First Encounters with Storm

I couldn't believe that the bulge across the wall was actually an animal's tooth, and I raised my foot and kicked it, and it felt as if I had kicked it on a hard stone, and my ankle was sore.

"Back off." Gao Moli said, pulling out the copper pith sword from his back, still holding the wolf's eye flashlight in one hand, and swinging the sword in the other.

The cold light flashed in the air, and only a crisp "click" sound was heard, and a white stone staircase was suddenly disconnected. The broken stone staircase rolled down a slight slope in front of me.

"Let's light the light!" As I spoke, I crouched down and looked at its incision. The palm-thick enamel was a hollow with air-dried pulp attached to it, and it looked like it was an animal tooth.

The other end of this tooth has been ground extremely round and blunt, which should be caused by long-term gnawing and wear.

I stood up and looked around the underground space of the flat funnel, and saw that there was also a row of merged sharp teeth directly opposite the stone staircase, but they had been smoothed out by the mud and sand, and I exclaimed, "So this must be the mouth of some kind of giant beast?" Damn, how fucking big is this behemoth? ”

The underground space is like a small storage warehouse, and Gao Moli and I are standing at the bottom of the sky, and the space is still very spacious.

Gao Moli glanced at the mural again, and before he could speak, there was a loud "poof" sound on the ground.

Followed by the black cow's scolding voice: ", the temple is broken and the threshold is so high, this sincerity is a tripping cow!" ”

As he spoke, the black bull had already gotten up, walked to the center of the temple in a few steps, and shouted: "If I knew it was so dark here, I should have taken something to illuminate!" Cough! Old Sue! Little brother! Are you two there? If you don't squeak, brother, I'm going to go out for barbecue! ”

I shouted at the entrance of the cave, "You're in other people's mouths now, and you're not thinking about eating barbecue!" ”

The black bull came and asked puzzledly, "Hey! How can there be a secret passage? What are you two doing in there? By the way, Lao Su, who did you just say? ”

"You might have a hard time believing it, come down and see for yourself!"

As he spoke, the black bull climbed down.

The three of them were crowded at the bottom of the cave, and the space seemed a little cramped. I told him what we had found earlier, and the black bull didn't pay attention to the warning on the wall, but picked up the thick arm of the teeth on the ground and said in surprise, "Damn! I remember the textbook saying that the largest mammal in the world is a whale! Looking at the posture of this thing, it should be no smaller than a whale! ”

"Finally you've learned once!" Just as we were about to be poor, I suddenly wondered why the black cow came to look for us in the broken temple, and asked, "By the way, aren't you learning to dance?" Why did you remember to come to us? ”

Only then did the black bull come to his senses and said, "Suddenly there is a strong wind blowing above! Everyone hid in the mud house, and when I looked, I didn't see you two. I thought, the little brother is in the temple, you must be in the place where there is a little brother! No, I'm coming to you? ”

After that, the black bull urged: "Hurry up, the wind will be stronger later, we will have to be blown to the sky!" ”

There was nothing else to study in the cave, and the three of us climbed up the megatooth steps. No sooner had the head peeked out of the hole than a cold wind wrapped in sand swept through the side of the statue.

The three of them wrapped their clothes tightly, went out of the temple gate, and plunged headlong into the storm.

I don't know when the headlights went out, and the beam of the wolf's eye flashlight was full of wild sand flying all over the sky, covering the sky and dusk!

The sand scraped against our faces, stinging like a knife, we put our collars up and shrunk our necks into the neckline as best we could, our eyes blurred into a line, barely able to discern the direction.

The black bull pointed to me and Gao Moli in the direction of his left hand, signaling the location of the Tsuchiya, and we struggled forward against the storm.

As I passed by the camel ring, I didn't hear a single hunch, and I squinted in surprise and turned my head to see that the camels had already fallen down, leaving a raised hump on the low wall, and those humps looked like hills standing proudly in the storm.

From the skull temple to the earthen house, the distance was only 100 meters, but we walked for three to five minutes against the wind.

Approaching the earthen house, the wind is partially blocked by the wall, and it seems that there is a lot, at least you can stand with your waist straight.

The door of the earthen house was blocked by poplar branches from the inside, and the black cow bit the neckline with a girl, pulled out a gap, and climbed in first, and Gao Moli and I also followed into the earthen house.

The earthen house is the size of half a basketball court, and there are several thick wooden pillars in the middle, supporting the beams, and it looks quite sturdy. There were two small bonfires in the earthen house, and the flames were not very vigorous, and it seemed that they had just been lit for a short time. All the people sat on the ground, looking at us curiously.

I sat on the ground with the black bull, panting and shaking the grit on my body, and Gao Moli walked towards the fire like no one.

The Uighur guide hurriedly climbed to the edge of the door and blocked the entrance with poplar branches on the side. muttered: "I said don't run around!" If you can come back with such a big wind and sand, you have to thank Allah! ”

The black bull spat out the sand in his mouth and said, "I said Avanti old man, you don't have to say a word!" Isn't your Allah yet familiar with our strange faces, and we don't need to bow down and thank him for his old man? ”

"Huh! The young man ......" The Uyghur guide, who was called Avanti by the black bull, shook his head, and after filling the gap, he crossed his arms over his chest and bowed reverently outside the door, as if praying.

"Old Su, where have you been?" Gu Yixin got up from the fire and walked over to reach out to pull me.

I was pulled up, shook the dust off my trouser legs, and said, "There's a temple over there, and there's something in there, so you can go and take a look when the wind stops!" ”

Gu Yixin didn't ask more, but nodded and led me to the fire.

I had barely taken two steps before I was stopped by Avanti, who asked, "Young man, with his thin face with a black beard! Did you say you went to that temple? I warned you a long time ago! I can't go to that temple! It's a place where the devil is enshrined! If you see it, you're going to have bad luck and be buried in the sand! ”

Hei Niu sneered, and the count fell: "You don't expect us to be good!" How can there be a devil in the broken tower temple, just a headless four-clawed beast clay sculpture! If a few of our brothers are unlucky and buried in the sand, you will have to be buried with ......."

Before the words fell, the gap that Avanti had just filled was suddenly opened by the wind, and a large pile of sand poured in from the gap, just burying the black bull and Avanti's calves.

Everyone was taken aback by the sudden situation, and Alai and a few timid men in black even screamed.

The black bull was even more frightened, and his face changed, and he hurriedly followed Avanti's previous appearance, crossed his arms on his chest, and said to himself: "Old man Anda, Tong Yan is unscrupulous, I will say it casually, you must not be serious!" ”