In the rain, we could not walk an inch, so we had to get off the camel and walk in ankle-deep water.

"How did this happen?" I exclaimed as I watched the water flow under my feet.

Jiang Yuan and Gnats shook their heads at the same time, but the expressions on their faces didn't show too much panic, with these two people by their side, I was somewhat relieved.

Climbing over two sand dunes, I saw a strange sight.

The ruins of the ancient city have shown their clues, although they stayed for one night before, but they have not looked carefully, now we are standing in a relatively high place, so looking down, I found that this section of the ruins is quite intact, from the traces it reveals on the surface, I am sure that there must be a large-scale palace here, this palace because of the relatively high altitude, so the first to show. I believe that there should be a large area of ruins under this layer of sand.

The gnats looked at it with a telescope, turned around and asked Jiang Yuan: "Yuan, there are three entrances, where do you think Zhang Ye will enter from." ”

Jiang Yuan put down the telescope in his hand, his eyes looked at the palace buildings that were constantly revealed in the rain below, he was silent for a moment as if he was thinking, and his slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, "Middle." ”

"Okay." The grasshopper agreed, then looked at me and said, "From now on, your backpack will be shared by me and Jiang Yuan, you only need to take that notebook and translate those Huangquan ciphertexts along the way. ”

I nodded very solemnly, and just like that, the three of us walked to the entrance of the ancient city in the heavy rain, a sand hole washed by the rain, and countless streams of water gathered here without hesitation, and the rumbling sound of the water told me that there was a lot of space below.

"Are you ready?" Jiang Yuan looked at us.

"Yes, but I'm going to do it." I pointed to my own book.

The gnats said, "Don't worry, it's okay, let's go." ”

As he spoke, he was the first to take the rope and paddle down the water as if he were playing.

I stood at the entrance of the cave stunned, Jiang Yuan patted me on the shoulder from behind, "Don't worry, Qianjue will pick you up below." ”

Before I could react, I felt a force in my back, and the next second my world was pitch black, and countless water columns around me fell down, and it hurt.

After about four or five minutes of rolling and crawling, I felt like I was being grabbed by a pair of hands, and after a short pause, my sliding body continued with a scream, and finally ended with a fall on the ground.

I lay on the ground, feeling the water coming from all directions, not to mention, thanks to these currents, otherwise I would have fallen even harder.

I struggled to get up, sat up and checked my arms and legs, but fortunately, it was all right.

The sound of the gnats was mixed with the rumbling of water, and I looked ahead to the left, and sure enough, a bright spot was moving towards me.

I hurriedly got up from the ground, but suddenly found that I was empty-handed.

Jiang Yuan jumped down from above with a splash, and when he landed, he also stirred up a layer of splash, and I complained to my uncle while marveling at his skills, why didn't you force me to learn some kung fu when I was a child, if I had learned it at the time, I wouldn't be so embarrassed now.

The two of them stood by their side almost at the same time, and Jiang Yuan also lit up a miner's lamp, this kind of miner's lamp is really of excellent quality, it's okay to fall like this, and it still works normally after soaking in water, needless to say, it is Jiang Yuan's own company's research and development product.

"Fell and hurt?" I was touched a lot by the words of the grasshopper's concern, "I'm fine, the point is that it's gone." ”

Jiang Yuan immediately held the miner's lamp and searched near the place where I fell, and the gnats also joined the search, and I groped in the other direction.

The water flow is gathering more and more, and a small river has been formed under our feet, and the resistance of the water without knees is very great, and it takes a lot of physical strength to take a step against the current, and I groped for a long time and suddenly remembered something, stood up and looked at the two of them, and asked, "You guys, who caught me just now." ”

Gnats and Jiang Yuan also immediately stopped their movements and stood up to look at me, they looked at each other, and said in unison, "Someone arrested you?" ”

I told them what happened to me in the process of my whereabouts just now, and the gnats said that they had jumped off early, while Jiang Yuan said that he jumped down behind me, and it was impossible to catch me halfway before me, not to mention, there was no point in doing so.

When I heard this, I was about to turn around and continue searching for the notebook in the water, but the grasshopper suddenly stopped me and said, "Don't look for it, the book must have been taken away by the hands that grabbed you just now."

Actually, I thought so in my heart, but that notebook was very important to us, and the gnats told me to protect it, and even in order to reduce my burden, my backpack was borne by them, but even so, I still lost the notebook, and at this moment, I was very sorry.

Jiang Yuan looked up at the hollow where we came down, looked at the falling water column with a little thought, and suddenly said to the grasshopper: "Qianjue, you say, could it be them." ”

The Grasshopper took out something that looked like a pocket watch and looked at it, "Impossible, the time is not up." ”

I wanted to say something, but suddenly I felt like something in the water had hit me, I thought that the notebook was washed under my feet by the current, I looked down, and immediately screamed, at the same time, I also saw Jiang Yuan's hand reaching into the water, and when his hand came out of the water, a black glowing thing was constantly twisting its body.

"What is this?" I leaned over with my flashlight and took a closer look.

On the round head like an egg, only one eye is placed in the center, there is no nose, there is a small round hole on each side, it may be an ear, a mouth looks very weird, a row of neat teeth is exposed, the half-meter-long body actually has three pairs of feet side by side, and the long tail occupies half of the body.

Jiang Yuan grabbed the part of its neck, this guy probably sensed that this young man who was grabbing him was not easy to mess with, so he struggled for a while and began to pretend to be dead, hanging his head and not moving.

The grasshopper looked at it and suddenly sneered, and said, "Ghost-faced sturgeon." ”

"What? Ghost-faced sturgeon? ”

The grasshopper pointed to the monster's head and said to me: "That's right, the one-eyed is its biggest feature, because they live in the fault of the underground rock layer all year round, and their eyes gradually degenerate. This eye is actually made up of two overlapping eyes. ”

After he finished speaking, he really opened the monster's eyes to show me, and sure enough, the two eyeballs overlapped top and bottom.

Jiang Yuan clutched the ghost-faced sturgeon and didn't dare to relax for a moment, "It is said that they have a very high IQ, four to five times that of humans, it seems that the rumors are true, and they actually know how to pretend to be dead and deceive us to get a chance to escape." ”

The grasshopper pulled out a silver needle, and as soon as he placed it on the ghost-faced sturgeon's head, the little thing immediately opened its eyes and woke up, and then continued to twist its body, struggling desperately.

The grasshopper put the silver needle in front of its eyes and shook it, and said, "You can't run away, and you don't want to die, so take us to the Qulan Station, otherwise, I'll use this." ”

The ghost-faced sturgeon seemed to really understand the words of the grasshopper, shaking its body desperately, and letting out a cry similar to that of a baby.

Jiang Yuan sneered, and as soon as the injured muscles exploded, the ghost-faced sturgeon immediately stopped moving.

"Why did you kill it?" I asked.

Jiang Yuan said: "Qianjue is joking with you, it is a fact that these things have a high IQ, but they are more cunning than foxes, as soon as I let go, they will run away immediately, and then go to rescue the soldiers." ”

"So what?" I continued to ask him.

"Don't you see its teeth? This thing is the same as a piranha, it eats people without spitting out bones. ”

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he looked at the grub with a solemn face, "Qianjue, this should be the range of Lingque Palace." ”

The grasshopper also pulled out a short sword from his boots, waded to a wall not far away and carved a large arrow, then turned to us and said, "Let's go, since it is within the scope of the Lingque Palace, that is to say, the Gulan Post Station is only separated from it by a wall. ”