After a day of investigation, Ding Lingling and Chen Xiaopang had a general understanding of the living environment and living customs of this small town in the ancient Western Regions.

It's a pity that no more antiquities have been found.

In the evening, when the moon was shining, several people gathered around the two broken walls that were still quite high where Poplar rested during the day, and lay down early to rest, preparing to rush to the black desert early tomorrow morning.

Poplar lay on his back on the sand, looking at the cold moon in the sky, thinking that tomorrow would be the night of the full moon, and he couldn't help but feel secretly worried in his heart.

I was in a daze, and suddenly I heard a howl dig into my ear.

Poplar immediately rolled over and sat up, and at the same time, the golden-eyed eagle also flew into the air, and the two jade hummingbirds flew up in shock and squeaked.

"What's it calling, is it a sand wolf?" Iron Bull asked.

"It's not like the cry of a sand wolf!" Mr. Chen said.

"It can't be that desert bandits are pretending to be ghosts, right?" Chu Changjiang said.

"Definitely not!" Chen Dalin immediately shook his head, "The desert bandits have been killed and injured by you, and there are not many people left! Not to mention that we have been in the desert for a few days, and there was a big sandstorm yesterday, and the desert bandits really wanted to follow us, and they were also buried alive by the sandstorm!"

"And what is this called?" asked Hongxing.

No one could answer her, and the howl was only uttered once, and then it was never heard again.

Poplar's strength had almost recovered, so he stood up with Iron Bull and looked into the distance where the sound had come from.

The cold moonlight swayed on the ruins of the ancient city, making the ruins and ruins look even more desolate and dilapidated.

But it is precisely because of the ruins and ruins of this building, under the reflection of the moonlight, that long shadows are pulled out, so that it is difficult to know whether there is something hidden in the shadows at a glance.

Just as he was watching carefully, the Golden Pupil Condor suddenly screamed and swooped down from the sky, swooping towards the corner of the ancient city.

Bai Yang immediately knew that the Golden Pupil Condor had found something, and he was afraid that the Golden Pupil Condor would lose it, so he was busy running over there.

Then another howl was heard, and a shadow suddenly flashed out from behind a broken wall, and in an extremely strange posture, jumped and climbed up a sand mountain, and disappeared behind the sand mountain.

"What is this, how does it feel like a monkey?" Iron Bull asked.

Aspen also feels like a monkey, but in this desert, there can be no monkeys, and the monkeys are not that big.

So the biggest possibility is a legendary desert savage.

As for whether the desert savages were the kind of madmen who bit and ate the hundreds of people in the entire Yunlang City—or to be precise, the descendants of that kind of madmen—it was not 100% certain now, but judging from the behavior of both, the probability was very high.

Fortunately, in this cruel desert environment, the survival and reproduction ability of both humans and beasts has been greatly affected, according to Chen Dalin's words, he has been in and out of the desert many times, and he has never encountered a desert savage even once.

In other words, even if their group had already been targeted by the desert wildlings, there should not be dozens or hundreds of desert wildlings besieging them.

And as long as the number of desert savages is not too large, with the ability of a few of them, there is basically nothing to fear.

Although he thought so, Poplar was still a little uncertain in his heart.

However, there were two highly alert jade hummingbirds and a golden-eyed eagle resting beside him, and Poplar did not propose to take turns keeping vigil.

It's just that in the time that followed, Poplar was basically half-asleep.

Fortunately, the night was fine, and the howl did not sound again. At four or five o'clock, as soon as it was dawn, Chen Dalin woke up everyone and hurried away.

Carried all the way by camels in the storm that day, Poplar and the others had no idea how far they had deviated from their initial path.

But Chen Dalin didn't take much effort to find the right direction and lead everyone all the way to the southwest.

Poplar and Iron Bull walked at the end, always feeling that something was following them, but when they looked back, they couldn't see anything.

In addition, there was a golden pupil eagle flying in the sky, and there was no warning sound, so Poplar could only think that he was wrong.

It was almost noon, and I arrived at a large rock, standing on the top of the rocky rock covered with yellow sand, and at the end of the desert, there was a continuous black mountain.

Chen Dalin pointed to the mountain and said: "There is a naturally formed passage between the mountains, and after passing that passage, you will officially enter the black desert! The black desert has not been covered by yellow sand for thousands of years, and it may have something to do with these mountains blocking the storm!"

The hill doesn't seem too far, but if you do walk, it's hard to reach it in two or three hours.

In addition, the sun at noon was too poisonous, so a few people still went down to the bottom of the stone rock first, rested in the shade for a few hours, and then marched towards the mountain again at about four o'clock in the afternoon.

I didn't want to go far, Chen Dalin in front of me suddenly stopped, jumped off the camel, and took a closer look on the ground.

Bai Yang hurriedly jumped off the camel and rushed to the front, and asked Chen Dalin what happened, Chen Dalin stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and said, "It seems that someone has walked here!"

The poplar looked forward along the sand surface, and sure enough, there was a long series of shallow sand nests on the smooth and neat sand surface.

- Although the desert is vast and boundless, if you want to be able to find the direction at any time in the desert, you must walk along the ridge of the stretching sand mountain.

Therefore, if several lines of people start from different directions, as long as the final goal is the same, they will slowly gather on the same sand ridge that directly points to that goal.

However, the day before yesterday, a large sandstorm blew the whole desert, and the topography of the entire desert has completely changed, so it can be inferred that this long string of sand nests must have formed yesterday or this morning.

There are only a few large animals in the desert, such as yellow sheep and sand wolves, but these animals are light and cannot cause such a large sand nest.

Even the legendary desert savages can't be.

It is a mark that can only be left by human passing, and it is the wide soles of the camel's feet that can only be formed by the heavy weight.

In other words, yesterday or this morning, another group of people traveled along the sand ridge to the Black Desert ahead.

"It seems that someone is ahead of us, we have to go fast to avoid being found by the people in front of us to find the more precious ancient relics first!" Bai Yang said.

Chen Dalin nodded, stepped on the camel again, explained to the people behind him, and raised his whip to urge the camel to move quickly.

Poplar waited beside him, and after the others had passed, he still stepped on his camel and followed last.

It took less than two hours to reach the foot of the black mountain.

The mountain extends to both sides, the mountain is full of ravines and piles of strange stones, it seems to be the whole black stone mountain, after thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, the mountain also presents the Yadan landform.

It is impossible to climb a black rock mountain like this directly, but fortunately, there is a naturally formed large canyon between the large stretches of mountains.

The two sides of the canyon were vertical, and it felt like someone had slashed the entire mountain range in half from the top down.

It is estimated that thousands of years ago, this was originally a passage for the Celestial Elephant Kingdom to enter and exit the outside world, so the ground in the canyon was very flat, as if it had been deliberately paved.

And the closer we got to the mouth of the valley, the less sand there was on the ground, and the camels began to walk more and more briskly.

However, Chen Dalin, who was walking in front, strangled the camel again, and Hongxing and Ding Lingling also exclaimed.

Poplar Iron Bull followed last, and could not see the situation in front of him, and suddenly heard the agitation ahead, Poplar hurriedly said hello, told Iron Bull to stay behind, and he drove his camel to the front.

Before he reached the leading position, he suddenly found that there were several camels in the valley in front of him.

And next to the camel, there are also several human bodies.

The man and the camel were all motionless, and seemed to be dead.

The people who caused the big sand nest on the backbone of the sand mountain before must be these people.

But what happened to these people, and why did they all die here?

Poplar shuddered in his heart and raised his head to look around.

(See Chapter 160 of "The Desert Belly Snake")