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A half-dead, half-alive person?

In my mind, I immediately thought of the beastmen. Previously, Fourth Uncle told me that these beastmen were most likely cursed by the Zimu Jade, just like how my Third Uncle died, not completely dead at all, only half alive!

Could it be that the Japanese Charles and the others met were similar to the Beastmen? I stopped my wild thoughts and listened attentively to what Charles was saying.

Underground, in a military tent under the Anti-wall.

Two engineers were in charge of cooking, while one engineer was on guard. Wu and Dai were discussing the next step with the two executives of the drilling team.

Wu Gong and Dai Gong were the geological exploration experts hired by the drilling team, and both of them were of the same generation as Li Siguang. At this moment, facing more than ten corpses that were suddenly discovered, Wu Gong and Dai Gong believed that the drilling team had deceived them and decided to return first.

However, the two upper echelons of the drilling team rejected them flatly. Charles and Chen Yihuo did not know what they had said to the two experts.

In the military tent.

Chen Yihuo looked outside and made sure that no one was paying attention to them before he said to Charles, his expression serious: "Old Cha, you are an interpreter from the UK side, so you must know more than me. You better get me straight to the point, what exactly do you want to do with the exploration team this time?"

Charles said in extremely standard Chinese, "How would I know? When I came here, the higher-ups already told me to be a translator.

Chen Yihuo lit up a cigarette he made himself and frowned: "What should I do? "It's definitely not as simple as we thought. These bodies are all from the drilling team, which means they came in before. Why did they die here?"

Charles suddenly asked: "Will there be an enemy?"

During 1976, there were many spies, filled with all kinds of departments listening in on information. It was not surprising for Charles to have such suspicions.

Chen Yihuo waved his hand," I am just a merchant, not a worker in a drilling team, not a member of the army. No matter what enemy I have, the Zimu Jade will be given to me as a gift to the nation.

Charles blinked his eyes, then said softly: "Don't be anxious, let's talk about the old method first, after we leave, I will do the jade business, but we can't be anxious now, don't you see that Wu Gong and Dai Gong are discussing with the upper echelons of the drilling team?"

As the two were anxiously discussing, the tent flap suddenly opened. A young soldier stuck his head out and shouted, "Wu Gong has something to announce."

Wu Gong was an intellectual wearing glasses and a Chinese tunic, he had the temperament of an old school warlord. When he saw that everyone was here, he waved his hand and said in a loud voice, "Comrades, the severity of the situation is beyond our imagination. I just discussed with Dai Business and decided to report the discovery of the body and asked them if we should continue forward or go back the same way. I don't want an unprepared exploration to kill everyone here, who is willing to go find someone from the other team?"

Chen Yihuo raised his hand suddenly. "Wu Gong, I am willing to give my all for the organization. This is also my decision as a crew member to prepare the drilling rigs."

The reason why Chen Yihuo raised his hand was not because he wanted to report the discovery of the body, but because he wanted to take this opportunity to escape by himself.

Wu Gong frowned and said, "Your spirit is worth encouraging, but this mission is not suitable for you."

Pow!

One of the three soldiers suddenly stepped forward and said, "Wu Gong, let me go."

The two executives of the drilling team immediately agreed: "Comrade Zhu Haiming has always been in the front line of defense. We agree with your recommendation."

"Thank you for your trust, I will live up to the expectations of the organization!"

The little warrior Zhu Haiming said excitedly. Bringing his dry rations and flashlight, he turned around and headed back the way he came, intending to look for the other groups.

Chen Yihuo and Charles sat down on the ground and waited in disappointment, but something unexpected happened.

Zhu Haiming had not gone far before a burst of gunshots came from the dark and deathly underground. The deafening gunshots shocked the few people who were waiting for them.

Those who entered underground were all his own men. Who was the target of the guns?

Why shoot?

For a moment, doubt filled everyone's minds. Under Wu Gong's lead, they immediately rushed to the source of the gunfire.

Everyone followed the path and advanced forward. Soon, they heard a burst of cry for help, which came from the bottom of the cliff, and with a flash of a flashlight, they discovered that a person's shadow was stuck in the crevice below the ground, and blood was everywhere. It was the little warrior, Zhu Haiming.

Wu Gong and Dai Gong stood on top and shouted, but Zhu Haiming moaned in pain, he had no power to open his mouth, thus he was forced into a helpless situation. Chen Yihuo and Dai Gong could only tie their bodies with ropes, being pulled by two little warriors, then they could go down and save Zhu Haiming.

After Zhu Haiming was pulled out, everyone immediately asked what had happened. Zhu Haiming shook his head, and took a long time to say that he was kicked down, and when he reacted, the person who kicked him had ran away.

"Who exactly are they? Did you see it clearly? "

Zhu Haiming spat out three words: "Japanese!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was stunned. How was this possible? The people of the three armies had already disappeared from the mountains. After so many years had passed, how could the Japanese still be alive?

If the Japanese were alive, would the first drilling crew have been killed by the Japanese?

No one dared to believe Zhu Haiming's words, they could only take him back to the tent, and once again, the two upper echelons of the drilling team sent another little warrior to report to the other groups, while they waited in place.

When night came, Zhu Haiming suddenly turned and found Chen Yihuo and Charles. He opened his mouth and said: "You two can bring me along, this place is too strange."

Chen Yihuo and Charles were shocked, they looked at each other but did not say anything.

Zhu Haiming said again: "I had long heard that you all were going to run away on your own, I beg you to bring me with you, otherwise, all of us would really die here."

Charles asked vigilantly: "Why did all of you die in here?"

Zhu Haiming said: "We are not fools, those who died were all part of the first group in, they all died, I know how they died, if we did not leave, we would end up like them."

Chen Yihuo asked in a deep voice, "Did you find out about this?"

Zhu Haiming glanced outside the tent and said: "I was lying earlier, I was indeed kicked by someone before I fell down, but the person who kicked me was a dead person."

Chen Yihuo shuddered and said: "Don't scare me, the dead can still move?"

Zhu Haiming stared with his eyes wide: "I didn't lie to you all, when I saw the corpse of a Japanese man, I wanted to take off his army coat to protect against the cold. But when I was taking off his clothes, he opened his eyes and kicked me off, the Japanese man was already gone by the time I fired my gun."

When these words came out, Charles and Chen Yihuo were stunned. It was not that they did not believe Zhu Haiming's words, but Zhu Haiming's words were too unreal.

"..."

When Charles said this, I understood that the so called half-dead was not because of the Beastmen, but was because, like Xu Jun, although the Beastmen were dead, their corpses could still move.

"..."

Seeing that both Charles and Chen Yihuo could not believe it, Zhu Haiming suddenly took out a Sheepskin Roll s from his clothes and said: "Look, this is a map that I took from the Japanese when I fell, it was written all over in Japanese, you guys should believe me now right?"

Charles and Chen Yihuo anxiously took over the Sheepskin Roll, only to see that it was filled with lines, it was a map, and the lines were all about underground, and the words on them were all Japanese.

With the map as evidence, Charles and Chen Yihuo trusted Zhu Haiming by a bit, and the three of them instantly went silent, their faces were ugly. If what Zhu Haiming said was true, then how could the dead Japanese people move?

Could there be a ghost?

The three of them thought about it for a long time and decided to temporarily hide the map, until the little warrior who had reported back.

However, the little warrior did not return, but the one who came back was another person, it was actually Yang Qi. The two upper echelon members of the drilling team were extremely respectful to Yang Qi, so they explained what they found out to him before asking for his opinion.

Yang Qi wore a faint smile on his face, and ordered: "Continue!"

After he finished speaking, Yang Qi immediately went to stay at Charles's and Chen Yihuo's tent. From the looks of it, he intended to go with the rest.

Yang Qi and Charles both did not dare to speak the truth. There were a few times when they wanted to slip away with Zhu Haiming, but they were all seen by Yang Qi, the strange thing was that Yang Qi did not expose them either. He only stared at them with a smile that was not a smile, as if he saw through their thoughts of escaping.

With Yang Qi watching them, Chen Yihuo and Charles's wish to escape failed, they could only follow along, the two of them were in a daze throughout the entire journey, they did not know how far they had travelled, all they knew was that the terrain had continued downwards, until finally, they found an airplane!

It's a small Japanese Army bomber, placed inside a base that was built underground by Sakyamuni Army. Aside from the bombers, they also found a Japanese Army recording studio filled with large amounts of old film tapes, which were stored inside like a pile of trash.

"..."

When I heard this, I felt that Charles was bullshitting with me. How could there be a bomber under the ground?

How did the Japanese bring the Fighter underground? Could it be that the broken parts were assembled underground?

Why did you do that?

The bombers were used to bombard the enemy. Who did the Japanese want to bomb underground? Could bombers fly underground again? Is there a runway that can take off?

What was the connection between the bomber and the Sarcophagus?

There were also film tapes. Although there were already film tapes available overseas during that time and they were played in the projector like silent dramas, why did the Japanese need to record them?

What the heck? The troops were dejected, did the Japanese even have time to relax the soldiers?

I felt that it was getting more and more unreliable, I even started to doubt what Charles said, but I didn't have any evidence to refute him, so I could only ask, "Do you think the bombers can fly underground?"

Charles replied: "Yes, because we found a runway to take off later."

I spread out my hands and said, "Even if there is a runway, where can the bombers fly to underground?"

Charles took a deep breath, then said: "At the beginning, we did not understand where the Japanese were flying to, but in the end, we understood that the Japanese were trying to fly to the end of Nether Sea!"

"Nether Sea?"

I'm wondering, what does Nether Sea mean? Could it be that there was a sea beneath the Wild Mountain?