We start from the southern foot of Bogda Peak, along the Brento Sea River and Manas Lake to the south, Bogda Peak is the famous peak of the eastern section of the Tien Shan Mountains, the glacier snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all year round, the silver light flashes, it is called the "Snow Sea", through the southern foot of Bogda Peak, we will enter the Wuerhe mining area in the northwest of the Junggar Basin, through the western Irtysh River Valley and finally to the hinterland Gurbantunggut Desert. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Erzhuang and Meiren'er brother also turned with us at this time, the beginning of this part of the journey, everyone is full of energy, talking and laughing, the man in the hole has been saying that he is Xu Gong, we are too lazy to argue with him, Xu Gong is Xu Gong, anyway, the name is just a code name, we will follow him, but it is too awkward to call Xu Gong, we juniors simply call him Brother Xu, the third uncle let Brother Xu take a bath before leaving, and changed into clean clothes, I wanted to shave him again and cut his hair, but at this time Brother Xu stopped doing it, saying that he was used to this look, and he couldn't change it, and he was uncomfortable, so he didn't move, so the third uncle's buddy left him with this beard and hair, and Brother Xu tied a pigtail on his head with a rubber band at the moment, although it looked a little funny, but compared to the previous appearance in the hole, it is much better now.

Before leaving, the flamboyant old man in Mao'er Temple was still complaining, this obviously said that he was a guide but he was temporarily changed to a madman the day before, and his face was lost, so he made trouble at the entrance of the village for a long time, until the third uncle stuffed a wad of money into his hand in addition to the previous deposit, he reined in and went home stupidly.

According to Brother Xu's words, he remembered that there was an oasis on the way, but he couldn't remember where it was, but there were rivers and lakes on this section of the road, and the road was not difficult to walk, but when we arrived at the Devil's City, the test really came at that time.

According to records, about 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period, here is a huge freshwater lake, the shore of the lake grows luxuriant plants, the water inhabited and bred Urhe stegosaurus, plesiosaurs, dinosaurs, Junggar pterosaurs and other ancient animals, which is why the legend says that when the sky becomes a crimson, there will be a large number of exotic beasts, once this is a paradise where plants and creatures gather, but later with the movement of the earth's crust, geological changes, it was the landform at that time that changed completely.

However, I didn't see the legendary poplar along the way, I remember when I was a child, the teacher once said that Populus euphratica is the only tree species living in the desert, it grows in the extremely arid desert area, as long as the groundwater is not too low, Populus euphratica can grow freely in the desert, so many people walking in the desert rely on columns of fresh or dried poplar to judge whether there is water here or there has been water flowing.

Seeing that we have been walking for a day, even if we are not tired, it is estimated that the camel under us is also tired, this camel carries the equipment for us to go to the tomb, as well as dry food and a few large bags of water, the key is to keep walking, under the scorching sun in the desert, the people are more and more thirsty and confused, so I asked the second uncle if he can take a break before leaving, everyone can drink a few sips of water, anyway, there is a small river not far away, we can add some water before leaving, for use in the depths of the desert.

The second uncle and the third uncle Zhang estimated that they were also tired of walking, so they told everyone to get down from the camel and take a rest, and then instructed the guy to feed the camel something, people said that the camel can store water due to the epiphytic water trap in the stomach, and the nasal cavity is covered with curved tiny airways, when the camel consumes a lot of water, its secretions become dry, forming a dura, when the camel exhales, this dura can absorb water from the lungs, when it inhales, the water stored in the dura is sent to the lungs, and the circulation is endless, so it is thirsty, However, while the water source is still sufficient, the third uncle still wants to be fully prepared.

Even if you really enter the desert when you go forward, there is no longer a supply of fresh water at any time, and you can no longer see some small insects or dryland plants everywhere, although this Gurbantunggut Desert is a semi-fixed desert dominated by sand dunes, and the vegetation coverage rate has reached about half, but, after all, we are going to travel to the depths of the desert, and no one can say what it will look like when we get there, so it is better to prepare something first.

I raised the water bag and began to drink water, the second uncle said that in the desert is actually not suitable to drink so much water at once, so that the dehydration will be worse in the later stage, everyone is resting and resting, so he led the camel and continued to move forward. Finally survived the scorching sun of the desert at noon, it was more comfortable to walk in the evening, the sun on the horizon dyed the whole sky red, but it was surprisingly beautiful, just when everyone was attracted by the beauty of the sky, Brother Xu began to be afraid on the side, he felt that the appearance of this blood-stained sky in the desert was not a good sign, or hurry through the Devil's City that part of the road.

Originally, it was about four and a half days of travel to be shortened to more than three days, day and night, everyone was tired, and when we really entered the scope of the Devil's City, it was already two days later in the evening, facing the endless and vast Gobi, the sky seemed to be torn a big hole, and there was the afterglow of the sun shining through the cracks in this forbidden area of life, which is the place of death in the eyes of people.

I just wanted to jump off the camel and take a break, Brother Xu suddenly said, "I think we should go quickly, it shouldn't be far away", not only me and the fat man and the beautiful brother who were in a hurry, but even the two strong guys under the hands of Er Zhuang and the third uncle of the Zhang family shouted that they couldn't walk, and shouted "Take a break, just take a break", and then said that they would not leave. As soon as we lay down, a strong wind blew, and the yellow sand dyed the whole sky yellow, and we saw that the situation was not right, this was a sign of a sandstorm, so we quickly put on the windproof goggles and masks prepared in advance, and rode on the camel and ran forward.

The yellow sand is raging behind us, every time we run forward, we feel that the yellow sand is just behind to follow a step, tightly pressing, the most terrible thing is that the sky is getting darker and darker, the sand and dust are getting lower and lower, I and the fat man ran in the middle of the team, has staggered out of a few hundred meters, a look, there are several guys behind the guy to clean up the guys, the dust is getting bigger and bigger, rolling up the white bones of the animals on both sides and the weeds and rotten leaves to form a dragon, I am on the camel and the left and right are gesturing, meaning that the third uncle's guy has not yet followed, left and right told me to go first, Then he turned around and went back to pull the third uncle's man forward.

The second uncle and the third uncle walked in the front, at this time people were also tired, and the camels couldn't run, but they were still gritting their teeth and persevering, Brother Xu still let us run forward like crazy, saying that if we don't leave, we will die in this desert forever. We have no other way, against the wind, pull the camel to continue to walk forward, seeing that the yellow sand behind is about to catch up with us, the second and third uncles who walked in front suddenly fell into a big pit with a camel four or five meters deep, fortunately, the sand under the pit played a cushioning role under the body, or this time, I had to fall out of a good way.

The second uncle took a flashlight and shone it into the big pit, not to mention, this place is quite big, we glanced behind us, and saw that the yellow sand was about to sweep to our position, so more than a dozen people agreed, gritted their teeth and all jumped down from the mouth of the big pit, although this big pit can avoid the wind and sand, but as the wind swept over the sand at the entrance of the cave was constantly brought down, we were afraid that this sandstorm had not passed, and we were buried alive directly in the big pit.

The wind howled, the wind and sand blew the mountains outside, the wind still continued to blow the sand at the entrance of the cave in, we observed the surroundings of the hole, there were pits and pits on the wall, and when the sandstorm stopped, we could climb out by stepping on these protrusions and depressions, but first we had to solve the situation of leaking sand from the entrance of the hole, there were several messy wooden sticks in the hole, the fat man pulled out the big bag of tools, and took a knife to open a few small holes in the bag, Then the four corners of the bag were tied to four long broken wooden sticks, and finally propped up, not to mention just to get to the hole, although it was still difficult to stop the sand from falling down in large patches, but it played a role as a buffer, so that the sand would not fall directly on our heads, and it could still hold a part of the sand, plus the small hole in the bag, the air could enter back and forth, although the sand leaked down, but not so that we finally suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen.

I spit out my mouth full of sand, and the fat man and the left and right are not much better, but this left and right, I don't talk all the way, what's the matter, I'm really going to be dumb, I went back and forth several times, and he ignored me, so I put the anger that I had endured all the way to the left and right, and said, "Are you stupid?"

Finally, he glanced left and right, leaned into my ear and said, "Don't you think it's strange along the way?" ”

The more I was talked, the more confused I became, "What's strange?" I asked.

"Did you say that this person who called himself Xu Gong was not kidnapped, but how did he remember the way he went?" Left and right.

"Maybe that's the way he came out," I replied.

"It's even more improbable, he has no dry food and water all over his body, and there are no camels around him, and a person can escape from a completely strange place in the depths of the desert when he has nothing?" Left and right explained.

My brain is slow to react, I was patronizing and listening to some strange things, plus the second uncle and the left and right were all around me, I didn't care about these things at all, but now I have reacted, since the left and right can think of it, then, the shrewd second and third uncles can think of these things, although this strange person who calls himself Xu Gong is sloppy with forgetting not to remember these words, but, with the means of the second uncle and the third uncle, how can he not ask the truth, But now they are so confused and come into the desert, this is the strangest thing.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt afraid, and suddenly had such an idea in my heart, if everything Xu Gong said was true, but in fact, it was not Xu Gong, but it was just instilled by someone in some special way to say so, then there was a group of people who first tied Xu Gong to the place where we were going on the second copper plate, and that means that this group of people either knew everything without copper at all, or knew the secret on the copper sheet, and after reading it, they covered up the secret. In the case of our exclusion of Zuo Zuo (Zuo Zuo knows that he will definitely explain to the left and right) and the second Zhuang beauty (obeying orders and the second uncle), in addition to the left and right and the fat man who have been by my side, there are four suspects left, namely the second uncle, the third uncle of the Zhang family, Yuan Buzhi, and "it".

So if the same group of people kidnapped Xu Gong and then helped him get out, and then left the old man and this Xu Gong as a clue to guide us into the ancient city, then the suspicion of the third uncle of the Zhang family will become bigger, because one is that he doesn't know why he knows the secret of the copper sheet, and the other is that he designed to approach us when he carved the ancient building and then laid out the set of Huayi Hotel, this time it is not difficult for him to arrange these things, but only he knows that the things he knows are not just so many things he explained to us, But there are many more, and it is by no means not obtained by monitoring alone, then there must be a person behind him who helps him, and I guess this person may be Yuan Buzhi or "it", or this Yuan Buzhi is "it".

But the second uncle has been in this industry for so many years, how can people easily monitor their own things without a trace, unless they deliberately let others monitor, with the help of others' hands to accomplish one of their own purposes, from the train left and right to remind me to be careful of the second uncle, maybe the role of the second uncle really exists in reality, but if the second uncle at that time is no longer the real second uncle but someone else, then all this behind may be designed by the second uncle, then what the second uncle said is completely unbelievable, Including the second uncle in the tomb of the king of Xihai County, the second uncle may be Yuan Buzhi or "it" in this way.

However, a lot of things are also hidden from me, I don't dare to assume that if the left and right are the ones who created all the puzzles, so he only knew all this, but because he knew from the words of the left and right that he was avoiding this "it", then the probability that the left and right might be "it" became smaller, so the left and right may have created all this, including Yuan Buzhi of the Yinshan Underground Palace, and the left and right once said that there are not only five copper plates, nor just those that exist in these places, everything is not the end, Then we can also understand that even if we finally arrive at the Yin Mountain Underground Palace, maybe everything is not over yet・・・・・・・・・

I didn't dare to think about it anymore, because I also knew that with my own intelligence, I would never understand the doorway inside, I looked at the familiar and strange people around me, the storm outside continued, tonight, another sleepless night.