1

The new discovery disturbed the three of them, what was the "Devil's Town" that sounded daunting? Is it the Hanhai Mi City they are looking for? Or is there something else scary?

In the end, Liang Yuan made up her mind, "Isn't it just a city?" Our thousands of towns full of corpses have broken over, what kind of 'devil city' are you afraid of? I don't believe there is a devil there! ”

"It's better to be careful, the deformed rivet just now was picked up on the east side of the poplar forest, what does this mean? It shows that the huge force that attacked the expedition team at the end came from the west! Han Jiang admonished.

"Yes! My nightmare last night, the strange sound of music also came from the west side of the poplar forest. Tang Feng shuddered violently when he thought of last night's nightmare, everything was so clear, as if it had really happened.

"Two cowards, are you still leaving?" Liang Yuan urged.

Han Jiang and Tang Feng glanced at each other, "Now I can only find this devil city first." ”

The three of them got into the car, got out of the poplar forest, and continued to move in the northwest direction, Han Jiang circled around the poplar forest, outside the poplar forest is a long yellow sand, not only can not see the water source, not even like the "wolf depression" and "black stone" where there were traces of water sources, Han Jiang couldn't help but scold: "Pit daddy!" There is not a drop of water, and it is still called 'Yue'er Spring'? How can such a beautiful name belong here! ”

"Yes, even if the water runs out, there should be relics?" Liang Yuan was also puzzled.

"Maybe our search isn't big enough!" Tang Feng came to such a sentence without pain.

"But...... But what about that 'fate'? Han Jiang still remembered the strange Russian word on the trunk.

"As far as I can judge, the word was engraved by another person, but I can't be sure whether it was engraved by Koznov's or by someone from the joint expedition?" Tang Feng said truthfully.

Han Jiang thought for a while, "In Koznov's team, are there other Russians besides him?" ”

Tang Feng pondered for a moment and shook his head, "I don't seem to have the impression that there is, because Koznov hired a large number of locals, and of course, it is not excluded that there are Russians whose names we don't know are in Koznov's team. ”

"What if it's someone from the expedition team?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"The expedition team? According to the memories of Makarov and Misha, coupled with our field investigation, the scientific expedition team came to Yue'er Spring and camped in the poplar forest, mainly in the eastern part of the poplar forest, and the poplar tree with the Russian word written on it was on the west side of the poplar forest, so it does not look like it was carved by the expedition team from this point of view. Tang Feng didn't understand what that "fate" was all about.

There was silence in the car, and Han Jiang slammed on the accelerator and rushed straight towards the sand dunes in the northwest direction.

2

The donkey drove out for about five or six kilometers, the continuous sand dunes were gone, and some huge mounds suddenly appeared on the Gobi Desert in front of him, and Liang Yuan shouted excitedly, "Castles, so many castles, this is the Devil's City!" ”

Tang Feng looked nervously ahead, the car continued to drive forward, there were more and more mounds in front of him, with strange shapes and strange shapes, and Liang Yuan no longer shouted "castle", because she found that they were just some huge mounds that looked like castles, and there were no traces of artificial carving and construction, "Why did so many large mounds suddenly pop up?" Liang Yuan was puzzled.

"This is Devil's Town." Tang Feng said with certainty.

"Oh, this is Devil's Town?"

"Yes, these peculiarly shaped, bizarre huge mounds, geographically called 'Yadan landforms', they are not man-made, but formed by nature." Tang Feng explained.

Han Jiang parked the car in the middle of several huge mounds, and the three of them got out of the car, "According to what you say, this can't be Hanhai Mi City?" Liang Yuan asked.

"I can say with certainty now that Devil City is not the Hanhai Mi City we are looking for." Tang Feng replied in the affirmative.

"Yadan landform...... I think I've heard it before. Han Jiang seemed to remember something, "The common people seem to call this landform 'Devil's City'." Right? ”

Tang Feng nodded, "Yes, the Yadan landform generally appears in the tuyere area in the desert Gobi, that is to say, the wind here is particularly strong, the huge wind, and sometimes the erosion and corrosion of the water current, so that the original huge mound has become the appearance of the one seen now, and sometimes, the magic of nature can carve these mounds into various shapes, some like animals, some like people, and there are many demons and monsters that seem to be like each other!" ”

"Nature's creation is really ever-changing!" Liang Yuan sighed.

"Just imagine, when people walk here, the desolate Gobi Desert is already scary, let alone here? As long as there is a gust of wind, because of the special geological structure here, there will be all kinds of strange sounds, and in the midst of this strange mound, people naturally have a fear of this place, and it is natural to associate this place with the 'Devil's Town'. Tang Feng explained for a long time.

Liang Yuan didn't seem to be afraid, she shouted at the mound, "Ahhh

There was an echo in the Devil City, and Han Jiang scolded her dissatisfiedly, "Don't scream, what if there is someone hiding here?" As soon as you call us, we'll all be exposed. ”

Han Jiang's reminder, Liang Yuan also felt scared for a while, "Maybe there are ghosts and ghosts?" ”

"Tang Feng, you just said that it was very windy here, but why don't I have any wind at this time!" Han Jiang walked to the middle of two rows of huge mounds, and in the middle was a passage that looked like a wide and flat highway.

Tang Feng looked up at the sky, the sky that had been gloomy yesterday had completely swept away the haze at this time, the blue sky was clear, and there was no trace of wind, "Maybe there is no wind today." ”

"Whether there is wind or not, Tang Feng, what you just said reminded me, when the wind blows here, because of the special geological structure here, there will be all kinds of strange wind sounds, I suddenly thought of the scientific expedition team of the year, Makarov and Misha both recalled that they heard a terrible strange sound in the poplar forest at night, could this strange sound be the sound of the wind blowing through the Devil's City?" Han Jiang boldly speculated.

Han Jiang's speculation made Tang Feng's heart tremble, "It's not impossible, but the poplar forest is five or six kilometers away from here, and no matter how loud the strange sound is here, it shouldn't be too loud when it reaches the poplar forest!" ”

3

The three of them turned around for a while, and then got in the car and went around in the Devil's City, Han Jiang was afraid of getting lost in the Devil's City, so he turned around according to the square route, and when they turned to the east of the Devil's City, a mound shaped like a circular castle attracted everyone's attention, because this castle was completely a standard circle, Liang Yuan couldn't help but wonder: "This mound is so round, is it artificially built." How could it be so round otherwise? ”

"yes, it takes tools to make a castle like this." Han Jiang was also puzzled.

"As I said earlier, any miracle can happen when nature works wonders. I don't believe you can go down and see if there are any traces of manifold in this mound. ”

As soon as Tang Feng said this, Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were still energetic, the two got out of the car, and really climbed onto the circular mound to investigate, Tang Feng stood next to the car, squinted, waiting for the results of their investigation, five minutes later, the two people came back, sure enough, there was no trace of artificial construction, "Is there really such a miracle in nature?" ”

Han Jiang was still a little unconvinced, he climbed to the top of the circular mound to check, and suddenly, Han Jiang shouted on the mound, "Come up, we found something here." ”

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were startled, and hurriedly climbed up the circular mound, the top of the circular mound, the watchtower shaped like a castle, sure enough, in the soil here, Han Jiang pulled out some silk fabrics that had not completely decayed, to be precise, some clothes, and then, a human skeleton, "Damn, how can we touch corpses everywhere now, either dried corpses, or bones!" Han Jiang cursed as he dug out two more bones from the soil, as well as two AK-47 rifles and some bullets.

Tang Feng and Han Jiang quickly identified the silk fabrics that had rotted into strips of cloth, which were Type 55 military uniforms, and Han Jiang also classified different strips of rags and judged that these were three sets of military uniforms, according to military ranks, one was a major's uniform, and the other two were lieutenant's uniforms. When the strips of rags, rifles and bullets were presented to the trio together, they immediately understood all this.

"These are the two officers who disappeared the night before the expedition!" Han Jiang said slowly.

"I didn't expect them to be here for so many years!" Tang Feng sighed.

Makarov recalled mentioning the three missing officers, and Misha's letter also mentioned that he did not see the person in charge of the night duty that night, and Misha was not at ease with the Chinese, so he was not sure whether the three missing officers were killed, or were they in the same league as Ma Changguo? Now it seems that Misha's worries are all unnecessary! Han Jiang said.

"They appeared so far away from the camp, and they were consciously buried here en masse, no need to ask, I'm sure it was done by Ma Changguo and his gang!" Tang Feng said categorically.

"Obviously Ma Changguo did it, if these three officers were still on duty in the camp that night, Ma Changguo and they would probably find it difficult to sneak into the camp." Liang Yuan also agreed.

"But Ma Changguo, what means did they use to get these three heavily armed officers here and kill them?" Tang Feng couldn't figure it out.

Han Jiang raised his eyes and looked around, and said: "It's not difficult, I checked the terrain here, according to my speculation, when the scientific expedition team camped in the poplar forest, this was Ma Changguo's base camp, don't forget, Ma Changguo is a local, more familiar with the situation here, more adaptable, it is convenient to monitor the scientific expedition team's every move, and it is convenient to hide them, when they are discovered by the scientific expedition team, they can completely escape here, with the unique terrain here, and the scientific expedition team around." I guess these three officers found Ma Changguo and them, so Ma Changguo deliberately lured the three officers here, and then killed all three officers here. ”

4

The three of them reburied the relics and bones of the officers in the circular mound, and Han Jiang also deliberately tried the two AK-47s, but the two guns were damaged and could not be used, so Han Jiang rushed down the two guns, the tips of which were pointed upwards, and plunged deep into the soil, which were all the tombstones of the three officers.

"This is the best tombstone for a soldier!" Han Jiang stepped down from the circular mound and turned around to salute the rifle standing tall above the circular mound with a standard military salute.

But at this moment, Liang Yuan found another piece of clothing under the circular mound, "Come and see, I found a leather jacket!" ”

Tang Feng and Han Jiang saw that Liang Yuan was really carrying a black leather jacket covered with dust in his hand, and they immediately thought of the man wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses mentioned in Misha's letter - "Ma Changguo's leather jacket." The two of them exclaimed in unison.

Tang Feng flipped through the leather jacket, although he didn't find any valuable clues on the leather jacket, he clearly smelled Ma Changguo's scent on it, "Why would he give up his leather jacket?" ”

"The treacherous and cunning Ma Changguo, it is estimated that he wants to escape, don't forget, the scientific expedition team was wiped out, and they were no better, but in the end, Ma Changguo actually ran out unharmed." Han Jiang reasoned.

Throwing away Ma Changguo's leather jacket, the three of them quickly returned to the middle of the two rows of huge mounds they saw at the beginning, Han Jiang adjusted his direction, followed this straight passage, and drove towards the end of the Devil's City, and after a while, they came to the edge of the Devil's City, Tang Feng saw two unusually huge mounds here, these two mounds seemed to be a little special, their locations were actually out of the Devil's City, but they were taller and more majestic than almost all the mounds in the Devil's City, Tang Feng walked under these two huge mounds and carefully surveyed them, he was a little puzzled, because he seemed to see a little trace of rammed earth on the mound, but it was not obvious, could it be formed by a special geological formation? Tang Feng couldn't be sure.

Tang Feng walked around the two giant mounds, but still found no direct traces of artificial ramming, Tang Feng shook his head in disappointment, "It seems that these two giant mounds are also the magic of nature." ”

At this time, after Han Jiang checked the direction, he pointed to the vast Gobi behind the two giant mounds, "That is due north, and Hanhai Micheng should be in the sand sea not far from here." ”

Tang Feng stood in the middle of the two giant mounds, looking north, maybe Han Jiang was right! They are already not far from Hanhai Mi City!

5

Tang Feng was standing in the middle of two giant mounds and looking out, suddenly, the sky changed, and the originally peaceful Devil City blew a gust of wind from nowhere, rolling up the yellow sand in the sky, which fascinated everyone's eyes for a while.

After this gust of wind, the sky was covered with dark clouds again, "What a strange weather!" Liang Yuan muttered.

"It's such a weird place!" Han Jiang Road.

"Why? Just now I saw that this devil's city is calm and picturesque, a desert and a lonely smoke, and the beautiful scenery of the sunset over the long river, and I want to see it here for a while. Liang Yuan seemed to be very intoxicated by this.

"It is precisely because it was so quiet and beautiful just now that this place is weird, you forgot that Koznov and the joint scientific expedition team were all stuck in this area, and the scientific expedition team was even wiped out." Han Jiang Road.

"Yes, I'm sure it's close to Hanhai City, and Koznov and the expedition team have also arrived here, but why haven't they been able to move on? There must be dangers waiting for us here that we don't know yet. Tang Feng also said.

The three jumped into the car, Han Jiang reversed, and Liang Yuan asked, "Then what should we do now?" Do you want to move on, or do you ...... first?"

Tang Feng interrupted Liang Yuan's words, "I suddenly have a very bad premonition. ”

"What bad premonition?" Liang Yuan asked.

"The front looks flat, but danger may come soon." Tang Feng said calmly.

"I think it's still early, why don't we try to go forward for a while and see how it goes." Han Jiang proposed, Tang Feng could hear that Han Jiang's tone was very different from before, this time he was in a consultative tone, not a commanding tone.

Tang Feng didn't say anything, Han Jiang didn't start the car immediately, Han Jiang seemed to be waiting for Tang Feng's statement, but Tang Feng looked at the broken windshield of the donkey in a daze, and didn't say a word, Han Jiang didn't understand what he was looking at, through the broken windshield, could he see Hanhai Mi City?

"yes, explore the way." Liang Yuan supported Han Jiang's idea.

Tang Feng still didn't say anything, Han Jiang slowly started the car, and the donkey passed through the middle of the two huge mounds and drove into an unknown territory, "Maybe no one has ever stepped into this land for seven hundred years!" Tang Feng thought silently.

Han Jiang's speed was very slow, he looked around cautiously, the sky was even more gloomy, the surrounding scenery could not see a trace of change, and as far as the eye could see, it was still endless yellow sand.

The only thing that changed was the wind, another gust of wind that made the donkey's windows creak. Han Jiang's speed was getting slower and slower, Tang Feng knew that he was hesitating, he didn't drive for long, and Liang Yuan, who was still very confident just now, retreated, "The weather is too bad today, let's wait for the weather to be good tomorrow." ”

Liang Yuan's words gave Han Jiang steps, and Han Jiang stopped the car, "The weather here changes too fast, and it will be difficult to keep the sky clear tomorrow." ”

"Maybe it has something to do with this devil's city." Tang Feng finally spoke.

"What do you mean?" Han Jiang asked rhetorically.

"I have just said that this place is created by nature, and the weather here is changing so rapidly, it is likely to be related to the topography here, and the terrain here has formed a microclimate here, which is strange and changeable." Tang Feng explained.

"So it's just like this here, not anywhere else?" Liang Yuan asked.

"But I don't know how big the area is affected by this microclimate. Have you noticed that since we enter the desert Gobi, the further we go to the northwest, the more changeable the weather becomes. Tang Feng said.

"That's true. From the beginning of Sennohe, strong winds, sandstorms, and changeable weather have been with us. But I think this place is the weirdest. Do you hear anything? Han Jiang suddenly asked.

Tang Feng and Liang Yuan heard a sound that was indescribable in words, was it the wind? It doesn't seem to be, Tang Feng listened attentively, and suddenly, he was stunned, it was music, it was the strange music that he heard in his dreams, sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad, Liang Yuan and Han Jiang also heard it, this melodious music came from nowhere, ethereal, mixed with a strong wind, and gradually surrounded them.

6

Tang Feng felt a little dizzy, the strange music still kept coming, at this time the wind was a little smaller than just now, but the music was closer, Tang Feng suddenly shouted at Han Jiang: "Don't go quickly, what are you waiting for?" ”

Han Jiang, who was confused by this strange music, reacted this time, stepped on the accelerator, turned the front of the car, and rushed towards the two giant mounds, but Han Jiang had just accelerated, but he slammed on the brakes again, and with a piercing brake sound, the car was parked twenty meters away from the giant mound, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were staggered by Han Jiang's sudden brakes.

"Team Han, you're going to hurt me!" Liang Yuan, who was sitting in the back row, shouted.

"Miss, it's not that I'm going to harm you, it's that person who wants to harm us......" Han Jiang's voice was actually trembling.

Tang Feng didn't wait for Han Jiang to remind him, he had already seen a terrifying scene through the broken windshield, and the woman in the mask appeared on the giant mound on the right again.

Liang Yuan also saw it, but Liang Yuan didn't seem to be nervous, but Han Jiang and Tang Feng were shocked, "Why did she appear here again?" Han Jiang rarely spoke with fear.

"Could it be...... Could it be that she really didn't hide the queen? Tang Feng shook his head, "But ...... But she's been dead for nearly a thousand years! Tang Feng muttered to himself.

"I ...... I'm starting to wonder which one is the dream? Which is true? Han Jiang stared ahead, his hands firmly on the steering wheel.

Tang Feng also had a feeling of truth and illusion in his heart, he pinched himself hard, it hurt, it should be real! He saw the masked woman standing quietly on the giant mound like this, holding against them for a full five minutes, and the strange music kept coming, Tang Feng didn't know how she got up? I don't know when she appeared here? Tang Feng stared at the woman wearing the mask with red eyes, he wanted to determine from her body, face, no, it should be the mask to determine if she was the woman he saw in his dream, but Tang Feng didn't see a trace of a smile from the woman's mask.

When Tang Feng was surprised, the woman wearing the mask slowly raised her right hand again, this time, Han Jiang, who had experienced the test of yesterday and the nightmare, reacted super fast, only to see that Han Jiang did not wait for the woman to raise his right hand, he quickly reversed the car, and then slammed the steering wheel, all the way to the east of Devil City.

Han Jiang did not dare to run into the rolling sand dunes in the east, nor did he dare to run into the Devil's City, he was afraid of getting lost in the rolling sand dunes, and he was afraid that the woman wearing a mask would appear on a certain mound again, Han Jiang carefully chose to meet the source left and right in the edge of the sand dunes and the Devil's City, sometimes driving into the sand dunes, sometimes rushing into the Devil's City, Tang Feng and Liang Yuan looked back, where they parked just now, they had fallen into a sea of fire at this moment.

Han Jiang didn't know how long he had been running wildly, and when he came to his senses, Devil City had been left behind by him, but there were endless sand dunes in front of him, and he didn't know where to go next.

Han Jiang saw that there were no pursuers behind him, and slowed down the car, but at this time the weather showed no signs of improving, the sky was even more gloomy, and the wind seemed to be even more violent than just now, but the strange music seemed to be inaudible now.

The wind was constantly mixed with yellow sand and gravel blowing on the window of the donkey, Han Jiang wanted to speed out of this ghost place, but he didn't know where to go, suddenly, a palm-sized gravel hit the window of the back seat with a "snap", the glass was not smashed, but it had fallen apart and crumbled, Liang Yuan screamed.

Han Jiang simply stopped the car, he saw that the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and shouted at Tang Feng, "I think this is another sandstorm, let's go and hide under the car." ”

There was no other way, so the three got out of the car and took cover from the body of the donkey, hiding on the leeward side.

7

The sandstorm lasted for more than half an hour before it gradually subsided, and the desert Gobi, which was restless just now, soon calmed down again, and the haze in the sky also disappeared, revealing the blazing sun again.

The three of them leaned weakly against the donkey's car, "Thanks to the donkey! Han Jiang sighed.

"You know the donkey!" Tang Feng muttered.

"It's your car that needs to be overhauled when you go back." Han Jiang Road.

"Go back? Didn't you keep saying that the donkey can't go back, let's see what we do now? ”

Han Jiang stood up and looked around, surrounded by continuous sand dunes, "I think we should go back to the poplar forest tonight first, and then make plans tomorrow." ”

Liang Yuan agreed, but Tang Feng hesitated, "Go back to the poplar forest?" ”

"What? Are you afraid that the woman in the mask will come to you? Liang Yuan asked rhetorically.

"It's not impossible, yesterday we met the masked woman in the Black Stone, we can completely understand that encounter as an illusion, or a historical time-travel, but today we saw it again in Devil's City, the two places are dozens of kilometers apart, this is ...... How can this be explained? Tang Feng asked rhetorically.

Han Jiang and Liang Yuan were speechless, and Tang Feng continued: "Also, from Heishi to Devil City, we have to pass through Yue'er Spring, we all dreamed of this masked woman last night, and the dreams are so clear, is it ...... Could it be that this woman could not have really appeared in the poplar forest last night? ”

"Tang Feng, you're thinking too much, if this masked woman appeared in the poplar forest last night, why didn't she gently raise her right hand and burn us all to death?" Han Jiang shook his head and said.

"Why did she kill us? Maybe...... Maybe she's just guarding something, she doesn't want our lives! Tang Feng retorted.

"Okay, Tang Feng, I won't fight with you, you said that we won't go back to the poplar forest tonight, where can we go to set up camp?" Han Jiang pointed to the surrounding sand dunes.

Tang Feng looked around helplessly, so he had to nod, "Okay, I agree to go back to the poplar forest." But now we're lost, what's the deal? ”

"It's not bothering me. I estimated that, according to the direction we are in now, the poplar forest of Yue'er Spring should be due south of us. Han Jiang made a preliminary judgment with an electronic compass and a compass.

So, the three of them got into the car again, and Han Jiangda's direction was not wrong, but they still collided in the desert for more than two hours before returning to the poplar forest before dark.

The three of them were exhausted, ate something, didn't even use their sleeping bags, and all slept in the car and clothes.