The midday sun is very scorching, and it is very unwise to hurry, but fortunately, it is also a good choice to listen to the story quietly under the umbrella and drink some cold drinks to cool down.

Little Kiki raised her voice and said, "The story is like this......"

[This is a true story that happened in the Western Desert that I personally experienced, and I still shudder when I think about it, and at the same time, I feel very sorry.

It was many years ago, when I was still working for an oil company, and I was driving a Mercedes-Benz desert water tanker alone and unknowingly entering that mysterious area.

My mission was to drive a desert water tanker to the Tarim River to pull water. From the camp to the Tarim River, it takes two days and two nights to walk in normal time. Although there is no road to go in the desert, after all, it is a familiar "road", and it has become a habit to drive hard to the Tarim River along the original car prints.

On this night, a light breeze blew in the desert, which was a rare "windless weather" in the desert. By the hazy moonlight, I struggled along the flat road between the sand mountains that the original bulldozer had launched. From the glass window of the ajar cab, you can feel the hot air rushing towards you. I looked at the luminous watch, it was already the second half of the night, the whole desert was hazy, and the moonlight appeared and disappeared from time to time.

As I drove my water tanker through an ancient poplar forest, I saw huge sand mountains high and steep, which are common in the Taklamakan Desert, and we were accustomed to the traces of cars in front of me.

The sand mountains stood silently in the gray night, and the whole earth was so deep that it was terrifying. If it weren't for the comrades waiting for water, I wouldn't have traveled at night. I held the steering wheel tightly and stared intently ahead.

There was a taller sand mountain ahead, and it seemed that my tanker was having some trouble climbing up. I hurriedly got out of the car and blew some of the air out of the tires to increase the contact area between the tires and the ground, and then slammed on the accelerator and climbed over the tall sand mountain. I began to crawl slowly along the soft quicksand.

Although the night is hazy and mysterious, the temperature in the whole desert makes people feel very comfortable. The night breeze blows, cool, this is a rare good weather in the summer desert, only in this quiet second half of the night, there is no unbearable heat during the day. I was walking forward in second gear, but before I knew it, I was about to stop and take a nap, when I suddenly found myself in a completely unfamiliar place.

There are no tall sand mountains here, and the whole desert sea is flat, with occasional patches of ancient poplar trees and a few sandbags that are not too high. There are neither the original ruts ahead, nor any road to take.

Faced with the unfamiliar terrain, I had no sleepiness at all. I immediately stopped the car and didn't dare to go any further. I couldn't help but feel a sense of fear in my heart. If you get lost in the desert and don't get help in time, it's quite dangerous.

And at this moment, an abandoned ancient city appeared not far away!

?“ Did you come across a ghost town?"

I suddenly felt that the whole world was merging together, and there was an eerie ghost aura everywhere. Listening to the old people, in the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert, I don't know how many lives of explorers have been buried, and whenever there is a quiet night or a cloudy wind, the bones of these adventurers will turn into sandy roads that cannot be seen in the world, leading passers-by into ghost towns, digging out their hearts and offering them to the dead king...... It's all a legend of the past, of course I don't believe it, but today I'm a little overwhelmed.

I hurriedly lit a cigarette and smoked it one after the other. I know that ghosts are afraid of fire, and at the same time, they want to give themselves courage.

I didn't dare to squeak, and cautiously came to a relatively low monument earthen house. I saw an old man sleeping in the window through the window, and I shouted a few times, but no one answered. I took a sharp puff of my cigarette and took the liberty of pushing the door, but it fell silently to the ground and turned into broken boards. I dared to break into the house, only to see a total of 3 people sleeping on the earthen kang inside, all of them antique, looking crazy, some baring their teeth, some grinning, a chilling scene. I cautiously walked forward and gently pushed one of the middle-aged people with my hand, and a yin wind blew, and the middle-aged man suddenly turned into powder.

I let out an involuntary exclamation, and my hair stood on end. I hurriedly took a few steps back, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. I pulled back to the spacious place and smoked one cigarette after another, and it took a long time for me to stabilize my beating heart and look at the other mud houses, which were all the people inside.

I seemed to understand: I had come to the ruins of an ancient city that had been weathered for an unknown number of years!

Standing in this mysterious ancient city, I felt that the wind seemed to have abated a little, and the misty night seemed to be deeper. I lit another cigarette and sat in a sheltered place, smoking silently. I felt as if I was a little west-central in the Taklamakan Desert, and on a seismic line that I had made last year. After a full year of two-dimensional oil and seismic exploration on this survey line, I have never seen any ancient cities. It seems that the ruins of this ancient city have been buried in the desert for many years, and how many years have been weathered by the wind and sand that have been moved out of the ground. This ancient city site is sure that the national cultural relics management department has not yet discovered it, and must go back immediately to tell the relevant departments, maybe it will be a huge discovery that shocks the world?

I decided to stay here until dawn to find out more about the exact location of the mysterious ancient city before leaving. I was so tired that I fell asleep in the cab without realizing it.

By the time I was woken up by the huge wind, it was already dawning, and the wind crackled the sand on the windshield of the cab. The whole world was darkened. Strangely, except for the two sand mountains standing in front of me, everything I saw at night was gone......

Since that terrible night, I have actively cooperated with the relevant departments to explore the mysterious ancient city many times, but unfortunately, due to a few days of black storms, the ancient city was buried by wind and sand, and has not been found yet. 】

After telling this story, Xiao Qiqi closed the book, she said: "The migration and change of the desert is changing every minute, it is very likely that an ancient city was moved out of the desert somewhere, but it was buried by the desert the next day, which is a very normal thing, so this is why many times some people see a strange ancient city in the desert, and when they go back to call someone to look for it, they can't find it." ”

Although the story told by Xiao Qiqi is written in the first person, after listening to it, I do feel that there is something chilling behind it.

"There are still very well-preserved dried corpses in the ancient city, if they can really be found, it can really shock the archaeological community again, and the author said in the book that almost every house in the ancient city has fresh dried corpses, which is very difficult to excavate. Wu Lei said in surprise.

"Bullshit, the current books are all made up, it is not excluded that there is water in it, I believe in the ancient city, but it is too exaggerated to have dried corpses in the houses of the ancient city, unless the ancient city was buried by the desert in an instant, which caused the people inside to be buried alive by the yellow sand. Zhentian questioned.

"Why are you so excited, this book is very interesting, who knows if it's true or not, and we're not the authors. Xiao Qiqi glared at Zhentian angrily and said.

"I'm still curious, hehe. Lin Yumai said with a dry smile.

If he can find the extinct ancient city, maybe he can find some treasures from the history of ancient civilizations, although he is not a tomb robber, but if he has the opportunity to enter such a place, he is still very willing to get some treasures from it.

Little Kiki's story was like an afternoon dessert, and they quickly threw it out of their minds, rested until about three o'clock, and everyone walked west again.

Night falls quickly, and it's comfortable to walk in the evening, but it's not suitable in the middle of the night, and the sudden drop in temperature can make the desert very cold.

Under the moonlight is an endless silver desert, as if quietly in danger.

At this moment, Wu Lei suddenly looked at the compass and said in surprise: "Yumai, look at the compass." ”

Many people wore compasses before traveling, and there was a mechanical watch in the hands of the madman who also had the function of a compass, but at this time, the hands of the compass began to tremble violently.

The madman looked down at his mechanical watch and found that it had lost its effect, and even the hour and minute hands on the mechanical watch were trembling.

The black wolf who was leading the team in front turned his head and said: "It's an underground magnetic field, in the desert, some magnetic mountains and magnetic mines are buried by yellow sand, once you step into their domain, the compass and the watch will lose their effect." ”

"Don't leave for the time being!" Lin Yumai immediately ordered.

The failure of the compass was a fatal thing, and they had already entered the third day of the desert, and they had long been numb to the constant scenery around them, except for the yellow sand and yellow sand, there was no southeast or northwest at all.

"You can look at the stars...... Ah......h

Everyone looked up at the night sky, and at some point, the sky was already gray, not like clouds, not like haze, but like dust.

When the black wolf saw this vision, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately shouted: "Young man, we have to find a place to hide now, the desert death is coming." ”

"What is the Desert Reaper?" asked Zhentian suspiciously.

"Sandstorm. The black wolf said with an anxious face.

At this moment, everyone noticed that there was no breeze around them, it was quite sparse, the air was very oppressive, the heart was inexplicably irritable, and the surroundings were indescribably quiet.

(End of chapter)