The man first said it in Uyghur, and when the two of them didn't react, he said it again in Chinese.

Yin Bing just heard that the tone of this person's speech was a little stiff, and guessed that his words had passed through the translator, he turned off the translation function, and heard that it was Uyghur. Yin Bing and Shi Wu didn't reply when the man spoke in Uyghur, because they didn't want others to know too much about them, after all, they had to be cautious when they were on a mission outside.

After the man asked again in Chinese, Yin Bing stood up and spoke, "The two of us are students who have come to explore the desert. ”

The man looked at the two of them again, Yin Bing and Shi Wu were both about twenty years old, and they had nothing on their bodies except for a backpack, and they did look like students.

The man tore off the cloth towel on his face, revealing a face of thirty or forty years old, and he showed a concerned expression, "You two ran into the depths of the desert like this? You will die here, it's too dangerous, you should go back quickly!"

"No, we haven't reached our destination yet!" Yin Bing shook his head.

"Alas, why are you two students so stubborn? It's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, there are storms in the desert, poisonous snakes, poisonous scorpions, and the most terrible man-eating ants, you don't have anything on you, how to deal with it, come and listen to the eldest brother, you go back!"

"By the way, where is your destination?" he asked again seeing that Yin Bing and Shi Wu were unmoved by his words.

"Exquisite Ancient City! We want to go to Exquisite Ancient City!"

When the man heard this, his eyes froze, and he immediately returned to his normal state, "What are you two students doing in that place?

"We are majoring in archaeology and museology, and we want to use our vacation to see the Loulan ruins and the exquisite ancient city here. ”

"Oh, but how did you get here without any equipment, and you have other companions?" the man asked again.

"We came with a caravan, and we were all equipped in the caravan, but then we got separated in a storm, and when we saw a tower here, we came here to wait for them. Yin Bing was talking nonsense.

"Well, we're also an archaeological team, and we're going to investigate the ruins of an ancient city deep in the desert. We can't see death without help, you have no water and no equipment in the desert just wait for death, follow us on the road. The man kindly extended an invitation.

Yin Bing didn't want to go with them, but if he refused at this time, it would make people suspicious, so he had to agree, thinking that he would find an appropriate time for the two to leave.

So Yin Bing and Shi Wu joined the camel caravan and walked together into the depths of the desert.

There were a total of seven people in the caravan, except for an old man who looked like a guide, all of them were sturdy middle-aged men, and they rarely talked to each other, which made Yin Bing a little suspicious in his heart, he exchanged glances with Shi Wu, obviously Shi Wu didn't believe that they were archaeological.

In the middle of the night, they pitched their tents in the desert and lit bonfires. The man who claimed to be Zhang Tiecheng invited Yin Bing and Shi Wu to eat beef and mutton jerky together, these people just laughed and laughed and drank some jokes, and did not mention archaeological matters, but the old guide, half a pot of wine, told everyone the story.

The old guide looked like an old man, and he must have been a guide for people often, and knowing what these people wanted to hear, he took the initiative to tell a legend.

The ancient kingdom of Jingjue was originally a small and prosperous country, where the people revere the gods and care for the environment, and although the surrounding environment is more difficult, the residents of Jingjue have a set of strict management methods for the management and use of water and the protection of trees.

The use of water is paid, and the water is in charge of a special person. Penalties will be imposed if losses are caused by mismanagement. If there is a waterless drought on cultivated land, it is also required to investigate and deal with it in a timely manner. The country is well managed, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Once the king suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, and his whole body festered as if it were about to melt, and the whole country posted a list of emperors to recruit virtuous doctors to treat the king.

But the doctors were helpless, and then a woman came, who claimed to be a messenger from heaven to save the king, and the people had to invite her into the palace with suspicion, and she actually healed the king.

From then on, she remained in the palace and was made a national teacher, but when the king recovered from his illness, his temperament changed greatly, he became tyrannical, increased taxes on the people, and at the same time built a large construction project to build a shrine for the woman who saved him.

Originally, the people in the city were devout believers, and there were several famous temples built in the city, and many people who rushed to Mecca for pilgrimage had to go here to worship. Later, with the establishment of the Silk Road, Buddhism also entered the country, and some residents also believed in Buddhism.

However, this woman could not tolerate the existence of other religions, and she ordered the king to order the demolition of all the temples in the city, and to force all the people to believe in the witchcraft she founded, and to burn them in the fire if they did not believe in them. For a while, the people were miserable, but in order to survive, they were forced to believe in the woman's witchcraft.

One night, a burly monk came to the city and went to the people's homes to fast, and the people were afraid that the woman would find out that they were helping the monks, so they did not dare to fast for the monks.

The next day, the woman somehow figured out that there was such a monk in the city, and asked the people to catch the monk and burn him to death, and the people had to look for the monk everywhere, and then a kind old man found the monk, and with his help, the monk escaped from the city.

When the monk was leaving, he gave the old man a relic, told him to escape from the ancient city quickly, and said that in seven days, there would be a rain of sand from the sky, and the rain would fall for sixty days, and everything in the city would be submerged, and only the person who held the relic could escape from the ancient city and be spared.

The benevolent old man tried to persuade the inhabitants of his city to flee with him, but was caught by the witch and wanted to burn the old man in public and sacrifice to the witch god. Just as she threw the old man into the flames, suddenly a sand rain began to fall in the sky, and the sand rain continued to fall for sixty days before stopping, and the ancient city was completely submerged under the yellow sand.

The old man of the guide is a devout *** believer, he said that although Allah Allah is the only god in this world, as long as the religion that persuades people to be good is a good religion, it can lead people to happiness, but the cult is harmful to others, and this exquisite witch is to harm the people of the whole city.

Yin Bing and everyone listened attentively, if this legend is true, it seems that this relic is really in the Essence City. Yin Bing looked at the flashing eyes of everyone, and his heart moved, could it be that they were also coming for the relics?

In addition, Yin Bing also had a strange feeling in his heart, why did this old man tell this story, could he see through people's hearts and know that these people were here for that relic?