Guisui is located in the northern frontier of China, inside the Eurasian continent. It is the political, economic and cultural center, a famous historical and cultural city in China, and an important central city in the northern border areas.

Guisui has a long history and glorious culture, is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, is the birthplace of Hufu riding and shooting, is the destination of Zhaojun out of the fortress, is the Longxing land of Xianbei Tuoba, is the place of mutual market between Mongolian merchants, is the frontier of the convergence, collision and integration of nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization.

Guisui is a typical mid-temperate monsoon climate, which has the remarkable characteristics of low and uneven precipitation and drastic changes in cold and summer. Winters are long and cold, with the cold season lasting from five months to six months in most areas. January is the coldest month, with the average monthly temperature dropping from minus 10 degrees Celsius to minus 32 degrees Celsius from south to north.

However, there is a clear difference between the cold in the north and the cold in the south, the cold in Guisui is the cold of the wind, as long as you wear clothes to block the wind, you can alleviate the feeling of severe cold. Therefore, when the group of experts got off the plane, almost all of them changed into trench coats to ward off the biting cold wind.

"Xiao Jiang, don't you really get some clothes to wear?" Professor Liu looked at Jiang Huo, who was silent, and asked with concern: "We just got off the plane, and we haven't set off yet, can you have an accident, we old guys are still counting on you to suppress and suppress the arrogance of those guys at Beijing University." ”

The archaeology major of Shanghai Capital University is in China, but it has the identity of a big brother, and the professional ranking has been ranked first for many years. These old professors have been holding their breath and want to raise the ranking of their majors, but unfortunately they never found the opportunity.

Now the appearance of Jiang Huo suddenly gave them hope, although they couldn't change the pattern, but if they could suppress those accompanying students, they would be able to grow a lot of faces.

As soon as Jiang Huo heard Professor Liu's words, she didn't know what the other party was thinking, she sighed, took out an extended black windbreaker from her backpack, and put it on her body.

"Hey, that's good." Professor Liu stared at Jiang Huo with the eyes of his granddaughter, which immediately made the surrounding doctoral students envious.

When he was young, he participated in the excavation, research and protection of many ancient tombs, and brought out countless doctoral students.

Now that Professor Liu is older, he has changed from a doctoral supervisor to a professional professor, in his words, that is, to continue to do something meaningful before he dies.

"Lao Liu, hurry up, hurry up, the car is already waiting at the airport gate, let's go to the hotel to gather first, and after the meeting, we are discussing the next move."

With the urging of an old professor, the group immediately followed behind the pick-up personnel, left the airport, boarded the bus, and came to the hotel booked by the expert group.

The specifications of all the staff are the same, whether it is the professor or the accompanying students, it is a double standard room. It's just that due to Xiao Wang's departure, the scientific research team of Shuangdan University suddenly vacated a place, so under the operation of the old professor, this double room was returned to Jianghuo.

When Jiang Huo and the others packed their luggage, it was just in time for dinner, and after the group finished their work meal in the restaurant, they followed behind the staff and came to the venue that had already been arranged.

All the members of the archaeological research team arrived, and there were about 100 people in the whole venue, only about 40 professors, and the rest were all students who came with them.

After a round of formulaic speeches, Jiang Huo finally knew what this archaeological research was.

These people, on the desert, found an ancient tomb that was suspected to be a pound. They invited professors from three universities to come in order to seize the time to carry out conservation excavation research before the tomb was damaged, and to rescue the existing cultural relics as much as possible.

After the meeting ended, the staff invited the professor into another conference room to discuss the excavation plan.

Jiang Huo thought that she had nothing to do, but she just wanted to go back to the guest room to rest, but she was caught by Professor Liu and dragged into the meeting.

The person in charge of presiding over the meeting was a middle-aged man, and after everyone arrived, he showed all the situations investigated on the scene in the form of a projector in the eyes of everyone.

After half an hour of narration, after all the situations were described, Jiang Huo, who was sitting there, suddenly frowned and shook his head. The style, structure, and style of the tomb are basically consistent with those recorded in the research materials, but the location is a bit strange.

According to the map display, the location of the ancient tomb should be in the northwest of the Badain Jaran Desert more than 10,000 square kilometers of desert, an area that has never been set foot by humans, which is the main body of the Alxa Desert.

The Alxa Desert is collectively referred to as the three major deserts in the territory of the Alxa League, namely the Badain Jaran Desert, the Tengger Desert and the Ulan Buhe Desert, which is the southernmost part of the Gobi Desert and is located at the bottom of the Yin'e Basin in the north-central part of China, covering an area of about 80,000 square kilometers.

Looking at the coordinates on the projector, Jiang Huo pulled Professor Liu's arm, held the gel pen in his right hand, and wrote a paragraph on scratch paper.

Professor Liu put on reading glasses, squinted his eyes, looked at the words written by Jiang Huo, and couldn't help but nod again and again. He leaned over, lowered his voice, and whispered in Jiang Huo's ear: "I also thought it was a little strange at first, but I heard that this ancient tomb was discovered by some adventurers who challenged the limit, so there shouldn't be any problems. ”

Jiang Huo bit her lip with her teeth, she always felt that something was wrong, so she flipped her right hand and continued to write four words on the scratch paper.

After seeing the place name written by Jiang Huo, Professor Liu also fell into deep thought, and after a while, he spoke: "There is indeed no specific statement about where Al is incompatible, but since there is an ancient tomb in the desert, we must go to excavate." ”

Almost everyone present had the same thoughts as Professor Liu, and after hearing Professor Liu's words, they all nodded in agreement. After all, this is one of the most mysterious tombs in Chinese history.

"When are we leaving? How long is the estimated journey? ”

The middle-aged man who presided over the meeting immediately turned the mouse and showed the set route in front of everyone. Starting from Guisui, it will take about 20 hours to travel 1,580 kilometers through two expressways.

This trip is already very rushed.

However, none of the professors present raised objections, and the middle-aged man immediately made a decision and settled the matter.

Early the next morning, the assembled delegation set off. [.]