in the same team, don't tell me we didn't gain your trust? I can understand if you don't tell me some confidential questions, but why can't you tell me about these things related to the mission? We are also members of Special Case Team 3. If you keep avoiding it, how can we complete the mission well?”
Yang Liu was like a mosquito. After I finished speaking, she looked at Team Leader Chen with anticipation. It was obvious that she had wanted to ask this question for a long time.
Team Leader Chen looked at the three of us with a complicated expression. After a while, he said,"It's not that I don't trust you guys enough. Firstly, I lost a part of my memory about the trip to Lop Nur five years ago. As for the things that are still in my memories, I don't know how to explain them to you. "In short, the series of events that happened in Lop Nur back then far exceeded your worldview.”
I had no choice but to think about it. If even the leader of a special case team said so, then perhaps there really was something in this world that could shock even the Mystical Police and subvert human cognition. I even have a feeling that in the near future, our worldview might really change.
"From what I know so far, the owner of this stone ball should be related to a very ancient unknown civilization.”
Mosquito asked," Team Leader Chen, what you said is very ancient. It shouldn't be as long as we usually understand it, right? For example, during the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of our Huaxia civilization.”
Team Leader Chen nodded and replied," Yes, this civilization is so ancient that it can be traced back to the origin of mankind."”
I widened my eyes. No wonder Team Leader Chen said that he didn't know how to explain it to us. If he said that it could be traced back to the origin of human civilization, I wouldn't be surprised. However, he was clearly talking about the origin of mankind. What kind of concept was that? In his words, he had already made it clear: Perhaps the emergence of humans had nothing to do with the " theory of evolution " that had been deeply rooted in people's hearts. It was another possibility.
Mosquito Yang Liu and I stopped talking. I almost understood Team Leader Chen's good intentions. If we continued to ask, it would increase our psychological pressure.
The four of them were silent for a while before Team Leader Chen said,""There are still many other things. Let's wait until you see it with your own eyes. Hao Zi, go get some compressed fuel oil and deal with the remaining yellow shell lice.”
"Oh, I see."
I was just worried that I couldn't find a topic to break the depressing atmosphere. I quickly listened to Team Leader Chen's arrangements and brought the compressed fuel oil.
Before the flames beside him had extinguished, another one rose in front of him. The Taklamakan yellow shell lice were controlled by the stone ball and didn't escape until they were burned to ashes. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed such a strange thing.
After finishing all this, we didn't stay any longer. After cleaning up the traces left behind, they walked until midnight before stopping to rest. Then, they took turns to keep watch as usual. Fortunately, there were no more disgusting lice.
It was a quiet night, and I was the last to wake up. Looking at the dazzling sun, I really wanted to pee and extinguish it.
After packing up, he continued to distract the camels.
If the four of us were to be compared to master and disciple on a journey to the Western Paradise, then this journey was really bumpy, and there were always accidents. He had encountered another situation.
It was the bodies of three men. Yang Liu, who was walking in front, found them first. She was quite bold and did not feel afraid at all. She even squatted down and raised her gun twice.
"This must have been dried. How tragic.”
I sighed from the bottom of my heart. These three corpses seemed to have been hollowed out from the inside. They were extremely dry. The word 'skin and bones' was the most appropriate description. Even his dry skin was tight and firmly stuck to his bones.
Judging from their attire, they were all wearing camouflage overalls, a typical outfit for wilderness adventures. There was a piece of cloth on the sleeve of their left arm, which should have been pasted with an armband or something, but it had been deliberately pulled off. Looking at their faces, although their faces were so thin that they could not be seen clearly, one could still infer from their outlines and hair color: They were not Easterners.
At first, I thought that they were foreigners who came to Lop Nur for excitement, but after Team Leader Chen carefully examined their bodies, he found that there was a thick layer of calluses on the index fingers of their right hands. The skin on their right shoulders was thicker, and the shoulder bone was slightly concave to the left.
This was the result of dealing with guns for many years. Even if they became mummies now, they could not change these characteristics when they were alive.
Team Leader Chen stood up and looked ahead.""It seems that they have already gotten there first.”
"Them?" I asked. The army and the heavenly tribulation?"
Yang Liu said to me with disdain,"Isn't it already very obvious? Other than them, who else could bring a gun into the desert?"”
Although I knew it, I just couldn't get used to Yang Liu's tone. I said,"Which eye of yours saw them carrying guns? Just because of the characteristics on the corpse? What if they are poachers?"
"Tell me, what can they hunt here?" Yang Liu retorted. If they died, wouldn't their comrades take their guns with them?”
I pouted." Who knows? Aren't foreigners just looking for trouble?”
"Tsk, what are you talking about? But don't change the topic.”
"Team Leader Chen, can you infer what happened to them before they died?" Mosquito interrupted us.”
"Yeah, I know. Team Leader Chen, tell us quickly."
I was so busy bickering with Yang Liu that I almost forgot that I had serious matters to attend to. Apart from the fact that the three corpses were extremely dry, they had one thing in common: His entire body was tensed up, and his mouth was so wide that it could fit a fist. If one could still see their expressions, they would definitely be very distorted. It was obvious that they had experienced abnormal pain or panic before they died.
Then, what kind of thing or method could do this?
Team Leader Chen shook his head and said," I've never encountered such a situation before. A living person turning into a dried corpse. There are similar records in the Mystical Affairs Archives, but it didn't happen in the desert, so I can't come to a conclusion as to what caused it. However, I can be sure that it definitely has something to do with that place.”
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