Chapter 9: Desert Pearls
"Old, old, old, boss."
That panicked appearance gave Zhang Yang a headache.
He stopped impatiently, turned lazily and stood still, cocking his chin, "What's the matter?" ”
I know this guy, his name is Spicy Head, a native of Sichuan.
Spicy Head swallowed his saliva and gasped, "Old, boss, dead man." ”
Zhang Yang pinched his eyebrows helplessly, and looked at the spicy head with a smile, "Say it again." ”
Razitou immediately knelt on the ground in fright, trembling and pointing in the direction of the entrance, and said, "There are so many dead people, we dug up a lot of dead people." ”
As soon as these words came out, there was panic, ridicule, and disdain in the team.
The grasshopper looked in the direction of the entrance with alarm, although we had already walked far and could not really see it.
"I'll go and see, and you move on." After speaking, the grasshopper turned around and left.
As soon as I saw that the gnats were about to pass, I immediately followed and said, "Then I will follow too, many people and many helpers." ”
The gnats just looked at me and didn't refuse.
Zhang Yang thought for a moment, and suddenly stopped him, he called a guy called Eagle, and after whispering a few words to him, the man called Eagle took two people and walked in the direction of the entrance, and the Gnats wanted to stop it, but I stopped it.
We continued to walk forward, and the passage was so strange that the pen did not work until it did not work, and it remained at a downward slope of 60 degrees.
The grasshopper and I walked at the end of the line, and after walking for a while, he suddenly grabbed me and asked, "It won't help if they go, and they are likely to die, why don't you let me go?" ”
I looked at him, but didn't give him an answer, and walked a few steps to catch up with Zhang Yang, but at this time the gnats caught up with me again and asked the question just now.
I admire this inquisitive personality, but I really don't want to say the reason why I stopped him, because it's not very open.
Zhang Yang may have heard the voice of the grasshopper, he asked the others to continue walking, and he slipped to our side, and I was stunned for a moment.
The corners of his mouth rose to look at the grasshopper, then looked at me, suddenly walked up to me, hooked my shoulder with one hand, looked like a good brother, and said, "I can't see it, you are quite scheming." ”
I smiled pretendly, and said in my heart that I was not scheming, just in case.
The grasshopper didn't seem to understand very much, but he didn't ask any more questions, just quickened his pace.
The three of us were fighting in the back, but there was chaos in the front, and when we rushed over, I swallowed everything in front of me.
Tens of thousands of pearls are inlaid on the four walls of the passage, and it is indescribably shocking when viewed from a distance.
Zhang Yang asked people to turn on all the miner's lamps, and in an instant, we seemed to be in a huge treasure house of the Dragon Palace, with countless rare treasures, some of which were inlaid in the wall like those pearls, and some were lying on both sides of the passage very casually.
The quality of Zhang Yang's subordinates is very high, even if they see such a scene, they don't panic at all, and no one takes these treasures privately, which makes me feel a little strange.
The grasshopper walked up to a large white shell and stood still, and he kicked it lightly with his foot, and then I saw that the big white shell opened its mouth of its own, and in it, a creature that had been white like a frog jumped out.
It jumped around the big white shell in a circle, like a child who wanted to go home, and many guys were attracted by this unknown creature, Zhang Yang and I also came.
The grasshopper squatted on the ground, stretched out its palm towards the little white frog, and I was amazed to see that the little white guy actually screamed a few times, and its cry was very similar to the laughter of a baby, and not only that, but it also jumped up and down towards the grasshopper, and finally jumped on the palm of the grasshopper, and stared at us humans with amazed eyes.
I didn't think the little thing had any ill intentions, and I was curious and squatted next to the grasshopper, and when I reached over, the little guy actually jumped on my palm.
This little thing was milky white all over, and it was cold, it was like a lump of ice in the palm of my hand, I couldn't bear it, and poured it to Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang looked at it curiously, suddenly smiled, and said, "It's the desert ice toad." ”
"Desert Ice Toad?"
Zhang Yang looked very surprised at me, smiled, poured the ice toad back into my hand, turned around and continued walking, saying as he went, "This is a pearl in the desert, take care of it." ”
To tell the truth, this thing looks delicate and lovely, but it fits my eyes very well, the grasshopper said, this toad originally grew in the underground cave with a very low temperature, because it has a strong toxicity, the ancients generally grabbed it to use medicine, a trace can be used to remove the disease of dryness, more, it is a weapon to kill.
More than 2,000 years ago, or even earlier, the Taklamakan generation was still an oasis, with abundant water and grass, and the once prosperous 36 countries of the Western Regions thrived here, and the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty opened up the trade between the Han Dynasty and Anxi, Daqin and other countries.
And this Quran trade route is conservatively estimated to be about 4,000 years.
It is unbelievable that this long-extinct cave creature could appear in such an underground passage, and hide in a large and exaggerated white shell.
I carefully put this ice toad back into the big shell, and then put it in the backpack with the shell, at first I was worried that it would die due to lack of oxygen, and then the grasshopper said that this kind of thing has the ability to hold its breath for a long time, and it is because of this characteristic that they often hide in the crevices of underground rock formations, and do not move for years or even decades, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a living fossil.
In addition to this large shell, there are all kinds of gold, silver and jade on both sides of the passage, all kinds of pearls and jade rings, precious stones, about ten meters of passage, these priceless treasures as many as tens of thousands of pieces.
Zhang Yang's men are very shrewd and capable, while we are walking through this "jewelry street", one of his buddies has been counted, and the report has been handed over to Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang took a cursory look, and then looked at the top of his head sharply, where there seemed to be something that attracted him.
"Chuan, bring someone up."
After hearing Zhang Yang's order, this young man named Chuan took two people to the designated location, and under the concentrated illumination of more than a dozen strong flashlights, I saw that the area demarcated by Zhang Yang above the passage was different from the imprints of other places, a faint earthy yellow, and it was easy to distinguish it from other places.
Chuan took a very special hammer and stepped on the back of a fellow and slammed it hard. After a few clicks, the area continued to fall with a lot of rubble, I picked up one of them and looked at it, these gravel were simply synthetic, made of a very special white clay ginseng and a lot of shells.
Zhang Yang also seemed to notice, he took a small piece from my hand, crushed it and picked out the shell inside, and after careful observation, his face changed immediately, this is the first time I have seen him so serious, that face, cold as frost, his eyes make people feel a sense of suffocation.
The grasshopper also picked up a relatively large shell fragment from the ground, thought for a moment, wiped off the white mud powder on it, and then poured some water from his own kettle to rinse the surface of the shell, and said, "It's a jade turtle shell."
Zhang Yang agreed after hearing this, he pinched the shell fragments tightly with his thumb and forefinger, and suddenly turned around and asked me: "Boss Xiao, how much do you know about the undersea city in the West Sea Ghost Domain?" ”
As soon as I heard that it was Xihai, my body couldn't help but feel a spirit, and in the face of the eagle-like eyes, I felt like I had been put on a lie detector, and I said everything that was left at all.