Sand Sea Devil's Nest 17

Unexpectedly, the old man An Liman suddenly changed his hexagram, shook his head like a Buling drum, and said that he would not enter the ruins of Jingjue Ancient City. He said that dying his companions in the desert was an ominous sign, not to mention that Hao Aiguo was bitten to death by the devil's messenger, and the appearance of a poisonous snake with a black sarcoma on his head, which shows that Hu Da abandoned this desert to the devil's legend is real.

An Liman had a strong sense of religion. He did not have a place to protect Hu Da. Even if he killed him, he would not go there. We had no choice but to re-arrange him and let him set up a camp at the mountain pass to take care of the camel and Zizhong.

I wanted the fat man to stay and stare at him. If the old man escaped and left us here... It doesn't matter if he ran away. Without camels, we would drive No. 11 all the way back. It's hard to say how far this No. 11 can drive in the desert.

Then he thought, An Liman would not run away alone. After all, he has been here all the way, and not to mention that he has not received the salary he was a guide, it is not a small amount, it is enough for him to have food and clothing for the rest of his life.

However, I suffered many losses because I was too careless. How careful must I be at this time? So I grabbed the old man An Liman's hand and asked, "Old man, how can Hu Da punish those who lie and betray people?"

An Liman said, "Well, will his family's money turn into sand, and even his salt turn into sand together, and finally starve to death. It's the same as those who die in the black desert. After death, they will go to the hot sand hell and suffer 1,800 kinds of torture."

Seeing that he was solemn, I let my heart go. People with strong religious beliefs have an advantage. They are afraid of suffering after death, so they dare not do things that are too sorry for the truth and conscience.

Now there were only seven people entering the ancient city, including Ye Yixin, who was unconscious. Chu Jian carried her, and the remaining five people had to carry some equipment and weapons, plus food and kettle, and each person was carrying a lot of weight.

There is a famous saying in the army: It is a soldier, not a soldier, and it is forty kilograms on its body. That is to say, the officers and soldiers in the army have at least 40 kilograms of equipment when marching. Some people also need to carry heavy infantry weapons such as machine guns, flamethrowers or anti-tank equipment, which is even more heavy.

I have been in the field army for ten years and have a lot of equipment on my back. I don’t think anything is wrong. Professor Chen and the others can’t stand it. In the end, they had to try their best to get lighter and enter our last destination, “Jingjue Ancient City”.

The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city was very close. After a meal, we arrived in front of the city gate. The city gate had long collapsed, and the moat in front of the city was also filled with yellow sand. We entered the city from the broken walls, and the ruins around us were silent.

This was too far from what I had imagined before, and I couldn't help but feel disappointed. The streets and houses in the city either collapsed or were dilapidated. From a distance, I thought it was okay, and it was quite large and imposing. When I walked in, I saw that there was nothing, all of them were sand, rotten wood, gravel, and there was no gold, silver and treasure.

There are only a few huge wooden pillars and beams that have been peeled off from the vermilion paint on it, and you can still see the luxurious atmosphere of the city in the past.

We wanted to go into the few dilapidated houses at the gate of the city, but found that although most of the dilapidated houses were exposed outside the desert, the yellow sand in the house was piled up on the roof.

Legend has it that the city was destroyed by war, and the coalition forces attacked the palace. Just as the battle was approaching the end of the battle, the black sandstorm buried Jingjue Kingdom and the inhabited army of the city indiscriminately in the depths of the yellow sand. It was not until the 19th century that the movement of the desert made it see the light of day again.

From the scene, it basically matched the legend, but I didn’t see the mummy, and I guess they were all buried in the sand.

I was bored to see it, but Professor Chen and the others seemed to be interested in everything in the ancient city, and they could even watch a broken wall for a long time.

I had to remind them that the little girl Ye Yixin was still sick, and saving people was the most important thing. It seemed that the residential areas in the city were filled with yellow sand, and they could not even find the well. We might as well go to the palace to take a look, there might be a source of water there.

Professor Chen slapped his head: "Hey, I'm so confused. It's important to save Xiaoye. Let's go to the royal palace. This kingdom in the desert is built where the underground river is close to the ground. Some underground palaces have rivers passing by, and the royal palaces are usually in the middle of the city."

Everyone was looking for directions in 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 the most now? I want to eat honeydew melon and horse-**** grapes the most. It's okay to have a piece of watermelon. Oh... I won't say it anymore. The more I talk, the more thirsty I get, the throat is fuzzy. I have to jump down and take a shower when I find the underground river."

I said to the fat man: "The Queen Jingjue lived a luxurious life during her lifetime. She must often enjoy the iced watermelon soaked in the cold underground river water. However, even if the watermelon is preserved to this day, it will probably turn into watermelon stones, and the grapes may also turn into raisins."

The fat man complained: "This is a place where birds don't poop. I can't imagine that there are still people living in the past. Next time, let alone give me 20,000 beautiful children, and I will pile up mountains of gold and silver to my eyes. I will not go into the desert. The most uncomfortable way to die in this world is to die of thirst."

When I mentioned death, I remembered Hao Aiguo. He was bitten to death by the strange snake. Although he died quickly, he didn't know how painful it was when he died. The snake looked strange, with a black sarcoma on its head, which was full of black water. It could even fly and hurt people by chopping it into two sections. Even Shirley Yang had never seen such a snake. I wonder if it was in this city.

The seven of us were looking for a road in the ruins. When we encountered collapsed and fell, we took a detour. We walked for a long time before we arrived at the middle of the ancient city. The streets here were quite wide. Although yellow sand was everywhere, the pattern and context of the streets could still be seen.

However, there are no other large buildings nearby except for the sloping black tower. Not to mention the royal palace, there are not even decent houses, and they are all weathered earthen walls.

Professor Chen said that the palace here may be built underground, and there is too much sand in the city. Let’s go to the black tower and look from a high place to see if we can find the entrance to the underground palace.

The base and most of the arched stone doors under the tower are buried in the sand. The black tower is carved from large stones from Mount Zaglama. It is six floors high, slightly tilted, and is still very strong. In addition to the rare building materials, there is a black olive-shaped stone ball at the highest point on the top of the tower.

Professor Chen put on reading glasses, looked up for a long time, looked at it with a telescope, and said to himself as he looked: "Yes, why didn't I expect it before?"

I wanted to ask him what he didn't expect, but Professor Chen lowered his body and got into the tower gate. He seemed to be eager to confirm something, so we hurriedly followed behind.

The walls in the tower are densely engraved with strange ghost cave texts. Each layer has a black stone statue. The first layer is a stone sheep, which is nothing special.

The second floor is a stone figure, which is as big as an ordinary person, with a high nose and deep eyes, and half kneeling in the tower. The third floor is actually the "giant-eyed stone figure" that we saw in the nameless town when we were hiding from a sandstorm.

Professor Chen stopped on the third floor of the black tower and said to us: "It seems that I'm right that the source of the giant-eyed stone figures unearthed from various places is Jingjue Kingdom, and the material is the black stones of Zagrama."

Sardipeng asked, "Professor, what is this tower used for? Why is there a statue on each floor?"

Professor Chen said: "I speculate that this black tower is used to show the status of the Ghost Cave tribe. The stone statues on each floor represent different levels. The first floor is livestock. If you guess correctly, there should be another layer underground, where hungry ghosts in hell are placed. The second floor is ordinary people, including all Hu people in the Western Regions. Their status is only higher than that of cattle and sheep, and equivalent to slaves. The third floor is this portrait with giant pupils. I just saw that the stone ball on the top of the tower is an eye shape. The totem of the giant pupils and the eye shape represent the nation's worship of eyes. Let's go up and see what is the higher status in the Jingjue Kingdom."

The fat man said: "You can even guess this at my level. I bet that there must be a statue of the queen on it." He said that, and he stepped onto the fourth floor first.

I followed closely behind and looked up, but unexpectedly, the stone statue in this layer had snake-body and human head, with thick limbs, animal-shaped hind limbs, human-shaped forelimbs, holding sharp sword shields, and a male face with a ferocious face, staring at her eyes, as if it was the angrily golden steel in the temples in mainland China, and there was also a black ball on the back of the stone statue, like the strange snake in Zagrama Mountain.
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