Chapter 42 The first clue
I continued to look back. Because the time was too long, many pages were stuck together, so I could only carefully unveil it little by little, but there was nothing special about the content behind it. It was nothing more than daily work arrangements and some learning experiences. Moreover, the leader strictly abides by confidentiality discipline. He did not write down the content of the task, including any place name, route, or even relevant personnel, which disappointed us a little. Except for knowing the approximate time they were here, they knew that they were indeed carrying out a special task, but they got nothing else.
I handed the diary to Yuanxiao and Kong Xue, and sat at the table at the door, opened my backpack and took out some food and water. Since I didn't know how many days I had to stay here, I could only save some to avoid going hungry in the future.
Yuanxiao looked through the diary and didn't think there was anything of value, so she handed it to Kong Xue again. She also took out some food and started eating it. While eating, she asked me: "Zhuoran, who said that the leader was killed by him?"
I shook my head, "It's hard to say after so long, but looking at the hidden knife in his chest, it shouldn't be a person inside the army, but an outsider."
"But outsiders, even if they are robbers, who dares to come to the military camp to kill people!"
"Not necessarily, maybe it's just for those confidential files."
"That's the spy!"
I chatted with Lanxiao one by one. Kong Xue, who was concentrating on reading the diary next to me, suddenly came to her senses, "What? Do you think that the leader was killed?"
"Yes!" I replied.
Kong Xue bit her lip, thought for a while, and suddenly looked up and said, "Would you say this matter be related to Cai Rang Dorji? I think his behavior was abnormal at that time. Moreover," Kong Xue suddenly lowered her voice, "Do you still remember? I told you that when Cai Rang Dorji saw the regiment commander, he said he was dead!"
After Kong Xue reminded us, we suddenly realized it and was shocked. We actually forgot about Tsai Doji. According to Kong Xue's description, his reaction was very abnormal at that time. It seemed that he had known about the camp and the regiment commander was dead.
"Could it be!" Yuanxiao suddenly said, "Is that the leader he killed!"
"Impossible!" I shook my head, "The regiment commander died almost twenty years ago. At that time, Doji was almost ten years old. How could a ten-year-old child kill a soldier? However, despite this, Doji must have known something. I have long felt that this person is not simple, and it is true!"
I sat at the table, eating and tidying up my thoughts. The pleasure brought by eating made my mind much more active. I reviewed the whole incident, from the time we discovered the secret passage in Mr. Kong's bedroom, until now, it seems that there is a time point that has repeatedly appeared, twenty years ago, Mr. Kong and his comrades were in the Qilian Mountains. Twenty years ago, an avalanche occurred. Twenty years ago, a regiment soldier was ordered to enter the mountain to perform a secret mission. Another thing is that when we were still in the Lama Temple, we once saw the strange thing of killing the sky with a knife.
Jing, I still clearly remember the Tibetan saying by the old lama. The meaning of that sentence is: Twenty years! It's coming again! It's twenty years! What happened twenty years ago! And all the spearheads seem to point to the ancient tomb under our feet! What exactly is there in this ancient tomb! There must be something extremely subversive here, otherwise the leader would not strongly express his completely incomprehensible and even more incredible emotions in his diary! And whether our experience today is the continuation of the fate of those people twenty years ago! I really don't know!
These mysteries suddenly rushed into my mind, which made me really unable to figure it out. I suddenly felt a little breathless. I quickly put away my thoughts and diverted my attention. I picked up the yellowed forms on the table and looked at it. It turned out that this was the registration form, which should be the registration form for personnel entering and leaving the bunker. I think this is normal. The stairs in this bunker lead directly to the ancient tomb, which should be the core of this mission, and it is certain to be cautious.
On this table, the time and personnel of each entry and exit are recorded in detail. I found that the names of people in that era were very distinctive, and most of the names included the words "June, Hong, Bing, Guo, Jian, etc. You can tell by looking at the signatures of these people, such as Ma Aiguo, Fu Jianshe, Zheng Hongjun, Kong Guosheng, Zhao Bing, etc.
I was entertaining myself here. The Lantern Festival next to me said to Kong Xue: "Kong Xue, you should eat something too. At this time, physical strength is the most important."
Kong Xue shook her head, "I'm not hungry, I don't want to eat." As she said that, she flipped the diary in her hand, and seemed to feel a little depressed. We could see that she should be worried about Master Kong again. Yuanxiao and I exchanged a wink, and Yuanxiao quickly raised a topic to divert Kong Xue's attention, "Hey, I said Kong Xue, you are so good-looking! I didn't expect you to shoot so well!"
"Of course," Kong Xue raised her little face proudly, "I played with guns when I was a few years old."
"Wow! Then I envy you so much!" Yuanxiao sighed, "If someone like me and Zhuoran hadn't had this good opportunity, he wouldn't have had the chance to touch a gun in his life!"
I'll go! A good opportunity? I cursed in my heart: Yuanxiao, can you speak? I was afraid that Kong Xue would get angry again, so I quickly took over the conversation, "Ah, that, Kong Xue, you were able to get in touch with a gun when you were so young. It must be the reason for Master Kong?"
As soon as I said that, I regretted it. I really wanted to slap myself. I originally wanted to change the topic and tell Kong Xue not to think about Mr. Kong for the first time, but I took it back after a while!
Kong Xue's eyes were a little sad, "Yes, but shortly after that, my father was discharged from the army and transferred to the army." But what I didn't expect was that Kong Xue turned to a smug and missed him, "It was not easy for me to touch a gun back then. My father was still very influential in the military region back then. When I said that I was Kong Guosheng's daughter, who dared to stop me!"
I laughed too, I knew Kong Xue was also forced to smile. I think her pressure at this time should be the greatest. She is such a strong girl!
Wait! My mind suddenly felt like thunder sounded, and I froze in an instant. I turned around and searched for the registration form on the table in a hurry. Yuanxiao and Kong Xue were startled by my sudden actions. I wondered what I was stimulating, Yuanxiao asked, "Zhuoran! Are you okay?"
I took out a registration form with a trembling trembling, and I looked at Kong Xue steadily, "What's your father's name?"
Kong Xue was also confused by me, "Kong...Kong Guosheng? What's wrong?"
I transferred the registration form and pointed to a name above to them, and the name was: Kong Guosheng!
Kong Xue snatched the form from my hand and carefully identified it, nodded, "That's right, this is my father's notes, I won't admit my mistake!"
"This means that Mr. Kong also participated in this top-secret mission back then!" I said.
Yuanxiao Yangyang's notebook in his hand, "This diary also said that the military region sent four people who had served in the Qilian Mountain Outpost as guides, and Uncle Kong happened to be staying at the Qilian Mountain Outpost, so one of these four people should be Uncle Kong."
Kong Xue stood up suddenly, "I want to continue looking for my father. In this way, our direction is right. My father's target is also this ancient tomb. He should be in this ancient tomb."
When I heard Kong Xue's words, Yuanxiao and I couldn't help but look at each other. Kong Xue looked at us and said, "If you don't want to go, there should be a way down the mountain on the west side of the camp. The situation here is too unpredictable. I can understand if you leave. It's not easy for you to accompany me to come here." After Kong Xue said that, she was about to turn around.
"Wait a minute!" I called Kong Xue and smiled, "I am a person who is curious. If so many questions are in my mind, I will not live a stable life. Now the truth is with Master Kong. I want to ask clearly, I will accompany you!"
"Hey, I, Tang Yuanding, are not a person who is afraid of death. Now Uncle Kong, Wen Mo and Cai Rang Duoji are missing in the ancient tomb. How can I leave alone? I am the only one!" Yuanxiao said and raised his gun and pose.
Kong Xue looked at us and smiled gratefully. I knew that there was a strangeness and danger in this place, and this huge attraction slowly attracted us to fall into it. We all cleaned up and got up again to return to the tomb. After just two steps, I thought about it and turned around to put the registration form on the table into my bag.
We went down the stairs again to the tomb passage. This time we did not return along the original route, but chose a new route at a fork. This tomb passage did not seem to be as well constructed as the first tomb passage, and the walls were not flat.
Yuanxiao also discovered this problem, "The quality of this tomb passage is not as good as the previous one! Could it be that the ancients began to cut corners and be corrupt by private people?"
I said, "You can't use the current mark to measure the level of the past. Maybe this is the quality of the standard engineering. That flat tomb passage is a top-notch luxury decoration, which is the main path of this ancient tomb."
Yuanxiao checked the tomb walls on both sides from time to time, "Zhuoran, do you think there will be snakes here?"
I was about to speak, but Kong Xue said, "Snake? How is it possible! This season, the snake has long been hibernating."
"No," I said, "we did encounter a large number of snakes earlier. The snakes here do not seem to hibernate, and," I suddenly remembered the little lamas in the Lama Temple, "You still remember that we were attacked by mummies because the little lama fainted from a snake venom by an attack, which gave those mummies a chance to take advantage of."
Kong Xue heard this and asked, "Will the snake that bites the little lama and the snake here be the same?"
When I heard this, I was shocked and thought to myself: Yes, why didn’t I expect that there are absolutely few snakes that can move in winter. In this way, it seems that the snakes attacking the little lama were indeed the snakes in this tomb.
Thinking of this, another extremely terrifying thought emerged in my heart: Will there be some connection between the snake's sneak attack and the attack of the mummy? If so, this ancient tomb would be terrible!
Chapter completed!