Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 80 Black Dragon Appears, Ghost Town Appears!
We are now fighting against the sandstorm with a willpower that we have honed through countless lives and deaths, and it is beyond the reach of ordinary people.At that time, there was only one thought in my mind, no matter what, I absolutely couldn't just die in such a desolate Gobi desert for no reason, let alone let my beloved woman accompany me to die in such a place.

I don't know how long it has passed, maybe 1 minute, maybe an hour, maybe a whole night, in short, I have never felt that time will pass so slowly like now.

The black dragon sandstorm finally passed, and we lay on the ground in extreme collapse, like fish stranded on the tidal flat, and fainted unconsciously.

When I woke up again, it was already the dawn of the next day.I was awakened by thirst, as if a piece of coal had been stuffed into my throat, it was so dry that it was smoking.My head was dizzy and very heavy, as if it had been filled with lead, and I couldn't even lift it.The whole body was sore and limp, as if it had been crushed by a steamroller, and it was like a plant that had lost its nutrients, withered and withered.A wisp of soul wandered around the body, as if the body belonged to an irrelevant stranger.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a golden thread appearing in the distant sky, and the golden thread spread rapidly and became a wave of golden tide.As the golden tide continued to surge, the darkness gradually receded, revealing the blue sky.There is still a lot of dust floating in the sky, making the blue sky look a bit withered and yellow.

Not far away, Lao Luo built a bonfire and was cooking gnocchi on the fire.

I touched my body and sat up from the ground in surprise, we are not dead!We miraculously survived!
For the miraculous survival this time, we all put the credit on Lao Luo's head. Fortunately, such an expert as Lao Luo was recruited for this operation. It is difficult to move an inch, or we have been buried in the vast desert at this time.

We hadn't eaten all day, and each of us felt hungry. Although the gnocchi were really not very tasty, we ate them up, and our empty stomachs were filled to the brim with gnocchi.

While we were packing our luggage, we cleaned off the sand and soil on our bodies, and we were ready to go back on the road.

Before leaving, Gan Hongxin ran to pee more than ten meters away by himself.

We were packing our backpacks when we heard Gan Hongxin screaming in the distance. My first reaction was that Gan Hongxin's little ancestor was bitten by fire ants.

Looking back, I saw Gan Hongxin standing not far away, waving his arms while dancing: "Professor Ye, come and take a look, I have made a major discovery!"

Probably because of being too excited, Gan Hongxin even forgot to fasten his trouser belt, and while dancing, his trousers suddenly slipped down.

"Oh my god!" I quickly reached out and covered Gu Meidi's eyes: "It's so ugly, don't look at it!"

"Did you find the treasure?" Wang Dongyu asked.

We walked over, Gan Hongxin pointed to the rock wall beside the river bed, and said excitedly: "It's not treasure! Look here!"

I saw a black stone inlaid on the rock wall half a meter high from the ground. The stone was very flat, more than one meter long and half a meter wide. It looked like a stone tablet.

"This is biotite!" Professor Ye said.

I nodded, wondering in my heart, how could there be a piece of biotite in this boundless desert?

Wang Dongyu seemed a little disappointed: "This is what you call a major discovery, isn't it just a piece of mica stone, what a fuss, you still treat it as a treasure, don't you?"

Gan Hongxin blushed and said, "Nonsense! Of course I know it's biotite! But that's not what I want to talk about. Take two steps back and look carefully at the mica stone. It seems to be engraved with ancient characters!"

Are there ancient characters on the mica stone? !

We took two steps back suspiciously, and then took a closer look.At this time, the sun was just slanting down, and the black mica stone was shining brightly under the sunlight. We suddenly found that there were really two lines of ancient characters engraved on this mica stone.

After reading it for a long time, we don't know what the two lines of ancient characters above mean.

Wang Dongyu yawned and said, "Oh, what a rare treasure I am. Isn't it just a stone tablet? What's there to see? The sun in the sky is so vicious, let's hurry up and get on the road!"

Everyone was about to leave, but Lao Luo suddenly said: "Wait a minute!"

We looked at Lao Luo: "What's wrong?"

Lao Luo pointed to the stele and said, "Do you know what the ancient characters on the stele mean?"

We shook our heads in unison, Lao Luo, Lao Luo, don't you ask the question knowingly?If we can understand the words on the stele, we may not be as interested in it as we are now.

Lao Luo's face was faintly flickering with excitement: "This is an ancient script in the Western Regions. If I read it correctly, it has only six characters when translated into Chinese!"

"Six characters?" Our curiosity was aroused, and we couldn't wait to ask: "Which six characters?"

Lao Luo uttered six words one by one: "The black dragon emerges, and the ghost town appears!"

The black dragon comes out, and the ghost town appears? !

This sentence was like a thunderbolt exploding in our ears, and I faintly felt that the matter was not as simple as a stone tablet.According to my intuition, I guess these six characters should be a riddle!
Gu Meidi was the first to react: "The black dragon mentioned here, could it be the black dragon sandstorm yesterday?"

I snapped my fingers: "Then what this sentence means is that after the black dragon sandstorm passes, the rumored mysterious Devil City will appear in the desert!"

Gu Meidi nodded: "It should be that way!"

"The analysis of the two of you makes sense!" Professor Ye touched his chin and thought, "This mica stele should not have been embedded in the rock wall in the first place, but it was probably embedded in the rock wall after the change of Sangtian. According to common sense, this mica stone tablet will not be too far away from Devil City, that is to say, the rumored Devil City is very likely to be nearby! Let’s search separately, maybe you will find something!”

"Oops!" Not long after I walked, I heard Wang Dongyu who was walking in front of me suddenly let out an exclamation, and then he sank all of a sudden, leaving only half of his body on the sand.

I was startled, thinking that Wang Dongyu had run into quicksand.

Quicksand is a natural trap in the desert. The lower layer is groundwater, and the upper layer is gravel. Once trapped in quicksand, it is more terrifying than falling into a swamp. It can swallow people up in a few seconds.

I stopped in my tracks, not daring to step forward rashly, if I also stepped into the quicksand area, it would be troublesome.

"Oh, you fell to my death, Tuobagu, what are you doing standing there? Come and give me a hand!" Wang Dongyu scolded his mother in front.

I watched intently for a few seconds, and found that Wang Dongyu's body hadn't sunk since he fell into the sand, and his upper half was still exposed on the sand. I felt at ease, knowing that he hadn't encountered quicksand, so I took three steps and two steps in parallel. Run up to save him.

At this time, Lao Luo also heard the sound and hurried over: "This kid has stepped into the hollow shell, everyone, come and help!"

Hey!Hey!

We worked hard, just like pulling a carrot, and finally pulled Wang Dongyu out of the hollow shell.

In Gan Hongxin's words, it's like pulling a pig.

Lao Luo told us that there are often such hollow shells in the desert. Due to the effect of nature, the soil below the surface of some land has been hollowed out, leaving only a thin layer of crust on the surface.If you accidentally step on it, the earth's crust will collapse, and the people or animals on it will sink. It won't be long before the blown sand will fill up the collapsed place.Therefore, these empty shells are like traps set by nature for us. If we are not careful, we will swallow our lives, which is comparable to quicksand traps.

The cold wind poured out from the hollow shell. Listening to the sound of the empty wind, there seemed to be a vast space under the hollow shell.

We suddenly became nervous. Could it be that there is nothing under the surface of this layer?

I picked up a piece of gravel from the ground and threw it into the hollow shell.It took a long time before I heard an extremely slight echo from under the hollow shell. It seems that the space under the surface is not only large, but also very deep.

Lao Luo lay on the ground and listened for a while, then turned his head and said to us: "There is a lot of space below! Let me go and have a look!" Then, he took out a wolf's eye from his bag, and crawled softly to the pit shell He raised his wolf eyes to shine into the hollow shell.A white beam of light shot out from the wolf's eyes, like a sharp knife, cut through the thick darkness below the surface at once. At this moment, Lao Luo suddenly cried out in surprise.

Lao Luo's exclamation aroused our curiosity, and we quickly surrounded him, wanting to see what happened. Lao Luo raised his palms and motioned us to stop: "Come over slowly, and walk over like this , if the empty shell is collapsed, everyone will have to finish the game!"

What Lao Luo said was not unreasonable, so we followed his appearance just now and slowly crawled over.

"Look below!" Lao Luo shook his wolf eyes.

I craned my neck, poked my head into the hollow shell, and looked down with wide eyes.

With the light from the wolf's eyes, I was surprised to find that under the hollow shell, there was a stone ladder hovering in the air, like a black python flying in the air, with an estimated vertical distance of four to fifty meters.It was too dark underground, and the wolf's eyes couldn't see it clearly, but some stone buildings could be seen faintly.

I took a deep breath, and my heart was pounding. What is under the surface?
Obviously, there are footprints of human activities below. Could it be that the place below is the legendary Devil City?

Before I could express my conjecture, Professor Ye had already said: "The black dragon comes out, and the ghost town appears! Devil City, the legendary Devil City must be under this surface!"

(End of this chapter)