The danger was lifted for the time being, but I could not relax in the slightest, for they were only leaving temporarily, probing the wind, and as long as they felt that there was no danger, they would soon return.

"It's the Tank Gang." Mrs. Left whispered.

"They killed people in front, damn it." I said lightly.

"You kill me, so that you can see how you are doing?" Mrs. Zuo asked.

I didn't reply, just frowned.

"Surrender without a fight" is the highest principle of my walking in the rivers and lakes, as long as it does not endanger my life, I rarely kill the enemy.

"I can't die, so many precious clues, I can't break them. Once I'm dead, all the clues are lost, and no one can pick them up. Mr. Long, cheer up, I hope you can be worthy of your ancestors and ancestors, and do not let the thugs plague Dunhuang. Mrs. Zuo said.

I was irritated for a moment, and I stood up.

"Try not to blackmail me, okay?" I gritted my teeth and whispered.

"It's better to be excited, isn't it?" Mrs. Zuo smiled sweetly.

I couldn't get angry with her, so I could only suppress my temper and prick up my ears to listen to the two of them.

After only ten minutes, the two of them staggered back in circles.

This time, all they had were smirks on their faces, and they had more pistols and daggers in their hands.

"Robbery, be honest." Said the tall and thin man.

The short black dumpty man jumped behind Mrs. Zuo and reached out to wrap her neck.

I faced the tall and thin man, trying to cover up the story behind it with the width of my body.

"Brother, robbery, take out something valuable, otherwise the bullet won't have eyes." The tall and thin man said again.

I spread my hands: "I'm sorry, I don't have anything long, I don't have anything valuable." ”

The tall and thin man was very arrogant, and the muzzle of the gun swung to the west: "Run, run as far as possible, it's better to escape out of the range of bullets." Otherwise, if I pull the trigger on my side, I will either die or be injured. ”

I can't count how many bad things the Tank Gang has done, but just by looking at the two people in front of me, I know how chaotic and bastard the gang is. Such a scoundrel gang should have been strangled and eliminated a long time ago, leaving no trouble, but no one took the initiative to do such a thing of hoeing the strong and helping the weak, and making people happy.

"What else? What about my friend? I asked.

"When a catastrophe comes, can you still take care of others? I just think that I have opened the killing ring today, and I will stay under the gun, you kid don't know how to lift, hurry up, get out of here. The tall and thin man scolded impatiently.

"You're from the Tank Gang, aren't you?" I asked again.

The tall, thin man became suspicious, his right arm was raised, and his short gun was aimed at my eyebrows.

I swayed, causing great trouble to his aiming, and by the time he had come to his senses, the spear was already in my hand.

"What did you do to the south?" I pointed a short gun at his forehead, as he had just done.

The tall and thin man's face was as pale as earth, and he knew that something was wrong, but he still shouted: "Knowing that we are the people of the Tank Gang, do you dare to fight back?" On the ground of Dunhuang, the tank gang can do whatever it wants, and other forces have no right to intervene. ”

With a thud, Fat Black fell behind me.

Mrs. Zuo clapped her hands and sneered slightly: "There are dogs with eyes and no beads, and if they touch us, it is time to die." ”

The tall and thin man was trembling, unable to pretend, kneeling on his knees, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"What are you doing in the south?" I asked again.

"It's a foreigner...... The Russians, he wanted to find the Dunhuang Scripture Cave, and we were greedy for money, so we led him to a remote place...... "The tall and thin man didn't dare to say any more."

"Take us to see it." Mrs. Zuo said.

The tall and thin man shook his head: "We pushed him to the bottom of the cliff, the cliff is very deep, if he falls, he will definitely fall to his death." ”

Mrs. Zuo's eyes rolled again and again, and she suddenly asked, "Did you push him down the cliff on the side of the petroglyph valley?" So, have you noticed anyone in the Valley of the Petroglyphs? ”

The tall and thin man shook his head: "There is no one in the Petroglyph Valley, and it is because there is no one there that we dare to lead him there, and then push him to the bottom of the cliff on the side of the Petroglyph Valley." ”

I know about the Valley of Petroglyphs, where a large number of petroglyphs are preserved on the stone walls, which are of great archaeological value.

"Take us there." Mrs. Zuo raised her voice, as if she had found an opportunity in the thief's words.

The tall and thin man nodded again and again, but he just didn't get up.

Mrs. Zuo clapped her hands, and Baoyu and Baobao flashed from the shadows, raising their guns to control the tall and thin man.

"Leave the matter here to them, and the two of us will go to the Petroglyph Valley." Mrs. Zuo told me.

Her way of dealing with problems is vigorous and resolute, which is far more than Zuo Fengshou. I even think that if Luopan Village is handed over to her to manage, its future and destiny will be bright and broad.

We re-hit the road and headed south over the mountain beams into the deep valley behind San'in.

"Haven't heard from the Gu worm yet?" I asked.

Mrs. Zuo nodded: "Yes, Gu worms are not omnipotent, and in this complex terrain, they will also lose themselves." Fortunately, I have a rough idea of the situation and location of the harvest, and I can touch the petroglyph valley with my eyes closed. ”

There seems to be a hidden reason in her repeated references to the Valley of Petroglyphs, and she is quite sure to target it.

We walked through the valley for half an hour, and finally approached a clearing at the foot of the mountain.

With a buzz, the Gu worm released by Mrs. Zuo appeared. Madame Zuo stretched out her left hand, and the Gu worm landed on the back of her left palm.

"Please stop and help me record the message delivered by the Gu worm." Mrs. Zuo said.

I immediately took out my signature pen and notebook, and stared intently at the Gu worm.

Mrs. Zuo spoke slowly: "A good harvest has been found, he can't move, but he is not injured." The Gu worm heard the sound of chanting Buddhist scriptures, and it seemed that he was exceedingly exceeding. I don't believe this is the end result, and the harvest won't die easily. Now, we're going to the Valley of the Petroglyphs, and that's the only hope. ”

I also don't believe that Zuo Fengshou will die, because judging by his face, he has no signs of sudden death in middle age.

The news delivered by the Gu worm is very obscure and not 100% reliable. So, I hope that what I hear in the end is not bad news, but good news.

"What else is there to offer?" I asked.

Mrs. Zuo shook her head: "Since ancient times, evil has prevailed over good, and when Gu worms saw the reciter, they immediately languished, and the news of receiving feedback was extremely chaotic. Fortunately, we are already very close to the petroglyph valley, and we are there at the foot of the mountain. ”

We marched westward again, and finally reached the valley of petroglyphs half an hour later.

The cliffs here contain iron minerals, so the overall color of the cliffs is jujube red, and this painting, which is carved on the roof of the cave with sharp objects, has a natural jujube red background, which looks very eye-catching.

Dunhuang Mingsha Mountain in the travel magazine refers to the Shashan generation, is a national key tourist scenic spot, limited to the south of Dunhuang City five kilometers to seven kilometers that section, its accurate geographical coordinates are 40 degrees 05 minutes north latitude, 94 degrees 40 degrees east longitude, belongs to the transition zone of the Badain Jaran Desert and the Taklamakan Desert, with an area of about 200 square kilometers.

The location we are in at the moment is in the sand-and-gravel mixed mountainous area about 15 kilometers southwest of Dunhuang, although it can still be called Mingsha Mountain, but it is no longer the "Xiangsha" area that tourists say.

Due to the limited transportation conditions, there are very few tourists who can actually reach the rock art valley.

Dunhuang City had a plan to open up a tourist road from Dunhuang to the petroglyph valley, but due to economic considerations, it was eventually abandoned, after all, the local government's financial plan must have a reasonable proportion of input and output, once the red line is crossed, it will be more than worth the loss.

Rock paintings have appeared in southwest and northwest China, and it is generally said that their authors are aborigines from ancient times to the Han Dynasty, and the roots of rock paintings are to record with paintings, which have the same meaning as the knotted ropes in more ancient times.

I have seen the rock paintings on the banks of the Lancang River in the southwest, and after careful study, I can appreciate the life style of the aborigines, which is indeed one of the most precious local documents in human history.

As for the petroglyphs of Dunhuang, they occasionally appear in the Internet albums of travelers, but there are very few people who actually come over the mountains and mountains to visit.

"This is it." After we turned a raised mouth, Mrs. Zuo stopped, took a breath, and pointed to the low-lying place ahead.

Further on, a stone gap appeared in the strange trees and grass that only allowed one person to pass through.

We are about fifteen steps away from the stone gap at the moment, and we can already feel the strong wind blowing from the stone gap, which shows that the stone gap is not a closed cave or the like, but a passage with an entrance and exit to form an air path.

"After here, there is a kilometer-long petroglyph area, with petroglyphs on both sides and overhead, which are more spectacular than the murals of the Mogao Grottoes." Mrs. Zuo said again.

"If Mr. Zuo is here...... Why didn't he rush back to Luopan Village, but wait for someone to come to the rescue? "I immediately questioned it.

According to my estimates, the total distance we traveled from the village of Luopan was no more than ten kilometers. According to the calculation that ordinary people walk four kilometers per hour, Zuo Fengshou will definitely be able to rush back within three hours. It is even said that within five or seven hours, no matter how slow he moves, he will not have returned so far.

"yes, yes...... There are some things that cannot be inferred by common sense. Mrs. Zuo's brows furrowed tightly, and her right hand covered her chest, as if she had unspeakable pain.

"Are you okay? If we are exhausted, we can take a little rest. I asked.

Mrs. Zuo sat down with her back against the stone wall, and rubbed her right hand vigorously on her chest more than a dozen times, and her face softened slightly.

"Mrs. Zuo—" I spoke again.

"Call me Bao Toad." She interrupted me and explained softly, "There is no Mrs. Zuo in the world, I will always be just a treasure toad, and I don't belong to any family, let alone any man." As for Zuo Feng, it is just a cover to cover people's eyes. ”

I immediately changed my words: "Bao Chan, you must know a lot of the inside story that happened in the Rock Art Valley, and it is not the first time that Zuo Fengshou has come here - the strange thing that makes people disappear from the mirage is not the first time it has happened, right?" Now that we have formed an alliance of common enemies, I have the right to know more. ”

Regardless of Zuo Fengshou and Bao Chan's "family affairs" for the time being, what I want to know is what position the existence of the petroglyph valley occupies in the mirage incident.

Tracing back to the source, Zuo Fengshou disappeared with the mirage, and if he came here, the other missing Luopan Village villagers and Russian visitors should also be not far away.

"Weird, isn't it? I can release the wishful worm to find people, and I can know for sure that Zuo Fengshou will come here...... I can't explain why, just as we all can't explain the appearance of the Mogao Grottoes. When I discovered the Valley of Petroglyphs, my spiritual world suddenly opened, and I seemed to understand a lot of things, and it seemed to be ...... It seems that all his knowledge of life has been completely emptied at once, and he knows nothing about the world outside his body, and he must live again. Now, I only know that I am a treasure toad, and I came to Dunhuang with a very important mission, but I can't even remember what that mission is. Bao Toad muttered.

I was stunned and stared at Bao Toad's face.

Her long hair hung down, half on her chest and half behind her shoulders, looking tired and negative.