Sand Sea Devil's Nest 14

"Magnetic Mountain?" In the past two days, my mechanical watch has either stopped, or it has been going fast and slow, I thought it was a cheap watch with poor quality, and it broke down in the desert, could it be that we are near those two magnetic mountains?

An Liman also remembered that he had heard that in the hinterland of the Black Desert, there were two sacred mountains of Zagrama, one red and one white, which were said to be the two sacred mountains where the ancestors were buried.

Shirley Yang said: "If there are really two such mountains in the desert, then the Zidu Dark River may be underground, intercepted by the Magnetic Mountain, the distance from the ground is too deep, so we can't find it, I think, we should not focus on finding the traces of the Dark River, if the legend and the British explorer are right, the Magnetic Mountain should be nearby, Mr. Hu, tonight you will use your Tianxing Feng Shui skills again, don't forget, we said before, find the exquisite ancient city, the reward is doubled." ”

I didn't have the confidence to find the Essence City from the beginning, and when she said this, I had to try it at night, and if I could find the Nazagrama Mountain, my reward would be increased to 20,000 beyoko, and if we couldn't find it, we would have to go home.

To be honest, I can't tell if I'm looking forward to finding the Exquisite Ancient City, after listening to the story of the Exquisite Queen, a mysterious and bewitching image lingers in my mind, in the depths of the desert, it seems that there is an invisible magic that attracts me, I don't know if Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, and those expeditions that have never returned, they all feel the same way as me.

It was a very long day, and I wished I could knock out the sun with my gun, and dig the sand pit very deep, but I couldn't feel the coolness.

Although the pit was supported with a thick canvas, the person was hiding in the shadows, and his body was lying in the sand nest, still feeling as if he was being put in an oven, and Ye Yixin, who had a thin body, may have been confused by the sun, and fell asleep and talked nonsense.

Everyone was worried that she was having a high fever, so they touched her forehead with their hands, it was as hot as sand, and they couldn't tell if they had a high fever again, and no matter how they pushed her, she didn't wake up.

We still had some water, enough for about five days, and there were two bags of yogurt soup left, which were left for the last moment, and there was nothing reluctant at this time, so I took out one bag and asked Shirley Yang to feed her a few sips and give her some medicine.

After Ye Yixin drank the medicine, he gradually quieted down, but he was still unconscious, probably suffering from acute dehydration, which is troublesome, I told Professor Chen and others about the situation facing the archaeological team now.

It's nothing more than two roads, one is to leave tonight and go back, on the way back, in the last few days, you have to eat camel meat, drink salty sand wozi water, and open the 11th, even if you do this, you can't guarantee the safety of Ye Yixin's life.

The other way is to bite the bullet and continue to look for the Essence City, if there is a water source in the city, her little life will be picked up.

Professor Chen said that we are facing great difficulties, although the archaeological cause requires dedication, but Ye Yixin is so young, we have to be responsible for her life, although the first road is safe, but there is not enough water, the way back will be very difficult. The second road is more adventurous, but we have come to the vicinity of Zagrama, and we are sixty percent sure that we will find the essence, these ancient cities should have underground water veins, but two thousand years have passed, and it is not known whether the water veins have dried up and diverted. Where to go from now on, let's all share our opinions.

The fat man first said: "My waist circumference has lost two full laps, if we go to the depths of the desert again, you will simply call me a thin man in the future, I propose, do not stop for a moment, as soon as the sun sets, we will go back, maybe we can go back and have a small half life left." ”

Hao Aiguo and Sadipeng are more stable, and they are also in favor of going back.

In contrast, there are more people who think that although the method of finding the Exquisite City is risky, it is worth trying, after all, everyone has paid such a great hardship and price, and it is not easy to get to the present, I really don't want to give up my efforts, and I also hope to find clear water in the ruins of the ancient city, save Ye Yixin's life, drink salty sand wozi water on the way back, and people who are healthy are also reluctant to do it, not to mention that she is so sick, and walking back is equivalent to pronouncing her death sentence.

Shirley Yang, Chu Jian, and Professor Shirley and I all have this point of view, except for Ye Yixin, who is unconscious, only An Liman is left and the old man does not express his position, and everyone's eyes are focused on his face.

If his point is to go back, then we are just four against four, but Anliman is the guide, and his decision in this matter is very weighty.

I said to An Liman old man: "Old man, you have to think about it before you say it, your words are related to Ye Yixin's life, what do you think we should do now?" ”

An Liman held a cigarette pouch, squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and said: "I, of course, listen to Hu Da's will, there is only one sun in the sky, and there is only one almighty true god in the world, Hu will guide us." ”

I pointed to the sky: "Then you should hurry up and ask, what did the old man Hu Da say?" ”

An Liman knocked the old cigarette pouch, put it back into his waist, took off the tattered blanket, began to pray with a reverent face, turned his palms inward, and recited the verses of the Quran with his palms inward, facing his face, the expression on his face was pious and solemn, not at all like the cunning appearance of the philistine on weekdays.

The more he waited, the more he couldn't finish reading, and the fat man waited anxiously, so he asked, "I said old man, is there any end?" ”

An Liman opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Hu Dama, he has already given us a revelation." After that, he took out a five-cent coin and showed it to everyone, one side of the word was to move forward, and the other side of the painting was to return the way it came, and asked Professor Chen, the oldest here, to throw it into the sky, and the result of it falling was Hu Da's will.

Everyone couldn't cry or laugh, dare Hu Da to convey his will like this? Professor Chan took the coin and tossed it high into the air, and everyone looked up at the coin, the sun was shining, but they saw the coin fall from the sky and stand up and stick into the sand.

Even if it is thrown 100,000 times, it may not be such a coincidence, An Liman shook his head again and again, his face was full of frustration, forgetting that this is the black desert abandoned by Hu Da, how could Hu Da show us the way.

We were scratching our heads in amazement when we heard Shirley Young point to the distance and exclaim, "God, is that the Ragzama Mountain?" ”

The desert is extremely empty, thousands of miles in sight, I saw the direction of her finger, facing the direction where Professor Chen tossed the coin, and at the end of the world, there was a faint black line, but it was far away, and it was not clear at all if you didn't look carefully.

We hurriedly took out the binoculars and adjusted the focus to see, a black mountain range, like a stationary black dragon in the yellow sand, cut off from the mountain, and a mountain pass in the middle, these characteristics are consistent with the British explorer's notes.

Last year, Shirley Yang's father, with an expedition team, relied on these clues to find the exquisite ancient city, I wonder if they have ever seen this sacred mountain, and if they have been here, then what have they encountered? What keeps them gone?

Thinking of this, I dared to feel a chill under the scorching sun, but this feeling was quickly diluted by the euphoric atmosphere, and we traveled long distances to die for a lifetime, and finally found the door to enter the exquisite ancient country at the last moment.

However, Anliman once said that there is a dream land in the Black Desert, where mirages often appear, and those wonders are all illusions that lead people to the abyss of death.

First of all, the illusions in the desert are all produced by the refraction of light, those landscapes are strange, most of them are landscapes that do not exist in the desert, and the black mountains, which have been mentioned more than once, should be absolutely real.

Since it is not far from the exquisite ancient city, wait until it gets dark, you can set off, but the information we have is very limited, and most of them are inferences and some related legends collected, the only reliable evidence is a vague black and white photo, whether you can find the exquisite ancient city, and even whether there is such an ancient city in the world is difficult to say, maybe everything is spread by some people, and legends often come like this.

On the Korean battlefield, MacArthur once said, "At first, we thought we knew everything, but then we found out that the truth was that we didn't know anything." "I seem to feel that way now.

Have the ruins of the royal city not been buried by the yellow sand again? Can you find a water source in the city? Is the tomb where the Queen of Perfection is buried in the city? Or is it somewhere else? Is there really a mountain of treasure in the city? What exactly is that Yokai Queen? Will she still pose a threat to outsiders when she dies? Did Shirley Yang's father and others really die in the exquisite ancient city? Can their remains be found? What did the foreign explorers encounter in the city? For us, all this is still unknown.

Sand Sea Devil's Nest 15

In the evening, the archaeological team set out for Zagrama.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, looks at the direction, and goes until the second half of the night before coming to the mountain pass, when the moonlight is like water, the desert is like a silent sea, in the middle of this sea of sand, the Zagrama Mountain is undulating, the whole body is black stones, the closer you look, the more eye-catching.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a mountain, but two oversized black stones, both of which are about a few dozen kilometers in diameter, only a shallow back is exposed in the sea of sand, and the larger part is buried in the ground, perhaps below, the two boulders themselves are connected, and the mountain pass may be nothing more than a crack in the boulder.

This black stone contains magnets, and although the average content is not high, it is enough to affect the precision equipment that determines the bearing, and we also feel that the metal objects on our bodies gradually become heavy.

The moonlight did not reflect at all on the black stone, and the mountain pass was black and longdong, except for the unconscious Ye Yixin, all the people got off the camel's back and walked, I remind everyone to put all the tricks on the spot, and walk in the mouth of this devil, absolutely careless.

An Liman and I were in front, after the fat man Chu Jian broke off, Shirley Yang and others took care of Ye Yixin in the middle, and the team lined up in a column and slowly entered the valley.

This mountain was regarded as a sacred mountain by the ancients, and the legend of burying these two ancestors is mostly a myth and legend, but from the perspective of feng shui, it can really be regarded as an exhaustive situation, swallowing everything, the black mountain, is the two black dragons that check the gates, the mountain can bury the ancestors is empty, if the mountain consequence really has the mausoleum of the exquisite queen, it is not surprising at all.

Taklamakan is the world's second largest mobile desert, and after complete desertification, the whole of the desert is gradually moving southward, and only then is the sacred mountain that was originally buried deep in the yellow sand re-exposed.

The moon passes in the middle of the sky, the valley in the north-south direction is even more dark and the hands are not visible, we are deep and shallow to move forward, the more we go forward, the more uneasy the heart, out of the valley, can we really find the exquisite ancient city? Found the ancient city, is there a water source in the city? The most worrying thing is Ye Yixin's condition, her acute dehydration must be treated with a large amount of clean cold salt water, if she can't find a water source within three days, her fate will be thrown into the desert.

Our watches had long since stopped, and we did not know how long it had been walking, but our intuition estimated that it would be almost dawn in a few moments, when the camels' breathing suddenly became heavy and their mood was visibly restless.

An Liman old man hurriedly whistled and drank, and used all his efforts to calm down the group of camels, his nineteen camels are all strong and strong male camels, and they have walked in the desert for so many days, and this situation has never occurred.

It was already dark all around, and the trouble of these camels increased the fear in the hearts of the team members, Shirley Yang was worried that Ye Yixin would be thrown off by the camels, so he hurriedly hugged her off the camel with Hao Aiguo.

I beckoned the fat man to come over, let him work harder, and carry Ye Yixin on his back first, this valley is weird and tight, it is not a place to stay for a long time, we must not delay, go out as soon as possible.

The fat man is quite happy, firstly, Ye Yixin does not have much weight, since he entered the desert, the sun is exposed to the lack of water, and he is even more skinny, and it is not a bad thing to carry a big beautiful girl, he carried Ye Yixin on his back like a child, and urged An Liman in front of him to go quickly.

However, no matter how An Liman drove it, those camels refused to take half a step forward, and the old man of An Liman also began to be suspicious, and began to chant again, I am afraid that Hu Da will not let us go forward again, so hurry back.

Seeing that they were about to go out of the valley, how could the rest of the people retreat the way they came, and for a moment the team was in a mess, and Shirley Yang said to me: "Isn't there something in front of me, which is so frightened that the camels refuse to move forward, first throw a cold smoke and fire over to take a photo, and then make a reason after seeing it clearly." ”

I said yes in front of me, took out a cold smoke for lighting, lit it up and threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front of me, with dark rocks on both sides, thick yellow sand on the ground, and no grass in the empty mountains, so there was nothing unusual.

At that moment I walked a few steps forward and threw a second light firework, and in the distance there was a man sitting on the ground, and we walked over to look, and saw that the man was wearing a white robe, with a sand turban on his head, and a backpack on his back, motionless, and it turned out to be a dead man.

Everyone was taken aback, it was not strange to encounter a dead person or a dried corpse in the desert, but this corpse was different, the deceased was a man, with a turban covering his mouth, only two eyes were exposed, staring at the sky, not blinking, perhaps dying too quickly, too late to close his eyes.

It wouldn't be long before he died, maybe within a few days, and his exposed skin was only slightly dry, and the most strange thing was that his flesh was blue, glowing blue under the light of the fireworks.

A few people wanted to come around and watch, but they were blocked by me, this person's death was too weird, don't get close, Chu Jian suddenly shouted: "Brother Hu, look, there is another dead corpse here." ”

My scalp is a little numb, two dead bodies in a row, will there be more? A few cold fireworks were thrown out casually, illuminating the surroundings, and sure enough, there were more than two corpses, and on the ground on the whole side, there were four male corpses lying horizontally and vertically.

These dead men were dressed in the same way, and they died in the same way, they all stared at each other in horror, and they died strangely. There were also a few Soviet-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.

I pulled out the sapper shovel as a weapon for self-defense, walked over and picked up one of them and saw that the bullet was loaded, fucking weird, who are these people? In Xinjiang, some poachers use foreign Remington, or the five or six styles made from the army, how can there be Soviet-made AKs? Could they be the tomb robbers?

I opened one of the backpacks again, there were a lot of military yellow explosives marked in Russian, it is estimated that these arms have flowed into Xinjiang from Afghanistan, and it is not strange that these tomb robbers bought them to blow up the ancient tombs in the desert, but how did these guys armed to the teeth die in this valley for no apparent reason?

I picked up the turban on the face of the man sitting on the ground with the barrel of my gun, and I saw that he had a big mouth, as if he was crying out desperately before he died, I didn't want to see more, no matter what, it was best to get out of the valley of this grave mountain as soon as possible. The explosives might be useful later, so I grabbed my backpack and prepared to let everyone go.

At this time, Hao Aiguo walked out of the team: "It doesn't matter if these people are tomb robbers or not, we can't let them be bent here, carry them out of the valley and bury them." As soon as I saw the people in the wilderness, I thought of the people who had been sent to the earth kiln with me, and those comrades died pitifully, and there was not even a broken straw mat to roll the corpse, alas, I could not see these ......" he chattered as he moved the corpse of the man sitting on the ground.

I was really anxious at this time, and yelled to stop him: "You stinky nerd, you don't know what to fuck or do, don't touch these dead people!" ”

But it was too late, from the mouth of the male corpse, a strange snake suddenly sprang out, the scales on the snake's body were shining, and there was a black flesh crown on the top of its head, about thirty centimeters long.

Hao Aiguo's eyes are not good, even if his eyes are good, he can't dodge with his reaction, just in this moment of lightning, I am eager to save people, I don't have time to think about it, I picked up the sapper shovel in my hand and chopped it up, cutting the snake in two.

Hao Aiguo sat on the ground in fright, his whole body trembled, and he smiled at me reluctantly: "It's too ...... It's too dangerous, thanks to ......"

As soon as he said half of the words, the severed half of the snake's head on the ground bounced up suddenly, its speed was just like a fast arrow off the string, and it bit Hao Aiguo's neck with one bite.

Hao Aiguo's face froze, there were a few grunts in his throat, he wanted to speak but couldn't speak, his skin instantly turned dark blue, he sat motionless in place, and died.

Now everyone was stunned, Professor Chen's eyes were black and fainted to the ground, I didn't have time to feel sorry for Hao Aiguo, I suddenly felt a cold on the back of my neck, and looked sideways, the same strange snake swam up to my shoulder at some point, spitting out the letter, the muscles of the whole body contracted back slightly, opened the snake's mouth and arched the front body, and was about to bite me, this strange snake's movements are too fast, and it can't be avoided at such a close distance.

Only the fat man in the team can shoot, but he is carrying Ye Yixin on his back, and he is not holding a gun in his hand, this change is really sudden, and the rest of the people are unprepared, I feel like a basin of ice water has been poured in my heart, damn it, I can't imagine that my old Hu will die here today, and I will never see the morning sun again.