Lop Nur was once the second largest inland lake in China. In Mongolian, Lop Nur means "a lake where many water flows into". In ancient times, it was also called Zize, Yanze, Puchang Sea, etc. Before 330 AD, the lake had more water and the lake surface was very wide. History When the lake was at its widest, it was estimated to have exceeded 10,000 square kilometers.
However, due to the decrease in the flow of the Tarim River, the surrounding desertification was severe and rapidly degraded. By the end of the 1970s, Lop Nur had completely dried up. Today, only large areas of salt crust remain.
Lop Nur used to be an oasis of life with herds of cattle and horses, surrounded by green forests and clear rivers. But now it has become an endless Gobi Desert. There is not a single grass or a stream. The summer temperature is as high as 71°C. There is not a bird in the sky. No bird dares to Crossing what was just a dead desert, it became a veritable "Sea of Death".
Of course, the reduction in the inflow of river water is only one of the factors. The real reason for the drying up of Lop Nur is actually very complicated. Because even if there is no inflow of river water, the evaporation rate of water is far beyond the normal speed. Therefore, the mystery of Lop Nur drying up It has also been included in the top ten unsolved mysteries of nature.
Lop Nur once gave birth to brilliant human civilizations. The most famous one is undoubtedly the ancient city of Loulan.
It is located in the northwest of Lop Nur, Xinjiang. It was named because the Chinese documents unearthed from the ruins used the phonetic pronunciation of "Loulan" and Luolu as "Kuluo Laina".
The ancient city of Loulan is also known as "Pompei in the Desert". It is very mysterious. The ancient country of Loulan is one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. It is adjacent to Dunhuang. It has a close relationship with the Han Dynasty around BC. According to "Historical Records? Biography of Dawan" and "Han Shu? Biography of the Western Regions" records that as early as the second century ago, Loulan was a famous "city outline country" in the Western Regions. It leads to Dunhuang in the east, Yanqi and Yuli in the northwest, Ruoqiang and Qiemo in the southwest. Ancient "Silk" The south and north roads of "Road" separate from Loulan.
The Loulan civilization only existed for a few hundred years in the long history. This paradise where people once lived and multiplied was abandoned almost overnight. What exactly happened in the first place has always been an unsolved mystery.
Judging from the signals sent by the GPRS positioning chip embedded in the remains of the ancient tomb by Bo Xinwen, the place they were going to go this time was about fifty kilometers away from the ruins of the long-abandoned Loulan ancient city. It took about an hour to drive. In terms of the vast desert, this is already a fairly close distance.
After everyone read the information about Lop Nur in their hands, Bo Xinwen took out another kraft paper file box and said to everyone: "There have been some weird and bizarre events in Lop Nur. They cannot be explained from the perspective of today's science. Explanation. Our Bureau .For your reference. Maybe it will be helpful to this trip."
With that said, Bo Xinwen handed the file box to Yu Fei, who was sitting closest to him. "This is the only file material. Please circulate it. In addition, the contents recorded in it are confidential files. Please keep it strictly confidential. .”
Yu Fei took the file box. At first glance, he saw a few large blue characters printed on the upper right corner of the box: "Class A Confidentiality". There was nothing written on the file box except a number.
Yu Fei didn't care what level of secrecy this "Class A confidentiality" meant. He couldn't wait to open the file box and look through the materials inside.
The title of the first material in the file is "The Pisces Jade Pendant Incident". There is a subtitle under this title. It turns out to be...the mystery of Peng Jiamu's disappearance.
Yu Fei couldn't help but feel a little thump in his heart. Isn't Peng Jiamu the famous scientist who disappeared during the investigation in Lop Nur in the 1980s? Could it be that his disappearance is also related to mysterious events?
He looked at the first paragraph recorded in this material: Peng Jiamu, a Chinese plant virologist and president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, disappeared while leading a comprehensive inspection team to Lop Nur in 1980.
It was really him. Yu Fei became more and more curious. What mysterious events did such a great scientist encounter in the first place? How did he disappear? So he continued to look down carefully.
It is recorded in the materials that it turned out that Peng Jiamu led a comprehensive inspection team to Lop Nur for inspection. It was claimed that it was to find heavy water and other resources for manufacturing nuclear energy. In fact, it was just a cover. The real purpose of their trip to Lop Nur was actually to work with an extremely mysterious Plant viruses are related. Peng Jiamu himself is an experienced plant virologist.
Regarding that mysterious plant virus, it involves the bizarre incident recorded in the second piece of material in the file box. The incident of collective mutation of Lop Nur villagers and the injuring of people.
This incident must begin in the early 1960s.
About a hundred kilometers away from Lop Nur, there is an ancient Uyghur village. The people living there are all native Uyghurs. Due to the difficult natural conditions, the local villagers often travel hundreds of kilometers to find food or food. Necessities of life.
Once, a villager accidentally discovered the ruins of an ancient city in the sand dunes near Lop Nur. So some young people in the village thought of going there to find some antiquities. In addition to some broken earthen jars, they found A strange plant was also discovered. Lop Nur is known as the Sea of Death. It is not only very dry, but also a saline-alkali land with extremely high pH value. Almost no living things can survive there. And this plant not only grows vigorously, but also blooms. The local villagers were curious and brought these plants and earthen jars back to the village. Who knew that not long after, most people in the village were infected with a strange disease.
At first, it was just a common cold. But after taking the medicine, it did not get better. And symptoms such as widespread fever and rapid heartbeat began to appear. The barefoot doctor in the village thought there was an outbreak of plague. He hurriedly reported it to the higher-level health department. reported.
But not long after, the body structure of the villagers infected with the strange disease also changed. Their eyes slowly turned blood red, their backs gradually bulged, and they began to crawl on the ground with all four limbs.
They crawled extremely fast, became very powerful, and seemed to become more and more aggressive. Until one day, a villager actually attacked a camel in the village. He rushed directly towards it. He knocked the camel down, then bit through the camel's neck with one bite, and began to suck its blood. The astonishing explosive power completely exceeded the limit of human strength.