The resurrection point of the grape ditch is quite distinctive: it looks like a mass of vines engraved in stone, densely twisted and twisted, with a unique beauty, and eighteen green leaves shelter nine bunches of ripening grapes.

Uncle Shang pointed out eight people from the surrounding grape ditch residents: "Today, in order to sweep away the tomb robbers, I have to bother you eight old people!" ”

An old man smiled: "What's the trouble? I don't want to be dug up after I die! Come on, old folks! ”

The eight old men inserted the sharpened vines from the eight corners of the stone platform, and at the same time, with great force, lifted the entire large grape trellis: "This is the treasure of the grape ditch, and every branch is pruned from the grape ancestor. ”

It would be strange if such a vine had not yet become a vine. Fu wasted and bumped Uncle Shang with his shoulder: "Grape ancestor? Can you show us a little bit of it? ”

"Thief baby, go away!"

The eight old men represent the residents of the entire Grape Gully, and they can get up the resurrection point, but they are unable to carry the resurrection point away, which requires the concerted efforts of others. The method is simple: the others do not participate directly, but start singing and dancing around the eight people, and the eight old men seem to be blessed by the song and dance, radiating infinite strength, and follow the whole team by stepping on the drums.

Uncle Shang: "Little orange, I haven't said where to carry it!" Hurry up and find a place! ”

Seven Swords had already sent a team of King Kong cats to find the tomb robbers. It is not yet known the exact location of the two sides, but it is likely that the orientation will not be wrong. "I know the general location of the tomb robbers, so everyone can follow me." Twilight Boss leads the pack out of Grape Gully.

Limited by the team's transportation capacity, Kzlov's tomb robbery business also needs to be constantly shifted. This time, they're feeling the pressure - the Kong-cat's team spots them and starts harassing them incessantly. The adventurer's strategy was very clear, and he couldn't quickly form the best defensive formation on the way with the tomb robbers, and kept killing the natives hired by Kzlov. One or two can be killed in a single firefight, then retreat when the Elite begin to assemble, and when the team resumes trekking, the next round of attacks begins.

"This is the tactics of the Cossack cavalry." Kzlov put the big wooden stick in his hand on the ground: "I can't go, the blood loss of the team is still a trivial matter, when these aborigines are dead, Marquez, your corpse explosion spell will lose its power, and then the adventurers will attack in a big way!" There will be casualties on our main forces! ”

Unlike the natives hired from the locals, Kzlov's elite monsters were members of his team who had been with him for a long time, and regardless of whether they were killed or wounded, Kzlov would give them generous pensions when they returned to their homeland. This is his main way of maintaining the combat effectiveness of his team.

Márquez didn't care about the deaths or injuries of these people, even Kzlov's burps, and he wouldn't hesitate at all. The reason why he helped these tomb robbers was because it could constantly weaken the power of the local heroes: "Kzlov, you can also see that the strength of these adventurers is not weak. If we can't fight in formation, sooner or later the team will be crushed! For now, we either find a barrier that can be used to defend ourselves and engage in a war of attrition with the adventurers, or we will go straight to the grape ditch in front of us, regardless of casualties, and use the edict of Oris to order the natives to help us fight. You've been a mercenary for half your life, so you should know that this kind of thing can't withstand delays, so make a decision as soon as possible. ”

Kzlov nodded in agreement, and waved a local: "These adventurers are too hateful, they can't beat us, it's just a sneak attack." The dead and wounded are all your friends and even relatives. I want to fight them in a positional battle and hack them to death before leaving, so that I can ensure your safety. You know what you can do here, right? ”

Death is terrible, but what is even more terrifying is Márquez's corpse explosion. The aborigines squinted at Marquez and quickly bowed his head: "I know something." In the past, when we encountered horse thieves, we would hide in a nearby qanats. The well is warm in winter and cool in summer, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as you bring enough naan cakes, you can hide in it for a long time. The only thing to be careful about is the fear of a particularly big flood! But I know of a couple of particularly strong qanats. Also, the qanats themselves lead to a place close to town! ”

Satisfied with this answer, Kzlov threw a silver coin to the native: "Lead the way." ”

The reason why qanats can be built in large quantities in the Turpan Basin is inseparable from the local natural geographical conditions. Turpan is one of the driest regions in China, with an annual precipitation of only 16 millimeters and evaporation of 3,000 millimeters. The qanats use underground culverts to transport water, which are basically not affected by the season and sand, the evaporation is small, the flow is stable, and the fields can be irrigated by artesian water all year round.

Although Turpan is very hot and rainless, the basin has the Bogda Mountains in the north and the Karawucheng Mountains in the west, and a large amount of snowmelt and rainwater flows to the basin every summer, seeping into the Gobi and converging into an undercurrent, providing a rich underground water source for the qanats. The Bogda peak in the northern part of the basin is nearly 5,500 meters high, while the Ayding Lake in the center of the basin is more than 150 meters below sea level. From the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to the shore of Ayding Lake, the horizontal distance is only 60 kilometers, the drop is as high as 1,400 meters, and the average ground slope is about one-fortieth, and the slope of the groundwater is not much different from the ground slope, which provides favorable topographic conditions for the excavation of qanats. The soil of Turpan is cemented with gravel and clay, the texture is solid, and the wall and culvert are not easy to collapse, which provides good geological conditions for the excavation of a large number of karez.

"Karez" means "well", and its structure is composed of four parts: a shaft, a culvert, an open channel, and a "waterlogged dam" (pond). The well sinking people find their water source at the undercurrent of the high mountain snow water, dig a shaft of different depths at a certain interval, and then build a culvert at the bottom of the well according to the terrain, communicate the wells, and divert the water downstream. The outlets of the underground channels are connected to the surface channels to divert groundwater to the surface for irrigation of mulberry fields. In ancient times, the peasants of the Western Regions, relying on this unique underground water conservancy project, Karez, led the groundwater to the ground, irrigated hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in the basin, gave birth to the people of all ethnic groups in Turpan, and turned the desert into an oasis.

The earliest records of karez appeared in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and there were even poems in the Tang Dynasty that vividly described the karez, such as Li Qunyu's "Water Diversion Journey": "A cold jade walks through the autumn spring and leads to the smoke at the mouth of the Shenluo cave." The sound of the undercurrent for ten miles is continuous, and the heads of pedestrians are murmuring. "It can be seen that the qanats are inventions with a long history. In Turpan alone, the length of the qanats has reached more than 5,000 kilometers, with a total of more than 1,100! The project is huge and huge, so that the karez can be called the three major projects in ancient China together with the Great Wall and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Wang Guowei even made the judgment that there was a qanats in BC. The qanats vary in size, from the small ones to the one person who can only pass inside, to the large ones that can put down a horse-drawn carriage, and the middle ditch sometimes tilts to one side. What the locals pointed out to Kzlov was a 'double channel' qanats. Descending from the shaft, in the middle of the well is a flow channel, about two steps wide, with two or three steps wide of pedestrian pavement on both sides. The bandits walked in it, but they felt that the cool breeze was gusting, the water vapor was smoky, and the dry climate on the ground was like two sides of the world, which was very comfortable! If you feel thirsty, you can bend down and pick up a handful of sweet well water.

The tomb robber suddenly disappeared, and the King Kong cat was also anxious, and ran to the place to see: there was a shaft of a qanats. It was known that the robbers had drilled into the qanats, but there were two directions down the well, and no one was sure where the other side would go.

King Kong Cat reported the situation to Boss Su.

Viscount Twilight hadn't seen the qanats yet, so he didn't know what to do, so he went to ask Uncle Shang, "Uncle Shang, my friend found out that the tomb robbers had gotten into the qanats. Now we don't know where these bandits are going, what to do? ”

Uncle Shang smiled: "Do you still need to ask?" It's definitely going downstream! The upper reaches of the qanats will only become more and more desolate, where to go and what to do? The downstream leads to the fields, and after exiting the dragon's mouth, it will soon enter the villages and towns...... We need to hurry, Kzlov has the edict of King Oreth Khan in his hand, no one will take the lead against them, and all the villagers will help them! Gayiti ...... Come here! ”

Gayi can't come over. The old man was one of the eight elders who walked with the teleportation array. It was easy to change to an old man who was about the same age as him, and Gayiti immediately ran to Uncle Shang's side: "Old Shang, do something?" ”

"The grave robbers got into the qanats. We're going to have to stop them in advance! But no one knew what well they were drilling! ”

Who is Gayti? Local qanats well builders! He has personally dug more than a dozen qanats in his life, and he has repaired more than he can count, and he knows the local qanats wells well. The old man stroked the goatee under his chin: "I knew that these guys would get into the qanats, and the old man could send them back to his hometown alone!" ”

The viscount humbly asked: "Dare to ask the uncle if he will come out?" ”

Gayiti squinted, and a fierce light appeared in the crack: "The old man wants to bury them in the well!" Do you know which well they went into? ”

I don't know. King Kong Cat sent a picture, and Boss Su described: "The wellhead is surrounded by a circle of white stones, which is very reliable. ”

Gayiti's face changed: "The white stone is surrounded by an official well!" Blocking and damaging the official well is the crime of killing the head! ”

"Shouldn't the heads be killed when digging up the tombs of our ancestors?" The viscount asked, "If we don't destroy them by collapsing the qanats, I'm afraid my brothers and the people of Grape Gully will be killed or wounded!" I'm in charge, whether it's compensation or repair, we will bear it with one sword! ”

"It's not that easy to do!" Gayiti shook his head: "To repair the qanats, in addition to experience and skills, you also need water mages and earth mages, without these two people, the restoration work may take a year or two. This will lead to hundreds of acres of fields without water, and you can't afford to pay for this loss! ”

"Come here, come here, Tufa also come, show this master your professional ability, and tell him that our Seven Swords are sure to repair a collapsed qanats in a few days......"