Sand Sea Devil's Nest 16

I knew that the posture of the poisonous snake to attack was to lean up, and then the snake's head flicked forward, biting the prey with its fangs, and my neck and face were all exposed to its attack, and there was no way to avoid it, and it was too late to block it.

I was about to close my eyes and wait for death, when suddenly a white light "clicked", and the dark valley was illuminated, and the strange snake had already pounced on my neck, and was startled by the dazzling white light halfway through, and actually slipped off my shoulder.

All this happened in a second, I didn't wait for the snake to land, waved the sapper shovel in my hand and smashed it, and slapped the snake's head to a thin slap, and a lot of inky black juice flowed out of the broken snake head, I hurriedly took a few steps back, and secretly screamed a fluke, the snake's poison is so good, if it is bitten, the snake venom will spread all over the blood of the whole body in an instant, and there will be death or life.

Raise your eyes, it turned out that the life-saving white light came from the flash of Shirley Yang's camera, she has always been inseparable from the camera, taking pictures as she goes, I can't imagine that my life was saved by the flash of the camera in her hand, thanks to her quick response, otherwise my old Hu would have gone to see Hu Da by now.

But now is not the time to say thanks, who knows if there are still those two strange snakes in this valley, and if there is anything to talk about out of the mountain pass, he waved his hand and beckoned everyone to hurry up.

At this time, the camels may have felt that there were no poisonous snakes in front of them, and they all calmed down from their restless emotions, and Chu Jian, Sa Dipeng and others carried the bodies of Ye Yixin, Professor Chen, and Hao Aiguo who had fainted on their hunks.

Anliman whistled to guide the caravan forward, and the group hurried out of the dark valley of Zagrama by the light of cold smoke and flashlights.

Until he walked to the open space outside the mountain pass, he stopped, and put Hao Aiguo's body on the ground, the sky was not yet bright, the stars and the moon were not light, the moment before dawn was so dark, Hao Aiguo still maintained the frightened expression when he died, the pair of godless eyes behind the glasses had not been closed, and the whole body was blue, under the illumination of the flashlight, it added a bit of misery and weirdness.

Professor Chen was agitated by the cold wind blowing from the mountain pass, sobered up, struggled to pounce on Hao Aiguo's corpse and wept silently, I helped the professor up, he could not be resurrected after death, and wanted to persuade him to mourn, but the words came to his mouth but could not speak.

I have been with Hao Aiguo for almost a month, and I usually like to jokingly call him "old antique", and I like his straightforward and fast-talking character, but today I am ......, and I can't help but feel sour when I think of this, how can I persuade others.

The rest of the people also wept, and at this time, a dark red gap opened in the distant sky, and the sun was finally coming out, and we couldn't help but look to the east.

The light slowly turned rose, blood red, and finally turned into ten thousand golden rays, and the arc of the sun was revealed, and at this moment, the boundless sand walrus was turned into gold melted in the furnace of God.

In this golden molten desert, a huge city is displayed in front of everyone, countless broken walls, bricks, wood, earth and stone buildings, countless towers and enemy towers in the city, the most prominent is a black stone tower that has been tilted, quietly towering in the city.

Exactly like the scene in the black-and-white photograph in Shirley Yang's hand, two thousand years later, the remains of the exquisite ancient city really still exist in the deepest part of the desert.

The scale of this exquisite city is enough to live 50,000 or 60,000 people, and famous cities such as Loulan in those days, in their heyday, were only 10,000 or 20,000 residents and more than 3,000 troops.

The city has largely been ruined, buried in the desert for more than a thousand years, some parts are difficult to distinguish between sand dunes and fortresses, and most of the towers have collapsed and weathered.

There is a huge magnetic field here, it is difficult for airplanes and other tools to fly in the sky, and it is located in the heart of the desert, it is estimated that few people can find this place, I don't know how many explorers and lost people have come to this legendary ancient city before us, the only thing that can be confirmed is that 99% of them will never return to their homeland.

Professor Chen helped Hao Aiguo's body lying on the ground, pointed to the Exquisite Ancient City tremblingly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Look at it...... Haven't you always wanted to see this mysterious ancient city...... Open your eyes and see, we've finally found it. ”

My heart is not good, the old man is too sad, is he delirious? hurriedly pulled Professor Chen away from Hao Aiguo: "Professor, Teacher Hao has left, let him rest in peace." It's a pity that he didn't see this miraculously preserved ancient city in the end, and his wish is still up to you to fulfill, so you must cheer up. ”

Shirley Yang and a few students also came to convince them, so I handed over the professor to them, feeling that I could not go away with Hao Aiguo's death, and I was grateful to Shirley Yang, so I said to Shirley Yang: "I will not thank you for saving my life just now, I owe you a life...... But one yard is one yard, we have reached the end of the essence, according to the previous contract, 20,000 beauties. ”

As soon as the fat man heard about the money, he hurried over and added: "20,000 for one person, a total of 40,000 Meizi, settled in cash." ”

Shirley glanced at the two of us, bit her lip and said, "Don't worry, there is no shortage of money, and I will give it to you as soon as I go back." ”

I thought to myself that the matter of mentioning money just now was really inappropriate, and at that time, my heart was like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, and I said the wrong thing without choosing to speak, so it was better to quickly divert the words, but I didn't know what to say, so I stammered and said to him: "That...... City...... It's not small......"

Shirley Yang stared at my face and said, "After all these years of contact, I see that both of you are very skilled and have extraordinary experiences, and I didn't expect you to know money, it seems that my first impression of you is not wrong." I advise you, there are many precious things in life besides money. ”

I had nothing to say, and the fat man said: "Miss Yang, you live under the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America, and your father is a Wall Street giant, I think you must not have used food stamps for dinner, and you must not have experienced food shortages when you were a child, so you don't understand the environment in which we live, and you are not qualified to comment on our values." And don't educate us about life, the poor don't live, and the poor live just to survive. Anyway, if I tell you rich people, you can't understand these truths. I really can't help it today, if you don't like to hear it, even if I don't say it, we have found the Essence City now, what should we do next, you just ask. ”

The fat man spoke confidently at first, but when he said that he remembered that Shirley Yang was the shopkeeper's worker, he was worried that she would not give her money if she was in a hurry, and the conversation changed to coolie work again.

I said to her, "Teacher Hao's business...... I've done my best, I'm sorry. ”

Shirley Yang nodded at me, no longer ignored the fat man, took out the kettle to feed Professor Chen and Ye Yixin to drink water, Professor Chen was stimulated by Hao Aiguo's death, and drank some water before gradually getting better, everyone discussed a few words, and decided to bury Hao Aiguo in the desert of the mountain pass, his lifelong pursuit is to study the culture of the Western Regions, buried here, and always accompany this mysterious ancient city, presumably he must also hope that we will do this.

We dug a deep pit in the yellow sand, rolled up his body with a blanket, buried it on the spot, and finally I shoveled a sapper down and planted it in front of his grave, which can be regarded as leaving a tombstone for Hao Aiguo.

The remaining eight people stood in silence in front of Hao Aiguo's grave for a long time before leaving.

The deceased is gone, we still have to save the living, we must immediately go into the city to find a water source, otherwise the second person buried in the desert is Ye Yixin, who suffers from severe dehydration.

At that moment, everyone packed up their equipment, and prepared to set off for the city, and finally arrived at their destination, hoping that nothing would go wrong, and if anyone had an accident, even if I earned this money, how could I spend it.

Seeing that everyone was almost ready, I asked Shirley Yang if he could go?

When the departure was imminent, Shirley Yang was a little excited, and her body trembled slightly, but she couldn't tell whether she was afraid, nervous, or excited, so she took out a cross and prayed in a low voice:

The LORD is my shepherd, and I will not lack, and he has made me lie on the green meadows, and he has led me by the quiet river, and he has revived my soul. Guide me in the path of righteousness in his name, and though I walk in the shadows of the valley of death, I will not fear any devil, for thou art with me, and thy rod and thy rod are comforting me, and thou hast set a feast for me before my enemies, and thou hast anointed my head with oil, and hast filled me with a cup of blessing, and mercy and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the temple of the LORD forever, Amen.

Then he calmly said to us, "Let's go." ”