Sand Sea Devil's Nest 12

Professor Chen shook his hand again and again: "I can't open it, this coffin where Prince Pumo and his wife are buried together is a national treasure, we don't have the conditions now, and the environment is not suitable, once opened, the sealed coffin and the items inside will be destroyed." The purpose of our visit is to submit an assessment report to the superiors, to apply for excavation, or to give due protection to the heritage of these ancient civilizations. Go back and let Aiguo take Chu Jian and them to do a good job of the record, and I will write the report myself. ”

It seems that I didn't have a chance to see what good things were in this coffin, knowing that what the professor said was reasonable, I was still a little disappointed, and I climbed back to the sacrificial room on the upper floor with them.

In order to keep the sacrificial room dry and isolate the water vapor of the holy well, the ancient Pumo people brought live animals into the sacrificial room to slaughter, and then immediately peeled off the animal skins with blood and pasted them on the cracks of the stone gate, while the meat and internal burial of cattle and sheep were cut clean, only the bones flowed, and the stone gate would not be opened again until the next festival. This strange ritual of slaughtering livestock and skinning and deboning, and tying up the corpses on wooden stakes is to maintain the water source of the holy well so that it will never dry up, and the people in the ancient desert believed that the soul of life came from sacred water, which is very close to Darwin's theory of the origin of life to some extent.

It is impossible for us to seal the stone gate with those animal skins, there are no large animals around except for the camels, but the nineteen-peaked camels are extremely precious to us, and we cannot peel the camel skin to seal the door, but only use several layers of tape to stick it.

The archaeological team rested for three days in Xiye City, then set off to the south, and finally entered the sand sea called the "Black Desert" by the locals, where there is no longer a poplar in the desert, and there are no undulating sand mountains, and the sand dunes around are almost the same, like flat steamed buns, boundless, on the ground, to any angle, it is the same scenery, there is no sign of life.

I asked Anlim if he had ever been in this desert before?

An Liman smiled bitterly: "This is the hell of Huangsha, even the old man Hu Da is not willing to come, I, I have only come once, isn't this this this time." If it weren't for your cadres and the white camel favored by Hu Da, I wouldn't have come a hundred times after I died. ”

Complaining is complaining, An Liman is known as a living map in the desert, it is not in vain, his familiarity with the desert, just like a woman fiddling with pots and pans, although he is also the first time in his life to enter this forbidden black desert, but with his two sand fox-like eyes, he can find those sand nests in the shuttle, artemisia and other plants, he is to follow the traces of these plants, as well as his long years of experience in the desert, in order to lead the archaeological team forward.

There is China's largest inland water system in the desert, but many water systems such as the Tarim River have seeped into the sand, and the desert with no grass on the surface may be a turbulent dark river deep underground.

Some plants that grow in the desert survive tenaciously by virtue of the water vapor that rises to the surface of the desert by the underground water veins. In fact, in addition to a small number of plants, there are also many animals here, but most of them come out to forage for food in the cold night.

In the Han Dynasty and earlier, Taklamakan was called the "ancient homeland", when the desertification of this area was not serious, the rivers had not seeped into the ground, there were oases and towns, forts, Buddhist temples, post stations, and countless caravans carrying silk spices and tea to and fro until the Yuan Dynasty, when the famous Italian Marco Polo also passed through here with the caravan to the Central Plains.

When China reached the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed Eurasia, and the war blocked the commercial trade between Europe and the Asian continent.

Coupled with the increasingly serious erosion of the desert and the harsh living environment, the large and small countries in the desert have completely decayed, and the prosperity and glory of the past have been taken away by the gods.

The Black Desert was the first place abandoned by the gods, and the civilization here stopped in the Jin Dynasty, and the legend has it that Hu Da's anger engulfed the pagan city, and to this day, the Black Desert is still lifeless.

On the first day of our departure, we encountered a slight wind and sand, and the sky was slightly yellow, but the wind and sand were not large, and it just shaded the sun, so we could rush during the day.

Shirley Young used the notebook left by the British explorers to discuss the route with Anlimin as he went, and the notebook recorded that after leaving West Night City, those explorers found a place nearby, with a large number of stone graves, and they were going to dig when they returned, so they drew a detailed route in the notebook.

Anlimt's experience and Shirley Yang's notebook, although it cannot be accurately positioned, but in terms of distance and orientation, it has provided us with great help.

At night, Anliman found a convex ground, built a sand wall on the sand dunes, settled the camels, and then lit a fire on the leeward side of the sand dunes to keep warm.

The day was very hard, mainly because of the wind and sand, although the wind was not strong, but it blew people upset, An Liman nagged that it was the wind season, in the black desert there is an average of once every two days of this kind of weather, when there is no wind, the vicious sun will suck up the last drop of water on the traveler's body.

The fat man said: "The hot spot is good, sweating can lose weight, the sun is basking in the sun, but it is also happy, but it is so windy, I can't even talk on the road, I am really depressed." ”

An Liman said what do you know, this is the edge of the Black Desert, and it will take another five days to enter the depths, although I have not been in, but I know some friends who have gone in, and they are all survivors who have walked back from the Black Desert.

The terrible thing about the black desert is not the quicksand that traps people, nor the gold-devouring ants that can gnaw the car clean, nor the black storm, the legend is that there is a dream place in the depths, after people go in, they will see lakes, rivers, beauties, mythical beasts, snow-capped mountains, oases, those thirsty and tired people are naturally running towards those beautiful scenery desperately walking and walking, but until they die of thirst and exhaustion, they can't go. In fact, it was all a trap set by the devil to lure people to die in it. But Hu will bless us, Alahua.

"What they see may be a mirage in the desert, and people who don't know what it is are are really easy to be confused," Shirley Young said. ”

While he was talking, Ye Yixin came over and pulled Shirley Yang aside, and the two of them whispered a few words, Shirley Yang turned his head and said to me, "Let's go behind that sand dune for some business." ”

I knew that it might be Ye Yixin who wanted to go for convenience, but she was too timid to go by herself, so she wanted to drag Shirley Yang to accompany her. He nodded to them and instructed, "Bring a flashlight and a whistle, blow the whistle vigorously if you have something, and go back quickly." ”

Shirley Yang agreed, and walked hand in hand with Ye Yixin behind a sand dune not far away.

The fat man asked me if I still had wine?

I said no, even if you bring a barrel of liquor, you can't stop drinking like this, drink a few sips of hot water and go to bed quickly, if you can't find a water source in five or six days, by then, even the daily drinking water ration for each person will be reduced.

Even if I can't find a dark river in the desert, I have a way to guarantee that everyone can have a minimum amount of drinking water.

But it was a fool's errand, it was cumbersome, but it worked, and I learned the art of survival in the desert when I was a soldier. Without water, it is a dead end in the desert, two-thirds of the human body is water, and losing five percent of the water will cause dehydration.

An Liman initially refused to enter the Black Desert, one of the main reasons is that there is no fresh water in the Black Desert, although there is a dark river underground, but it can't be dug so deep at all, digging down from the roots of the desert grass like Suosuo, three or five meters below, there is only wet sand and salt water, the more you drink, the more thirsty you are.

An Liman also understands this method, I have repeatedly studied the feasibility of this method with him, and privately agreed that when he walks to a place where even the shuttle is not long, he will never take half a step forward, and he agreed.

Those who have received training in the desert survival in the army have learned that the shallower parts of the desert in Xinjiang are mostly salty salt water with a high mineral content, and digging down at the root neck of desert plants can dig wet sand and salt water, and after simple sunlight evaporation and filtration, you can get a small amount of fresh water, although it is small, it is indeed enough to maintain human life.

At this time, the wind and sand were a little stronger, and a sharp whistle came from behind the opposite sand dune, and everyone was startled, and they grabbed the sapper shovel and rifle and rushed to the place of the incident. Fortunately, it is extremely close, only less than two hundred steps, three steps and two steps, and it will be there in an instant.