Northwest China, at the very edge of the plateau desert, is the town of Zelun. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the desert, it can be surprisingly hot during the day, the highest temperature can reach nearly 65 degrees Celsius on the surface of the desert, and the difference between day and night is quite obvious, and the temperature on the desert can reach minus 20 degrees at night.

It is simply difficult for ordinary people to live here in such a climate with huge temperature differences.

However, the inhabitants of Zelun have lived on the edge of the desert for generations, as if they have long been accustomed to the changing weather here, and the place is like a secluded town, with only one road to reach the town.

The houses in the town are covered with yellow sand, and the ground and walls are also covered with yellow sand, so even during the day, the doors of the houses in this town are locked. In addition, sandstorms sweep from time to time, and there are few people on the streets, as if it is as lonely as an empty deserted town.

In the center of the village there is a small lake, the lake is very clean and clear, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, pure and beautiful.

The only source of water for the people of Zelun is in this lake, which is now connected underground to every house.

Strangely, when someone asked why the water in this town did not dry up, no one in the village could answer, only some old people would point to the lake in their hometown and say, "That's the holy lake!"

It is precisely because the residents of Zelun Town are isolated from the world all year round, the roads are impassable, and the information is not developed, which has caused these people's concepts to become very feudal and superstitious.

In fact, there is an underground river hidden under the holy lake, which is buried by yellow sand and flows through the bottom of the desert, and no one knows where the source of this underground river is.

As night fell, and the sun was setting, a group of men came up from the town, all wrapped in thick scarves, dressed in black, and all covered their faces with veils, revealing only their eyes.

After arriving near the entrance of the village, the people of Zelun Town found that someone had come to their town, and for a while many people gathered at the entrance of the town, looking at these horseback riders curiously.

"You are merchants lost in the desert. An old man with white hair stepped forward on crutches and asked.

One of the men in black who led the team lifted the veil, revealing his dazzling eyes, and then looked up at the sun that had sunk to the end of the desert.

He smiled strangely and said, "Dare to ask the old man if the holy lake is here?"

The people who live in this town are very simple and kind, and the old man is no exception, and he does not have any suspicion of this strange person.

"Yes, are you here for the Holy Lake, are you from the archaeological team?" said the old man in surprise.

In fact, it was rumored in the town that there were ancient treasures buried under the holy lake very early, but the water of the holy lake was bottomless, and there were young strong men in the town who tried to dive to the bottom of the holy lake, but they only dived more than 50 meters and could not go deep, so they had to give up.

The town also applied for archaeologists from the city and province to come and investigate, but the news was reported for a long time, and no one came.

Of course, the townspeople don't want anyone to destroy their only source of water.

The leader was a middle-aged man, who looked to be in his fifties, with brown hair on sideburns and a mustache at the corner of his mouth, looking like a solemn and cold soldier.

"Yes, old man, we are from the archaeological team, can you take us to the holy lake. The leader glanced at the man next to him wrapped in black veil and said.

"Yes, no problem, but the sun has already set, and it will be cold later, and you won't be able to see anything, so it's better to go to the holy lake when the sun rises tomorrow morning." The old man said enthusiastically.

He turned his head to the onlookers behind him: "March, Sibao and Ansheng, you go and inform the people in the town to entertain the archaeological team from the city." ”

"Great!"

Those people responded heartily, and then shouted: "The archaeological team from the city will pull it, and the archaeological team will pull it from the city." ”

While shouting towards the streets of the town.

Suddenly, there were more and more onlookers, and the people in the town, old and young, young and beautiful, all poked their heads out to watch the excitement.

This is the case in poor places and places where information is not developed, as soon as something new happens, there will be a phenomenon of human transmission, and it is very fast, not much worse than the current communication equipment, and within five minutes the whole town knows that there is a team of people from the archaeological team who has come to their town.

It's like in the 80s, when foreigners entered the village, the whole village came out to see the foreigners.

The team leader twitched the corners of his mouth, and said with a gloomy face: "Old man, the people in your town are really enthusiastic." ”

The coldness in his eyes can indeed have some kind of prestige and majesty in the eyes of the old man, and the old man smiled and said: "Yes, our town is not as big as a big city, there is nothing, just people are thick and simple." ”

Then the group of people led by the old man walked towards the central square of the town.

Along the way, children and young people can be seen following the horses in a group.

"Ash, don't run around. ”

The shouts of women were heard in the town.

Several children chased the group to the back of the team, and Ash's eyes were rolling wildly, and he would slap the horse's buttocks, and then jump up and down in front of them.

"It's strange that they don't show their faces. A bear child beside Ash said strangely.

"Oh, you see, they can't even see with their eyes. A little girl said, pointing to the man on the horse wrapped all over.

"Go, go, don't join in the fun, hurry back to eat. "The little girl was taken away by a woman.

Ash looked at these people strangely, and when he walked to the side, he found that a shadow under the veil shrouded the eyes, and it was impossible to see that there were eyes inside, as if there was nothing under the veil.

"What a strange archaeological team. Ash said strangely, and then he smiled, caught up with the horse behind him, leaped high, and slapped his right hand on the horse's waist.

With this beat, his palm passed through the whole way, from side to side, as if he had touched a piece of gauze, and it was all empty.

Ash looked at his hands in amazement, and looked at the archaeological team farther and farther away in horror, and his heart was shocked beyond words.

Ash stood in a daze for a long time, and some of the imps around him came forward to fight before he came back to his senses.

"Isn't there anything under their clothes?" Ash muttered to himself.

"What do you say, hurry up and give me home dinner, be careful that I spank your ass. Ash's mother grabbed Ash's ear, and he screamed in pain.

"Know, pull. Ash said impatiently.

Late at night, the town was very quiet, and the archaeological team set up a tent in the square of the town.

The team leader had told the mayor that they were tired and needed to rest, so they gave up.

At this time, under the silver-white and cold moon, the town was covered with a layer of silver frost, which was pale and a little infiltrating.

At this moment, the door of a house at the entrance of the town quietly opened, and a child wrapped in a military uniform came out, and he carefully slipped towards the square in the center of the town while breathing cold air.

Ash still remembers the feeling of being empty under his clothes with his hand during the day, and out of curiosity, he sneaked out in the middle of the night to see what these archaeological teams were going to do.

When they arrived in the square, there was no movement in the tents, not even lights, only the silver moonlight shining coldly on the tents.

Ash touched the entrance of the camp tent, turned his head and looked into the camp tent, and was stunned for a moment.

"Strange, why is there no one?"

The tent was empty, and Ash was surprised to walk to the other tents and find that there was no one inside.

What is even more strange is that in the evening all the clothes they wore were thrown on the ground, but the building was empty.

"Where did they go?"

Ash began to wonder.

Just then, there was a splash in the distance, and Ash looked towards it.

"At the Sacred Lake?"

The sacred lake is just north of the town, at the end of the town, and there is a small oasis that can be reached through a grove of trees.

The lake is surrounded by a grove of small trees, and if you look down from the top of the sand dunes in the middle of the desert, the whole town and the lake form a picturesque and beautiful picture.

But at this moment, Ash, who was hiding in the woods, saw an extremely terrifying picture.

In the direction of the holy lake, the water of the lake fluctuated violently, as if the boiling water of the lake was boiling, and the entire lake surface was turbulent.

Above the lake, there were more than a dozen hazy phantoms standing above, staring at the bottom of the sacred lake.

Ash is not a three-year-old child, and even people of different ages are sensible, he knows what it is, the bodies of these people in the air are all faint green light, hideous faces, strange limbs, and one with a terrifying gaze.

"Ghosts?"

Ash was extremely shocked in his heart, he quickly covered his mouth and nose, and stared at the direction of the lake in horror.

When he was a child, he had heard that ghosts would follow their popularity to track people, so holding their breath and pretending to be dead was the most effective way to meet them.

"Puff~!"

A ghostly figure above the holy lake suddenly became hideous, and the hazy figure of the phantom gradually became substantial, and then the ghost's body became as solid as a rock, and the muscles of the whole body exploded like a dragon, instantly turning into a blue-faced and fanged monster, and burrowed into the holy lake.

Immediately afterward, several more ghosts changed their voices, and turned into hideous monsters, burrowing into the lake like cannonballs, making a large splash.

Ash's eyes widened in horror, looking at such a strange and terrifying scene in disbelief.

"These people are not archaeological teams...... They are all ...... It's all ghosts!!" (To be continued.) )