1 When Fatty and Da Jinya heard this, their ears perked up and they asked, "What kind of witch?"
The three people came forward and looked at the sheepskin fragment in Xue Liyang's hand.
They saw that the fragment was full of ancient tadpole characters.
The shape of the characters was the same as that of tadpoles.
It recognized me but not him.
It seemed to be ancient scriptures from a long time ago.
Between the scriptures, there are also some pictures.
In the pictures, a woman emerges from the green waves.
The woman is half human and half ghost.
The Xixia gold book in my arms also has a pattern of a human-shaped coffin, but the pattern is very simple and far less clear than the depiction on the sheepskin fragment.
Legend has it that the Palace of Secret Curse and Demon Subduing in the Xixia Dynasty was originally an ancient tomb.
There are different opinions on the identity of the tomb owner, and there has been no conclusion for a long time.
According to legend, a Xixia witch was buried there, but no one can tell where she came from.
The sheepskin fragments seem to be older than the Xixia Dynasty.
At that time, there were already legends about witches.
Looking at the painting of the parchment fragment again, there were many dead bodies in the waves.
I asked Xue Liyang: "Can you decipher the words on this fragment?"
Xue Liyang said that she could not decipher the words on the sheepskin fragments, but based on the information in several paintings, it seemed to be an ancient and terrifying legend.
Evil ghosts who did not enter reincarnation would fall into eternal death.
River, the half-human, half-ghost witch is also among them.
I said: "Is the Secret Curse Demon-Subduing Palace built by the Western Xia Dynasty the same ancient tomb where the witch was buried?
The huge mural of the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Lord enshrined in it was also to suppress this woman."
Xue Liyang was noncommittal, all this would not be revealed until entering the Secret Curse Demon-Conquering Hall.
The fat man said: "You two are talking about a witch, are you a human or a monster?"
I pointed at the woman in the painting: "Part of her is a human, and part of her is a monster.
What she is, you have to open the coffin to see."
Da Jinya said: "Anyway, if you look at it literally, it has more human parts.
If you look at it more strangely, then it is a banshee.
Of course, these are all jokes.
Maybe some princess has committed some crime." , was slandered as a witch, and the Xixia Dynasty enshrined her with a pearl and a golden palace, which shows that she had a lot of background. " Everyone, you say something, I say something, and while you are making random guesses, you suddenly hear someone scooping sand outside the door of the front room.
As soon as I heard that the pursuers had arrived, I quickly made a "shh" gesture and asked the other three people to turn off their wolf-eye flashlights and split up to find a place to hide.
The big gold tooth hid behind the curtain, and the fat man lay behind the wooden box.
Although the wooden box was not small, the fat man was too big, and his butt was still sticking out.
I kicked him from behind and told him that he didn't hide well.
In desperation, the fat man had no choice but to smear sand on his face and lay in a corner pretending to be a mummy.
Then Xue Liyang and I hid in the two compartments respectively, holding our breaths with our hearts in our throats.
What followed might be a bloody battle to the death.
The city lord's big house has been buried in the yellow sand, and there are no exits around it.
If the heavily armed Gurkhas rush in, they will only be able to fight to the death.
At this time, a little light flickered, and Ma Laowazi and Duo Lengwa carried a light.
Feng Deng was so angry that he got in one after the other.
They both carried knives and looked around with their lanterns.
When Ma Laowazi saw the splendor around him, whether here or there, his old face suddenly became happy.
Although the dull boy looked stupid, his eyes were still full of greed.
The two put the lamp aside.
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Ma Laowazi brought a sack and took out two bundles of explosives.
He handed the empty sack to the dull boy and asked him to pick up the gold, silver and jade articles one by one.
Throwing them into the sack one by one, he followed behind and stared, obviously afraid that the stupid boy would pick up the good things and put them away himself.
I thought to myself that these two people were carrying jade-faced foxes to pick up treasures, but I hoped that they would leave quickly after picking up the things.
The stupid boy wiped off the dust from the gold plates and jade cups on the table, stuffed them all into the sack, and took off the necklaces, pearl earrings, rings, and jade bracelets from the hands of the two female corpses one by one, and even tore off the jade belts tied around the waists of the female corpses.
When I got down, my hands and feet were very nimble.
It was obviously not the first time I had done it.
Ma Laowazi saw treasures falling into sacks one after another behind him, and his old thieves' eyes were darting around.
Leng Wa quickly picked up a sack of treasures, and Ma Lao Wazi pointed at the city lord again.
Leng Wa walked over with his head sullenly and took off the gold ornaments on the city lord's mummy one by one.
The mummy is holding a jade cup in his left hand with a gold rim on the rim.
The jade cup is valuable but not rare.
Jade cups with gold rims are very rare and can only be used by the most noble people.
Under the light of the lantern, I could see clearly from the side compartment, but I saw the stupid boy take out the gold-rimmed jade cup from the mummy's hand, and then moved a step further, blocking Ma Laowazi behind him.
He pretended to throw something into the sack and took advantage of the opportunity.
Hold the jade cup in your arms.
But before the hand that Leng Wa put into his arms came out, Ma Laowazi had already pulled out the knife and stabbed Leng Wa from behind.
Ma Shuan is a stupid kid.
He is dull and clumsy.
He doesn't know how to argue with others.
He can't say a word when others say ten sentences.
Don't look at him.
He is usually superstitious, dull and taciturn.
He can't fight back or scold.
He can't fight back with three sticks, but he has a strong desire for revenge.
People in Guanzhong often say, "You can't take advantage of an idiot."
If he feels that he can't fight you and lets you bully him at will, he will never fight back.
But he can keep his composure and bury his hatred deeper and deeper in his heart.
He will wait in silence for more than ten or twenty years and take advantage of the opportunity.
If you weren't prepared, he would stab you in the back.
Not only would he kill you, but he would also not let go of your wife, children, children, and even the chickens and dogs at home.
Ma Laowazi said that all the gold items belonged to him, but the stupid boy stood beside him without saying a word, his dark eyes fixed on the sack containing the gold items.
At this moment, he wanted to secretly put the city lord's gemstone ring into his arms without Ma Laowazi seeing it.
Ma Laowazi is a habitual gangster, and he was the one who brought up the stupid boy.
When he saw the stupid boy, his eyes looked wrong, and he understood that this stupid boy was vicious and only did evil in secret, and then he saw the stupid boy move to the side.
With one step, he deliberately blocked him from behind.
He knew it was the dumb boy who was causing trouble there.
Without saying a word, he raised his hand and stabbed the dull boy through with his knife.
The four of us hid aside.
Firstly, we didn’t expect that Ma Laowazi would kill people whenever he said he wanted to, let alone his godson.
Secondly, we didn’t expect that Ma Laowazi’s knife was so fast.
I almost screamed out and hurriedly cut my mouth with my hand.
Cover.
The stunned boy was stabbed with a knife, his face was full of horror and anger, and blood was pouring from his mouth.
He wanted to turn around but couldn't, and even if he wanted to scream, he couldn't make a sound.
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As soon as his hand was loosened, the sack and jade cup containing the gold items were all gone.
Dropped to the ground.
The sword bandits in Guanzhong have this habit, which is also the rule of Taoism.
They do not speak before committing a crime.
After killing people and robbing wealth, they often have to explain the reasons and any grievances or grudges.
Ma Laowazi muttered, raised his foot and kicked Ma Shuan, and at the same time withdrew the knife.
The dumb-headed boy let Ma Laowazi throw him forward with a kick.
When he was about to die, he grabbed his hands and tore off the curtain behind the city lord, while the big golden tooth was hiding behind.
Ma Laowazi didn't expect that there was someone hiding behind the curtain, and it was a big gold tooth, so he took two steps back hastily.
The big gold tooth was squatting in the corner, but the curtain was pulled down by the stupid boy.
As soon as he and Ma Laowazi came face to face, he couldn't run or hide.
He couldn't help being very embarrassed.
He grinned, revealing the shining big gold tooth, and shook his head with all his strength.
He forced a smile on his face and gave Ma Laowazi a fist in the air: "Oh, isn't this Mr.
Ma?"
2 Big Jinya cupped his hands and said with a grin: "Old hero, you have worked hard."
The meeting said it was hard, and the talk was all over the place.
Da Jinya really had nowhere to hide, so he and Ma Laowazi had no choice but to deal with him when they had nothing to say.
Ma Laowazi was stunned, his gloomy face was full of murderous intent, he pressed the knife in his hand and said viciously: "You bold thief, you scared me, come out."
After all, he is an old Jianghu, and he will never leave Da Jinya alive.
But he also understood that Da Jinya couldn't hide here alone.
The knife was pointed at Da Jinya, but his eyes were watching six directions and his ears were listening to the wind coming from all directions.
At this time, the fat man who was lying on the ground pretending to be a dead body quietly raised the rifle in his hand and wanted to shoot Ma Laowazi to death.
Some sand fell on the muzzle of the gun, but the slightest sound made Ma Laowazi notice it.
Ma Laowazi prepared to chop the big golden tooth, but he turned around and struck out with his backhand.
His swordsmanship was surprisingly fast.
Before the fat man could shoot, one-third of the rifle in his hand had been cut off by the sharp knife.
The fat man was furious, turned over the remaining half of the rifle in his hand, and hit Ma Laowazi with all his strength.
The Guanshan knife in Ma Laowazi's hand is less than three feet long and two inches wide.
It has a unique shape and has no routine.
It only takes up eight characters: "sweep, split, dial, cut, plunder, nai, chop". ", sudden", hard and fast.
He pushed aside the rifle that the fat man had smashed down with his knife, and slashed diagonally with the knife in both hands.
The fat man hurriedly dodged back, but there was a rammed earth wall behind him, and there was no way to retreat.
His whole body was taken care of by the blade, and he had no time to dodge to both sides.
Although the knife in Ma Laowazi's hand was short, if he struck it at this distance, it would at least split the fat man's stomach.
Fortunately, the fat man had not been able to eat or drink for the past two days, and there was no food in his stomach.
He suddenly shrank.
He actually retracted his stomach by more than an inch, and in a flash of lightning, he avoided the disemboweling knife.
He dodged the knife but couldn't avoid the blade.
The blade made a slit in the fat man's clothes.
The fat man's anger arose in his heart, and his hatred grew in his courage.
He cursed: "Old donkey, let you eat pepper noodles."
After speaking, he raised his hand and threw out a handful of sand.
Ma Laowazi shouted, jumped back, and avoided the handful of sand.
I saw the opportunity, picked up the golden pot filled with thousand-year-old wine, and threw it to where Ma Laowazi was.
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Ma Laowazi jumped back and stepped on the golden pot, knocking him out of bed.
The fat man jumped up and sat on Ma Laowa's belly.
One Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven.
Ma Laowazi let out a scream, which was really no different from a donkey's braying.
No matter how fast his knife skills were, the fat man couldn't use them even if he sat under his buttocks.
I said, "Well done, today will be your anniversary next year."
I reached out and pulled out the engineering shovel, swung it up and tried to slap Ma Laowa on the head.
I thought that this blow would not kill Ma Laowa, at least it would.
Shoot him half to death, just about to do it Hand, I saw another person crawling into the sand hole in front of the door.
The man was extremely agile.
He had a long whip like a black snake in his hand.
The long whip seemed to be alive.
He shook one hand and heard a "pop" sound.
Yes, I've already received a blow on my hand.
A large bloody gash was cut out on the back of his hand.
The pain was excruciating and he could no longer hold the engineer shovel.
I was worried that the other party would whip me again, so I immediately rolled forward on the spot and picked up the fallen engineer shovel with my left hand.
At this time, I also saw that the person who had just walked in was the slave of Jade Faced Fox.
Under the flickering light of the lantern, the animal tattoos on her pretty face looked particularly ferocious.
When I was in the Kunlun Mountains before, I saw people with animal patterns on their faces.
It is said that there is a custom in Tibet.
If a child is picked up by a wild beast or thrown into the mountains and survives, the tiger and the wolf will nurse him.
Big, that is what people often call a wolf.
When such a savage enters the human world again, the lama will tattoo animal patterns all over his face, which is a tantric spell used to subdue the animal nature in this person.
I don't know if this Gan slave is also a wolf boy, but his agility and speed are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
He doesn't seem to be able to speak and only obeys the orders of the jade-faced fox.
Ganu struck out like the wind, hitting the back of my hand with a whip.
With a flick of his wrist, the tip of the whip turned, and then turned towards the fat man.
The fat man's reaction was definitely fast enough.
He swung out the engineer shovel in his hand and faced the sweeping whip tip.
He thought he could block the whip with a shovel.
Even if he couldn't block it, the whip would wrap around the shovel.
If the two sides competed, with his strength, he would not suffer any loss.
But the long whip was like a ghost in Gan Nu's hand.
It bypassed the engineer shovel in the fat man's hand from an unexpected angle.
The tip of the whip was swept on the fat man's shoulder.
There was also a crisp "snap" sound, and a bloody strip was drawn out.
It turns out that the tip of the whip is full of barbs.
If it hits a person, a piece of flesh will be taken out.
The fat man had never suffered such a big loss.
When he saw something was wrong, he quickly rolled forward.
He thought the same as me.
The opponent's long whip was fast and accurate.
As soon as he made a move, a piece of flesh would be swept off his body.
He couldn't block it or dodge it.
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In this case, the only way to retreat was to advance quickly.
When approaching the opponent, the long whip in Ganu's hand cannot be used.
Ganu saw the fat man and I rushing forward, but he didn't see how she took action.
She only heard a "snap" sound, and the fat man and I received another whipping.
Because the whip was whipped so fast, the sounds of the whip hitting the two of them overlapped into one sound.
But at the same time, I also realized that although the whip in Ganu's hand was fast, it was not fatal with just one whip.
The two of us were willing to take two or three blows and rush to her side, then she would have no room to fight back.
I never expected that not only was the long whip in Gan Nu's hand extremely fast, but his body movements were also unimaginably fast.
Not only did she not retreat, but she jumped forward, like a flying bird, leaping over our heads.
As soon as we landed, the long whip shot out again, hitting me and the fat man directly.
At this critical moment, Xue Liyang stepped out from the side compartment, raised the bow in his hand, and shot out a sharp arrow with a "whoosh".
Ganu's long whip had already been swung out, and no matter how fast she was, she had no time to turn back to block it, but when she heard the sharp arrow breaking through the wind, she just turned her face, and the arrow was nailed to her face, knocking her down to the ground. .
Although Ma Laowazi's sword skills are ruthless, we can still deal with him, but this Ganu's skills are so fast and fierce that he can hardly stand up to jackals, tigers and leopards.
It can be said that he is the most difficult character to deal with among the jade-faced fox's men.
Fortunately, Xueli Yang shot her down with an arrow, which was like getting rid of a serious problem.
But when I saw Ganu lying on the ground, she actually bit the arrow with her teeth.
I was shocked and hurriedly called Xueli Yang.
Be careful This Gan slave is more agile than a leopard.
Before I even said "Be careful" to Xueli Yang, she had already shaken her head and spit out the sharp arrow in her mouth.
She drew a circle with the long whip in her hand and whipped the tip of the whip towards Xueli Yang.
Stand up, jump up from the ground.
Xueli Yang used the Vajra Umbrella to block him forward.
The long whip and the Vajra Umbrella were wrapped together and pulled straight in an instant.
Xueli Yang couldn't help himself and was staggered by Ganu's long whip.
The fat man and I yelled and cursed loudly, and each rushed towards Ganu with a shovel.
Xue Liyang remained calm in the face of danger, opened the diamond umbrella in his hand, shook off the long whip wrapped around it, raised his hand and fired another arrow.
Ganu was trapped by three people.
On one side, there were fast arrows shot by Xue Liyang's arm bow, and on the other two sides, Fatty and I were shooting at her engineer shovels.
No matter how capable she was, she could not escape from these three at the same time.
People attack together.
Just when there was no room for anything to happen, she saw the long whip in her hand swinging towards the roof, wrapping around the red willow beam above.
She lifted her body upward and used her strength to leap onto the higher roof beam.
The fat man cursed angrily: "I wonder if you can still fly to the sky?"
He swung the engineer shovel upwards in his hand and threw it towards Ganu on the roof.
It's enough to cut off half of the head.
Gan Nu was lying on the roof beam.
When she saw the fat engineer's shovel flying up, she ducked to the side.
The engineer's shovel punched a hole in the roof.
Sand and soil fell one after another, all falling on Gan Nu's head.
She hurriedly raised her hands to cover her hands.
Head.
I called to Fatty and Xueli Yang and shouted: "While she is confused, take her down first."
The roof beams were more than three feet high from the ground.
I was not as quick as Gan Nu.
I rushed over, stepped on Big Jinya's shoulders, jumped up, grabbed the curtains hanging from the roof, and used my strength on the pillars.
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Climb up, reach out to the roof beam, and then climb up.
Xueli Yang was worried that I had made a mistake, so he took out the Flying Tiger Claw and hooked it to the beam, and was about to come up to help.
The fat man over there was also anxious.
Before Xueli Yang could get up, he grabbed the rope of the Flying Tiger Claw and climbed up using his hands and feet.
After crawling for a long time without moving, he was hanging in the air and dangling, causing the wooden beam to creak.
Xueli Yang exclaimed: "Come down quickly, the beam is about to break."
The main beams of the city lord's big house are made of whole red willow trees, which are extremely strong.
However, the big house has been buried under the yellow sand for thousands of years, and the rafters on the roof have decayed.
Two people can still bear it, plus a fat man weighing more than 200 kilograms is below.
How can the roof beams bear the weight of a thousand-jin drop?
The sound of breaking rafters resounded in my ears.
When I saw that the roof beam was about to collapse, I quickly jumped down.
Xueli Yang also took away the flying tiger claws and retreated under the rammed earth wall together with the big golden tooth to avoid being hit by the falling giant beam.
Unexpectedly, there were two big holes in the roof.
The strong wind came in and lifted the roof with broken rafters into the sky.
In a blink of an eye, it was torn into countless pieces by the strong wind and scattered in all directions.
The yellow sand in the sky and the knife-like whirlwind swallowed up everything in the big house in an instant, but when I heard the whistling coming and going in the ancient city of Yuansha, the upper part of the sand wall turned yellow, and the color became darker as it went down, and it was almost black near the ground, and the wind and sand rolled all over the sky.
Suddenly, stones and sand flew up, and the thick dust covered the sky and the earth.
It was like the sky was falling.
Ganu and the red willow beam were swept away by the wind and sand, like a giant dragon flying into the air. 3 After all, the wooden beam was heavy, and it only turned twice in the wind before falling outside the house again.
When everyone saw that there was no way to stay in the big house, and the whereabouts of Ma Laowazi were nowhere to be seen, only the dead boy's body lay on the ground, which was soon buried by the wind and sand, so they picked up the explosives and engineers dropped by Ma Laowazi.
Shovel, quickly climbed out from the rammed earth wall.
Wind and sand were raging in the ancient city of Yuansha.
Everyone could not lift their heads, so they lay on the ground and moved forward.
At this time, they had reached the depths of the ancient city, and the wind in the cyclone had weakened.
When I looked around, I felt like I was in the center of a huge whirlpool formed by rolling yellow sand.
There was no way around me.
In this ancient city, there is a tall rammed earth platform, which has been eroded by wind for a long time and has no longer regained its original appearance.
Now it seems that it is just a large mound with an abrupt shape, completely different from the houses in the ancient city.
The cyclone blew away the yellow sand, revealing a small part of the arched doorway under the rammed earth pile.
The four people were desperate.
Seeing a place to escape the wind and sand, they immediately filed in.
Xue Liyang took out a signal torch, pulled the ring, and with a "chi" sound, the white fireworks illuminated everything in front of him.
It turns out that under this arched doorway, there is a corridor extending downward.
I had an idea: "This is an ancient tomb."
But then I thought, there will never be an ancient tomb built in the city.
Everyone walked a few steps forward and saw many reliefs with strong religious overtones in the corridor.
It seemed that this was a temple.
Da Jinya was worried that the tomb robbers under the jade-faced fox would catch up, so he took a step and looked back.
I don’t know where to go in front of me.
There are wolves ahead and tigers behind me.
Everyone felt frightened when they thought of the fierce battle in the city lord's mansion, as well as Ganu's ghostly long whip and leopard-like agility.
The strong wind blew her and the wooden beam into the air, and then fell down again, which might not have killed her.
The big gold tooth grabbed me to discuss: "Master Hu, doesn't the jade-faced fox just want that Xixia Golden Book?
She's catching and biting everyone like a mad dog for this thing.
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We men can't be as knowledgeable as her.
In my opinion See, let’s just reward her with the Golden Book of Xixia, so she can’t be grateful to us.
After all, everyone only eats a bowl of rice, and peace is the most precious thing in everything.”
I said: "Big Jinya, you are such a coward.
Before you even got there, you decided to write a letter of surrender and a letter of acceptance.
Didn't you hear what the jade-faced fox said?
After getting the golden book of Xixia, he will kill us all one by one.
The Xixia Golden Book in my hand is our only advantage at present.
The relationship between them is an enemy and we are in a tense situation, so you have to give up any hope of peace talks as soon as possible and fight with them to the end.
Besides, who are our brothers?
Let’s compare it to her, she really doesn’t know who I am.”
Da Jinya said: "But they are armed to the teeth.
We brothers can't even hold a shovel in one hand.
Why are we trying to play with our lives?
They are all foreign guns and cannons.
Don't forget Gengzi."
How did the Boxer Rebellion fail?"
I said: "None of us will forget the lessons of history, but as a commander, we must be good at judging and analyzing situations anytime and anywhere.
Let me tell you how to turn disadvantages into advantages, and turn passivity into initiative.
This requires us to stretch our legs longer and run faster.
We must tell our comrades not to be afraid of running away, and mobilize the masses while running away, so that the other party will fall into the vast sea of people's war."
The fat man said: "You are talking nonsense.
You can't escape with just one word."
Xue Liyang said: "The biggest danger we face is not the heavily armed Gurkhas, but this strong sandstorm.
If we escape from the ancient city of Yuansha, we will be buried in the sand immediately.
And once the sandstorm stops, If you come down, the ancient city of Yuansha will be buried.
It will be a dead end if you can't get out."
I pondered for a moment and said to everyone: "Guess what I suddenly remembered?"
The fat man said: "Your head is on your body, I know what you are thinking."
Da Jinya said: "Master Hu must have great ideas, please tell me quickly."
I said: "I thought of fish" The fat man said: "Which fish is West Lake vinegar fish or braised flatfish?"
Da Jinya said: "When I mention it here, it must be the grilled fish in the city lord's big house, but what's the use of it?
You can't eat it just by thinking about it."
The fat man said: "If we talk about fish, then we have to say it is a flat fish, one flat, two clean and three flat."
Big Gold Tooth said: "Don't say it's flat, clean, and flat-eyed, just give me a fat-headed fish that has grown up by eating shit, and I can call you daddy."
I found that when I was with Fatty and Big Gold Tooth, I basically couldn’t say a serious word: “How come even the Fathead Fish came out, it looks like a fucking Fathead Fish?”
The fat man said: "Didn't you mention the fish first?
What do you mean?"
I said, "I mean, who eats fish?"
The fat man said: "Did you let the wind blow your head?
You don't know who eats fish.
Cats eat fish."
Da Jinya interjected and said: "Hey, let me tell you, our cat doesn't eat fish.
To say that our cat is really not an ordinary cat.
Our cat is a wolf and a wolf."
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Tiger, it doesn't even have clay when it jumps over mountains and rivers.
When I mentioned it to Panjiayuan, someone gave it five hundred and fifty, but I was not willing to sell it. " The fat man said: "Hey, how much does that cost?"
I said helplessly: "I can't talk to you two.
I've been talking for a long time and I haven't said a damn useful word.
I really don't know what you think."
I thought about it and stopped talking nonsense to them.
I turned around and wanted to ask Xue Liyang. , before I could speak, Xue Liyang said to me: "By the way, the pottery pots and jade plates in Yuansha Ancient City are also decorated with fish patterns, aren't they?"
I said, "Yes, people here must often eat fish, but where do fish come from deep in the desert?"
The fat man said: "Hey, we are not talking about the same thing.
How did you say this?
Why did you think so wrong?"
4 Xue Liyang ignored the fat man and continued to say to me: "The Mu Us Desert used to have many oases with rich water and grass.
Perhaps a thousand years ago, there were lakes and rivers here.
If there were not enough water sources, it would never be able to support such a large city."
I said, "Looking at the shape and structure of this ancient city, there should be no rivers around it, because once a war breaks out and the enemy forces surround the city, the people in the city can only sit and wait for death.
Without the water source, the soldiers and civilians in the city will die of thirst.
So.
For any ancient city of this size, the main water source must be in the city.”
Xueli Yang said: "The water source in the city certainly comes from wells."
Da Jinya said: "Will there be such a big fish in the well?"
Xue Liyang said: "Maybe the well leads directly to the underground river, which is one of the nine rivers we are looking for.
As long as you enter the underground river from the well, you can avoid the wind and sand and those tomb robbers, and you can pass through the underground river and reach the Xixia Underground Palace directly. " When everyone said this, their spirits were lifted.
Finding the underground river not only meant that they could get rid of the pursuers, but more importantly, they could replenish their drinking water.
But the ancient city has been buried in yellow sand for so many years, and there is no map of the ancient city of Yuansha.
How to determine the location of the well?
I said: "This large earthen platform like a tomb is located in the middle of Yuansha Ancient City.
It is very important.
This corridor goes all the way down.
If my prediction is correct, it must lead directly to the underground river."
The group quickened their pace, using the light of the signal torch to clear the way, and walked deep into the corridor.
They seemed to have entered a vaulted temple, at least the size of a football field.
Although the white phosphorescence of the signal torch was bright and dazzling, it could not illuminate the entire temple.
The walls of the temple are painted with white mud, and there are layers of water ripples on them.
In fact, there is no water here, and there is a thick layer of sand on the ground.
The group of people did not dare to be careless.
They walked in step by step holding diamond umbrellas and engineering shovels, holding high the signal torch to illuminate the surroundings.
There is a large stone platform at each corner, with human-faced fish patterns painted on the periphery.
The style is unique and unprecedented.
There are two boat-shaped coffins on each stone platform.
In the coffins are mummies wrapped in fish skin, one man and one woman, with their heads facing east roughly, and both lying with their limbs straight.
The fish skin wrapped around the dead body has a curly moire texture as a whole.
The corners are spliced with fish skin with fine scales and stitched with fishing thread in between.
The dorsal fin of the fish skin is retained.
The body tightly wrapped by the fish skin is only exposed.
The head, with a distorted face, still maintains the struggling and desperate appearance of his life.
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Looking closer, it is very scary.
In the middle of the hall is a rectangular hole, about two meters long and one meter wide.
The hole is made of huge rocks.
There is a cold wind and a stench below.
Looking down, it is bottomless and there is no sound of water flowing.
The fat man said: "This is the well you were talking about."
I said: "It's close to ten, at least it's the entrance to the underground river."
In my previous concept, well mouths were all round, while rectangular shafts were very rare.
Moreover, through this narrow shaft mouth, there seemed to be a very huge cave below.
Xueli Yang threw the signal torch into the wellhead, and saw the dazzling light slowly falling.
It was visually estimated that the distance from the wellhead to the bottom of the cave was no less than forty or fifty meters.
The total ropes in our backpacks should be able to reach this distance, and what is certain is that , there is no water below, the underground river no longer exists.
Da Jinya slumped down and sat down.
He stuck out his tongue and licked his chapped lips.
He said: "One person only has such a small half a pot of water.
If he can't find the underground river, he will really die of thirst.
Since it is a dead end, I have to drink first."
Let's talk about it when we're happy."
As he spoke, he unscrewed the lid of the marching water bottle and drank half of the water like a ruthless man.
Because he was so excited, he dropped the kettle on the ground.
He quickly got up and licked the sand with his tongue.
I grabbed the back collar of his clothes, pulled him up from the ground, and pushed him aside: "Eat a mouthful of sand." , wouldn’t that make you thirstier?”
The fat man came over and said, "Old Hu, there is no turning back after we've reached this point.
Let's not hesitate any longer.
I'll close my eyes and go down first, and you will follow."
He put away the engineer shovel and put away the wolf-eye flashlight.
Now let the rope go down.
At this moment, I suddenly heard Xue Liyang say: "You guys come and take a look at this first."
I turned around and saw her shining a wolf-eye flashlight on the stone platform where the fish skin mummies were placed.
Fatty Da Jinya and I walked over, not knowing what to see on the stone platform where the fish skin mummies were placed.
I said: "Those mummies should have been wrapped in fish skins and placed in this big temple before they were alive.
The wind and sand buried the ancient city, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city were buried alive, so no one paid attention to them anymore, and they ended up alive."
I'm afraid it won't be very pleasant to wait for death here."
Da Jinya said: "I don't know what fault these men and women have committed to deserve this death penalty."
The fat man said: "If you ask me, this is the one who broke the shoes.
Look at these pairs, there are exactly four pairs.
They will definitely be caught and raped."
I said: "Why do you remember that the child is the child?
Why do you think that someone is a shoemaker?
You are not afraid that the ghosts are lingering here and may come to bite you."
Xue Liyang said: "Don't make random guesses.
This is a temple.
The mummies in the coffin are all fruits of the living used to sacrifice to the cave god."
Da Jinya said: "Miss Yang, we are almost dying of thirst here.
Can you please stop mentioning the fruit?"
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Xue Liyang said: "The fruit of living people is used to sacrifice living people to the cave god."
Da Jinya said: "Then I understand, taking a living person as an offering fruit, it turns out that this is called the fruit of living people."
I asked Xue Liyang: "What kind of thing is the cave god that can eat people?"
Xue Liyang said: "This is a temple in the ancient city.
Judging from the reliefs on the stone platform, for thousands of years, the soldiers and civilians in the ancient city of Yuansha have fed on the fish in this holy well.
And among them It seems that those fish were supposed to be enjoyed by the cave god, so year after year a living person was wrapped in fish skin and thrown into the holy well to appease the cave god's anger."
I said: "The ancient people were superstitious and there was no cave god anywhere.
But since there are fish in this holy well, it must be an underground river.
This shows that the route we chose is correct."
Xue Liyang said: "The eight dead bodies wrapped in fish skins on the stone platform were intended to be thrown down the holy well for the cave god to eat.
But there are no temples in this world.
Those who were thrown down fell into the underground river, and most of the fish were killed.
People eat fish, and fish eat people.
This is probably the simplest and most intuitive understanding of nature by the ancients."
Now there is neither an underground river nor a school of fish under the holy well.
But we have to risk our lives to cross this underground river and go to the Xixia Underground Palace.
We should set off immediately without further delay.
I turned around and saw the dense water ripples on the temple wall again, and my heart suddenly moved: "Are they really water ripples?"
At that time, I didn't think much about it, and I was worried that the jade-faced fox would lead the Gurkhas in pursuit.
The four people immediately connected the long ropes.
The fat man was the first to bear the brunt, and the other three people followed the long ropes down to the bottom of the cave one by one.
The fat man opened the signal torch in his hand to illuminate, but he saw that there was fine quicksand under his feet, and it sank when he stepped on it.
The rock wall dozens of meters above his head was shaped like a dome, and the layers of huge rock folds were enough to prove that at least this place already existed.
For hundreds of millions of years.
The huge cave stretches forward, and the wolf-eye flashlight can't see the end.
Although this huge and unfathomable cave is open, it is extremely hot and stuffy, and there is a pungent stench floating in the cave.
I said: "Big Gold Tooth, you have a good nose.
Can you smell what this smells like?"
Da Jinya sniffed hard with his nose, choking until he opened his mouth and wanted to vomit, and said: "Master Hu, this is the smell of dead fish."
I said: "The cave is full of quicksand and there is not a drop of water.
Where did the dead fish come from?"
Da Jinya said: "Perhaps when there was an underground river thousands of years ago, the smell of the dead fish in the cave had not dissipated."
I didn't take Da Jinya's words seriously, so how could that be possible?
Xue Liyang took out the compass and checked the direction.
The cave runs in an east-west direction.
If you predict correctly, you can reach the Xixia Underground Palace by walking west.
She said: "This is a big sand cave.
Be careful of the quicksand as you go forward."
Everyone did not dare to take it lightly, so they each put long ropes into their belts.
Four people connected in a string, equipped with portable lamps respectively, and moved forward cautiously.
The fat man who was opening the road in front said to himself: "There is no water and no fish.
What kind of underground river is this?
Judging from this situation, let alone a thousand years ago, there would have been no fish ten thousand years ago.
Obviously there were no fish."
A huge quicksand hole."
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He just talked, stepped on the quicksand and fell down.
He struggled quickly for fear of sinking into the quicksand, but he felt something was under the sand.
When he took it out and took a look, he was stunned.
I followed him and couldn't see what he took out from the quicksand.
Seeing that he was stunned, I quickly asked him what happened.
The fat man said: "Yuyu is so fucking fishy":