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Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Temple? It's normal for monks to go, why are Taoist priests going?"

The purpose of Zhuang Rui's trip is to excavate valuable tombs in ancient times, and he is not much interested in these temples or anything, unless it is a special place for the finger bone relics of Shakyamuni Buddha like Famen Temple, but it is conceivable that such a temple in the desert will not have such a Buddha treasure. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"What's so strange about this, isn't Daoist Wang also a person who believes in Taoism, isn't he still practicing in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang? Monks and Taoists are already a family......

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Dr. Ren couldn't help laughing, in the land of China, Buddhism is a foreign monk, and Taoism originated in China, both sects have their flourishing and declining dynasties, although Buddhism and Taoism also have a lot of open and secret battles in history, but compared with the bloody slaughter between those foreign sects, it can be regarded as getting along relatively well.

In ancient China, there were many people who practiced Buddhism and Taoism at the same time, and they all had deep attainments, such as the Ming Dynasty Confucian King Yangming, who was not only proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, but also integrated the three thoughts, and was called the "True Three Immortals", and his academic ideas had an important and far-reaching influence in China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asian countries and even the world.

"Daoist Wang?"

After Zhuang Rui heard this name, his heart couldn't help but move, Daoist Wang had built a Taiqing Palace Taoist temple in Mogao Grottoes to practice, why did he go to this remote temple in the desert? Even if the desertification was not so serious at that time, it is estimated that few people would be willing to come here.

"Could it be...... What else is there for Daoist Wang to go there?"

Zhuang Rui always felt that there was something about that temple that attracted him, and after thinking for a while, he looked at Mengzi and said, "Brother Mengzi, have you been to that place......?"

"Brother Zhuang, what ...... I haven't been there, but I've heard the old man talk about it, and it's a place where the devil lives, and it's dangerous......"

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, the bold fierce son actually showed a look of embarrassment on his face, because it was his father who had also told him not to go to that place, which was already occupied by the devil.

"Devil? You're talking about Devil's Town, right? It's just a geological phenomenon, a type of wind-eroded landform formed in an arid and windy environment, and there is nothing dangerous ......about it."

Zhuang Rui laughed when he heard this, he estimated that the place Mengzi said was the Yadan landform area, and this kind of terrain was often strange, as if it was fabricated by the devil, but in fact, it was not harmful to people.

"Brother Zhuang, it's not like that, you don't know, when I was very young, someone in the town went there, and more than ten people went there, and two people came back, and one of them went crazy, saying that there were devils under the ground there, and they even ate people and camels......"

Mengzi's face turned a little pale when he said this, these stories were told repeatedly by people since he was a child, although Mengzi was bold, but in the face of these mysterious things, there would still be fear in his heart.

"There's a devil down there, and they're going to eat people?"

Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment, then his face became serious, he turned his face to look at Dr. Ren, and said, "Senior brother, what Brother Mengzi said, could it be the quicksand in the desert?"

Most of the people who live on the edge of the desert believe that there are devils in the desert, but in fact, the devils they call are the quicksand in the desert, which can devour all objects, and in ancient times, this phenomenon could not be explained by science, so it became the place where people said the devil lived.

Quicksand is actually the rising groundwater, reducing the friction between the sand particles, so that the sand begins to "flow", thus forming quicksand, the harm of quicksand is considerable, in 1692 AD, Jamaica's Royle port had an earthquake caused by the liquefaction of the soil and the formation of quicksand, and finally caused a third of the city to disappear, 2,000 people lost their lives.

For those who live on the edge of the desert, the harm of quicksand is directly reflected in the fact that camels and living people are swallowed by quicksand, which also makes all the residents of the town avoid the places where there is quicksand in the desert and regard it as a forbidden area for the devil.

"It's quicksand, the last time I was here with my teacher, I heard people in the town say it, but ...... They didn't say there was a temple there......"

Dr. Ren nodded, he knew that in this desert near the North Gobi, there was a quicksand area, but the last time he came, he didn't hear that there was a place to investigate, so he didn't know much about it, you know, they are archaeologists and not geologists.

Mengzi interjected and said: "Brother Qiangzi, the people in the town are generally reluctant to mention that matter, if it wasn't for Brother Zhuang asking today, I wouldn't have said it......"

Qiujiawo is such a small town, there are dozens of families in total, the shortest family has lived here for nearly a hundred years, many families are related to the past, in the seventies of the last century, more than ten young adults died there at once, this is the biggest tragedy in the history of the town, and people who know about this matter are reluctant to mention.

Qiangzi has been warned by the old man since he was a child to stay away from that place, so when Zhuang Rui proposed to go there just now, his face became so ugly.

"There is quicksand there, which can only mean that there must be groundwater under that sand, and even the former oasis, I don't know how to sink under the sand, so it should have been a human ...... before."

Zhuang Rui deduced along the quicksand, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, the quicksand is generally not too large, as long as he and others are careful, they may not be able to bypass the quicksand area and enter the temple that Mengzi said to find out.

Zhuang Rui had a very strange feeling in his heart, the Taoist priest mentioned by Mengzi just now, he felt that it should be the Taoist priest Wang who opened up the Tibetan scripture cave in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

If that's the case, what is the motivation for Daoist Wang to go there? This is something worth exploring, so Zhuang Rui was not interested from the beginning, and sprouted a strong desire to go there.

"Of course there are people who have lived there, and I heard the older generation say that at the beginning of the Republic of China, there were people living from our town all the way to the North Gobi, and then I don't know what happened, the desert area suddenly increased, and the people who lived there had to move out......"

When Mengzi said this, he suddenly looked at Zhuang Rui vigilantly and said: "Brother Zhuang, I can take you to this desert except for that place, but there, I really don't go, if Abba knows, it will break my legs......"

can make such a bold person as Mengzi say such a thing, which shows how much the "devil's forbidden area" has a great impact on the people in the town.

Zhuang Rui saw Mengzi's appearance, and knew that if he forced him to go, it was estimated that this brother would be able to go home directly, and after thinking about it for a while, Zhuang Rui said: "Okay, Brother Mengzi, let's not go there, let's go around this site first......"

Go, it is necessary to go, but Zhuang Rui must first eliminate the fear of quicksand in the desert, although the quicksand in the desert is difficult to judge with the naked eye, but as long as the distance is stretched away when moving forward, do not walk too fast, even if the person in front of him is trapped in quicksand, there is a way to rescue.

Moreover, the ground in the quicksand contains water, and Zhuang Rui can also distinguish it by the aura in his eyes, so that he still has a considerable confidence in his heart to discover the quicksand area in advance, so as to avoid the past.

Seeing that Zhuang Rui no longer insisted on going to the "Devil's Forbidden Zone", Mengzi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, returned to his previous appearance, patted his chest and said: "Okay, as long as you don't go there, you just want to go to the Great Gobi, and if you're lucky, you may be able to see wild camels......"

Zhuang Rui couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, if these people ran to the desert to look for wild camels, it would really be unprofessional, and when he was about to speak, there was a sudden "clanging sound" in his ears in the distance, but there were tourists who came to this site.

Mengzi also heard the camel bell, stood up and put his hand on the pergola to look at it for a while, and shouted to the person coming from the camel in the distance: "Hey, Erdan, you got up early enough, but it's still later than me, haha......"

"Brother Mengzi, I'm not bad, except for you, I'm the best guide in town......"

After hearing Mengzi's words, the person who came shouted in his mouth, and the camel caravan, which was originally moving forward slowly and leisurely, suddenly trotted up, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the periphery of the ruins, and mixed with the camel team of Zhuang Rui and others.

Mengzi stepped forward, glanced at the other party's camel team, couldn't help frowning, and asked, "Erdan, why did you bring so many camels? Aren't you going to go back today?"

Hearing Mengzi's words, Zhuang Rui and the others found that the other party's camel team had a total of six camels, but there were only four people sitting, and the other two camels were the same as them, carrying a lot of supplies.

"Brother Mengzi, the guests are going to the legendary temple in our town, so I brought two more camels, and I haven't been there in this desert, hehe, maybe I'll be the best guide in the town in the future......"

Erdan, the leader of the caravan, jumped off the camel and lifted the scarf on his face, revealing a young and confident face, which looked like he was twenty-two or three years old.

Erdan's words surprised Mengzi, grabbed Erdan, and said loudly: "What......? Are you going there?