In the past two days at "Magnetic Mountain", my mechanical watch either stopped or kept going fast and slow.
I thought it was because the cheap watch was of poor quality and broke in the desert.
Could it be that we are near those two Magnetic Mountains?
An Liman also remembered that he had heard people say that in the hinterland of the Black Desert, there are two sacred mountains of Zagrama, one red and one white.
Legend has it that they are the two sacred mountains where the sages are buried.
Shiry Yang added: "If there are really two mountains like this in the desert, then the Ziduan River may be intercepted by Cishan underground and is too far from the ground, so we can't find it.
I think we shouldn't All my attention is spent looking for traces of the underground river On the trail, if the legend and the British explorer are right, Cishan should be nearby.
Mr.
Hu, you are going to use your Tianxing Feng Shui skills again tonight.
Don’t forget what we said before.
If you find the ancient city of Jingjue, the reward will be doubled.”
I didn't have the confidence to find Jingjue City from the beginning.
After hearing what she said, I had to try at night.
If I could find Nazagrama Mountain, my reward would be increased to 20,000 US dollars.
If we couldn't find it, we would have to Went back home.
To be honest, I can’t tell if I’m looking forward to finding the ancient city of Jingjue.
After hearing the story of Queen Jingjue, a mysterious and alluring image lingers in my mind.
Deep in the desert, like There is an invisible magic that attracts me.
I wonder if Professor Chen, Shiry Yang, and the expedition team who never returned have the same feeling as me.
The day was so long that I wanted to shoot the sun out of the sky with a gun.
The sand pit was dug very deep, but I couldn't feel the cold air at all.
Although there is a thick canvas on the pit, the person is hiding in the shadows, and the body is lying in the sand nest, it still feels like being placed in an oven.
Ye Yixin, who was in a thin body, may have been confused by the sun, and talked nonsense while sleeping.
Everyone was worried that she had a high fever, so they touched her forehead with their hands.
It was as hot as sand.
They couldn't tell whether she had a high fever or not.
She didn't wake up no matter how hard they pushed her.
We still had some water, enough for about five days, and two bags of yogurt soup left for last-minute use.
At this time, there was nothing I couldn't bear to do, so I took out a bag, asked Shiry Yang to feed her a few sips, and gave her some medicine.
After Ye Yixin drank the medicine, she gradually calmed down, but she was still unconscious.
She was probably suffering from acute dehydration, which was troublesome.
I told Professor Chen and others about the situation the archaeological team was facing now.
There are nothing more than two roads.
One road is to start back tonight.
On the way back, in the last few days, you have to eat camel meat, drink salty sandwozi water, and drive No. 11.
Even if you do this, you can't guarantee Ye Yixin's safety.
Life safety.
The other way is to bite the bullet and continue looking for Jingjue City.
If there is a water source in the city, her life will be saved.
Professor Chen said that we are facing great difficulties.
Although archeology requires dedication, since Ye Yixin is so young, we must be responsible for her life.
Although the first route is safe, it will be very difficult to go back without enough clean water.
The second route is more risky, but we have already arrived near Zagrama, and we are 60% sure to find Jingjue.
These There should be underground water veins in ancient cities, but after two thousand years, it is unknown whether the water veins have dried up and changed their routes.
Where to go now, let us all share our opinions.
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The fat man first said: "I have lost two full pounds around my waist.
If we go deeper into the desert again, you can just call me thin man from now on.
I suggest that we don't stop for a moment.
As soon as the sun goes down, we Go back, maybe you can still have half your life left."
Hao Aiguo and Sa Dipeng were relatively stable and agreed to go back.
In contrast, more people think that although the method of finding Jingjue City is risky, it is worth a try.
After all, everyone has paid so much hardship and price to get to this point.
I really don’t want to waste all the efforts, and I hope to be able to Finding clean water in the ruins of the ancient city saved Ye Yixin's life.
She drank salty Shawozi water on the way back.
Even a healthy person could do it.
Besides, she was so seriously ill.
Going back would be tantamount to her death sentence.
Shiry Yang, Chu Jian, and the professor and I all share this view.
Except for Ye Yixin who was unconscious, only old man An Liman remained silent.
Everyone's eyes were focused on his face.
If his point of view is to go back, then we are exactly four against four, but An Liman is a guide, and his decision in this matter is very weighty.
I said to old man An Liman: "Old man, you have to think carefully before speaking.
Your words are related to Ye Yixin's life.
What do you think we should do now?"
Old man An Liman held his pipe in his mouth, squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and said, "Of course I obey Hu Da's will.
There is only one sun in the sky, and there is only one almighty true god in the world.
Hu Da The conference guides us.”
I pointed to the sky: "Then you should quickly ask what the old man Hu Da said."
An Liman knocked the old cigarette bag, inserted it back into his waist, took out the tattered blanket, and began to pray with a pious expression.
He turned his palms inward, facing his face, and recited scriptures.
His expression was pious and solemn, not at all like his usual philistine and cunning look.
He was mumbling words, but we couldn't understand what he meant.
The longer we waited for him, the more he couldn't finish.
The fat man got impatient and asked, "Sir, are you still finished?"
An Liman opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Mr.
Hu, you have already given us a revelation."
After that, he took out a five-cent coin and showed it to everyone.
The word on the side means "keep moving forward" and the picture on the side.
Then go back the same way and ask Professor Chen, the oldest here, to throw it into the sky.
The result that falls will be Hu Da's will.
Everyone couldn't laugh or cry and looked at each other.
Professor Chen took the coin and threw it high into the air.
Everyone looked up at the coin.
The sun was bright and dazzling, but they saw the coin falling from the sky and standing upright in the sand.
Even if we throw it a hundred thousand times, it may not be such a coincidence.
An Liman shook his head repeatedly, with a look of frustration on his face, forgetting that this was a black desert abandoned by Hu Da.
How could Hu Da give us directions.
We were scratching our heads in wonder, but we heard Shiry Yang pointing to the distance and shouting: "Oh God, that's Lagzama Mountain" The desert was extremely empty, and as far as the eye could see from thousands of miles away, the direction of her finger was facing the direction where the coin fell.
At the end of the world, there was a faint black line, but it was far away, and you couldn't see it clearly unless you looked carefully.
We hurriedly took out the telescope, adjusted the focus and saw a black mountain range, like a static black dragon in the thousands of miles of yellow sand.
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The mountain range was cut off from it and there was a mountain pass in the middle.
These features were consistent with those recorded in the notes of British explorers.
Last year, Shiry Yang's father led an expedition team to find the ancient city of Jingjue based on these clues.
I wonder if they have seen this sacred mountain.
If they have been here before, what did they encounter?
What is it?
They never come back Thinking of this, I actually felt a chill under the scorching sun, but this feeling was quickly diluted by the joyful atmosphere.
We traveled long distances and narrowly escaped death, and finally found the door to enter the ancient country of Jingjue at the last moment.
However, An Liman once said that there is a dreamy land in the black desert, where mirages often appear.
Those wonders are illusions that lead people to the abyss of death.
Are the two sacred mountains we saw real?
Then I thought, probably not.
First of all, the illusions in the desert are all caused by the refraction of light.
Those landscapes are all kinds of strange, and most of them are scenery that does not exist in the desert.
And the black mountains, someone has mentioned it more than once, It should be absolutely true.
Since we are not far from the ancient city of Jingjue, we can set off for it when it gets dark.
However, the information we have is very limited.
Most of it is inference and related legends collected.
The only reliable evidence is a vague black and white photo.
Can we find the ancient city of Jingjue, or even whether there is such a one in the world?
It's hard to tell about the ancient city.
Maybe everything is passed down by rumors.
This is how legends often come about.
On the Korean battlefield, MacArthur once said this: "At the beginning, we thought we knew everything, but later we discovered that the fact was that we knew nothing."
I seem to feel this way now.
Are the ruins of the royal city not buried by yellow sand again?
Can water be found in the city to bury Queen Jingjue?
Is the ancient tomb of Queen Jingjue in the city, or elsewhere?
Is there really a mountain of treasures in the city?
What is the monster queen?
She is dead.
Will it still pose a threat to outsiders in the future?
Did Shiry Yang's father really die in the ancient city of Jingjue?
Can their remains be found?
What those foreign explorers encountered in the city is still unknown to us. .
In the evening, the archaeological team set off towards Zagrama.
As the saying goes, if you look at the mountain and run to death, you will have to look in the right direction, and you will not arrive at the mountain pass until late at night.
At that time, the moonlight was like water, and the desert was like a silent sea.
In this ocean of sand, the Zagrama Mountains were undulating and covered with black stones.
The closer they were, the more eye-catching they became.
It is more appropriate to say that it is a mountain.
It is better to say that it is two oversized black stones.
The diameter of these two huge stones is tens of kilometers.
Only a shallow backbone is exposed in the sea of sand.
The larger part is buried underground, perhaps in the sea.
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Below, the two boulders themselves are connected as one, and the pass may be nothing more than a crack in the boulder.
This black stone contains magnets.
Although the average content is not high, it is enough to affect the precision instruments used to determine the orientation.
We also feel that the metal objects we carry are gradually becoming heavier.
The moonlight reflected nothing on the black stones.
It was dark and midwinter inside the mountain pass.
Except for Ye Yixin, who was unconscious, everyone got off the camel's back and walked.
I remind everyone to highlight their tricks.
Never be careless when traveling through the devil's mouth.
An Liman and I were in the front, Fat Chu Jian was behind, and Shiry Yang and others were taking care of Ye Yixin in the middle.
The team lined up in a single file and slowly entered the valley.
This mountain was regarded as a sacred mountain by ancient people.
It is said that two sages are buried there.
This is mostly a myth.
But from the perspective of Feng Shui, this place can really be regarded as occupying the entire situation and swallowing up everything.
The black mountains are two black dragons guarding the place.
It is false that the ancestors can be buried on the mountain.
If there is indeed the mausoleum of the exquisite queen behind the mountain, it would not be unexpected at all.
The moon was at its peak, and the north-south valley was so dark that I couldn't even see my fingers.
We moved forward one step at a time, and the further we walked, the more uneasy we felt.
Once we left the valley, we could really find the essence.
Ancient city?
Found the ancient city?
Is there any water source in the city?
The most worrying thing is Ye Yixin's condition.
Her acute dehydration must be treated with a large amount of clean cold salt water.
If she cannot find a water source within three days, she will be thrown into the desert.
Hit.
Our watches had stopped a long time ago.
We didn’t know how long we had walked.
We intuitively estimated that it would be dawn in a while.
At this time, the camels’ breathing suddenly became heavy and their mood was obviously restless.
Old Man Anliman hurriedly whistled and shouted, trying his best to calm down the group of camels.
His nineteen camels were all strong and strong male camels.
After walking in the desert for so many days, they could not do it.
This has never happened.
It was already dark all around, and the commotion of these camels only increased the fear in the hearts of the team members.
Shiry Yang was worried that Ye Yixin would be thrown off the camel, so he and Hao Aiguo hurriedly picked her off the camel's back.
I called the fat man over and asked him to work harder.
He should carry Ye Yixin on his back first.
This valley is weird and tight.
It is not a place to stay for a long time.
We must not delay and get out as soon as possible.
The fat man was quite happy with it.
Firstly, Ye Yixin didn't have much weight to begin with.
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Ever since he hit the desert, he was exposed to the sun and lacked water, and he was even skinnier.
Besides, having a beautiful girl on his back was not a bad thing.
He carried Ye Yixin on his back like a child, urging An Liman in front of him to move quickly.
However, no matter how hard An Liman drove us, those camels refused to take even half a step forward.
Old man An Liman also became suspicious and began to talk again, fearing that Hu Da would not let us go forward any further, so he hurried back. yes.
As they were about to leave the valley, how could the rest of the people be willing to go back the way they came.
The team was in a mess for a while.
Shiry Yang said to me: "Is there something in front that scares the camels and refuses to move forward?
Let's throw a cold firework over there to take a photo."
Take a photo and understand clearly."
I agreed from the front, took out a cold pyrotechnic for lighting, shot it and threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front.
There are dark rocks on both sides, and the ground is covered with thick yellow sand.
The empty mountain is so silent that there is not even a blade of grass.
There is nothing unusual about it.
At that moment, I took a few steps forward and threw a second lighting firework.
My eyes lit up.
There was a person sitting on the ground in the distance.
We walked over and took a look.
We saw that the person was wearing a white robe and had a sandproof headband on his head. wearing a turban and a rucksack on his back, motionless, it turned out to be a dead man.
Everyone was shocked.
It was not surprising to encounter dead people or mummies in the desert, but this corpse was different.
The deceased was a man, with a turban covering his mouth and only two eyes exposed, staring at the sky with unblinking eyes.
The time of death will not be long, maybe within a few days.
His exposed skin is only slightly dry.
The strangest thing is that his skin and flesh are blue, and under the illumination of the fireworks, there are traces of blue light.
Several people wanted to come around and have a look, but I blocked them.
The way this person died was too weird, so don't get close.
Chu Jian suddenly shouted: "Brother Hu, look, there is another dead body here."
My scalp was slightly numb.
There were two dead bodies in succession.
Could there be more?
I threw a few cold fireworks casually, illuminating the surrounding area.
Sure enough, there were more than two corpses.
On the ground in front, four people were lying horizontally and vertically.
A male corpse.
These dead people were dressed in the same clothes and died in the same way.
They all stared in horror and died in a strange way.
There were also several Soviet-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.
I took out my engineering shovel and used it as a weapon for self-defense.
I walked over and picked up one of them.
I saw that the bullet was loaded.
Damn, this is weird.
Who are these people?
Some poachers in Xinjiang use foreign mines.
Minton, or imitation of Type 56, how could there be a Soviet-made AK?
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Are they the same group of tomb robbers who robbed the stone tomb?
I opened one of the backpacks again, and inside there were a lot of military yellow explosives marked in Russian.
It is estimated that these arms were imported from abroad.
It is not surprising that they were purchased by these tomb robbers to blow up ancient tombs in the desert.
It’s just that these weapons Why did the guy who had grown his teeth die in this valley for no apparent reason?
I used the barrel of my gun to lift the turban on the face of the male corpse sitting on the ground.
I saw his mouth wide open, as if he was shouting desperately before he died.
I didn’t want to see more.
No matter what, I left this valley of the cemetery as soon as possible.
That's the best policy.
Those explosives might be used later.
I picked up the backpack containing the explosives and prepared to let everyone leave.
At this time, Hao Aiguo walked out of the team: "It doesn't matter whether these people are tomb robbers.
We can't let them expose their corpses here.
Let's carry them outside the valley and bury them.
As soon as I saw the people who exposed their corpses in the wilderness, I thought Those people who were sent to the earth kiln labor camp with me.
Those comrades died in such pitiful circumstances that they didn’t even have a tattered straw mat to wrap their corpses on.
Alas, I hate seeing these the most."
He was nagging as he went to move the comrades sitting on the ground. male corpse.
I was really anxious at this time, and yelled and went to stop him: "You stinking nerd, you are so fucking ignorant, please don't touch these dead people."
But it was too late.
From the mouth of the male corpse, a strange snake suddenly jumped out.
The scales on the snake's body were gleaming.
There was a black flesh crown on the top of its head, about thirty centimeters long.
With a flick of the snake's body, it He rushed straight to Hao Aiguo's face.
Hao Aiguo had bad eyesight.
Even if he had good eyesight, he couldn't dodge with his reaction.
In this flash of lightning, I was eager to save people.
Without having time to think about it, I picked up the engineer shovel in my hand and chopped it into pieces.
Two cuts.
Hao Aiguo was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, trembling all over, and reluctantly smiled at me: "My wife is in danger, thank you."
Just as he was about to speak, the half-cut snake head on the ground suddenly bounced up, with the speed of a fast arrow leaving the string, and bit Hao Aiguo's neck.
I saw that the snake had been cut into two pieces, so I He relaxed, but he didn't expect that he was caught off guard and couldn't save him in time.
Hao Aiguo's face froze, and he made a few gurgling sounds in his throat.
He wanted to speak but couldn't.
His skin instantly turned dark blue, and he sat motionless and died.
Everyone was stunned.
Professor Chen's vision went dark and he fainted.
Before I had time to feel sorry for Hao Aiguo, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck.
When I looked sideways, I saw the same strange snake swam onto my shoulder at some point, hissing out a message, and its muscles all over the body shrank slightly backwards.
It opened its mouth and arched its front body, and was about to bite me.
This strange snake moved too fast, and it was impossible to dodge at such a close distance.
Only the fat man in the team can shoot, but he was carrying Ye Yixin on his back and didn't have a gun in his hand.
This change was so sudden, and the rest of the people were unprepared.
It felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured into my heart, damn, I never thought that I, Old Hu, would die here today and never see the morning sun again.
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I know the posture of a venomous snake preparing to attack, that is, the snake raises its body, then flicks its head forward, and bites the prey with its fangs.
My neck and face are fully exposed to its attack range.
It is inevitable to avoid it, and it is too late to block it. .
I was about to close my eyes and wait for death, when suddenly there was a "click" of white light, and the dark valley was illuminated brightly.
The strange snake had already pounced on my neck, but I was startled by the dazzling white light halfway.
It actually slipped from my shoulder.
All this happened within a second.
I didn't wait for the snake to fall to the ground.
I waved the engineer shovel in my hand and smashed the snake's head into a pulp.
A lot of black juice flowed out of the broken snake head.
I He hurriedly took a few steps back and secretly screamed "lucky".
This snake is extremely venomous.
If you are bitten by it, the venom will spread through the blood in your body in an instant, and you will definitely die or not.
When I looked up, it turned out that the life-saving white light came from the flash of Shiry Yang's camera.
She was always inseparable from the camera, taking photos wherever she went.
I never thought that my life was saved by the flash of the camera in her hand.
Thanks to her quick response, otherwise I, Old Hu, would have gone to see Hu Da by now.
But now is not the time to say thank you.
Who knows if there are any similar snakes in the valley.
If anything happens, we should leave the mountain pass before talking.
So he waved his hand and waved everyone to move forward quickly.
At this time, the camels may have felt that there were no poisonous snakes in front of them, and they all calmed down from their restless emotions.
Chu Jian, Sa Dipeng and others carried the bodies of the unconscious Ye Yixin, Professor Chen, and Hao Aiguo onto the camels' backs.
An Liman whistled to guide the camel team forward, and the group hurried out of the dark valley of Zagrama by the light of cold fireworks and flashlights.
They walked until they reached the open space outside the mountain pass, then stopped and put Hao Aiguo's body on the ground.
It was not yet dawn, the stars and the moon had no light, and it was so dark in the moment before dawn.
Hao Aiguo still maintained the fear of death.
The expression, the dull eyes behind the glasses have not been closed, and the whole body is blue.
Under the illumination of the flashlight beam, it adds a bit of misery and weirdness.
Professor Chen was awakened by the cold wind blowing from the mountain pass.
He struggled and threw himself on Hao Aiguo's body and burst into tears.
I helped the professor up.
There is no resurrection after death.
I wanted to persuade him to express his condolences, but the words came to his lips.
Can't tell.
I have been getting along with Hao Aiguo for almost a month.
I usually like to jokingly call him "old antique".
I like his straightforward and fast-talking character.
But today when I thought about this, I couldn't help but feel sad.
How could I persuade others.
The rest of the people also shed tears sadly.
At this time, a dark red gap opened in the distant sky.
The sun was finally coming out, and we all looked to the east involuntarily.
The light slowly turned into rose color, blood red, and finally turned into thousands of golden lights.
The top of the sun's arc was exposed.
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At this moment, the boundless sea of sand seemed to have turned into gold in God's furnace.
In this desert like golden lava, a huge city appeared in front of everyone, with countless ruins, various houses and buildings of brick, wood, earth and stone, and countless towers in the city.
The most prominent one was a tilted The black stone tower stands quietly in the city.
Compared with the scene in the black and white photo in Shirey Yang's hand, it is exactly the same.
Two thousand years later, the ruins of the ancient city of Jingjue still exist in the deepest part of the desert.
This exquisite city is large enough to accommodate fifty or sixty thousand people.
At its peak, famous cities such as Loulan only had ten to twenty thousand residents and an army of more than three thousand.
The city has been largely destroyed and has been buried in the desert for more than a thousand years.
It is difficult to tell whether some parts are sand dunes or fortresses.
Most of the towers have collapsed and weathered.
Even so, one can imagine the grandeur of the city back then.
There is a huge magnetic field here, making it difficult for planes to fly over it, and it is located in the heart of the desert.
It is estimated that few people can find it.
We don’t know how many explorers and lost people have come to this legendary ancient city before us.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that 99% of them will never be able to return.
My hometown.
Professor Chen lifted up Hao Aiguo's body lying on the ground, pointed at Jingjue Ancient City tremblingly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Look, haven't you always wanted to see this mysterious ancient city?
Open your eyes and take a look." , we finally found it.”
I felt bad, the old man was too sad, maybe he was out of his mind.
I rushed over and pulled Professor Chen away from Hao Aiguo: "Professor, Teacher Hao is gone, let him rest in peace.
It's a pity that he didn't see this in the end.
This ancient city has been miraculously preserved, and his wish still depends on you, so you must cheer up."
Shirey Yang and several students also came to comfort me, so I handed the professor over to them.
I felt sorry for Hao Aiguo's death, and I was grateful to Shirey Yang, so I said to Shirey Yang: "I won't say thank you for saving my life just now."
Come on, I owe you a life, but it’s a yard.
We have reached the end of the world.
According to the previous contract, it’s twenty thousand dollars.”
As soon as the fat man heard that he had received the money, he quickly came over and added: "Twenty thousand dollars per person, a total of forty thousand US dollars, settled in cash."
Shirey Yang rolled his eyes at both of us, bit his lip and said, "Don't worry, we won't miss a penny of the money.
I'll give it to you right after I get back."
I thought to myself that what I mentioned about the money just now was really inappropriate.
At that time, I felt as if I had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.
I said the wrong thing without hesitation.
It would be better to change the subject quickly, but I didn’t know what to say.
I was speechless.
In other words, he said: "That city is not small."
Shiry Yang stared at my face and said: "After these days of contact, I see that you two are both very skilled and have extraordinary experience.
I didn't expect you to know money.
It seems that my first impression of you was not wrong.
Let me advise you, there are many precious things in life besides money.”
I had nothing to say, so the fat man continued: "Miss Yang, you live under the stars and stripes of the United States of America, and your father is a giant on Wall Street.
I think you must have never used food stamps for meals, and you must not have experienced holidays when you were a child.
There is a food shortage, so you don’t understand the environment in which we live, and you are not qualified to comment on our values.
Don't teach us one by one that the poor have no life, and the poor only live to survive.
Anyway, even if I tell you rich people, you can't understand it today.
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If you don't like to hear it. , Even if I didn’t say it, now that we have found Jingjue City, you can tell us what to do next.”
The fat man spoke confidently at first, but then he remembered that Shiry Yang worked for the shopkeeper, and he was worried that he would not pay her if he said she was in a hurry.
When the conversation changed, it turned into a coolie's job again.
I said to her: "I have tried my best regarding Teacher Hao, I'm sorry."
Shiry Yang nodded at me, ignored the fat man, and took out a kettle to feed Professor Chen and Ye Yixin.
Professor Chen was so agitated by Hao Aiguo's death that he gradually got better after drinking some water.
After some discussion, everyone decided to bury Hao Aiguo in the desert of Shankou.
His lifelong pursuit was to study the culture of the Western Regions.
He would be buried here to accompany this mysterious ancient city forever.
He must have wanted us to do the same.
We dug a deep hole in the yellow sand, rolled up his body with a blanket, and buried it on the spot.
Finally, I shoveled an engineer soldier down and inserted it in front of his grave, leaving a tombstone for Hao Aiguo.
The remaining eight people stood in silence in front of Hao Aiguo's grave for a long time before leaving.
The dead are gone, but we still have to save the living.
We must go to the city immediately to find water, otherwise the second person buried in the desert will be Ye Yixin, who is suffering from severe dehydration.
Now everyone packed up their equipment and prepared to leave for the city.
We finally arrived at our destination.
I hope nothing will go wrong again.
If someone has another accident, even if I make the money, how will I be able to spend it.
Seeing that everyone was almost ready, I asked Shirey Yang if it was okay to leave.
As the departure was about to begin, Shiry Yang was a little excited and her body was shaking slightly, but it was hard to tell whether she was scared, nervous, or excited.
She took out a cross and prayed in a low voice, and then calmly said to us: "Let's go. ” Unexpectedly, at this time, old man An Liman suddenly changed his mind, shook his head like a rattle, and refused to enter the ruins of the ancient city of Jingjue.
He said that the death of his companions in the desert was an ominous sign, not to mention that Hao Aiguo was bitten to death by a venomous snake, the messenger of the devil.
We had no choice but to rearrange our arrangements and let him set up camp at the mountain pass to take care of the camels and baggage.
I originally wanted the fat man to stay and keep an eye on him.
If the old man escapes and leaves us here, it doesn't matter.
Without camels, we have to drive No. 11 all the way back.
This No. 11 can be in the desert.
How far it will go is hard to say.
Then he thought again, An Liman probably wouldn't have escaped alone, after all, he had come all the way to this point, not to mention that he had not yet received the salary as a guide.
It was not a small amount, and it would be enough for him to live and feed for the rest of his life.
However, I suffered many losses because of my carelessness.
At this time, I had to be more cautious, so I took old man An Liman's hand and asked: "Old man, how does Hu punish those who lie and betray their trust?"
" An Liman said: "Well, this will turn his family's money into sand, and even his salt will turn into sand.
In the end, he will starve to death, just like dying in the black desert."
Well, after death, you will go to the hot sand hell and suffer 1,800 kinds of torture."
Seeing that he spoke solemnly, I felt relieved.
His faith convinced me that he would not dare to do anything that would be too disrespectful to justice and conscience.
There are only seven people entering the ancient city now.
Among them is Ye Yixin, who is unconscious.
Chu Jian is carrying her.
The remaining five people have to carry some equipment and weapons, plus food and water bottles.
Everyone has to carry a heavy load.
Not too small.
There is a famous saying in the army: If you are a soldier but not a soldier, you will weigh forty pounds.
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That is to say, officers and soldiers in the army carry at least 40 kilograms of equipment when they are marching.
Some of them have to carry heavy infantry weapons such as machine guns, flamethrowers, or anti-tank equipment, which is even heavier.
I have been in the field army for ten years, so I don't mind carrying a lot of equipment on my back.
Professor Chen and the others couldn't bear it, so in the end they had to pack as lightly as possible.
The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city is very short, and we arrived in front of the city gate in just one meal.
The city gate collapsed long ago, and the trench in front of the city was filled with yellow sand.
We entered the city through the broken part of the city wall, surrounded by There was deathly silence among the ruins.
This was so different from what I had imagined before, and I couldn't help but be disappointed.
The streets and houses in the city were either collapsed or dilapidated.
From a distance, they looked okay and quite impressive.
But when I got closer and looked inside, there was nothing.
It was all sand, rotten wood, and broken stones.
There was no gold or silver.
Only a few dilapidated huge wooden pillars and beams whose vermilion paint has long since peeled off can still give a glimpse of the luxurious atmosphere of the city in the past.
We wanted to take a look at a few broken houses at the gate of the city, but found that although most of the broken houses were exposed to the desert, the yellow sand in the houses was piled up to the roof.
Legend has it that this city was once destroyed by war, and the coalition forces invaded the palace.
Just as the battle was coming to an end, a black sandstorm buried the Jingjue Kingdom and the resident troops in the city indiscriminately in the depths of the yellow sand.
It was not until the 19th century that the movement of the desert brought it to light.
From the scene, it was basically consistent with the legend, except that no mummy was seen, and they must have been buried in the sand.
I looked at it indifferently, but Professor Chen and the others seemed to be interested in everything in the ancient city.
They could even look at a broken wall for a long time.
I had to remind them that little girl Ye Yixin is still sick.
Saving people is the most important thing.
It seems that the residential areas in the city have been filled with yellow sand.
There is not even a well to be found.
We might as well go to the palace and take a look. , there might be a water source there.
Professor Chen slapped himself on the head: "Hey, I'm confused, it's important to save Xiaoye, let's go to the palace quickly.
The kingdoms in this desert are built near underground rivers close to the ground, and some underground palaces have rivers passing through them.
The palace is usually in the middle of the city."
Everyone was looking for direction among the ruins and heading to the middle of the ancient city.
The fat man said to me: "Old Hu, do you know what I want to eat most right now?
I want to eat cantaloupe and horse milk grapes most.
A piece of watermelon will do, too.
Oh no."
I said it, and the more I talked, the more thirsty I became, and my throat was so damn smokey that I had to jump in and take a bath first when I found the underground river.”
I said to the fat man: "This exquisite queen lived a very luxurious life during her lifetime.
She must have often enjoyed ice-cold watermelon soaked in the cold underground river.
However, even if the watermelon is preserved to this day, it will probably become a watermelon stone, and the grapes may also become raisins. ”
The fat man complained: "This fucking useless place, I really can't imagine that there were people living in it before.
Don't give me 20,000 beauties next time.
Mountains of gold and silver are piled up in front of me.
I won't go into the desert anymore.
This world The most uncomfortable way to die is definitely to die of thirst.”
When I talk about death, I think of Hao Aiguo, who was bitten to death by that strange snake.
Although he died quickly, he didn't know how painful it was when he died.
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The snake looked strange, with a black tumor on his head, and it was full of blood.
Black water can fly up and hurt people when cut into two pieces.
Even Shirey Yang has never seen this kind of snake.
I wonder if there is one in this city
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