Sand Sea Demon Nest 14

"Cishan?" My mechanical watches either stopped or walked fast or slow in the past two days. I thought the cheap watch was of poor quality and broke in the desert. Could it be that we were near those two Cishans?

An Liman also remembered that he had heard people go to the heart of the Black Desert, two Zagrama sacred mountains, one red and one white. It is said that they were two sacred mountains buried by the ancestors.

Shirley Yang also said: "If there are really two such mountains in the desert, then the Zidu Dark River may be underground and intercepted by the Maxi Mountain. The distance from the ground is too deep, so we can't find it. I think we should not focus on finding the Dark River. If the legend and the British explorer are right, the Maxi Mountain should be nearby. Mr. Hu, you will use your ability to star Feng Shui tonight. Don't forget, as we said before, find Jingjue Ancient City and pay twice the reward."

I had no confidence in Jingjue City from the beginning. After hearing what she said, I had to try it in the evening. If I could find Mount Nazarama, my salary would increase to 20,000 Miko. If I couldn't find us, I would have to go home.

To be honest, I can't tell whether I am looking forward to finding the ancient city of Jingjue. After hearing the story of the Queen of Jingjue, a mysterious and charming image lingered in my mind. Deep in the desert, there was an invisible magic that attracted me. I wonder if Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, and those expedition teams that never returned, all had the same feeling as me.

This day was particularly long. I wish I could use a gun to knock out the sun in the sky and dig the sand pit very deep, but I couldn't feel the cold air.

Although there was a thick canvas on the pit, the person hid in the shadows and lay in the sand nest, he still felt like he was being placed in the oven. Ye Yixin, who had a thin body, might have been confused by the sun, and he started talking nonsense while asleep.

Everyone was worried that she was having a high fever, so they touched her forehead with their hands. It was as hot as the sand, and they couldn't tell whether she had a high fever again. No matter how she pushed her, she didn't wake up.

We still have some water, which is enough for about five days, and there are two bags of yogurt soup left, which were left for the last moment. I didn't want to bear it at this time. I took out a bag, asked Shirley Yang to feed her a few sips, and took some medicine for her.

After Ye Yixin took the medicine, she gradually calmed down, but she was still unconscious. She probably suffered from acute dehydration, which was a problem. I told Professor Chen and others about the situation facing the archaeological team now.

There are only two roads. One road is to leave tonight and walk back. On the way back, I have to eat camel meat, drink salted sand water in the last few days, and open No. 11. Even if I do this, it cannot guarantee Ye Yixin's life safety.

The other way is to bite the bullet and continue to look for Jingjue City. If there is water source in the city, she will be able to recover her life.

Professor Chen said that we are facing great difficulties. Although the archaeological cause requires dedication, Ye Yixin is so young, we must be responsible for her life. Although the first road is safe, but not enough water is supplied, the road back will be very difficult. The second road is more risky, but we have come to the vicinity of Zagrama, and we are 60% sure to find Jingjue. These ancient cities should have groundwater veins. However, two thousand years have passed, and it is unknown whether the water veins have dried up and changed courses. Where will we go now, let’s talk about our own opinions.

The fat man said first: "My waist has been losing two circles. If we walk deep into the desert, you might as well call me thin man. I suggest that we don't stop for a moment. As soon as the sun sets, we will go back. Maybe we can still have half of our life left when we go back."

Hao Aiguo and Sadi Peng were relatively steady and agreed to go back.

In contrast, although it is risky to find Jingjue City, it is worth a try. After all, everyone has paid such great hardships and prices. After all, they have finally come to this point. They really don’t want to waste all their efforts. They also hope to find clear water in the ruins of the ancient city to save Ye Yixin’s life. Drinking salted sand water on the way back is difficult for people who are healthy. Moreover, she is so seriously ill that walking back means she is sentenced to death.

Shirley Yang, Chu Jian, and Professors, both of whom I have this view. Except for Ye Yixin's coma, only the old man An Liman has no intention of expressing his opinion. Everyone's eyes are focused on his face.

If his point of view is to go back, then we happen to be four to four, but An Li is a guide, and his decision on this matter is very important.

I said to the old man An Liman: "You have to think about it before you say it. Your words are related to Ye Yixin's life. What do you think we should do now?"

The old man An Liman held his cigarette pouch in his mouth, narrowed his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and said, "As I, of course, I listened to 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 will guide us."

I pointed to the sky: "Then please ask quickly, what did Hu Da say?"

An Liman knocked the old cigarette pouch, inserted it back to his waist, took the broken blanket, began to pray with a pious look, turned his palms inward, and recited the Quran scriptures to his face. The expression on his face was pious and solemn, not like the cunning appearance of ordinary philosophical behavior.

He muttered something, but we couldn't understand what he meant. The more he waited, the more he couldn't finish it. The fat man was anxious and asked, "I said, "I'm the old man, are there any more?"

An Liman opened his eyes and smiled and said, "Hu Da, it has given us enlightenment." After that, he took out a five-cent coin and showed it to everyone. One side of the word "continue to move forward, and the other side of the drawing returned according to the same route. He asked Professor Chen, the oldest here, to throw it to the sky. The result of the fall was Hu Da's will.

Everyone was amused and crying. It turned out that Hu Da conveyed his order like this? Professor Chen took the coin and threw it high into the air. Everyone looked up at the coin. The sun shone brightly, but saw the coin falling from the air and inserted it into the sand.

Even if you throw it a hundred thousand times, it may not be so coincidental. An Li shook his head repeatedly, his face full of frustration. He forgot that this was the black desert abandoned by Hu Da. How could Hu Da show us the way?

We were scratching our heads and wondering, but Shirley Yang pointed to the distance and shouted, "God, is Mount Ragzama?"

The desert was extremely empty, thousands of miles away, and I saw that the direction of her finger was facing the direction where Professor Chen threw the coin and fell. At the end of the world, there was a vague black line, but it was far away and I couldn't see clearly without looking carefully.

We hurriedly took out the telescope and adjusted the focal length to see. A black mountain range was like a static black dragon in the thousands of miles of yellow sand. The mountain range was cut off from it, and there was a mountain pass in the middle. These characteristics were consistent with those recorded in the notes of British explorers.

Last year, Shirley Yang's father took an expedition team to find Jingjue Ancient City with these clues. I wonder if they had seen this sacred mountain. If they had been here, what had they encountered? What made them never return?

Thinking of this, I dared to feel a little chill under the scorching sun, but this feeling was soon diluted by the joyful atmosphere. We traveled a long journey and finally found the door to enter the ancient Jingjue Kingdom at the last moment.

However, An Liman once said that there is a dreamy place 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 see real?

Then I thought, it shouldn't be. First of all, the illusions in the desert are caused by the refraction of light. The landscapes are strange and mostly scenery that do not exist in the desert. The black mountains, which have been mentioned more than once, should be absolutely real.

Since we are not far from Jingjue Ancient City, we can set off until dark. However, the information we have is very limited. Many of them are all related legends collected. The only reliable evidence is a vague black and white photo. It is hard to say whether there is such an ancient city in the world. Maybe everything is spread by some people, and legends often come from this.

On the Korean battlefield, MacArthur once said: "At the beginning, we thought we knew everything, but then we found out that the truth was that we didn't know anything." Now I seem to feel this way.

Has the remains of the royal city not been buried in the yellow sand again? Can water be found in the city? Is the ancient tomb burying Queen Jingjue in the city? Or is it another place? Is there really a mountain of treasures in the city? What is that monster queen? Will she still pose a threat to outsiders after she dies? Did Shirley Yang's father and others really die in the ancient city of Jingjue? Can their bodies be found? What did those foreign explorers encounter in the city? For us, all this is still unknown.

Sand Sea Demon Nest 15

In the evening, the archaeological team set out towards Zagrama.

As the saying goes, if you look at the mountain and run to death, you will be sure to see the direction, and you will not arrive at the mountain pass until the middle of the night. At that time, the moonlight is like water, and the desert is like a quiet sea. In this sandy ocean, the mountains of Zagrama are undulating, and the whole body is covered with black stones. The closer you look, the more eye-catching it is.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a mountain than a two super-large black stone. The two giant rocks are about tens of kilometers in diameter, and only a shallow ridge is exposed in the sea of ​​sand. The larger part is buried underground. Perhaps below, the two giant rocks themselves are connected together, and the pass may be just a crack in the giant rock.

This black stone contains magnets. Although the average content is not high, it is sufficient to affect the precision instruments that measure the orientation. We also feel that the metal objects on our bodies gradually become heavier.

The moonlight shines on the black stones without any reflection. The darkness in the mountain pass is lit up in the east, except for Ye Yixin, who is unconscious, everyone walks down from the camel's back. I remind everyone to put all the tricks on it. They must not be careless when walking in the devil's mouth.

An Liman and I were in front, Chu Jian broke the back, Shirley Yang and others took care of Ye Yixin in the middle, and the team lined up in a row and slowly entered the valley.

This mountain was regarded as a sacred mountain by ancient people. It is said that burying these two saints is mostly myths and legends. However, from the perspective of Feng Shui, it can really occupy the situation and swallow all the things. The black mountain is two black dragons that are guarding. It is a vain to bury the saints on the mountain. If there is really a tomb of the Queen of Jingjue behind the mountain, it would be no surprise at all.

Taklamakan is the second largest mobile desert in the world. After the complete desertification, the entire desert is gradually moving south, which reveals the sacred mountain that was originally buried deep in the yellow sand again.

The moon passed by the sky, and the valleys that were moving north and south were so dark that they were not seen in their hands. We moved forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The more we walked forward, the more uneasy we felt. After leaving the valley, can we really find the ancient city of Jingjue? After finding the ancient city, is there any water source in the city? What we are most worried about is Ye Yixin's condition. Her acute dehydration must be treated with a lot of clean cold saline water. If the water source cannot be found within three days, her life will be thrown into the desert.

Our watch had already stopped. I don’t know how long we had left. I intuitively estimated that it would be almost dawn in a while. At this time, the camels' breathing suddenly became heavy and their emotions became obviously anxious.

Old Man An Liman quickly whistled and drank again, using all his tricks to calm the camels. His nineteen camels were all male camels with strong bodies and strong bodies. After walking in the desert for so many days, this situation has never happened.

The surroundings were already dark, and the trouble of these camels increased the fear in the hearts of the team members. Shirley Yang was worried that Ye Yixin would be thrown off by the camel, so he hurriedly hugged her from the hunchback with Hao Aiguo.

I called the fat man over and asked him to work harder. I carried Ye Yixin on his back. The valley was so weird that it was not a place to stay for a long time. We should not delay it. We should go out as soon as possible.

The fat man was quite happy. First, Ye Yixin didn't have much weight, and since he entered the desert, the sun was covered with water, he was even thinner. In addition, carrying a beautiful girl was not a bad thing. He carried Ye Yixin on his back like a child, urging An Liman in front to leave quickly.

However, no matter how An Liman drives away, the camels refused to take a step forward, and the old man An Liman began to suspicion and started to mutter again, afraid that Hu Da would refuse to let us move forward, so he should go back quickly.

As the valley was about to come out, how could the rest of the people be willing to retreat the same way? The team was in chaos for a while. Shirley Yang said to me: "Is there something in front that scared the camels so much that they refused to move forward. They threw a cold fireworks to take a photo first, and then made a decision after seeing it clearly."

I agreed in front, took out a cold fireworks for lighting, lit it, threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front, with dark rocks on both sides, thick yellow sand on the ground, and there was no grass on the empty mountain. There was nothing unusual about it.

I took a few steps forward and cast a second illuminated firework. I saw a person sitting on the ground in the distance. We walked over and saw that the man was wearing a white robe, a sand-proof headscarf on his head, and a backpack on his back. He didn't move. It turned out to be a dead person.

Everyone was surprised. It was not surprising that they encountered dead people or mummies in the desert, but the corpse was unique. The deceased was a man with a headscarf covered on his mouth, only two eyes were exposed, staring at the sky, dying with his eyes open. Perhaps because he died too fast and he didn't have time to close his eyes.

The death will not last too long. Maybe within a few days, his exposed skin was just slightly dry. The strangest thing was that his skin was blue and emitting a slight blue light under the fireworks.

A few people wanted to come and see me, but I blocked it. This person's way of death was too weird. Don't get close to it. Chu Jian suddenly shouted: "Brother Hu, look, there is another dead body."

My scalp was a little numb. Will there be more of two dead bodies? I threw out a few cold fireworks, which made the surrounding area clear. Sure enough, more than two corpses were found. Four male corpses were lying on the ground across the edge.

These dead people are dressed the same, and their ways of dying are the same. They all stare in horror, and they look weird. There are also a few Su-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.

I pulled out the engineer shovel as a weapon to defend myself, walked over and picked up one of them and saw that the bullets were loaded. It was so strange. Who are these people? Some poachers in Xinjiang use Remington from abroad or the five or six styles created from the army. How could there be a Soviet-made AK? Are they the tomb robbers who stole the stone tomb?

I opened one of the backpacks again, and there were many military-made ones marked in Russian. It was estimated that these arms were flown into Xinjiang from Afghanistan. It was not surprising that these tomb robbers bought the ancient tombs in the desert. But why did these guys armed to the teeth die in this valley without any clarity?

I used the barrel of the gun to lift the turban on the face of the male corpse sitting on the ground. I saw that he had a big mouth, as if he was shouting desperately before his death. I didn't want to see too much. No matter what, it was best to quickly leave the valley of this grave mountain. Maybe those medicines can be used in the future. I picked up the backpack that contained the medicines 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 rob the corpse here and carry them out of the valley to bury them. As soon as I saw the people in the wilderness of the corpse, I remembered those who were sent to the earth kiln for labor reform with me. Those comrades died pitifully, and they didn't even have a broken straw mat for corpses. Alas, I don't have these things the most..." He chatted while moving the male corpse sitting on the ground.

I was really anxious at this time and cursed and stopped him: "You stinky nerd, you are so fucking ungrateful. Don't touch these dead people!"

But it was too late. A strange snake suddenly jumped out of the mouth of the male corpse. The scales on the snake's body were shining, and there was a black flesh crown on its head, about thirty centimeters long. When the snake bounced, it rushed straight towards Hao Aiguo's face.

Hao Aiguo had a bad look. Even if he had a good look, he couldn't dodge with his reaction. In this moment of lightning, I was eager to save people. I didn't have time to think about it. I shoveled up the engineer in my hand and chopped it up and cut the snake into two pieces.

Hao Aiguo sat on the ground in a frightened state, his whole body trembled, and he forced a smile at me: "It's too...too dangerous, thanks..."

As soon as I was halfway through, the cut-off snake head on the ground suddenly bounced up, its speed was just like a fast arrow from Lisheng, and it bit Hao Aiguo's neck tightly. I saw that the snake had been cut into two pieces, so I relaxed. I didn't expect that I could not defend myself and could not save him at all.

Hao Aiguo's face froze, and his throat gusted a few times. He wanted to speak but couldn't speak. His skin instantly turned dark blue. He sat still and died.

Everyone was shocked. Professor Chen fainted on the ground before his eyes. Before I could feel sad for Hao Aiguo, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck. I turned my head and saw that a strange snake that was the same swam on my shoulder at some point, spitting a thread of letters. The muscles of the whole body contracted slightly backwards, spreading the snake's mouth and arching its front, and was about to bite me. The strange snake was moving too fast and could not be avoided at such a close distance.
Chapter completed!