Chapter XXVIII

The three-legged beast was inserted into the stone door, and with a slight twist, a sound of a blink was heard under the stone gate. The stone gate finally opened slowly, and Ge Deng and Zhang Jiadong were unsuspecting and rushed into the stone gate by the yellow sand. The sea of sand raged and washed everything in the tomb into pieces, and it took a long time for Zhang Jiadong to struggle to get up and see the whole picture of the tomb by the light of the flashlight, and in the center of the tomb was a coffin wrapped in a whole cowhide. In front of the coffin were three ox skulls, and in front of the coffin knelt several dead corpses that had already been dried, but now they were all surrounded by sand. There are also many copper and iron tools in the tomb, and large pieces of patterns and ancient Loulan characters are carved on the tomb wall.

Gordon stood up with a crowbar, and saw Zhang Jiadong's bloody hand caressing the words on the tomb wall and said excitedly: "This is the taste of returning to the tomb, but it's a pity that the tomb is not completed." It must have been an emergency at that time, and the mural was not even finished! ”

"I don't care if the mural isn't finished, and if we can't get out, that's the worst thing." ”

Zhang Jiadong looked back and forth in the empty main tomb and said: "According to the words of the ancient Loulan royal tomb, there should be a road to heaven, and I hope to return here after the reincarnation of the dead capital, and go out from the road to heaven to become the king again." ”

"Where is the road to heaven? You see, there are only a few bottles and cans left here except for the coffin of a dead man, can we get out of the road to heaven? Gedden asked without confidence.

Zhang Jiadong looked at the text and said: "It turns out that the legendary Nine Turns Heavenly Stone still really exists, and the wizards once did a ritual here in order to resurrect it." ”

Gerdon cautiously walked around the corpse of the dead man in the middle of the road, and said, "How do you know?" ”

Zhang Jiadong pointed to the stone wall and said: "You can see the four murals here, this first picture is the peaceful prosperity of the people living and working in peace and contentment in the heyday of Guloulan. On the second picture, there are swords and guns everywhere, which should be a picture of the people of Loulan and the Han Dynasty fighting for many years. The third picture of the king of Guloulan was stabbed to death, and the officials were angry and wanted to fight to the death with the Han Dynasty. Only this fourth picture is the most worth studying, which depicts a sorceress placing the Nine Turns of Heaven Stone on the coffin of the Taste Return, who immediately rises to life and becomes a demigod and a half-human warrior. Alas, it's a pity that this picture is not finished. If I'm not mistaken, this witch is the creator god of the Witch Clan. It's a pity that the legend says that this creator god was killed by the Han army on the road to get the Nine Turns of the Heavenly Stone, and the hanging corpse on the city gate of Guloulan attracted countless witch wizards to retrieve the corpse. Alas! The corpses were recovered, but a large number of wizards paid with their lives. ”

Gordon asked in a daze, "What kind of stone is really so powerful, or we can open the coffin and look for it." ”

Zhang Jiadong shook his head again and again and said: "This is absolutely not good, first of all, if the Nine Turns of Heaven Stone is really in the tomb, the wizard of the year will definitely bring him back to life, then there will not be so many martyrs." Besides, if we open the coffin but don't have the conditions to save it, we are committing a crime! Only when the horses come in and they come back may find a way to transport the coffin out, everything here is priceless. ”

"Wait! Wait! Wait! It's been so long, and they still haven't come back. We have hundreds of tons of yellow sand on our heads, and I really don't know how long this place can last! ”

Zhang Jiadong looked at the watch that had accompanied him for more than ten years, it was almost seven o'clock, and more than two hours had passed since the sandstorm. Even if Ma Jin and the others couldn't find the Xinjiang No. 2 group, they would have been able to contact Beijing and send a helicopter to rescue them in terms of time. Maybe they were in trouble in the middle of the storm to delay. Zhang Jiadong trusted Ma Jin, a friend who came out of school together, and comforted himself again......

Brush, brush, brush, the flashlight in Zhang Jiadong's hand finally ran out after flashing a few times, and the black inside the tomb was terrifying, only the quicksand under his feet was still accumulating silently. "Damn, I should have had my bag with me." Gordon cursed and lit it up with his phone, as if in the desert, each member of the expedition would hand out a fanny pack containing emergency supplies and dry food.

Zhang Jiadong also took out his mobile phone and looked at it: "Now we are underground, and the signal is blocked by the sandstorm." We can only rely on it to illuminate, and there may be a signal to find the way to heaven first. You follow me, and you must be careful under your feet to ensure that there will be a mechanism. Zhang Jiadong held his mobile phone and walked towards the coffin step by step, and the coffin was placed with his head to the east and his feet to the west. Fortunately, it was a sudden death back then, and the construction of the tomb was obviously a bit hasty, so there was no other royal tomb on a grand scale. The main burial chamber was only one hundred and ten square meters, and it didn't take long to reach the tomb wall on the east side of the coffin. Zhang Jiadong carefully touched each tombstone with his hands, only here can there be a secret passage to the outside world.

"Tick, tick, tick......" The arrow wound on Zhang Jiadong's shoulder collapsed again, and the blood soaked through his clothes, and fell on the green essence stone drop by drop, and was instantly absorbed by the flowing yellow sand. Time passed little by little, and Gordon tapped the stone wall with a crowbar in the hope of discovering something. The hands of Zhang Jiadong's watch have pointed to zero o'clock, and every tombstone on the east side of the tomb has been checked, but the road to heaven has not been found. Is there no way back for the dead to return to the tomb? Could it be that the wizards of the year had already calculated that future generations wanted to escape from the road to heaven? Could this tomb be an altar of resurrection? Zhang Jiadong, who was overwhelmed by a series of questions, could fill the main tomb in a few hours according to the speed at which the quicksand was rising.

Zhang Jiadong sat in the yellow sand with his back against the tomb wall, and watched his eyes slowly sink into the sand. Gedden was annoyed and knocked around with a crowbar, and inadvertently the crowbar hit the coffin that led to a slight tremor for a while. Zhang Jiadong Huo Ran jumped up and shouted: "I understand! It turns out that the road to heaven is here! ”

Gordon was taken aback by Zhang Jiadong's actions and said repeatedly: "What's wrong? I didn't mean to! ”

Zhang Jiadong hurriedly walked to the coffin and said: "The road to heaven is under the coffin, come, you use a crowbar to try to move the coffin." ”

Gordon took a crowbar and thrust it forward under the coffin, and the blue stone was covered with fine yellow sand and also played a role in sliding to a certain extent. The coffin of three or four hundred catties was moved by nearly a foot, and a cold air faintly came out from under the coffin. Seeing this, Gordon was even more confident, spat into his palm, and pushed the coffin forward three feet in a puff. A large dark hole was revealed under the coffin, and Gordon seemed to see a way out, and shouted happily like a child in Xinjiang. Gordon has a stocky build, while Zhang Jiadong is average. Gordon took his mobile phone to light up the horse and got into the big hole first, and Zhang Jiadong climbed down the almost vertical stone ladder step by step because of his injury......

"Ah......h The beads inlaid on the stone wall suddenly emitted a halo of light, and the halo illuminated the stone staircase, and the stone staircase was densely engraved with the words of Gu Loulan. Among them, there are several simple patterns on the front of a broken blue essence stone, and the words engraved on the side make Zhang Jiadong shudder on the spot......

"Dean Zhang, what's wrong with you?" Gordon hurried ahead.

The rubble Zhang Jiadong saw was engraved with the words "Temple of Death", and in Gu Loulan's thoughts, death was regarded as another beginning of life. However, there is only one person who can get a chance to be reborn through the Temple of Death, and although Zhang Jiadong doesn't know what danger he will encounter, he doesn't want to tell the enthusiastic Gordon the news. Zhang Jiadong hurriedly hid the gravel and shiny beads in his waist bag, and pretended to be okay and said, "It's okay, my wound has been scratched." ”

The stone staircase walked dozens of steps, and slowly began to appear uphill. Zhang Jiadong secretly counted the steps under his feet, and when he walked to about eighty-one steps, a burst of hot wind suddenly fell from the sky, and he looked up to see that he was already standing in a shaft. The shaft is about four meters high, and hot air is poured in through the shaft. Gordon took a greedy breath, squatted down and asked Zhang Jiadong to step on him.

Zhang Jiadong was not in a hurry to climb up, and said seriously to Ge Deng: "This shaft is the way for King Loulan to return to reincarnation, but only one person can pass through. I've been wondering if there's a way to get the two of us through, and although I haven't been through the Temple of Death, I think it would be feasible if one person climbed up and pulled the other up with a clothesline. So you step on me and pull me up with a rope. ”

Gerdon didn't know that there was so much more to this shaft, and that it was one step away from freedom. Gedden looked at the top of the shaft and grinned, "Dean Zhang, you saved me twice." If I hadn't gotten out of the car, I would have been suffocated to death by the sand, and I wouldn't have been able to stand here without you helping me block the arrows. So this time you must go up first, and I am not injured, you should be more relaxed when you pull me. ”

Zhang Jiadong thought about it for a while and felt that what Gordon said made sense, so he stopped arguing. The two of them took off their coats and formed a strong clothesline, and Gerdon once again squatted down holding the shaft and said, "Dean Zhang, come on." Now the night outside is the most beautiful in the Tarim Basin, but it's a pity that your camera is ruined. ”

Zhang Jiadong nodded, bit the phone and stepped on Gerdon's back, Gerdon slowly stood up, grabbed Zhang Jiadong's feet and let him step on the top of his head. Zhang Jiadong felt that he was getting closer and closer to the top of the shaft, three feet ...... Two-foot ...... Half a foot ......, my fingers were finally able to touch the top of the shaft......

On the top of the shaft, the blue essence stone is engraved with the ten characters of the soaring, and Zhang Jiadong wants to climb up with the help of the ten characters. But as soon as the hand touched the ten characters, it began to turn violently. A large area of yellow sand was vented like a waterfall, and Gerdon roared and lifted Zhang Jiadong high above his head, and Zhang Jiadong jumped hard with both hands on the top cover of the shaft and finally escaped. Zhang Jiadong didn't bother to look at the torn wound, and hurriedly put down the clothesline in his waist to save Geden, but in just a few seconds, the yellow sand outside the shaft had filled most of Geden's body. Gerdon let out a long roar: "Blind sigh ......" (Xinjiang language: go away) A man from the northwest was annihilated by the yellow sand in less than twenty seconds, and until the yellow sand filled the shaft, Gerdon still maintained his posture of holding his hands in the sky......