"The other two abandoned ancient cities are not very large, and they should not be the capital."
Ye Feihong shook his head and said.
"There are definitely more than three ancient cities in this area."
Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head, the last time he entered the desert, Ye Feihong had drawn the location of the three abandoned ancient cities located in this area, and that day he found that the location of these three cities was secretly in line with the number of Qimen Dunjia, he had thought about finding other cities around the desert to restore the formation to trap the Yin Fire Snake, but he gave up because he didn't know the factors for the formation to work.
"I don't understand what those abandoned cities around have to do with this formation" Ye Feihong picked up the water bag and took a sip, although she had plenty of water, she still only drank one or two sips of water each time.
"As I just said, this formation is like an arithmetic problem, this arithmetic problem is very complicated, what I have to do now is to find as many scattered clues as possible, and then deduce the answer from these broken clues, I don't know what clues are useful, in short, the more clues, the better."
Zuo Dengfeng explained.
"Understood, but there are only three cities that can be found around here now, and the others are covered with yellow sand, where do we start looking for them" Ye Feihong took out the dry food and handed it to Zuo Dengfeng.
"The surrounding cities are secretly the number of Qimen Dunjia, and knowing the three cities, I can deduce the approximate location of those cities covered by yellow sand."
Zuo Dengfeng took the dry food and chewed and chewed it.
"There are still a few ancient cities around that have been buried by yellow sand," Ye Feihong asked.
"In the future, you can eat as much as I want, you don't need to save it for me, there's no need to do that."
Zuo Dengfeng did not answer Ye Feihong's question, but frowned and reprimanded her, Ye Feihong put the dry food bag away after handing him the dry food, and he did not eat.
"There are still a few ancient cities around here," Ye Feihong heard this, and hurriedly took out a piece of cake from the dry food bag.
"Qimen Dunjia belongs to the prediction theory, and it is not suitable for using it to set up the array, according to the principle of Qimen Dunjia, the formation can only go rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, shock, death, and open these eight gates, that is to say, there are five other cities around, one of which should be the capital."
Zuo Dengfeng ate dry food and explained.
"I'll draw you the locations of those three cities."
Ye Feihong stretched out his hand and rushed to Zuo Dengfeng to ask for a pen and paper.
"I'll talk about it after eating."
Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand and said.
After eating dry food, it was close to noon, Ye Feihong drew the direction of the three abandoned ancient cities again, marked the distance from here, Zuo Dengfeng took the location map and looked at it carefully, and found that these three cities were far from here, more than 300 miles away, and only about 80 miles away.
The word "door" in Qimen Dunjia refers to the eight doors of rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, shock, death, and opening, and the formation according to the theory of the eight doors does not necessarily follow the five elements of yin and yang, that is to say, the formation is not necessarily circular, which adds difficulty to Zuo Dengfeng's calculation of the other five doors according to the known three gates.
However, the three gates have been known, and then the other five gates are always traceable, after more than an hour of calculation, Zuo Dengfeng determined the general location of the fourth ancient city that may exist.
"You have to be safe after I'm gone."
Zuo Dengfeng picked up the wooden box and said to Ye Feihong.
"Those ancient cities have been buried in the yellow sand, and you can use this to test whether there are any buildings under the sand."
Ye Feihong stretched out his hand and pointed to the two steel drills used to deal with the Yin Fire Snake.
"No, my aura is penetrating and can be probed."
Zuo Dengfeng said and walked out of the shack.
Thirteen ran out of the shack before Zuo Dengfeng, Zuo Dengfeng wanted to leave Thirteen to look after the house, but after thinking about it, he still took it with him, and before leaving, he helped Ye Feihong dig two huge tree roots, and at night the temperature was very low, and lighting a fire could not only drive away the cold but also scare away those remaining humanoid monsters.
Ye Feihong sent Zuo Dengfeng and Thirteen away, and did not ask Zuo Dengfeng how long it would take to come back.
The ancient city where he had settled before was located directly south of the Dead Forest, and the other two locations marked by Ye Feihong were in the southeast and east of the ancient city, and these two places had to be searched as well, without missing any possible clues.
Afternoon was the hottest time of the day in the desert, Zuo Dengfeng took the thirteen volleys to the south, he did not go in a straight line, because there was no reference in the desert, if he went directly to find the second abandoned ancient city, it was possible to deviate from the route, so he made a transfer in the ancient city where he was before, and finally found another ancient city in the evening a hundred miles away from the southeast.
The scale of this ancient city is roughly the same as the previous one, but the wells here have long since dried up, so few people come on weekdays, because no one is ruined, the buildings in the city are relatively intact, but the integrity is only compared with the first ancient city, after all, it has been abandoned for more than 2,000 years, the outer city wall has been broken, and most of the buildings inside are dilapidated, and there is more than a foot of yellow sand in the city.
The building materials used in the ancient city were also adobe bricks, which may have been fired in a state between earth and bricks, which were harder than mud bricks and more resistant to weathering.
As we all know, the temperature of burning bricks is 600 degrees, the pottery needs 800 degrees, and the porcelain is at least 1,200 degrees, and the age of these three things is also from front to back, and it is not difficult to see that the construction age of this city is far before the Han Dynasty through the building materials used in this city wall.
After entering the ancient city, Zuo Dengfeng extended the aura to remove the sand on the ground, and inspected the house by house, and the first thing he found was an iron canned food box, which is rarely eaten by Chinese, and is the dry food carried by foreigners when they explore, and the appearance of the canned food box indicates that foreigners have come here before this.
This discovery made Zuo Dengfeng frown, after the Eight-Nation Coalition seized Beijing, countless Chinese treasures were scattered all over the world, these exquisite and luxurious utensils were worth a lot, set off a wave of Chinese fever in the world, attracted a large number of foreigners to China to hunt for treasure, the discovery of the ancient city of Loulan and the discovery of the Buddha cave in Dunhuang led foreigners to the northwest border, these foreign devils to a place are scraping the ground type of excavation, and there are almost no chicken feathers left everywhere.
Originally, after more than 2,000 years of invasion, there is nothing left, and if it is searched by foreign devils, the clues will definitely be destroyed.
Sure enough, Zuo Dengfeng was busy for more than two hours and didn't even find the molded utensils, the only harvest was two boxes of unopened cans and half a bottle of foreign wine, the foreign wine still smelled of wine, and the pattern on the outside of the iron cans was also very clear, which showed that they had not been left here for a long time, and the cans could be eaten and drunk.
Zuo Dengfeng's first thought after getting these two things was to bring Ye Feihong to taste, this idea made him feel very awkward as soon as it appeared, he was reflecting on why he thought of Ye Feihong in the first place, but soon he calmed down, Wu Xinyu and Yufu couldn't eat anymore, otherwise he would definitely not be the first to consider Ye Feihong.
"No, I'll have to think about it."
Zuo Dengfeng did not let himself go because of this, but leaned against a broken wall to dig deep into the root of the problem, he had to figure out why he thought of Ye Feihong for the first time, this question was difficult for him to calm down.
There is a saying in the Analects called "My day and three provinces and my body", which is about people to often self-reflect, Zuo Dengfeng is now self-reflecting, he feels that the people he should think of the most are Wu Xinyu and Yufu, how can it be Ye Feihong, he wants to reflect on whether his feelings have shifted or dispersed.
Thirteen had long known that Zuo Dengfeng had a habit of talking to himself, and after taking a look at him, he went to dig at the corner of the wall, and it smelled the smell of gerbils.
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Self-reflection is the most difficult, because people have the instinct of self-justification, Zuo Dengfeng overcame this instinct, and finally figured out the reason to make his heart clear.
He cares about Ye Feihong out of a kind nature, he takes good care of the people around him, and never treats others badly.
Ye Feihong is his friend, and he is stranded in the desert with him, and he has the obligation to care about her.
As for love and non-love, it is better to self-examine, love someone will have a strong desire for exclusivity, if someone touches Wu Xinyu or Jade Whisk, he will definitely kill.
Although he also killed for Ye Feihong, he didn't do it himself, although he was also angry, it was not the kind of anger that others were angry when they touched their own woman, but the kind of anger when others bullied their friends.
"She's my friend, and I should be nice to her."
Zuo Dengfeng began his reflection with self-talk, and ended with self-talk.
Although he didn't get any useful clues here, Zuo Dengfeng was not disappointed, he didn't have any hope here, but the half bottle of foreign wine he picked up made him very happy, he forgot to bring wine when he went out this time, although the foreign wine has a bad sweet potato taste, it is also wine.
Zuo Dengfeng wanted to move to the third ancient city in the east immediately, but after seeing Thirteen digging non-stop, he stopped and waited for it, and waited until Thirteen caught the gerbil before leaving here with it.
Halfway through, Thirteen released the gerbil, which was instinctive to catch rats, but never ate it.
Since it was already late autumn, there were no snakes and scorpions in the desert at night, so Zuo Dengfeng walked forward in the starry night, and found the third ancient city after the third watch.
Zuo Dengfeng wanted to take refuge from the wind and sand in the third ancient city, but he didn't expect that the third ancient city was the most seriously damaged of the three known ancient cities, and there were no ruins left, and it had long been a pile of ruins, and there was no way to shelter from the wind.
But there was no shelter from the wind around here, so Zuo Dengfeng found a relatively sheltered place in the ruins and sat down with thirteen recliners.
The wind is not strong tonight, Zuo Dengfeng did not set up a barrier, he was not idle during the period of sheltering from the wind, but took the time to observe the surrounding environment, the scale of this abandoned ancient city is much larger than the other two, but the damage here is the most serious, it is far away from the Silk Road, it stands to reason that there should not be too much man-made destruction in the later period, then the reason for the serious damage here can only be the war two thousand years ago, according to the scale and geographical location of this city, this should be a garrison town two thousand years ago, the defense should be the Han Dynasty in the East.
As for whether this is the case or not, he is not sure, because the ruins have also been excavated, and valuable clues are missing to verify them.
In the early morning of the next day, the wind stopped, and Zuo Dengfeng had already estimated the approximate location of the fourth ancient city according to the direction of the eight gates of Qimen Dunjia, but he did not go immediately, but began to excavate around the ruins of the ancient city.
He must determine whether it was the Xiongnu or the Han Dynasty who attacked here, and it is useless to determine these at present, but if the entire historical event is not restored, it is difficult to guess the mentality of the people in power in Peng State back then, and it is impossible to determine whether the Yin Fire Snake escaped by itself or was released by them: