Chapter 56: Into the Great Rift Valley
He recited words in his mouth, probably some Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, we didn't understand what it meant at all, several people watched him read endlessly, Emma pushed my shoulder on the side: "He's chanting the scriptures, if you don't stop him, he can at least read for a day." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
As soon as the fat man heard this, he immediately stopped: "I said old man, you have been talking alone for so long, and I haven't seen the Buddha take care of you." ”
Da Chun opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Buddha, he has already given us instructions." Then he took the compass from my hand and showed it to everyone. We all came over in confusion, and he said, "Buddha, you have already told us, if you go in this direction, you will definitely be able to get out of the barren sand and survive." ”
Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, if the compass didn't point to the north, could it still be called a compass? If we had relied on the compass, we would have to go north. Strangely, we gathered together and looked at the compass, which kept turning in circles in the box, as if it had been affected by some strong magnetic field. After waiting for a while, the pointer slowly stopped, pointing south.
We were scratching our heads, but we heard the third child point to the distance and say, "Boss, look, there's something there." ”
The desert is extremely empty, a thousand miles at a glance, the direction of the old three fingers officially points to the north arrow pointed out due south, the intersection of yellow sand and blue sky, a black and white belt is just sandwiched between heaven and earth, but it is too far away, and the color is very similar, and it is not clear at all if you don't look carefully.
We hurriedly took out the binoculars, adjusted the focus to see, from the bottom to the top of the yellow, black and white, three-colored mountains, perhaps because of the day, in the thousands of miles of yellow sand, like the dry bones of a giant dragon, lying quietly at the end of the sky, it seems to be suppressing something below. The white dragon above is broken in the middle, but the black mountains below are intact, and these features are also described in the text found in the glass tomb.
If the ancestors of the Li family knew that we found the remaining ancient map because of an accident, and also found the place shown in the picture, it is estimated that they would have to find the person who drew the map below and cut him with a thousand knives. I just want to know now, where is the place we are going to, what is there here, is there any written record in history, if there has never been a record, will we go in and be the same as the people in the glass tomb, will we be inexplicably cut off the head, such a big castle, there will be no record in history?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shiver under this scorching heat. As soon as this feeling arose, it was warmly embraced by Li Guohua, and we went through thousands of difficulties and dangers, it can be said that we died in nine lives, and at the last moment, we finally found a suspected destination.
It is suspected that because there is no favorable evidence to prove that we are right, the GPS locator is still maintained in the position of three days ago, and the north arrow is because of the reason for seeking Buddha in the spring, and there is also a strange phenomenon, actually pointing to the south, a modern map, an ancient map does not explain anything at all.
However, Da Chun and the fat man have said that there are mirages in the barren sand sea, and the wonders that appear often pull people to the abyss of death, are these things we see now real? Coupled with the text deciphered by Gu Tong, what we are looking for is an illusory ancient city that cannot be seen or touched, how to get in?
Then I thought about it, forget it, although there is a mirage in the desert, a few of us are normal, and this mountain Dachun has also mentioned before, there is a legend that there is such a mountain in the barren sand sea, and it is not contrary to the text description deciphered by Gu Tong, as for the illusory ancient city, I will find it first.
Seeing their excited looks, since we see a glimmer of hope, we should also take a good rest and wait until it gets dark before we can set off. The information we have is so small that we don't even know what the place we are looking for, let alone what it is, and even half of the information is only a few days old.
We often say, "Do you think what you think is what you think?" "A lot of things are thought to be how they are, but they are often not the case, and that's where we are.
The illusory ancient city is illusory, even if we really find it, maybe it is a big sand pile buried by yellow sand, or there is no water source in the ancient city at all, there is no treasure expected by the Li family for generations, and what awaits us may only be the same death as in the glass tomb. If we were able to find it, hadn't anyone else been there before? There are only a quarter of these weird drawings in the Li family, and the rest of the others don't have them? For us now, all this is too weird, and there are too many unknowns waiting for us to unravel.
Seeing the scorching sun setting, replaced by a bright moon hanging high, the archaeological team of more than a dozen people set off towards the Tricolor Mountain.
As the saying goes, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, picking stars and tired people, looking at the mountains in front of us, we ran until the second half of the night before coming to the broken mountain pass. In the dark night under the long yellow sand, the black and white mountains rise and fall in the desert, stretching for dozens of miles, and the closer you go, the more you can see it clearly.
It is not so much a large mountain range, but a large black and white stone, the upper white and the lower black, the white part can be seen clearly at night, there is no daytime keel-like majesty, but it is a triangle with a sharp top and a wide bottom, and most of the black part is buried in the sand, and the so-called big mountain pass is just a crack where black and white meet.
The breeze was blowing, walking on the sand, and some white powder would fall in front of her, Emma grabbed a little in the air and put it in front of her nose and sniffed it, telling us that it was lime, and the white mountain tip on it should be limestone. As for the black stone, you have to walk in to find out.
The moonlight shines on the black stone, the surface will glow with a slight green light, the inside of the mountain pass is black and rumbling, except for the unconscious Li Mei, everyone gets off the back of the camel and walks, I remind everyone to pay attention to safety, we are pulling teeth in the tiger's mouth, and if we don't get it, we will be bitten.
The fat man and I walked in front, and Li Guohua's family members were behind, and the team lined up in a column, and they went to the mountain pass in a different way.
This illusory ancient city, there is no written record in history, if it weren't for the other three drawings in that glass tomb, I wouldn't believe that there are such strange things in this world. I looked up at the sky, and then looked at my feet, and couldn't help but sigh in my heart, if this place is used as a cemetery, it can really be regarded as taking advantage of the time and place, if the mountain pass is used as the entrance to the tomb, and people are standing in the middle, facing the seven stars in the north, if any of the kings of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions are buried in it, I will not be surprised at all.
The moon passed in the middle of the sky, and the valley in the north-south direction was even darker, and the five fingers could not be seen, and the group walked forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot, walking and walking, I always felt that something was wrong, as if it had something to do with the big valley in front of me, but I couldn't think of it, and I was a little uneasy in my heart, is there really an illusory ancient city in this valley that doesn't even have a legend? If it really exists, how do we get in? In any case, if we can find the water source smoothly, the lives of Li Mei and the rest of us will be saved.
Since entering this rift, the compass in my hand has not stopped, just like a fan, constantly turning in circles, the mechanical watch in our hands either stopped rotating, or turned in circles quickly, only the GPS in Li Guohua's hand suddenly reacted, there was no concept of time, with intuition, it was almost dawn at this time, and at this time Da Chun led the head camel, but refused to take a step forward, the harder he pulled, the more anxious the camel became, and in the end he simply stopped doing it, Da Chun whistled and shouted, After a long time of no response, the camels finally defeated the desert walker with tenacity and unyielding, and we had to listen for a while.
Before entering the desert, Dachun knew our route, and when choosing camels, they were also very careful, not to mention one in a hundred, at least they were all strong and strong.
It was pitch black all around, the camels were reluctant to go forward, and the members of the archaeological team were also full of fear for the rest of the road.
The second and third are members of the Li family, this trip is mainly entrusted by the Li family, and the unconscious Li Mei is of course also carried by the two of them in turn, I said to them, this place is too evil, let's hurry up and find a place to settle as soon as possible.
The fat man drooled when he looked at the two bottles of wine these days, if he hadn't been worried about drinking too much and being thirsty, he would have been killed by him, knowing that there might be water in it, and even if he was drunk at that time, he didn't have to worry about running out of water to drink, so he hurriedly urged Da Chun to leave quickly.
The camels are the kings who eat the scales, and they don't move, Da Chun is also a little suspicious, and they start chattering, the camels are very sensitive to danger, there must be some demon inside, or we should go back.
Seeing that they were about to go so far, the rest of the people were willing to give up like this, and for a while the team was agitated, Emma said to me: "Mr. Dachun is right, the camel's ability to predict dangers in the desert is indeed very strong, for the sake of safety, it is better to throw a glow stick in first, see it clearly before making plans." ”
I agreed, pulled the fat man and the two along the left and right sides of the valley, one took out a glow stick for lighting, skimmed it and threw it in, the lighting range of the light stick is very limited, and the cold light source is also very weak, only able to illuminate the range of one meter around. The two glow sticks fell to the ground, surrounded by pitch-black stone walls, and the ground was thick yellow sand, and there was not even a single weed, where did the danger come from.