Go to the right......

Who left this message? What's on the right?

Now there are two roads in front of me, nothing more than one of the two, I was suspicious, so I held a lighter to the right, this is unbelievable, the difference between the two tunnels on the left and right is actually very big. The passage on the left is circular, black, and I don't know where it leads, while the passage on the right presents a regular quadrilateral, seeing the prism line, and the firelight illuminates the place, you can also see the neat stone bricks, the shape is rough, with a strong Western Regions style.

Where does this right side lead? Compared to the rough-looking hole on the left, the obvious artificial-style tunnel on the right makes people feel a little more relaxed. I glanced at the traditional Chinese characters on the wall and decided to follow its instructions to the right to see what would be on the right.

I walked all the way along the square tunnel, but thirty steps away, the tunnel in front of me came to the end, at the end, on the left and right, there was a square stone pillar more than three meters high, on which were wrapped around two lizard-like animals, spitting pointed letters.

Behind the stone pillar, there is an earthy yellow stone gate, which is carved with simple lines like the petroglyphs I have seen before, and many humanoids, flowers, trees, and animals are carved with simple lines.

I couldn't help but be surprised, how could there be a stone door underground? What's behind this stone gate?

I held the lighter and looked closer, the stone door was halfway open, revealing a width for people to enter and exit, the people on the stone gate were wearing Western costumes, most of them were shirtless, wearing only pants and belts, the expressions on their faces were extremely reverent, and their eyes were all looking at the same place.

Looking along the line of sight of these people, I saw that the convergence of the line of sight was a circle, like the sun, but in the center of the circle, there was a big human-shaped mouth.

This thing is eating people!

I was stunned for a moment, feeling that I was completely confused by what this ancient stone painting expressed. What does this circle represent? Why does it eat people? As for its cannibalistic behavior, the people around it not only did not show horror, but how could they seem to be very awe-struck and pious?

Of course, no one can answer me these questions, because the person depicted on the stone gate has been dead for hundreds or thousands of years. I withdrew my gaze from the strange stone painting, and began to walk inside the stone gate with a lighter.

I was surprised by the scene behind the stone gate, because as soon as I walked in, I saw the stone steps. It was the kind of stone steps that were very large and very high, one layer after another, like a pyramid, and I counted them, and there were eight stone steps, and above the eight floors, they were wrapped in dry earth and stones.

I immediately realized that this pyramid-like stone staircase, most likely at first, led to the ground, but now it has been buried in the earth.

I walked around with a lighter, except for the stone steps at the entrance and a clearing, the rest of the place was full of collapsed earth and stones, but the real face behind this stone door was difficult to see. Other than that, there are no intersections leading to the ground.

I decided to go back and take the road on the left, since this place is sealed, the exit must be on the left.

When I turned around and was about to walk back, I suddenly found that in the corner behind the open stone door, there was something lying on my stomach!

When I came in before, I only looked at the environment in front of me, and I didn't notice the back of the stone door, but when I turned around, I could see it clearly, and my scalp exploded in fright, and I took a step back sharply. Because the distance is relatively close, it can be clearly distinguished from the weak light of the lighter, which is actually a person.

A dried corpse, to be exact.

It lay on the ground, covered in skin and bones, and its whole body was black, and in the light of the fire, the corpse oil secreted on its surface was shiny with a layer of oil, as if it had been beaten with beeswax. The clothes it was wearing were mixed with the corpse oil, and it couldn't see the shape clearly.

The dehydrated dried corpse was lying there, only the size of a dog, I had been frozen in the water for a long time, I had some colds, and my nose couldn't smell anything, so I didn't think there was any smell in this dried corpse, otherwise I wouldn't have found it until now.

Seriously, I'm scared, it's not like I've never seen a dead person in recent times, but this is the first time I've seen a dry corpse, especially this dry corpse has been behind me for so long. How can a normal person have a chance to see this, I was scared on the one hand, but I couldn't help but guess the identity of this corpse on the other.

Who is it?

Why did it die here?

With this suspicion, I approached him and couldn't help but look at it closely. The corpse was lying on its side on the ground, with one hand on its chest, as if it was holding something, and the five fingers of the other hand were slightly bent into claws, as if it had experienced some painful struggle before death, and it seemed that it was pushing and resisting something when it was dying.

In addition to this, on the back of the corpse, there was also a bag on its back.

It was a flattened bag, and it seemed that there was nothing left, but judging from the shape of the bag, it could still be seen that this dried corpse was a modern person, not an ancient person.

Could it be that group of people?

With a stir in my heart, I pulled out my dagger and used it to cut its bag, intending to see what was in its bag, and perhaps to determine its identity.

"It's strange, I just want to find out who you are, you are famous in life and famous in death, and you definitely don't want to die in such a place silently. As long as I can get out alive, I'll help you inform your family and bless you. As I spoke, I cut open the corpse's backpack, and something leaked from the backpack.

Most of these things were soaked in corpse oil, and they looked oily, and I saw that there was a compass inside, an empty water bag, a thick black pen, a small bottle of ink, a bundle of paper tied with rubber bands, and then a notebook in black skin.

I cut the rubber band of the bundle of paper and flattened the paper, which was completely soaked with corpse oil, and what should have been drawn on it, but I could only see vague, intermittent lines, and I couldn't see anything else.

No clues.

I pulled the paper apart and looked at the notebook instead. It was an old-fashioned black-skinned notebook, which some officials or scholars liked to use in the past, and I opened the notebook, and in the same way, the notebook was also soaked in corpse oil, which was dipped along the edges, so the front and back were glued together, and the things written on it were completely invisible, only the middle part was relatively small, and the words could still be seen. ，

The characters are traditional Chinese characters, and the font is upright and tough, showing that the owner of this notebook has a good education.

Although traditional Chinese characters are not commonly used, most people can understand them, and only a few rare words have to be guessed. I started reading it in the middle and found that it was an expedition notebook. The owner of the note, the owner of this dried corpse, turned out to be an archaeologist.

I was in awe, and at the same time I felt that this matter was confusing. Why did an archaeologist die here? What was the cause of his death? I looked down at my notebook, and the more I looked at it, the more terrified I felt.

Since I saw it from the middle, and there was a lot of corpse oil in the middle part, I actually didn't understand a lot of things when I looked at it from the head and tail, but just those parts that I understood were enough to shock.

The owner of the notebook, whose name is unknown, should have been around forty to forty-five years old at the time of his death, and the time of his death was about twenty to twenty-five years ago.

Entering the Gurbantunggut Desert is for an expedition to find a place called 'Huangchao Ancient Kingdom'.

Huangchao, is a transliteration, is a small country in the Western Regions, and the history of the Western Regions has always been rarely recorded, so the history of the ancient country of Huangchao is even more confusing. There is a very terrifying legend about the ancient country of Huangchao.

Legend has it that under the ancient kingdom of Huangchao, there lived a god, under the blessing of this god, the ancient country of Huangchao was once prosperous, however, the monarch of Huangchao was brutal**, and the surrounding small countries in order not to be annexed by Huangchao and not let their people be ruled by this cruel monarch, someone made a plan to destroy the protector of Huangchao.

This protector was dug out of the ground in a sophisticated plan, and at the moment when it was dug up, suddenly there was a strong wind, the land burst apart, and the entire capital and palace of Huangchao fell into the ground in an instant.

The surrounding small countries took the opportunity to swallow up the Yellow Nest, and this legendary country was short-lived and disappeared into history.

According to records, most of the territory of Huangchao was annexed by a good warring state called 'Ziliu', and the underground of this oasis where we are now was once the territory of the 'Ziliu' country. In other words, it is the territory of the Huangchao Ancient Kingdom.

This group of people found here, and they were stationed in this oasis for more than a month, and the ecological environment of the oasis was perfect, and they could supply food and drink on the spot, and the snake hole that led directly to the water inlet was dug by them.

The reason why the snake cave is crooked is to carry out underground positioning, which is more professional, and I don't study archaeology, so I don't understand.

ps: The second update is over, everyone reads the book every day, helps vote for the league, and I am grateful.