How long did the camel run in the tunnel? It seems endless, is this a graveyard? But he has dug so many graves since he was a child, and he has never seen such a spacious tomb passage. When you light the torch, you can't illuminate the walls on both sides, and you fall into an endless dark world......

The tomb robbers got out of their camels, and a dim light flickered around them, and some strange sound rose in their ears.

"Quiet."

Xiaomu asked everyone not to make noise and observe all the changes with bated breath.

The voice is like an old monk chanting sutras, but the speed of speech is extremely fast and powerful, and various musical instruments are played at the same time. In the light and shadow, more than a dozen dancers, wearing ancient Western costumes, wearing leather hats, stepping on leather boots, stretching their slender limbs, and dancing to the accompaniment of ancient music.

The grave robbers gathered together in panic, each pulling out his weapons, from revolvers to three-eyed guns to maces, small wood was the backbone, and no one was allowed to act rashly. Those who violate the order will be killed.

It's like watching a play – two children are clustered around the dancers, a little boy and a little girl, all dressed up in gorgeous costumes. Wails rang out one after another, as if there were countless heads of people watching. Dancing like a shaman or shaman, swaying violently to the music and chanting words like an ancient incantation.

The wizards grabbed the two children, held them high, and threw them into the darkness.

In an instant, the light and shadow were dazzling. Xiao Mu saw an open surface of water, and the smoke and waves were vast, like the sea. Waterfowl flutter in the sky, lush reeds grow at the water's edge, and yellow sand farther away.

This is the 2,000-year-old Lop Nur.

Two children fell into the water. The lake was turbulent and the desert was stormy. The waves swept into the shape of a long dragon and glowed a dazzling red light from the bottom of the lake.

In addition to being shocked, Xiao Mu had a feeling that this was the sacrifice ceremony of boys and girls that took place in Loulan two thousand years ago.

The boy and the girl screamed at the same time, like a sharp knife piercing the ear, and one of the little grave robbers even had a pierced eardrum and bled out.

The light and shadow were extinguished in the screams, the music stopped abruptly, the great lake turned into a desert, Loulan was in ruins, and everything was as dead as a tomb......

After a brief period of darkness, the fire was lit up again.

Xiao Mu rubbed his eyes, and a group of people appeared on the opposite side, dressed in modern clothes, also leading camels, led by a Westerner, wearing glasses and leather jackets. He was Sven Heding.

The lights illuminated the small county king of Ordos in turn, Wang Jiawei, a professor at Peking University, and Li Longsheng.

On one side are the tomb robbers in Luoyang, Henan, and on the other side is the Sino-Swiss joint archaeological team.

Perhaps for the first time, the tomb robbers came face to face with the archaeological team.

Both sides are a little confused, in the dark world around them, each thinks each other is an illusion, or is it a hallucination in their own minds?

It wasn't until the camels snorted at each other that they were reminded that they were both from the same dimension.

"Grave robbers!"

Li Longsheng was the first to shout warning, and then took a quick grab from the hump.

Bullets rang out through the catacombs, spinning and rushing towards Kogi's eyebrows.

Kogi is immortal.

When Li Longsheng exclaimed, Xiao Mu was already lying on the ground. The gunshots rang out, and the grave robbers fired all the firearms in their hands. The first to fall was the armed escort of the archaeological team. The empty and dark tomb passages, unobstructed, either lying on the ground or hiding behind camels.

Bullets struck the towering hump, and the poor animals let out a scream and ran in agony. The blood of camels and people flew everywhere, and the curses in Beijing, Xinjiang, Henan, Mongolian, and Swedish were constantly ......

Xiaomu was trampled on the back by a frenzied camel and almost broke his ribs. In the torches rolling all over the ground, he saw that the situation was not good, his side was full of raw melons and eggs, and he had experience in beating people to death, but he was a bubble of dirt when he beat the living, and several people had been shot and fell to the ground. Another offspring was shot in the head, and his brain burst directly into Xiao Mu's eyes.

"!"

With a black word, the Luoyang tomb robbers abandoned all their camels and fled deeper into the underground palace in a hurry.

"Poor Kou Mo Chase!"

The little county king understands that if you kill a thousand enemies and lose 800 yourself, the archaeological team is not a policeman, so don't get to the end of the same thing.

Everyone re-lit the torches. The ground was littered with dead bodies, and the wounded were wailing. There were less than ten of them left, and the camels were dead, wounded, and fled, and a few camel drivers had anointed the soles of their feet.

Two injured tomb robbers were captured, and after a brief interrogation, it was confirmed that it was Xiao Mu who brought out the team from Luoyang Tomb Robbery Village. Both of them were seriously injured and did not see that they would live long, so they were left to die with a humming and chirping. Li Longsheng pulled out his revolver and fired two shots at their temples, ending the pain once and for all.

"Longsheng!" Professor Wang Jiawei crawled out from under the camel carcass, his glasses were shattered, and his forehead was still bleeding, "The dignified Dr. Cambridge is such a brutal person?" ”

"No, late life is the benevolence of a gentleman. If they are allowed to lie here, it will be a great cruelty. Li Longsheng wiped the blood from his face and loaded the revolver, "Professor, please be kind to women." ”

Professor Wang took a half step back and hid behind his student, Xiao Junwang.

"Lee, you're doing the right thing."

Sven Hedin held a fast gun and patted Li Longsheng on the back, and sure enough, it was the same passerby.

"The rabbit dies and the fox is sad. We're going to do the same with them. ”

Li Longsheng sat beside the pile of human and camel corpses, and always felt that this place was not only an underground palace, but also a dark and boundless wilderness, so he could not touch the walls and borders.

Another female voice sounded in her ears, it was the song that Yingka saw off behind her when she left Luo Bu Nao'er in the morning.

Sven Hedin looked terrified, could he have heard the same in Lop Nur twenty years ago?

Inkah?

Li Longsheng called her name loudly and even knelt down to ask for forgiveness. He understood, why did the camel get lost, why couldn't he find the ancient city of Loulan? Because this song is a curse of the Loulan people, leading the camel team into the hell of Lop Nur.

When he was crazy, the ancient song of Loulan became louder and louder, as if Yingka was pouring out in his ear.

and flickering light and shadow, like chasing light on the drama of civilization, Shakespeare or Ibsen's stage? King Lear or A Doll's House?

He saw a face.

The stage was surrounded by corpses of dead in the fire, tomb robbers, archaeologists, and camels......

That face calmly appeared in the midst of death, with the characteristics of the Tocharians, an Indo-European race, a girl from Guloulan two thousand years ago. Your hair is like ebony, your skin is better than snow, and your eyes are like starlight, forcing you to be unable to escape, so you can only bow down.

Inka's face.

As if it was still before dawn, under the starlight of the North Star and the Great Winter Triangle, Luo Bu Naoer was on the water bobby, she was like a spirit made of some animal, snuggling up to Li Longsheng's chest, drawing one circle after another with her fingernails......

The girl in the light and shadow, facing the sky, was wearing a robe from the Western Regions, with colorful stones hanging from her hair, a necklace of animal bones hanging on her chest, and bare feet stained with mud. She had a bow tied to her chest, and she pulled out the arrows in the deerskin pouch and pulled it into a full moon, which happened to be aimed at Li Longsheng's eyebrows.

She was looking at him.

Li Longsheng lay on the ground in horror and grabbed a marching bag as cover, for fear that he would be pierced through his head by a sharp arrow in the next second.

However, Inka turned the direction of the arrow, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the light and shadow, and a black steed appeared. There was a well-dressed man from the Han Dynasty, wearing a ring-headed sword at his waist, and suddenly fell from his horse. His forehead was bleeding, and at his feet was Lop Nur Daze. The blue lake is at high tide, the reeds are swaying in the wind, the birds are startling, and even the sun smells like it was 2,000 years ago.

Yingka lifted the Han man who had fallen from his horse and stared at the scholar-like face. She bandaged his wounds and gave him water in a leather bag. She asked in the ancient Loulan language of 2,000 years ago, and her tone was gentle.

He replied in the language of the Han Dynasty: "Han envoys, fake Sima, Ban Chao." ”

Hearing this conversation, Li Longsheng muttered to himself: "Ban Chao! ”

The little king dragged him next to him, so as not to be discovered by Yingka and Ban Chao.

No, the people in the light and shadow can't see them. Li Longsheng boldly walked in front of Yingka, even if she waved her hands in front of her, she completely ignored it, and only cared about talking to the Han people who came from afar.

This is not a real thing, it's a phantom...... It's more like a movie projected on the big screen. It's just that the movies at that time were all black and white and silent, and this scene is a color sound film in the future.

Inka is like a movie star, performing vividly in front of the camera. Or is she the Guloulan people of 2,000 years ago?

She helped the Han Ban Chao onto the horse, and he gave her a Hetian jade pendant, and she returned the multicolored stones in her hair to him.

Ban Chao recited aloud: "The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost." The so-called Iraqi people are on the water side. Tracing back to it, the road is obstructive and long. Tracing from it, it is like being in the middle of the water. ”

Professors Li Longsheng, Xiaojunwang, and Wang Jiawei naturally understand that this poem "Pu Jia" is from "The Book of Songs: Qin Feng".

The beautiful girl Yingka on the bank of Daze in Lop Nur is like a beautiful woman on the water side, and it is also like the beautiful scenery of a mirage, so that the big hero Ban Chao will say goodbye and haunt his dreams......

But that's just the beginning of the story.