Chapter 17 Camera Tomb
Li Cu had countless questions and wanted to continue asking, but Wu Xie obviously didn't want to answer it anymore. After he finished speaking, he stopped talking, but sat down and started smoking.
Li Cu also sat beside him and thought about the result of the sorting. What he wanted to ask the most was Wu Xie's analysis of this matter, but it seemed that Wu Xie did not have a specific analysis of this matter. He felt that Wu Xie was also confused about something. This was the second time he felt it. Moreover, it seemed that the closer he was to Gutongjing, the more obvious Wu Xie was.
Li Cu himself wanted to figure out a reason, at least one thing is certain. There is something strange about Gutongjing, where there is an ancient tomb that seems to be valuable, but all the people who went there had to go to that place more or less problems after they came back.
Everyone didn't know what those who had problems encountered in Gutongjing. So, will they encounter the same situation when they went in? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little worried that if it weren't for his family, he might have been implicated. He wouldn't have kept his promise and came here. I hope that those are not true, and I hope he can go home safely.
Just as he was thinking, Wu Xie glanced at him and said to him strangely: "Stand up, why are you sitting here?"
"I'll take a break, too." He stuttered.
"Camel needs rest, what are you resting? The scenery here is so beautiful, go and take photos." Wu Xie said, "Photographers should look like photographers, don't bother me next to me."
"But I can't shoot."
"Think about it yourself." Wu Xie said, "The photographer's work is very important in this inspection activity, don't show off."
Li Cu left in a daze, returned to his camel, held the aluminum alloy box and found a hidden place, and opened the box. There was a set of SLR cameras that looked quite awesome. He picked it up and fiddled with it for a few seconds, and found that the operation was actually very simple. He picked up the camera, took a few landscape photos in front of the surrounding scenery, and found that the photos were quite beautiful. It turned out that using such a camera, you could take professional-level photos without any technology.
Li Cu was excited and climbed onto a sand dune, changed the focal length in different directions, turned the shutter, and took hundreds of photos. Suddenly, he stopped. He found something flashing in the camera. He put down the camera and looked in that direction, there was only a piece of yellow sand there.
He frowned, because the lens rotated very quickly when taking the photo just now and the focal length was also very fast, so that was just a momentary feeling. But Li Cu believed that he was not an illusion, so he stopped immediately and looked in that direction, but the sunset had already stuck to the ground line, and things in the distance could not be seen clearly under this light.
Li Cu picked up the camera again, pulled it to the maximum focal length, and went to find the thing that flashed by just now, but still couldn't find it. He wanted to check the camera's SD card to see if the thing just now had been photographed. At this moment, someone in the camp on the side exclaimed. When he looked back, he saw a man shouting in the grass: "Come on, come on, there's something here."
Everyone else surrounded the man who shouted, and someone asked, "What's the matter like this?"
Li Cu also slowly climbed down the sand dunes and walked to the place where the crowds gathered. He found that they were digging a sand well to create a bonfire here for dinner at night, but something was dug out when digging the pit.
Li Cu squeezed in and saw that there were indeed some unusual things in the dug sand pit. Most of them were black sheets made of plastic and metal, and there were also some colorful sheets mixed in it.
"What? Trash?" someone asked.
Wu Xie pushed everyone away, squatted down, picked up a piece of things and looked at them, and everyone recognized them immediately.
This is a camera that has been burnt down.
Wu Xie then fiddled with the plastic and metal plates. Li Cu was surprised to find that there were a large number of burnt cameras of various types buried under the sand here, including SLRs and card machines.
"What's going on?" the people next to him whispered, "How could there be so many destroyed cameras?"
"Dig it out." Wu Xie said to Wang Meng behind him, "Dig it out everything."
A total of more than forty camera debris were dug out, and various models were available. By the time these cameras were sorted out and stacked on tarps on the sand, it was already completely night. Although the nights in the desert were very cold, the delegation still put on coats and surrounded the cameras.
"There should be two to three tour groups." Wu Xie said, "All their cameras are here. When they passed by, they collectively destroyed all their cameras."
"Why? Is it because there is too much money to spend it?" asked a professor.
"I don't know, probably because they took something that made them feel uncomfortable." Wu Xie said, "Let's see if there are any memory cards inside that can be used to know what they have taken."
Li Cu helped Wu Xie check all the camera wreckage to see if there were any intact storage cards. The professors seemed to be completely out of the way of doing these things, but they just kept watching them.
They finally took out six SD cards that might still be available. After inserting them into the computer, there were problems with the first few pictures, and only two of them could be identified by the computer.
Li Cu thought to himself: If these people want to destroy the camera, they should be in a very panic state, because if they are very calm and just want to destroy the photos inside, they just need to burn the SD card.
But soon he realized that he was wrong.
In both SD cards, there are a large number of photos, and the number is amazing. Most of them are landscape photos, and few people look like photography. Obviously, the owners of these two SD cards are professional photographers, not ordinary travelers taking photos everywhere. Everyone looked quietly, and suddenly, the photos showed a different scenery than before. The officers and soldiers along with the team pointed at the photos and told them that these were the scenery of Gutongjing.
Sure enough, the owners of these SD cards have been to Gutongjing.
Li Cu asked at the time: "Where is Gutongjing?"
As soon as he finished asking, everyone looked at him, and a student-like person said, "You haven't seen the information? You don't know where we are going?"
Wu Xie looked at Li Cu and said in a teasing tone: "Yes, you might ask such a question."
Li Cu was embarrassed for a moment and said, "I didn't say I didn't know where that was, I just sighed." Then he pretended to say it again, "Where is Gutongjing?"
Wu Xie patted him and said, "If you don't do your homework well, don't pretend. The professors are there, let the professor tell you."
When Wu Xie said that, he looked at a middle-aged man. The middle-aged man looked over fifties, but his muscles were very developed and he didn't look like a scholar at all. Li Cu remembered that the information stated that this man seemed to be the leader, named Wang Daming.
Wang Daming's name sounds like a person from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but in fact he is from Shandong and seems to be an expert in remote sensing. When he heard Wu Xie say that, he said: "In fact, the definition of that place is quite vague. I only know that Gutongjing is an area surrounded by three seas, and the three seas are in the shape of a font. Those three seas are elusive. Even in this era, it is often impossible to find using satellites. They seem to have life. It is said that someone saw it once in the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of New China, someone saw it once on an airplane during the geological exploration and cast a signal flag. But when he searched, he only found a desert and did not see the three seas."
"Is this the legendary kind of Haizi who can move by itself?" Li Cu asked.
Wang Daming nodded: "Many people guessed this way. The three seazis may not move, but will appear at some point. After that time, they will sink to the bottom of the desert."
"So that's the case, why is the place we are going to be called Gutongjing?"
"That's where the plane cast its signal flag at that time." The person next to Wang Daming said, "Did you not read any information?"
For the first time, Li Cu felt a little embarrassed in this group and stammered: "I don't have a good memory."
"Don't discuss these things, I want to go back and continue reading the information." Someone in the team said again, obviously a little unhappy. Li Cu looked over and said that person also had an impression of him, but when he was reading the information, he felt that this person was not a good role to get along with. This person's hair was naturally curly, and he was less than thirty years old. He was one of several students, but it was said that he had achieved some success, so he also had an equal status with the professors on weekdays.
He couldn't remember the name of this person, so he decided to call him Curly.
Curly continued: "These photos are normal. It is impossible for ordinary landscape photos to burn the camera because of these photos. And why do they have to bury them?"
"If the thing you are going to destroy is not the photo inside the camera, is it the camera itself?"
"You mean, they suddenly became disgusted with the camera collectively?"
"Is there any disease like camera phobia in this world? I haven't heard of it."
"I tell you, anything can happen in this world, and people are afraid of hair. Hitler has body hair phobia. Except for his mustache and hair, all his hair was shaved."
"But, it's impossible that so many people are sick at the same time."
Chapter completed!