The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 16 The Sea of ​​Death (2)
I looked at the place where the sky and the earth meet in the distance, and it really began to dim for a long time. None of us dared to disbelieve what Mamat said, so we immediately rode on the camel and ran forward, hoping to find a place to shelter from the wind before the sandstorm came. The place.

"There is a village in front, let's go and hide there!" Huo Xiaoning shouted, I looked in the direction he pointed, and saw some grayish-yellow houses in the yellow sand ahead, so everyone rushed over there.

As soon as we arrived in front of the village, the strong wind whizzed the yellow sand all over the sky. We quickly found a nearby house and squeezed in. Camels are called "desert boats" for no reason. Maimaiti tied them up At the door, he ran in.

It was an empty house, and there was nothing around it except gray-yellow earthen walls.

Listening to the howling ghosts and howling wolves outside the door, everyone felt a little sleepy after eating something.The exhaustion and panic for most of the day made Professor Chen and the others fall into a drowsy sleep.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" Xiang Ru was still in a bad state of mind and asked me.

"I'm not sleepy, you go to bed first!" Seeing Xiang Ru lying down, I lit a cigarette and stood at the window with the fat man, looking at the howling wind outside through the cracks in the incomplete window panels. There was a loud crackling sound, and I couldn't help but doubt how this old village built in the desert could withstand the strong winds for so many years.

"It can't be done, I can't hold it anymore, go take a pee!" The fat man said suddenly.

"What are you kidding? It's so windy outside, ten fat people will be blown away by you, but you have to go out to pee?!" I couldn't laugh or cry

"My lord, I can't hold it anymore. When did you see me pee in this day? You are responsible for breaking my bladder!" The fat man became irritable. It didn't seem like a joke, but I definitely wouldn't Might have let him out.

"Just pee here! That corner, I'll block it for you, hurry up!" I said impatiently, remembering an old saying "a lazy donkey grinds a lot of shit and piss", I don't know if the fat man understands this mean.

The fat man looked at everyone sleeping on the ground with some anxiety, and he couldn't care less. He stood in the corner and got angry. Seeing this, I hurriedly stood behind him and faced everyone.

This guy really held back a lot of urine, rushing endlessly like a small river.

"Hurry up!" I urged.

"Don't worry, it'll be ready soon... Huh? Zhijiang, look what this is?!" the fat man shouted, and the guy's thick voice frightened Professor Wu, who was already neurasthenic, to sit up.

I looked back and saw that the fat man was holding a golden finger in his hand. He said it was a finger, but it didn't look like a human finger, it looked more like a part of a bird's claw.It looks like the whole finger should be made of gold, even the joints and skin lines are carved like real ones, but the nail caps are inlaid with jasper.

"Let me take a look!" Professor Wu came over and said.

The fat man looked at me, and I understood what that meant. He didn't forget that we and Professor Wu didn't come here for the same purpose. I gave him a wink and told him to let Professor Chen see it.

"Where did you find it?" Professor Wu looked over and over again, with admiration from time to time.

"Oh, just from this corner..." The fat man pointed to the corner and said something, only to realize that he had slipped his words and stopped immediately.

"Why is there so much water here?"

"That's right! I'll tell you, old man, I was standing here drinking water just now, but I didn't expect the water to spill out, and I washed this thing out of the soil." I have to admire the fat man's lying skills. His expression didn't change, his heart didn't beat, and he didn't even blink his eyelids.

"Well, this water is not good water, and it smells like urine." Professor Wu saw that everyone was up, so he didn't want to expose the fat man, so he had something to say, and smiled at the fat man and me like an old fox.

"What do you think this thing is?" I quickly smoothed things over for the fat man and diverted the topic away.

When everyone saw such a beautiful gold finger, their eyes widened and they sighed, waiting for Professor Wu's explanation.

"This thing... To tell you the truth, I have studied for most of my life, and I have never seen such an exquisite gold ornament. You can see that the cuts at the back are very neat, and gold is very malleable, so look at it. It's not broken like this, I think it should be a small part of a golden statue, you can see the broken place, it's obviously built, but it hasn't been connected yet."

"This is a bit strange..." Just as I was about to finish my sentence, I found a blood-red eye staring at us in the gap between the window panels!Just as I saw it, it also saw me, I didn't even bother to speak, I opened the door and rushed out.

But there was nothing outside, the wind had gradually stopped, and the sun was wiping the last ray of sunset in the western sky.I went around the house in a circle, but still found nothing.

"What's wrong with you?!" Fatty ran out and bumped into me, and asked quickly, and everyone followed, looking at me puzzled.

"An eye, a blood-red eye!" I said.

"It can't be like this! No one lived in this village many years ago, why are there still people?" Maimaiti and Huo Xiaoning said.

We didn't pay attention to the strong wind that was blowing in the dark just now, but now the wind has stopped, I can see it without their telling, this is a deserted village, the structure of the houses is not much different from the structure of the houses in Huo Xiaoning's village.

I ignored them and went to the window to see if the thing had left any footprints, but I was disappointed in the result.

The soft sand was stepped on and then pulled out, and the sand above sank, leaving no footprints at all.What was that guy just now?Am I really delusional?

I walked around the village again, and Fatty and Xiang Ru followed me. Seeing that I was still thinking, they didn't talk to me.

This village is not big, but it is dilapidated. There are broken walls and ruins everywhere. Some houses have their roofs lifted, some houses have their walls down, and only a few houses are relatively intact.The people in the village seem to have moved to other places. No wonder, if you walk for a while, you will find a dry river, and no one will live in a place without water.

Suddenly I discovered a very strange phenomenon, a dilapidated house, half of the south wall had collapsed.I can see from the exposed brick and soil that the inside and outside of this wall are the same as other walls, but there is a layer of gray-black brick and soil inside the wall. According to common sense, the walls built in the same period use the same materials. , why does this wall have two layers?

I couldn't figure it out, so I asked Xiang Ru to go back and find Professor Wu to come and have a look, but after walking for a while, Xiang Ru came back panting: "Well, there's something over there!"

Xiang Ru is usually very courageous, but the last time I found a dead body in the sea-exploring cave, it didn't matter much, but now her face is very ugly, I knew something was wrong, so I ran over to her with the fat man.

"It's right there!" Xiang Ru led us around a few dilapidated houses, pointed to a corner and said, "Huh? Why is it gone?"

"What?" Fatty and I searched around, but we didn't even find a ghost, so we warmed Xiangru.

"I didn't see it clearly either. It was dark, tall and big. From the back, it seemed to be a person, but it didn't seem to be a person..." Xiang Ru didn't know what to say, but only had a terrified expression on his face.

I think Xiang Ru was probably too tired today, didn't have a good rest, and had hallucinations.After getting better with the fat man, I still didn't find anything, so I went to Professor Chen and the others.

Professor Wu is packing things with everyone, and decided to take advantage of the coolness of the night to go for a while, so that we can arrive at Loulan earlier tomorrow. After listening to what I said, let's come and have a look.

"You can tell by the soil quality. The inner wall is thousands of years old, and it should be in the same period as Loulan. But the weathering of the outer wall seems to have been built hundreds of years ago. It's a bit strange..." Professor Wu told us.

At this time, Maimaiti and Huo Xiaoning came leading the camels. Seeing that we were still discussing here, they shouted: "Let's go! Look at the sunset and it will be hotter tomorrow. Let's drive a little longer at night!"

We didn't think about it anymore, and walked forward together.

Along the dry river, you can see salt-alkali crystals shining in the moonlight everywhere, and the soles of your feet hurt when you step on them.

After crossing a river channel and walking forward for a short time, I suddenly saw a dry lake, which should be one of the few lakes in Lop Nur.

The so-called Lop Nur is not a large lake like a vast ocean, but is composed of several different small lakes, which are not connected in the dry season. When the flood season comes, the surrounding rivers can connect them into one piece, but now, this Zeguo, a water town thousands of years ago, has become a vast desert.

No one dared to cross Lop Nur in summer because of Hewen.Si Ding almost died here. Since he survived by chance, he named this Lop Nur "Sea of ​​Death".

After all, the Gobi is much easier to walk than the desert. We walked all night, and finally saw the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan not far away the next morning.

Looking from a distance, this site looks like a ghost town standing alone in the Gobi for thousands of years, as if no one has ever lived in it, which makes people frightened.

Everyone didn't care about taking a rest, and immediately followed Professor Wu to investigate in the ruins.However, after a whole day of investigation, except for a few tattered pottery fragments and "five baht coins", the result disappointed us greatly.Fatty and I didn't find any cemetery, and Professor Chen and the others didn't find the so-called underground ruins either.

But Professor Wu was not reconciled, took out the needle shovel, chose a place outside the city, and let us insert it.The front of the real needle shovel is pointed and long, like a kind of ancient gun, the difference is that its tip is semi-cylindrical, so that it can be deeply inserted into the soil layer to bring out the soil samples below.

But the few of us have been busy for a long time, and the soil samples brought out are the same as usual. Is it true that we are going to return without success this time?

I suggested that Professor Wu go to other nearby places, and we went to a beacon tower of the Han Dynasty. I climbed up and looked around with a telescope. I saw some deserted villages of the same size as yesterday scattered around in the distance. As the center, it stands there according to the four directions of east, west, north and south.

Suddenly I was startled, isn't this arrangement the same as the four images mentioned in "The Record of Ancient Gods and Monsters" and other ancient books?

It is recorded in the "Heaven" chapter: "Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu are the gods of the four directions... Therefore, the east belongs to the Qinglong, the west belongs to the white tiger, the south belongs to the Suzaku, and the north pans Xuanwu. The four images are divided, and they gather together. Yin and yang, combined with the earth's energy, the big one can guard the country and the frontier, and the small one can protect the village and shelter the city, the supreme magic..."

(End of this chapter)