Chapter 19 Kanto Army Underground Fortress
Underground Fortress of the Kwantung Army 1
Fatty asked me, “Do you have any military common sense? There can’t be tanks here.”
I said, “There is no let’s go in first and take a look, in fact, is really a tank, I’m afraid I can’t drive it, this is almost forty years, so long time, even if it is a daily maintenance should have been scrapped long ago.”
Gnarco’s passageway is intricate and complex, like a maze, in order to avoid getting lost, we slipped through the wall to look for the exit.
The underground fortress’s passages and the Gnarl’s vault are all rounded tops that are very high, it’s a kind of anti-seepage construction, using the flashlight to shine upwards, we can see a single emergency light and a pipe line installed on the top, if we can find a generator, we should be able to find a way to make these lights come on.
Did not go far, on the wall to see a map of the fortress plan, which marked some of the main passages, traffic trenches, warehouses, hiding holes, showers, barracks, rest rooms, food and fodder stores, drainage, power generation and other auxiliary facilities, as for the gun positions, ventilation holes, counter-attack holes, observation holes, combat command room, hidden department and other important location is not indicated, in the interior of the hill, the fortress is also divided into three layers, the structure of its complex, large scale, visible when the The complexity and scale of the huge, visible when the Kwantung Army on this military base of the importance of the degree.
I took the map down from the wall, I used to be an engineer, but also once in the Kunlun Mountains to participate in the construction of military facilities, at the moment with a map in hand, there is no worry about finding the exit, this secret underground fortress scale is large, beyond my imagination, its depth has reached thirty kilometers, frontal defense width of more than sixty kilometers, the original savage gully on both sides of the hill was completely hollowed out, constituting an interdependent The two permanent support fortifications, the center has three channels across the savage ditch, the two sides of the hills under the fortress into one, we broke through the wall from the tomb of the Jin generals into the underground channel, it is the three channels in the bottom of a. The fortress is thick at both ends and thin in the middle. The fortress is thick at both ends and thin in the middle, although the scale of the two sides is large, there are only three passages connected in the middle, it is possible that this is also for the consideration of tactical needs, once one of the side of the fortress is captured by the enemy, it is still possible to cut off the passages and hold on to the other end.
From where we are, from the nearest exit is not too far, just do not know the retreat of the Kwantung army, there is no intention to destroy the exit of the fortress, otherwise you can only go back from the side of the tomb, you can also try to climb out from the vent or something like that, I suddenly thought of our last night in the hillside, the horse was torn by a monster in the underground cavern, that cavern is not it? a fortress vent? Was that cave the vent of a fortress, and the monster with no known face used its claws to dig the hole bigger for shelter? If that hole is really a vent, don’t expect to climb out from there, the hole is too narrow.
I told Yingzi and Fatty what I was thinking, and asked them to advise me on how to get out next.
Fatty said, “Hey, Old Hu, if you don’t mention it, I really forgot, the monster that attacked our horses may have taken this underground fortress as its lair, if we go around blindly, we may run into it, we have to think of a way to find a few weapons to defend ourselves.”
I said: “That’s right, it’s better to be prepared, if the exit is destroyed, we still have to climb out from the tomb’s robber hole, then we have to clash with the necromancer again, there should be an area in the Gnarl’s library for weapons and equipment, let’s see if there are any handy guys, each of us will take a few, it’s best to look for the Japanese Tagua grenades, this kind of grenade has a very long shelf life, and its power is not small, it can be used to deal with the enemy’s weapons and equipment. This kind of grenade has a long shelf life, and its power is not small, so it’s just right for dealing with Corpse Fury.”
Gnarcoat is piled up with all kinds of military-style coats, blankets, dry batteries, lunch boxes, gas masks and other supplies, due to the unique structure of the fortress, making the air here drier, some of the supplies are still well-preserved, I took a few Japanese Springfield-type gas masks and put them into my bag, and finally found a place for storing weapons on the right side of the gnarcoat.
There were a lot of wooden boxes with firearms on the iron shelves, and there were no machine guns, all of them were Arisaka-style rifles, which are also commonly known as “three-eighths dagaier” or “three-eighths type”. There are also a few 60 guns near the wall, but there is not a single shell nearby.
Fatty pried open a wooden box containing rifles, grabbed one of the rifles, pulled the bolt with a clatter, used a flashlight to shine into the bolt, and said to me: “Old Hu, this gun can still be used, it’s all new and unopened, and the mechanical parts are oiled, and it hasn’t been loaded yet.”
Yingzi and I also each took a gun, I raised the Youzaka-style rifle up to take a look, and threw it back: “The Japanese this kind of broken gun only has a capacity of five rounds of ammunition, non-automatic machine slewing, too slow to load, recoil is also particularly large, I’m not used to it.”
Yingzi asked me: “the little kid this gun how good ah, thieves have strength, before my uncle just participated in the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces when the use of such a style of gun, Hu you why do not like to make it?”
I have not answered, the fat man interjected: “Do not pay attention to him, he is in the army every day to play semi-automatic weapons, spoiled to the disease, this kind of outdated gun of course he can not see the eye, and so on in case of what the corpse again, we stand behind him, and look at his gloves for nothing means.” Side by side from the bottom to find an ammunition box, open a look, inside all the bullets wrapped in tarpaulin, by the light of the flashlight flashing yellow gold, fat his father spoiled him from childhood, from the time he could walk to give him to play with the gun, he went to junior high school on the gun is already a connoisseur of the rifle, rifles are similar to the principle of the fat man, although he has never used the Tomosaka-style rifle, but does not feel unfamiliar, see there are ammunition, pick up the bullets, and the rifle, the rifle, and the rifle, but not the same thing. Seeing that there was ammunition, he picked up the bullets and skillfully pressed them into the rifle, and with a smooth snap of the bolt, he lifted it up and aimed at me.
I hurriedly pushed his muzzle away: “A loaded gun, don’t fucking aim blindly, the muzzle of the gun is not for pointing at one’s own comrades, only the muzzle of a traitor’s gun is towards one’s own people. I don’t like to use this kind of gun, because this kind of 38 type is not suitable for close combat at all, the penetration of the bullet is too big, within a distance of thirty meters, a shot can shoot through three or four people, unless it is bayoneted for white-knife fighting, otherwise it is very easy to injure your own people, coupled with the fact that there are a lot of iron and steel facilities inside the underground fort, once the bullet shoots into the steel sheet iron plate, there will be a ricochet without any rules, maybe it didn’t hit the enemy, it will be the first one to your own people to be taken care of.”
Fatty patted his chest and said to me confidently: “We have this shooting skill, but not we blow ah, so many years, you should know, a hundred paces through the poplar, riding a horse to hit the lights are like a game, how can you possibly hit the wrong hit to the steel plate? If you don’t believe me, let’s put an egg on your head and try …….”
I interrupted his words, the more he said, the more ridiculous, I grow a head is easy? My head is used to think about life, not used to set an egg for you to use as a target, let’s not fight boredom, okay, see what other weapons available, I always think that this rifle is not a matter of fact, after all, has been eliminated for many years of weapons, rifles are very prone to go off after a lot of years, when I was in the front line of Vietnam, there is a help in the delivery of support for the front of the civilian laborers, he stole our capture of Vietnamese militia’s An old German-made, the result was that it went off while climbing a mountain, and it just happened to open the head of one of our regiment’s sub-commanders, which is no joke.”
We pried open the crates on the shelf one by one to find a few Tagua grenades, but we didn’t expect to turn up a dozen sub-machine guns in a wooden crate painted with an anointed flag, the guns were oddly shaped, with a few copies resembling the British Stein sub-machine guns, with the magazines inserted horizontally on the left side of the gun, and with the different difference from the British Stein was that these guns had curved magazines and an extra wooden stock at the back.
Yingzi asked me: “Hu, what kind of gun is this? What’s with this shape? Is it a crooked handle?”
I pulled the bolt of the sub-machine gun, and pulled down the magazine and looked at it: “This is probably a Japanese-made hundred-type sub-machine gun, the troops were equipped only in the late war, and the production was relatively small, so it’s not very common, and it was probably equipped in order to deal with the Soviets, and it’s a much better gun than the 38-type, and it’s especially suitable for melee, and even if a malfunction occurs, it’s just a jam at best, and it won’t go out the backdoor or go off, and it won’t go off. You and Fatty don’t use the rifle, take a submachine gun for defense.”
Yingzi had never used a submachine gun and didn’t know how to fiddle with it, playing two flashlights on the side to light us up, Fatty found a box of submachine gun bullets, and he and I worked together to load bullets into the pike.
I hummed a little song to the bullets a round of pressure into the magazine, now my mood is very good, this time counting the fucking hair of the city, since leaving the army has never touched the sub-machine gun, remembered in the army with the feeling of five-six type, the palms of the hands are itchy. I am complacent, Yingzi suddenly patted my shoulder and whispered: “Hu brother, I seem …… to see a child from behind you ran past.”
The child? How can it be, this deep mountain old forest is rare, not to mention that this secret fortress is hidden so deeply, how can a small child suddenly appear out of the flat ground?
We were all squatting on the ground loading bullets, Yingzi was squatting opposite me with a flashlight, she was unintentionally sweeping with the light of the flashlight, and saw a child’s figure flashing behind me.
I turned my head, with a flashlight in all directions, behind me is a d-shaped channel, a dark, quiet and surprisingly, where there is a trace of half a child, I asked Yingzi: “Where is what child? Are you blind?”
Although Yingzi bold, but after all is a girl in the mountains, the feudal superstitious consciousness is very strong, at the moment scared face has changed: “I really did not blind grin, really …… is a child from the channel behind you ran past, it is not possible to see the wrong, there is no sound of footsteps, only to see the figure of a child, the old fast, whoosh home on the Liao past the …… is not a ghost ah?”
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Asked Yingzi for details, but she could not say clearly, only said that in a trance only saw a child’s figure flashed, seems to be a little girl, but not sure, wearing what kind of clothes did not see clearly, about five or six, six or seven years of age, the child ran past the direction of the direction of the map labeled with the direction of the exit.
Channel from me but two meters away, so silent place ran past a child, I can not hear, so silent, unless it is a ghost, the underground fortress is an isolated world, no one has come in for decades, who knows what is hidden inside, today’s events have already tossed us enough, more than one thing is better than one thing, can not afford to mess with it can not afford to hide it.
I immediately proposed, more detour from the other side of the fortress to the exit, not from the child ran through the passageway to go.
Yingzi is most afraid of ghosts and gods, nodded his head and agreed: “Climbing ten more miles of slopes is better than hitting a ghost wall.”
Fatty did not think: “Old Hu, I found that you have changed, since you demobilized from the army, it is not like the previous so fearless, shrinking from your style ah, how today Yingzi saw a child running past, you have to go around the road? I’m telling you, we have to go around, you two go around, I can’t walk anymore, I’ll just take the shortcut. When we were Red Guards and went to the countryside, what were you afraid of? In addition to Chairman Mao in those years, who do you think we have ever obeyed?”
I was speechless for a moment, as if the fat man said that, before I was the sky collapsed when the cover, since the army, until China’s counterattack in self-defense against Vietnam, around the comrades sacrificed one after another, I really saw countless times of bloodshed and death, and truthfully, I do now become a bit of a mother-in-law, to do what can not be avoided to look forward to what is not, is it that the passing of the years, really take away my The passage of years has really taken away my courage and boldness.
I said to the fat man: “We are now how old, than before, when we were the Red Guards those years really brave and ruthless, who do not see eye to eye on who to beat up, but that is a ridiculous era, and now look back on it all feel ridiculous and pathetic.”
Fatty said: “But at least in that era, you fought, charged, I really fucking can’t see you now this kind of scared gibberish, do you still remember your sixteenth birthday, I gave you a notebook written on the long poem?”
That notebook may have been wiped my ass early, and those years Fatty gave me a lot of notebooks, because his mom is a cadre in the logistics organization, there are all kinds of notebooks at home, I really can’t remember any long poem.
Fatty see I can not think of, then said: “I memorize a few lines you hear.” Fatty’s Putonghua is very standard, he is fat and full of breath, recite, really a bit of the Central People’s Broadcasting Station announcer’s meaning, only to hear him say aloud.
Park together “guerrilla”, the classroom together to read the book. On the road of Xianyang, “breaking the four olds”, and on Jinggang Mountain, we had a big party together.
On the eve of burying the empire, before marching to the world! By the radio, we listened carefully, the Defense Department declared war order word for word ……
After the fat man’s impassioned recitation of the first line, I immediately remembered that it was a long narrative poem, titled Salute to the Warriors of World War III, which was widely circulated among the Red Guards back then, and we were too familiar with it, and more than ever recited it together a hundred times and a thousand times when the two of us were Red Guards, it was our favorite rhyme, our most affectionate words, and our youngest and most magnificent dream …… I was so excited that I forgot where I was and couldn’t help but clench my fists and recite in unison with him:
…… On that unforgettable night, the desire to fight, spread to every vein.
The passionate inspiration of our fathers and mothers thrilled our heartstrings, we are the descendants of soldiers to gallop through the smoke of battle.
We were organized in the same class in this third world war to eliminate the last system of exploitation.
Our friendship began there, long beyond calculation, only knowing it, higher than the mountains and farther than the road.
In the trenches, we shared a loaf of bread and a handful of salty salt.
Humming the same melody low, sharing the same army blanket.
Word by word, line by line, the leader’s thought, the great truth, we studied over and over again.
Under the Red Flag, with the sincere devotion to the Party, the fervent hope of dedication.
We clutched our guns, raised our fists high, and made an oath of steel: we would, we would give our all for the realization of communism.
In the midst of rushing artillery fire, shoulder to shoulder, we burst into the enemy’s 300-meter line of defense.
The submachine guns poured out the bullets of proletarian vengeance on the exploiters, on the exploiters.
Do you remember? We drank the waters of the Don, crossed the steppes of the Ukraine, crossed the plateau of the Urals, and lit the red star of the Kremlin again.
We have followed the footsteps of the Commune, crossed the streets of Paris, trod the trembling points of the Internationale, and stormed every town, village, and harbor in Europa.
We have utilized the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, held back the vicious bullets of the Christians, and planted the red flag on the banks of Suez.
The lakes of Switzerland, the lights of Pisa, the evening sunsets of Yemen, the Buddhist temples of Phnom Penh, the cherry blossoms of Mount Fuji, the smoke of Havana, the red wine of Spain, the clear springs of Black Africa ……
All these, ah, have not made us stay.
Because we all have a steel gun in hand, heavy responsibility on the shoulders.
How many sleepless days and nights, how many blood-baths in the north and south.
In this way, our invincible team, closely following the Red Sun, goes forward.
Hear: the cries of brothers from five continents, like rolling torrents of angry waves.
Look: the righteous flags of the slaves of the four seas, like the fire of stars are starting a prairie fire.
Ah, the world is red! Only a little of the White House remains!
The night sky rose three red flares, you patted my shoulder: “Hey, partner, remember? Seeing dolls red on the battlefields of China and America, a Politburo member’s speech. The prospect of the world’s friends reveling in liberation, the hopeful eyes of the old Soviet Red Army.”
“Remember! This is the final struggle, the decisive battle for the destiny of mankind is today!”
The bugle blows, we are red hearted and speed forward.
With green leaves in one hand, and poisoned arrows in the other, the brass eagle emblem, which has been rampant for two whole centuries.
With the triumphant cheers of the people, it was thrown into the blazing flames ……
Yingzi saw the two of us talking endlessly, and could not understand what we were saying, waiting impatiently up, interrupted us and said: “What are you talking about? Still the whole vigor, how to talk about it is not over? Now time is not early, no matter from which way to go we should move, you two are willing to say and so out to say it okay?”
Fatty picked up a hundred type submachine gun, waist inserted four or five magazines, expression resolute, waving a finger forward: “Comrades, victory is ahead, follow me.”
So, the fat man took the lead in the front, Yingzi center, I cushion, three people into all the way to the column, towards the Yingzi said to see the child ran over the passage, this is a slightly inclined upward road, out of more than a hundred meters and then turned into an upward step, it looks like it is into the savage gully inside the hill.
The passage is getting narrower and narrower, and the humidity is also a lot bigger than below, in which breathing is not good, there is a kind of like being buried alive depressing feeling.
Three people’s distance is very close, I do not know why walking in front of the fat man suddenly stopped, he suddenly stopped, followed by him behind the Yingzi unprepared, just bumped into his back, Yingzi was hit by him from the steps backward on the fall, I rushed in the back of the Yingzi hold, I asked the fat man: “What’s going on? How come you suddenly stopped and didn’t continue walking?”
Fatty turned around and shouted, “Run back!” It was as if he had seen something terrible in front of him, even his voice had changed, and the bravado he had felt just now had vanished.
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Fatty shouted for us to turn around and run for our lives, I was separated from the two people in front of me, the flashlight’s illumination range is limited, only to see the front four or five steps of the stairs is a very large space, and I do not know what he actually saw, but since the fat man said so, there must be his reasoning, and prepared to fall backward.
At the same time, I suddenly felt dozens of cold steel needles stabbed in the back, cold through the bones, the whole body as a cold electric current electric shock, the body trembled, lost control, Teng’s leap forward, I do not know where such a big force, the front of the fat Yingzi two people, and pushed forward to flop down, this narrow and dark passageway slowly tilted upward, the three people are even rolled and crawling crashed into the staircase at the end of the The narrow, dark passageway slowly tilted upward, and all three people crashed into the hollow at the end of the staircase with a roll.
I was inexplicably electrified, the current seems to have been transmitted to the remaining two people, all frozen teeth chattering, who do not know what is going on, want to talk, but can not make a sound, if it is unintentionally touched by the leakage of electricity wires, then it should be the whole body numbness, how can there be such a cold from the bone marrow out of the feeling?
Fortunately, the three loaded submachine guns did not go off in the panic, we lie on the ground, the hands of the flashlight is still open, through the light of the three flashlights to see, I realized why the fat man turned to run, the original is a semi-natural and semi-artificial huge stone room, everywhere is green moss, damp walls and overhead, hanging upside down countless huge bats, the bat’s size is far greater than the ordinary bats, holding wings and dense, the bats, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings and the bats, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings, the bat’s wings and the bats. Bats, holding wings hanging densely on the wall, they were alarmed by our three intruders, have awakened from their sleep, all revealed a mouth full of white fangs, see people’s scalp numb.
Bat’s face looks very strange, two diamond-shaped big ears straight, round head, round brain, nose is also round, forelimbs are very developed, upper arm, forearm, metacarpals, phalanges are extraordinarily long, sharp teeth and claws, I was in the Kunlun Mountains as an engineering soldier when I had seen such a big bat, their scientific name is called leaf-mouthed bright-toothed bats, also known as the pig-faced big bats, its nature is the most bloodthirsty, but also meat-eating, is the most vicious varieties of bats in the rare, they prefer to live in the pastoral grassland, the most fierce varieties of bats, they like to live in the pastoral grassland. They like to live in the pastoral grassland underground caves, night out to eat cattle and sheep and other livestock, especially in the grasslands of Outer Mongolia, was once a disaster, in recent years this animal has been rare.
I thought they were extinct, but I never imagined that so many pig-faced bats had taken the abandoned underground fortress of the Kwantung Army as their lair, and they came out at night and day, utilizing the ventilation holes of the underground fortress as their exit, and there was indeed no safer and more comfortable lair than this one.
There are a few big bats with pig’s face has taken the lead from the stone wall flew down, I struggled to get up, the result of a hand on the ground fell a foot, the ground is full of bat feces and animal remains, fishy stench pungent, sticky and slippery, bat feces is also known as the “Night Brightness Sand”, this is a very precious flavor of Chinese medicine, ordinary people get one or two has been very difficult to see at the moment, but I can’t tell you what makes me so happy. But at the moment, it is so disgusting to see it.
I gave up the idea of getting up from the ground, finger pulling the trigger, with a hundred type sub-machine gun to fly over to the pig-faced bats, I shot, the other two people also from the reaction, three sub-machine gun cross-fire, muzzle spitting flames, bullets tugging the light, the whole cave illuminated brightly and darkly, the sound of gunfire and the sound of retreating bullets, the sound of bullet shells falling to the ground, mixed together.
Thousands of pig-faced big bats were all stirred up, this kind of creatures living in the darkness are most afraid of fire and light, except for the ones that were hit by the bullets and fell to the ground, the rest of them were like a black cloud, some of them flew over our heads, and some of them fled upwards along the ventilation holes.
Sub-machine gun bullets soon ran out, it was too late to change the bullets, pig-faced bats swished from the body, our clothes were their sharp claws and fangs torn into a line, good in the clothes to wear thicker, there are a few although hurt to the skin and flesh, but also hurt not deep.
At this time the fear in my heart is even more deadly, I am afraid of hurting my eyes, I do not dare to open my eyes, with one hand to protect the head and face, the other hand swinging the sub-machine gun, as a stick like a randomly hit in the air, the two legs desperately stomped and kicked, to drive away those who pounce on their own pig-faced big bat.
I don’t know how long, the cave gradually quieted down, I think those pig-faced bats have run away, I touched the flashlight fell to the ground, just want to ask the fat man they have not been injured.
Suddenly a black eye, one of the largest pig-faced big bats silently towards my head, it may be the leader of a group of bats in the cave, hidden in the deepest part of the cave, at the moment after the hair to the people, wings spread, the wall for the full.
I only have an empty gun and flashlight in my hand, it is difficult to resist, it is close to me, pig-like face, layers of folds, hard hair, fangs can be seen clearly, the eye is about to be bitten by the big bat, from the side of a string of sub-machine gun fire, a string of bullets nailed in the body of pig-faced big bats, big bats fell to the ground fluttering a few times, instantly dead.
But it turned out to be the fat man beside me to see the emergency situation, change the magazine to shoot, saved my life, I took a long breath, look around, in addition to the ground there are still a few hit by the gun did not cut off the breath of the big bats are still struggling, and then there is no rest of the bats to hide.
My body was scratched a few cuts, blood burst out, Yingzi and Fatty also suffered some minor injuries, but they are not serious, Yingzi pulled a few pieces of cloth from the clothes to bandage me.
My body hurt badly, keep cursing, Laozi year in the front line, the battle, the gunfire did not rub broken half a bit of flesh, today let these animals in the body scratched so many mouths …… really hurt.
Fatty asked me: “Old Hu, I fucking just let you guys run back, how do you push us in instead?”
I said what happened just now, only said that my back may have touched the exposed wires and touched the electricity, did not dare to tell them the real situation, because this thing I myself feel unbelievable. I let Yingzi look at my back, there is no electric paste, Yingzi peeled off the clothes on my back, with a flashlight: “Ouch, ma’am, Hu, how do you do this? Not like electricity ah.”
Fatty also came to my back to take a look: “You are electrocuted? Your back is a black handprint, well …… this palm is very small, like a child’s.”
Really his mother’s living ghost, dare we three is to let that little kid pushed into this bat cave? Don t let me see it, see it, I put it skinned.
Fatty was about to talk to me, but the flashlight in his hand fell to the ground, “My mother ah, Lao Hu, Yingzi, in the Gnarl’s library you said I still don t believe, just now …… I also saw a child running past.”
Yingzi and I hurriedly picked up the flashlight and shone it around, where is there any child except for bat guano and bat corpses.
Fatty pointed to the sky and swore: “Just fucking ran past from behind you guys, lie to you I’m a grandson ah, just …… ran inside, I saw it clearly, the little boy, a little kid, wearing a green, five or six years old, the face of the special white… . not like a living person.”
They all saw children in this underground fortress except me, how come I didn’t? However, the child’s handprint on my back can’t help but give people goosebumps, Fatty said he saw a boy, but Yingzi said he saw a little girl in Gnarco, who actually saw it wrong? Or is this underground fortress opening a kindergarten?
We cleaned up a little, stood up, loaded the submachine gun with a new magazine, Fatty pointed to one wall of the stone room: “That little brat, ran here.” After saying this, he used the butt of his gun to scrape away the moss and bat droppings on the stone wall, revealing a half iron door, rusted on the top, with four big words written boldly in crimson paint, “Entry Prohibited”.
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“Standing~Entry~Forbidden~Stop~” Fatty pointed to the words on the iron gate and said to us, “Do you know what this means? This means that you are not allowed to enter standing up, if you want to enter, you can enter lying down, and this is designated as a morgue, or else it is an incinerator.”
Yingzi heard the fat man’s explanation and said, “What? Lying in? The original is loaded with dead people ah, listen to the old people in Tuen Mun said the brats whole what the incinerator, this iron door into the incinerator it.”
I used my knuckles in the iron door knocked twice, feel the door is very thick: “Fatty you do not pretend to understand, the meaning of these four words is probably forbidden to enter, although I do not understand the Japanese language, but the military facilities I am very familiar with, look at this door under a very large groove, inside the inner hexagonal gong pattern, which should be a turntable, want to open the iron door need to turn the turntable, the door is the hole below the exhaust slot. The hole underneath is an exhaust slot, this is an airtight door, when you close the iron door, the exhaust hole will automatically draw out the air inside, and a semi-vacuum environment will be formed inside, it is a place to store valuables, the same facilities are also found in the military bases of our army.”
The turntable of the airtight door has long been dismantled, if there is no corresponding tool, it is really difficult to open this iron door, as for what is contained in the secret room, it is not easy to say, there is a possibility that it is loaded with chemical weapons bacteriological weapons and so on, this possibility is the most likely, in order to prevent accidents from the leakage of chemical weapons, usually stored in this kind of closed secret room.
Japanese chemical weapons and bacteriological weapons, although always infamous, but the power should not be underestimated, even if it is placed in the natural environment, after many years, but also can still kill people, I’m not interested in the things in the door, or to look at the map, quickly find the exit is the serious thing.
Fatty is full of curiosity about this door, especially after listening to me say that there may be stored what valuable words, is more itching, and Yingzi two people together in the door a while knocking two, a while kicking two feet, there is a big do not go in to look at will not stop the frame. Two people mouth also muttered: “here what good things ah? Aiya, see not too disturbing.”
I no longer pay attention to them both, against the map of the exit location, in this once pig-faced bats in the cave looking for the exit, according to the map of the terrain, in this cave, there should be a small channel connected to the exit of the top of the mountain.
However, after searching around, only in one end of the cave found a large area of collapsed rocks, and as previously expected, the Japanese army retreating to the fortress of the exit were blown down.
Now the location, overhead is probably exactly where we set up tents on the slopes of the Savage Gulch, with a flashlight can be illuminated on the top wall of the cave there are several large holes, these large ventilation holes, not straight up and down, in order to prevent attacks on the interior from the outside, the ventilation holes are repaired curved, the bats flew to the outside from these holes, but unfortunately, we do not have wings, in the bottom of the dry eyes on the can not, even if the Even if we go up, it is useless, the adult body is just bigger than these ventilation holes, small Japan is really smart, afraid of the enemy from the ventilation holes to climb into the interior of the fortress, deliberately dug the holes to say big, say small.
I called Fatty Yingzi over, told them that the exit is gone, we either go to find another exit, or directly take the sub-machine gun back to the tomb side, to kill the corpse, can not be in the inside so dry consumption, we do not bring dry food, did not find the ghost fortress inside the food, in so blindly wandering down, wait until the hunger to climb can not climb, can only wait for death.
Things are clear, this underground fortress is very deep, there are dozens of kilometers, from this exit to another exit needs a lot of time, and find other exits has no meaning, the Japanese will not kindly leave an exit, since the bomb collapsed one, the rest must also be bombed.
Yingzi kicked the corpse of the big bat on the ground with her foot, “I really can’t, I can still eat this thing, it’s all meat.”
Fatty quickly shook his head: “If you want to eat you eat, I’m starving to death also do not eat, this is too fucking disgusting, I guess the meat is stinky, or sour, can not eat, right, old Hu, you say this iron door will be the exit? There should be this possibility, right, let’s find a way to open it and see.”
I thought about it and said, “This possibility does also exist, because the map does not mark this secret room, only a channel connecting the exit is drawn, but it’s hard to pinpoint the location, and it’s not certain that behind this door is the channel. It’s actually not hard to open this door, I saw tools in the Gnarl’s library, we can go find a hexagonal wrench of the right size.”
Yingzi said at the side, “Go back to the Gnarl’s library and change a few clothes, look at the three of us, we’re all buried enough for fifteen people to look at us for half a month.”
After she reminded us, we realized that the three of us are dirty, full body clothes, hair, face, hands, all stained with bat guano, blood, mud, the stench of the sky.
We then returned to the lower level of the Gnarco, the road is very close, only a few hundred meters away, in the Gnarco, the first to find a few pieces of uniforms and coats of the Kwantung Army to change, the face of the mud stains blood stains wiped haphazardly wipe, each person also looked for the top of the helmet buckled on the head.
Yingzi looks originally handsome, wearing military uniforms more added beauty, fat man in the side applauded: “Hey, big sister, you wear Japanese military uniforms, the whole is a Kawashima Yoshiko ah.”
Yingzi do not know what Kawashima Yoshiko is, thought the fat man in her, but also very used, I told Yingzi: “He said you like the Japanese female spies.”
Yingzi sniffed, willow eyebrow raised, the fat man hurriedly said: “said wrong, said wrong, I should say that see Yingzi wearing uniforms with a gun small shape, can be associated with Chairman Mao’s poem, the dawn dawn drill field, valiant posture five-foot gun, the Chinese children are more than strange, do not love the red makeup and love the armed forces.”
I laughed at the side: “Fatty recently become a poet, not move to recite on two lines, you see we are now all dressed up, really the same as the Japs, which reminds me of my father’s an old comrade in arms told things to come, when I was still small, my uncle is the same with my father in Shandong when the eight-way, when the victory of the war, received the Central Committee of the party’s instructions to allow them to take over from the Jiaodong Peninsula by boat to the Northeast to receive the war. Jiaodong Peninsula by boat to the Northeast to receive the fruits of victory, my father can not go seasick, then do not mention how much regret, because I heard that the Northeast is full of foreign fall, that good thing the sea to go, and then listen to my uncle said, they arrived in the Northeast, picked up the old nose of the Japanese goods, they have a whole regiment to go to the time to wear tattered and tattered, with a team of begging beggars is not much difference, and then they took over from the old Maoist hands of a warehouse of the Kwantung Army, the whole of which is a warehouse of the Kwantung Army, the whole of which is a warehouse of the Kwantung Army. Later, they took over a warehouse of the Kwantung Army from the old Maoists, the whole regiment was dressed up, in addition to the flag or Chinese, the rest of the clothes to shoes and weapons, all Japanese, exactly the same as the Kwantung Army, the people of the Northeast from a distance to see them, turn their heads and run, thought the devils came back, I think we are now more or less a little bit of the year’s revolutionary forefathers to pick up the feeling of the foreign fall.”
Saying this I found a hexagonal wrench on a shelf where gasoline barrels are stored: “This time it’s a complete job, what we should take are all taken, seize the time to act.”
Three people wearing the uniform of the Kwantung army, resisting the hundred type sub-machine gun, along the original road back, I still padded back, this time the fat man they no longer said to see what the shadow of the child, I did not ask, but the heart of the catching the wind and shadows, can not help but be a little paranoid.
I thought to myself: “the fat man said that the child ran into the iron door, what does this little kid want? Is not trying to show us the way out? Can there be such a cheap thing? Or does he have another plan? Damn, I just have a little bit of glutinous rice left, I heard that ghosts are afraid of glutinous rice, if that kid dares to look for trouble, I will make it come back in one piece, and return in a rout, if not, I can’t show my old Hu’s tactics.”
I followed them, while giving myself a boost of energy, the back injury does not seem to hurt much, not long, came to the second time in the cave with the “airtight door”.
In order to prevent the eventuality, we all put on a steel helmet and gas mask, pull open the bolt, the bullet top loaded, I opened the door before letting Yingzi grab a handful of glutinous rice ready to throw, and let the fat man with a sub-machine gun aiming at the door, if there is something, no matter what, the first to do it before. Also instructed Fatty to cooperate with me, taking turns to shoot, leaving no gaps in loading the magazines.
After all the arrangements were made, I put the submachine gun on my shoulder, put the hex wrench on the threads of the door and turned it with force, this secret door hasn’t been opened for decades, and the threads are rusted to death.
I even eat milk strength are used out, wrench almost pouting by me folded, finally heard “creak creak creak” a sound, the door under the three exhaust groove “giggle” sound, airtight door filled with air, the iron door click click click click click click click ……
Secret Fortress of the Kwantung Army 5
The air tanks in the airtight door were filled with air, and the heavy iron door opened with a sound. I hurriedly took two steps back, and raised my submachine gun and flashlight to aim at the door, but there was no movement inside the door.
Surprisingly, the door was so dark that I couldn’t tell what was going on inside, and the light from the flashlight shone through and was swallowed up by the darkness inside the door.
I made a gesture to Yingzi, Yingzi will understand, put a large handful of glutinous rice in the hands of the heavenly maiden scattered flowers generally thrown into the chamber, however, there is still no movement in the chamber, all the sounds in the world seems to have disappeared, and can only hear their own heavy breathing in the gas mask.
It seems that we are too worried, as the saying goes, suspicion gives birth to dark ghosts, not yet how it is, they first scared themselves half to death.
In the end, Fatty could not hold back, took the lead and entered the secret room, followed by Yingzi and me, in a row.
The area of the secret room was about forty square meters square, a lone room, except for the airtight door, there was no other exit.
Inside the loaded neither bacteriological weapons, nor chemical weapons, before coming in, I almost thought of all the possibilities, only did not expect, the room is loaded with more than a dozen large coffins, these coffins are stacked haphazardly in the chamber, coffins for a long time, some have already rotted, there are large and small, craftsmanship style are different, there is even an oversized sarcophagus, which the most luxurious are two large coffins of golden nanmu, the floor is also scattered with countless pottery and ceramics. There were also countless pieces of pottery and porcelain scattered on the ground.
I looked back at the fat man, they both shook their heads at me, although wearing a gas mask, I can still feel their faces full of blank looks.
Fatty asked me, ”Old Hu, what’s going on? This is like a fucking museum, where did we get so many coffins?”
I pondered for a moment, in fact, this matter is not difficult to speculate, it’s just that we were preoccupied and didn’t think of this.
Savage ditch was originally Jinliao period of the ancient tomb complex, the Kwantung Army to build this hidden underground fortress, especially the two sides of the fortress in the three channels connected, just across the valley of the Savage ditch, construction, must have dug out a lot of ancient tombs inside, these tombs in the burial goods, as well as Jinliao ancient nobles of the coffins and outer coffins, to the Japanese are treasures, they are dug out from the tombs of the things, all with a half-vacuum The secret room stored up, the Kwantung Army retreat in a hurry, when leaving only the accompanying antique rolls will be wrapped up, the rest of these coffins have been left here.
Fatty said: “the Japanese will go along with the sheep, nothing left for us, let’s look at the coffins inside there is no valuable things, but also not in vain the hard trip.” Said with a foot to kick open the coffin board of a large coffin, the coffin lid had long been pried open by the Japanese, and did not re-nailed, a kick, the coffin lid kicked aside.
Yingzi did not dare to come over to see: “I’d better wait for you two at the door, I’ll keep an eye on it by the way, don’t let people shut us all up here.” Said, walked to the door, a foot in the door a foot outside the door to guard the door.
I said to the door of the Yingzi: “or my big sister alert, this thing I did not think, really in vain as a soldier for so many years, this door can only be opened from the outside, we are afraid that if we are all locked up in this chamber, I’m afraid that even crying can not find the door of the tone.”
The fat man just focus on the coffins turn over, turn over and curse: “I fuck, all the bone crumbs, the Japs really fucking lack of morality, wherever you play the three light policy ah, not even a whole cans are left for us.”
Turn over three or four coffins are the same, angry fat man cursed non-stop, and went to push the gold nanny wood coffin of vermilion lacquer.
I did not pay too much attention to those ordinary coffins, my eyes have been attracted by that large sarcophagus, intuition tells me that there is something there ……
I do not understand why this idea, suddenly have an impulse, must open the sarcophagus to see, I greeted the fat man over to help, the two of them to push the upper side of the slate, the slate is unusually thick, pushed half a day to push open only a slit.
The fat man gasped and waved his hand: “I can’t …… rest for a while, it’s too heavy …… no food in the stomach to push ah.”
My stomach is also hungry and gurgling, this force, but also the eyes of the gold stars, only to do down to rest, we took off the gas mask, each lit a cigarette.
Fatty spat out a smoke ring: “Old Hu you say the ancient people are not brain into water, the whole of such a stone coffin, I’m still the first time to see someone with a stone as a coffin.”
I stroked mo said: “This is not a coffin, this is called a stone coffin, coffin, coffin, coffin, wooden coffin in this stone box, can enjoy this treatment, certainly a high cadre, may be a king.”
Fatty scratched his head, “Oh, so this is the case, but also really fucking complicated, the same are buried in the savage ditch, we dug that general’s tomb compared to the master in this stone coffin, who’s official?”
I shook my head and said: “I don’t know, this is not very good to say, we don’t know too much about history, but Jin Liao Yuan these centuries, the northern nomadic people unprecedentedly powerful, they are all from horseback to get the world, I estimate that should be the weight of the military and light culture, so it is possible that the highest military honors of the aristocracy, only to be buried in this piece of feng shui treasure on the hole, the rest of the aristocracy buried in the vicinity of the, perhaps The rest of the nobles buried in this neighborhood may have more generous burial goods than those in the general’s tomb. Tomb owner’s hobbies are not the same, the burial goods must also be different. Take the ancient tomb we dug for example, the tomb owner was a martial artist, with little refined taste and artistic appreciation, so the items in his tomb were mostly horses and weapons.”
Fatty said, “In fact, those horses must be thousands of miles of good ponies, if they are alive can be worth a lot of money, but now there are only horse bones left, it is estimated to sell to the waste recycling station, people do not want. Fortunately, he also has two pieces of jade jade, or we will work for nothing, these two pieces of jade jade jade back to let the big gold teeth to find a home, how to deal with a million or so.”
Speaking smoke is finished, we both put on the gas mask again, put all our efforts to push the stone plate again, Yingzi also came to help, finally moved the stone plate aside, the inside of the stone coffin reveals a pure black color wooden coffin, this coffin is still bigger than ordinary coffins to be nearly twice as big, and the height is also unusual, not counting the lid of the arc, are enough to be more than half a person high.
Coffin craftsmanship is exquisite, not commonplace, both ends, around, on the lid of the coffin are slipped gold lacquer colorful depictions, painted is some auspicious beasts, are cranes, ti-lin, tortoises and snakes and so on, used to bless the owner of the coffin after the death of the corpse into the immortal, the lid of the coffin even more heavenly twenty-eight stars of the star charts, the bottom of the coffin around a circle of cloud scroll pattern of gold decorations, I do not know what the secret law, thousands of years after the colors are still brilliant as new, really teach people to marvel at the. It is really breathtaking.
We are the first time to see such a magnificent coffin, if not see with their own eyes, which would have thought that the world actually have this kind of art like a huge coffin.
Fatty was overjoyed: “Even if there is nothing inside, we can still make a big profit if we carry the coffin back and sell it.” He rolled up his sleeves and pushed the coffin open.
Lian Yingzi also can not help but want to see what is in this big coffin, the three together, with flashlight irradiation of the coffin, the coffin laid brocade has long been rotten, I’m afraid that a touch will turn into ashes, layers of rotten brocade on which lies a skeleton, after thousands of years, clothes, flesh and skin has long been rotten to the end, only the skull is slightly intact, with a big mouth, revealing two rows of black rotten teeth, the body of the A large portion of the bones had disintegrated into the air, and if one did not look at the skull, one might not even be able to tell that it was a humanoid skeleton.
Ying Zi swept the edge of the giant coffin with the column of light from her flashlight, frightening her with a cry, “Oops, mama, that’s the kid.”
Only to see the two ends of the coffin, each standing with a man and a woman two naked bare butt children, looks like five or six years old, lifelike face, the boy’s head tied a sky braid, the girl’s hair pulled two sideburns, this hair style is by no means modern style, but like the ancient people in the mural in general, could it be that the martyrdom of the Taoist monarch of the boy and girl? The owner of the coffin is already rotting away, how can this boy and girl be so well preserved?
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“These two little brats, 80% are dummies, made to look like the real thing.” Fatty said while using his hand to pinch the children in the giant coffin: “Fat master today to see, but also fucking into the essence of not?”
I pressed Fatty’s hand: “Don’t touch it without gloves, it’s not a dummy, it may be poisonous, look carefully at these two kids, they are all covered with a piece of greenish-purple echidna, it’s mercury echidna.”
In the fifties, my grandfather, Hu Guohua, was hospitalized in a big hospital in Beijing for a period of time. During this period, a building named “Workers’ Stadium” was being built near the hospital, and an ancient tomb was dug out on the construction site, and he sneaked out from the hospital to have a look at the underground palace.
That tomb is said to be a prince of the Ming Dynasty, around the tomb around a circle are black water, the crypt of the underground palace is divided into three parts of the front and back of the doorway hanging jack gates, from the gates in, first of all, is a “Hall of Ming” (Hall of the Underworld), according to the arrangement of the tomb owner’s home before life, there are a variety of furniture, these objects are called These artifacts are called “Mingqi” (medieval artifacts).
Further in, the middle of the chamber, known as the “bedchamber”, is the place where the coffins are placed, this tomb is a joint tomb, and very special is that the owner of the tomb couples, that is, the king and the consort’s coffins, are with a large chain, a large copper ring and a copper lock, hanging in the bedchamber in mid-air.
After that is the “Hall”, is specially used to put the burial goods place.
Another few days, in Haidian also unearthed a tomb of the Yuan Dynasty, these two tombs have been martyred boys and girls, unearthed with the living exactly the same, but the tomb of the Yuan Dynasty unearthed boys and girls, the clothes on the body of a touch into the ash.
Later, my grandfather told me these two things as a story, he said that these children are alive, in addition to oral mercury, in addition to the top of the head, back, feet, etc., but also dug holes, full of irrigation into the mercury, and then after the death of the mercury powder smeared all over the body, like a specimen made, after 10,000 years, the skin and flesh does not decay, this technology is far more advanced than the mummies of Ancient Egypt, however, two civilizations with different backgrounds, value orientation is also very large. However, the background of the two civilizations are different, the value orientation is also very different, and the method of keeping the appearance of the body with the irrigation of silver, you must use a living person, the dead blood does not circulate, can not pour in, so this technology has never been used in any tomb owners.
I am afraid that the most cruel thing in the world is to use the living to be martyred, the fat man put on the gloves to carry out the body of one of the children, carefully check, and indeed in the top of the head, back, soles of the feet, etc., found a few holes, these holes on the body, has been skillful craftsmen, to seal with the fire paint, the body of the body on a number of places have appeared in a piece of black and purple spots, the burial of the people or the gold, silver, and jade are often coated mercury This kind of esch is commonly known as “Mercury Spot” or “Mercury Dip”, and some places also call it “Rotten Yin Zi”, “Mercury Spot”, “Mercury Spot”, “Mercury Spot”, “Mercury Spot” and “Mercury Spot”. This kind of esch is commonly known as “mercury esch” or “mercury dipped”, and some places call it “rotten yinzi” or “mercury green”.
Fatty was obviously a little nervous, he pretended to be calm, breathed out and said: “I have read Lu Xun’s novels, there are antiques on the mercury dip description, it seems that the old man is not blindly written, it really happened.”
Yingzi asked, “This is also too pitiful, Hu, you say this boy and girl, why don’t you put clothes on them yet? I remember seeing the child who ran past earlier wearing clothes ah, is it a ghost?”
I told her: “is not a ghost only their own clear, but not these two children do not wear clothes, accompanied by the burial of children, surely all dressed, after almost a thousand years, to this moment, the clothes have long been rotten, this is after how many years, this huge coffin is afraid of the Yuan Dynasty, the Guantung army dug up the coffin opened the moment, the clothes see the air to turned to dust.”
Originally I do not believe that there are ghosts in the world, but there are times when ironclad facts are in front of us, and have to believe, Fatty and Yingzi saw the figure of the child in the passage, and the coffin martyred this pair of boy and girl is exactly the same, as well as the handprints on my back, the facts here in the realm of beyond the scope of human cognition. Perhaps with the sixth sense, premonition and so on to explain, in short, these have all belonged to the supernatural phenomenon, with our insight, but also just a little bit of the shadow of this mysterious and unknown world.
However, these two children’s spirits led us here, in the end what is the intention? Look at the situation, and does not seem to have any malicious intent.
Yingzi said: “Perhaps they want us to bury their corpses, is not it often said in the ground for peace? Or let’s help them, how pitiful.”
Fatty nodded in agreement: “I just want to get rich and don’t want to care about idle things, but this time the situation is special, let’s do a good deed, take them out to dig a pit and bury them properly, don’t poke them naked here, they have stood on guard for a thousand years for the owner of the tomb, and it’s time to take a rest.”
The corpses are full of mercury, can’t burn them off, the only way is to dig a pit and bury them, that’s all we can do, hopefully there will be less tragedies like this in the world.
Now not much delay, I and the fat man took off the body wearing the Kwantung army coat, respectively, the children boys and girls wrapped in the inside, tied a buckle back on the body, filled with mercury body weight dead heavy dead heavy, thanks to the children, if it is an adult, a person back is really hard enough.
Fatty see did not get the valuable treasure, the heart more or less not too happy, hate a fire these coffins all burned, I and Yingzi hastened to discourage, he also had to give up.
We returned to the cave to discuss how to go out, at this time everyone is hungry and thirsty, hate is the underground fortress, no food, no water, and no zha medicine shells, want to go back to the ground, only the General’s Tomb of the robberies of a road to go, but the thought of the strange power of that corpse of the demon, really let a person’s headache, full of food and drink may not be the opponent of its hands and feet, not to mention that has been starved to the hands and feet of the soft.
Three people looked at each other, the idea in their hearts are similar, there are more than a dozen dead bats on the ground, as things stand now, can only take these guys to sacrifice the five dirty temples.
Humans are omnivores, once hungry and anxious, there is nothing that can not be eaten, Yingzi said that when she was a child, she ate bats with her grandfather in the cave in the deep forest, that year a mountain fire, but also caught up with the rare famine, the mountain larger animals have run out of shadow, people eat gophers, bats, locusts, grass planes, bats, sinews and crunchy bones are very tasty, chewy.
These pig-faced bats in the cave, skinny and bony, too fierce and vicious, like a blood-sucking devil’s corpse, their meat is delicious, the fat man and I have reservations about this claim.
But in order to survive, we could not care less, if we want to make a fire and barbecue, we have to go back to the Gnarco, where there are a lot of wooden boxes can be used as firewood, of course, the coffin boards can also be burned, but to eat meat roasted by fire with coffins, this thing is more or less a little bit unacceptable to the people. So the fat man with the rope with the body, pick five or six fat dead bats bolted to the claws, tied into a string, dragged away, which also includes that oversized bat king.
After returning to the Gnarco, put the coat that wrapped the boy and girl aside, Yingzi took out the short knife and cut off the bat’s ugly head, the claws without meat, and opened the belly, the pig-faced big bat belly a tao of green-gray intestines, as well as excess viscera are thrown away, and finally haphazardly peeled the skin.
I looked for a large pile of wooden boxes, kicked into planks, and took out a knife to peel some wood shavings, take a match to ignite the wood shavings to start the fire, the fat man on the side to assist, squatting on the ground, rolled up his hands and blew to fuel the fire.
And looking for a few rifles on the bayonet pick bats, set on the fire barbecue, fat man frowned, very reluctant to eat this kind of thing.
Yingzi advised, “It’s not hard to eat, don’t think it’s a bat, chew a few more times, it’s the same flavor as mutton.”
I don’t care, bats are not the same as rats, troops in Shaanxi maneuvers and exercises, I have eaten many times gopher, dormouse, flying squirrels, voles, beaver rats and so on all kinds of rats, the taste is almost the same, fat and skinny five flowers and three layers, it is indeed almost the same as mutton, but the bat meat has not really eaten.
Pig face big bat is a warm-blooded animal, not too much fat, should not be baked for a long time, see the color of the meat becomes cooked, I first tasted a mouthful of shoulder meat is very crispy, there are a lot of meat tendons and crispy bones, by no means as good as lamb, but it is indeed very chewy.
Fatty saw me eat, also pinched his nose and ate a bite, felt quite satisfied, and at that moment winded up eating one, not yet finished, and then put the largest king bat on the bayonet barbecue.
We ate almost half of the time, from the roof of the fat man’s head dripped a string of sticky, bright liquid, just fell on the fat man’s face, the fat man ate, see the face wet, and then wiped his hand, wondered: “Who the fuck flow so much haram? It’s all flowing onto my head.”
Guandong Army Secret Fortress 7
Fatty’s mouth slipped as he ate, and the mucus that dripped from the top wall happened to fall on his face, and Fatty cursed offhandedly without a head, “Who the fuck bleeds so much haram? It’s all flowing onto my head.” As soon as the words left his mouth, he himself felt that this was the wrong thing to ask.
There were only three people in the underground fortress, Yingzi and I were both sitting across from him, and the two of us were just as capable as we were, but it was impossible for us to drool onto his head.
All three felt strange and looked upwards at the same time to see what kind of juice was flowing down. The fire, which had been started with the broken planks of the ammunition box, illuminated the surrounding area, and in the distance beyond the light of the fire, there was still a lonely blackness.
On the roof above us, where the firelight and the darkness met, there was a huge human face, which was more than twice as big as an ordinary human’s, white as if it had been smeared with flour, without the slightest expression, it was impossible to tell whether it was happy or angry, with an eagle’s hooked nose, a pair of blood-red eyes staring at the roasted bat meat in the hands of the fat man, and thick and large lips that grew to protrude forwards with a big, black hole in the mouth, with a blood-red tongue hanging halfway around the mouth, drooling almost to the point of dripping. around his mouth, drooling into a river, with drop after drop flowing down from it.
The owner of that face, with a long neck and dark, hard skin, due to the high ceiling of the underground Gnarl’s vault, his body was hidden in the darkness where the firelight couldn’t reach, and only his face and a piece of his neck could be seen, he seemed to be very interested in the roasted bat meat that we were eating, and wanted to pounce down to snatch it, but was afraid of the flames that were burning underneath, and hesitated to do so.
But it looked like the smell of the roasted meat was too tempting for him, and he couldn’t hold back and was about to jump down from the upside-down roof at any moment.
Is this a man or a monster? The three of us raised our heads to look at it like this, all of us were surprised and amazed, and although I didn’t know where that thing came from, I could tell that he wanted to eat roasted bat meat.
We brought out a total of five big bats from the cave, Yingzi and I each ate half of them, the fat man ate a whole one, there are still three left, the fat man divided the biggest king of bats into three, one of them skewered with the bayonet of the rifle, is set on the fire roasting.
This pig-faced bat king don’t know how many hundred years of life, the volume is so big that scary, not counting the wings, just the carapace is like the size of five or six years old child, the weight is really not light, we use to roast the meat of the fire is not big, even if the king of bats is divided into three, can only be roasted at the same time one of the bats, so only the bat in the hands of the fat man is 80% ripe, the rest of the remaining are not roasted on the fire of the dead bats.
However, at this moment of urgency, where to think more, I saw the fat man by the head of the expressionless face was frozen in fear, hastily snatched his hands skewered roasted bat meat bayonet, raised up in front of the strange face turned half a circle, thrown aside with force.
I make the force is big, in turn did not throw far, bat meat from the bayonet flung off, fell in the Yingzi not far behind the place, before Yingzi turned back to look, there is a huge size of the beast from the roof leaped down, only to pounce on the past, a bite of roasted king of the bats in his mouth, chewed without chewing and swallowed it.
By the light of the fire, we saw clearly, it turned out that the animal is not a person, its face is like a baboon, like a human face, the neck is extremely long, the size and shape of the body is like a bear, but not as clumsy as a bear, relatively speaking, it is a little flat, the hind limbs are bowed, and short and thick, and the forelimbs are surprisingly long, action, you can pick up the cracks in the wall, hanging on the upper side, look at the action of it, in the It is not as comfortable crawling on the wall as it is on the flat ground.
Yingzi had never seen this kind of animal, Fatty and I had seen its picture in the museum, and once it revealed its full appearance, we immediately remembered that it was the “Prairie Earth Sloth”, yes, it was this thing.
It lives in the deep underground cave in the grassland, mainly distributed in South America, Africa, Mongolia, the prairie, the same is the ground sloth, the grassland ground sloth is different from the jungle living in the jungle ground sloth, and its distant relative sloth is more different, the grassland ground sloth more inherited the ground sloth’s ancestor, “glacial ground sloth” characteristics, the body size of the exceptionally large, and mainly live on meat, the ground sloth, the ground sloth, the ground sloth, the ground sloth, the ground sloth, the ground sloth. The sloth is a meat-eater, and seldom goes out in the sunlight. Its favorite predators are bats, gophers, pythons, and other animals that live underground.
Grassland earth lazy way of hunting is to rule the movement, rarely will take the initiative to attack, they quietly hide in the dark, a motionless, sometimes a lurking is several days, do not drink, do not eat, and so on there are animals in the side of the pass, which suddenly flash out of the mouth, a mouth to eat each other.
When the country was founded, the African brother countries had given a Beijing Zoo, but it is not adapted to the living environment in Beijing, not long after the death, I went to Beijing with Fatty and some of my classmates to string together, with our triumphant meeting of the Beijing Red Guards, to take us around, in the zoo to see a huge cage loaded with prairie sloths, the cages of the prairie sloths have been dead, leaving only an empty cage, we When we saw a huge empty cage, we were a bit surprised, so we looked at it a bit more, and there was a description and a picture of it on the cage.
After many years, this incident we all still have a deep impression, but never expected to run into such a one, or such a big one, in the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army.
It must be tracking pig-faced big bats to this place, this fortress in the big bats is difficult to count, we only saw a stone cave in the nest, no less than a thousand, the fortress is dozens of kilometers deep, may be somewhere, but also hides a few nests.
It is thick-skinned, with many small bone fragments under the skin, as if it were wearing many pieces of armor, and in adulthood it is unbreakable in these armors.
The vicious pig-faced big bat claws are sharp, although it can easily tear through the belly of the cattle and sheep, but can not hurt the prairie earth lazy, even if it scratches a few times on its body, for it is also painless, there is no natural enemy, and there are countless pig-faced big bats can be hunted down and killed, it is exactly what it wants.
However, I don’t know how the Prairie Earth Sloth entered the fortress with such a large size, it’s possible that an earthquake or mountain collapse caused some large cracks to appear in the underground fortress, and that’s where it crawled into the interior of the fortress to forage for food, and if we find that entrance we should be able to get out from there as well.
The Grassland Earth Sloth that jumped down from the roof ate the roasted bat meat and stretched out its long tongue to add a few circles around its mouth, obviously such a piece of meat could not fill up his appetite, and it aroused its exuberant appetite, staring at the three of us, not knowing what it was thinking. In the underground world, he was the king, he would occasionally take the initiative to hunt for food, whenever he acted, almost nothing could stop him.
In this moment of confrontation between the two sides, my mind turned a few times, the terrain of the underground fortress, as well as dealing with wild beasts, these things are a bit strange to me, should I strike first, the submachine gun is at hand, but the lethality of the hundred-type submachine gun is very limited, the grassland earth sloth’s bones and skin are enough to resist, don’t hit the snake again but not get bitten by it, and make it annoyed, but there is no certainty that I will be able to get out of the situation.
The Japanese army’s Tomosaka-style rifle, penetrating force is very gun, should be able to finish off the prairie earth lazy, just we only took a few bayonets, previously loaded with bullets of the two rifles are placed in the place of twenty to thirty meters away, must be someone to draw away from the attention of the prairie earth lazy, I can run over to get the rifle, so one to and fro, it takes a short period of time, the prairie earth lazy is too close to our position! ……
Even think of a few thoughts, there is no certainty, this time the fat man stood in place, whispered to me: “Old Hu, I remember this thing only eat warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, do not eat people, according to my opinion is fine.” Said with a foot gently kicked the dead bat to the prairie earth lazy, that means, this is all for you, hurry up and eat on the side, don’t look for our trouble.
Who knows that the prairie earth lazy, do not even look at a dead bat, on the contrary, we can not stop drooling.
Fatty turned his head and asked me: “How it does not eat bats, always staring at us, as if it does not have good intentions ah.”
I do not dare to be distracted to talk to the fat man, closely watching the prairie earth lazy every move, as long as it has an attempt to attack, then I can only first grab in front of it, pick up the sub-machine gun on the ground, to give it a shuttle.
Yingzi said, “We have all eaten a lot of roasted bat meat, it probably …… treats us as a bat ……”
Her words have not yet fallen, the prairie earth sloth, has not been able to endure the fragrance of the roasted bat meat, step by step to us to force over, all wild animals, are raw meat for food, because they were born without eating cooked meat, once they have eaten a mouthful of it, the taste of the cooked meat is the biggest temptation for them.
I found it slow, think not necessarily with it to fight, or run, I greeted the other two, the three turned to run, just run out two steps, but at this time, the foot was a hard thing tripped, this foot will I fell, my knees nearly shattered, and even the fat son of the British also fell to the ground at the same time.
I secretly wondered, what thing tripped me? Fell to the ground at the same time, glanced to the ground, the ground is flat, where there is what can trip people’s things, thought: “light thinking about escaping, that pair of boy and girl’s body but forgot to bring, is not a ghost tripping?”
The Secret Fortress of the Kwantung Army 8
Grassland earth sloth probably never seen humans such as two-legged walking animals, it smelled three people on the body of the aroma of roasted bat meat, we have taken us as bats, but it temporarily can not accept the growth of bats like this, and also afraid of fire, do not dare to move forward easily, is calculating how to swallow these a few mouthful of delicious, see us three fell to the ground, “Miso”, “the ghost tripping”. Seeing the three of us fall to the ground, “miso” leaped over.
Its hind limbs are thick and strong, a leap jumped to the front of the fat man, perhaps it thinks that this one has more meat, so it is ready to take the fat man first.
Fatty saw the situation had to struggle desperately, hands on the ground scratching, trying to find a weapon, just on the ground there is a baked bat with a bayonet, Fatty copied, a knife in the prairie earth lazy arm, straight end to the handle.
The knife baked for a long time, like a red iron bar, stabbing the prairie earth lazy, the nose only smelled a burnt stench, the prairie earth lazy in the underground cave invincible, which ate this kind of loss, and pain and anger, but do not dare to bite the fat man, slowly back a few steps, waiting for the opportunity to move again.
Searing hot bayonet stabbed a knife, the temperature immediately reduced, the prairie earth lazy blood so that the blade above the silk of the white gas, fat man just struck, all rely on the temperature of the bayonet, otherwise it is simply can not be tied it.
I use the fat man to repel the prairie earth lazy gap, and Yingzi one person one, that contains the boy and girl military coat package back to the body, hope that these two brats do not make trouble again.
On the back of the corpse of the child martyrdom, I bend down to take the sub-machine gun in the hands, knowing that the lethality of this type of sub-machine gun is far from enough to kill the prairie earth lazy, but also expect to use it to ward off one or two at critical moments.
Not waiting for me to pull the bolt, in the wall behind me, suddenly probed a claw, straight to my head to shoot, the claw came too fast, the strength of the rapid, I can not wait to look down, had to use the hands of the submachine gun to cover, was swept away by the claw, can not hold, the submachine gun off the hand flew out, far away from the firelight irradiation in the darkness.
The original unconsciously, the wall climbed down four prairie earth lazy, two big and two small, the smallest is about the same size as an adult, obviously, they are also the same as the previous one, are attracted by the smell of roasted bat meat, come to hunt for food.
The five grassland sloths surrounded the three of us, as long as one of them took the lead and pounced on us, the rest of them would follow and swarm to tear us into pieces and eat us.
The only support we had left was the fire, the three of us pressed together back to back, Fatty had a bayonet, Yingzi had a submachine gun, and I was the only one with bare hands.
Wooden pieces of the fire is getting darker and darker, in a few moments will go out, really want to wait until then, we are the prairie earth lazy dish meal, think of this can not help but secretly complained bitter: “one is bad enough to deal with, now it can be good, coiled in the fortress in the prairie earth lazy, the whole family are out of the woods, caught in a desperate situation, how can we kill a bloody way? ”
Further consumption is not a solution, I grabbed a burning wood from the fire, to block the way of the prairie earth sloths in the smallest size of the swing to it, it is really frightened, was scared by the torch shrunk aside, surrounded by the circle appeared a gap.
The flame of the wooden bar was not big, once swung up, almost extinguished, we dare not wait, and rushed out, several drooling prairie sloths a little hesitation, and then pounced on.
The sub-machine gun in the hands of Yingzi shot a series of bullets, the head of the prairie earth lazy was hit by bullets, the body splattered blood, but they are covered with thick skin calluses, although the bullets penetrated the body, but could not penetrate the body of the internal bone armor, on the contrary, it is to anger them, step by step to press, have to eat these three people to the mouth before giving up.
The three of us only Yingzi has a sub-machine gun, every time she changed magazines, Fatty and I waved fire wood to block the prairie earth sloths, do not let them have the opportunity to approach. And battle and retreat, due to the direction of the breakout is relatively blind, the distance from the place to place weapons is getting farther and farther, and instead retreated to the side of the large iron door of the Gnarl’s library.
Outside the iron door is the corpse, we would like to eat and drink, carefully plan and then find a way to go out from the passage outside the iron door, but the prairie earth lazy sudden attack, gave us a surprise, retreated here in haste, the flame of the wooden bar is getting weaker and weaker, and finally only burned pitch-black wooden bar, only a few points of sparks on the head, and the bullets are not much.
Grassland earth lazy huge body, several crowded together, as an impenetrable wall, by their claws slap, the lightest is also broken bones and tendons, grassland earth lazy encirclement gradually narrowed, we are suppressed in front of the iron gate, there is no room for maneuver.
Now we have to go out of the way, I and fat man with sparks in the hands of the wooden bar on the prairie earth lazy thrown over, Yingzi with a hundred-type sub-machine gun sweeping, with the last battle force to the prairie earth lazy forced back a few steps, the fat man turned around to the back of the iron door originally shut down pushed open, I pulled out the black donkey hoofs outward on the smashing.
I did not think that the corpse is not in front of the door, we do not have time to think carefully, one after another retreated into the passage behind the iron door, the fat man just wanted to close the iron door, a huge force inside the door slammed the iron door, the prairie earth sloths weighing several tons of brute force, the end of the non-trivial, the three people try their best to put the iron door, but said nothing can not be done.
Suddenly a real wind came to my face, I hastened to dodge, the original was possessed by the God of Death of the ancient corpse of the Golden State General, never left the door, has been around the circle, the corpse of no IQ, after the death of the sorcerer under the spell, like a zombie, just see the living on the pouncing.
Corpse Fury said to come, and silent as the wind and lightning in general, if it is not my battle-hardened, have a lot of experience in the face of the enemy, has long been it pounced, I rolled to the ground, was about to get up to dodge, the iron door has been knocked open, one of the largest prairie earth sloths leaped out first.
Grassland earth lazy use its thick hind limbs, like a big frog, from the door to leap out, just to knock down the corpse of the demon, the corpse of the demon fell to the ground, its body can not bend, and then popped up, ten steel knife like fingers into the grassland earth lazy chest.
Grassland Earth Sloth screamed strangely and opened its mouth to bite, and several other large and small Grassland Earth Sloths also swarmed out from the Gnarl’s library, and when they saw their companions were injured, they went to tear at the Corpse Fury.
One of the smallest grassland earth lazy was corpse brake alive to tear off the head, the body of the corpse was also two grassland earth lazy bite, both sides of the strange force is not similar, for a time, the two sides were entangled together, in an instant, the walls, the ground, the iron door, are splattered with prairie earth lazy large swaths of blood, flesh flying, while the corpse brake’s arm was bitten off a. We saw this shocking in front of the eyes, the ground, the iron door, are splattered with grassland earth lazy large swaths of blood, flesh flying, at the same time the corpse brake’s arm was bitten off.
We saw this shocking scene in front of us, are secretly shocked, if the corpse with the prairie earth lazy back and forth, that three people will inevitably die without a burial place, our mistake, but inadvertently played a lead to the situation of the two tigers, it is really a fluke.
Opportunity is not to be lost, we carry the corpse of the boy and girl, to the back room of the tomb wall of the hole to escape, I hate my parents less born two legs, anxious as a lost dog, busy like a fish out of the net, such a wretched situation, do not have to detailed table.
The big hole in the tomb wall collapsed, still and we previously escaped from the same time, previously escaped from here, this time and escaped back, the whole circle, what is worth something did not get, for nothing to cause a lot of trouble, but also added these two full of mercury children’s corpses, really teach people to laugh and cry, but that the underground fortress, although nothing valuable, but there are a lot of clothing and equipment, may be somewhere can also find a few simple generators, can be used to make the underground fortress, but the underground fortress is also a good place to find a few simple generators, can be used to make the underground fortress, can be used to make the underground fortress. Find a few simple generators, can tell this matter to the people in Tuen Mun, also not in vain in the underground fortress we were born into death tossed this much time.
As long as we can climb out of the shaft outside the robber hole can be, at this time all of the mental and physical strength has reached its limit, but the people anxious to fight for their lives, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, facing a desperate situation, often can stimulate the potential of human beings, the British son of a sub-machine gun sweeping to seal the robber hole of the coffin board, the whole two shuttles, hitting the wood shavings flying, the lid of the coffin was originally embedded in the wall, bullets in the middle of the rotting, fat man ran up, with the shoulder Once the coffin board into two sections, the robber hole was exposed again, I first pushed Yingzi up the shaft, and then and Fatty to carry the body of the boy and girl corpse on the back of the body to support up, Yingzi in the upper catch, and then reached out to pull me up.
Finally left the fat man, because the two of us need to pull him on the shaft, he can climb up, the fat man was about to climb up, the two blood covered prairie earth lazer has rushed into the chamber, they become crazy, roar like thunder, probably the rest of their family members were all killed by the corpse fury, the corpse fury even though powerful, most likely can not withstand the prairie earth lazer this kind of huge beasts, was bitten into pieces.
The remaining two are injured grassland earth lazy, red eyes, fierce pursuit, followed us all the way into the chamber, the fat man looked back, face color, and hurriedly climbed to the shaft, the more urgent it is not climbed down, the grassland earth lazy, has rushed to the front of the robber’s hole, fortunately the robber’s hole is too narrow for them, drilling can not come out, they use big claws constantly planing the soil, want to expand the robber’s hole, so that they can climb out of the inside, I see that! The situation is urgent, I picked up Yingzi’s charge and threw it to Fatty, Fatty will understand, first fired a few shots to force back the prairie sloths crowded in the mouth of the cave, and then immediately aimed at the roof of the tomb on the top of the Tianbao dragon fire glazed roof a burst of shots, the top of the glazed tiles rupture, a bag of Western fire dragon oil will be thrown down the entire tomb, including the two prairie sloths, were all engulfed in the fire ignited by the fire dragon oil.
At the same time, Yingzi and I used our last strength to drag the fat man out of the shaft, spare me, the fat man’s pants were also sprayed from the hole of the flames burned a large part of his buttocks, he continued to slap the flames on his buttocks, the pain of the pig-like squeals, Yingzi rushed to take the kettle splashed out of his buttocks on the fire, the pants have been burned to the buttocks.
The hounds faithfully squatted beside them, looking at the three masters who climbed up from the hole, the day is already noon, the sunlight dazzles the eyes, I rubbed my eyes, compared with that gloomy underground fortress, it is really a world away.
Fatty covered his buttocks with one hand and lifted the two jade jewels he got from the tomb to watch them in the gaze, and he couldn’t help but be poetic again, reciting a few more famous lines from the long poem of the World War:
The flames of war have been extinguished, the smoke has been dispersed.
The sun has never been so warm;
The sky has never been so blue;
The smiles on the children’s faces have never been so sweet.
Yingzi and I couldn’t help but laugh at the fat man’s actions, have you ever seen a poet reciting with his buttocks covered? But a sudden thing happened that made our smiles quickly freeze ……