don't talk to aliens

1994. 11, 15

Fangshan

"drop--"

A first-generation DJI PTZ camera installed on the roof was facing the cold wind, turning back and forth to the top of the mountain and turning on the red light twice.

Its screen lens has been shooting at the top of the mountain for two days and one night, and thus recorded a large number of real-time changes of trees, jungles and animals on the top of the mountain at night.

15th to 17th.

Fangshan's famous bird migration day.

Migration is a very special term in the biological world. It refers not only to the natural physiological state of birds, but also to the plate movement of environmental weather.

According to a local Fangshan saying that has been handed down since ancient times.

During these two days and one night, the time and climate here will be temporarily controlled by the birds in the mountains.

The obvious seasonal changes such as spring, summer, autumn and winter will disappear mysteriously in Fangshan overnight. During the process, other creatures in the mountain will also be temporarily unable to leave this huge natural climate change magnetic field.

Small animals such as rabbits, deer.

Large-scale creatures, even tigers, and people will get lost in such a special magnetic field environment that presents a gray mist on the top of the mountain, or temporarily enter another dimension.

After midnight on the 17th, all the birds in Fangshan flew away from here overnight.

With the end of the large-scale migration of bird populations, this mysterious natural phenomenon that seems to have lasted for nearly a hundred years will completely end and everything will return to normal.

Not many local people in Fangshan and even Longjiang know this statement well, and no one in the traditional scientific community has ever verified this statement before.

However, it was mentioned in a county annals that has been circulating for nearly 300 years. After modern times, there have been many witnesses who have witnessed the incident intermittently for decades to verify this point.

And at this moment when the wind whistling in the ear was getting louder, a pair of hands stretched out from the car and took it off the roof.

Sitting in the car was a man in a jacket who was wiping his nose because of a cold.

He is currently adjusting the antenna in his hand to transmit the signal, and talking to the person on the other side of the communication device who might hear it.

"Hey, are you listening? Well, I've already arrived. I should be able to return to Qinjiang after the end of this mission. I seem to have caught a cold. I don't know if I can go up the mountain smoothly. I'm really unlucky this time, and I There is always a feeling of having a nightmare every night, I know, I will pay attention to safety, um..."

These words are a bit of a commonplace between friends.

Because both of them are very busy, and there are still tasks ahead, the other party hangs up after asking him about his recent situation after speaking these few sentences.

Seeing this, the man who was still catching a cold stuffed the communication device back under the back of the chair, picked up the hand-held telescope next to him, and took a few photos while watching the gray fog on the mountaintop in the distance.

【sutala specimen√】

This way of recording with a red cross on the edge of the label paper is Zhao Bo's own private habit.

And in the blurry photos he held in his hand for some reason, the gray mist was still missing.

The birds on the top of the mountain are getting bigger and bigger, which seems to indicate that the migration of birds on the 15th will officially start.

On his arm he wears a medal cut from two aqua blue globes.

The pattern of this medal is a bit special.

But judging from the degree of wear and tear on the surface, it should have been worn by a man for a long time, and just as he took off his gloves and turned on the camera, ready to see what was shot inside last night, the outside window glass was snapped twice. Down.

"Bozi, come out for a moment."

It sounds like an awkward way of articulating words.

It should be the only foreign friend in this team, but he is also a foreign friend who can speak Chinese, and he is also his college classmate JR Samus.

Zhao Bo himself is an experienced explorer who is only in his 30s.

He himself is from Shaanxi, but he and JR Samus had known each other in Qinjiang for some reasons many years ago.

Other than the two of them, the others are a couple surnamed Ding and Cao who have made great achievements in surveying, a female classmate surnamed Wang who is very good at studying fossil specimens, a local old man who leads the way, and——

"Zhao, Comrade Zhao! Come on! Samus found a good thing!"

Suddenly from outside the window, another man's voice interrupted Zhao Bo's thoughts.

This was the seventh member of the team he was about to talk about just now, and he was also the only traveler and teammate that Zhao Bo took care of even though he was just a new acquaintance on the road.

Because of the special nature of the other party's job in this expedition, and because the other party is a rare intellectual in this era even though they are the same age as them.

But in the past, he was always bullied and excluded in his original unit because of his cowardly personality.

If Zhao Bo hadn’t personally paid for his participation in the mountaineering team this time, and kindly invited him to participate in this survey, he would have found it hard to support his family in Longjiang as he has a family and children.

"what happened?"

"Look at what we found. We found the footprints of Rabbit Alligator and Confucius Bird. There are really these two animals that are not extinct on the mountain. It proves that the evolutionary transition period of the earth is going on in the mountain. Maybe 'that' is also there. This time It seems that the 'task' is really not in vain!"

"We can't wait to go up the mountain to explore the unknown in the jungle, Zhao Bo, this time our discovery will definitely shock the world..."

"No, it's not just shocking the world. This is a discovery related to human evolution itself. It can not only demonstrate the evolutionary history of human beings on the existing earth, but also include those invisible...Leader Zhao, when will we continue to set off?"

The eager discussion from the teammates scattered around seemed to be in vague contrast to Zhao Bo who squatted on the ground and traced the edge of the footprint with his fingers.

He was also convinced that this was the mysterious thing he was looking for with his 'mission'.

After all, the footprints and feathers of the rabbit crocodile and Confucius bird in the trap in front of us are so real and lifelike, as if they traveled through time and space from the primitive jungle hundreds of millions of years ago.

If found, then he and Samuel could complete the mission and return to Qin Jiang's real big team smoothly.

It's just that at this moment, he doesn't seem so excited, but has some latent worries, or a sense of crisis hidden in his bones because of his professional habits.

"Don't be in a hurry to start. Prepare the camping equipment for the night first. If there are rabbit crocodiles and Confucius birds, it means that there are intermediate products that will evolve, for example, 'that' will also be there."

"Tonight, apart from the old man who is leading the way, we still have two people in one tent. Remember to hide a hatchet under each person's pillow. If there is an abnormal sound from the video camera on the roof, remember to guard the camp well. , don’t lose medicine and food, and take out the knife to kill the attacking abnormal creatures first, and protect your own life.”

"Well, what Zhao Bo said is right. Protecting yourself is the most important thing. Only if you have your life will you have everything that follows. Fight to the end for science."

Probably aware of his worry, Sams who expressed his approval also said something beside him.

The words of the two of them aroused everyone's approval for a while.

The seven people agreed on the time to wake up in turn tonight and allocated the tents before going to sleep.

This night, the first watchman was the old man who led the way, and the last watchman was supposed to be Zhao Bo, who was supposed to lead the team up the mountain, but because he had a cold and was not recovering, his friend Sam took his place. he.

"Brother Bozi, if you are sick, you should lie down and recuperate."

His foreign friend for many years said to him with such a smile, Zhao Bo, who was not feeling well, felt a little helpless when he saw this, he turned around and accepted his friend's kindness, and went back to the tent to lie down and sleep.

The first-generation video camera installed on the roof was running around the mountain normally, and there were no unnecessary strange sounds throughout the night.

But when everyone woke up the next day, they found that only Samus had disappeared.

"Where did Sam go?"

After waking up, everyone was very surprised, and helped everyone sort out various specimens. The female student surnamed Wang was a little nervous when she arrived, because she found that the video of the camera once fell into a kind of snowflake-like shock after twelve o'clock. And a strange shady scene, but no one noticed at the time——

"Sams...has he been captured by 'that'! Or, or rather, already...dead, have we been targeted by those 'gods', what should we do, I'm so scared... ..."

"...What are you talking about! Shut up."

"It's hard, isn't it! Or, no—is 'that' here! It's 'that', right! Today is the 16th, and the road to the bottom of the mountain has disappeared! We, what should we do, We... can't escape, right?"

"No, don't say that, maybe he just... left for a while, Mr. Sams is very skilled, he can even subdue a calf with his bare hands, Comrade Zhao, don't worry, all of us are here now Look around the neighborhood..."

This is kind comfort from the team member who is obviously the most ordinary.

Making his best friend disappear, Zhao Bo, who was originally ill, nodded in a trance.

His face was pale, and he hurriedly put on his clothes regardless of his illness, and based on his rich experience in wild survival in the past, he began to search around here with the last hope.

But all morning, they searched all over the foot of the mountain but couldn't find it.

And Zhao Bo, who was extremely anxious and painful in his heart, was thinking.

Perhaps not discovering anything is the most likely possibility to retain the probability of survival. The seventh member of the team, one of the team members who kindly comforted him in the morning, made a new discovery alone by the river.

This new discovery, of course, is not any animal specimens or biological footprints they have collected before.

It was the half-dead body of Sams himself, already floating in the crimson stream.

It was his bloody skin that was peeled off by something, revealing the yellow-white body fat. Except for the hard head and the crushed limbs, only half of the corpse remained.

All the people present, including Zhao Bo, fell into a frenzied shock and were afraid to scream. Some women behind them even fainted on the spot.

But they don't know at this time that this is just the beginning.

Because of the disaster in Fangshan on November 1994, 11.

It was also the two days and one night when the camcorder started recording on time, and the death of Sams was also the beginning of many new discoveries.

About that, that can't name it.

But since then, the mystery of sutala that has been imprinted in everyone's minds has really begun.

……

April 11

Fangshan

Early the next morning, it was dark in the woods.

Accompanied by a looming bird call quickly passing overhead, the two groups of people who slept in the two tents yesterday woke up.

The stream at the foot of the mountain is very loud, and everything is recovering, waiting for the real sun on the top of the mountain to appear.

And when Lu Yiming slept well last night, he comfortably opened the door of his tent.

And when he stretched out with the toiletries in hand, he saw the campsite outside where his elder brother and his elder brother's boyfriend had already been sitting there early in the morning.

Seeing this, he was surprised that the two of them got up so early, while crawling out happily, and planned to warmly say hello to the two of them who were facing away from him at the moment.

But as soon as Lu Tiantian, who was holding something in his hand, stretched out his hand and ran forward, the two moved in unison, turning their heads together with the same pair of 'panda eyes'.

"Wow!! Big brother! Brother Bailong! What did you guys do last night! Did you practice boxing together in the middle of the night? Awesome! Niucha! Chen Zhen! Come and see! The panda eyes of Li Xie and Brother Bailong actually looked Go up! Exactly the same! Exactly the same!"

Li Xie: "..."

Fu Bailong: "..."

When it comes to creatures like brats, sometimes it's really easy to tell the truth.

Because Mr. Fu, who was still pretending to be ruthless and kept calm before, his expression crumbled a little when he heard the words 'midnight boxing'.

And when Lu Yiming shouted back at the top of his voice, Chen Zhen, who also came out of the tent, approached and looked at the faces of the two of them, and suddenly he couldn't laugh or cry.

"You two, what did you do last night? Did you not rest well? Or something happened?"

There was obviously a reason why Chen Zhen felt so incredible.

Because in the past, even if the two of them deliberately played around, the 'battle situation' had never been so intense. Besides, no matter how the other two fell in love, no matter how busy they were in the middle of the night, they would find other ways to toss about it. Why did these two seem to be hiding in a tent in the middle of the night? It looked like there had been a fight.

And when he heard this, he didn't bother to explain what happened last night.

Li Xie, who had unrestrained yellow hair and a pair of black and blue panda eyes, snorted from his nose as if he hadn't woken up, rubbed his numb back of his neck and pointed at the neighbor The man opened his mouth sarcastically,

"It's okay, it's just that I was suddenly attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex in the middle of the night."

"...Um, what about you, Bailong?"

"To each other, I think I was attacked by a big wolf dog with rabies."

Fu Bailong responded coldly without any politeness.

"...Then why don't you stay away from me, not afraid of being infected?"

"Why should I stay away from here? Have you bought this place?"

"Okay, you buy it if you are the richest, you are the most powerful in the world, okay?"

"Of course, it's better than some people."

Chen Zhen: "..."

If you say this, you can tell that the two are arguing, so they are making excuses to squeeze each other out.

Lu Yiming and Chen Zhen, who looked at each other in blank dismay, were surprised for the first time seeing a couple with such a 'peculiar' style of getting along with each other.

But it was early in the morning, and they had just woken up, and they obviously had no way of guessing what happened last night.

Just thinking about it carefully, today is the first day of their official camping in Fangshan.

Even if there was something that made each of them unhappy and wanted to quarrel, this kind of thing would have come too early, so at the moment, Dr. Chen, who felt that he should persuade the two of them, still put on the mentality of a peacemaker and said,

"Hey, forget it, it's so early in the morning, it's rare for us to come out together, so don't make any noise, everyone has to pack up and see if we can go climbing to see the birds before sunrise. No, you and Li Xie go to the stream to get some water for washing, and Bailong and I stay here and tear down the tent."

These words were obviously out of fear that they would continue to quarrel meaninglessly, so they had to resort to persuasion tactics.

Although Lu Yiming didn't know what happened to these two people, since Chen Zhen had already spoken, he jumped up cleverly and grabbed Li Xie's arm and said with a smile,

"Oh, good! Li Xie! Let's go! Let's go!"

"..."

But being dragged by his brother, Li Xie didn't refuse immediately, stood up staggeringly and said "well, let's go", and flirted with Lu Yiming without saying anything, leaving only Fu Bailong and Chen Zhen in place stay.

After a while, Chen Zhen shook his head and smiled as he watched the two of them leave.

"Okay, come on, it's our task next, don't be angry."

This kind of speaking attitude is obviously more like a normal gentleman than an abnormal person before, and it is also in line with Fu Bailong's own aesthetics.

The two of them had been friends for many years, so upon hearing this, Fu Bailong didn't lose face and continued to be cold-faced, but started to clean up the mess before the camp with Chen Zhen without saying a word.

It just so happened that the gopro that was used to record nighttime conditions last night had stopped working, so Chen Zhen went to the car to dismantle it first, and chatted with Bailong during the process.

"What happened to you and Li Xie?"

Sitting in the driver's seat and dismantling the camera on the roof with his hands, although Chen Zhen asked casually, there was also some concern in his tone.

"nothing."

He dismantled the tent by hand and carefully checked the surroundings. He noticed that there were no suspicious footprints around at night, but Fu Bailong, whose face was still cold, replied, after thinking about it, he added,

"He's sick."

This kind of succinct and concise way of summarizing my "existing boyfriend" in three words is still the first in the world.

Chen Zhen in the car couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He lowered his head and adjusted the satellite car map, and planned to take a look at some of the pictures recorded last night.

Because the two girls in the mountains haven't replied to him yet.

So early this morning, Chen Zhen tried again to send text messages to several groups in the study, the research institute, and both of them on their mobile phones.

But at this moment, Chen Zhen, who woke up early in the morning, suddenly stopped.

After pressing the satellite map and GPS signal several times in succession, he was convinced that his own car and mobile phone seemed to have suddenly lost the source of reception overnight, so he said something puzzled but uneasy.

"Bailong, is it convenient for you now?"

"..."

"Turn on your phone and check, I found that there seems to be no signal in the surrounding area."

These words made Fu Bailong, who had his back to Chen Zhen, turn around immediately.

He also had a bit of doubt on his face, but after hearing what the friend behind him said, he put down what he was holding and went to experiment with his mobile phone first.

But when he returned to the tent, he tested all the communication equipment he brought with him, including the 'Rachel' that was bound to his system at any time, and he realized that what Chen Zhen said seemed to be true. correct.

——Not only the mobile phone computer and the car satellite, even the signal of 'Rachel' suddenly disappeared here.

"There's really no signal here all of a sudden."

This sudden change, or something that foreshadowed in the dark, made the expressions of the two people who were still in the camp at the foot of the mountain show a trace of suspicion and strangeness for a moment.

Under normal circumstances, such a thing should not have happened.

Because the Fangshan campsite is very close to several communication signal towers around here, everything was fine on the way here, and the two of them didn’t need to say anything, so they quickly tried each of them one by one with all the methods at hand. The way to connect the signal again.

In the middle, Chen Zhen also changed several people's mobile phones to call the Fangshan Rescue Team and the Visitor Center, which were posted as bulletin boards everywhere along the way, but none of them got through.

Seeing this, Fu Bailong said that he could go to the shop in the scenic spot only 200 meters away, but when he went to the shop where he and Li Xie went to buy water yesterday, he found that people went to the shop overnight. null.

Not only is the store door locked, but there is also an old dusty sign hanging on the door.

【Accidents happen frequently on the top of the mountain, temporary training and rectification. 】

Just looking at this iron sign that I hadn't seen yesterday, it is now looming in the hazy gray mist of the morning.

Fu Bailong must have thought that when he passed by yesterday, the store that was full of normal tourists buying water and eating was an illusion.

But obviously, judging from everything in front of him, including the only time on his watch that is still walking normally, it should be the night they came to camp in the mountain, and some unusual changes have taken place inside Fangshan itself. .

"I think it's better to find Li Xie and Yiming first. I think this incident is very abnormal. How could the rangers and other camping tourists disappear overnight?"

"..."

"Besides, those two girls are still missing. I am worried about their safety."

Chen Zhen said so with a bad face.

The immediate immediate reaction was still to say that he wanted to find the two girls who came to Fangshan first, and Fu Bailong, who had just returned from the shop in the scenic spot where all the living people disappeared, also planned to get up and look for the other two when he heard this.

But at this moment, Li Xie and Lu Yiming also came back together.

And from the comparison between the way they went just now and the way they are now, it is obvious that the two of them also discovered something very unusual, because immediately after that, what Li Xie said verified their guess.

It turned out that he and Lu Yiming went to fetch water from the stream together just now.

They had seen this mountain stream in the car on the way here.

At that time, the clear and continuous stream flowed down from the top of the mountain with splashes, connecting with the lush jungle. It was very clean at first glance, and there were many small animals around.

When they were busy setting up the tent yesterday, Lu Yiming took photos here by himself, and he kept talking about what he saw yesterday along the way.

"Let me tell you, Li Xie, I was by this creek yesterday, right here! Right here! I took a picture of a monkey that was so big, almost as big as a human!"

"..."

"That monkey's face will make a strange human-like expression. At that time, I was squatting here and looking at it with a telescope. Then, it kept staring at me, not only yelling, beating its chest and stamping its feet, He also kept pointing his finger behind me, as if there was some scary monster standing behind me, it was very strange and fun..."

All these messes, it seemed that Lu Yiming was talking nonsense, but at the moment, the two brothers came here with buckets just like that.

Along the way, Lu Yiming was mainly talking, and his brother didn't have a few words.

Only occasionally, his brother, who seemed to be unable to listen to it, would speak up and give him a little response.

"Is the monkey your relative? We've been talking all the way. Are you Zhu Bajie or Tang Seng?"

"I'm not! You are! You're still a monkey with a straight face after you quarreled with Brother Bailong! Hey! Brother Monkey! Look at the trick!"

This time, the dead boy deliberately mischievously splashed water all over his brother and ran away hahaha.

But at this moment, Lu Yiming, a heartless boy, ran to the side of the stream, squatting down and copying his hands to the water surface, wanting to squat down and wash his face.

Just as his fingers dipped into the water, he suddenly noticed that in a blink of an eye, the water in his palm seemed to be red.

Red?

He didn't want to understand, blinked his eyes and looked forward.

But in the next second, a bloody 'face' that floated upside down from the upstream just in front of him met him.

That 'face' is kind of funny.

Because the eyelids covering the eye sockets are no longer there, only a pair of big, blood-red eyeballs are staring at Lu Yiming with a strange look.

Lu Yiming, who was standing on the shore, turned pale with fright and fell down.

His legs were so frightened that he opened his mouth helplessly for the first time to call out for help, but he couldn't make a sound out of his throat, and just as he fell backwards, his scalp was numb, and at the same time, his mind was shaking. When there was nothing, a pair of hands covered his eyes from behind.

"Woo... ah... ah... brother... brother, I... I just... saw..."

"It's okay, don't be afraid."

The calm, steady voice behind him without any ups and downs was Li Xie's.

Lu Yiming, who was hugged by his elder brother from behind with bloodless lips, trembled and continued to cry when he heard the voice, while holding on to his hand and telling himself not to be afraid.

But for a while, tears continued to fall from Li Xie's palm uncontrollably, because even though he was protected by his brother from behind like a child, the scene just now scared him to death.

"That...is...is it a human...brother, the one in the water...is it a human..."

"No."

Li Xie answered firmly.

"No, isn't it?"

Lu Yiming couldn't believe it.

"Well, monkey, a monkey was bitten to death, unfortunately, Bajie, the relative you just met yesterday seems to be dead."

Lu Yiming: "..."

The words that destroyed the atmosphere in Li Xie's mouth immediately rescued Lu Yiming from the state of being frightened to death just now.

He pulled his brother's hand immediately, and opened his eyes to look miserably, only to realize that the bloody thing floating in the water that he saw just now was really not a person.

Just the next second, his expression froze again.

Because he suddenly discovered that in the depths of the jungle in the early morning, above the river, the one floating there looked familiar and nothing else.

It was the monkey he saw on the tree yesterday, the skinned monkey lying on its back in red, yellow and yellow like a human.

A monkey he had seen only yesterday, but was completely dead now.