Chapter 17: The Quarrel
After listening to Uncle Monkey, I looked back at the sunspot in the corner, since he fell into this dark hole, he has been sleeping without knowing what's wrong. Uncle Monkey and I had a lot of effort to lift him to a corner. It is also strange to say that after entering the Lop Nur Desert, we did not have much food, and we saved and saved. It stands to reason that it should be all overweight, but I didn't expect the sunspot to be different, it took a lot of effort for me and the monkey to lift him up, I must have gained a lot of weight visually, did he still have something delicious and didn't tell me to eat behind our backs? When he wakes up tomorrow, I will definitely ask him.
Outside, there was a black wind blowing at night, and Uncle Monkey told us that if the wind did not stop during the day, we would have to pull the camels on foot against the wind. I asked Uncle Monkey why he didn't ride a camel forward, Uncle Monkey scolded me, and then said, "Stinky boy, the black wind is so big, riding a camel?" Do you want to be a trapeze"?
Uncle Monkey said this I was honest, that night I was assigned by Uncle Monkey to sleep with the sunspot, sleep and sleep, I don't care, but I found that my idea was completely wrong, in the second half of the night, this kid who never snores actually snored, and the snoring sound is very special like the sound of an electric drill, and the end is also a nasal sound.
This kind of sound is too ecstatic and special, all into my dream, and finally called me out of the dream to reality, the eyes are dark, I can't see the five fingers, in order to save electricity, Uncle Monkey will be our flashlight, the headlamp can be said to be as long as it can shine all the things have been collected, leaving only their own watches, but the bright light of the watch can be used for a fart.
After waking up, I was still wondering in my heart, where the sound of the chainsaw came from, after some groping, I found that it was the sunspot next to me who was snoring, and I looked at my hand It was already two o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was time to get up again, which made me anxious.
I slapped the sunspot hard, I thought it would wake him up, but he was motionless like a dead pig, it stands to reason that with my strength, even if I am a person who reports to the king of Yama, I can pull him over, there is no reason why I can't wake up a Zhu Bajie.
I refused to give up and hit him again, this time I chose to hit him in the weak spot, which was his chest, because I was afraid of slapping him to death, I made my hand lighter, but this time he not only did not wake up, but made me feel a little pain.
I wondered, I slapped him on the chest, what was so hard, it stands to reason that our stuff should be in the luggage, what was worth putting on him.
Out of curiosity, I slowly lifted his clothes, his shirt was not tied in the hot weather, and I reached out and felt the inside pocket of his clothes.
When I pulled out one of the things in his pocket, I looked at it by the faint light of my watch, and it was a ring, and it was like an eagle spreading its wings, and the top of the eagle's head and tail were inlaid with a gem, and if these two gems were genuine, then it was priceless.
Then I wondered, Kuroko's family is poor and frugal, and I and Uncle Monkey have lived for so long, it stands to reason that they will not get such a good thing, could it be that they stole it from Uncle Monkey? I thought about it, this situation can't be true, Uncle Monkey's treasure room can't be entered without Uncle Monkey's password, and Kuroko can't have such guts.
Ruled out these two impossibilities, I immediately thought of the only possible thing, the parchment once said that the fox prince entered the tomb with the ring of Prince Loulan, and we have not found it in the tomb, the ring of the sunspot is the shape of an eagle, weaving and dyeing is not able to escape the involvement, as soon as I thought of this, I sneered, stared at the sleeping sunspot, and said silently in my heart, Okay, the things that the sunspot scavenged were not handed over, and I will tell Uncle Monkey to go tomorrow, But I'm still surprised how Kuroko got this ring, and I'll definitely ask him when I get a chance tomorrow.
I put the ring in my pocket, and then lay down and went on to rest, and I was very happy to find such a treasure from Kuroko, and I fell asleep quickly.
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When I got up the next day, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Kuroko's face that hadn't woken up, and Kuroko asked with a blinded look, "Ah Ming, what are you laughing at."
I smiled and shook my head. Kuroko didn't say much out of doubt. Instead, crawl to their luggage, looking for something to eat.
I walked slowly towards the entrance of the cave, trying to see if the wind had stopped, I just poked my head out of the hole, and there was a gust of sandy wind in front of me, I rubbed my eyes and got into the cave again, my heaven according to this day, if I went out, let alone go forward, it was very difficult to walk.
In order to stay a little longer, I said that Uncle Monkey agreed to stay for half an hour longer. At this time, I had only one thought in my heart, and that was to hope that the sand wind outside would stop as soon as possible.
I looked at the wolf master on the side, who was sitting there squatting and playing with the dagger in his hand. Seeing him like that, I don't think it's better not to bother him, and on the other side, the sunspot is pleasing Xiao Yao, and the sunspot has a happy look I chilled down for a moment, kid has a time when you cry.
I was going to look around in the cave when I had nothing to do, and when I came in yesterday because it was too dark to see everything in the cave, I was able to take everything in the cave in my eyes.
I went into the depths of the cave to see if there was anything else in it, and maybe I was lucky enough to find something good that someone else had left behind, even if it was a scrap, I think it would be much better than ours.
The depths of the dark cave were so clean that there was not even a single hair, and at the end of it was a wall of earth. I was a little disheartened, but just as I was about to turn back, I found that there was still something bulging on the earthen wall.
I walked over, out of curiosity I reached out and touched it, it was a raised stone, although the surface of the stone was exactly the same color as the wall, but I could feel that this stone was definitely not ordinary, could it be some kind of secret passage or mechanism?
In order to prevent accidents from happening, I didn't touch the stone directly, but called Uncle Monkey and them, Uncle Monkey and Master Wolf stared at the stone carefully, and then nodded to each other, and Uncle Monkey pressed it.
Uncle Monkey didn't respond when he pressed it, but after a few seconds, there was a "rumbling" sound from deep within the wall, and after the sound, a secret door appeared next to us.
After seeing the secret door, Kuroko took the lead and said, "Uncle Monkey, will there be a treasure in here?" Kuroko looked ecstatic.
And my main concern is whether there is a dark river here, so I hurriedly asked Uncle Monkey.
Uncle Monkey shook his head and said, "I don't know, I won't know until I go in."
After finishing speaking, Uncle Monkey began to assign tasks, he still meant to let Xiao Yao leave the guard luggage and the camels outside, and the four of us walked in to find out, but I was worried that if Heizi got something after he went in, and if he didn't say anything, then this kid would pick up more cheap. So I quietly told Uncle Monkey that every time I let Xiao Yao stay, she would be scared, so it was better to let Heizi stay with Xiao Yao.
At first, Uncle Monkey was very strange, and it was no wonder that Xiao Yao was completely a man's wife, how could she be afraid. But under my full persuasion, Uncle Monkey finally agreed.
In this way, Uncle Monkey, Lord Wolf and I prepared and walked into the secret room, and when I entered the secret room, I also glanced at the sunspot, his expression was very ugly, and he stood there and didn't know what to say, I said in my heart. Boy, this is just the beginning, and it's still far from when you cry.
After calming down the excitement in my heart, I followed closely behind Uncle Monkey and Master Wolf. The secret passage was a long corridor, and we walked all the way down it. At the end of the walk is a stone room, the air in the stone room is very hot and dry because it is not circulated, and there is no moisture in the air at all. The stone chamber is rectangular, about twenty or thirty meters long and wide, and about two meters high.
The stone room is empty, there are no furnishings, the only eye-catching thing is the stone statue of a wild wolf in the center of the stone room, the wild wolf looks up at the sky, his mouth is wide open as if he is shouting to the sky, why is he so eye-catching. That's because the stone statue was covered with golden armor and various gems on it.
The stone statue was surrounded by white bones, including two corpses dressed in black. The skin color of the two corpses was covered with purple marks like birthmarks, and they were all over their faces and hands.
We slowly approached the two corpses, and as we got closer, the stench of the corpses came to my face, and I stared blankly at the two corpses that were not yet decomposed, and felt as if I had seen the face of one of them somewhere.
Uncle Monkey squatted down to check the condition of the corpses, "Their skin is tight, there are no wounds, and the purple spots on their bodies should have been poisoned to death, and it seems that they have only been dead for a few days." Uncle Monkey fumbled around the two corpses, but found nothing else useful.
"Monkey, do you remember what Wang Xuanli said that little ghost said, he had also led a group of people into the desert before, presumably this group of people." Lord Wolf said.
Uncle Monkey nodded, and then stood up, "They don't have anything on them that can be used, it seems that they were looted by their accomplices."
I stared at the familiar face carefully, desperately thinking back to the past few days and the people before entering the desert, and finally let me think of it, I patted Uncle Monkey excitedly, then pointed to the corpse and said, "Uncle Monkey, this person is the one who snatched my box that night."
Uncle Monkey was a little surprised, and then confirmed to me, I nodded desperately, Uncle Monkey stared at the corpse and looked at it again and said, "It seems that those people have indeed entered the Lop Nur Desert before us."
I'm a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, no matter what I have to do to the end, as long as there is a familiar face, I have to figure out who he is, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable, and now I am relieved to find out who this corpse is. Then he shifted his gaze to the golden stone statue.
The gems on the stone statue, the gold shining under the headlamp, attracted me like a beautiful woman. For a person like me who has no bottom line, I naturally can't resist the temptation, and I slowly stretched out my right hand to the stone statue.
My mind was blank at all, and my eyes were filled with nothing but gold and silver. Just when my hand was about to touch the stone statue. Suddenly stopped by the wolf master.
Uncle Monkey, who was on the side, reacted, pulled me aside, and then scolded, "Stinky boy, do you want to die, can't this white bone teach you a lesson."
I blinked in confusion, then suddenly said, "Oh! I know Uncle Monkey, they must have died because they were greedy for money and touched the mechanism."
"You doll, you think too simply." Lord Wolf sneered and then said, "It's something more terrifying than the mechanism, I think these gold and silver treasures must be coated with poison, as long as you touch it, you will definitely be poisoned and die."
Hearing the wolf master say this, it's really dangerous, thank God the wolf lord stopped me, otherwise I don't know how I died, the tomb owner can think of this is really enough damage, but I still have some doubts in my heart and asked, "Lord wolf, why is this stone wolf so luxurious, it's not armor made of gold, or sparkling jewelry, could this be the tomb owner?"
Lord Wolf shook his head and said, "Two-thirds of the former boundary of the Western Regions was a desert, and one-third was a grassland, and the races living in the desert regarded the eagle as a sacred object. The races that live on the steppes see wolves as sacred relics. And it is precisely because of this that the tombs of those generals and nobles will choose a stone statue of a wild wolf to enter the tomb, and the wolf will look up at the sky will take away people's thoughts, and this stone statue will also serve as the guardian of the tomb door, and they will use a large number of gold and silver jewelry to create a pair of armor for the stone statue of the wild wolf, and the more brilliant the armor, the greater the status and the higher the value of the owner of the tomb." The wolf master took a flashlight and looked at the corpses on the ground, and sighed deeply, "Although this is the case, I think it has been looted by the people who came before."
I very much agree with what Lord Wolf said, tomb robbers are like a group of hungry ghosts, but whenever they see something that can be exchanged for money, they will rob back and forth, this kind of tomb robber nature I have learned from Uncle Monkey. But anyway we should look around, with fantasies to see if there is a dark river, and if there is, I must go first and take a bath, and then drink half of the river.
We looked around in the stone chamber, and it stands to reason that there should be other burial chambers, and sure enough, in one corner of the stone chamber we found two stone doors, and on each of them was a portrait of a person, and the figure was like two big men, they were holding weapons in their hands, and their expressions were fierce and staring straight ahead, a bit like the meaning of the gatekeeper. The stone door is very thick and weighty, it is in a half-hidden state, and the combination of the two stone doors has obvious traces of being pried, some of the traces are new, and some of the traces are very old. Uncle Monkey told me that it seems that there is more than one wave of people who have come.
This made me even more sad, I thought that my colleagues in front of me would leave us some soup or something when they ate meat, but it seems that this stone tomb is like a vegetable market with several waves of people going back and forth, even if there is a dark river inside, I guess it has been drunk by those people.
Entering through the stone gate, there is a stone chamber that is about the same as before, a little smaller than the stone chamber outside. In the middle of the tomb there was a sarcophagus, the sarcophagus looked very strange and had no lid, it was completely sealed, and there was no crack in it, like an egg. The walls around the stone chamber were covered with frescoes, which I couldn't read and didn't want to pay attention to, but instead shifted my gaze to the top of the sarcophagus.
It was the first time I had seen a completely sealed coffin, so I asked Uncle Monkey, who shook his head and told me that he didn't know what it was, it should be the burial rites of ancient peoples that had long been lost. Uncle Monkey was not interested in this sarcophagus at all, and after saying to me, he turned his attention to the surrounding murals.
I circled around the coffin, trying to see if there was an opening, and if not, how the body was put in. When I walked to the last corner of the coffin, I was surprised to find that something seemed to be carved in the bottom corner of the coffin.
I squatted down and took a closer look, it was a simple wolf head pattern carved by someone, although the notch was a little gray, but it could be seen that it had not been carved for a long time, and there was a "two" engraved on the forehead of the wolf head. I am no stranger to this pattern, I have seen it in ancient books, which is the symbol of the two sects of the Wolf Gate. The people of the three sects of the Wolf Gate and the Tiger Gate, no matter who steals a tomb, will leave the marks of their respective sects in the tomb to show their identity to the people who come behind. The symbol of Uncle Monkey is a tiger head, and the head is engraved with "three". And the word "two" of the wolf's head naturally represents the identity of the second sect of the wolf gate, and I muttered in my heart, are those people outside the second sect of the wolf gate? That's not good.
The reason why I say this is not because I am worried that the people of the Second Sect of the Wolf Sect will snatch the treasure from us, but because I am worried that there will be unnecessary trouble between us. As far as I know, the relationship between the wolf gate and the tiger gate is very complicated, although the two are from the same faction, but the tiger gate is the official wolf gate is the thief, and the two doors have become hostile since then, the wolf master of the wolf gate hates the people of the second sect of the tiger gate, and the uncle monkey has a very good relationship with the wolf master as the third sect of the tiger gate, this is a complicated relationship. As for the people of the two sects of the Wolf Gate, it is recorded in ancient books that they regard the three sects of the Tiger Gate as natural enemies, and they are even more taboo against the people of the Wolf Gate Sect. However, it is also recorded in the ancient books that the people of the two sects of the Wolf Gate are all strong in martial arts, and one of us here is the monkey uncle who regards the two sects of the Wolf Gate as natural enemies, and the other is the wolf master who is very taboo. If the other side still has a weapon with extremely lethal power, it will be even worse.
As soon as I thought of this, I hurriedly got up and moved closer to Uncle Monkey, wanting to tell Uncle Monkey and Master Wolf about this discovery. So that they can get along with each other as soon as possible.
But when I walked in front of the two of them, I found that there was something wrong with Uncle Monkey's appearance, he looked at the mural on the wall with cold sweat and wide eyes, motionless as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, I even called him a few times, he didn't answer, I had never seen him like this, which made me very curious about what was painted on this mural that could make Uncle Monkey so afraid,
So I set my eyes on the mural, the mural on the wall is divided into five, most of the murals are painted with people, some unimportant servants are replaced by the simplest stickman, and the painting is also very rough, I scanned it with my eyes but I can't see what is painted at all, so I asked the wolf master on the side.
The wolf master told me that he could only read the general meaning on the wall, and the first few paintings were about the life of the owner of the tomb, the owner of the tomb left his hometown and wandered around, and then came to the Fox Hu Kingdom, began to live here, and finally became a big official in the Fox Hu Country.
The wolf master walked to the third painting, pointed to it and said, "Look at this painting, it shows that the owner of the tomb is lying on the bed and about to die, and he summons his children to the bed and tells them about his affairs. From here to the back, the two paintings record the events narrated by the owner of the tomb.
The general meaning is that the owner of the tomb was in his hometown and two friends accepted the instructions of the king of that country, and then began to wander around.
What the wolf master said made me a little confused, what kind of entrustment was being accepted. I was not going to ask again, but to look at the painting, in which the owner of the tomb knelt before a king with two friends, one with a key, the other with a token, and in the hand of the owner of the tomb a scroll.
The mural is over here, and I still don't understand the ins and outs of what happened. At this time, Uncle Monkey kept whispering in his mouth, "I didn't expect this legend to be true."
Master Wolf and I felt a little strange and hurriedly called Uncle Monkey a few times, and Uncle Monkey reacted. Staring at the two of us, the wolf lord smiled at Uncle Monkey and said, "Monkey, you don't seem to know anything but didn't tell us."
"Yes, Uncle Monkey, we are a team, you can say anything, even if it is a difficult thing, we can help you figure it out." I said excitedly.
Hearing me and Lord Wolf say this, Uncle Monkey sighed deeply, looked at the mural on the wall and said, "I originally thought this was just a legend, more than 20 years ago, the Tiger Lord and the two sects and their expedition team entered the Luobubo Desert not only for the ancient city of Loulan, but also to verify this legend, but I didn't expect this to be true"!
Uncle Monkey told us that if the wind doesn't stop during the day, we will go on foot with the camels in the wind and sand. I asked Uncle Monkey why he didn't ride a camel forward, Uncle Monkey scolded me, and then said, "Stinky boy, the black wind is so big, riding a camel?" Do you want to be a trapeze"?