Solving Middle Age Crisis by Intelligence System-Chapter 588 - 394: The Dog Tags That Shouldn’t Exist

Chapter 588: Chapter 394: The Dog Tags That Shouldn’t Exist

Upon hearing the report from his subordinates, everyone immediately gathered around.

De Gaulle impatiently grabbed the climbing pick and struck twice more at the previous spot.

Indeed, unlike the crisp sound of the solid rock wall, the sound here was notably muffled, indicating there might be a space hidden below.

De Gaulle’s eyes lit up and he immediately instructed, "Find where there might be a gap around!"

The subordinates immediately scattered and carefully searched around the rock wall.

After a short while, one of them suddenly shouted, "It seems to be here!"

Everyone quickly gathered again, and saw a nearly ice-level gap at the bottom of the rock wall, close to the ice cap.

Once the ice debris was cleared away, a gap as thick as a finger could be seen.

De Gaulle crouched down and placed his hand near the gap, faintly feeling that there might be wind blowing from inside.

His eyes brightened even more, and he quickly turned and shouted to his men, "It’s right here!"

Qi Yun and Ignacio also reached out to feel, and indeed, there was faint wind blowing out!

However, such a large rock, without machinery, would be difficult to break open.

After some discussion, they decided to first find a safe place to hide, then use localized explosives to blow it open.

The explosives were specially obtained from Yutian before departure. Given the stringent security in J Province, acquiring such items quickly would be quite difficult without Qi Yun’s connections.

This was one of De Gaulle’s purposes for cooperating with Qi Yun.

Among those present, there were naturally experts in explosives, whether An Zai, Brother Quan, or De Gaulle’s own people, someone could do the job.

Ultimately, the task fell to An Zai. Once everyone had found a recess to hide in, An Zai went to operate with his tool bag on his back.

In less than five minutes, he came running back urgently, followed by a "bang!" sound from outside, with ice flakes falling from above. The commotion wasn’t particularly loud, like a big firecracker.

Everyone waited for a moment, and the expected avalanche didn’t occur. The snow on the mountain top probably wasn’t very thick, and An Zai controlled the amount of explosives and the explosion angle very precisely.

De Gaulle couldn’t hold back and was the first to dash out of the recess towards the rock wall, with Qi Yun and the others quickly following.

Upon arriving at the rock wall, they saw the blown-up hole was more orderly than expected, nearly half a person high, sixty to seventy centimeters wide, just enough for a person to enter sideways.

As they approached the entrance, a cool breeze surged out from the cave, seemingly carrying a strange scent in the wind.

Someone took out a detector from their bag, extended it into the entrance, and confirmed no issues. Then De Gaulle lit up his flashlight and crawled in.

Everyone entered the cave one by one. The inside was more spacious than imagined, resembling a tunnel, though the lighting wasn’t very good.

De Gaulle shined his flashlight ahead; about five or six meters away was a turn, not very far.

After pondering for two seconds, he turned to Qi Yun and said, "Why don’t we have the guides wait at the entrance for us to come out?"

Qi Yun naturally understood what he meant, considering the unknown dangers inside, he agreed to the decision.

"Losang, Danzin, you two don’t need to go in, just wait for us here."

Although the two guides were curious, they didn’t dare to disobey Qi Yun because the person who contacted them yesterday was a big shot.

"Alright, Director Qi, be careful."

After arranging the guides, De Gaulle led the way towards the bend, sweeping the flashlight beam ahead.

Qi Yun was in the middle, while Xiao Wu closely followed beside him, while Brother Quan walked at the rear, occasionally turning to observe behind them to prevent any accidents.

The rock wall of the passage showed no signs of chiseling, seemingly naturally formed, causing Qi Yun to silently swallow, unable to help but marvel at nature’s craftsmanship.

The passage was very quiet, with only the sound of footsteps echoing. After turning the bend and walking a few dozen meters, De Gaulle suddenly stopped, aiming the flashlight seven or eight meters ahead on the ground, displaying an extremely shocked expression.

Qi Yun quickened his pace, catching up to see what was illuminated by the flashlight, and was stupefied.

That looked like... it looked like a person!

He was sitting on the ground, his back leaning against the rock wall...

There seemed to be a hat on his head!

Qi Yun’s nerves instantly tightened, and the atmosphere in the passage became tense. Everyone held their breath.

The flashlight illuminated for a long time but that "person" remained motionless.

"I’ll go check." Chen Wei said to Qi Yun, then stepped forward.

Approaching, he bent down to examine the "person," then turned back and gestured, "Come over here."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and gathered around. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Getting closer, they saw it indeed was a "person," but long dead, leaving just a skeleton.

He was wrapped in an army coat, wearing a uniform inside, degraded to the point where it was almost unrecognizable.

What was on his head wasn’t a hat but a helmet.

Chen Wei picked up the helmet, blew off the dust and tapped it, revealing a about-to-fade symbol in the center.

It was a symbol familiar from movies, the "卐" symbol!

At the sight of that symbol, the air in the passage seemed to freeze suddenly, plunging into dead silence.

Ignacio instinctively retreated half a step, nearly losing his balance, eyes filled with shock: "How could... how could this thing appear here!?"

No one answered him; no one could explain it, as everyone was still deep in shock...

Such an eerie scene appeared inside the mountain tunnel.

Could a crew have shot a movie here?

But it was too realistic...

One of De Gaulle’s subordinates crouched down, carefully searched the remains, and finally opened the coat pocket, discovering two metal tags.

He took them out; they were two rectangular metal tags, rusted to the point of only vague outlines.

Under the flashlight beam, the front of the tag vaguely showed "Max Müller" and a series of numbers, while the back etched a letter "O" and a letter "K."

"This... this is a German soldier from World War II!"

"After 1942, German military ID tags were designed as two pieces, one for recording sequence numbers... the other for recording blood types to ensure injured soldiers can receive timely treatment."

Ignacio said, voice trembling, "Max Müller is his name... also his unit number..."

"The ’O’ on the other tag represents his blood type... ’K’ indicates he is a Catholic..."

Qi Yun swallowed, feeling a shortness of breath.

A World War II German soldier, how... how could he appear in a passage within the Tibetan area’s mountain!?

Germany is vastly distant from here...

The passage fell into silence, no one spoke again, all fixating on the two dog tags...