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Even though I could roughly guess that the Drilling Team Two Exploration Wild Mountain in 1976 was meant to revive a certain big shot who had died, I didn't think that even the organization's team would be involved in it. After carefully thinking about it, I felt that the Drilling Team Two's arrangement was too chaotic, no wonder I couldn't find any news of the Drilling Team Two on the official website.

There were more than a hundred people in Drilling Team Two, including a team from the British, people who had organized a group to sneak in, people from the drilling company, and even people from the upper echelons who wanted to revive some big boss.

I stared at Charles and spread out my arms. "Now that things have come to this, I don't think there's a need for you to hide it anymore. What happened in Drilling Team Two in 1976, why was it only the four of you came out alive in the end?"

Charles decisively said: "If you want to know, that's fine, but I need the conditions to exchange them."

I vigilantly asked, "What conditions?"

Charles laughed: "Don't worry, I just want you to return the map to me."

"Map?"

Charles continued: "You don't have to pretend. I am talking about the map of the Sakyamuni Army, we still need that map to find the correct route."

I immediately understood, Charles was talking about the map on Zhu Yingqiong's body, but the map was always on Zhu Yingqiong, why would Charles look for me for it?

After I woke up, Zhu Yingqiong had never appeared again. She asked the ocean, and the ocean also stammered, I guessed that something must have happened to Zhu Yingqiong, or perhaps she had lost Charles's trust, and now she had lost her freedom. That map should be the key to Zhu Yingqiong's life.

The map was not on me, which meant that Zhu Yingqiong had told him that the map was on me, which diverted her attention away from Charles, and with Fourth Uncle's men, Charles did not dare to make things difficult for me on the surface.

Fourth Uncle didn't mention the map when he was looking for me, meaning that Charles was also hiding this matter from the Fourth Uncle. He definitely has his own plans in his heart, not to mention that I don't have a map, even if I did, I still wouldn't be able to give it to him.

So he was looking for the map. Right now, he might not be able to guarantee that the map was on me, but he should be testing me. How can I get him to tell me what happened that year, and make sure that the map is on me?

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through my mind. In the end, I remained silent for a while before I stared at Charles and said, "The map is written in Japanese, none of us can understand it. Do you think that map will still be useful?"

Sure enough, after Charles heard this, he heaved a sigh of relief: "Seems like she really gave you the map. Just like her grandfather, she also wanted to betray me."

I asked in astonishment, "You're talking about Zhu Haiming?"

Charles's eyes widened: "I didn't expect her to even tell you this, that's right, that map was given to me by Zhu Haiming, after all, the reason he came out alive all those years ago was because of me, after he died, I still helped him take care of his children, and even raised his granddaughter, but I didn't expect that he raised a family of ungrateful bastards!"

I waved my hand and said, "I'm not interested in the Zhu Family. Since the four of you have already died, it's up to you to decide whether they are right or wrong. Right now, I just want to know what happened to the drilling team in 1976 and why only the four of you survived."

Phew...

Charles let out a long sigh as a look of reminiscence appeared on his face. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally opened his mouth to recount the events of 1976, and when I finished listening, I was completely dumbfounded. No wonder I kept feeling that the things underneath the ground were very complicated, and that there were many things that didn't make sense at all.

This has involved many people. If you were to name some of them, you might even be able to find their names in the textbooks of modern history. Even some exploration engineers and Li Siguang are of the same generation.

I thought for a long time before deciding to write out what happened that year, but I changed the names of some celebrities. After all, if the matter were to be exposed, it would cause an uproar throughout the country, so I hope that everyone can treat it as a wild history.

…

Hundreds of people had alighted from the war chariots, including the Caucasian and yellow races. They hurriedly rented two cargo ships to enter the Salvin River and then leaned on the edge of the Wild Mountain.

They set up camp. Everything was done skillfully, but the atmosphere was very serious. It was as if they were conducting a strict military operation. No one dared to make a ruckus. They were all doing things in silence, and only two people in a military tent appeared to be at a loss.

Among the two, there was a British translator who was fluent in both Chinese and English. He was a young white man called Charles.

The other was about the same age as Charles, but they had already made a family, his eyes rolled around, giving off a sense of shrewdness, he was called Chen Yihuo, Zhejiang's jade merchant.

The two of them did not know each other, and were only arranged to be inside a tent, following the large group in their search for Wild Mountain. After a while, the two of them got to know each other very well, and started to talk privately, and at that time, they were just two insignificant people in front of the large group. They did not dare speak carelessly about many things, and could only guess on their own, and after searching for a while, another person moved into their tent.

The man looked younger than both of them, his eyes very bright, the corners of his mouth hanging in a half-smile, as if everything had been set in stone, but he spoke very little, not much to anyone, and maintained a high and solitary attitude.

Chen Yihuo and Charles only knew that the young man was called Yang Qi, his identity and background was unknown, and he was not even from the officials. However, the officials were extremely respectful to him, and would ask him for advice on anything.

As a result, Charles and Chen Yihuo became even more curious about Yang Qi, and would often patiently ask Yang Qi a lot of things. Yang Qi would sometimes tell them everything, and sometimes, he would just quietly go to sleep on his own, and from time to time, the two of them would also know that this mission was to find the three armies that had disappeared back then, and uncover the secrets to Wild Mountain.

As the group went deeper, they learned more and more, including the People of White Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty army, Sakyamuni Army, because Charles was in charge of translation. Although it was one of many translations, they slowly found out a lot of secrets, and when Charles told Chen Yihuo all of these things, Chen Yihuo was also moved.

The Zimu Jade was his, but he never thought that the Zimu Jade would be related to the Ming Dynasty's Emperor Jianwen, nor did he think that he would participate in such a secretive exploration mission because of the Zimu Jade. He started to worry, because regardless of whether he succeeded in the end, he might die because of some terms, and the reason for his death was to keep the secret!

Chen Yihuo was a cunning businessman, he thought very quickly, and after thinking it through, he finally had a plan to escape. He found Charles to explain the benefits and even asked him to escape with him, but in the end he did not succeed and could only follow the large group into the underground.

Because there were many underground tunnels, it was a typical southerly, humid cavern. Inside, there were criss-crossing caves, and every tunnel had traces of the three armies marching at the same time. Therefore, Drilling Team Two began to assign people to work, nine people in a group, scattered throughout the exploration.

Charles was assigned to one exploration team. Other than the two of them, the other seven had two engineers who were part of the drilling team, called Wu Gong and Dai Gong because they were kept secret, and three of them were engineers who were in charge of ensuring their safety. The other two were the upper echelons of the drilling team, responsible for the development of routes and research underground.

They advanced underground with different paths than us, but in the end they all returned together and arrived at the Anti-wall. Here, they found over a dozen corpses.

These corpses had not been dead for long, which was around a month's time. From their attire, it could be seen that most of them were Chinese.

Because according to what they knew before, they were the first group of people to reach the bottom of Wild Mountain after the disappearance of the three armies, so how could anyone die here before them?

Furthermore, they also found a large number of documents on the corpses and the indicators for the drilling teams. These findings were enough to prove that before them, a group of people had already entered the underground area of Wild Mountain ahead of them, and they were even official figures.

This discovery caused them to panic, because only when the first batch of people died would there be a second batch of people. Then, how many people would come from the first batch of people?

Are all of them dead?

What did they die in here for?

Who killed the first team?

Since there were already the first batch of people, they should know the path underground. Why did they pretend to explore for more than ten days?

Countless mysteries swarmed into Charles and Chen Yihuo's minds, even the others felt the same way. An invisible fear spread within the team as everyone had thoughts of retreating or escaping, because what they were facing was an unknown fear.

However, the two higher-ups of the drilling team kept ordering them to move forward. They also assigned the food and equipment to the two engineers in order to prevent Chen Yihuo and Charles from escaping.

When Charles said till here, he stared at me with shining eyes and said: "Do you know why they are afraid of me and your grandfather escaping? For example, your grandfather, what the drilling team wants is his Zimu Jade, your grandfather was worried that the drilling team would secretly take the Zimu Jade and only then would we enter the army, and I, without a translator, have other translations, we were simply insignificant at that time, so the reason why they didn't let us escape back then was because they were worried that we would reveal the secrets of our Wild Mountain. At that time, we knew that once we entered the underground, we would either die for no reason, or at the hands of the drilling teams. "

I started to get confused, I kept having the feeling that what Charles said was not right, but I couldn't find anything wrong, all I could say was: "What happened next?"

"Later?"

Charles coughed and then exhaled deeply: "Afterwards, we met the Japanese underground!"

"Japanese?"

I was a little confused. "How could there still be Japanese alive?"

Charles's eyes became a little strange as he said, "I'm not a living Japanese man, but I'm not a dead person either, do you understand what I mean? It's someone who's half dead, half alive! "