In the past, Shagouzi Village, as a remote and desolate village with only 20 households, was rarely visited by outsiders.

Although it belongs to Haisha Town, the leaders of those towns are only concerned with vigorously developing tourism, who will remember such a poor and remote place.

But now, when a large ancient tomb was found in the nearby Shahai ditch, people from all walks of life gathered here, whether it was a regular archaeological team member, or an antique dealer wandering around the village, as well as some unemployed vagrants with strange ideas.

However, since there was an incident of theft and loss of ancient tomb relics, a group of police forces have also been deployed here to maintain order, and the management of mobile personnel entering the village is also relatively strict.

Xu Ran did not have an invitation letter from the archaeological working group, nor did he have a letter of introduction from the archaeology department of the university, so naturally he could not enter the temporary office of the village committee casually, let alone follow him to the camp of the working group.

After he sent Song Wenli and the three to the village committee, the three of them had their own working group and sent them to the camp in a desert off-road after verification.

After saying goodbye to the three of them, Xu Ran did not stay in this village, and drove back.

However, before the car drove out of the village, suddenly a man came out of the weeds on the side of the road, and stood in the middle of the road to stop the car.

Chirping!

The man suddenly came out, which surprised Xu Ran, so he quickly slammed on the brakes, and the car jumped forward slightly before it could stop.

Fortunately, Xu Ran had just driven out of the village, and the car had not immediately accelerated.

Otherwise, in the process of high-speed driving, this person suddenly got out and stood in the middle of the road to stop the car, and he would be directly knocked into the air and end up dead.

After taking a few deep breaths, Xu Ran felt calmer, but still a little frightened.

Then there was a surge of anger, Xu Ran lowered the window and said angrily: "What the hell is there such a car stopper, I want to find death!"

Looking at the front of the car again, it was a young man of about 30 years old, with messy hair, blue face, puffy eyes, pale and chapped lips, his body was covered with mud and sand, and there were wounds on his forehead and arms that had been cut by sharp objects.

Moreover, on such a hot day, he was actually wearing a thick cotton coat, and a part of his abdomen was a little bulging, which felt very suspicious.

The young man opened his chapped lips, his voice was a little weak, and his words were not too smooth: "Brother, I'm not a bad person, can you give me a ride, there will be a good reward?"

Listening to the accent of the other party's speech, it didn't look like a Chinese, Xu Ran was even more angry: "You don't think you're a bad person, why don't you go into the village to find the police, what do you do when you stop my car, get out of the way, I'm not a good person, I won't care about this kind of nosy and get into trouble!"

"I'll give you money, you can open it for less than 20,000 yuan, you just need to take me to Haisha Town and put it down!"

"Hehe, then you go and stop someone else's car, I don't lack your money!"

Xu Ran sneered, then stepped on the accelerator and motioned to the other party to get out of the way.

But the young man just didn't let him, and said: "Brother, since you don't want money, I can give you an antique, I'm really in a hurry, this will be your car will pass through Haisha Town on the way back, there is no other car, and I will be poisoned to death if it's too late!"

Xu Ran was angry: "Don't fool me here, if you don't let me, I'll reverse into the village and call the police!"

"Don't, there's something to discuss!"

After the young man hurriedly stopped it, he knew that he would not be able to win people's trust without taking some dry goods, so he immediately took out an old bracelet with a strange shape and engraved with Western Xia cultural totems and textures on the edge from the cotton coat, held it in the palm of his hand and presented it in front of Xu Ran, and said, "Brother, as long as you give me a ride, this bracelet is yours!"

After seeing the bracelet, especially the jewel-like stone inlaid on it, Xu Ran's heart beat wildly.

Of course, it's not his heart beating.

Instead, the mysterious piece of metal that was worn around his neck and hung on his chest actually produced an energetic reaction, buzzing and vibrating.

The stone embedded in the old bracelet was exactly the same as the strange stone with energy he had found in the fragmented space at the place where he had settled.

Suppressing the throbbing in his heart, Xu Ran said: "Who knows if this thing you took out was stolen from the newly discovered ancient tomb in Shahaigouzi, and this is criminally responsible?"

The young man had no choice but to explain: "No, the newly discovered ancient tomb is a Han tomb, and this bracelet was found from an altar built by a Western Xia mage in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Hearing this, Xu Ran looked at the young man's eyes: "Are you a tomb robber?"

"I'm not a grave robber!"

The young man's face was even more pale at this time, and there was a black gas along the veins, which did look like a sign of poisoning, and said: "Let me tell you the truth, I am a Chinese who studies archaeology, and I entered the country on a tourist visa, but I have been stranded here for almost half a year, and the visa has long expired, which is why I don't want to go into Shagouzi Village to see the police."

My ancestors have been mages for eleven generations, have lived here for more than a century, they advocate the true Ding culture, has been trying their best to find the true Ding Tianshu and the true Ding altar, has never been able to do so, I also came to find the true Ding altar, and did not find it during the stay.

However, after the last sandstorm, after I saw the news of the discovery of the Han tomb here, I set off again alone into the depths of the sand sea ditch, and finally found the remains of an altar.

It's a pity that it's just an ordinary altar built by the mage, not the Zhending Altar I want to find, but I'm unlucky, a few days ago there was a strong wind here and a yellow sand curtain, I lost my way, it took two days to find the right direction, but I ran into a poisonous red scorpion in the desert and bit me halfway, I injected myself with serum, and found several plants from the desert, and used a soil method to prepare a medicine to persist to this day, and now the herbs are also used up, I really can't hold on.

The bracelet I gave you is a magic weapon used by the Western Xia mage in the Song and Yuan dynasties to pray for rain, also known as the rain bracelet, which should be a little collectible for you people in Xiacheng, and also, this is my passport, you can check it, I really didn't lie to you, please brother......"

Seeing that the Chinese young man handed the passport to the car window, Xu Ran took it and took it in his hand and looked at it with some doubt.

The nationality on the passport is Malaysia, and then compare the photo identity information of the young man, it can also match the number, this young man's surname is extremely rare, and his name is Huo Sizhen.

It turned out to be a Malaysian Chinese, Xu Ran believed a little that this young man should not lie to him, and the other party did not get into the car, but handed over the bracelet very sincerely.

Xu Ran suppressed the restlessness caused by the mysterious metal block on his chest, and took the bracelet and put it in the pocket of the chest of his jacket, and the restlessness of the mysterious metal block instantly calmed down.

After returning the passport to Huo Sizhen, Xu Ran unlocked the car door and said, "Get in the car!"

"Thank you very much!"

After the young man got permission, he opened the passenger door and got into the car.

Xu Ran secretly paid attention to it, and saw that there was a package hidden inside the other party's cotton coat, and there was a pointed tripod-shaped thing showing the outline inside, and the other parts were only some tattered robes worn by ancient mages and a short staff made of animal bones.

After glancing at it, Xu Ran speculated that the other party didn't have any dangerous thermal weapons or anything like that, so he handed him a bottle of water, and as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, the car began to speed wildly, like a lone wolf running in the desert, bringing up a stream of sand and dust to fly away......