Volume 1 Kurosawa Domain Chapter 68 Devil's City
Speaking of these past events in the green barracks, Li Yulan was very envious and yearning.
She said that when she was in high school, she especially admired the instructors of military training, and when she was about to go to college, she had the idea of becoming a female soldier in the army, but her family did not agree and forced her to take the university entrance examination.
then sighed and said that if he didn't listen to his family back then and insisted on becoming a soldier, he might have been a female officer by now.
Bai Yunfei smiled knowingly, and said that there are thousands of paths in life, and it is not necessary to follow the plans planned by others, or think it is good when you look at it.
Only those who can firmly believe that what they want after a thousand turns, choose with firm faith, do not forget their original intentions, do not regret, do not give up, and can firmly hold it in their own hands are happy.
Li Yulan suddenly stopped, lowered her head, and looked at her hands in a daze.
After a while, he turned his head, stared into the distance, and whispered something to himself, but the voice was too small to hear.
She was distracted for a moment, then began to bury her head again and walk towards the car.
Unlike the last expedition to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, the natural environment there is far less bad than the Devil's City that everyone wants to go deep into alone.
It is said that this time everyone really went deep into the depths of the desert, even the "forbidden area of death", and the fate of the group was completely handed over to this vast yellow ocean.
I only hope that the gods in the sky will bless, everyone can forge ahead in this fateful ocean, if the god of the desert sends down the wrath of the gods, let alone the destination adventure expected by everyone, even this boating sand sea may overturn and fall, and forever with the yellow sand as a companion.
When the group of eight people marched to the Northwest Desert, they felt the tyranny of the capricious desert weather.
From time to time, heat waves hit people, the desert seems to be on fire and smoke, and the air and ground are like burning flames, making people sweat profusely.
But as soon as it was night, or in gloomy weather, the wind was strong, and the sand covered the sky, as if the world had come to an end, and it was as cold as ice, making people tremble and tremble.
The climate in the desert area will change greatly in an instant, suddenly the weather is sunny, and suddenly the wind and sand rise, and it is most appropriate to describe it as "wearing a leather jacket in the morning and wearing a yarn in the afternoon".
Walking in the vast sea of sand, you can't see the edge at a glance, and occasionally the sky is clear, the sky is high blue, and the eyes are full of monotonous yellow, and it is difficult to find even a dead tree.
There is not a hint of greenery, occasionally dotted with a little greenery, which is poplar, sea buckthorn, or the more tenacious sand date. Occasionally, there is a clump of trees, and it is Salix.
Bumping in the car, the crowd is sometimes drowsy, sometimes hot or cold.
The boundless desert made everyone feel depressed, and the novelty and relaxation of the first sight of this vast desert have long since disappeared.
The desert is sometimes a relatively flat wave of wavy sand like a wheat field, layered on top of each other, and sometimes thousands of sand dunes are formed by the rolling of quicksand due to storms.
They are well-layered and well-defined, from the sand ridge to the bottom of the slope, the curve is smooth and soft, the sand slope in the windward direction is like a horizontal slide, and the quicksand on the leeward side is like a river pouring down.
Although the entire vast desert is a dead and silent sea of sand, seeing these huge sand waves surging between heaven and earth like rushing waves makes people sigh at the infinite power of heaven and earth.
According to the inscription on the tomb chamber of the Mogao Grottoes, the tomb of King Na Abraham should be in the devil's city in Xinjiang, and it is not difficult to reach the destination by car.
However, it is impossible to confirm whether the "Devil City" in the Western Regions during the Three Kingdoms period and the "Devil City" that everyone said a thousand years later are the same place, and no one can say for sure.
It is not even known whether the "Devil's Town" mentioned by this anonymous man is the exact name of the place, or whether it is his personal description of a certain place.
I only know that the same secret and mysterious underground palace exists in the dragon vein of the "Kunyin Ink Jiao".
During the knowledge study of the intensive training, everyone had a discussion about this "Kunyin Mojiao", what does it refer to?
But in the end, I didn't come up with a reason.
Kun, the legendary big fish.
Among the ancient Chinese documents, the earliest record is "Liezi Tangwen". The text says:
"In the north of the end of the north, there is the sea of Minghai, the heavenly pond also, there are fish, its width is thousands of miles, its length is called Yan, its name is Kun."
Jiao, a dragon that can cause floods in ancient legends.
Both things are the existence of "mythical beasts" in ancient legends, and this is a fish and a dragon, does it indicate that the ancient tomb is a place where "fish and dragons are mixed"?
Even the experts Cao Longxuan consulted, as well as Han Debang, who is known as a genius in language and writing, have not been able to give an exact explanation.
Take these four words apart, each word is easy to understand, but what do they really mean when they are combined? The thinking of the ancients is difficult for people to understand today.
Everyone went to Karamay, Xinjiang, where there is a "Wuerhe Devil City".
In fact, there are many devil cities in Xinjiang: "Qitai Devil City", "Wuerhe Devil City", "Kizil Devil City", "Hami Devil City", etc., are all famous tourist attractions, basically "Yadan" landform.
These devil's towns are located in the desert or barren Gobi, with harsh climatic conditions and difficult transportation.
During the training period before departure, everyone used the power of the Internet to learn the materials of these places.
The "Qitai Devil City", one hundred and six kilometers north of Qitai County, is a typical Yadan landform, which is composed of various sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic and Triassic periods, as well as various colored sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous period.
After the rain washed and the wind cut, such a gorgeous and colorful natural landscape has been formed over time.
Under the long-term work of nature, a labyrinthine dream world has been formed.
There are all kinds of famous mountains and scenic spots in ancient and modern times, and all kinds of scenery and landforms are colorful, vivid, lifelike, which can make people give full play to your imagination.
The rocks in the Devil's City are vividly shaped, and some of them are shaped like people, such as the sages worshipping the sky, the eight precepts rolling, the bulls plowing the ground, the monks meditating, the mother-in-law pounding clothes, the monkeys climbing the mountain, the bears playing, and the carp jumping into the water.
Some are shaped like buildings, such as the Arab Mosque, or Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and some like the Potala Palace in Tibet.
The "Kizil Devil City" located in Kizil, also known as the "Keqiknir Burak Devil City", is located in the low hilly area between the Heiying Mountain and the Baicheng Basin in the southwest.
The terrain is low in the south and high in the north, and the terrain is composed of vertical and horizontal valleys formed by denudation, flowing water and wind erosion, and the platforms, solitary hills, beam ridges, etc. between the valleys, and the height of the ground objects generally ranges from a few meters to more than 20.
The width of the valley is different, and the variation is large, and the valley is sloped and steep. The lithology of the strata is mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate, and the color is mainly yellow-green, gray-green, turmeric and maroon-red.
There is little rain and wind throughout the year, the rocks are bare, and the wind erodes and rains to make the shapes different and the degree of weathering is different, forming a variety of natural shapes.
The wind blows in the desert in all seasons, and there will be all kinds of strange sounds in the valley, such as ghosts crying wolves, which makes it have a strong horror and mystery here.
The "Hami Devil Town" located in Hami is south of Wubao Township, Hami City, 20 kilometers away from Wubao Township, and about 100 kilometers away from Hami City.
"Hami Devil City" is about 400 kilometers long and about 10 kilometers wide, starting from the camel peak outside the chimney in the east, passing through the Yaman cycad mine, Dananhu coal mine, to the thirteen rooms of Sha'er Lake in Wubao Township.
"Hami Devil's Town" can be seen in different shapes such as people, birds and beasts, pagodas, halls, castles, and stone monuments.
Dazzling cliff faces, fossilized petrified wood and plants, and colorful agate in the gravel, and the occasional round stone the size of a bird fossil and a dinosaur egg.
When a storm or night falls, the desert wind makes people hear the terrifying howl of ghosts and wolves, so it is called "Devil's Town".
Due to the mystery of this place, it is very easy for those who are not familiar with the terrain to get lost in a storm.
The reason why everyone chose the target in the "Wuerhe Devil City" is because although there are many devil cities in Xinjiang, there is only this devil city called "Wuerhe Wind City" with the inscription of the anonymous tomb, which combines the characteristics of salt lake, underground black oil, ground fire lava and surface devil city.
If no matter how much they searched this place, they would not be able to find results, so they would march to the other devil cities and continue their exploration.
"Wuerhe Devil City" is located in the Wuerhe oil area, 110 kilometers northeast of Karamay City, Xinjiang, which is located in the lower reaches of the Jiamu River, echoing with the Manas Salt Lake in the far west, covering an area of about 10 square kilometers.
After turning into National Highway 217 from Kehu Highway (Karamay to Hutubi), walk 100 kilometers in the direction of Altay, and you can see the Devil City of Wuerhe next to the highway.
The Yadan geology here is relatively soft, so it has formed a strong wind-eroded landform over the years, with strange shapes, and the local Mongolians call this city "Surum Hak", and the Uyghurs call it "Shayi Tantarsi", which means devil's city.
In fact, this is a typical Yadan landform area, "Yadan" is the Uygur word for "steep hillock", Yadan landform is a type of wind erosion landform formed in an arid and windy environment.
According to the information searched on the Internet, Wuerhe Devil City not only has a peculiar Yadan landform, but also countless colorful pebbles in the city, and sometimes even crystal agate stones.
Legend has it that the gods were angry and deliberately scattered the wealth of the punished sinners on the ground, inducing the greedy people who did not believe in the gods and did not listen to the advice of the gods to sin again, and eventually became the souls of the dead who fell into hell.
Because there is a magical legend about Devil's Town:
Legend has it that this was originally a majestic castle where the men were handsome and strong, the women were beautiful and kind, and the people in the castle worked hard and lived a worry-free life with plenty of food and clothing.
However, with the accumulation of wealth, evil gradually took possession of people's hearts.
They began to indulge in fun and wine, and the city was filled with deceit and bloodshed for riches, and every man's face became hideous and terrifying.
In order to arouse the conscience of the people, the god came to the castle in the form of a ragged beggar. The gods told the people that it was evil that turned him from a rich man into a beggar.
However, the beggar's words did not work, and instead he was insulted and ridiculed by the people in the castle.
In a fit of rage, the gods turned the place into ruins, and all the people in the castle were crushed under the ruins.
Every night, the spirits of the dead mourn in the castle, hoping that the gods would hear their voices of repentance.
I wonder if the almighty god will punish everyone who comes here and make them unable to withstand the temptation of wealth and go to hell.
However, it is indeed difficult to identify the direction in the vast sand sea and Gobi, and it is very easy to get lost when traveling in the huge Yadan group.
Therefore, if you want to go to the Devil's City, it is definitely a prerequisite to find an experienced guide to lead the way, otherwise you will get lost in the desert Gobi, and you can only bury your bones in the yellow sand, and drink hatred here, which is no different from being punished by the gods.