Chapter 104
Chapter 104
Shanhua took Lincheng to the airport, and the plane had already parked on the runway.Shanhua threw the coat to Lin Cheng, put on the flying sunglasses for him, took a step back when it was done, and said, "What a handsome boy."
Lin Cheng put on his jacket, zipped it up, and stood under the plane with his hands in his arms. The propellers had already started to rotate, and the dust swirled towards the front door.Shanhua walked to the door of the plane, turned her head and waved to Lin Cheng, motioning him to follow.
"Where are we going? Chief Wei." Lin Cheng yelled at Shanhua amidst the roar, the light just shone on his chin, and his dull brows and eyes became thicker for the first time.
Shanhua was not in a hurry to get on the plane, he leaned on the railing to look at Lincheng not far away, squinted his eyes and shouted back: "Go to Daxue Mountain, there is something there, I want you to go and see it."
He pointed back at the three snow-capped mountains in the north, one of which collapsed and appeared shorter than the other two.Glaciers covered the top of the mountain, and a few young eagles were flapping their wings and flying to the back of the mountain. Lin Cheng saw a crimson corner, which was a peach blossom forest.
Shanhua curled up her hands and called out to him, the voice pierced through the noise of the helicopter and echoed above the airport, Lin Cheng suddenly laughed, and he flew towards Shanhua, his hair was blown away in the wind, falling one by one.
Shanhua always remembers this scene, he remembers Lin Cheng's smile, and the way he ran towards him, with stars and dusk in his eyes.
The storm at sea passed, and Ji Yao walked out of the cave cliff and smelled the heavy smell of the sea, and a few drops of water hit him on the shoulder.Fu Zhong supported his waist and raised his hands to cover the sky and looked at the end of the distant coast. It seemed that there was fog over there, and he couldn't see clearly, and the sea was still roaring under his feet.
"Go to the snow mountain." Ji Yao said, he tiptoed habitually, curled up his lips to smell the salty smell in the wind, "the giant snake died there, you have to go and see."
Fu Zhong drove the car onto the road, and the silver guardrail was like a turning light belt, extending to the black steep cliff in the distance.They turned a big bend and headed north, molecules continued to recombine, and the scene behind them was slowly fading, dying again.
Peach blossoms bloomed under the snow-capped mountains, the road disappeared here, and the tires of the car fell on the soft grass. It had just rained and the ground was a bit muddy.Fu Zhong stretched out his hand and folded a branch of peach blossom and pinned it to Ji Yao's clothes button, then kissed him quietly on the lips.
Ji Yao rubbed his fingers against Fu Zhong's earlobe, while using the pager to talk to Shanhua. When the connection was made, Shanhua was singing again, singing the folk songs of his mother's hometown.After asking a few words, Shanhua is still on the way and will arrive in about 10 minutes. Ji Yao scolded him.
Fu Zhong turned on the stereo in the car and turned down the sound. It turned out to be the song "Dream Wedding". The sound was as warm as the wind and as soft as a rainbow.
"Chief, isn't this really my car?" Fu Zhong smiled, "Why is the music the same as mine, I just saved this one in it."
"Then you're going to ask the president of the Gnard Arms Factory." Ji Yao said, he held the peach blossom to the tip of his nose to smell the fragrance, "He gave me the gift, and I don't think about any problems."
Fu Zhong didn't care about these, on the contrary, he was a little happy.He hugged Ji Yao and kissed his lips, there was a faint scent of flowers in the carriage.The window on the side is raised, the color is dark enough, the inside cannot be seen from the outside, and the peach blossoms and cloud shadows are reflected on the glass.
The light piano sound reminded Ji Yao of the wedding, and he would always think of it, including when he was asking for a kiss like a fox, this thought was especially strong.After the piano was played, it was "Wonderland". Ji Yao was so kissed that he was out of breath. If they hadn't heard the annoying sound of helicopters at this time, they could have done more things in the car.
Ji Yao touched his lips and sat back, Fu Zhong opened the ceiling, and the mountain flowers hovered above their heads. The strong wind blew the peach blossoms down, and suddenly a road appeared in the peach blossom forest. Ji Yao started the molecular reorganization .
"Wei Shanhua, go find the road ahead, scan the whole mountainous area, and send me the map." Ji Yao said to the pager. He set up the tablet and waited for the image to come.
Lin Cheng was sitting by the door of the helicopter, and the cold wind from outside was blowing in. He leaned on the door frame and looked down. The mountain flowers flew very low, the peaks of the snow-capped mountains brushed past his toes, and the crows quaked.
"You sit in, it's cold outside, we are at an altitude of 6000 meters." Shanhua reminded, Lin Cheng responded lightly, and did not do so.
"Who are you talking to?" Ji Yao frowned and asked Shanhua, typing quickly on the keyboard.
Shanhua choked up suddenly, and he peeked at Lin Cheng's back, which looked a little thinner compared to himself, and after being silent for more than ten seconds, Shanhua replied: "I brought our profiling expert, young man People are disobedient and insist on sitting by the door."
"Oh, it turned out to be an expert in profiling, and now you have finally put your brain on the tip of the knife." Ji Yao said, and he asked Fu Zhong to open the channel in the command room for him, "You have a very good relationship with him, It’s been a while since we arrived.”
In fact, Ji Yao had no other meaning, he just stated the facts casually and indifferently, but Shanhua's ears changed his taste when he heard this, because he had a guilty conscience, and no one thought that the person who met three times would roll on the bed in a blink of an eye .
"Oh, dear commander, let's not talk about these personal matters now. I have sent the map you asked for to your display screen. Damn it, the mountain here has collapsed. Let me see, God, guess I saw it What?"
Lin Cheng looked down, and they were at the top of the collapsed mountain. The glacier was broken, and the boulder was crushed into powder.Pale yellow rocks rolled down at the foot of the mountain indiscriminately, and in the tomb built of stones, a complete huge skeleton was exposed.
Fu Zhong and Ji Yao looked at each other, and Ji Yao turned the map and asked, "What did you see?"
"Miracle." Shanhua said in a low voice. He stretched out the camera on the helicopter and pointed it down to take pictures. Circling around the ruins, he found a huge eagle's nest built on the cliff.
Fu Zhong clenched the steering wheel tightly, Ji Yao's face was not very good-looking, the topographic map was displayed on the tablet, Shanhua's plane was a red dot, and it had been stopping on a mountain top.Ji Yao stared at that place for a long time, then transferred the map to the windshield, the route was marked, and Fu Zhong could understand it at a glance.The car quickly went up the mountain along the road, and the scent of peach blossoms was left behind. It couldn't catch up with the speed of the accord, just like humans can't catch up with time.
The snow became thicker as it went up, and the sky actually started to fall. A new road surface of molecular combination was spreading out in front of them. They passed through the mountain stream. The second layer of rivers.
They walked around the old trees and entered the deep mountains. The entangled vines blocked the way several times, and the squirrels showed off their might on the branches.The snow-capped mountains are not far away, and it took almost an hour for Fu Zhong to drive to the foot of the mountain.
Lin Cheng didn't care about the snow wind freezing his hair, he climbed the door frame to look down, and shouted at Shanhua: "What kind of bone is this?"
You have to shout to communicate on the helicopter. The wind outside is so loud that you can't hear it at all if you whisper it a little bit.Shanhua tilted the fuselage a little and dived down, descending to a height of 3000 meters, passing by the jagged and abrupt rocks, Lin Cheng was so frightened that he sat back a little.
Shanhua immediately closed the cabin door with a bang, the noise was blocked out instantly, and the cabin was completely silent. He blocked Ji Yao, and said to Lin Cheng: "You don't care about his bones, you just stay in the cabin honestly Li, do you know how dangerous it was just now? You will fall and die, how did you learn it in the executive department? Did Chief Ji teach you like this?! Fuck, how can I save you if you fall!"
He cursed, and couldn't help but swear when he was in a hurry. Lin Cheng listened behind him, holding his hand to watch Shanhua hold the joystick to make the plane change direction.After Shanhua finished cursing, Lin Cheng sat down and apologized to him. He sat on the side seat next to Shanhua and fastened his seat belt.
"That's it, stay where I can see." Shanhua stepped on the brake to turn the plane around, his tone was a little softer, Lin Cheng pursed his lips in silence.
Bird's nests were built everywhere on the exposed cliffs. Shanhua moved the plane in a little bit, and Lin Cheng tilted his head to carefully identify it, saying that it was an eagle's nest.Eagles like to build their nests on steep cliffs. Snakes tend to live in such places. Eagles are the natural enemies of snakes and have been fighting for tens of thousands of years.
Fu Zhong stopped the car, Ji Yao opened the door and went down, standing on a slightly flat rock, holding up a telescope to look around the almost vertical earth-colored cliff opposite, there was no grass growing, and there were vertical and horizontal lines.
"Santu, get me an airport." Shanhua said in the headset.
Molecules formed a small open space on the top of the mountain, the helicopter landed on it, Shanhua jumped down, and Lin Cheng followed behind him.Ji Yao didn't look at them, but simply responded to Lin Cheng's greeting.Lin Cheng stood next to Fu Zhong, the two of them were buddies, and they hated each other when they met.
"Those are all eagle nests." Shanhua pointed to Ji Yao, "These eagles are really big enough, just look at their nests, good guy, they are probably as big as trucks."
Ji Yao tapped the toes of his leather shoes. He was wearing glasses, and he looked very serious because of frowning: "It's not normal. Eagles are not herd animals. Only one eagle is allowed in an airspace. This place is densely packed with eagle's nests. How is that possible?"
"Then you have to ask our lovely profiling experts."
"It's the Eagle's Nest. That's okay. The problem is how they live together." Ji Yao supported his waist, and Fu Zhong put a thicker coat on him, "Eagle is lonely, if there are foreign eagles invading the territory , They will definitely fight to the death until the enemy is driven out. Every piece of land in Meili Snow Mountain and Yulong Snow Mountain is divided up by the eagles there, and they are the kings of the snow mountains."
Fu Zhong stretched out his fingers and pointed around, and said, "Looking at the arrangement of the eagle's nests, they are all facing that direction."
Everyone followed Fu Zhong's fingers and looked westward. A huge crack in the mountain stretched forward, and finally broke at a certain place, as if it was broken by something. The whole mountain sloped down and was covered with gravel. The dry river bed, the traces left by the avalanche left in the river valley.
They came to the place where the giant snake fell, and the scene was vivid in my mind, the ball of lightning hit the top of the snow, and then the majestic mountain collapsed like a paper house.Ji Yao looked around and saw that the rocks were shattered radially, with scorched marks on them.
"The lightning landed there, and then something fell from the sky. The powerful shock wave affected the forests in the east and south, and then there were avalanches and earthquakes." Lin Cheng said suddenly, his brain was highly concentrated, trying to restore this place scenario.
Ji Yao looked at him, Lin Cheng rubbed his aching temple, and rested on the rock: "Chief, what happened to you here? Why did you come here to investigate?"
"Some... very strange things." Ji Yao passed over lightly, "You will see again in the future, not bad this time."
Lin Cheng suddenly shuddered, Ji Yao turned a simulator in front of Lin Cheng, Lin Cheng was stunned, the three of them couldn't carry such a big thing on their bodies.Fu Zhong pursed his lips and smiled without saying a word, Ji Yao gestured to him: "Model renderer, you can visualize what you profile."
Ji Yao stood up a little, and he put on the coat that Fu Zhong put on him, and the collar blocked the mountain wind.Lin Cheng stood in front of the machine and began to establish a coordinate system. He occasionally looked at the scene in the valley, and the profile would cause hallucinations. He often had a headache, and sometimes he stopped to rest.
Shanhua was patted on the chest twice, Ji Yao turned his face and whispered to him: "The expert you called is really good, he has been in my team for so long, I haven't found that he has such a Skill."
As soon as he said this, he was blown away in the wind, Lin Cheng didn't hear it, but Shanhua heard it clearly.Shanhua smiled when he heard the words, he nodded in agreement with Ji Yao's words, the corners of his mouth were raised a little proudly, and suddenly felt that it was an infinitely beautiful thing to have Lin Cheng by his side.
Lin Cheng stopped, and Fu Zhong helped Ji Yao over. The strange rocks under his feet were a little rough to prevent him from slipping.The restored snow mountain was shown on the model renderer, and Lin Cheng used his fingers to control the rotation of the topographic map while explaining it to everyone.
"I can only write a part of it. As for whether it is correct or not, it depends on the verification of future events." Lin Cheng said, he pulled down the coordinates, X and Y are space, Z is time, "the time of the event is already here It was marked, and then a big thing fell from the sky and landed at this location."
Lin Cheng drew a radiating circle in the center, and he used a red rectangle to represent the three-headed giant snake. After the rectangle hit the top of the mountain, the snow top collapsed in response, all of which was predictable.
"There will be problems after that." Lin Cheng paused, looked at Ji Yao next to Fu Zhonghe, "I sensed something here in the profile, but I couldn't clearly see what it looked like, it was A black shadow hangs over the valley."
"Did you see the two flames?" Fu Zhong asked.
Lin Cheng thought about it a little, and drew on the simulator with his fingers: "It's probably at this location, on the top of the mountain, chaotic, blurry, without a head and face, and the eyes are flames that shoot out. Anyway, this thing is a problem."
Ji Yao's face was tense, he was always serious, tapped the buckle on his sleeve with his fingers, and said in silence for a while: "This thing is indeed a problem. We have taken pictures with scanners and cameras, and what we took was a black shadow , and its exact size cannot be measured.”
"It's like a mass of ever-changing gas. From a distance, it looks like a flying dragon with two burning flames in its eyes." Shanhua continued, watching the sunlight on the opposite cliff gradually slant.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. What else did you see next?" Ji Yao interrupted Shanhua, pointing to the coordinate system on the screen.
"After that, many eagles flew out from the cracks in the valley. They were giant eagles, and one was as big as a truck. Like hungry ghosts, they all jumped on the giant snake and began to bite. Was able to stand up and continue fighting, but was pecked to death in the end."
Lin Cheng used many white dots to represent the giant eagle. These white dots covered the red rectangle like a mist. After a while, the white dots dispersed, and the red rectangle turned into a flashing skull.
Shanhua hammered Ji Yao's back, probably not noticing the wound, Ji Yao's lower body was flattened in pain.Fu Zhong hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Ji Yao, and put his arms around his waist to signal Shanhua to pay attention.With a blushing face, Ji Yao took Fu Zhong's hand away from his waist, and touched his red nose.
"I just said it was a giant eagle the size of a truck. You still don't believe me, Santu. Now that the experts have said so, I'm not running the train." Shanhua made a tactical gesture of "victory" to Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng Avert your eyes, your heart is pounding.
Fu Zhong crossed his hands and thought for a while, and carefully inspected the surroundings with a telescope, from the cracks in the valley in the distance to the huge corpse in front of him.In the end, he put down the binoculars, supported his waist and said, "Chief Ji, Chief Wei, I think these eagles are domesticated."
Pointing to the densely packed eagle's nests in the valley, he continued: "Chief Ji said just now that eagles don't live in groups, but what we saw is obviously counterintuitive. According to the degree of evolution of the creatures here, this may be Haster The nest of the giant eagle probably existed in the Middle Pleistocene."
"Eagle can be domesticated. There are often hunters who train eagles in Xing'an Mountains, and my father is one of them." Ji Yao's light tone floated above the snow, "Eagle is difficult to train, and we can't abuse them. If the eagle's feathers are missing That's it, this eagle will be useless."
It was rare for Shanhua to be serious. He took a step and looked at the astonishingly large skeletons under the scattered rocks under the steep cliff, and said, "So can we guess that these eagles were domesticated and raised in captivity?" Here, and this giant snake is the food for them?"
Lin Cheng supported the simulator, put on gloves to keep out the cold, and pursed his lips: "Eagle is the natural enemy of snakes, no matter what era it is in. If it is really Haast's giant eagle, then it is no wonder that they can really fight against giant snakes." In such a short time, the giant snake has only a pair of bones left."
"Then where are these giant eagles now?" Fu Zhong asked, "The eagle's nest is all empty, it looks like it's deserted."
"Maybe I went out to look for food." Ji Yao said softly, he looked at the sun slanting to the west, and turned back to order Shanhua, "Go and drive the helicopter down, let's go down and have a look."
Shanhua took the order and went, Ji Yao thanked Lin Cheng and put away the simulator, Lin Cheng was stunned to see the things disappearing from his eyes in an instant.Ji Yao and Fu Zhong didn't speak, and Lin Cheng couldn't ask too many questions. He looked up to see the helicopter take off.
Ji Yao put away the sports car and led the two of them to board the plane. The door was open, and snowflakes and strong winds rushed in. Fu Zhong asked Ji Yao to sit inside to block the wind and snow for him.The mountain flowers quickly descended to the dry river bed, and the cracked land showed a dazzling yellow sand color.
The heat in the valley was a bit fierce, which was completely different from the upper floor. Ji Yao took off his coat and suit, and felt that his back was burning badly even wearing a shirt.He put on his sunglasses and looked at the terrain carefully, and said, "Something went wrong, why is it so hot, it's like a dog day."
Surrounded by mountains, it is a small basin. The terrain of the basin is indeed not easy to dissipate heat, but it will not cause a sudden increase in temperature.After all, on the vast grassland outside, the temperature is kept at around 20°C, and it may be colder, but here it is almost 38°C.
The other three were also aware of this problem. Lin Cheng had already taken off his jacket and gloves, and squatted beside the river bed with his sleeves rolled up, looking down.Fu Zhong and Ji Yao waded through a shallow ditch covered with cobblestones, standing in the shadow of the mountain, the dry and rotten smell wafted in the air.
"What are you looking at?" Shanhua walked over and asked Lin Cheng, he put his clothes on his shoulders, his skin was exposed to the sun, and his skin was a little red.
Lin Cheng sniffed, the hot and cold made him sneeze non-stop. After he finished sneezing, he said, "I'm looking at why it's so hot here."
Shanhua squatted beside him and looked down with him. The ground was cracked, the gap was wide, and it was dark below. Shanhua didn't see anything, and smiled: "Did you see anything? See the little ants moving? "
Lin Cheng grinned, covered his mouth and sneezed, and put his hand into the crack: "It's getting hotter and hotter, you can try it."
"Oh, that's not right. Generally, the soil layer gets shady and cool as you go down. How can it get hotter?" Shanhua stretched out her hand, curled her lips, and the two of them put their heads together to study. A group of ants just crawled past their feet. .
Fu Zhong walked around the riverbed to the front of the giant snake. He took a lot of pictures with his camera and took them back for research.Ji Yao tapped some small bones with a sampling tool and put them in mustard seeds.The sun made him sweat on his forehead, and the back of his shirt was wet, and the hot wind made him dizzy.
"Chief, come here, it's cooler here." Fu Zhong waved to him, while looking down at the photos in the camera.
Ji Yao found a shady place, squinted his eyes to see the glare of the sun in the valley, he couldn't take it anymore, and put on his sunglasses again.There is no green on the bare cliffs, only dots of snow covered from the top of the mountain, lifeless.
Fu Zhong measured the temperature, the atmospheric temperature was 38.6°C, and the ground temperature was 42°C. Lin Cheng came over and asked him to measure the underground temperature, and it turned out to be 50°C.
"There is no desert condition here, why is the temperature so high? According to the temperature data sent to me by the command room, the outside air temperature is only 18°C." Ji Yao said, he wiped off the sweat on his chin, and unbuttoned his shirt.
Shanhua raised her hand to cover the sun, Fu Zhong propped up the windbreaker and stood with Ji Yao, he was afraid that Ji Yao would get sunburned.Lin Cheng walked around the corpse, and suddenly asked, "Is this a snake bone? Why doesn't it have a head? Where did the skull go?"
"It's a three-headed giant snake." Ji Yao replied immediately. He realized that something was wrong, and turned around to follow Lin Cheng's footsteps, "Why is there no skull? I clearly saw that the three heads were still moving when it was knocked down."
The four of them stood not far from the bones. The place was completely exposed to the scorching sun, and the dry wind had already filled their nasal passages with blood.Fu Zhong climbed up the rock and stood on a high place, and passed the photo to Ji Yao. Ji Yao slid the tablet. In the photo, there was indeed only the skeleton of the snake body and tail, and its three heads disappeared.
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