"Professor Zhang, you said half of it at the beginning, I don't know what secrets there are in this Qingya Ancient City?" I asked.

Professor Zhang didn't expect me to ask a question suddenly, and his expression was a little unnatural: "It's nothing, it's just the worship of the scorpion shape, and there is no other information, because the ancient civilization that worships the scorpion shape has only seen it once so far, and it will be concluded." ”

"That's right." I was a little disappointed, and I thought I could know something else from him.

Since Qingya Ancient City is real, will the treasure that can bring people back to life also be real? I thought about it and thought it was funny, if there really was such a treasure, how could this ancient city perish.

As we continued on, we saw that the road ahead was blocked, a cavity that revealed a one-metre-square hole, on which sand flowed down and filled the promenade with which we had to dig to get through.

Our eyes return to the fresco, which should be the scene of the queen of the ancient city receiving envoys from other countries, a person with a distinctly different style of clothing standing in the main hall, saluting to the throne, looking at the person's clothes, it looks like a Han costume.

"This ...... No wonder, this must be the envoy of the Qin Dynasty, no wonder there will be records of the ancient city left, it turns out that there are people in the Western Regions in the Qin period, since there is a connection, the records should not be so scarce. Professor Zhang shook his head slightly, his face suspicious.

As we moved on, the next mural changed, and the atmosphere of harmony suddenly became tense, and a group of soldiers with spears crowded into the hall, standing with the messenger and pointing at the queen on the throne, who was angry and stood up and pointed her hand at them.

What does that mean? The mural is the end here, the back is all covered with sand, I am a little annoyed, sooner or later it does not collapse, but it collapses at the most important time, if this is really the messenger of the Qin Dynasty, it means that Qin and the queen have a conflict, whether this ancient city was destroyed due to a sandstorm is open to debate.

Professor Zhang also expressed regret, but it was already dark, and it would be a big project to clean up the sand, and it would be impossible tonight.

I climbed up the sandy slope, stretched out my head to take a look at the entrance of the cave, this was the back of the hall, surrounded by the same ruins and broken walls, there was no other entrance, the cold wind blew on my face, and my face was numb from the cold, I retreated into the corridor, and said, "As before, there is no other entrance." ”

"Then go back, come back tomorrow, it's a pity that the anonymous reporter was not contacted, I don't know where that human bone fossil came from, there must be other passages here, let's stay here for a few more days," Professor Zhang said, and turned his head to look at Ah Chuan, "Mr. Mo, it's okay for us to stay for a few more days, right?" ”

"Look at the supplies, if you can save more, you can keep more." Achuan said.

"It's okay, now that I know the location, I will come to explore it in the future, and I will clear it out tomorrow and bring back as much information as possible." Professor Zhang said to the students.

The students answered, and the group walked to the other side of the corridor, where the murals were still symmetrical to this side, and after walking a few steps, they did not see any difference, and the group did not look again, and quickly returned to the main hall.

Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi still went to the outside of the hall, considering that there may be a passage by the wall, which will collapse at any time, we placed it on the sand slope in the center of the hall, and without a tent, we could only lie on the sand with a backpack, fortunately, the sand was fine and soft, and there was nothing uncomfortable.

The night in the desert is still cold, and we have a lot of clothes, we wore one, and covered one, the cool and swishing cold wind continued to blow in from the window, the hall was already gloomy, and I felt even colder, Achuan's smiling face was still in front of me, and it was uncomfortable to think about.

Lao Huang's snoring sounded the earliest, no matter how bad the situation could not affect him, I stared at the sloping skylight, the desert night was peaceful and quiet, the sky was cloudless, and the bright galaxy came into view through the small window, like a square oil painting.

I walked in fear for a day, and it was a variety of excavation investigations, and the archaeological team members quickly fell asleep, surrounded by the sound of peaceful breathing, I couldn't sleep, it was so cold outside, I don't know what happened to Ah Chuan.

The urge to urinate came with anxiety, I tossed and turned, in the end I couldn't help it, got up and walked towards the sand slope, and as soon as I climbed out of the window, I saw Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi leaning against the leeward sand slope, lighting a bunch of bonfires with no warmth.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qi immediately opened his eyes when he heard the movement and looked at me coldly.

"Uh...... Water. I quickly ran to the other side of the sand slope, and I only felt my face burn.

I solved it as quickly as I could, I didn't dare to look at Xiao Qi, and quickly climbed up the sand slope and jumped into the main hall, this group of people slept soundly, and such a big movement failed to alarm them.

All this was different from what I expected, I thought that Xiao Qi and Ah Chuan would knock out the archaeological team like they did when they took me to Nameless Island, and then we would meet Uncle Yuan and them, see their camp, and even go to explore the ruins, but nothing turned out.

There was no sign of the large army, and the archaeological team also saw the true face of the ruins, all of which were different from what had been agreed, as if we were part of the archaeological team and our original mission was to help them.

Where did the big army go? There are no traces here, not in the main hall, not in the corridor, I deliberately looked out from the sand hole in the corridor, just to see if there were any traces of footprints outside, but there was nothing, they didn't seem to have been here at all.

I regret it, I really shouldn't have listened to Lao Huang stay here, I can only get what I want by following the Mo family, but I can't go out again at the moment.

I suddenly felt very thirsty, got up and drank half a bottle of water and lay down, my body was really tired, I closed my eyes not long after I was groggy and wanted to sleep, in half a dream and half awake, I seemed to smell a strange fragrance, I was dizzy and my head was swollen, I wanted to open my eyes and body but did not listen to the call, my mind was even more foggy, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

I slept too deeply, as if centuries had passed, and my body was cold and hard, not as malleable as sand, and my bones ached, and the cold wind blew, and I shivered, and when I moved my head, I felt that there was liquid in it.

I raised my hand and knocked on my head, struggled to open my eyes, raised my hand and rubbed it, it was pitch black all around, I couldn't see anything, I reached out and tried to touch the flashlight in my pocket, but my eyes widened suddenly, and I rolled over and sat up.

What about the sand?

Underneath him was a cold and hard ground, not rough, but obviously flat stones, the original thick sand slope was gone, and the sand was at least ten meters thick, and it disappeared inexplicably.

My heart jumped wildly, and I quickly took out a flashlight and turned it on, what I saw in front of me stimulated me to be extremely awake, this is still the big hall, but all the sand is gone, I sit on the flat stone face, in the center of the empty hall, Lao Huang is gone, the archaeological team members are gone, only I am the only one.

Fortunately, the backpack was still there, so I quickly stood up with my bag on my back, held a flashlight and shone it forward, and involuntarily screamed.

Not far in front of me are two stone pillars, exactly the same as in the main hall, carved with complex and strange patterns, on each side of the stone pillar stands a statue of a scorpion-tailed human body, ten meters high, I raised a flashlight to the statue on the left side, only smelled a faint smell of rot.

The huge statue was in front of me, looking at me condescendingly, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, held my breath and slowed down, the flashlight swept over the statue, the dull color was completely different from the stone sculpture I saw during the day, I swallowed my saliva, the flashlight moved upward, only to see that the scorpion tail was connected to a dark and thin body, the muscles were shrunken and deformed, the ribs were protruding, and then I saw a huge shriveled face, the skin was dry and wrinkled, it was clearly a skeleton covered with skin!

The upper body is a dry corpse, and the lower body is ...... I involuntarily took a few steps back, its lower body was a huge scorpion tail, the texture was clear and detailed, exuding a faint strange smell, I pulled out the sapper shovel and carefully touched it, it was very hard but did not make a sound of hitting the stone, but muffled with the toughness of a carapace, this turned out to be a real scorpion tail!

I was stunned, stupid, I forgot to scream, my eyes moved to the junction of the human body and the scorpion tail again, the muscles and the carapace were integrated, no matter how you look at them, they all grow together, not sticky.

Oh my God, what the hell is going on?!

My mind was full of buzzing noises, this was a dream, it must be a dream, I closed my eyes and pinched my thigh hard, it hurt so much that I gritted my teeth and "hissed", now I should wake up, I opened my eyes, and there was still a huge scorpion tail corpse in front of me.

The pain is still there, it's so real, I can't believe it, I closed my eyes again and slapped myself, and then I opened my eyes and it was still the same, I suddenly thought that there was a so-called deep dream, very real, and I could feel the pain, I must be in such a dream now.

But no matter how deep the dream is, there is a way to crack it, that is, hold your breath, without the help of external forces, people will not suffocate themselves, the brain will make a stress response, forcing you to wake up, as long as you hold your breath.

I was worried that I couldn't hold it back, so I raised my hand and pinched my nose, the oxygen in my lungs gradually lost, and it hurt like an explosion, and the scene in front of me was blurred, but it was still the same as it was, I pinched my nose tightly, I fell to the ground dizzy, and I couldn't see anything clearly in the black area in front of me, and just when I was about to suffocate myself, I suddenly let go of my hand.

The cool air poured into my lungs like a flood, the blackness gradually faded, and my eyes gradually became clearer, but I did not wake up, still lying on the cold stone face, the huge scorpion-tailed corpse was still staring at me coldly, and the dead silence was full of banter, as if I was looking at a clown.

I pinched myself a few times harder, the pain made me extremely conscious, the scene in front of me did not change, the smell between my nose did not change, and I finally had to believe that it was all real.

Why is this happening? Where did they go? There are also Ah Chuan and Xiao Qi, they are outside the main hall, they should be safe.