"I'd like to ask you for a favor, that's what I'm looking for you."

Before Han Wei could speak, Lao Zheng had already preemptively spoken, looking like he had mustered up the courage to speak. Han Wei and Lao Zheng experienced life and death together, and Lao Zheng still had a life-saving grace for him, no matter what, Han Wei would not refuse, nodded hurriedly, and said: "Lao Zheng, if there is anything to say, since you open your mouth, I will definitely help you." ”

When Lao Zheng heard this, his expression was not soothed, his expression kept changing, and he seemed to be struggling.

"Lao Zheng, what the hell is going on, even if you say it, I, Han Wei, am by no means ungrateful." Han Wei saw that Lao Zheng was hesitant, and thought that the other party was suspicious of his character.

"Alas! I had no choice but to ask you for help this time, the place I was going to was very dangerous, ten times more dangerous than this ancient tomb, or even a hundred times more dangerous, and you wouldn't understand how terrifying it was. The more Lao Zheng spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't hide the fear in his eyes, and slammed the cup out of the coffee table, and with a bang, the glass shattered, Lao Zheng calmed down a little, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'm out of shape." ”

Han Wei didn't know what it was, but it was ten or a hundred times more dangerous than this ancient tomb, what kind of concept would it be? Han Wei couldn't imagine it, no wonder Lao Zheng would be so out of shape, you must know that in the ancient tomb, even when it was the most critical, he was never afraid. Han Wei hesitated a little, but in just an instant, he figured it out, the debt had to be repaid, not to mention owing Lao Zheng a life, and it was in danger, and it was not necessarily impossible to turn the danger into a disaster.

"Lao Zheng, no matter what, I will definitely help you this time, but ......" Han Wei deliberately paused and said: "But if you want to invite you to dinner, you have to eat and live in the past few days, and you have never lived in a villa, so you have to arrange the largest room for me." ”

Lao Zheng looked at Han Wei, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and finally showed a smile, and said, "I still want to live in the biggest room, that's mine, don't even think about it." ”

I didn't expect Lao Zheng, who was joking, to be so cute, and Han Wei was in a much more relaxed mood. Lao Zheng's expression quickly recovered, poured a new glass of water for himself, and said: "Don't be in a hurry to agree to this matter, listen to me first, and then think about it, and wait for the old enemy to come out of the funeral tomorrow, and then give me an answer." ”

Lao Zheng was very serious and cautious in his words, Han Wei nodded and listened to him seriously.

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Thirty-one years ago, Lao Zheng was just twenty years old, and he followed his master to learn feng shui since he was a child, but in fact, it was just a cover-up, and what he really did was to specialize in tomb robbing.

That is, in that year, the master died of illness, Lao Zheng had no constraints, thought he was very capable, and chose to work alone, of course, he was not alone, because he also brought the only junior brother Zheng Guan, both of whom were adopted by the master, and both of them followed the master's surname. That is, in the autumn of the year when the master left, Lao Zheng went to Aksu City, Xinjiang, and heard the master mention that there was a ruins of an ancient country there, but I don't know why, the master was reluctant to talk about it every time, as if he was afraid. Lao Zheng looked through the master's notes, and the master would write down all the ancient tombs and strange places he had heard of or encountered. Since the place where the master is afraid, it is up to him and his junior brother to conquer it, firstly, to comfort the master's spirit in the sky, and secondly, to prove his own wisdom.

After roughly determining the direction, Lao Zheng and his junior disciples prepared ropes, shovels, flashlights, candles and other things, and set off immediately. The destination is the Taklamakan Desert, the second largest desert in the world and the world's largest mobile desert. It's just that the locals have an inexplicable awe of the desert and don't dare to disturb it easily, but the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and Lao Zheng met Ahaiti when he was drinking, an adventurous and fearless man, a Uyghur who is so different that even Muhammad does not believe.

In the local area, Ahaiti is a heretic and a sinner, but he and Lao Zheng and Zheng Guan are very close to each other, and at the invitation of each other, the three of them went to the Taklamakan Desert together. The place to be reached was not the heart of the desert, but the journey was still extremely difficult, and the three of them all rode camels, but the wind and sand were too strong, and the speed was extremely slow. Fortunately, in the wind and sand, Ahaiti can still find the direction accurately, he has been to the ruins that Lao Zheng said, but in his eyes it is just a broken city wall in the yellow sand.

After a day of walking, the wind and sand still showed no sign of stopping for a moment, and Ahaiti joked that it was not the gods who would not let them go and disturb them. Lao Zheng and his junior brother are all people who don't believe in this, and they just laugh when they hear it. Zheng Guan even sang a song, but he didn't roar a few times, but his mouth was full of yellow sand, and he still felt like it was all sand no matter how he vomited, where did he dare to speak.

As night fell, the temperature dropped sharply, and wrapped in a thick military coat, he still couldn't resist the cold. This military coat was an authentic military supply, which cost six hundred to buy, and in those days, six hundred yuan was a huge amount of money.

The cold was unbearable, so the three of them had to stop, find a sand dune, and set up a tent on the leeward side, and the camels leaned against the tent, which was also a line of defense against the wind and sand. The tent did not dare to get too close to the dunes, you must know that the Taklamakan Desert is a mobile desert, everything is mobile, and if you are not careful, you may be buried by the yellow sand in your sleep. After a brief meal, Lao Zheng and his junior brother studied the distance, there are still about eighty miles, and they must be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon.

The first time they spent the night in the desert, Lao Zheng and his junior brothers both lost sleep, the wind whistling in their ears, and the sound of Mosuo when the yellow sand moved, seemed extremely harsh in the night sky. After sleeping in a daze all night, they set off again at dawn, Lao Zheng and Zheng Guan's spirits were a little wilted, and they laughed at the two from time to time.

The wind and sand are much smaller than yesterday, the speed is a few points faster, and there is no danger as imagined, and we arrived at the destination, and we can see the ruins exposed in the yellow sand. It has survived because of a small oasis nearby, which is repaired by the occasional passer-by.

Lao Zheng and Zheng Guan walked around the ruins, and found that the layout paid attention to the symmetry of the four directions, and the ancients believed in the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the city was built in this way, and the central location must be the core area. The city built on the oasis is located near the oasis, and I don't know how many years have passed, the area of the oasis has been shrinking, so the central location is a certain distance from the oasis at this time, and it is not too far. Looking at the current oasis, it is a semicircular arc with a protruding part facing west. If the area of the oasis is reduced, the first thing is the inside of the arc.

Soon Lao Zheng and the two determined the approximate location, and the two used shovels to dig around, and finally in a place, when digging down dozens of centimeters, a piece of bluestone appeared. The two hurriedly cleaned up the range of the bluestone, and a huge bluestone appeared, the bluestone was polished very smooth, and there was no pattern mark. After a closer look, I found that this was not a complete bluestone, and there were small gaps in the middle, finer than the smallest sand, so I didn't find it at first. Next to the gap in the bluestone, there are two small holes the size of a thumb, but they are filled with yellow sand, and I don't know what is inside.

Hurriedly cleaned up the small holes, it turned out that the two small holes were through, look at the edge position, and there are traces left by the rope. Zheng Guan hurriedly took out the rope and passed through the two small holes, trying to lift the bluestone up, but used all his strength, but found that the bluestone did not move at all. Ahaiti stepped forward to help, and with the strength of the two of them, Qingshi finally reacted, and was lifted up a little, but if you want to open it all, you still need more force. Lao Zheng also helped together, and the three of them finally flipped the bluestone over without reservation. Below the bluestone, a passage appeared, and steps extended up, but it was pitch black inside, and the situation inside could not be seen.

Illuminated with a flashlight, the passage curves and extends, and the inside is completely unvisible. Lao Zheng and the three of them discussed for a while, originally wanting Ahaiti to stay and guard the camel and the entrance, but Ahaiti also wanted to go in with him, which was something he had never experienced before, and it was a fatal temptation for Ahaiti, who was full of adventure. Since the three of them were going down, they needed to disguise themselves and set up their tents at the entrance, so that the camels could only remain outside the tent, and the entrance was covered with blankets, and the three of them prepared to enter the passage.

Lao Zheng sniffed at the entrance of the passage, the air was turbid, but there was no pungent smell of biogas, and the three of them entered it. The stone walls on both sides of the passage are made of stone masonry, and there is no pattern on them, so it is naturally impossible to tell what the place is. The passage is very curved, but not long, less than twenty meters, and it is already complete. What appeared in front of him was a city gate, the city wall was only about two meters high, and the handwriting on it was not Chinese characters, which was the first time Lao Zheng had seen it.

The gates of the city wall are made of stone, and they are whole boulders, and I don't know how the people of that era installed them. The doorway is only about one meter five, Lao Zheng and the three of them have to bend down, the street is not wide in front of them, and the street is very short, at most twenty meters is the end, you can see a palace at the end, it can be determined that it is a palace, that is because compared to the two sides of the street, the house at the end has a unique shape, and it is very large, and the stone gate is even higher than the city gate. Push open a house next to it, stone doors, stone windows, stone tables, stone beds, everything here is made of stone masonry. There is no other decoration in the house, except stone, which is still stone.

I saw a few rooms in a row, and they were all exactly the same, whether it was the shape, furnishings, or size, they were all the same. Lao Zheng originally wanted to find some clues, roughly find out the details here, and then go to the palace at the end of the street, but now it seems impossible. After all, it was an underground city, and the air could not last too long, and time could not afford to be wasted, so the three of them no longer hesitated and went straight to the palace.

The stone door of the palace was still unadorned, and the closed stone door opened with a gentle push, and the light shone all around, and it was a street, and the light could still shine to the end. Looking closely at the street, I realized that it was very similar, or identical, to the street I had just entered. The three of them walked cautiously and inspected a few houses, and sure enough, everything was the same as they had seen before.

(1) Old digger: an experienced master of stealing and digging