Vermillion mole

Li Cu was pressed on the bed, with his back facing up, and several strong men pressed his limbs tightly, making him unable to move. His upper body was covered, and the boss was using a flashlight as a light behind his back. Almost leaning against his back to observe the scar on his back.

Li Cu chose to submit because he found that he had no choice at all. No matter what decision he made, he had to take care of Liang Wan. Moreover, he felt that even if he insisted on resisting, it would be meaningless. If he angered the other party, he might suffer consequences. worse.In addition, he could feel that although this group of people looked like desperadoes, they didn't seem to be the type to take lives easily, otherwise there was no need to tell him so much.

So he chose to surrender, and was pressed and studied like a roast chicken.I also wondered in my heart, there were a bunch of strange and terrifying wounds on my back, and the photos were given to them, why did they insist on looking at my back.

Could it be that there is some secret hidden on his back?

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt the boss's hand carefully pressing on his back.Since my wound has not healed, it hurts hot when I press it.But he didn't dare to scream, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.

At this moment, Li Cu heard Liang Wan say: "You'd better wash your hands, otherwise his wound will be infected."

The boss said: "I washed it before making coffee." After speaking, he turned his hand and took something from his lower back.

Li Cu wanted to look up, but he couldn't see it. Hearing the sound, it seemed that the object was taken off the key chain, and he felt a little nervous.Sure enough, Li Cu immediately felt something cold and began to slide on the place where the boss pressed.That appeared to be a knife.

"What do you want to do?" Liang Wan scolded immediately, "His wounds have just been sewn up and cleaned, so there will be absolutely nothing left."

The boss ignored it at all, and in the severe pain, the sutures in the wound on Li Cu's back were picked apart one by one.Liang Wan could hardly bear to watch, and yelled: "What the hell are you trying to do!" Just as he was about to speak, someone strangled his neck, making him unable to make a sound.

"Don't hurt her, it's not a big deal." The boss said, "The picture on his back is the key. The main problem is that not every scar in this picture is correct. This man is carving his back. Sometimes, some of the scars were deliberately engraved to confuse our judgment. So I had to untangle the threads to understand which scars were meaningless cover."

"Then how do you judge, aren't these wounds all the same?" Liang Wan said.

"The secret must not be revealed," the boss finished all these things slowly, then took out the photo Liang Wan gave them just now, made some annotations on it, and finally clapped his hands, and the big guys let go Li Cuo.But Li Cu still didn't dare to move at all, thinking that he knew that his back had been completely opened.

"Call 120." The boss took his people and prepared to leave: "We're leaving in three days, you should also prepare."

"Who? Me or him?" Liang Wan said from the side.

"Of course it's him."

Liang Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Cu asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Go to the desert. We will prepare special equipment for you. You can bring some new underwear."

"Why should I go too?"

"I don't want to take you as a burden, but the situation on your back is too complicated. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to rely on photos alone. It's more reliable to bring you by my side." The boss said, "I will go to the hospital to pick you up in three days. You, it's useless for you to run, I can find you wherever you go."

After speaking, the boss took everyone out, leaving only Liang Wan and Li Cuo.The two listened to the door of the elevator close, and they were relieved when they knew that the group of people had really gone down.

"Listen to him, hurry up, my back hurts like hell." Li Cu said weakly, "God, what kind of crime did I do, I have to go to the field to hide immediately, these people have brains question."

Liang Wan ignored him, but looked at his wound with interest, thoughtfully, Li Cuo called a few times before she realized, and said, "Where are you going to hide?"

"I don't know, just buy a ticket and get in a car, go to West/Tibet, Miaojiang, wherever you go. Anyway, I have to hide in a place where they can't find me."

"I advise you not to understand this idea," Liang Wan said slowly, touching his wound, "You will never escape his palm."

"why?"

"He left a picture on your back. You might be in too much pain to feel it."

Li Tu raised his head hard and took the photo over. He called out almost immediately, not knowing whether it was because of the pain or because he saw the scene in the photo.

It was a group photo of Li Cuo's family. The photo was taken in Houhai. In the photo, he was still young, probably a primary school student. His parents had not yet divorced at that time, and the three of them seemed to be standing together very closely.

"These are your parents," Liang Wan said.

"Yes, what does he mean, how could he have this photo."

"This is to tell you that if you run around, you'd better run with your parents, otherwise, if you run away by yourself, your family will be unlucky for you."

Li Tu looked at the photo, her heart became cold, and she didn't know what to do.

Could he possibly be running with his parents?Impossible, not to mention that his strong father couldn't listen to him, and his mother has her own life now, how could he tell them this?They won't believe it, just like when they were young, if they valued themselves and believed in themselves, they wouldn't have come to the point of divorce.

He stared blankly at the photo, sighed, and squeezed the photo into his palm.

He didn't make a decision, but he decided to do nothing and just see how things developed.

Two days later, Li Cuo saw Liang Wan again after entering the hospital for the second time and was hospitalized after getting stitches.Because the matter of her leaving the hospital with Li Cu was exposed, and she was late to criticize, Li Cu was assigned to another doctor.

This is a serious doctor with glasses and no smile.Li Cu had always hated such a person, but when he thought that he had to rely on him for the injury on his back, he could kill himself if he wanted to, so he didn't make a fuss.

Neither Li Cu nor Liang Wan called the police again.I don't know why, but he thinks it's useless to call the police, and he also thinks it's too troublesome to make notes repeatedly.

When the other party left, they didn't even threaten them not to call the police, obviously extremely confident.It's better not to provoke such thorns.

Liang Wan came with fruit, as if he was visiting a patient.Li Cuo saw that she poked her head in first, and found that there were no nurses or doctors.Then he sneaked in and closed the door behind him.

What she was holding in her hand were a few bananas, and the color was not good.She didn't hand it to Li Cu, she put it aside and said to Li Cu, "I have good news and bad news."

"Hehe." Li Cu smiled expressionlessly, expressing indifference. "I don't seem to have anything to do with you anymore."

Liang Wan said: "The good news is that I know what the pattern on your back is."

"Oh, what is it?" Li Cuo asked expressionlessly.

"You should hear the bad news first." Liang Wan said, "Boss Wu didn't seem to know that you had been transferred to a doctor just now, so he sent someone to send something to me, and I brought it to you."

Li Cu looked at the bunch of bananas: "This is it? Thank him for me, and then stuff one into his ass."

"No." Liang Wan took out an envelope from his bag: "Go and see."

Li Cu poured the contents of the envelope on his quilt, and the contents were very trivial.He first picked up something like a certificate, looked at the cover, and found that it was a study permit.After opening it, it turned out to be his registration photo inside.

Name: Li Cuo

Age: 27 years old

Occupation: Team photographer

27 years old?

He touched his chin, 27 years old, do you look like a 27-year-old?What is a team photographer?

Then he continued to flip through, and found that there was a smaller ID under that ID, which was his photographer's qualification certificate.There were also supporting documents, medical forms, a driver's license, a bundle of 100 yuan in cash (about 3000 yuan), an airline ticket, and a fake ID and a document bound with a rubber band.

He fiddled with all the other documents and tore off the rubber band on the folder, only to find that the contents of the folder were all explanatory documents about an expedition.There are personnel introductions, route maps, maps, temperature change tables, precautions and many other things.The last piece of paper is the assembly notice: Tomorrow at 3:10 pm, at Beijing Capital Airport, Terminal T[-]. Gather at Gate [-].

He put down these things, looked at Liang Wan, and suddenly felt that this thing is really fucking interesting.

"Can I leave the hospital tomorrow?" he asked.Liang Wan shook his head, and said again: "But don't worry, the person who sent this thing told me that I must send you to the airport to gather on time, otherwise I will be killed, so I will find a way to get you out."

The method Liang Wan said was to sneak out in the middle of the night.That night, Liang Wan only opened the nurse, and Li Cu ninjad the severe pain in his back, changed into clothes and escaped from the hospital. Underpants, came to the T3 terminal of Beijing Capital Airport.

In front of Gate 0, more than a dozen people had already gathered. Li Cu saw a lot of large aluminum alloy boxes piled up on the cart, and Boss Wu was among them, followed by the man named Wang Meng.But the other strong men that night did not see it.

Liang Wan watched him get off the car and left. There were so many people seeing him off at the airport that the car was full and there was no way to park.Li Cu walked over with a plastic bag containing underwear in his hand.

Boss Wu and Wang Meng looked at Li Cu and waited until he walked in front of them. Wu Xie lit a cigarette and handed it to him, "Smoking is not allowed on the plane, do you want one?" Li Cu shook his head, Other busy people turned around and asked Wu Xie, "Old Guan, which one is this?"

"Photographer." Wu Xie said without looking back.Li Cu immediately said, "I'm not a photographer." He wanted to see if they would give up on Wu Xie if they didn't give Wu Xie some face.Or whether they will panic, this will also let him know whether this team is all Wu Xie's people.

According to his guess, not all the people present were from Wu Xie, otherwise he wouldn't have to pretend to be 27 years old.

Wu Xie kept his composure completely, just took a puff of cigarette, and said to him, "Do you know that this matter is very important to me?" Li Cuo didn't speak, Wu Xie said: "If you ruin this matter, It will destroy a lot of very, very important things in me, unless you tell me now that you are not afraid of death, otherwise, you better be honest with me. My temper is not as good as it was a few years ago."

"My injury hasn't healed yet, you also saw my back, got the photo, can you just let me go?"

"I said, this matter is very important to me. I can't take any risks. I promise you that if you cooperate with us, not only will we be able to come back safely, but you will also get a very rich reward." Wu Xie spit He took a puff of smoke and said, "If this matter is not completed, my life will be meaningless. I will definitely kill you to vent my anger. So, you can stay quietly and treat it as a trip."

"travel?"

Wu Xie kicked the box at his feet to Li Cu: "This is your equipment, yes, travel, my third uncle used to fool me like this."

The jeep was speeding through the Populus euphratica forest on the edge of Badain Jaran, at noon, the sun was shining brightly, and the dust raised by the jeep ahead was flying all over the sky.The Badain Jaran Desert is located on the Alxa Plateau in western Inner Mongolia. It is a plateau desert, and the sand dunes are very mobile.

Wu Xie, Wang Meng, Li Cu and another man named Marila were in the same jeep.Li Cu thinks that there are many possible explanations for the name of Marira, and some of them can be explained quite amusingly.

Along the way, Wu Xie began to talk about some things, and told Li Cu some information he should know. For example, in this team, Wu Xie used an alias called Guan Gen.He is a travel writer, and Li Cu is his photography assistant for this investigation. Wang Meng uses his real name as his life assistant, and Marila is Mongolian and can speak several local languages.

They went from Beijing to a total of three cars. In the car in front of them were several archeology professors and their students, and in the car behind them were people from the joint investor of the expedition team.Before the three vehicles there was an assistance vehicle of the local army.The convoy of four vehicles has now entered the government's management area. This is the Populus euphratica protected area. Others are not allowed to enter.

They will not reach the destination directly, because the extension of the destination is surrounded by a large number of huge sand dunes.They needed to find the camels at the outpost. Li Cuo had heard from the soldiers that the camels should be ready.

Wang Meng read some basic knowledge to them along the way, and I don’t know where he collected it from the Internet. He said that the tall sand dunes are a distinctive feature of Badain Jaran. Sand dunes are generally 200 to 300 meters high. The height of the tree is 528 meters, which is the largest desert in the world.There are more than 140 inland small lakes distributed among the tall sand dunes, and the locals call it Haizi.Most of Haizi is salt water, but there is also fresh water, which is very rare. This mechanism is puzzling to Li Cuo.There are a large number of swampy meadows and saline meadows around Haizi. These low green lands are important settlements for grazing and herdsmen.

Most of the herders are Erut Mongols, which is a fairly ancient nation.Badain is the name of the discoverer of the desert. When Badain entered the desert, a total of 60 seas were found. Jilin means 60 in Mongolian, so later generations named this desert "Badain Jaran".

Haizi here is a miraculous landscape, many times.The sight of the traveler is blocked by the sand dunes, so after turning over the sand dunes, the child surrounded by the sand hills is seen, and the water is actually blue. Many people think they have seen a mirage.Even in the sandstorm season, the sky is full of dust in the sandstorm, and the sea surrounded by sand is still crystal clear and will not be buried by the sand.

Many people should have seen a picture in the Microsoft operating system. The sand hills formed by the wind blowing and flying sand are undulating and well-proportioned. Under the sunlight of different color temperatures, they show light yellow, orange and fiery red color blocks, which are colorful and dazzling.And the smooth sand patterns like waves, under the action of light and shadow, transform into various beautiful patterns.Some are like flying in Dunhuang, some are like Egyptian pyramids, some are like human figures and Buddha faces, some are like birds and beasts, some are figurative, some are abstract, like a large-scale exhibition of paintings of various genres.Among them, Zimiaozihai in the hinterland, Nuoertu and its surrounding sand mountains are the most magical and beautiful.

But where they are going seems to have nothing to do with these.

The place they are going to is called Gutongjing.It is said that this is a very strange area, which is regarded as a place where devils live by the local Erut Mongols.

According to the information Li Cu saw, the purpose of their trip was archaeological and geological investigation.However, the appearance of Wu Xie made Li Cu understand that things are definitely not that simple.

Not knowing what fate awaited him.

The dry air made the scar on his back itchy.The strange graphics on his back, the tomb robbers mixed into the expedition team, Wu Xie's seemingly serious words made him feel that the connection behind the matter would be very complicated.

They reached the outpost seven hours later, and with the help of local soldiers, they organized a caravan of camels, who joined them and helped lead them to the camels.

When he got on the camel and started walking into the sand dunes, Li Cu mustered up his courage for the first time and asked Lu Wu Xie a question.

"Why don't you come by yourself. Come with this team?"

"It just so happens that such a group of people is also going to Gutongjing, and they have a government background. If I don't join their team, it will be easy to be regarded as an enemy here. I don't want to confront the local army." Wu Xie said: " I'd rather be one of them, anyway, I know much more than them, and what I want doesn't conflict with them, so it would be nice to have someone to take care of."

"It's that simple?"

"Not necessarily. To a large extent, what they are looking for is still somewhat related to what I want. I follow them and hope that I can protect them as much as possible. The place we are going to is very dangerous. If something I don’t know, it’s easy to make things happen.”

"Then what are you looking for? What does it have to do with the picture on my back?"

"I'm looking for a woman." Wu Xie said: "The pattern on your back is the last clue that woman left for me. The process is very complicated. I will tell you the general process when I arrive at the first camp."

"Is she your lover?"

"No, we are not very familiar. I just think that what she went through is related to what happened to another friend of mine. If I can know what happened to her, I may know what happened to another friend of mine. what."