The biggest mystery after the founding of the People's Republic of China: the scientist Peng JiamuDisappeared mysteriously a few years ago, and his whereabouts are a mystery.
At the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan in the Lop Nur region of Xinjiang, a ten-person scientific expedition encountered sandstorms and difficulties, and the captain Peng Jiamu also mysteriously disappeared during this trip.
What exactly did they go through? Why has Lop Nur become a mysterious place that people don't want to see? This is the second largest inland lake in China, located inland, surrounded by rivers, was once an ancient "paradise", giving birth to many ancient civilizations, including the ancient country of Loulan. "
The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken. "
The mysterious atmosphere of the ancient kingdom of Loulan adds a bit of mystery to the case of Pengamu's disappearance, making it even more confusing. In this vast desert, the discovery of a dried corpse made people feel its danger even more.
However, over time, Lop Nur gradually transformed from an oasis into a desert Gobi, turning the place from a place of yearning to a place known as the "Sea of Death".
Despite its daunting nature, the challenges of Lop Nur have not dampened the courage of scientists and explorers. Among them, Chinese scientific scholar Peng Jiamu has made 15 expeditions to Xinjiang, but with the passage of time, people's memory of him has gradually faded.
However, on June 2, 2007, the appearance of a dried corpse once again triggered the thinking of the "Pengamu disappearance". Four young and vigorous desert explorers, while exploring the great desert near Lop Nur, found a downward depression in the desert under the Gobi Desert in the distance, and they walked slowly and curiously, but they did not expect that it was a dried corpse.
The four young explorers were shocked by this scene and immediately reported it to the relevant departments, and the incident subsequently attracted widespread attention in ** reports. Many believe that the dried corpse may have been the protagonist of the 1980 disappearance, Pengamu.
To this end, an improvised team decided to head out into the desert to find out the truth. So, who is Pengamu? Why did the appearance of this dried corpse arouse people's speculation and attention about him?
Peng Jiamu, formerly known as Peng Jiamu, was born in Panyu, Guangdong Province in 1925. At the age of 19, he was admitted to Nanjing University (formerly National ** University) with excellent results, and studied agriculture at the College of Agriculture, graduating at the age of 22.
With his continuous study and research, he has become a well-known botanist and biochemist in China. Although his career has been dominated by scientific research, Pengamu's adventurous spirit and love for the unknown world are also admirable.
His disappearance has attracted nationwide attention and search, making people respect and miss this master of science even more.
In 1956, Peng Jiamu gave up the opportunity to study nuclear magnetic resonance in the Soviet Union and chose a field trip to Xinjiang. He had a special interest in Lop Nur and was willing to spend the next 24 years, despite his illness, he resolutely decided to go deep into Xinjiang to investigate.
In 1980, Pengamu's last visit to Lop Nur finally unveiled the mystery of Lop Nur in modern Chinese history. As the president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on May 3, 1980, he decided to form a scientific expedition team to conduct field investigations in the hinterland of Xinjiang.
Peng Jiamu recruited a group of excellent and resilient talents, including hydrogeologist Wang Wenxian, chemists Ma Renwen and Yan Hongjian, zoologist Gu Jinghe, botanist Shen Guanmian, and four laborers who volunteered to join (three newspaper operators and one strong man).
In a short period of time, the scientific research team led by Peng Jiamu was established. They arrived at the Malan base, where four workers were in charge of preparing supplies and six experts had drawn up a plan, and the whole team planned to start a two-month expedition at the end of June.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of this scientific expedition, the person in charge of the Malan base has made sufficient preparations. Not only did they provide a radio station for Pengamu and his party, but they also set up a telegraph relay point in a mysterious place.
On May 8th, the scientific expedition team full of curiosity about the desert officially set off from the Malan base. However, on the very first day of their departure, there was a disagreement within the team.
Since one car could not accommodate everyone, the expedition team members decided to drive several vehicles into the desert together. However, due to unfamiliarity with the desert environment, one of the cars deviated from direction on the way deeper into Lop Nur.
The car not only carries a communicator and a transmitter, but also holds the key to the team's information exchange.
After Pengamu learned of the deviation, he didn't take the time to find the vehicle that had deviated, although he was anxious to get to his destination as soon as possible. Although there were some arguments between the driver and Pengamu at the time, neither of them had any more disputes over the matter during the following trip.
Unfortunately, however, Pengamu's car was hit by a sandstorm while driving, and the group went through a lot of hardships to escape from the sandstorm. Despite the driver's displeasure with Pengamu's approach, he, along with Pengamu and five others, decided to cross Lop Nur.
Due to the impact of the sandstorm, Pengamu's vehicles were severely worn, so he had to reduce personnel and supplies. Eventually, Pengamu and his team crossed the lake, while the rest of the team chose to make a detour from the outer edge of Lop Nur to the Milan base.
Five days passed, and Pengamu and his five team members had exhausted all their supplies, but they all ended up at the base in Milan. Although this expedition was only a month, it laid the foundation for China's development work in Lop Nur.
While everyone was cheering for the success of the expedition, Pengamu was not happy, because he felt that in that short month, there were still many mysteries of Lop Nur waiting to be discovered.
Therefore, he decided to enter Lop Nur again in the following month to explore the southeast direction of Lop Nur. He thinks there may be new discoveries there. However, his idea was opposed by the other nine team members, all of whom were reluctant to take another risk because of their previous dangerous experiences.
The drivers felt that it was the grace of Lady Luck that they were able to escape Lop Nur this time, while the other team members thought that they had gained a lot and could go back early.
They decided to report Pengamu's proposal to their superiors in order to reach a final decision. Five days later, the instructions were finally given, but the results surprised them. The superiors agreed to Pengamu's proposal, which made one person happy but nine sad.
Still, as subordinates, they can only accept the decisions of their superiors. The superiors proposed that the ratio of materials to travel must be half to half, otherwise they must return the same way.
After negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement. On the morning of June 11, they began to plan their route and headed east. Pengamu confidently said that he would be able to complete half of the journey when the supplies were halfway consumed.
However, the weather did not fulfill people's wishes, and the expedition team took three days to cover one-fifth of the distance. Just as the expedition team members were about to fulfill their agreement, Pengamu began to play tricks.
Pengamu emphasized that strong determination and perseverance are the keys to success and cannot be easily given up. Although the expedition team faced the dilemma of running out of supplies, they had to follow Pengamu eastward.
However, this sparked dissatisfaction among the team members, who had a dry mouth and searched for water after several attempts to find nothing, and finally chose to ask Pengamu for help by telegram.
Although Pengamu opposed this practice, believing that it would be a waste of money, after a long debate, he eventually relented.
The strange behavior of Pengamu after the telegram was sent uneasy to the expedition members, who feared that they would find themselves in trouble again. Fortunately, the Milan base received the rescue telegram and quickly launched the rescue.
Before the rescue operation began, they replied with an urgent telegram to Pengamu's expedition team. However, when a member of the expedition reported to Pengamu with a telegram at 12 noon on June 17, he was nowhere to be found.
The expedition team began to look for him, and finally found a letter left by Pengamu within an hour, only to realize that he had gone to look for water and had been away for 2 hours.
However, when the letter was made public, it was found that there were obvious traces of alteration on it, such as 6 becoming 7.
After four hours of searching, Pengamu still did not return to the research station, and the team members began to feel anxious, but they could only send him a signal by firing flares on the way back.
However, when they returned to the base, they still did not hear from Pengamu. In desperation, the base management had no choice but to announce that Pengamu had disappeared during the expedition.
* Immediately received the news and immediately launched the first large-scale search. The military sent a large number of *** to conduct a carpet search at low altitude, which lasted a full hour.
However, despite their best efforts, Pengamu was not found. The fuel levels of each aircraft have bottomed out and can only be returned to base.
The members of the expedition team, together with the military aircraft, searched for Pengamu, and although they were very careful during the search, they had to return to the base due to strong winds in the desert at night.
On June 20, ** and local ** sent more than 100 people, 9 *** and 3 search planes to conduct a more detailed search around the area where Pengamu disappeared, but after 7 days of searching, the search and rescue operation still failed.
The search team is convinced that even if there are no survivors, there will be corpses. So, on July 7, ** and the local government jointly organized a search and rescue operation mainly on the ground and supplemented by the air.
However, until August 2, when the nearly month-long search was over, there were still no leads, despite searching an area of more than 4,000 square kilometers. Despite three fruitless searches, the case was widely reported and discussed by some people in the community and **.
The cause of this case is still unknown and very confusing. On October 11, a ** family published a news article about Peng Jiamu, claiming that an international student saw him in the United States and wrote to Zhou Peiyuan, the president of Peking University at the time, saying that he saw Peng Jiamu talking to a foreigner in a Western restaurant, and when he tried to say hello, Peng Jiamu ignored him and left.
The news that has just been released has attracted widespread attention and discussion, but what is the truth? Rumor has it that Pengamu actually took advantage of his disappearance and fled to the United States.
However, this statement was quickly debunked by the denial of President Zhou Peiyuan, who said that he did not know the international student who wrote the letter at all, and had not received any letters about Peng Jiamu.
In addition, the international student also said after the news report that he had not been to the United States and had not seen Pengamu in a Western restaurant.
Although the authenticity of Pengamu's disappearance has been denied, there is still curiosity about the cause. There is a theory that in the process of searching for water, Pengamu ate the plants in the desert due to hunger, and unfortunately ate the toxin-rich life-killing grass, and finally died in the desert, drowning in the rolling yellow sand.
This is because during the six years from 1957 to 1962, many explorers chose to eat desert plants to satisfy their stomachs due to a shortage of materials during the expedition. Although the problem of food and clothing was solved, in the follow-up expedition, they fell in the desert.
After a forensic autopsy, it was found that the plants they ate contained many toxins, and they actually died from these toxins.
There is a theory that Pengamu found a magical jade pendant after his disappearance, called"Pisces jade pendant"。It is said that this jade pendant has a replication function, and when scientists put it into the fish tank, the fish tank that was originally one fish instantly turned into two fish, one of which is Yu"Pisces jade pendant"Copied out.
Therefore,"Pisces jade pendant"It is also hailed by scientists as a mysterious treasure of replication. This speculation stems from people's interest in"Pisces jade pendant"Awareness of the replication function.
They believe that in the course of that expedition, Pengamu may have been"Pisces jade pendant"Replica, and the real Pengamu was actually tragically killed in the previous sandstorm.
Although this claim is unconfirmed, it raises more thought about the disappearance of Pengamu, and it also makes it"Pisces jade pendant"The mystery and replication function add a layer of mystery and charm.
There is some speculation that Pengamu was killed by members of the expedition and that his body was then hidden. However, this speculation is not very credible. Although some people have had conflicts with Pengamu, they are not to the point where they want Pengamu to die.
After Pengamu's disappearance, the men were invited to share their "trip to Lop Nur" on CCTV. Their eyes were open, without the slightest emptiness. Also, let's think about it, if a ten-man expedition really decides to get rid of Pengamu, then they have to silence everyone else.
However, it was in 1980, the reform and opening up had begun, and the ideological consciousness had also been improved, how could such a stupid thing be done?
Therefore, even if there are traces of changes in the letter for the month, it cannot be completely concluded that it was done by other members of the expedition, because it is possible that Pengamu himself made changes after writing a mistake.
It could be an accident, suicide, or even leaving on your own out of guilt. It is said that Pengamu was reluctant to ask his superiors for help, probably because he felt guilty for his actions and did not want to cause trouble for the country, so after reporting the situation, he chose to leave the expedition the next day and go to the desert alone, hoping to contribute to the country in the final stage of his life.
Some have questioned the possibility of Pengamu running away in anger, arguing that leaving a guilt-filled letter is more in line with his angry departure, and that he brought some supplies and equipment with him, suggesting that the real purpose of leaving the base may have been to find water.
Therefore, these people speculate that Pengamu may have died in an accident. During Pengamu's month-long expedition, they encountered sandstorms and strong winds, and it was easy for a person to get lost in the endless desert.
These could all be the reasons for Pengamu's disappearance.
The mystery of Pengamu's disappearance: Why did you not find the organization after seeing the flares? There has always been a question about Pengamu's disappearance: since Pengamu saw the flare, why didn't he seek help from the organization?
However, there is still no rational explanation for this problem. It is believed that Pengamu may have been exhausted after getting lost, and the wind did not stop at night, and finally collapsed in the desert.
This speculation is more in line with reality. Other theories, such as "life-killing grass" and "Pisces jade pendant", are not enough to explain the reason for Pengamu's disappearance. Despite three searches, he was unable to find Pengamu's whereabouts, and in 1981 he was finally awarded the honorary title of "Revolutionary Martyr".
A grand memorial ceremony was also held for this purpose in Xinjiang to commemorate this outstanding scientist and explorer.
To commemorate Pengamu's great contribution to China's exploration of Lop Nur, the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences erected a monument to the place where Pengamu disappeared. Although this "Lop Nur expedition" brought a major breakthrough in China's botanical research, it also made China's famous biologist Pengamu disappear in the vast desert.
Despite the fact that human beings seem insignificant in the face of nature, Pengamu and his team have made a significant contribution to the progress of our country in a certain field with their perseverance and spirit of exploration that overcame many difficulties.
They are examples for us to learn from.
The disappearance of Pengamu, because of its "no one alive and no corpse dead", has made people have countless reveries about the "Pengamu Disappearance Case", and it has also added a bit of mystery to Lop Nur, which is known as the "Sea of Death".
Although the news of Pengamu remains unknown to this day, it is most likely that he fell in Lop Nur, the land he loved all his life, forever with the land he loved.