Chapter 71: Qanats

When Liu Sandao said that he wanted to find the ice relic, this was actually what I was looking for now, but this thing is thousands of years old, and if there are no good clues, we can't find it at all.

Professor Ma said: "The main thing now is not to find ice relics, but to get out alive." ”

"That's right, ice relics, that's not something that can be found all at once, since we fell into this thing, I feel like I'm in hell, homesick, if I don't come here to look for treasure, maybe I'm in Xi'an and my buddies are eating hot pot......" When the fat man said hot pot, we suddenly felt hungry, after all, we haven't eaten for a day, and the energy needed by the human body can't be replenished a little bit, which is a fatal blow to our body, The fat man kindled our appetite this time.

"I think it's time for us to eat, but this is the ice cave, and there's some food there." Xiaobei seemed to be drooling, Liu Sandao directly took off his mink clothes, and then said to all of us: "Isn't this just food?" This mink is made of cowhide, and now that it is cooked, it still tastes delicious. ”

Sandao is a rough man, he picked up the knife he brought in his hand and began to tear the mink, cut into slender strips, it looks very good, as if it is just like noodles, people can't help but think of the silky sound when they eat noodles, all this seems so bland.

Then we took off all the mink coats we were wearing according to Liu Sandao's method, and then used a knife to cut them one by one.

Finally, the ice water is boiled, the cowhide is soaked in it, and it is eaten like a hot pot.

That night is a night that I will never forget in my life, I never thought that I would eat cowhide, probably because I was too hungry at that time, so that meal was the most delicious, and now no matter what hot pot it is, it can't compare to that meal.

After eating some of the mink clothes we were wearing, we started on the road, the underground palace looked complicated, mainly because of the winding paths, but on top of our heads were a thousand-year-old glacier, and when the glacier drooped, ice blades were formed, and we did not dare to look up, for fear that the knives would fall.

This dungeon is really completely different from before, this is not a tomb at all, but it makes people feel like another world.

And that little girl from Loulan is like a tomb sect, her face is the same as the color of this glacier, white and flawless, with slender calves, and she looks quite beautiful, but I know that she is different from our group.

Perhaps the past thousand years have already given her some special functions, which I don't know yet.

After passing a dungeon, we came to another dungeon similar to a suite, this dungeon is shaped like a rectangle, the ice dungeon where Princess Loulan was born just now is square, but this time this is different, looking at it visually, it seems to be very long, and there is no end in sight.

"What is this?" Liu Sandao suddenly looked down at the things under his feet, we all looked underground, and found that there was a stream flowing on the ground, and the place where this stream came from was the direction where the underground palace came from.

When the fat man saw it, he exclaimed: "It's okay, this is a stream, we have finally found an exit!" ”

The fat man's cry was quickly interrupted by Xiaobei: "No, if it's a stream, we can go out along the direction of the stream, but now we are walking in the opposite direction of the stream, don't you think this is a bit strange?" ”

After Becky finished speaking, we all began to pay attention to this detail, the stream flowed and flowed, and there was no trace. And from our current point of view, the stream is flowing down the slope, and the question now is where does the water of the creek go? Is it the stagnant water we just came into?

"Wait!" Professor Ma seems to have discovered something.

"Teacher Ma, what's going on, let's talk about it."

"Have you ever heard of the qanats handed down from the Western Regions?" When Professor Ma suddenly mentioned the qanats, I wondered what it had to do with the stream.

"Yes, but it has nothing to do with it, does it?" Becky asked.

"Of course it matters, you don't know, the karez is the wisdom of the sages, they diverted the ice and snow melt water from the Kunlun Mountains to the arid place by digging culverts, so that the water source problem will be solved, and an oasis will be created." Professor Ma seems to be very professional in this area, but I wonder if the location we are in now is not an underground palace at all, but a thousand-year-old underground karez culvert?

"That's too smart!" The fat man shouted.

"Look at what is written in this silk book!" Professor Ma is still looking at the silk book and seems to have a good explanation of the situation we are experiencing now.

"You tell us directly, we don't understand Loulan Chinese!" The fat man urged Professor Ma.

Professor Ma began to point out on the silk book, and continued: "These culverts were drained down from Kunlun Mountain by the Loulan people, and there were thousands of such culverts at that time, and these culverts directly diverted the ice and snow meltwater from Kunlun Mountain to various countries in the Western Regions, and the source of the culvert was the source of the ice relics. ”

I asked, "Does that mean we just need to walk up this culvert and get to the source to find the ice relics and restore the memory of this princess?" ”

According to what Professor Ma said from the Loulan Silk Book, I believe that there is such a result.

The fat man said to me anxiously, "Are you thinking too much about bullets?" How could it be so easy to find the ice relics, if it was so easy to find, this princess would have been captured by the enemy thousands of years ago. ”

"I don't care about it for now, anyway, the main task now is to get out from here, and I don't care about the rest." Liu Sandao looked anxious, probably because she didn't want to stay here anymore and began to become irritable.

"Okay, let's go out first!"

Xiaobei whispered: "It turns out that we either fell into some thousand-year abyss, or fell into a huge qanats. ”

Although Xiaobei whispered so much, the elf next to Princess Loulan shouted to Xiaobei: "It's not as simple as you think!" It's not as simple as you think......"

This little elf can speak human words, but we like it very much along the way, and the little wolf brother has been following us closely, and now he rarely speaks, probably telling us too much.

Walked for about an hour.