In Gao Chao's eyes, Xinlan is a mysterious and very kind girl, and she is also a little naïve, so Gao Chao never thought that he would have the opportunity to rely on Xinlan to save himself, but this is the case now.

On that bare stone wall like a glass face, Xinlan began to climb slowly and cautiously upward.

The surface of the stone wall is basically vertical, and it seems that because of the washing of time, it has formed a very smooth feature on this hard surface, so no matter who it is, even if it is a first-class rock climber, when facing such a stone wall, I am afraid that it will show a look of embarrassment.

But Xinlan has no choice, in Xinlan's opinion, the task she needs to complete now has completely changed, from the beginning of the work of the Ninth Bureau to find the ancient tomb, to now has changed too much.

In her heart, there is a vague sense of responsibility, although she doesn't know exactly what this sense of responsibility is, but she is very happy, because from the beginning of blindly obeying orders, now it seems that the order itself is not so important, and the most important thing is her own choice.

What is the most important thing in life? Many people are asking this question, but how many can really answer?

Is it to make money and have fun? Is it self-fulfillment? Is it admired and respected?

Maybe neither.

Isn't the most important thing in life responsibility? Isn't it because you have taken on your due responsibilities and made the people around you happy?

Life is never for yourself, life is for others, only such a life will become more meaningful, isn't it?

Xinlan seems to have found the meaning of her life, although before that, she didn't know and didn't understand, especially her behavior towards Hua Ye, she was completely ignorant.

But now, she finally understands the thoughts and practices of a class of people, and this kind of people are Hua Ye, Gao Chao, or many people who are desperate for a cause that seems to have nothing to do with her.

They're the loveliest people.

Unexpectedly, soon, and smoothly, Xinlan was already close to the area where the sun was shining.

Gao Chao's eyes have been nervously watching Xinlan's every move, for him, this is tantamount to a kind of torment, Gao Chao is a kind of person who doesn't like to owe debts to anyone, he always wants to do more for others, but if someone does something for him, he will have trouble sleeping, because he doesn't like to owe others something, he is a complete independent.

But is that really true? Gao Chao himself didn't know.

Xinlan finally exposed herself to the sun.

The golden scorching sun scorched Xinlan and the stone wall in front of Xinlan, from a distance, Xinlan looked like a ruby inlaid on the surface of black gold, and the red suspender tights on her upper body made her look full of the mature taste of a woman, and there was a charming demeanor.

Beads of sweat were already all over her body, and the temperature was close to forty degrees in her area.

She cautiously raised her left arm, then adjusted her angle and raised her head, aiming at the bursting sun in the sky.

Eventually, she looked ahead of her, and Gao Chao had already understood on the other side that Xinlan had succeeded, and she was looking in the direction of due south.

So Gao Chao gritted his teeth, endured the pain in his leg, and stood up against the wall, he needed to cooperate with Xinlan, he needed to stand in a position about the south, and Xinlan would give him a signal to let him stand in a fixed position.

- When Xinlan successfully walked back to Gao Chao, Gao Chao looked at her a little stupidly.

It is really not easy for an admiration, an admiration for women, to be completely generated from the bottom of a superb heart.

Xinlan didn't notice anything, but came to squat in front of Gao Chao for the first time.

Gao Chao sat there against the stone wall, and the position he was sitting in was the direction of due south where Xinlan looked at the stone wall just now, and just now, Xinlan stood in the center of the real circular patio, proofread Gao Chao's current position, and then roughly measured the angle from the center point to Gao Chao's position.

Now Xinlan squatted down, waiting for Xinlan to tell him this angle, but Xinlan said first: "Brother Gao, how do you feel, your legs are ......"

Xinlan showed a kind of anxiety, this kind of feeling can't be pretended, Gao Chao was a little surprised, although it was just a simple word of concern and greeting, but it made Gao Chao's heart very grateful.

When a person is lonely, he often needs real care; When a person is brilliant, he often needs real indifference.

Gao Chao nodded: "It's okay, my leg may just be cracked, and I just took the antibiotics you gave me, so it shouldn't be a big problem...... He then said: "Xinlan, you did a good job, even if it was me, I might not be able to retreat on the stone wall over there." ”

Xinlan smiled sweetly, I don't know if it was because Gao Chao didn't seem to have any big problems, or because Gao Chao's praise for her made her complacent, all in all, Xinlan smiled and said: "Brother Gao, you haven't seen many of my advantages, take your time in the future." ”

Gao Chao also smiled.

After that, Xinlan reported the data she found to Gao Chao, and Gao Chao determined a coordinate system in the courtyard where they were based based on the data of the position on the stone wall where Xinlan was just now and the position where he was sitting, and then according to the angle formed by the connection between the center of the patio and himself.

This coordinate system is too important, because with it, Gao Chao can use a compass in his heart to lay out every place in the patio, and then find out the approximate location of the place according to the feng shui number of the patio water discharge.

According to superb calculations, the closest position to them is about five or six meters of kun position, because feng shui theory believes that water cannot be released from the ground, so it is generally chosen to release water in the eight stems and four dimensions.

Therefore, in the 15-degree angle of Kunshan, there should be a water outlet.

Xinlan helped Gao Chao to that position, and observed there, but there was no difference from the surroundings, the stone wall was still a stone wall, smooth, hard, and vertical, and the marble slabs on the ground were no different from other places, it still looked so cold and hard.

Xinlan was a little puzzled: "Brother Gao, will there be no drainage system here at all?" ”

Gao Chao didn't answer Xinlan, but took out the pistol on his body from the holster, and then gently hit the stone wall with the handle.

He knocked for a while, and found that the stone wall was very hard and there did not seem to be any mechanism in it.

Then he was not discouraged, but fell to the ground, supported by Xinlan, and began to beat on the marble floor.

"Bang bell", this sound probably indicates that the marble slabs on the ground are very heavy, and it is highly judged that these marble slabs may not be just slabs, but whole marbles, because there is no sound of emptiness.

Skillfully and patiently tapping on each position, suddenly, "knock knock", the voice changed.

Xinlan and Gao Chao were surprised, the two of them glanced at each other, and Gao Chao continued to bang on the surrounding positions, still with the sound of "dong dong dong".

This sound undoubtedly means that the bottom of this marble floor is actually empty.

And they noticed that the sound was located in the gap between the two marbles.

Although these gaps may seem very narrow, there is no doubt that these gaps are gaps after all, and they should all be able to flow between them.

Gao Chao said excitedly: "Xinlan, do you still have water in your kettle?" ”

Xinlan nodded and said, "Yes, give it to you Big Brother Gao." Xinlan wanted to untie her kettle and handed it to Gao Chao.

Gao Chao said: "You keep it for yourself, I have it here." ”

As he spoke, Gao Chao removed his kettle, then unscrewed the lid and very carefully poured out some water on the marble floor.

As a result, the direction of the water turned out to be the location of the gap, and then the water disappeared around the gap.

Not only that, Gao Chao also lit a cigarette, and when he spit out the cigarette in his mouth, the wisps of green smoke were quickly inhaled into the gap in front of them.

Gao Chao's face finally showed a relaxed expression: "Xinlan, we really found it." ”

Xinlan nodded, looking very happy: "Brother Gao, I still have two pieces of plastic explosives in my backpack, let me detonate them." ”

- "Bang", it was the sound of plastic explosives exploding, which was not so loud, because Gao Chao and Xinlan did not dare to use much of the explosives.

Gao Chao felt that the use of explosives in such an environment required great care, because they did not know if the surrounding stone walls could withstand the power of the tremors in the patio, and if they reached a certain strength, it was likely to cause the entire patio to collapse.

But even so, the explosion seemed to have been amplified a lot, at least the eardrums of Gao Chao and Xinlan were temporarily deaf.

The sound waves, which were not so powerful, were amplified several times by the patio, and there was originally a bustling white cloud in the sky above the patio, but it also seemed to be hit by the amplified sound waves of the patio in an instant, and quickly melted into the scorching sky.

Gao Chao and Xinlan helped each other and walked back to the place where the explosives had just been detonated, Xinlan couldn't hold back her joy at first, and almost jumped up.

"Brother Gao, look at it, it's really a passage." Xinlan hugged Gao Chao's arm tightly and said.

In front of them, the entire marble floor had been shattered, while the surrounding marble blocks were largely undamaged, and it seemed that the amount of explosives they had used was very accurate.

Beneath the shattered marble slabs was a square passage, almost vertical, downward, smooth, and with constant gusts of hot air entering the passage.

Gao Chao nodded and said: "This drainage design is very ingenious, it seems that it can not only be used to drain rainwater, but also can be used to exhaust gas, you see, Xinlan, the air blown in from the outside in the patio is basically discharged in this drainage hole, maybe ......"

Gao Chao thought of something again, and continued: "Maybe this place is used for sacrifices, it is a place for the ancients to worship their ancestors, think about it, if the number of people is very large, and they are all gathered in such a narrow place, plus the sacrificial supplies to be burned, and animals and livestock may be slaughtered, then the air quality here may become very poor, but through such a drainage and exhaust device, these problems can be easily solved, so I guess that the surroundings of this patio, This kind of drainage channel should be arranged. ”

Xinlan listened to Gao Chao's words and said: "Yes, Brother Gao, I think our ancestors are really powerful, and they can make such a system, but there are no such elaborate and ingenious designs in many buildings now." ”

Gao Chao smiled helplessly and said: "Yes, the ancients paid attention to the traditional Chinese thought, the unity of heaven and man, that is, nature and human beings to get along harmoniously, to achieve common prosperity, this is a standard principle, but now people, but on the contrary, people feel that heaven and earth are for people, in other words, as long as it is for the comfort of human beings, you can damage heaven and earth, do things that hurt heaven and reason, so whether it is a building now, or many large projects, they do not consider the interests of heaven and earth at all, and they are selfish to the extreme, But they don't understand that there is a close connection between heaven, earth and man, although it seems to damage the interests of heaven and earth, and temporarily let human beings benefit, but soon, this originally harmonious relationship will be broken, and human beings will be punished by the nature of heaven and earth, and many unexpected disasters will occur. ”

Xinlan listened very seriously, she agreed with Gao Chao's statement very much, she nodded and said: "Brother Gao, is it true that many big projects are simply at the cost of damaging the natural environment, so ...... So there will be natural disasters in other places? ”

Gao Chao sighed helplessly and said: "That's the case, there will be major earthquakes in some places, and floods will occur in some places, but these seemingly unrelated disasters and events are often ignored by people, because people now have been blinded by Western science, they only believe that they can see with the naked eye, but they are full of doubts about those things that cannot be seen. Western acupuncture points have such developed medical equipment, they can see through all the organs in the human body, but what, they have never found the qi veins and acupuncture points in the human body, these are absolutely invisible to the naked eye, but who can say that they do not exist? Isn't acupuncture in TCM the best evidence? ”

Xinlan nodded convincingly: "Brother Gao, you're right, there are indeed many things on the human body that people can't see, qi, blood, acupuncture points, these Western doctors can't see, they don't even admit it, but this is really infuriating, why do you have to admit the things left by our ancestors?" Before the birth of Western medicine, our Chinese medicine could already treat almost all diseases, but now, Western medicine is popular in China, and the money earned is like flowing water, but no one believes in the medical acupoints of their own nation, alas, it is really infuriating. ”

Gao Chao smiled and said: "There is nothing good to be angry about, I believe that sooner or later, we Chinese ourselves will be aware of these problems, and at that time, it is also the time when we Chinese are really strong, you know, the great wisdom of the Chinese lies in the fact that we can see the whole through the point, and the whole is to argue, this is the Chinese Zhou Yi philosophy that foreigners do not understand, just as we can study the qi veins and acupuncture points on our bodies, and diverge to the stars in the sky and the veins on the earth, and then through the changes in the celestial phenomena and the earth's veins, Let's talk about the rise and fall of life and death in the world, these are actually the same, and they are all the great wisdom left by our ancestors. ”

Xinlan seemed to want to say something, but Gao Chao smiled and waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's discuss these things later, for now, let's see how to get out of here, now that the passage is also available, it seems that we need a little luck now." ”

- When the wind blows, it brings up countless tiny grains of sand, and they hit Gao Chao's cold face, making Gao Chao feel unrealistic.

It is indeed a little unrealistic, from here, the countless sand dunes in front of them are like ocean waves, but behind them, there is a tall sand mountain that reaches into the sky.

Everything is slim, everything is illusory, Gao Chao and Xinlan are supporting each other, standing in this desert, it seems so drawn and insignificant.

The two men stared blankly into the distance, enduring the blazing sun, and they didn't know how to get out of the desert known as Badain Jarin.

Eventually, they decided to continue their march to the northwest, where they would get closer and closer to the border, and where they could find troops.

As long as there are troops, there is hope for survival.

- The sunset always looks so beautiful, but the sunset in the desert at this time looks so sad, and even has a sense of horror.

Gao Chao and Xinlan two people support each other, have walked for most of the day, they walk in the desert at sunset, fortunately there is a hard shell in the desert here, walking on it is much more labor-saving, Xinlan told Gao Chao in a very weak voice, this is because in the desert of Badain Jarin, there will always be rain, rain will make the loose fine sand surface, form a layer of hard shell, this hard shell, saved many people's lives.

Xinlan is still optimistic, at least she pretends to be optimistic, their current situation has reached the limit.

Gao Chao suddenly stopped his difficult steps, he asked to sit down, and then after the silence, he suddenly said to Xinlan: "Xinlan, I think this place is good, I can wait for you here." ”

Xinlan looked at Gao Chao and asked with some confusion, "Wait for me?" You ......"

Gao Chao said: "My leg is very inconvenient, I'm waiting for you here, you go and find support, I believe you can find someone soon, and then you come back to save me, I think it's better." ”

- In times of despair, people need to make choices, and the choices themselves are desperate.

Xinlan looked at Gao Chao, and suddenly her eyes moistened, of course she understood this kind of rhetoric.

Gao Chao decided to sacrifice himself, because everyone understands that this is Gao Chao saying goodbye in another way.

Xinlan cried: "No, Brother Gao, I won't give up on you, I believe that we will definitely be able to find the troops together, and we will definitely be rescued." ”

Gao Chao said with a smile: "It's certain to be rescued, don't worry, I will hold on, you go, hurry, leave me alone, advance in the desert at night, it will be much faster, give ......" As he spoke, Gao Chao took off his coat, he hoped that Xinlan would take it and the desert at night would become very cold and cold.

Xinlan didn't take the coat, but stood up and shouted at Gao Chao like a stubborn Xiaojie: "I said no, no, no, I want you to stand up and follow me, even if we can't get out, we have to go together!" ”

Gao Chao looked at Xinlan, he really didn't know what to do, how could he run away from this girl?

Just as the two of them looked at each other helplessly, suddenly, from the depths of the sand dunes in front of them, a voice came.

Both Xinlan and Gao Chao noticed the sound and turned their heads to look over there.

In the distance, you can see a burst of sand and dust rising in the setting sun, and the sand and dust finally show its appearance from still.

The voice grew clearer and clearer.