Chapter 223: Snake Ghost Town · Shahai Shipwreck

In the tens of seconds after the flare, we were all stunned. Everyone looked at the huge thing, and their minds were blank. We didn't react until the flare went out, and then all the flashlights were shining in that direction.
Fragmented light can't show the whole picture of that thing. Under the light of flashlight, we can only know that there is something there, but it also looks blurry. If there is no impression of the signal flare just now, we will certainly not notice the strange thing when the flashlight sweeps through. And when we look at it from the bottom up, it is really indistinguishable.
"What is this?" Tashi said to himself.
No one can tell what this is. I can only be sure that this is the wreckage of an old wooden object, but I do n’t know what it is. At first glance, it looked like a huge coffin, but upon closer inspection, it was found that the shape was wrong, and it seemed to be the remains of the building. However, I have never seen such an oddly shaped building.
"Climb up and see!" We didn't know who said something before we responded. A few of them wanted to climb up the slope, and I stopped them quickly, saying,
Do n’t mess up, calm down, it ’s so high, and it ’s a mound. It ’s not easy to climb up. It ’s bad if something happens. Now. "
Aning also nodded and said, "Yes, those three people haven't found it yet. We have searched for it below, and we haven't found any clues. Then it's likely that they are on it. Now there is no movement at all. There must be something wrong. Maybe this is above. We need to be careful about any dangers. Let me go up and see first. If it ’s easier to climb, you can come up again. "
Said she put a flashlight in her belt and let us illuminate her, preparing to climb up.
At this time, Tashi stopped her and said, "Don't move, I'm here, this kind of thing makes no sense for women to do it. I have climbed a lot of this kind of mound before, definitely have more experience than you." Ning responded, biting the dagger, jumping on the mound, and then using the dagger as a mountaineering pick and began to climb up.
He moves quickly and his posture is as agile as a monkey. We illuminated him with a flashlight, with little effort. We just watched him climb up under the huge object. He found a place to stand firm, he made a gesture to us, meaning that it was not difficult to climb, and then he used a flashlight to take that thing.
Below we can only see his movements, and we can't see what he is illuminating. I was very anxious. The team of doctors asked, "What is that?"
"I don't know." Tashi's voice came from above. I saw him scratching his head on the top, posing a Tibetan sentence, and then said, "God, this--it seems like a boat."
"Ship?" We looked at each other. Tashi yelled again: "It's really a boat! You climb up and see for yourself."
As soon as he finished Aning, he climbed up. I clumsy and followed Aning. The team doctor was so fat that he slid after a few crawls. We let him stay below, don't mess up, wait for the death to be over, and then move towards Zhaxi.
This earth is really not difficult to climb, a little slope, although the soil is very soft, but the top is very uneven, you can settle in many places. We learned that Tashi used a dagger as a mountaineering pick.
I used my hands and feet to climb to the edge of Tashi, which was very cold. I stepped on a few prominent earthen bags, slipped and stood firm, and looked at the thing. But I was far away, and Tashi was covered again, and it was unclear whether the ship was a real ship.
I moved a bit and squeezed a place for myself so that I could see clearly. Under Tashi ’s flashlight, an ancient wreckage was embedded in the mound, only half exposed, and the other half deeply inserted into the mound. Looking at the shape, it was indeed an ancient shipwreck.
Anin lit a cold firework and threw it on the wreck. At this time, the surroundings were lit up, and I found that the disintegration of the sunken ship was very serious. It almost merged with the mud. The wooden hull was completely broken and charred. There was a huge crack on the side of the wooden boat. It seemed to be empty. I could see the mud inside, but the deepest part was dark and unclear.
I turned my head and looked at the surrounding landscape, thinking that this was a great discovery. It used to be an ancient river channel. The sunken ship sank in the ancient river channel and was wrapped in mud. Unexpectedly, the river in the ancient times turned into a Gobi, and the mound that wrapped the sunken ship was so much higher than the ground.
Anin climbed to the edge of the ancient ship and flashed the crack with a flashlight to reveal the large amount of mud and the things wrapped in the mud. In the mud, you can also see many things like clay pots.
Aning said: "This seems to be a cargo ship going to the Western Region for trade. These are their goods. This is simply a shocking discovery. There are still many people who believe that there is no water transportation in the Western Region."
In ancient times, this was the sinister one of the 17 Silk Roads, and the countries of the Western Regions were distributed on this barren land. This is the middle ground between the Arab civilization and the Chinese civilization. In the past, there were countless rivers that were very noisy. I do n’t know how many cloths and silks reached the west through these rivers. It is said that the royal families of countries in the Western Regions can still eat watermelons from the Central Plains. At that time, the rivers here were ever-changing, and many business travelers were stranded and sunk because of the diversion of the ancient river. At least thousands of shipwrecks were buried in the depths of the desert. However, because the desert changes too frequently, it is almost impossible to find. .
The team doctor could n’t see anything below, so he anxiously shouted, "What do you see? Are the three people above?"
Tashi called him a few times and answered him. The team doctor said nothing and could not hear clearly.
At this time, I suddenly thought of the Caucasus. Perhaps they also saw this shipwreck before climbing up to check it out. I have searched all of the following, and found no one, they should be on it. But I saw on the cliffs just now that there was no one and where did these three people go.
There is no place to hide people in the rocky walls except this shipwreck. Are those three people in this shipwreck?
At this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and it became darker all around. All of us found a place to stand. I asked Anin to turn on the intercom and find the location of the signal.
Anin took out the intercom, and as soon as he turned it on, the sound rang, very clear. She waved a bit, and the signals were almost the same. Then Tashi pointed to the boat and asked her to try it on the ancient boat. Aning stretched out, and as we approached the crack of the ancient ship, we really heard a very clear voice coming from the intercom.
We looked at each other, and we all felt weird. It seemed that the signal really came from this ancient shipwreck.
Tashi looked at the crack and said, "Damn it, did the three idiots crawl inside?"
The crack is very wide, and it is indeed possible to climb in, but the space inside does not know whether they can accommodate them. We took photos with a flashlight and found that the boat was very deep inside, and the inside was very dark. I shouted several times, but no one responded.
"How to do?"
"Maybe they went in, but came out again, and then dropped the intercom in it." Aning said, "There may also be an accident in them."
"So how did this sound come out?" I asked.
"No one can answer you, but go in and have a look." Aning gave me a wink, and then put down the backpack, which meant that I and I would go in and see.
Tashi is a guide, to save strength. Here, I have a normal body shape with Aning, and I can't say no. She took off her coat and bit her dagger and the cat's waist crawled into the crack first.
As soon as he entered, the mud on the ship kept falling down, but the ship was relatively strong. After she entered, she stopped for a few seconds, stabilized, and Tashi handed her the flashlight. Then I took off my coat and crawled in.
This crack just let me climb in, but the inside is wider than I thought. I went in awkwardly and found that it was a muddy world, with dry mud on top of my head. People couldn't sit up and could only crawl forward. Originally, the space in this cabin should be large, but now it is basically full of mud, in fact, we are in a mud hole.
Aning drove the walkie-talkie, and at that time, he was clearly making the sound like a sneer. That voice is particularly loud here. Looking at the darkness inside the cabin, my heart raised my throat. What the is that sound?
Anin used a side-climbing posture in it, which is the kind of action that the soldier dragged the gun and crawled forward. She moved forward with one hand and started flashing around with the flashlight in the other hand. I panted to learn what she was like, and I started to use the flashlight to take photos of the surrounding mud. It was really mud. Except for sporadic pieces of wood embedded in the mud.
These must be the mud that came in from the breach after the shipwreck. The ship at that time should not have sunk completely, so the mud did not fill the entire cabin. The mud should be under the goods at that time. I don't know what was transported inside.
Climbing seven or eight meters inside, we can directly hear the strange sound. There is no intercom filter, this sound sounds slightly different, it is from the innermost cabin, very light. Aning stopped, turned off the intercom, and crawled in the direction of the voice.
I kept a little distance from her to give her space to retreat. Without waiting for a few steps, Aning screamed and stopped. I quickly crawled over and probed from her side, and I saw a round table-sized hole in the "deck" covered with mud at the end of the cabin, which seemed to collapse. There was still space underneath. Photographed down with a flashlight. The mess below, all of which fell from the top, was buried inside, revealing only the upper body.
I took a photo with a flashlight and found that it was one of the missing people. His face was all muddy and his face was blue. I didn't know whether it was dead or alive. The sneer sound came from the mound below.
"Really in there!" I yelled, and said that these people are too playable. I yelled and squeezed forward, trying to hurry and dig him out.
I didn't expect that when I screamed suddenly, the sneering voice disappeared at once, and the whole cabin suddenly became quiet.
This silence shocked me, and my hands and feet stopped involuntarily.
Immediately, I thought that we just discussed the sound as their distress signal. Now I yelled, and the sound stopped. Apparently someone heard my call and stopped sending the signal. There are two possibilities. One is that he thinks the rescue is already around, there is no need to make such a voice to attract us; the other is that he heard us coming, his faith was loose, and he lost consciousness.
Either way, we must rescue him right away, especially the latter one. I know that many people who call for help lose their will to survive just before they are saved.
Anin had the same idea as me. She asked me to illuminate her, climbed over, and then carefully rolled over and slid into the hole. I followed, Aning told me not to come down, and respond on it.
Tashi heard my call outside, yelled at us, and asked about the situation inside. I let him wait, I will see it clearly.
In this position, see more clearly. Below the hole, it should be the second-level cargo warehouse of the ancient ship, or the bilge. It is generally used to place something that is easily damaged, because the bottom shaking will not be very intense. The space in the bilge is not large, and all of it is mud, but the degree of erosion is far less than where I stayed. I can basically imagine that this is the inside of a ship. You can see that there are many clay pots mixed in the mud. It should be cargo, I do n’t know what is inside.
After Aning went down, he immediately removed the soil from the man's body and put it on his neck to feel the pulse.
I was busy asking, "How are you doing?"
A Ning shuddered obviously, turned back to me, and shook his head, indicating that it was no longer possible.
I sighed. Aning began to dig the soil, quickly digging out the man, and then dragged it aside. At this time, I found another person in the dug. I saw the hair and a hand, Aning continued to dig, but this person was buried more solid. She digged for a while without improvement.
I can't stand it anymore, I jumped out of my mouth to help. As soon as I touched the man's hand, my heart sank, and I knew there was no drama. The man's hand was cold and cold, and he was dead.
It took us nine cows and two tigers to dig him out and drag it aside. Below this person, I saw the pale face of the Caucasian, he curled up, glared, his hand stretched forward, holding a walkie-talkie, holding a stiff gesture, as if he wanted to climb from inside come out.
It seemed that he was the one who sent the signal. I saw the intercom and thought.
I pulled him out, Aning touched his neck again, and his face changed, "Alive!" Immediately, he unbuttoned the Caucasian's clothes, then gave him CPR and yelled at me: Tell Tashi that the team doctors are ready to rescue and someone is buried and suffocated. "Then he went to give the Caucasus artificial respiration.
I got up quickly and yelled outside. When Tashi heard this, he immediately called the team doctor under the mound. When I turned my head, I saw that the Caucasian twitched, and the person contracted and began to vomit, but apparently resumed breathing.
"You go up to take over!" Aning said to me in an undoubted tone, the tone was very flat, but full of majesty.
I was taken aback for a moment, and was suddenly electrified by her kind of expression, and acted as she said like conditioned reflex. Then Aning quickly took off his clothes and tied them to the Caucasian, made a simple stretcher, threw the sleeves of the clothes to me, and then told me to use force.
I clenched my teeth on the top and pulled it up. She lifted her foot below and transported the Caucasian. Then, all the way back, I dragged him out of the crack of the shipwreck.
Tashi outside is already preparing. As soon as the Caucasian was dragged out, Tashi put the tall Caucasian on his back, buckled it with a belt, and climbed down. I was so tired that I lifted Anin out of it, followed me gasping, protecting Tashi, and then crawled down bit by bit.
Used the power of nine cows and two tigers, and saw Zhaxi almost fall down several times. Fortunately, he responded fast enough to fix his body with a dagger every time. Finally, he climbed under the mound and the team doctor was ready for everything. We put the Caucasians on the ground and the team doctor immediately prepared to rescue.
But when he tore the Caucasian man's clothes, he suddenly twitched and grabbed the team doctor's clothes. We hurried over and held him. The team doctor uncovered his coat, and I felt sick for a while. I saw that the inside of his warm coat was already full of blood, and it seemed that there was a trauma.
The team doctor used scissors to cut the underwear inside him. When he lifted the cloth, he called out, "Oh my god." At this time, I almost vomited. I saw that on the belly of the Caucasian, there were all small blood holes. There was not much blood. The hole was very small, but densely packed, there were twenty or thirty.
"What is this wound?" Tashi asked.
The team doctor shook his head: "I don't know, it seems to be-something pinched like a screwdriver. But how come the clothes are not broken? Did you not notice at the scene?"
We all shook our heads. In fact, it was so chaotic at the time. We really didn't notice his stomach, but he didn't have holes in his clothes. We can be sure. It should not be trauma caused by the collapse.
Can't control so much now, the team doctor asked us to help hold it, bandage him first, then simply check it, then injected him with something, and finally took out a small oxygen bag for him to suck. Probably due to the effect of the needle, the Caucasian slowly calmed down.
After doing this, we were already sweating all over. The team doctor wiped the sweat and let us find a way. This man is very weak right now, we can't take him out, but the larger equipment is in the outside car and needs to be moved in. In addition, he needs tents and sleeping bags to keep him warm and he can't be taken out until he stabilizes.
Here, only Tashi knows how to look at his pile of stones. He said he went to get it and asked some people to come in and help. It took us a long time to walk in all the way, but it was much faster to go out. I said to be with him, he said no, he was faster by himself, I took care of more here.
He ran away after talking. The team doctor unraveled Anin's clothes on the Caucasian and gave it back to her, and then took out the warm cloth in the backpack to keep some important parts of the Caucasian warm.
I lighted the smokeless stove, increased the flame, set it aside, warmed a few people, and took out the shochu at the same time, all of these things were used to cool the cold. We were sweating just now. Gobi ’s night was quite cold and it was easy to get sick.
Ignited, illuminating the surroundings, and warmed up at once. The team doctors continued to deal with the wounds of the Caucasians. Aning and I stepped aside, and several hours of fatigue suddenly poured out. I sat on a big rock and drank water. Aning put on his clothes. Both of us had mud on our faces, so we were very embarrassed. I smiled bitterly at her, but I saw the tiredness on her face leaned on the mound, playing with the intercom, and seemed quite depressed.
I remembered her kind of momentum just now. It was really not easy to say that she could be as capable as a woman on that occasion. It is estimated to be forced to think about it. It is really a bit sour to think of a woman who is so powerful.
But it is strange to say that she doesn't look like she is short of money, and she is not happy to do such a thing. What does she have to do to kill Judeka? Moreover, he was desperate to such a degree, I really couldn't figure it out, and I had the opportunity to ask her in the future.
Drank a few sips of water to make it convenient, so he went round and went to the water below the mound. This group of people in the desert looks like this, and I am used to it.
Was peeing, and suddenly I heard behind the rock on one side, a strange sneer came suddenly, and the sound was exactly the same as what I had just heard on the intercom, and it made me cold all of a sudden. I turned my head to look at the stone, and I said, "Do you listen to this voice all the time, and can't hear it?"