Xueli Yang 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 and used the light of the signal torch to clear the way.
They walked deeper into the corridor and 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, both with their bodies stretched out.
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.
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.
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.
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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 later."
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 engineering 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 to say, 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 say 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 any fruits?"
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.
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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."
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":