For more than an hour, I listened to the resentful sneer-like signal all the way. I was almost used to the sound in my head. There was a sudden silence in the boat. I'm already feeling a little uncomfortable. I don't know why. Now I heard the same sound again in the darkness around me. I always felt that the sound was inappropriate. That's when I heard. I felt very strange in my heart.

Although it is also possible that the sensation is possible auditory hallucinations. But in this kind of way, it's better not to take it for granted. I zipped it up. Turn on your flashlight. Go behind the stone and take a look.

The stones are very irregular. I don't know what kind of rock it is. It's all mounds. I don't know where these rocks came from. It doesn't grow out of it.

It was pitch black behind the stones. There is a blind spot that the flashlight can't reach. Take a picture of the bypass. But they saw nothing. The gap behind the stone is small. It is unlikely that there is anything hidden. I kicked the stone. Found unstable. And he took another picture all around. Didn't see anything either. Everything was calm. I thought to myself, maybe I really misheard. Shake your head. I walked back. A-Ning asked me what was wrong. I told her it might be a little nervous. Thought there was something there.

Sit back to the campfire to warm up. The two sides were speechless. I leaned against the stone. I just wanted to close my eyes and recuperate. I'm afraid there is something else that we will need help with. But tiredness hit. I quickly got a little dazed. I don't know when I fell asleep.

When you wake up. It's dawn. But it's not very bright yet. It seems to be early in the morning. By this time the wind had completely stopped. I heard Tashi's voice. Get up and take a look. And I saw that they all came in. It seems that the camp outside has moved in. Tents and bonfires were erected all around. The Caucasians have been moved to tents. A-Ning was still resting in his sleeping bag on the side. Someone was busy all around.

I have an extra blanket on me. I don't know who built it for me. I struggled to get up. Yawned. Look around. First look. I was drawn to the scenery of the wind-eroded rocks around me. I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

During the day, the view of Devil's Town is extremely wide. The surrounding aeolian rocks are much more spectacular than they look at night. Huge rocks that have risen from them stand like pyramids all around us. Those rocks that looked black at night. Now it has manifested various strange forms. With the infinite vastness of the Gobi. This spectacular feeling. Words can't describe it.

This is not the appearance of an adult Yadan. If it goes through another million years of wind and sand. How spectacular should the scenery be?

I looked at it in a daze for a moment. I came back to my senses. Notice the people around you. They were hauling things out of the shipwreck on the mound. Last night's mound was much taller than I could see. Nails and rope were punched on it. Easy to climb. Also made a hanging basket. Someone excavated on it. Wu Laosi answered and sorted out below. Stuff is hoisted straight down from the hanging basket. The lord Dolma and her daughter-in-law cooked breakfast and butter tea. She saw me wake up. I made a gesture for me to eat. I went over and had a bowl of tea. Took a loaf of bread. While eating, he walked up to Wu Laosi and asked them what they were doing.

Wu Laosi heard that he was an insider. Recruit Jude for the exam. I kind of like it. He nodded when he saw me coming. Say to me that the Caucasians are more seriously wounded. The team doctor was still examining the wound in his abdomen. There are signs of infection. So maybe the team has to go back and reorganize and then make plans. They don't want to go back empty-handed. This shipwreck is also a big discovery. They want to record it. Take something out and report it to the company.

I sat down next to him. I looked at the shipwreck overhead. It's huge! It doesn't feel that big at night. It looks like the ship is a regular merchant ship. The head was probably exposed after the mound had collapsed before. Racked in mid-air. The bracket has been given for support underneath.

He looked down at what they had cleaned out of it. Each of those clay pots was the size of a flush toilet. Surprisingly, none of them were broken. It seems that the process of sinking the ship is very slow. The jar has a pattern unique to the Western Regions. Some are black sè patterns. Some are similar to words. None of them are Han Chinese things. I asked what it was. Wu Laosi shook his head and said that no one knew. The culture of the Western Regions is very special. Very mysterious. And the survival is quite scarce. The history of the Western Regions is more than 5,000 years. So many ancient cities. They were all buried in the yellow sand of the Gobi. In the past Hoh Xil and Taklamakan . In ancient times, it was called the Western Wilderness. The population is very sparsely distributed. It's too hard to study right now.

"But these ancient pottery have a long history. Generally, our trade in the Western Regions is porcelain. These clay pots are a product of the time when pottery was at its peak. It should be before the Tang Dynasty. I don't know if it was shipped out of the Central Plains to the Western Regions. Or the Western Regions shipped out to the Arab world. This area should already be the territory of the Western Mother Kingdom. I don't know if it has anything to do with the Western Queen Mother. Another man with glasses next to him said.

Wu Laosi nodded in agreement. "I also feel like it's very likely," he said. You see. He pointed to the pattern on a clay pot. It was a bird pattern. "This is one of the totems of the legendary Queen Mother of the West. Three bluebirds. Of course. It is not excluded that people from other countries will also use it. Because at that time, the Western Queen Mother Kingdom was still the center of the jīng god in the Western Regions. Because of its weirdness and mystery. Even if it is no longer as strong as the Zhou period. Other nations still revere the magic of the legend of the Queen Mother of the West. and all of them will come to the court. Or to show worship in form. ”

I'm not interested in it at all. These belong to the category of archaeology. So he interrupted them. He asked, "And what's in this jar?" It shouldn't be empty. That's a waste. ”

The mouth of the can is sealed. It is sealed with a special kind of mud. Green. Black and black. It's kind of like the kind of mud seal on a wine jar. I sniffed. A bit spicy. It feels familiar. Moved. The jar is a bit of a portion. Surely there's something in there. Not liquid, though.

I asked them why they didn't open it? Wu Laosi said that they tried not to destroy these intact ones. We'll see if there's any breakage later. You don't have to open it. In case the contents are more precious. Doesn't stand oxidation. This saves a bit. Prevent archaeological waste.

I just laughed. The heart said that the third uncle, they don't have this set. If the fat man is definitely in it, he will smash it open.

But we respect other people's ways of doing things. I finished my last bite of bread. Just tell him that you should do it yourself. When the time comes, find the jar. Call me when you open it. With that, I walked to the Caucasian tent. Go and see how he is.

When I walked into the tent, I found it cramped. Take a closer look. Only to find that the other two bodies had also been moved. Lie on one side covered with an insulating cloth. The team doctor didn't sleep a night. The eyelids were noticeably darker. Caucasians are being taken for temperature.

I asked him about the situation. And he told me about it. Say that people are confused. Talking nonsense. But there is a sè than before. Asphyxia and hypoxia should be fine. It's just this weird wound on the stomach...... He showed me two bodies. There are also the same wounds. One on the chest. One on the inner thighs. There was a small amount of blood. But there are no holes in the coat. I don't know how it came about.

I walked over to the Caucasians. His face was pale. Sweating all over his head. But the respirator is no longer used. Apparently it is indeed stable. I saw his lips move. As if to say something. I listened closely. Not Chinese. It seems to be in English.

"What is he talking about?" I asked the team doctor. My English is not very good. It's okay to talk about business. I can't do it when I hear nonsense.

The team doctor shook his head. Said that he couldn't hear clearly. His English is also not good. But after consciousness was somewhat restored. The Caucasians have been saying this all the time.

I leaned over. I wanted to hear it closer. Still won't work. I had to give up. Get out of the tent. I want to go back and get some sleep again. Anyway, it's none of my business here.

It's time to sleep. Lie down and ponder what happened last night. Soon squinted. I don't know how long I slept. Suddenly, I heard someone call my name. I sat up in a daze. I saw that there were a lot of people surrounded by Wu Laosi. He's waving at me. There seems to be something.

I got up and walked over. One approached them. I just smelled a very strange smell. Say it stinks or not. But when I smell it, I feel spicy in my throat. It's like inhaling sulfuric acid gas. It's very uncomfortable. I covered my nose and leaned over to look. Seeing that it turned out that they had found several broken jars. Jars are being smashed. Wu Laosi asked me to come and see.

More than a dozen jars have been smashed. Wu Laosi was pouring out the contents one by one. The first thing I saw was mud crumbs. It was full of black sè dry mud shavings. Among these mud debris is a kind of earth ball. It's all mud. Very disgusting. Oddly enough. I saw a lot of black hair sticking to the surface of these balls. It looks very wrong. There are already more than a dozen dirt balls piled up on the side. I don't know what it is. I thought to myself, could it be the watermelon of the year? Now it's all turned to stone?

I got closer and took a closer look. I felt suffocated. I found out. The mud balls turned out to be human heads wrapped in dry mud. Those black hairs. It turned out to be the hair of a human head.