Search for the Buried Bomber

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This book is dedicated to the older generation of prospectors, who toiled mightily and endured great hardships in the vast mountains of the motherland.

The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

I had to think this story through for a long time before writing it. So much of what happened remains a mystery, even to me. Other parts were simply absurd. They failed to conform even to our most fundamental ideas of the world at that time. Perhaps such things should not be passed on, I thought, but rather left buried and forgotten for all eternity.

Still, I have decided to record my story. To not do so, I realized, would be a terrible pity and a great disservice, not only to those who lived through the events with me, but also to the very history of our nation itself.

I am a retired geological prospector formerly attached to the Geological Prospecting Unit of the People’s Liberation Army. In the red madness of those years, we were blessed to escape the storm of the Cultural Revolution. Instead, it was our fate to wander the great mountains and rivers of China in search of untold riches hidden deep beneath the earth’s surface. For two decades we journeyed across China’s no-man’s-land, alternately facing extreme suffering and numbing boredom. And then the things we encountered…the nameless terrors, things far beyond the scope of the imagination. Such things were never supposed to be real. Not one word about them will ever be seen in the official records. Any trace of their existence has been sealed away forever. Some of what follows comes from my personal experiences, and some of it was told to me by my older comrades. We swore to never reveal what we saw to the wider world. I will not break that oath.

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