If this were a village, then a medieval castle in Europe would be just a small stone house!

A castle built on the hill caught Dick's eyes, it was close to the cliff and sloped to the lower part of the canyon, with stone walls, battlements, scattered adjacent, on the flat ground of the canyon, mainly made of logs, mixed with some tall black stone houses, artificially built them intricately, the houses were connected by complex roads and open spaces, and farther away, a black wall across the canyon, blocking the canyon, and farther on both sides of the valley, stretched many logs, Watchtowers and bunkers made of rock and earth!

"This is not a village, this is a barracks!" Dick sighed.

Such a magnificent barracks is lifeless, and those black buildings made of local materials have no beauty, like a frozen death! Most of the buildings have collapsed or been covered with vegetation, perhaps because they have not been repaired for many years, but the plants here are not the usual verdant colors, with black leaves, black trunks, and black grass...... The eyes were full of decay and ruin, only the road in front of the castle and the houses on both sides were still a little angry, Dick roughly estimated that this barracks was enough to accommodate more than 10,000 soldiers, and the Great Wall in the canyon could be called a man's house!

Dick climbed down the ladder, wanting to go to the castle.

Dick followed the road in front of him, walking in the direction of the castle, but after entering the complex, Dick felt dark and cramped, although the noon sun hung overhead, but walking in the narrow alley, Dick felt very depressed, and looked up, those dilapidated buildings, there were still a number of holes, as if a godless eye was staring at Dick, an uninvited guest from other places.

Half an hour later, Dick realizes a serious problem and gets lost! He followed the narrow and wide roads of the village, past a number of godless eyes, and before him was an impassable black wall.

"Hello! Hello! Anyone? Dick tried again, but was blocked by a black wall, and he had to sacrifice his magic weapon to survive - shouting for help!

Dick screamed parchedly, and heard a "jingle" in his ears, and he groped his way in the direction of the bell, and in a narrow alley, he saw a strange man on horseback.

The man was about 30 years old, but his face was sallow, his eyes were sunken, he was wearing a fur hat, and under his dirty blue burqa was a long sword.

"I ...... Lost......" Dick confirmed that it was indeed a person, and that he had no ill will towards himself, suppressed his heartbeat, and said in a polite tone as much as possible.

The man reached out from under his burqa, and Dick couldn't help but take a step back when he saw his withered fingers, like the hellish ghost of a painting.

The withered fingers of his right hand ticked at Dick, but he did not speak, and with a pull of the reins with his left hand, the horse obediently turned around in the narrow alley, and the horse's hooves trampled on the black dirt and clanged away.

Dick settled down and followed the horse......

"Hey, what are these rooms for?" Dick felt he should say something.

The man on horseback didn't seem to hear, and Dick was a little embarrassed, and after a while, Dick exclaimed again, "Hey! You've got to say something? ”

The man stopped his horse, and pointed forward with the withered fingers under his robe, and Dick looked up in the direction he was pointing to see that he was not far from the black wall, and the gate was now open.

"Over there, the Canyon of the Dead?" Dick asked.

The man on horseback nodded, and this was the first time he had spoken to Dick.

"You're letting me pass?" Dick was a little weird.

The man nodded again, then turned the horse's head, and the jingle bell faded away.

"Damn, are the people here all dumb?!" Dick saw him go away and cursed in a low voice.

The gate was ajar, like the black mouth of a beast, and the city wall, which should have been full of soldiers, was now empty, and some grass and trees on the side of the city wall were growing savagely, covering a lot of the original black stones, and an unknown tree with a bowl mouth squeezed out of the gap in the wall, pointing obliquely to the sky, and spreading its black leaves greedily absorbing the temperature of the sun.

Dick hesitated, but the gate seemed to have magical power, and Dick couldn't control his feet and walked towards the gate......

"Aha! Dick boy, are you here to help Grandpa Pandey? After a short walk along the road, he turned a corner, and before Dick could see anyone, he heard a shrill cry.

Dick frowned, and turned his head to look at the hillside, where Pandey was leading his horse, and several ropes were stretched in the saddle, and a piece of freshly cut log was dragged on the rope.

"Thanks, I never do the work of a vulgar person."

"Dick, say hello to Dick!" Pandy didn't care what Dick said, and as he walked past him with his horse, the horse named Dick snorted and unsurprisingly squirted saliva on Dick's face.

Dick wiped his face with his sleeve in disgust, and Pandey felt very useful at humiliating Dick like this, and laughed: "Dick, welcome to the Canyon of the Dead, you will soon be working with vulgar people!" Ahaha......"

Dick stood where he was, unsure whether to move on, Pandey dragged the log and disappeared, and after a while a bell rang behind him, and a horse stood beside Dick, and the man on horseback was the leader of the caravan, and he lowered his head and looked at Dick carefully, and said slowly, "The High Priest will summon you tonight." ”

"Tonight? HAT？ High Priest? Dick felt that the people here were either dumb or precious words.

The man did not speak again, and continued forward with his horse's belly, as if to inform Pandey of them, and Dick stood stupidly in place, and saw him return for a while.

"Hey! Who is the High Priest? Are you talking? Dick was a little impatient, "I'll give you $100,000 and you answer my question!" ”

The man on horseback gave Dick a strange look, and remained silent, as the horse paced slowly past Dick.

"Hey! Are you all dumb? Dick was a little angry, no one had ever been so unreasonable to himself.

"Keep up with me." The man said slowly.

Dick had no choice but to chase after him, he didn't want to get lost in that labyrinthine complex, and the two never communicated again, and Dick listened to the monotonous sound of the horse's bell all the way back to the house where he had stayed last night.

Mr. Min and Chen Badai had already returned to the open space in front of the house, and it seemed that they had already reconnoitred around when they went out in the morning.

"The topography of this place is really complicated." Dick saw them both and spoke.

"Artificial." Chen Badai said lightly, it seemed that he was already confident about the terrain here.

"Why make this place so complicated, like a military fortress." Dick felt that these people were well fed.

"This is the bridgehead for the army of the undead to march west, Dick!" Mr. Min said, "I always thought that the Canyon of the Dead was just a legend......

……

The leader on horseback seemed to be deaf to their discussion, and after a long while, he said slowly, "The high priest will summon you tonight. ”

"Hey, who's the High Priest? Why summon us? Is this a fortress? Dick had a whole bunch of questions to ask him, and although they got along all the way, he never answered Dick's questions.

"This is the place where souls are ferried, and it has always been like this......" the man continued slowly, turning his horse's head and leaving.

"Are all the people here stupid?" Dick was a little indignant.

"I can't believe there are still warriors waiting here." Mr. Min couldn't help but sigh.

"Warrior?!" Dick didn't react.

"The army of the undead swept in like a black tide, leaving nothing but death and ......plague in its path," Mr. Min laughed, "Dick, it seems that you don't know anything about the legend......"

"Does this have anything to do with Loulan's treasure?" Dick cared more about that.