Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 168 Devil City

168 Chapter 168 Devil City
The place in front of us was the shelter that Tashi chose. After a while, we stopped at a rocky mountain with a flat bottom outside the "castle".

Listening to Tashi's shouting, everyone went down and started setting up camp.

The drive this time was relatively short, and it was rare that I didn't get motion sick. I stood outside the car and looked around. I looked at the mountain in front of me and said, "Brother Wu Xie, that mountain is like a big steamed bun."

Wu Xie said to me while setting up the tent: "Then behind is the "Yadan Landform", which is a typical wind-eroded landform in dry areas. It is generally a ground formed by earthy sediments from rivers and lakes..."

I stretched out my little hand and shook it, as if I was raising my hand to speak in class, and said anxiously: "Wait... uh... Brother Wu Xie, Hehu... what is it?"

Wu Xie stopped, tilted his head and looked at me with a smile and said: "Rivers and lakes are like earth. This word is a scientific term in geography. In fact, it means that things in the world have changed a lot, such as "the sea has changed."

I nodded and said "Oh" and said, "Keep going."

"This wind-eroded landform is generally the ground formed by the sediments formed by rivers and lakes through vicissitudes of life. After weathering, intermittent water scouring and wind erosion, wind-eroded mounds and wind-eroded mounds are formed in parallel and alternately arranged with the prevailing wind direction. The landform combination of depressions.

"Yadan" means "hill with steep walls" in Uyghur.do you understand? "

I nodded with a smile and said, "I understand."

After a while Wu Xie set up the tent, stood next to me and admired the fruits of his labor, suddenly tilted his head and whispered in my ear: "Do you know why this is called "Devil City"? "

I pursed my lips and looked at him, shook my head, and he continued: "Because of the distribution of the rocks here, when the wind blows over these rocks, it will make a sound like ghosts crying and wolves howling. Oh, Xiaoxun, I'm going to get up soon." It's windy, how's it going? Are you afraid?"

I stared straight at the tent and said stiffly: "I'm not afraid." But my little hands clenched tightly... Wu Xie patted me with a smile and said in an extremely exaggerated way: "That's good. !”

Two hours later, the wind and sand that covered the sky and the sun came as expected. The intensity of the wind and sand was almost the same as that of the day before. It was accompanied by the howling of ghosts and wolves in the Devil City... It was simply heart-stopping...

We all huddled in our tents, and many of us were disturbed by the terrifying wind noise and couldn't sleep.Wu Xie had visited XJ before, so this time he was neither curious nor afraid.In order to distract me, he took me to sit in the tent and read Wen Jin's notes together.

The wind blew until midnight and then gradually calmed down. Wu Xie slept during the day, which would make him very energetic. The little brother and the others still haven't come back. It must be that the wind and sand are too strong, so they are hiding outside.I was so sleepy that I couldn't bear it any longer, but one was worried and the other was scared, so Wu Xie stayed by my side and watched me, and only went out for a walk when he saw me falling asleep.

They arranged for two people who slept during the day to watch the night. These two people were very interested in the Devil City and were a little excited. Seeing that Wu Xie and Zhaxi were not sleeping either, they said to them: "Brother, we two thought Go outside and take some photos. Just keep an eye on it for us, just for a while, and be back soon."

Tashi looked at them and warned: "Be careful, don't go in, it's easy to get lost inside."

The two people nodded in agreement with a smile, and went to take pictures with their cameras.

Aning still hadn't rested. She was still thinking about search methods, and she kept holding the walkie-talkie in her hand. It seemed that she would not rest until she found those people.

Wu Xie originally wanted to persuade her to sleep for a while, but as soon as he said a few words, someone suddenly shouted from the distant Gobi: "Team doctor! Team doctor! Come here quickly! We found Ah K!"

At this time, the fat team doctor in An Ning's team was reading a book. When he heard someone calling him, he immediately put down his book and looked over, then started running this way.

When Wu Xie and others heard the sound, they all jumped up. They saw that the man who had just gone out to take pictures of the Devil City was waving to them from a mound. Several people rushed over in three steps and two steps.

I ran over and saw that there was a big pit on the mound. This Ah K was one of the four missing people, lying at the bottom of the pit.

The team doctor ran over panting, jumped into the pit, touched him and shouted: "He's still alive! Come, carry him to my tent."

Several people hurriedly rushed down to lift the man. Tashi acted quickly and carried the man on his back and ran towards the tent.

But Wu Xie was pushed aside. He looked at the pit and then looked at the direction of the camp. It was more than 20 kilometers away from the place where he parked before, and it was against the wind. Walking against the wind in the wind and sand was a long way to go. It's strange that I'm here again. I always feel that something is wrong.

Fortunately, this Ah K only fainted due to excessive fatigue.The team doctor gave him an injection and he woke up quickly.

When asked what was going on, Ah K also said to them vaguely: "I don't know either. I just remember that when I was walking, I saw the shadow of a stone mountain in front of me, so I leaned over. As a result, I kept walking and walking, and I don’t know how long I walked before I fell into the pit. Oh, by the way, have that old Gao and the other two people come back?"

As soon as Wu Xie heard "shadow", he thought that he had also seen a shadow that looked like a rock... If it hadn't been for the oil bottle and black glasses that dragged him back, he would have become one of the missing persons. I couldn't help but feel excited. I wanted to ask Ah K more carefully, but Ah Ning beat him to it and asked, "Have you seen them?" Ah K thought for a while and said to them, "They were right in front of me at that time. , but no matter how I called them, they didn’t look back. I think it might be because I was walking against the wind and they couldn’t hear me. Then I fell down and fainted. Why, they didn’t come back?”

Aning was surprised: "You mean you saw them before you fell unconscious?"

Ah K nodded, and Aning's eyes suddenly brightened. He turned around and said to Wu Xie, "Did you hear that? The place where he found old K was outside the Devil City, and in front of it was the Devil City. So, they went into the city! No wonder No matter how hard we look, we can’t find it.”

Aning said to Ah K: "You should have a good rest first." He immediately clapped his hands, and several people walked out of the team doctor's tent and began to discuss.

Aning said: "I think we must immediately enter the Devil City to search. These people walked against the wind for more than 20 kilometers. Old K fell unconscious outside. The people inside may also be exhausted. We must find them immediately. In this way The three of us, Wu Xie and the team doctor, will go take a look around first, while the others can wait for two hours and then wake up to follow up."

Wu Xie was very worried about the Caucasian man. Anyway, he was in good spirits now. Xiaoxun also fell asleep, so he nodded in agreement. Aning said: "Then let's get ready quickly." As soon as he finished speaking, he picked up the bag. , Tashi on the side came over and stopped him: "Wait a minute, my grandma said you can't go in."

Aning felt strange and asked: "Why?"

Tashi said to them: "My grandma said that this ghost city in front of you is not a tourist attraction. It is still in its most primitive state without any road signs. This Yadan landform is about 87 square kilometers and is very vast. At night Traveling inside, if you are not familiar with the environment, it is very easy to get lost.”

Aning listened and shook his head and said: "Don't worry about this, we have a GPS. If the terrain here is as complicated as you said, we have to go in. If we wait until dawn to look for them, something may have happened to them. "

Tashi continued: "It is said that there are many quicksand wells here. In 97, a team of geological survey team members disappeared inside. Many people were sent out to search but could not find them. Later, in 99, there was a strong wind, and several A photographer found two mummies in a sandpit while taking photos here, and the others have not been found yet. I advise you not to act rashly."

Aning didn't respond, just greeted a few people, turned on the flashlight, and planned to go deeper.

Wu Xie had always felt that this Tashi always made things very serious. It was estimated that Aning would not completely believe him. Those three people disappeared while they were with him. He always felt that he was more or less responsible. I have to try my best. At least I have tried my best. I can't sleep even if I have something on my mind.

Tashi was about to speak, but Dolma, the leader on the side, spoke up, shook his head to tell him to stop, and then quickly said a few words to Tashi in Tibetan.

Tashi immediately showed a very uncomprehending expression, but Dolma's expression was very firm. Tashi wanted to protest, but Dolma scolded Tashi, and Tashi did not dare to continue talking.He nodded to Zhuolma, the host, and stepped back. He said to them with a depressed look on his face: "You are lucky, my grandma asked me to take you in." After saying that, he turned on the flashlight and walked to his luggage. He had no choice but to They began to clean up their equipment and asked them to put away all unnecessary things and bring enough water, dry food, and flare guns.

After saying that, Dingzhu Zhuoma turned around and went back to the tent.

Wu Xie tilted his head and asked Aning quietly: "What did the old woman say?"

Aning shook his head and said: "The voice was too soft to hear clearly. It was probably about collecting people's money and helping people to eliminate disasters."

After everything was packed up, they woke up a driver and told him their plan. They asked him to stay outside and be ready to respond. If they saw them firing flares inside, don't go in. Instead, they fired flares outside to point them in the direction.If they still don't come out, wait until daybreak and ask others to go in and find them according to the marks they left along the way.

The driver agreed to them in a daze, and the four of them rectified themselves. Zaxi took the lead with a long face, and set off towards the entrance of the Devil City behind them.

Wu Xie looked at the place where we were sheltering from the wind, which was on the edge of the Devil City. The tall rock mountain where we camped should be a relatively high rock mountain in the Devil City. After the rock mountain, there was a steep slope, extending downwards, and at the end was what we saw during the sandstorm. That castle-like rocky mountain.

Tashi said: "Whenever there is a turn, I will pile up a pile of Arabic stones to mark the direction for those who come later." As he said that, he piled up gravel on the steep slope.As he piled them up, he continued: "Once we see the piles of rocks we piled while moving forward, we can't move forward anymore. If we move forward, we will start to circle. This is my bottom line."

Because what he said made sense, he always answered no problem.

Soon, they walked into the city entrance and entered the terrifying and strange devil city.

Entering the city, the surrounding scene began to become more and more strange. In front of us were black rock mountains above the Gobi gravel. The weathered ravines cut by the wind on the rock mountains were very obvious.There are only a few places where the moonlight shines, and under the cold moonlight, it looks very pale, miserable and deserted.

Wu Xie looked at the surrounding environment all the way and found that what he could see was that the terrain here was relatively low. The rocks and mounds had not been exposed to the surface for a long time and were not severely weathered. Therefore, most of the rock mountains and mounds were still very It's so tall that the Yadan wind-eroded rocks here should still be underage.

Thinking about the content of geomechanics he had learned back then, he realized that he had forgotten everything... and had to give it all back, feeling a little helpless.

Unknowingly, several people had already entered two or three kilometers away. Aning began to call them on the walkie-talkie, and several people also shouted loudly, hoping that the three people could hear their voices and respond.

However, in this extremely silent devil city, their voices were bounced into countless echoes, overlapping with each other, and then transmitted back from a distance. It sounded very weird, really like ghost sounds coming from the netherworld.

(End of this chapter)