The ruins were discovered by a herder who was grazing in an oasis on the edge of the desert. Because the pen was not tight, a few sheep ran out.

The herdsman was hired, and he was afraid that his boss would pursue him, so he had to take the risk and plunge into the desert to find sheep.

As a result, the sheep was not found, but they waited for a sandstorm.

At dusk, the wind roared and the yellow sand was rising, and the herdsmen were anxious to hide everywhere, because once they were buried in the quicksand, they could not find their bones even if they died.

The herdsmen were running around against the wind and sand, and it was at this moment that he noticed the remnants of a towering building standing not far away.

The herdsman didn't care much, so he plunged headlong into the leeward part of the building, and shivered for the night.

The next morning, when the wind stopped and the sand fell, the herders got up. He found that the building he was sheltering from the wind was a square earthen platform, which did not look like a pagoda or a watchtower, and there were more remnants of rammed earth ruins around it, which clearly looked like an ancient city.

The herdsman is not an archaeologist, he has no interest in the ancient city, he does not carry much water and food, he just wants to go back, he does not want to get lost and die in the desert.

The herdsmen climbed to the top of the earthen platform, hoping to see from a high place and tell the direction. As he was climbing, his hand touched a hard crunch in the rammed earth, and with a great effort, he pulled it out of the dirt wall.

But he screamed in fright from the thing, and almost fell halfway down his head.

Because what he was holding in his hand at this time was a human skull.

The herdsman was so frightened that he threw the skeleton away, and then he noticed that there was a little light in the sun shining in the holes of the torn earth wall.

He thought for a moment and put his hand inside. This time he pulled out a square and golden seal, engraved with a few words he didn't recognize.

He slipped the seal into his pocket and continued to climb towards the platform.

When he stood on top of the earthen platform, he realized that it was actually in the very center of the city, and what excited him even more was that there seemed to be a touch of green in the far southwest.

The herdsmen walked in this direction for another three days and two nights in the sand dunes before finally touching a small oasis.

He rested for a long time in the small oasis, and then groped in the same direction, and then came to a town for no apparent reason.

As soon as he walked to the street of the town, he fell to the ground because he was tired and hungry, and was rushed to the health center by the locals.

The ruins of the ancient city were thus discovered.

But the strange thing is that after the herdsman reported the location, the Yecheng County Cultural Relics Bureau sent personnel to go deep into the desert to search, but there was no trace of the ancient city.

The desert has a single topography and the sand dunes are changing rapidly, so if you don't have modern positioning tools, it's normal to find yourself and turn around and not find it.

The county cultural relics bureau didn't pay much attention to it, but simply made a summary of the matter and submitted it.

The cultural research institute of the autonomous region determined that the seal was engraved with the words "X Night King Seal".

It happened that a young researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was collecting information about the ancient city of the Western Regions, and when he saw a new report, he glanced at it. But as soon as he looked at it, he felt that there was a big article in it.

Because judging from the content and location of the seal, this may be the ruins of the Western Night King City that suddenly disappeared back then!

The ancient country of the Western Night, also known as the country of drifting sand, is one of the ancient countries of the Western Regions. The country was small, but it suddenly became strong during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and successively annexed three or four small city-states such as Puli, Deruo, and Yinai, and the king called himself the "King of the Western Night".

But the strange thing is that not long after the establishment of the Anxi Protectorate, the Western Night Kingdom suddenly shrank, giving up the few cities it had captured, and slowly shrinking to the royal city of Huqian Valley as a whole.

Later, the country inexplicably disappeared from the annals.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the warlord Sheng Shicai ruled Xinjiang, and Dihua had organized an archaeological team to investigate the Zhaoqili Temple outside Kuqa City......

"Yonghui...... year, all protect firewood...... Vassi Night ...... The Hive Nation is also ...... Surrounded the city of Gandhar, thousands of people in the city, and there was no trace of ...... overnight"

From the intermittent records, it can be inferred that during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Chai Zhewei, the protector of Anxi, led troops to attack the Huqian Valley, the king city of the Western Night, probably because he thought it was a demonic country.

But the strange thing is that after the siege of the city, more than a few thousand people in the city disappeared without a trace overnight.

Since then, the West Night Kingdom and the people of the West Night Country have suddenly disappeared from the historical books, as if the world has evaporated.

The young researcher who discovered the report was named Fei Tang, and he immediately wrote a report and applied to organize an archaeological team to go to Yecheng County to find the Xiye Ancient Site.

According to the negotiation between the two units, it was decided to jointly recommend the members of the expedition team, and Professor Zhao thought of Wen Mushan from the Qiling Provincial Institute of Archaeology, and he called Director Xue and suggested that Wen Mushan be recommended to join the delegation and serve as the representative of the Cultural Relics Bureau of the West Night Archaeological Team.

Wen Mushan left Qiling Province in this way, he first went to Beijing to meet the archaeological team, then took a train to Urumqi, and from Urumqi to Yecheng County. After discussion in the team, they suggested that Yecheng should be the main station of the archaeological team.

What is surprising is that Wen Mushan, who has always been high-minded and arrogant and silent in Qiling, actually hit it off at first sight with Fei Tang, a vigorous academic newcomer from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

I don't know if it was influenced by Fei Tang, or finally got out of the haze of being suppressed, Wen Mushan also became lively and talkative, changing his previous image of cold noodles.

After the unfortunate incident later, the police learned from the reserve team members who stayed in Yecheng, and they all said in unison that the relationship between the two people was not only harmonious, but simply inseparable.

Every morning when they opened their eyes, the two of them ran to chat together.

Of course, sometimes when the night chat gets excited, they either talk all night or simply lie in the same bed and sleep.

They really couldn't imagine that Wen Mushan would show a fierce light and directly kill Fei Tang.

"I must have been fascinated by something." They said.

"It's a wicked place, I advised them before I went." The same is true of the herders who first discovered the site.

At that time, Wen Mushan and Fei Tang first settled their team in Yecheng, deployed logistics and liaison work, and soon went to visit the herdsman who had discovered the suspected ruins of Xiye.

"I can't remember the way to that place, I can only remember the way back."

"It's okay, don't rush, you speak slowly."

"Are you going to find that place?"

"Yes."

"Yes...... Don't you go? That place is very wicked. ”

"Why?" Wen Mushan moved, "Could it be that something happened to you?" ”

"I didn't ...... There is no ......" the herdsman hesitated, not wanting to continue the topic, "I tell you, the route I came back ......"