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The next day, the wind was still blowing unhurriedly, and when they set off, Gu Tong, Emma and Li Guohua were muttering and discussing something, and turned back to me and said, we have to speed up, these tomb robbers can find such a secret tomb in the desert, they have already set off four or five days in advance, maybe they will pass by the place we are looking for, and when the time comes, they will be the first to be preempted, it will not be good.

I casually dealt with a few words, turned my head and made a color to the fat man, and the fat man understood, quietly approached Dachun, and slowed down his walking. I don't want to do such a stupid thing, although I have received tens of thousands of beautiful children from you, but I will not rush up knowing that it is a death, and everyone else has made plastic explosives, maybe they have brought some heavy weapons, if this really happens, it will become a narrow road encounter, just the few powerless people of the archaeological team, plus a Li Mei who fell into a coma, if you want to avoid death and injury, it is simply a fool's dream.

But then again, this desert is full of roads, you can go anywhere, it's not easy to run into it, it's just a coincidence that we can run into this place, maybe those guys are here for this weird glass cemetery, and it's still unknown if they took the contents and left.

Walking in the desert for more than ten days, Li Guohua's GPS tracker may have been damaged by the sun, the coordinates on it have stayed in one place, and have not moved for several days, we can only rely on the compass in our hands to indicate the direction, more than ten days of time to go farther and farther, and have never found the Tarim River and the Peacock River, the tributary of the Dark River, the underground dark river, as the name suggests, is a hidden river hidden underground, if you want to find it, you must have full desert survival experience. The only thing we can count on in this sea of barren sand is Dachun, the more he is looking for it, the more anxious he is, the more anxious he is, the more he can't find it, and in the end he simply spreads his hands, no rut, it seems that the Buddha's test for us has begun again.

When people are sleepy and tired, no one can walk. Later, the wind stopped in the past few days, and the sun was shining extremely hot, so we rested during the day and hurried at night, and the water was almost planned to be used these days, and the kettle was getting worse and worse, and if we could not find water and food, we would have to slaughter camels.

Seeing that the whole team had chapped lips and was extremely tired, I was about to have a double image in front of my eyes, not to mention the intellectuals of the archaeological team, and seeing that the temperature of the ground was getting higher and higher as the sun rose, I found a slightly lower place to dig a pit, and put on a canvas to rest in place.

Due to the loss of accurate GPS navigation, the only thing we could count on was the compass and Dachun, Li Guohua and I took the compass and the map to find Dachun and Emma and discuss the route of travel.

Emma said: "Mr. Hu, Mr. Dachun, according to the drawings of Mr. Li's house, we entered this barren sand sea, it should not be far from the destination this time, I and Gu Tong have studied it in the past few days, this place seems to be an illusory place, you can see but can't touch, some of the words we found in Qucheng, Gu Tong also made a simple translation, in this sea of death, there is a huge illusory ancient city, from the outside there are castles, pagodas and other buildings, and the outside city is no different, you can see but can't touch, just like the moon in the mirror. ”

"Illusory city? And the stupa? "When I was a child, I heard the story of fairies and ghosts, the ancients believed that only fairyland can be seen and touched, and only some people with special abilities can be seen, but since the human landing on the moon, these fairies and ghosts are self-defeating, and modern science has once again proved that there is no fairyland in this world, and there is no Jade Emperor living in the sky. In the same way, the holy place in Buddhism, the Western Heavens, is also something conceived by human beings.

Gu Tong and Emma are both experts in the study of ancient history, especially the civilization of the Western Regions, listening to their tone, they have never heard of the existence of any illusory ancient cities in this place before.

Li Guohua said: "If this illusory ancient city really exists in this desert, the tributaries of the Tarim River may pass under this city, according to our footsteps, we have been getting closer and closer to the destination in the past few days, although there is no GPS accurate positioning, but the general direction should not be wrong." Mr. Hu, tonight I hope you will use the celestial phenomena again to help us determine the location, and if we can find a place, your reward will be doubled at that time, I said to do it. ”

To be honest, from the very beginning I didn't have much confidence in finding things on ancient maps, it wasn't a matter of ability, it was purely because the drawings were too sloppy, even I, an engineer who was a halfway monk, had hand-drawn sketches that were more detailed than this, and with the geological changes over the past thousands of years, many things had long since ceased to exist. For the sake of 20,000 US dollars, let's try it tonight, if we can see one, two, three, and find the place painted on this ghost map, we will have 20,000 US dollars more, and if we can't find it, we will have to go home.

However, my own heart is also very entangled, the previous black sandstorm made me stay by my side for many years lost the phoenix egg, but in the glass tomb, I learned that the phoenix egg is not a blessed and safe beast at all, but a murderous beast that kills invisibly, and I always feel that there is a knot in my heart that has not been solved.

I don't know if the fat man thinks the same way as me, or if he understands this, he won't even be able to sleep.

I decided on the next step, and I just waited until the evening to see the stars, and the wait was always long, and the scorching sun made me irritable. I dug a deep sand pit, but I couldn't feel a trace of coolness. A thin layer of canvas, it seems that it has no effect at all, it still feels like it is roasted on the fire, Li Mei, who originally had a stomach ache for several days because of menstruation, and has improved slightly after resting in Qucheng for a few days, has a thick layer of gauze wrapped around her hands, because the wound is relatively deep, coupled with the bad weather, the wound on Li Mei's wrist seems to be a little suppurated, and she has been asleep, and the temperature of her body and sand is about the same, and she can't tell whether she is having a fever or not, and her face is terrifyingly white.

If we plan to use our water, we can still use it for five or six days, and the fat man still has two pots of white wine in his bag, and he is worried that he will get thirstier and thirstier the more he drinks along the way, so he is reluctant to open it. took a bag of water and handed it to Tong Qin, and fed Li Mei some anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing medicine, after taking the medicine and drinking the water, Li Mei's face improved a little, but she was still unconscious. Tong Qin said that she had lost too much blood, coupled with the lack of water in the desert, and it was very likely that she was suffering from acute dehydration.

Several sober people are very clear about the situation we are facing, I looked around, no one made a statement, and said: "Now we are facing a lot of problems, there are two roads in front of us, one is to go home, on the way we can slaughter the camels, maybe everyone can go back alive, the second way is to continue walking, find this illusory city, if there is water in the city, we can all live." But I want to warn you that if we continue to walk, Li Mei's current situation may happen to any of us at any time, what to do, you can all talk about it. ”

Li Guohua said that although we are facing great difficulties, the Li family has been looking for the place in this picture for several generations, and we are now finally getting some clues, which are very close, if we give up halfway, we will be ashamed of our ancestors. What's more, it will take at least ten or twenty days for us to go back now, and even if we kill all the camels at that time, we may not be able to get out alive, if we continue to go inside and find the illusory city, we will definitely be able to find the underground water veins, and we will all be able to go back alive at that time. As the funder of this operation, it is up to you to decide where to go.

Tong Qin said out of concern for Li Mei: "As a doctor, I still reserve my opinion, Li Mei is now my patient, from the perspective of the patient, I suggest going back." The fat man stood behind Tong Qin, and the second child was timid, and he also stood on Tong Qin's side.

Although I think it is a very ridiculous thing to find this illusory ancient city, but compared to us returning the same way in our current state, the odds are all equal, and if this ancient map is true, then the probability of us finding the ancient city will increase by a few layers, I and Li Guohua, Emma, and Gu Tong all have similar views, and now except for Li Mei, who is in a coma with a high fever, only Da Chun is left without expressing his position, and we are all focused on his face.

In a way, Dachun's point of view is the most important, he is the only one who can drive the head camel in a group of more than a dozen people, and his status as a guide this time, in other words, no matter what point of view he holds, he can influence others.

The fat man looked at Da Chun, who was grinding and chirping, and said, "Old man, what do you think, give me a happy word, this Li Mei's life is between your words." ”

Da Chun held a cigarette pouch, squinted his eyes and glanced at the sunny blue sky, then spit out a puff of smoke rings, and said faintly: "The Buddha said, don't say it, let's take the next step, the Buddha has already arranged it for us, ninety-nine eighty-one is difficult, and every difficulty is indispensable." ”

I scolded in my heart, the old immortal regarded himself as a Tang monk, and I pointed to the Buddha beads in his hand: "Didn't the Buddha give you any hints?" Even if we learn from the scriptures, we have to have a direction, right? ”

Da Chun knocked on the cigarette pouch pot, inserted it back into his waist, and then sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to recite Buddhist scriptures reverently, with his hands folded in front of his chest, his face full of piety and solemn expression, completely lacking the cunning and philistine appearance of his usual life.