"Haha, haha, I didn't take your things. Don't let me sit in your car, okay, I don't want to sit anymore, I'm not going anywhere, just stay here. Jin Xiaowan shook his head with a grin.

I can't tolerate Zhu Tianwang applying double standards to us, especially when the general is heartbroken.

Ah Biao listened to Zhu Tianwang's words too much, and he should be made to suffer a little, and then his attitude could become better.

"Mr. Long, please help, help." Ah Biao was so bad that he didn't dare to touch the people of the Golden Hand Gang, so he had to ask me for help.

"Let's talk about it in the anti-thief pit." I opened the door in the back seat for the General.

"Mr. Long, don't be embarrassed for me, I'm just a driver, running errands for King Zhu. I will do whatever he says, and I dare not discount it a little. If you embarrass me, I can only offend. Ah Biao suddenly pulled out his gun, and across the car, aimed at me and the general.

"What's wrong?" I smiled quietly, "Is there anyone who treats VIPs like this?" ”

Ah Biao sank his face: "Mr. Long, Zhu Tianwang said, just ask you to sit in this car alone." ”

I shook my head: "Ah Biao, you actually misunderstood what Zhu Tianwang meant. It's better to call and ask again, and it's not too late to leave after asking clearly, anyway, Zhu Tianwang can afford to wait. ”

Ah Biao's face became more and more gloomy: "Mr. Long, why bother me?" I'm really going to shoot, it's a long way from a residential area anyway, and if you shoot, no one will hear it. ”

I really admire Jin Xiaowan's technique, this gun is on Ah Biao's body, it is not difficult to steal it when there is obvious physical contact between the two sides, and many gentlemen on the beam can do it. However, Jin Xiaowan did not steal the gun, but removed the * on it, which is a bit unbelievable.

The fact is, Ah Biao pointed a gun at me with a non*.

"Get in the car, get in the car." I waved to the golden bowl.

Jin Xiaowan grinned, floated over, and in the posture of a bird throwing into the forest, passed through the car window, landed in the back seat, and sat side by side with the general.

From beginning to end, Zhao Tan was very quiet and did not participate in our disputes.

"I'm going to drive? You're going to drive? I nodded to Ah Biao.

"Mr. Long, I'm going to shoot?" Ah Biao shouted.

Jin Xiaowan smiled and bent over, grabbed the * from his sleeve, and shook it in front of Ah Biao's eyes.

At this time, Ah Biao found that his * was gone, and he could only hang his right hand in confusion.

"It's okay to call or not, let's go to see Zhu Tianwang together, of course we have to be in a car." I say.

Ah Biao finally gave in, asked all four of us to get in the car, and drove to the anti-thief pit.

This farce didn't make me any easier, and my mind was still full of what Gu Tingcheng said in the video.

I thought that her disappearance was premeditated, but I didn't talk to Ah Biao anymore, and only kept this suspicion in my heart.

"Brother Long Fei, how could a person who is good and dignified disappear? I've read the Dunhuang news, and it receives millions of tourists from all over the world every year, and everything is in order and there is no chaos. I was thinking that unless Miss Gu was leaving, no one would be able to make her disappear. Jin Xiaowan said.

"If she were to leave, where would she go?" I'm intrigued by the judgment of the golden bowl.

"Caves." Jin Xiaowan replied succinctly.

"Mogao Grottoes?" The general asked.

Jin Xiaowan replied with a smile: "Yes, the cave terrain of Dunhuang is not much, and the Mogao Grottoes are not far from the city. If I were Miss Gu, I would choose to hide there. ”

Ah Biao had been driving silently, and suddenly said at this moment: "Those caves can't hide people, we have gone to find them." ”

"You must not have found it thoroughly." Jin Xiaowan shook his head.

Ah Biao retorted loudly: "We dispatched at least 70 people, 70 flashlights, and searched for more than nine hours. Miss Jin, think about it, the Mogao Grottoes are so big, how can they not be searched thoroughly? ”

Jin Xiaowan thought about it, and still shook his head, but his voice was much quieter: "I think...... Miss Gu will hide there. ”

I know very well that working with someone like Zhu Tianwang will not be too smooth. Before we even met, he had already set countless traps for me, including the cut video file.

On the rivers and lakes, there are all entanglements of interests.

He was willing to invite me into the anti-thief pit only because I could bring him enough benefits to solve the puzzle that he had been baffling all along.

If it weren't for that, he might have taken us out of the garage long ago.

"Brother Long Fei, Brother Long Fei." Jin Xiaowan cried out from the back seat, interrupting my musings.

I looked back at her, her face full of doubts: "Brother Long Fei, I have been to this place in my dreams. ”

"Five kilometers ahead to get to the anti-thief pit." Ah Biao said.

"Park, park, park." The golden bowl continued to call.

Ah Biao slowed down, but was not ready to stop.

"Hey, hey, hey, told you to stop, did you hear that?" Jin Xiaowan slapped Ah Biao on the shoulder twice.

Ah Biao turned to me: "Mr. Long, it is true that you can't stop, this place is called Lantern Slope, it is an evil place, you can't listen to Miss Jin, you have never stopped here." ”

"Brother Long Fei, tell him to stop, I want to go down and have a look." The golden bowl is called again.

Outside the car is a wasteland, the terrain is high on the left and low on the right.

A hundred paces to the left, there is a large undulating hill. To the right, two hundred paces away, there is a stream that has almost dried up.

"Stop, just a few minutes." I say.

The car was about to reach the anti-thief pit, and I was not ready, so I parked here, just in time for a buffer.

Ah Biao was helpless: "You, you...... Alas, you don't know, there is no parking here. As long as you are a Dunhuang person, you know what happened here before. ”

Jin Xiaowan leaned forward and pressed the electronic parking brake on the right side of the steering wheel.

The car jerked and came to a halt in the middle of the road.

"If you want to stop, you stop, why are you so long-winded?" Jin Xiaowan laughed.

Ah Biao's face turned pale, let go of the steering wheel, closed his eyes, and let out a sigh.

It can be seen that he can't bear it anymore, but for the sake of King Zhu Tianwang's order, he can only endure it again and again.

"You've been here?" The general asked.

Jin Xiaowan nodded: "Well, very familiar, such a hillside...... The stream at the bottom of the mountain, but in my dreams, the water in the stream was at least ten times more than what it is now. There were fish in the stream, and there were people washing clothes with sticks and mallets by the stream. The air in the dream is sweet, and everything you see in your eyes is beautiful. ”

Ah Biao snorted: "The stream is so wide? Don't even think about it, for as long as I can remember, the creek has been dry for half a year and has never risen at all. Besides, the creek flows out of the Valley of the Lanterns, where the water is so poisonous that it is impossible to wash clothes unless it is fatal. ”

Although I am not from Dunhuang, I am still very familiar with the legends of Lantern Valley and Lantern Slope.

The original name of Lantern Valley is "Poison Dragon Valley", which is an extremely narrow mountain col and a dead-end road. More than two kilometers from the valley pass, there is a cliff that does not see the top of the mountain on the back. The water seeped out of the black stone crevices below the cliff and meandered to form a stream below the lantern slope.

Indeed, the water was not clean, and it was not for the animals to drink, nor for the washing of clothes. Otherwise, all the domestic animals will die, and the people who wear clothes will also contract all kinds of strange diseases.

At first, the local villagers suspected that the water was cursed, but after sampling and analysis by the geology, mining and environmental protection departments, they finally came to the conclusion that there were poisonous insect nests in the valley, which were very hidden. The filtered water in the mountain crevin flows through the nest and becomes "poisonous water".

The stream was diverted and landfilled several times, but in the end it was still useless, and it stubbornly flowed to the lantern slope, which became a big trouble.

There is also a terrifying legend about the lantern slope, that is, on some moonlit dark and windy nights, a red lantern will appear on the slope, and a little white rabbit is hidden in the lantern. As long as passers-by see the white rabbit, they will not be able to control themselves, they will be carried away by the red lantern, and finally disappear in the mountains.

It's daytime, and it's impossible for us to obey Ah Biao's constraints. What's more, Jin Xiaowan's dream has already been fulfilled once, and it is likely to be fulfilled a second time, bringing us new clues.

Jin Xiaowan jumped out of bed and ran towards the stream.

"I'm going to watch her." I say.

The general reminded: "Don't delay too long, we don't have much time." ”

She fully supported all my decisions and never doubted them.

"I'll come when I go." I say.

With a snap, Zhao Tan suddenly raised his right hand and patted me on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, we'll always be here. You go ahead, prioritize and speed up the chase of the right one. He said.

There was something strange about his words, as if they were referring to something.

"Mr. Long, please hurry up, don't embarrass us all." Ah Biao urged again.

"Brother Long Fei, Brother Long Fei, come on, come on." In the blink of an eye, Jin Xiaowan had run to the stream and turned to beckon to me.

I'll open the door and go down and look at the General.

"Go ahead, be careful." She said.

If Jin Xiaowan really dreamed of the stream on Lantern Slope, it must not be an ordinary dream, but a rather complicated plot that would make her remember it deeply.

"Did you find anything?" I walked up behind Jin Xiaowan and asked softly.

"I've been here in my dreams, but it seems like I've really been here. It's a strange feeling, but it's also very real. She replied.

"What else happened in the dream?" I asked again.

The place is dead, but man is alive. Only by understanding the things that happened in Jin Xiaowan's dream can we analyze the specific situation on a case-by-case basis.

"I was squatting there, the river was clear, and there was a small stone pier every few dozen steps. Next to me, there was a woman squatting to do laundry, brandishing a wooden mallet in her hand, pounding the cotton cloth clothes on the stones. Farther away, there are cows barking, children playing, and the sound of beating wooden fish in the temple and chanting. Then I heard the clatter of horses' hooves, and two men each on a tall horse, came along the stream from the east. When they got here, the two dismounted, let go of the reins, and the horses ran to the river to drink. It was two young men, a man and a woman, the woman had a delicate face and the man's facial features were handsome. It's just that the woman was covered in blood, and her spirit was also a little sluggish, and she seemed to be seriously injured. I looked up at them, and they looked at me, and they came over to me. The woman asked me, can I reach the Mogao Grottoes from here all the way forward? I replied with a 'yes' and the woman smiled and nodded to the man. The man took a gold ingot, bent down, took my hand, and put it in my palm. The horse must have been thirsty, and kept drinking water for more than ten minutes. The woman asked me again if I had seen the ranks of Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army, and I shook my head. This is the Gobi, where resources are scarce, there is a shortage of food and rice, and almost no troops pass through here. They looked pleased, and kept holding their pergolas and looking west. Later, when the horses were full, they flew on their horses and ran away quickly. Jin Xiaowan said so much in one breath, took two deep breaths, picked up a stone from the ground, and smashed it into the stream.

The stream was really shallow, and the stones touched the stones at the bottom of the water, flew up with a snap, crossed the stream, and landed on the opposite side.

"What a strange dream." I nodded.

"I am sometimes very confused, I don't know if this is a dream or reality, because when I checked the Dunhuang materials, I saw a photo of two people, exactly the same as the person I saw in my dream." Jin Xiaowan said again.

I nodded wordlessly, motioning for her to continue, all the doubts in my heart in one breath.

"The woman is the princess whose arm was cut off by the emperor, and the man is a general who flashed in the troubled times. That history was so brutal that I don't want to repeat it. I just want to know, why am I there, and I have to talk to the princess and the general? Who am I? Shouldn't I be a little girl born in Korea? I haven't been to Dunhuang, China until I'm at least fifteen years old......," Jin Xiaowan asked confusedly.

I walked to the stream and looked to the left and right, but there was no stone pier, let alone any other traces of history.

"Don't take some personal thoughts too seriously, maybe it's just the occasional subconscious popping up." I couldn't help but comfort her.

I know that her dream must have happened for a reason, but we can't afford to delay it indefinitely, we must get to the anti-thief pit as soon as possible.

"I am a person who believes that human beings have a past life, and Kathmandu has a master in the secret who calculated it for me, and that is the past life." Jin Xiaowan said.

"The previous life was a very complicated realm, and it can't be explained in one or two sentences." I say.

"That princess must have had a past life, a future life, a past life, a future life—" Jin Xiaowan cried, "I mean, the Ming Water Sleeve that confused everyone must also have a past life." What she said is a memory from her previous life, and it is also a very valuable historical reference material. Let's not go around in circles, just open the gap from her, what do you say, Mr. Long? ”