Vermillion mole

Li Cu lay down on the sand and ate a mouthful of sand.In a daze, he felt that he was being dragged out of the sand bucket, and then he felt that someone began to search his body.

Li Cuoxin said that the law and order is so bad these days, there are robbers in the desert.In a trance, he suddenly saw the opponent's gun hanging in front of him.It seemed that the opponent was still very confident in giving him the butt of the gun, and he didn't expect that he still had the ability to resist.He reached out and grabbed the gun with both hands, trying to snatch it away.

The man reacted very quickly, and immediately grabbed the strap of the gun, and the two kept tugging and rolling together.Under this kind of intense movement, the sand pile could not support their weight at all. They all wanted to stand up to gain some advantage, but as long as they tried to turn over forcefully, the sand pile would immediately sink, and he was thrown to the ground again .

During the tumbling, the wound on Li Cu's back opened again, and the sand rolled into the wound, making him almost mad with pain.Because of this, his strength exploded very powerfully in a short period of time.Although that person was much taller than him, he didn't take any advantage at all.

There was a lot of tearing and tearing between each other's roars, and finally both of them fell into the sea. Li Cu pushed the man away with all his strength, and the gun "plopped" and was thrown somewhere, away from the man.

Then the man stood up from the Haizi water, also out of breath.The two looked at each other, under the moonlight, Li Cu found that the man's skin was very pale, it seemed that he was not a young man, but an old man.

"Who are you?" Li Cuo yelled at him. "Why attack me? I'm passing by!"

After panting for a long time, the other party spoke in a strange language. After hearing it, Li Cu found that it was a local dialect. If you listened to it as Mandarin, you would never understand it. If you try to guess, you can guess the general meaning.

The stranger seemed to be asking Li Cu, "Who are you?"

Li Cuoxin said: "Do you care who I am? It doesn't matter who I am. I am a refugee. I was kidnapped here, and they were caught in the sand. If I tell you, you won't believe it." , and you won’t know me if I tell you.” But he thought, didn’t he also ask this question just now.

For the two in fear, who is the other party is always the question they want to know most.

"I'm a lost man." Li Cu tried to calm himself down: "Peking man, I'm lost here, I'm trapped here, there used to be three people, but now there's only one."

The man listened to Li Cuo's words in a daze, and then said to him in Mandarin with an accent: "You are a victim, how did you end up in distress? Did you fall from the plane?"

"I can't tell." Li Cu scratched his head: "I said I came by boat, do you believe me?"

The man looked at Li Cuo and didn't speak for a long time. He seemed to see something, and said, "You really came from outside the desert? Didn't you come from the sand?"

"I lied to you as a puppy."

"It doesn't do me any good if you're a puppy." The man still didn't dare approach Li Cuo, but he relaxed a little. "Then let me ask you, what year is it now?" he asked.

Li Tu talked to him about the time.

The man froze for a moment, and said a little dullly: "God, it's been almost 20 years. I've actually been in this shitty place for 20 years."

Li Cuo asked him, "Okay, sir, now it's your turn to tell me, who are you?"

The man looked around, pointed to the truck, and said with a dull expression: "I drive." He pointed to the surroundings.

Li Cu looked at his clothes and found that they were indeed the same as those on the mummy, but they were more torn than those clothes, and there were many things hanging on his body.

"You drive these cars, one of the drivers?"

A driver, an auto soldier?

That person ignored Li Cu, and just said to himself: "It's been 20 years."

Li Cu said, "Why didn't you die?" After asking, he felt impolite.

The man looked a little confused, and said: "Why do you want to die? As long as you know the rules here, you won't die, die

How can it be so easy to die? "

Li Cu felt that this person was a bit crazy, as if he had lost his mind, that person suddenly seemed to think of something, turned his head and said to Li Cuo, "How did you say you got in? By boat?"

Li Cuang just wanted to answer him, they came here in a mobile Haizi like a bus.Suddenly the other party turned his head to the side of the sand dune, as if he was listening to something, Li Cuo wanted to speak, the man immediately waved to him, and said to him: "Shh, don't say it yet."

Li Cu was startled by him, and he didn't dare to speak any more. He just listened quietly. He didn't hear anything, only the occasional rubbing sound of sand on the dunes falling to the ground from a distance.

Asked him, the man said to him again with a very exaggerated expression: "Shh...".Then, the man buried himself in the water all of a sudden, Li Cu was bewildered, and saw the man wave his hands desperately, asking him to do the same.

Li Cu had no choice but to endure the pain in his back, and buried his whole body in the water.Then, he suddenly heard the sound of something hitting the metal in the whole pile of trucks surrounding Haizi, and there was a "bang 嘡", in the darkness, he couldn't see which truck was making the sound.

Then, there was another "bang", he found that the sound seemed to have moved this time, Li Cu was very frightened, he remembered the thing that caught Wu Xie and Wang Meng into the sand during the day.

Li Cu held his breath and listened quietly. Slowly, he realized that this was not a single sound. Such a sound could be heard from all the surrounding truck piles. It seemed that there were countless things hitting the iron in the truck compartment. Board, the sound became more and more intensive, more and more, and soon the whole Haizi was like a symphony.The sounds one after another made the originally peaceful desert noisy.

Li Cu was so stunned, he hardly dared to breathe, he wished he could bury his head in the water to escape from such a terrible sound.In a daze, someone from behind tapped him on the shoulder, and he almost screamed.Looking back, I saw that the person who was fighting with him just now had quietly waded behind him, and said softly to him: "Don't worry, they can't get in."

Li Cuo asked the man, "What are those?"

The man said: "It's been 20 years, I don't know what it is. You can't see them, they are under the sand, so we surrounded all the cars around this lake and made a circle of castles, they are not so smart, They seem to have a special reaction to metal things, they attack the cars, but they can't get past the cars and get into the area."

"Wai Haizi?" Wu Xie had several explanations for the team's layout at the time, but it seemed that he guessed all of them wrong.

The human said: "These things want to drink water, these things will become very, very scary after drinking water, we can't let them touch the water, so we did these measures, but we made a mistake, we trapped them in Outside, I also trapped myself inside. Don't talk, let's not make any noise, otherwise we will toss all night."

Listening to Li Cu, he felt that there were still many things he still didn't understand, but he also felt that now was not the time to discuss these issues.The two stayed quietly in the water. The desert at night was very cold, and the biting water sucked into his wound, which made his body slowly numb and less uncomfortable.He asked no more questions.

I don't know how long time passed, but slowly, all the voices calmed down.

They waited in Haizi for a long time, and the man made a gesture to Li Cuo to show safety, and the two of them waded carefully to the shore, and climbed to the side of the cart where the man was staying.

Li Cuo's whole body was swollen by Haizishui, and he couldn't move at all.He was lying on the sand, and even started to tremble involuntarily. The man carefully climbed to the back of the car with the lights on, and kept digging out of the sand behind the car, digging out a box of things, and took out a box of things from inside. Li Cuo drank the small pot.

Li Cu found that it was a can of shochu. After drinking the wine, Li Cu felt his body warmed up.The man took some particularly smelly military overcoats and put them on for him.At that time, Li Cu couldn't take care of so much, and he felt warm immediately after putting on his coat.

The two waited for a while in the dark before the man helped Li Cu and walked to the carriage where he was staying.Li Cu got into the car and sat down. The man closed the door. Li Cu found that the interior of the car was well maintained. When they searched before, they would not go in if they encountered a door that could not be opened. Obviously they missed it. Lost this car.

Only then did he see his true face.

This man had a big beard all over his face, and his beard had grown like a Taoist priest in a movie. His hair and eyebrows were a bit too long. The skin on this man's body was already dried out, and he looked about seven or eighty years old.But judging from the man's physique just now and his strength during the fight, he should be in his prime. Obviously, this harsh climate made him what he is now.

That person was also looking at Li Cu. Looking at Li Cu, he suddenly laughed and said in Mandarin with a strange accent: "I finally saw a living person. I thought I would be alone in this life." Die here."

Li Cu looked at him and asked, "You are in this carriage during the day? We have three people who keep going around here during the day, digging these cars all the time, and you haven't seen us?"

The man shook his head and said: "No. I usually don't come out for activities. Those things are very sensitive to sound. I usually stay in this car. This car was buried in the sand before. I spend all my time in the car. It’s time to sleep, I don’t know how long I’ll sleep, I just sleep and sleep until I’m really hungry and thirsty, then I’ll come out and eat something.”

Li Cu thought to himself: Is this guy sleeping in the car all the time when they are active here?It is indeed possible, because they planed out all the cars here, and it took a lot of time, but they did not search carefully in many cars. For them, the number of cars here is too much , it is impossible for them to check in this order.However, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

This strangeness stems from Li Cu's feelings about many details of this person.The most important thing is that he felt that it was unbelievable that this person lived alone for 20 years. If he lived alone for 20 years, he must have gone crazy.

But although this person's thinking is a bit slow, it seems that he is a bit too normal. Too normal is a kind of abnormality.However, this person's beard is absolutely genuine. Such a beard and such skin cannot be faked without being trapped in such a place for such a long time.

After all, I was too young, even if I felt something was wrong, I didn't think deeply about it.After all, he had never met such a person before, so he couldn't compare them.

The man continued: "By the way, since you came in, will someone come to rescue you? Can you take me out with you? Oh, no, no, no, no." The man shook his head vigorously after asking this sentence , "Anyone who approaches here will be caught by those things. Saving people is equal to harming others."

Li Cu said: "I think you can rest assured that no one will come to rescue me." He told this person all about how he participated in this matter.After the man heard this, he frowned nervously, as if he was thinking, but he didn't say anything, but his eyes couldn't help turning to Li Cu's back.

Li Cu didn't pay attention, so he asked him: "I've talked so much, tell me about your business, what's going on with these cars?"

The man fixed his eyes on him.Li Cuo continued to ask: "How did your team get here? What happened here?"

The man shook his head and said to him: "How did we get here? We didn't come here, we are here." The man pointed to the sand dunes outside the car and said to him: "There are many Houses, lots of tents, I don't know why the higher ups made us here, it's been too long, and I can't remember the details, 20 years, I just remember that we are on mission, we are permanent residents of this place convoy to transport supplies between a factory and here."

"These are trucks. I know they are for transporting things," Li Cuo said.

"Of course it's not that simple, because we are transporting in both directions, but most of the things we transport here from the factories outside are living supplies, gasoline, etc., but most of them are strange containers." The humane said : "There are a lot of strange containers, which seem to be full of rivets. When we shipped them in, those containers were empty, but when we shipped them out, these containers were full and filled with things."

"There is no doubt that the things in these containers should have been produced in this desert, and these buildings here should also be a factory, but I can't ask, because when I ask, the higher-ups say that this is a top-secret task , we are only responsible for transportation, each of our cars has a security commissioner, if our car overturns in a place where there are people, this commissioner will take out a gun, and will not let any ordinary people around here approach. We have to wait until our own Only people can come here. We come here every day to transport things non-stop, non-stop.”

"We once shipped out a lot of strange containers from here, and when we came back, we found that the factory here was closed, and then we were on standby at our own logistics base, and there have been no new tasks. Tell me, something must be wrong.

Even if you don't transport goods out, our resources and water are slowly exhausted here, so you have to go out and bring in some resources.But it's very strange, no one has received the task, we have been on standby, and there has been no order from above. "

"Our cars are an independent car squad, which has been running all the time. Later, our daily supplies were gone. We were sure that we had nothing to eat, so we asked our superiors, and we called the people in the factory. The guy who answered the phone didn't say anything and we didn't know what to do.

Because this matter is so important, are so many of us going to starve to death here?So we all discussed it together, and felt very strange at the time, if none of us had anything to eat, what would the people in this factory eat?I didn't see them come out to explain anything to us, nor did they ask for any supplies.

Our camp was two kilometers away from the factory, and then our squad leader took us to the factory leader to find out what happened, and we couldn't sit still.I ran to check, but found that we couldn’t find the guard. The factory was in good condition, and the power supply was also in good condition, but there was no guard in the factory. I stood at the door for a long time and no one answered the door. "

"We broke through the fence with a car and entered the factory. It is very difficult to build a house in the desert. Most of them are embedded in the sand with concrete piers bit by bit, hoping to go deep into the rock formation and fix it. Pile driving requires It takes a long, long time to fight. All the factories here are not big or high. We bumped in to find the person in charge here. Any living person is fine. We wanted to find a person who usually contacts us, but found No one can be found, no one can be found, and the whole factory is empty. Could it be that they are already evacuating, don't we know?"

"But our team of nearly a thousand people is trapped here, with so many eyes, it is impossible for them to go quietly, and there is no reason not to let us know, and no one will make such a big mistake and forget us Here.

What makes us feel weird is that everything in the factory is brand new. We found the dispatching room responsible for contacting us. After entering, we found that all the phones here were disconnected. A colleague two kilometers away called this place and found that the phone did not ring at all. In other words, none of the calls we made before were made here, so where did they go?No one knows. "

"We searched the factory and found no production equipment. In other words, the factory is just an empty shell. We were very scared. I found that we seemed to be cheated, but we didn't know anyone else. Lied to us to hide something.

All the documents here are all fake and meaningless.So we drove back to our camp, and we started to dig the telephone wires under the sand. We hoped to find out the direction of these telephone wires. After digging, we were surprised to find that this line turned out to lead to the bottom of the sand dunes. "

"Going all the way down. No matter how hard we turned, we couldn't find the end of the cable under the dune, because it was buried too deep. That is to say, the people we contacted seemed to be in the Get in touch with us underground.

Because we are just a transport convoy and belong to the whole factory, we don't know who to report this matter to, so we sent telegrams to many departments.Many departments gave us strange explanations, most of which were uninformed.Even their local military districts don't understand what this mission they've been carrying out is.

However, the commander of the military region decided to let some of them go back to transport supplies and replenish supplies.lest they be trapped in it. "

This was the last time they received supplies. After the convoy transporting supplies returned, they received an order to stand by.On the third day, all their contact with the outside world was cut off. They found that they could not communicate with the outside world by telegraph, and the telephone line under the sand had no signal. At first, they didn't care. After all, they had gasoline. The route is also very familiar.

But slowly, they discovered that the sand dunes around here began to undergo many strange changes.As a direct consequence of these changes, many of them suddenly disappeared.

After all, they are soldiers. For them, this situation means a threat, and it also means that there are enemies operating nearby.The neighborhood has not been peaceful, they have stepped up patrols and sent people around to look for any clues.

The few scouting teams sent out soon discovered a very strange phenomenon. They found that the sand dunes here had become different from before. The sand they saw at first disappeared, and white spots appeared on the sand dunes. The white spots are slowly expanding, it seems that the yellow nutrients in the whole sand are slowly absorbed by something under the sand.

The white spots are getting bigger and bigger, and gradually the whole desert turns white.The white desert is more able to reflect the blazing sun, and their living conditions are even worse

And the personnel are still disappearing. Many investigation teams never return after they go out. They cannot communicate with their superiors, but they are sent out to contact the outside world. The teams seeking reinforcements have not returned. The situation is getting more and more serious.Several of the squad leaders and platoon leaders began to discuss, and they found that the time when everyone disappeared was before sunrise and after dusk. This was like a curse, and many people disappeared in the tent.

No one noticed anything, they were very, very nervous, and everyone felt that they might be next.

Finally, the platoon leader issued an order that everyone must use ropes to connect themselves down when they were sleeping. That night, three more people disappeared, but this measure made it clear how they disappeared.

While sleeping, a few soldiers suddenly found that the rope was being pulled by force. When they woke up, they found that the person beside them seemed to be dragged into the sand by something forcefully. Because they were tied by the rope, they were not completely dragged down. , This force is very, very strong, and the person who is tied by the rope is also pulled under the sand.

Those people yelled immediately, and everyone woke up and pulled hard together to pull those people out of the sand.Only then did they realize that something seemed to be hiding in these dunes, dragging them into the sand while they were sleeping.

The remaining people became more and more nervous. They found that they could not sleep in the tents, so they gathered the cars and slept in the cars.

That night, the sound of countless things hitting the floor of the car came from under the car, and they fired guns into the sand to force these things back.The platoon leader felt that this matter was too strange. He felt that under such circumstances, everyone should not stay in this place anymore, so he ordered all members to retreat.

Just as they were preparing, a change came that they didn't expect.

The man said to Li Cu: "Our convoy started to refuel and lined up. When we were about to leave, this desert came alive. It didn't want us to leave at all."

"Alive?" Li Cu was stunned. Although the man's narration was messy, he heard it clearly.

The man nodded: "The desert is alive, and all the signs show that this desert is alive." Then the man pointed to Li Cuo's back: "Can you let me see your back, your back? Picture, I want to see, is it the same as what I saw at the time?"

"Same?" Li Cu looked at that person's eyes, and felt that there was a kind of power in that person's eyes that made him feel that if he agreed to his request, there would be some results.

He started to take off his military overcoat, halfway through, he stopped suddenly, and asked the man: "No, sir, what you said is too slippery. Why does it seem like you recited it?"

After Li Cu finished speaking, he frowned and stared at the other party. Although he knew that staring at the other party might not have any deterrent effect, it at least showed an attitude that he would not believe easily.

The old man on the opposite side looked at him, at first he still looked dumbfounded, seeing that Li Cuo had been silent and did not change his expression, he suddenly laughed: "Jing Youzi is Jing Youzi, harder than that southerner." Too much cheating."

"Who the hell are you?" Li Cu said angrily, "Don't you think it's a little heartless to find me happy in this kind of place?"

The old man started pulling his beard and hair, which turned out to be all fake.Then he took off the clothes on his body, went to one side of the sand and found a backpack, pulled out a black jacket and put it on.After he zipped it up and tossed it neatly, Li Cu realized that this person's real age is not very old, and it can even be said to be quite young.As soon as the slim jacket was put on, his slender body was highlighted, making him look very capable and tall.Finally, the man took out a pair of sunglasses from his bag and put them on.

Li Cu was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: What kind of sunglasses are you wearing in the middle of the night, is it to look cool in front of you?Why since being targeted by Wu Xie, everyone who comes into contact with them has a problem with their brains.

The man in the sunglasses turned his head and said to him: "I didn't want to reveal my identity, but I obviously haven't learned how to deceive people. Let me reintroduce, others call me black and blind. What I told you just now is all I deduced it from the environment here and the clues left on the body."

"I knew it. Your tone of voice is like reciting a book. Then you must not be an auto soldier?" The black blind man pointed to his eyes: "Have you ever seen a half-blind person become a soldier?"

"Then how did you come here?" Li Cuo asked.He wants to know this question the most, no matter who this person is, if he got here through other means, it means that there are other ways to get out of this place.

The black glasses fumbled here and there from the backpack, took out an aluminum flat wine bottle, unscrewed it and took a few sips, then said: "You may not believe me, but I'm here with you. I've been on the shore While monitoring you, Haizi moved, and I jumped off in a hurry. Damn, I almost drowned."

"Watch us?" Li Cu frowned. Could it be that he belongs to the archaeological team?The archaeological team had already discovered that something was wrong with Wu Xie and his group, and realized that he was kidnapped, so they asked someone to monitor them from the beginning?But I don't seem to have seen this person in the archaeological team.

"Don't think about it, I was entrusted by someone to protect that Boss Wu who kidnapped you all the way. It went smoothly before, I didn't expect you to row in the middle of the night." Black glasses smiled, handed the wine to Li Cu, and took a picture Pat him: "It's all right now, the swish is gone. There's only one oil bottle left."

Li Cu said, "You followed us all the way?"

"It's more than one way." The black glasses took out a few more packages from the backpack, opened one of them and handed it to Li Cu.Li Cu found out that it was fried rice with shredded pork and green peppers, "Are you a disabled version of Doraemon? Why is there everything in this bag?"

"This is made by the lunch box manufacturer I found in Sichuan. You see, the shelf life is ten years, and the food hasn't gone bad even after you die here. It's just a little dry. Let's eat it together." The black glasses said: "Yes I need to discuss something with you. When you are full, I will talk to you in detail."

Li Cuo would rather starve than eat when he heard that the shelf life of food was ten years.But now, he is really hungry.Even if it is a chronic poison, as long as it can fill his stomach, he will not hesitate to take it.

Smelling the smell of green peppers in the cold rice, even though it was mixed with a strange smell of sand, Li Cu almost burst into tears.At the same time, he also felt strange: Looking at the rice that has been sitting for more than ten days, it still smells like green peppers. Is this really the smell of green peppers?It's not mixed with plastic additives.

He didn't care about being picky, after eating three times, five times and two times, his saliva drools, and he didn't notice anything strange, even the "a little dry" that the black blind man said.After eating compressed biscuits for so many days, everything I eat now feels "wet".After eating, the blind man came to him, grabbed his neck and said, "Do you know what kind of situation you are in?"

Li Cu looked around and replied: "It's hard for me to say clearly, but obviously, we are in the same situation."

The black glasses shook his head and said, "No! I'm completely different from you. I was supposed to protect that Wu, but I soaked in the water all night and was exhausted when I got ashore, so I didn't pay much attention. As a result, Two swishes, those two idiots disappeared. Now, I am in a particularly awkward situation, and the embarrassment is mainly because of your existence."

"Please explain in detail."

"I have a family member and a good buddy. Those two people entrusted me to protect this Wu Xie, so Wu Xie is very important to me. Now Wu Xie has disappeared in the sand. Obviously there is something under the sand. I am a person, The principle of doing things is to live to see people, and to die to see corpses. Therefore, I must find a way to find out what is under the sand. Even if I die, I will have an explanation."

"What does this have to do with me?" Li Cu looked at his backpack, thinking how delicious the fried rice was.If it was outside the desert, he would definitely come back for three more sets.

"Don't you understand? My original plan was that if it was determined that Wu Xie had no hope of surviving, I would definitely go back. I have dry food and equipment in my bag, so I can take you with me. However, I must make sure that Wu Xie There is no hope of survival, and it must be dangerous. If I die, you can go out by yourself with my backpack and rations."

"That's good." Li Cuo said.

"Yeah, it's very good for you. I'm not balanced. My death will affect many things. Besides, I went to find Wu Xie. If you stole my backpack and left by yourself, what should I do? ah."

"What do you mean by telling me now? If you think I will steal the backpack, then hide the backpack. Besides, why did I sneak away? Isn't the chance of two people surviving better?" Li Cu felt that something was wrong, and the meaning of this man's words was not very auspicious.

The black glasses patted him on the shoulder: "If you were concealed from me just now, my identity would not be exposed, and your life and death would not have much impact on me. But if you see through me, I can't let you live Get out of the desert." Li Cu looked at him, and he looked at Li Cu, and Li Cu smiled and said, "Are you kidding me?"

Black Glasses smiled, shook his head, and raised his eyebrows: "I didn't want to kill you, but you didn't seize the opportunity. The reason I didn't kill you now is because I think the chances of surviving when two people walk out of the desert together are much higher. But , When we find a way out, I will definitely kill you immediately."

Li Cu shrank his neck, thought for a while, and said, "You must be joking."

The black glasses shook his head and patted him on the shoulder: "I have always been fair, and I have to explain things clearly to you. Moreover, I will ask you for help with a very dangerous matter tomorrow. If you can survive, you will believe Me. By the way, are you full yet?"

Li Cu wanted to say, "Of course I'm not full," but this guy was so nervous that he didn't dare to answer truthfully when asked, so he nodded and said, "I'm full."

"Go to bed early." The black glasses suddenly reached out and pinched his neck, Li Cu felt the back of his neck tighten, and a huge pressure pressed his arteries.Then, his vision went dark, and he passed out immediately.

When he woke up, the sun was already high, and the sun in the desert rose earlier than the city where he lived.According to the temperature he felt at this time, he judged that it should be the time when the sun just came out in the morning.

His neck hurts very, very much. God knows how hard that blind man hit yesterday. By the way, isn't he blind? Why doesn't he seem blind at all?He shook his head and realized something was wrong.The state of my body is a bit strange, it doesn't feel like I'm sleeping on the sand.He moved his hands and feet and found that his feet could move, but his hands were tied.Also, the condition of the feet, and the way the muscles felt in many places on the body, were strange.He took a few deep breaths, and his consciousness gradually returned to sobriety. He looked up and looked around, and immediately understood what was going on.

Sure enough, he didn't sleep on the sand, but was dropped in mid-air.