Chapter Seventy-Four: Loulan's Late Attack
Looking at the once luxurious desert ancient city of 3,000 years ago, but now it is withered and only the shadow of the building mound remains, the four of them inexplicably feel that time is indeed the most capable of destroying everything.
The four of them came to the highest area of the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan, which was a former royal palace, and from the traces of the tall building on the outside, it can be seen that the magnificent momentum of the building at that time.
"Tonight, let's spend the night here! Tomorrow we will officially march to the heart of the desert, and the night in the desert will be colder! The quilt that the camel carries can be taken out and used for a while. Xiao Yuan led one of the camels and tied it to a raised mound!
Li Ling also tied his camel and fed two sips of water, but remembering that Xiao Yuan once said that he should give the camel water as little as possible, so he took the cowhide bag containing water.
"Such a big Loulan ancient city, why would it suddenly disappear?" Li Ling's eyes were fixed on this former palace that had a long history, and he silently came out of the gods.
According to historical records, the ancient city of Loulan was once built by water, and the water here is the famous Lop Nur Lake, but I don't know what the reason is, the Lop Nur Lake dried up in an instant, resulting in the soldiers and people of the ancient city of Loulan being extremely short of water. The glorious ancient city of Loulan was abandoned, and since then, it has been drowned in the long river of history by wind and sand. Xiao Yuan also looked at the ruins of this royal palace, took out a water bag in his hand, and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth.
"I see." Li Ling smiled slightly, and nodded his chin secretly, it can be understood that human beings have lost one of the sources of survival, and have to abandon the ancient city that they have worked so hard to build, and move and find another place with sufficient water sources to continue their lives.
"Mandala, you sleep with Tranquility at night, always protect Tranquility, Uncle Xiao Yuan and I, outside this hall, guard for you, if those guys don't know how to be interesting. If you're playing sneak attack at night, I'm happy to accompany you. Li Ling took a water bag from the camel's body and went straight to a mound to sit on.
Mandala Qiao's face was slightly red, she came to Li Ling's side, looked down at her toes, and said, "Junzhi, it's enough for me to guard outside, you and Mr. Xiao Yuan go in with Miss Jing and rest together!" ”
"Less nonsense, this is an order given to you, do you want to disobey the order?" Li Ling knew that the Dao Mandala would come over and ask for this.
Mandala bowed his head slightly and said in a low voice, "Don't dare." ”
"Then stay with Quiet and keep her safe, that group of people must not be ordinary skills, foreign agents are all humanoid weapons and intelligence gatherers who have undergone extremely hard training, they are constantly intelligent and good at fighting." Li Ling did not despise the agents who followed him during the day.
"But, Commander!" Mandala wanted to say something, but when he saw Li Ling's slightly angry eyes, he immediately swallowed his words.
"Yes, Commander." There was a slight hint of discoloration in Mandala's indifferent expression, perhaps because of gratitude!
"The sun is about to go down, and the night is dark and the wind is high." Li Ling looked at the sun that was about to sink in the west, pinched his bone fingers, and felt that his hands were itchy after not using force for a long time.
Xiao Yuan sat down, glanced at Li Ling, and said, "Why does that woman keep calling you a military officer, are you also an officer?" ”
"Sort of, but I'm only temporary." Li Ling held his chin and smiled slightly.
"I'm an officer temporarily, and I, an archaeologist, am only an amateur." Xiao Yuan smiled.
The two talked about speculation, looked at each other, smiled slightly, each took out the water bag from his waist, pulled out the piston of the water bag, touched it, and raised his head to drink freely.
"Happy!" Xiao Yuan raised his head, and said with a laugh.
"Me too." Li Ling closed the lid of the water bag and said with a smile.
However, Li Ling's face sank instantly, and he became alert.
"There may be a few troublesome people in a while, which will have a certain impact on us, Uncle Xiao Yuan, how are your fighting skills?" Li Ling looked at the middle-aged uncle with a provocative look in his eyes.
Xiao Yuan recalled the few people who were following during the day, there was a trace of doubt in his eyes, he was slightly stunned, he pointed at Li Ling with his finger, shook his head again and again, and said: "I am a wild survivor and an adventurer, of course my skills are good, don't believe it, compare and compare." ”
Xiao Yuan put down the water bag and made a fist at Li Ling.
"No need, there will be time to practice boxing, but a few people who come here will not only fight, but also be masters of killing, their specialty is to collect intelligence and kill!" Li Ling approached Xiao Yuan, put his right hand around Xiao Yuan's shoulder, patted Xiao Yuan's shoulder, and said.
Xiao Yuan's eyes showed a hint of surprise, and he said with a slight emotion: "Then their killing skills are as powerful as African lions and Siberian tigers." ”
"This ...... How do you let me compare? There was a hint of helplessness in Li Ling's eyes, but there was a sentence in the back, and Li Ling didn't say it, because the killing skills of those agents might be even more awesome than ten African lions!
"Back then, I went to the wild to survive alone in Africa, but I fought with African lions with my bare hands, but I escaped in the end." Xiao Yuan said the great deeds of the year, of course, as an ordinary person, it is quite remarkable to be able to escape from the mouth of an African lion.
Li Lingha smiled, picked up the water bag, and said, "Come, do ...... Dry bag! ”
"Dry bag!" Xiao Yuan smiled, picked up the water bag from his side, and worked with Li Ling, the two of them have quite compatible personalities.
The night gradually fell silent, and the ancient city of Loulan looked doubly desolate and bleak under the night sky full of stars, and there used to be a large group of people who were here to talk about the wind.
Late at night, there is a slight breeze blowing through here at night, but the coolness is even more significant.
Xiao Yuan also gradually became sleepy, put on a quilt, and gradually fell asleep without vigilance! Perhaps because he was too tired during the day, Xiao Yuan, who couldn't bear the sleepiness at night, fell asleep.
"Like an uncle, hey, I guess I'm going to die several times." Li Ling sighed slightly, and looked around carefully, but he didn't find a trace of movement! Those agents obviously wanted to wait for Li Ling and the four of them to fall asleep before killing people and robbing the peace.
But they missed one person, the genius killer Li Ling!
Li Ling carefully looked at this palace. There are walls all around, and there is only one entrance to enter, unless you can drill a hole in the palace, but it is not impossible, even so, there is the protection of the alien race of the Mandala, and I don't think those agents will be the opponents of the Mandala.
Li Ling got down from the mound, sat cross-legged on a flat ground, put his hands flat on his knees, half-closed his eyes, slowly adjusted his breathing, slowly breathed up, and entered a realm where his heart was like stopping water, and his spiritual sense was raised to a very high level in an instant, and the movements around him were completely sensitive to Li Ling's spiritual sense. Give it covered.
On the periphery of the 300-meter ancient city of Loulan, there are four black-clothed people, with the help of the moonlight and starlight at night, gradually approaching the palace from different directions, they move fast and slow, they are very careful, and the movement speed is also very rhythmic, even so, their movements cannot escape Li Ling's sensitive sense of detection.
Just as the four of them were quickly approaching the palace of the king, Li Ling suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes condensed, and a pile of wind and sand rolled out on the ground.
"Come out! No need to hide. After Li Ling looked at the mound, a man in black gradually walked out from behind the mound. This is one of the agents!