When we entered, we shouted a few times, but no one answered, and when we turned around, we didn't find anyone.

"Did the government do good and build a shelter in this place for passers-by?" Zheng Tian asked, looking around.

Ulati shook his head: "Urati has never heard of such a thing when he is so old. ”

We went around inside, and found that the space inside the stone house is quite large, and the decoration is also very exquisite, the brick walls around the hall are all glazed glazed brick decorations, and the patterns are basically the vine patterns from West Asia and Central Asia and the peony and lotus patterns from the Central Plains, and the integration of the East and the West is very appropriate.

Looking at the horizontal purlins and wooden pillars, they are all typical Xinjiang style bas-reliefs, and the carved patterns are not only flowers and fruits, but also some strange geometric figures, a bit like the iconic five-pointed star in Satanism, but they are not the same when you look closely. Because according to the doctrinal symbols of Satanism, the pentagram should be in the shape of a sheep in the middle, and in the middle of these bas-reliefs is a snake.

I looked at the vague outline of the snake shape, and something suddenly occurred to me: the shape of this snake is almost the same as the one I saw in the black bamboo ditch! I had seen this snake pattern at the door of the stockade, which was full of masked men, and then again on the fresco of the stone chamber, and this was the third time. Heizhugou and Lop Nur, is there any relationship between the two?

So I asked Urati on the side: "Do you recognize this pattern?" ”

I had asked casually, but I didn't have much hope, but when Urat looked at the patterns, he suddenly became sacred, he crossed his hands over his shoulders, prayed silently, and then said to me excitedly: "This is the totem of the Sagu religion, and this must be the place where the true God has given us refuge." ”

The fat bear muttered: "The preface does not match the afterword, and the messenger of the true God wants to punish us in the front, why does the latter pity us again?" Could this true god be schizophrenic? ”

I felt very strange in my heart, because I had never heard of such a religion as Saguism, and when I asked Professor Wu, he shook his head in confusion.

Since we hadn't taken the true god in Urati's mouth seriously before, we didn't ask much about it, but now that we have talked about it, I simply asked him what this Sagu Sect is all about.

Urati was happy to answer for us, and he told us that this Sagu religion was created by the true god Sagu, and its purpose is to purify the soul and make all people gods. The inhabitants of the desert worship him on behalf of the people and pray for peace.

Before he attained the true fruit, this Sagu True God was once the prince of a country in the Western Regions. Coincidentally, he was close friends with General Xiao Qing from the Central Plains.

At that time, a giant snake suddenly appeared in the desert, endangering the world, many innocent people were killed by this giant snake, and the entire Western Regions was panicked. It was General Xiao Qing and Sagu who joined forces to subdue him, and the story of the two has been a good story since then.

After listening to what Urati said, I suddenly remembered the murals I saw in the stone chamber of Heizhugou, which depicted a Central Plains general and a group of strangely dressed ancestors working together to hunt down a giant snake in the sky, and finally subdued it, which is almost the same story as the story told by Urati.

At first, I thought that this story took place in the ancient Yunnan country in the southwest, but now it seems that it is in the vast Gobi, and the general in the painting is likely to be Xiao Qing himself, but the question is, why did what happened in the desert appear in a tomb mural in Heizhugou in the southwest?

And the story that Urati said can obviously only be heard as a story, and the authenticity needs to be verified, so I turned my head and asked Professor Wu if he had heard this, and Professor Wu shook his head again: "I consulted a lot of historical materials about Lop Nur before coming to the desert, but I didn't find any information related to this Sagu true god.

Ulati laughed and said that there was a rule in their place that only old men over the age of seventy were allowed to talk about the story of the true god Saku, and others were not allowed to touch it at will, otherwise it would be considered a violation of the law. Moreover, Sagu has always been a small and closed sect, and it does not spread to the outside world, and there are only believers in the desert, so it is normal that there is no record in the historical materials.

Urati was very proud when he said this, because he was over 70 years old and belonged to what he called "qualified".

It may be that there are many old sayings, and Urati has told us too many stories and experiences along the way, and we can't tell which ones are true and which ones are false, so it's good to listen to relieve boredom, and you don't have to take it seriously.

The wind was still raging outside, and we didn't know when it would stop, so we spread out and rested in this room, which was empty except for one hall and three small rooms.

Nangong Han walked to one of the small rooms by himself to meditate and rest, Zheng Tianfeixiong and I also followed, and the rest of the people were scattered in the hall and other rooms.

As soon as we entered, Zheng Tian and I were about to take a nap, but the fat bear guy was not honest, he took a fancy to a treasure chest embedded in the wall, and kept tinkering there to get it down.

I felt that something was wrong in my heart, so I said to him, "Fat bear, this is someone else's house, and your behavior is considered stealing, and it is a crime." ”

The fat bear didn't care at all, he raised his hand and said with a big grin: "You see there is no decent furniture here, how can anyone live, it is estimated that the original owner has long returned to the west or moved, so the treasure here should not be in vain." ”

I sighed, and just wanted to talk to Zheng Tian, but I found that this bastard had also gone over to help the fat bear get the treasure chest together. While helping, he said, "Let's divide the baby inside." ”

At this time, my heart was also full of curiosity, and I wanted to see what treasures were in it, but when I saw Nangong Han sitting opposite me, I felt that I had to take care of my own image, so I finally didn't act, and sat in place and stared at it.

The two men tossed and turned there for a quarter of an hour, and when they finally took down and opened the treasure chest that had been attached to the wall, I could reach the elder and ask, "What's in there?" ”

The fat bear shook his head in disappointment: "Damn, nothing!" ”

Zheng Tian was also depressed: "This family moved really cleanly. ”

At this time, Zheng Tian, who was standing by the wall, suddenly sneezed, and then complained: "Where did the wind come from?" ”

Wind? The house was closed, so how could there be wind, and then I heard the fat bear shouting, "There is a small hole in the wall, and the wind from outside is blowing in from here." ”

"The treasure chest of feelings is hung in order to block the outlet! Well, let me take a look at what's going on outside. After Zheng Tian finished speaking, he leaned his head closer and pressed his whole face against the wall, and the next second, I heard him let out a frightened shout.

I immediately got up from the ground and walked over to ask, "What's going on outside?" ”

Zheng Tian retracted his head and pointed to the small hole tremblingly: "You...... See for yourself. ”

I also pressed my face against the wall, and through the small hole, I saw seven or eight dead people hanging from a row of poplar trees outside, and their bodies were swaying from side to side under the push of the wind, which was quite strange.