What are Xiaomao's concerns? I looked at his words and looks, and I always felt as if he had something unspeakable. But I don't know what his unspeakable secrets are. I can feel that Xiao Mao is not the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and when he tells me these things now, he must have committed the taboo of the boss behind him.

He is not even afraid of death, so what is he afraid of?

"Little Mao." I waited a little anxiously, and finally couldn't help but ask, "You can't say?" Still don't dare to say? ”

"A person's name is just a person's name, not whether he can say it, whether he dares to say it." Xiao Mao came back to his senses and habitually showed his signature smile: "I'll tell you a story first." ”

"Tell me." I don't know why Xiao Mao suddenly wants to tell a story, but at this time, he definitely won't talk nonsense, so I didn't stop him and let him tell the story.

"There was a child whose family was very poor, and his mother was gone, leaving his father, who was not in good health and was very sick." Xiao Mao said: "The kind of poverty in his family, I don't know if you can understand it, it's so poor that you can't afford to see a doctor." ”

"I understand." I haven't really been poor, and I'm not so poor that I can't beat a hero, but I can feel that feeling.

"Maybe you can't understand it, because in this world, there is no real empathy, and if things don't happen to you, you will never be able to experience what it's like."

The child's family was already extremely poor, he was only 11 years old at the time, and he had to take care of his father every day, and he had to find ways to get a little money to make ends meet. But where can teenage children get money? It's nothing more than picking up a little bit of rags, selling a few small bucks to save up, and when you have saved enough, you will run to buy some medicine that is useless to eat.

The child is young, but very filial, he doesn't know if the medicine he saved up to buy can save his father's life, but he can feel that every time his father takes the medicine, he looks better.

It is true that the spirit will be better, but it is only the spirit better.

A teenager supports a family, the kind of hardship, no one can imagine.

It's just that no matter how hard he tries, he can't use the money he picks up to maintain an embarrassing life. Sometimes, when he picks it up, he feels uncomfortable and sheds tears.

Once, his father vomited blood again, and in order to buy medicine, the child had to go out and sell things for money. Late one night, he picked up empty wine bottles at a food stall and met a man.

The man asked him something, and in the end, gave him some money. At that time, this child did not know that his fate with this person began.

For the next two years, the man sent him money on a regular basis. For two years, it never stopped. The child was very grateful, and he felt that this person was very kind and very good.

In addition to giving money, this person will occasionally chat with the child. In this child's view, the other party not only gave him money, gave him hope in life, but also taught him a lot of principles of life.

But money is not everything, and two years later, the child's father died. Because of the exposure to it, the child firmly remembered what the man had taught him, and he felt that he should now repay the gift.

From the age of thirteen, he followed this man until he became an adult.

When Xiao Mao talks about this, I already understand that he is the child, who has helped his family for two years for free, and he must be his current boss.

I finally knew what Xiao Mao was worried about, and in his opinion, it was difficult to repay the boss's help back then.

What he owes is not money, but love. At that time when he was unaccompanied and difficult to stand independent, the help from his boss made him never forget it for the rest of his life.

After Xiao Mao said this, I couldn't ask him anymore who his boss was. This is the bottom line of his life, because I am righteous to him, he can tell me some things, so that I will no longer be blinded, but when the bottom line is touched, Xiao Mao will not betray the boss, even if the boss wants to kill him, he will not.

However, I'm not stupid, even if Xiao Mao doesn't say it, I can guess the clue from some details. Xiaomao's gang is the opposite of Silly Hai and Zhuang Qiang, I once asked Silly Hai who he is doing things for. I've always felt that there are only two or three forces that can be involved in this matter. I originally thought that Silly Hai was helping Lu Fangding do things, but Silly Hai vetoed it, and he still had some disdain for Lu Fangding.

This shows that Silly Hai is not Lu Fangding's person, if he is not, then Xiao Mao, who is standing opposite him, may be following Lu Fangding.

I guessed these, but I didn't ask, Xiao Mao won't answer me, I can only find clues to confirm in the future.

"I know your struggles, who your boss is, I won't ask." I was helpless, but I had no choice but to change the topic: "Xiao Mao, the space under the pottery tube, you already know, don't you?" ”

"Yes, I already knew, and besides, I can't imagine it." Xiao Mao thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this place was discovered ten years ago. ”

"Ten years ago?"

"Yes, ten years ago."

Xiao Mao has followed his boss since he was thirteen years old and has never left. Ten years have passed, Xiaomao has learned a lot, and gradually became the main member.

Ten years ago, the boss organized a group of people to go to the old road of the Huyang River, and Xiaomao was among them. The team was huge, and there were more than a dozen people in charge of the supplies alone.

They stayed here for almost three months, constantly moving back and forth between here and Daya, transporting supplies. Because of the large number of people and the length of their stay, they finally found the entrance to the clay pipe here.

Xiao Mao said that finding the entrance of this pottery pipe was just a matter of one sentence, but I can imagine that their team must have gone through a lot of twists and turns at that time, wasting considerable manpower and material resources before turning out the entrance buried here from the vast desert.

At that time, several pottery pipes that served as connecting channels were very seriously damaged, and the boss was going to send someone to the depths of the pottery pipe to take a look, Xiao Mao was a sincere person, and as soon as the boss said that he wanted to send someone, he would stand up and go into the pottery pipe.

But as soon as Xiao Mao stood up and didn't speak, the boss secretly pulled him and signaled him not to move. Xiao Mao didn't know what the boss meant at the time, but it didn't take long for him to understand.

The enclosed space under the pottery tube has a history of thousands of years, and no one has ever gone down in the middle, and no one knows what is going on inside.

Sure enough, the boss sent two people down in a row, the first one went down and never came back, and the second person came back, but he was deranged and didn't know what he was stimulated below.

Only then did Xiao Mao know that the boss didn't let him take the lead, but he was actually protecting him. Because the boss can see that Xiao Mao is a reliable guy. There are many guys under those bigwigs in the ancient line, and there may be a lot of capable guys, but those who are capable and reliable are very rare.

After the second person sent out came back, the boss did not let people go down again, and anyone could guess at that time that sending people down again was equivalent to sending people to death.

However, the boss went down on his own. Not only did he go down, but he was safe and sound, and he also brought back the guy who had been stranded under him before.

The two guys who had an accident have not returned to normal since then, and have been living on the settling-in allowance given by the boss. Except for the boss, everyone, including Xiao Mao, didn't know what was in the space under the pottery tube.

Subsequently, the entrance to the clay pipe was hidden again, and the boss left with the team. Xiao Mao was very surprised at the time, could it be that he came all the way to this place and spent time digging out the entrance of the pottery pipe, just to go in and have a look?

But the boss didn't say it, and Xiaomao didn't ask.

After returning from the old road of the Huyang River, Xiao Mao's status did not seem to improve, but the boss taught him to learn Banda Jue from that time. It's just that Banda Jue's thing is completely a spiritual level of cultivation, and it is not something that can be achieved by immersing oneself in hard practice, Xiao Mao has practiced for ten years, and he is still only a little bit of skin.

The matter of the entrance of the pottery pipe, or this place, has been put for ten years. Until some time ago, the boss suddenly gave Xiaomao a task. This task is to bring our team to the entrance of the pottery pipe by all means, so that I can find the pottery pipe, and there is no flaw in everything to arrange, so that I cannot be suspicious.

"Before I got this assignment, the boss must have sent someone else." Xiao Mao stretched out his hand and pointed upward, saying: "Ten years ago, when the entrance of the pottery pipe was sealed, it was very tightly sealed, even if people really walked on it, it was impossible to find such a pottery pipe in the depths of the sand layer. The people sent by the boss in advance repaired and arranged the pottery pipe here. ”

I thought to myself, the boss behind Xiao Mao was careful enough to arrange everything, that is, to lead me to find the space under the pottery tube.

Why did he do it? Why is it so laborious? If you really want me to find any clues, can't you just tell me?

But on second thought, if someone I don't know and don't know suddenly tells me something that has almost drowned in history, I have to be 100% suspicious. I don't believe it until I see it with my own eyes.

"I know, you still want to find the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan here, right?" Xiao Mao moved his body with difficulty, his physique was very solid, although he was seriously injured, but after resting here for a while, his spirit was obviously better: "The purpose of your coming to Huyang River was originally to find the ancient city of Chepan. ”

"Yes, I want to find the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan, if these accidents don't happen, I will at least consume some more supplies before I consider retreating."

"Don't look for it, you can't find it."

"Why?" I looked at Xiao Mao, he must know more things than I know, especially on the old road of the Huyang River, Xiao Mao and they had already carried out a comprehensive exploration ten years ago: "The information I got is wrong? Or is the ancient city of Chepan not near the old road of the Huyang River at all? ”

"The ancient city of Chepan is indeed recorded in the historical materials, and the people of later generations have also deduced the approximate location of the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan according to the clues in the historical materials, but after looking for almost a century, why has no one ever found the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan?"

If Xiao Mao didn't say it, I didn't feel too puzzled, and after he said it, I thought about it carefully. The excavation of the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan has actually begun since the beginning of the last century, not only the relevant scholars in China are looking for it, but there are also people from abroad who have come here to find it, but the ruins of the ancient city of Chepan have always been a mystery, and no one can find it.

"No one can find the ancient city of Chepan."

"Why can't I find it, there must be a reason, right?"

"You might not believe me when I said it."