Qi Dongrui half-closed his eyelids, his face was tired, and he chewed gum slowly in his mouth, so he had obviously been wandering around outside for a long time. Seeing Batur and Xiao Dalip coming out of the ground, he shook his head helplessly, obviously not yet in touch with the outside world.

As a result, within Batur's expectations, although the communication area of the maritime satellite phone is not limited by geography (it can be called in a wide range of areas around the world, such as oceans, mountains, deserts, etc.), for some reason, it is difficult to find this kind of ethereal satellite radio waves in Lop Nur, and last night's huge sandstorm made this "drifting signal" even more unstable.

After a night of storms, the already desolate Lop Nur wilderness was in shambles. Light household garbage scraped from afar was everywhere, beer bottles, canned food boxes, and ready-to-eat food bags were all over the floor, and a few plastic sheets fluttered in the wind on top of the nest.

Ma Dali gave an order, and all the miners of the gold panning team went out to clean up the garbage on the ground, most of them had not slept well last night, and looked at them from afar, only to see their eyes dull, and their bodies looked lazy and sluggish in the sun.

Xiao Da Yan couldn't wait to go over and talk to two or three young miners, of course, about the archaeological team that had passed by here three days ago.

At the mention of them, several miners laughed, and a young man from Xinjiang named Hadir asked, "What?" Do you know them? ”

"Don't just know." Xiao grinned and repeated what he said to Ma Dali, "Their leader, the old man named Xue Jiao is my direct boss, and he is a big-name professor in our unit, and I am an archaeological technician under him. ”

"It turns out that you are also under the management of Xue Lao, but I didn't see you last time." The other fat man said.

"Last time? What was last time? Xiao looked at him with big lips and puzzled, and when he heard this fat man open his mouth to say Xue Lao, he couldn't help but feel awkward.

"The last time I saw your archaeological team at the Kuruktag mine was two months ago. There were more people than this time, more than twenty. They walked along the Peacock River to Loulan, because I was about to go to the third mining area at that time, so I stayed with them for two days, so I got acquainted. By the way, I also know the guy named Batur over there, and last time it was Xue Lao and the guide they hired, but we didn't talk much, so he seemed to have a cold attitude. The fat man said and pointed to Batur, who was squatting to the side and smoking.

"No wonder!" Xiao's big lips lit up, and he smiled, "I'm a newcomer, I didn't come with me last time." This time I was also in the logistics team, so it's normal that you haven't seen me. ”

The fat man smiled and looked at Xiao's big lips, and after a while, he asked again: "By the way, what are you looking for when you came to Lop Nur?" ”

"Huh? How so? Xiao looked at him with a big smile on his lips.

"Because the last time I came to Xue Lao, he inquired with me about a place called 'Fengqi Wall', which is said to be a sacred place for the Luobu people, which seems to be of great archaeological value. In the two days that I followed your archaeological team, as soon as there was a group of ruins on the road, the large army would all get out of the car and circle around the wall. Sometimes more than 20 people can stare at a wall for a long time, and I wondered at that time, what are you doing archaeology thinking in your mind, how can a rotten wall be seen by you. However, when I inquired with some gold diggers, I learned that the place of the 'Fengqi Wall' was actually a cemetery, and all the earliest Loulan people were buried in it. And there seems to be a huge treasure under this wall. When the fat man said this, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he put his mouth close to Xiao's ear and said, "You people are actually digging treasures in the name of archaeology." ”

Xiao's big lips frowned, and his face instantly darkened. Every time you hear this sentence, 'Actually, you are digging treasures (tomb robbing) in the name of archaeology! He was sick! What he hated most in his life was that laymen compared archaeologists with tomb robbers, although they also dug graves, but their work was essentially the protection of cultural relics and the exploration of history, which was fundamentally different from the theft and destruction of tomb robbers. To say so is simply an insult to their sacred profession.

Xiao had a strong self-esteem, and he almost exploded when he heard this, but when he thought that he had just met someone else, this fat man might just be unintentional, so he had to endure it and swallow his anger straight into his stomach. After calming down for a while, he began to search for the place "Fengqi Wall" in his mind again, and after thinking about it for a long time, he found that he had no clue at all, a wall, a tomb, or a sacred place for the Luo Bu people, this kind of place had never been heard of at all. He glanced to the side and saw that the fat man was already chatting with the other two people, completely unaware of the change in his face.

When the young man Hadir heard what the fat man had just said, he couldn't help but laugh twice, and then looked at Xiao Dalip unreasonably, and said, "I did hear a few people in your team talking about this place this time, and they guessed that this wall might be in the ancient city of Loulan. However, as far as I know, there is no such place at all, and the 'Fengqi Wall' is just a myth and legend passed down by the mouth of the Luo Bu people, and this legend has been circulating in this area for more than 50 years, since the Luo Bu people disappeared from Lop Nur. ”

"Legends? What kind of legend? Xiao asked the big lips and the fat man almost in unison.

Hadir shook his head helplessly and smiled, "It's just a boring story." After speaking, seeing that Xiao Dayiya and the other two were very interested, he summarized the legend.

According to legend, there have been some primitive people living in the ancient country of Loulan since the Stone Age, these people are known as the oldest Loulan people, they believe in totem culture, and the god they worship is the black tengu. Legend has it that these Guloulan people could predict the next hundred years with the help of the power of the Black Tengu, so in the 3rd century BC they themselves predicted the demise of the entire tribe, and 100 years later, the Guloulan people would be invaded by outsiders. In fear, they began to pray to the gods for their protection, hoping that the Black Tengu would help them escape this fate.

A month later, a blind old man came to the tribe with a black dog, claiming to be the messenger of the black dog, and when the black dog saw the tribal leader, he opened his mouth to speak, telling them that they could not escape, and that the only way to reduce casualties was to leave Loulan. The people of Loulan hate wandering and fear leaving their homes, so in order to pray for the help of the gods once again, they built a sacred place, put the black dog under house arrest, and broke its limbs so that it could not fly. After waiting for a full 50 years, the Black Tengu did not send an envoy again, and the black dog under house arrest was also fossilized. As the prophecy says, 100 years later, all the ancient people in Loulan will be wiped out, and Loulan will be ruled by a new people. Later, when the new king of Loulan heard that there was a statue of the god Tengu in this holy place, he immediately sent someone to look for it, but he never found this place again.

"The Holy Land may have been razed to the ground when the Loulan people were wiped out, and some people say that the Holy Land was not in Loulan City at all, and the ancient Loulan people put the black dog under house arrest far away from Loulan at the beginning. And this holy place is what you call the 'Fengqi Wall', which is a wall to put it bluntly. Hadir said and exhaled slowly, and said: "I don't understand what you guys think, there are actually Loulan cemetery sites in Lop Nur that are more worthy of study, like the Sun Tomb and the Xiaohe Tomb, you don't go to such a valuable place, why are you so aggressive to find a mythical holy place that is nothing?" Do you really believe that there is a tengu idol down there? Or is it purely for archaeological expeditions? ”

"Leadership means, leadership means." Xiao smiled bitterly and grinned, and wondered for a while. Although he knew that it was entirely possible that the old man Xue Jiao came in to find Sun Qijun's whereabouts, it was entirely an excuse, but he didn't expect him to do such an unreliable thing. That old man doesn't look like the one who believes in myths and legends, is it easy for people to become emotional when they are old?