Endless route

Chapter 283 53. Sudden changes and strange midnight

E-07, Nanze Ancient City Ruins.

The genius had just begun to shine, and the Dongfang camp became lively. The Gubo archaeological team stayed away all night, while the Fuen archaeological team got up early and got ready to take roll call downstairs in the dormitory.

Zheng Yun was a very light sleeper, and could be awakened by the slightest movement. He woke up several times a night, and he was also awakened by the roll call at this moment.

He was the only one in the two-person dormitory. The environment was similar to that of a hotel. There was a TV hanging on the wall that broadcast the weather and exploration conditions of the ancient city of Nanze 24 hours a day.

Jidao, Zhang Ergou and others stayed away all night, and they didn't know whether their suppression of the bandits went smoothly or whether there were any mistakes.

Get up and simply wash up.

Just as he put the toothbrush into his mouth, there was a knock on the door. Zheng Yun walked over and opened the door, only to see Liu Ming and Hu Ruihua wearing normal clothes, both with serious expressions.

"Zheng Yun, have you heard that something happened in Nanze last night? Many expedition teams were in danger, and some teams in our camp were also in trouble." Liu Ming spoke while holding his mobile phone.

"What's the trouble?" Zheng Yun asked with a frown.

"I don't know. I just heard from others in the cafeteria that we don't have enough authority, so I came to ask you. You should have it on your phone." Liu Ming shook his head.

While the two were talking, they walked into the room, followed by Song Wan and Hu Zi, carrying some packed breakfast in their hands.

None of them ate in the cafeteria.

Instead, he went to the cafeteria to pack food and take it back to the dormitory to eat.

"Let me see."

Zheng Yun took out his phone and flipped through it. There were a lot of messages in the archaeological team's group, hundreds of them last night alone.

Sliding up a little, I found that something was wrong. People in a group were discussing how to save people. Since the early hours of last night, several rescue teams have been dispatched.

Turn to the top in one breath.

The truth is finally revealed.

This time, in addition to the two archaeological teams from the Gubo General Administration and the Fuen Cultural Relics Bureau, there were two other teams in the Eastern Camp. Among them, the E-02 team arrived earlier than the Gubo.

Corresponds to W-02's Western Territory Toshi.

In ancient times, E-02 was the seat of the Eastern Territory Capital Command Department. Its status and city size were similar to Fuen City. It was not much smaller than the capital city, and it is similar today.

The problem lies with the archaeological team E-02. The first area they were responsible for was Ancient City No. 3.

It rained for several days in the Nanze ruins some time ago. The E-02 team could not enter the No. 3 ancient city area and could only explore the outside. Then they finally entered completely six days ago.

The last time this team returned to the main camp for supplies was a week ago, and only a few vehicles came back. The main force of the archaeological team has been rushing to make progress in the No. 3 ancient city area.

Strange signs emerged four days ago.

The emergency base station in the large camp received several garbled messages for help with unknown meanings one after another. They were made up of letters, numbers and symbols, as if they were accidentally touched.

But not just one human hair.

The emergency base station received garbled codes from at least four or five people, all from late at night to early morning.

This couldn't have been an accidental touch.

The emergency base station called every time it received garbled codes and directly asked the team member who sent the garbled codes if they were in danger, but every time the person who answered the phone said they did not know what the situation was.

Until last night.

Overnight, four team members sent four emergency messages to the emergency base station through special mobile phones at 1:03, 2:12, 2:25, and 3:36 in the morning.

It's all gibberish.

The shortest one is twelve characters, and the longest one is a full four hundred characters, all of which are a random patchwork of numerical symbols.

The base station still called directly to inquire. The signal was very smooth. All four team members answered the call, but everyone expressed surprise and said that they had not sent the message.

This strange situation attracted the attention of a group. Last night, they directly asked Zhou Yuangang, the leader of the E-02 archaeological team, about the situation in the group. Zhang Qiufu and Xu Yu both spoke one after another.

Zhou Yuangang's status is also very high. It can be heard from the tone of his conversation with Zhang Qiufu and others. They are all experienced figures in the Cultural Relics Bureau.

But still no result.

Zhou Yuangang always thought it was a mistaken touch, but after learning that four team members were sending garbled codes at the same time, he said something else.

At present, the E-02 archaeological team has entered the No. 3 ancient city area, found an ancient building buried in a swamp deep in the tropical rain forest, and entered the interior by pumping mud.

The area of ​​No. 3 Ancient Town is also not small.

Last year, the archaeological team found ancient buildings in other places, and Western expeditions also found several ancient buildings.

The longest distance between these ancient buildings reaches three kilometers, which means that the ancient city area No. 3 is at least three kilometers in diameter.

The interior of the ancient building they found.

It is a building in the style of an ancient oriental altar, and a black brick hole was found in the center of the altar. After detection, they found that the hole was fifty meters deep.

The thickness of the silt in the No. 3 ancient city is five to six meters higher than that of the ancient city of Nanze. This means that the bottom of the altar cave is fifteen or six meters deeper than the ground of the ancient city of Nanze.

Zhou Yuangang thought the cave was dangerous, so he put it aside and looked for other ancient buildings in the surrounding area.

As a result, contact with one unit was lost.

This unit also lost contact just last night.

Different from the team members who used their mobile phones to send garbled codes, this team of eleven people did not use emergency equipment to send back any information, and could not be contacted by any means.

The emergency base station located the location of the mobile phone and found that these people actually appeared inside the altar cave. Moreover, they did not enter from the altar cave, but from elsewhere.

Zhou Yuangang originally planned to handle this situation by himself, but combined with the strange situation discovered by the emergency base station and the latest discoveries in the ancient city of Nanze provided by Zhao Qiufu, Zhou Yuangang still requested assistance, thinking that this matter was not simple.

The latest findings mentioned here.

It was the iron cable bridge at the bottom of the city that they discovered together when Zheng Yun was looking for Mr. Sun, as well as the weird sound of bells.

The cave for the altar discovered by Zhou Yuangang is almost as deep as the iron cable bridge under the city, so there may be some connection.

So after Zhou Yuangang asked for help, starting from the early hours of last night, the camp successively sent several rescue teams and archaeological teams to assist Zhou Yuangang in rescuing the missing team.

"So that's it. The water in this ruins is really deep. The archaeological team has already made so many discoveries."

Liu Ming sighed.

These latest information are only posted in one group, and those strange situations and bizarre discoveries will probably never be spread to the outside world and will not be known to ordinary team members.

If these archaeological leaders in the group can solve it, they will naturally solve it. If it can't be solved, spreading it will be useless and will only cause panic in the team.

"Brother Zheng, are they not looking for trouble?"

After hearing this, Huzi asked, isn't this kind of situation Zheng Yun's specialty? The archaeological team didn't find Zheng Yun?

"Probably not."

Hu Ruihua also spoke at the same time.

This situation is somewhat similar to that in La Maine Town, but it is far less weird than La Maine Town. La Maine Town is truly terrifying, with corpses piled up in mountains.

So he thought it was okay.

I don't have a strong sense of crisis in my heart.

At the same time, he recognized the archaeological team's handling method. He had only experienced Hades Pavilion and Qianzhou Strait, and his threshold had already been raised. However, the leaders of the archaeological team had experienced more. In their eyes, this matter should not be a big deal. .

"No."

Zheng Yun shook his head.

There is no shortage of capable people in the archaeological team. The names of Zhou Yuangang, Zhao Qiufu and these people indicate that they are not simple people. The current situation is just weird and there are no casualties.

He couldn't be found on his head.

At most, I would invite him to attend meetings.

However, although the archaeological team did not take the initiative to find him, he wanted to take the initiative to go and have a look. He had his own purpose.

This altar burrow is very problematic.

In the drawings of Nanze Ancient City, there is no such altar cave, and there is also no underground cable bridge and spiritual throne tower.

You have to go and take a look to know the connection between the altar cave and the underground cable bridge and get more clues.

In addition, what Zhao Qiufu said in the group is very reasonable. The strange bell sound near the subway cable bridge is probably a very special mechanism. There is history to draw lessons from.

Twenty-five years ago.

They found similar sounds in a ruins in E-08, but they never found the source of the sounds because the ruins were in a rift valley.

The sound of bells comes from within the mountain.

And the sound source can also be moved.

They have no ability to accurately locate and find something like this, and they don't know what its function is.

It's really weird.

What did Triton leave behind in the first place, and what was its purpose? E-07 and E-08 are both near the break in the air route. Could it be that they are guarding against the enemy behind the break?

"Let's eat first. Professor Zhang said we should leave at half past eight." Liu Ming sighed and handed Zheng Yun a lunch box.

"Brother Zheng, where are you going today?"

Song Wan handed over a pair of chopsticks and asked.

"I shouldn't have anything important to do today. Where does Professor Zhang plan to take you?" Zheng Yun asked.

"It's the one identified yesterday. The Gubo archaeological team used a drone to take aerial photos of the terrain around Nanze. There are more than 30 large and small lakes in the southeast. There are no trees in these lakes. They are probably lakes that existed in ancient times. .”

Song Wan answered, and at the same time handed over a tablet to show Zheng Yun various overhead photos of the swampy lake.

"What's special about its ecology?"

Zheng Yun took a closer look and found that the lake was five or six kilometers away from the Nanze Ancient City Wall and five or six kilometers away from the edge of the No. 2 Ancient City, and it was located east of the central axis of the two.

There are more than thirty lakes of various sizes.

The largest lake is a very standard oval with a diameter of two kilometers. There are almost no plants on the entire lake. The scenery is very beautiful. There is a small island in the center of the lake.

"I don't know yet. Professor Zhang said that other ecological science expedition teams have determined the research scope. We arrived late, so we can only check for omissions and fill in the gaps. We chose the swamp lake that no one else chose."

"But Professor Zhang also said that the most bizarre feature of this lake is that it has no plants. No one from the East or the West has been to this lake so far, and there is no data on this lake."

"Professor Zhang speculates that the reason why there are no plants in this lake is probably because the depth of the lake is high, which prevents plants from reaching the surface of the lake, and floating algae plants float to the edge of the lake."

"But logically speaking, if the ancient city of Nanze was flooded for thirty meters by the swamp, there is no reason why this lake should not be flooded. Why is it so deep?"

Liu Ming answered.

"This lake is also very dangerous. Professor Zhao said that there are very special aquatic organisms in the lake. In such a large lake, there are likely to be very large organisms."

Song Wan also added.

"This place is quite interesting."

Zheng Yun sighed, the largest lake in the photo is as round as a man-made landscape lake. Combined with its various characteristics, it is easy for people to overthink it.

"I listened to a meeting held by scientific research professors before. This lake is not the largest in area. There is another lake with a diameter of 13 kilometers south of the ancient city of Nanze, which is similar to a volcanic crater."

Liu Ming said something else.

Zheng Yun nodded and did not ask any more questions. The entire Nanze ruins were vast, and there were hundreds of thousands of residents in the ancient city. There were probably also scattered villages and towns scattered around the ancient city.

There are so many areas to explore.

Almost all are top priorities.

Last night before going to bed, Zheng Yun read several articles in the group, and one of them was very interesting.

E-07 There are thirty-one hours in a day in local time. The ancient city is located south of the equator, and the sunshine during the window period reaches sixteen hours. So how did the ancient people's schedules change?

The archaeological team searched from history.

The conclusion is that the routine of ordinary residents in Nanze is likely to go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening, get up around fourteen o'clock in the evening, and work until three or four in the morning before going to bed again.

Of the seven extra hours on earth, five of them were actually used by the ancients at midnight.

This kind of routine is actually very common.

Not only are these planets with different rotation cycles from the earth, but there is a similar situation on the earth. The ancients in the Ming Dynasty and the Tang and Song Dynasties also slept twice and worked in the early morning.

But even so.

The schedule of the ancient people of Nanze is still weird. Considering what happened last night, they seem to have deliberately avoided midnight and the time when the E-02 archaeological team had strange situations.

Moreover, as I have seen before, last year's mass deaths of explorers were not only related to heavy rainstorms but also late at night. Everything happened overnight.

Is there any connection?

There seems to be something wrong with Nanze Ancient City at night?

Last night was the first night I spent in Nanze. I didn't notice anything unusual. Even though I slept a little lightly, it could be understood that I was thinking about Noriichi and the others.

Everyone was chatting while eating breakfast.

Zheng Yun's door was knocked again. Huzi went over to open the door and saw that it was Ji Dao returning with a backpack.

Jidao was slightly startled when he saw so many people in the room, then walked straight towards Zheng Yun and whispered:

"The mission is completed, no one has escaped, all are closed, the place has been occupied, and all supplies have been prepared."

There were too many people to go into details. In fact, he and Zhang Ergou did a lot of things last night. Not only did they control all the bandits, they also went to Fu'en to buy food and used magic tricks from the Heavenly Palace.

Ji Dao was also very emotional.

Modern times have modern benefits. A pound of rice costs one or two yuan. You can buy as much rice as you want from Fuen City, even 100,000 tons, and transport it to Wuhaixianzhou in an instant.

As long as the Immortal Supervisor is willing to spend money, with the agricultural strength of modern society, it is more than enough to support the entire Wuhaixianzhou.

"good."

Zheng Yun nodded.

"Then shall I set off now?"

Jidao asked again. He would then go to Hades Pavilion to enlighten all the prisoners in Tiangong Prison.

"Can."

Zheng Yun thought for a moment and then agreed.

This matter has to be done sooner or later, and the sooner the better, and Ji Dao does not need to take away the black jade pillow. He can go to Fuen or Fuyi through the secret realm, and then go to Hades Pavilion.

It's just that once Ji Dao left, there was indeed one less general beside him, and he had to bear many dangers himself.

"Then I'll go next door."

Ji Dao picked up his backpack and turned around to leave.

This dormitory belonged to him and Zheng Yun, and next door belonged to two ghost generals. Even Zhang Ergou had dormitory beds.

Opening a fairy gate in the archaeological team dormitory may seem risky, but it is the safest place in the entire ancient city of Nanze.

After Jidao walked out of the room, Zheng Yun breathed a long sigh of relief, his heart dropped, and he said to Liu Ming and others: "I will go to that lake with you today to have a look."