"The entire geological team is gone?" Everyone was shocked and opened their mouths wide.

"There is much more to the real surprise than that...... said the old shepherd with a look of horror, "and a few days later, someone found the place where they had disappeared, but there was not a single body to be found, and the surrounding loess was all turned into black earth, like burnt ashes!" Even the surrounding flora and fauna were reduced to ashes. ”

At this point, the old shepherd shook his hands and feet as if he had fallen under some spell, and his lips fell with it. Without waiting for everyone to ask, the old shepherd took advantage of the fact that he could still move, and hurriedly knelt down in the direction of the Devil's Valley and recited the Tibetan scriptures alone.

Ye Jiu glanced at Zhang Meng lightly and asked, "Could the situation he said be an electric shock?" ”

Hearing Ye Jiu's words, Zhang Meng thought about it, if the situation at that time was really as the shepherd said, then only the 'electric shock' could explain it, but no matter how big the power was, it would not leave people with corpses!

The scene suddenly fell into a dead silence, only the fat man was still eating the mutton in the pot with great interest, he chewed the mutton, and echoed: "I see, what the little lady said is not unreasonable! The change of loess to scorched earth is not just a phenomenon of thunder and lightning. ”

"Eat your lamb honestly." Zhao San glared at the fat man.

"Damn!" The fat man rolled his eyes, as if he was not satisfied with eating, and took out a piece of lamb bone from the pot and gnawed it.

Zhang Meng looked at the old shepherd who had words in his mind, and knew that if he continued to ask, the old Tibetan would not say anything. Hurriedly looked at Laizi and asked softly, "Laizi, what do you think?" ”

"In fact, the earliest cannibalistic legend in Devil's Valley occurred in the early forties of this century." Lai Zi said slowly: "Tuye, third uncle, you must have heard the story of the Northwest warlord Ma Bufang, right?" ”

Hearing Laizi's words, Zhang Shaotu nodded.

Zhao San also nodded and said: "They are all from bandits, and Ma Bufang is also the number one person among our bandits!" I think back then, he also recruited the third uncle and me, but at that time, I felt that he was short-sighted and lustful, and he would definitely not be able to make a big career......"

"Stop, stop!" The fat man saw that Zhao San began to brag about the past again, and hurriedly said: "Third uncle, you are less than fifty years old this year, when Ma Bufang was crisscrossing Xinjiang and Tibet, you were just born, are we really easy to deceive?" ”

"What do you know! I'm talking about my dad. Zhao San blushed and argued.

"Yes, you can make it up as you like, we are not in the mood to listen to your nonsense anyway." The fat man turned his head and muttered, "This old bandit is really shameless. ”

"Laizi, you continue." Ignoring the fat man and Zhao San's mouthpiece, Zhang Meng hurriedly said.

Ma Bufang, the warlord of the northwest at the time, tried to open the gateway to Xinjiang from the hinterland of Qinghai to control the area east of the Taklamakan Desert, and at the same time form a border control over Tibet along the Kunlun Mountains. At that time, there were two roads, one was to go from Utu to the Nalengrad River Valley, and the other was to go thousands of miles to the Gobi, and as a result, the troops who took the Devil's Valley were all wiped out. Later, everyone said that the demons in the Devil's Valley ate all of Ma Bufang's soldiers. ”

"Demons?" Zhang Meng was stunned: "What is this?" ”

Lai Zi shook his head and said: "Everyone is just hearsay, and no one has ever seen this thing, maybe it's just a rumor." ”

"Then no one is here to find out?" Zhang Meng asked.

"Isn't that nonsense?" The fat man chewed the food in his mouth, and said angrily: "This place is so weird, who dares to come and send it to death?" Besides, during that time, there were civil wars everywhere in the Central Plains, and who had the leisure time to come here to meddle in things. ”

"Not to mention, there is really a person who has gone to the Devil's Valley to explore." Laizi sneered.

Hearing Laizi's words, the fat man hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" Did he finally walk out? ”

"The strange man in the west, known as the king of the desert, geological engineer Zhao Ziyun." Lai Zi continued to the crowd: "It was last winter that he crossed the 'Devil's Valley' more than 90 kilometers long on foot at the age of seventy, and obtained first-hand information about the 'Devil's Valley' for the scientific expedition team. ”

"I'll go, so fierce!" The fat man shouted, "An old man can walk through the Devil's Valley, so why can't we?" I think this old shepherd is just trying to scare us. ”

Seeing the fat man bluffing, Zhang Meng did not agree.

Just because someone has traveled through this Devil's Valley doesn't mean there is no danger. But judging from Zhao Ziyun's legendary adventure, it is not so scary.

"No...... No...... No. Hearing everyone's suspicions, the old shepherd hurriedly waved his hand and said in horror: "Wrong, wrong! ”

"Brother, speak slowly." Seeing that the old shepherd was still so nervous, Zhao San said with relief: "Don't worry, don't worry." ”

"Wrong, very wrong! You're all wrong. The old shepherd hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The real horror of this 'Devil's Valley' is not in winter, but right now, in this unpredictable climate. ”

"Not winter?" Zhang Meng asked puzzledly: "It stands to reason that the climate in winter is far worse than in summer!" Husband, how can you say that the current season is the most terrifying? ”

"You don't know the geology of this valley." The old shepherd explained: "In the winter, everything here freezes, and there are relatively few geological dangers, but in the summer, when the temperature rises, there are many swamps, and under each layer of frozen soil there is a high probability that there will be a natural reservoir that will drown the corpses." I've seen a wild yak disappear into the swamps of the Devil's Valley......"

"I see." Zhang Meng nodded, turned back to everyone and said, "It seems that we have to be more careful, the swamp here is likely to be different from what we encountered before." ”

Seeing Zhang Meng say this, the old shepherd sighed helplessly, shook his head and asked, "Do you really plan to cross this Devil Valley?" ”

Zhang Meng nodded noncommittally.

"Alas! It's getting late, so I won't bother you. The old shepherd saluted the crowd, then turned and said goodbye, "May the gods bless you through this place safely." ”

The crowd did not force them to stay, and said goodbye to the old shepherd one by one.

It wasn't until the old shepherd disappeared from the horizon with his flock that everyone sat around, staring at Zhang Meng, waiting for Zhang Meng to make a decision.

"Don't look at me, no matter how dangerous this Devil's Valley is, we must pass through here, since no one has crossed this gate of hell in the summer, then we will be the first ones!" Zhang Meng said with an oath.

"Zhang Quede is right, anyway, we still have to go to Qiaogoli Peak, which is known as the 'Top of Hell', so wouldn't it be right to pass through this 'Gate of Hell'?" The fat man picked the shredded meat in his teeth and said with a smile: "It's useless to think so much, it's important to eat a full meal first, if you don't eat again, I will cover it all fat master." ”