"Magnetic Mountain?" In the past two days, my mechanical watch has either stopped, or it has been going fast and slow, I thought it was a cheap watch with poor quality, and it broke down in the desert, could it be that we are near those two magnetic mountains?

An Liman also remembered that he had heard that in the hinterland of the Black Desert, there are two sacred mountains of Zagrama, one red and one white, which are said to be the two sacred mountains where the ancestors are buried.

Shirley Yang added: "If there really are two such mountains in the desert, then it is possible that the Ziduyan River will be intercepted by the Cishan Mountain underground, and it is too far from the ground, so we can't find it." I don't think we should focus on finding the trails of the Dark River, and if the legend and the British explorers are right, Magnetic Hill should be nearby. Mr. Hu, tonight you are going to use your Tianxing Feng Shui skills again, don't forget, as we said earlier, if you find the Exquisite Ancient City, you will pay twice as much. ”

I didn't have the confidence to find the city from the beginning, and when she said this, I had to try it in the evening, and if I could find the Nazagrama Mountain, my reward would be increased to twenty thousand dollars, and if we couldn't find it, we would have to go home.

To be honest, I can't tell if I'm looking forward to finding the Exquisite Ancient City, after listening to the story of the Exquisite Queen, a mysterious and bewitching image lingers in my mind, in the depths of the desert, there seems to be an invisible magic that attracts me, I don't know if Professor Chen, Shirley Yang, and those expeditions that have never returned, they all feel the same way as me.

It was an extraordinarily long day, and I wanted to shoot the sun out of the sky with a gun. I dug the bunker very deep, but I couldn't feel the coolness.

Although the pit was covered with a thick canvas, the man hid in the shadows, and his body lay in the sand nest, still feeling like he was being put in an oven. Ye Yixin, who has a thin body, may have been confused by the sun, and fell asleep and talked nonsense.

Everyone was worried that she was having a high fever, so they touched her forehead with their hands, it was as hot as sand, and they couldn't tell if she was having a high fever or not, and she didn't wake up no matter how much they pushed her.

We still had some water, enough for about five days, and two bags of yogurt soup left, which were left for the last minute. At this time, there was nothing to be reluctant about, I took out a bag, asked Shirley Yang to feed her a few sips, and gave her some medicine.

After Ye Yixin drank the medicine, he gradually quieted down, but he was still unconscious, probably suffering from acute dehydration, which is troublesome, I told Professor Chen and others about the situation facing the archaeological team now.

It's nothing more than two roads, one is to leave tonight and go back, and on the way back, you have to eat camel meat, drink salty sand wozi water, and open the eleventh, even if you do this, you can't guarantee the safety of Ye Yixin's life.

The other way is to bite the bullet and continue to look for the Essence City, if there is a water source in the city, her little life will be picked up.

Professor Chen said that we are facing great difficulties, although archaeology requires dedication, but Ye Yixin is so young, we have to be responsible for her life. The first road is safe, but it is not supplied with enough water, and the way back will be very difficult. The second road is more adventurous, but we have come to the vicinity of Zagrama, and we are sixty percent sure that we will find the essence, these ancient cities should have underground water veins, but two thousand years have passed, and it is not known whether the water veins have dried up and diverted. Where to go from now on, let's all share our opinions.

The fat man first said: "My waist circumference has lost two full laps, if we go to the depths of the desert again, you will simply call me a thin man in the future." As soon as the sun sets, let's go back, maybe we will have half a life left when we go back. ”

Hao Aiguo and Sa Dipeng are more stable and are also in favor of going back.

In contrast, there are more people who think that although the method of finding the Exquisite City is risky, it is worth trying, after all, everyone has paid such a great hardship and price, and it is not easy to get to the present, I really don't want to give up all the efforts, and I also hope to find clear water in the ruins of the ancient city, save Ye Yixin's life, drink salty sand wozi water on the way back, and people who are healthy are also reluctant to make it difficult, not to mention that she is so sick that walking back is equivalent to pronouncing her death sentence.

Shirley Yang, Chu Jian, and Professor Shirley all have this point of view, except for Ye Yixin who is unconscious, only An Liman is left and the old man does not express his position, and everyone's eyes are focused on his face.

If his point is to go back, then we are just four against four, but Anliman is the guide, and his decision in this matter carries a lot of weight.

I said to An Liman old man: "Old man, you have to think about it before you say it, your words are related to Ye Yixin's life, what do you think we should do now?" ”

An Liman held a cigarette pouch, squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky, and said: "I, of course, listen to Hu Da's will, there is only one sun in the sky, and there is only one almighty true god in the world, Hu will guide us." ”

I pointed to the sky: "Then you should hurry up and ask, what did the old man Hu Da say?" ”

An Liman knocked the old cigarette pouch back, inserted it back into his waist, took the tattered blanket, began to pray with a reverent face, turned his palms inward, and recited the scriptures to his face, the expression on his face was pious and solemn, not like the usual cunning appearance of a philistine.

The more he waited, the more he couldn't finish reading, and the fat man waited anxiously, so he asked, "I said old man, is there any end?" ”

An Liman opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Hu Dama, he has already given us a revelation." After that, he took out a five-cent coin and showed it to everyone, one side of the word was to move forward, and the other side of the painting was to return the way it came, and asked Professor Chen, the oldest here, to throw it into the sky, and the result of it falling was Hu Da's will.

Everyone couldn't laugh or cry, and looked at each other. Professor Chan took the coin and tossed it high into the air, and everyone looked up at the coin, the sun was shining brightly, but they saw the coin fall from the sky and stand up and stick into the sand.

Even if it is thrown 100,000 times, it may not be such a coincidence, An Liman shook his head again and again, his face was full of frustration, forgetting that this is the black desert abandoned by Hu Da, how could Hu Da show us the way.

We were scratching our heads in amazement when we heard Shirley Young point to the distance and exclaim, "God, is that the Ragzama Mountain?" ”

The desert is extremely empty, thousands of miles in sight, only to see the direction of her finger, facing the direction of the coin falling, at the end of the world, there is a faint black line, but it is far away, and it is not clear if you don't look carefully.

We hurriedly took out the binoculars and adjusted the focus to see, a black mountain range, like a stationary black dragon in the yellow sand, cut off from the mountain, and a mountain pass in the middle, these characteristics are consistent with the British explorer's notes.

Last year, Shirley Yang's father led an expedition team to find the Exquisite Ancient City with these clues, I wonder if they have seen this sacred mountain, and if they have been here, then what have they encountered? What keeps them gone?

Thinking of this, I felt a chill under the scorching sun, but this feeling was quickly diluted by the euphoria, and we finally found the door to enter the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom at the last moment.

However, Anliman once said that there is a dream land in the Black Desert, where mirages often appear, and those wonders are all illusions that lead people to the abyss of death.

First of all, the illusions in the desert are all produced by the refraction of light, those landscapes are strange, most of them are not in the desert, and the black mountains, which have been mentioned more than once, should be absolutely real.

Since it's not far from the Exquisite Ancient City, you can set off when it gets dark. However, the information we have is very limited, most of them are inferences and collected related legends, the only reliable evidence is a vague black and white photo, whether you can find the exquisite ancient city, or even whether there is such an ancient city in the world is difficult to say, maybe a qiē is a false rumor, legends often come from this way.

On the Korean battlefield, MacArthur once said, "At first, we thought we knew everything, but then we found out that the truth was that we didn't know anything." "I feel that way now.

Have the ruins of the royal city not been buried by the yellow sand again? Can you find a water source in the city? Is the tomb where the Queen of Perfection is buried in the city, or is it somewhere else? Is there really a mountain of treasure in the city? What exactly is that Yokai Queen? Will she still pose a threat to outsiders when she dies? Did Shirley Young's father really die in the Exquisite Ancient City? Can their remains be found? What did the foreign explorers encounter in the city? For us, this is still unknown.

In the evening, the archaeological team set out for Zagrama.

As the saying goes, Wangshan ran a dead horse, looked at the direction, and walked until the second half of the night to come to the mountain pass. At that time, the moonlight was like water, and the desert was like a silent sea, and in the midst of this sea of sand, the Zagrama Mountains were undulating, and the whole body was covered with black stones, and the closer you looked, the more striking it became.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a mountain, but two oversized black stones, both of which are tens of kilometers in diameter, only a shallow back is exposed in the sea of sand, and the larger part is buried in the ground, perhaps below, the two boulders themselves are connected, and the mountain pass may be nothing more than a crack in the boulder.

This black stone contains magnets, and although the average content is not high, it is enough to affect the precision equipment that determines the bearing, and we can feel that the metal objects on our bodies are gradually becoming heavier.

The moonlight did not reflect at all on the black stones, and the mountain pass was dark and wintery, except for the unconscious Ye Yixin, all the people got off the camel's back and walked.

An Liman and I were in front, after the fat man Chu Jian broke off, Shirley Yang and others took care of Ye Yixin in the middle, and the team lined up in a column and slowly entered the valley.

This mountain was regarded as a sacred mountain by ancient people, and legend has it that two ancestors were buried, which is mostly myths and legends. But from the perspective of feng shui, it can really be regarded as occupying all the shapes, swallowing everything, and the black mountains are the two black dragons that check the gates. It is not surprising that the mountain can bury the ancestors, and if the mountain really has the tomb of the exquisite queen, it is not surprising at all.

The moon passes in the middle of the sky, the valley in the north-south direction is even darker than the five fingers, we are deep and shallow to move forward, the more we go forward, the more uneasy our hearts are, out of the valley, can we really find the exquisite ancient city? Found the ancient city, is there a water source in the city? The most worrying thing is Ye Yixin's condition, her acute dehydration must be treated with a large amount of clean cold salt water, if she can't find a water source within three days, her fate will be thrown into the desert.

Our watches had long since stopped, and we did not know how long it had been gone, but intuitively estimated that it would be dawn in a few moments, when the camels' breathing suddenly became heavy, and their emotions were visibly restless.

An Liman hurriedly whistled and shouted, and did his best to calm down the group of camels, his nineteen camels are all strong and strong male camels, and this situation has never occurred after walking in the desert for so many days.

It was already dark all around, and the trouble of these camels increased the fear in the hearts of the team members, Shirley Yang was worried that Ye Yixin would be thrown off by the camels, so he hurriedly hugged her off the camel with Hao Aiguo.

I beckoned the fat man to come over, let him work harder, and carry Ye Yixin on his back first, this valley is weird and tight, it is not a place to stay for a long time, we must not delay, go out as much as possible.

The fat man is quite happy, first, Ye Yixin doesn't have much weight, since he entered the desert, he is exposed to the sun and lack of water, and he is even more skinny, and it is not a bad thing to carry a big beautiful girl. He carried Ye Yixin on his back like a child, and urged An Liman in front of him to go quickly.

However, no matter how An Liman drove it, those camels refused to take half a step forward, and the old man of An Liman also began to be suspicious, and began to chant again, I am afraid that Hu Da will not let us go forward again, so hurry back.

Seeing that they were about to go out of the valley, how could the rest of the people retreat the way they came, and for a moment the team was in a mess, and Shirley Yang said to me: "Isn't there something in front of me, which is so frightened that the camels refuse to move forward, first throw a cold smoke and fire over to take a photo, and then make a reason after seeing it clearly." ”

I said yes in front of me, took out a cold pyrotechnic for lighting, lit it up and threw it forward, illuminating a small section of the valley in front of me. On both sides are pitch-black mountain rocks, the ground is thick yellow sand, and the empty mountains are lonely and there is not even a single grass, how can there be anything unusual.

At that moment I walked a few steps forward and threw a second light firework, and in the distance there was a man sitting on the ground, and we walked over to look, and saw that the man was wearing a white robe, with a sand turban on his head, and a backpack on his back, motionless, and it turned out to be a dead man.

Everyone was taken aback, it was not strange to encounter dead or dried corpses in the desert, but this corpse was different. The deceased was a man, with a turban over his mouth and only two eyes exposed, staring at the sky, dead without looking at him.

Death would not last long, perhaps within a few days, and his exposed skin would only dry up slightly, and the most strange thing was that his flesh was blue, glowing with a faint blue light under the light of the fireworks.

A few people wanted to come over and watch, but I blocked them, this person's death was too weird, don't get close, Chu Jian suddenly shouted: "Brother Hu, look, there is another dead corpse here!" ”

My scalp is a little numb, two dead bodies in a row, will there be more? A few more cold fireworks were thrown out casually, illuminating the surroundings, and sure enough, there were more than two corpses, and on the ground in front of them, there were four male corpses lying horizontally and vertically.

The dead were dressed in the same way, and they died in the same way, all staring in horror and dying in a strange way. There were also a few Soviet-style AK47s and some backpacks scattered on the ground.

I pulled out the sapper shovel as a weapon to defend myself, walked over and picked up one of them and saw that the bullet was loaded, fucking weird, who are these people? In Xinjiang, some poachers use foreign Remington, or imitation five or six styles, how can there be Soviet-made AK? Could they be the tomb robbers?

I opened one of the backpacks again, and there were a lot of military yellow explosives marked in Russian, it is estimated that these arms were imported from abroad, and it is not strange that these tomb robbers bought them to blow up the ancient tombs in the desert, but how did these guys armed to the teeth die in this valley for no apparent reason?

I picked up the turban on the face of the man sitting on the ground with the barrel of my gun, and I saw that he had a wide open mouth, as if he was crying out desperately before he died, I didn't want to look at it more, no matter what, it was best to get out of the valley of this grave mountain as soon as possible. The explosives might be useful later, so I grabbed my backpack and prepared to let everyone go.

At this time, Hao Aiguo walked out of the team: "It doesn't matter if these people are tomb robbers or not, we can't let them be bent here, carry them out of the valley and bury them." As soon as I saw the people in the wilderness, I thought of the people who had been sent with me to the earthen kiln for labor reform, those comrades died pitifully, and there was not even a broken straw mat to roll the corpse, alas, I could not see these ...... the most" He chattered as he moved the corpse of the man sitting on the ground.

I was really anxious at this time, and yelled to stop him: "You stinky nerd, you don't know what to fuck or do, don't touch these dead people!" ”

But it was too late, from the mouth of the male corpse, a strange snake suddenly jumped out, the scales on the snake's body were shining, and there was a black flesh crown on the top of its head, about thirty centimeters long.

Hao Aiguo's eyes are not good, even if his eyes are good, he can't dodge with his reaction, just in this moment of lightning, I am eager to save people, I don't have time to think about it, I pick up the sapper shovel in my hand and chop it up, and cut the snake in two.

Hao Aiguo was so frightened that he sat on the ground, his whole body trembled, and he reluctantly smiled at me: "It's too ...... It's too dangerous, thanks to ......"

As soon as he said half of the words, the severed half of the snake's head on the ground bounced up suddenly, its speed was just like a fast arrow off the string, and it bit Hao Aiguo's neck with one bite.

Hao Aiguo's face froze, there were a few grunts in his throat, he wanted to speak but couldn't speak, his skin instantly turned dark blue, he sat motionless in place, and died.

At this moment, everyone was stunned, and Professor Chen fainted in front of his eyes. I didn't have time to feel sorry for Hao Aiguo, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck, and when I looked sideways, the same strange snake swam up to my shoulder at some point, sizzling out the letter, the muscles of the whole body contracted back slightly, opened the snake's mouth and arched the front body, and was about to bite me, this strange snake moved too fast, and it couldn't be dodged at such a close distance.

Only the fat man in the team can shoot, but he is carrying Ye Yixin on his back, and he is not holding a gun in his hand, this change is really sudden, and the rest of the people are unprepared, I feel like a basin of ice water has been poured in my heart, damn it, I can't imagine that my old Hu will die here today, and I will never see the morning sun again.

I knew that the posture of the poisonous snake to attack was to lean up, and then the snake's head flicked forward, biting the prey with its fangs, and my neck and face were all exposed to its attack, and there was no way to avoid it, and it was too late to block it.

I was about to close my eyes and wait for death, when suddenly a white light "clicked", and the dark valley was illuminated, and the strange snake had already pounced on my neck, and was startled by the dazzling white light halfway through, and actually slipped off my shoulder.

This qiē happened within a second, I didn't wait for the snake to land, waved the sapper shovel in my hand and smashed it, and slapped the snake's head to a thin slate, and a lot of inky black juice flowed out of the broken snake head, I hurriedly took a few steps back, and secretly screamed a fluke, the poison of this snake is so good, if it is bitten, the snake venom will spread all over the blood of the whole body in an instant, and there will be death or life.

Raise your eyes to see that the life-saving white light, from the flash of Shirley Yang's camera, she has always been inseparable from the camera, taking pictures as she goes, I can't imagine that my life was saved by the flash of the camera in her hand, thanks to her quick response, otherwise my old Hu would have gone to see Hu Da by now.

But now is not the time to say thanks, who knows if there is still the same kind of strange snake in this valley, and if there is anything to do out of the mountain pass, he waved his hand and beckoned everyone to hurry forward.

At this time, the camels may have felt that there were no poisonous snakes in front of them, and they all calmed down from their restless feelings, and Chu Jian, Sa Dipeng and others carried the bodies of Ye Yixin, Professor Chen, and Hao Aiguo who had fainted on the hunchback.

Anliman whistled to guide the caravan forward, and the group hurried out of the dark valley of Zagrama by the light of cold smoke and flashlights.

Until he walked to the open space outside the mountain pass, he stopped, and put Hao Aiguo's body on the ground, the sky was not yet bright, the stars and the moon were not light, the moment before dawn was so dark, Hao Aiguo still maintained the frightened expression when he died, the pair of godless eyes behind the glasses had not been closed, and the whole body was blue, under the illumination of the flashlight, it added a bit of misery and weirdness.

Professor Chen was agitated by the cold wind blowing from the mountain pass, sobered up, struggled to pounce on Hao Aiguo's corpse and wept silently, I helped the professor up, he could not be resurrected after death, and wanted to persuade him to mourn, but the words came to his mouth but could not speak.

I have been with Hao Aiguo for almost a month, and I usually like to jokingly call him "old antique", and I like his straightforward and fast-talking personality, but today I ...... Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel sour in my heart, how could I persuade others.

The rest of the people also wept as well, and at this moment, a dark red crack opened in the distant sky, and the sun was finally about to come out, and we all involuntarily looked to the east.

The light slowly turned rose, blood red, and finally turned into ten thousand golden rays, and the top of the arc of the sun was revealed, and at this moment, the boundless sea of sand seemed to have turned into gold in God's furnace.

In this golden molten desert, a huge city was unfolded in front of everyone, with countless broken walls, various houses and buildings of bricks, wood and earth, countless towers in the city, and the most prominent was a black stone tower that had been tilted, standing quietly in the middle of the city.

Compared to the scene in the black-and-white photograph in Shirley Young's hand, it is exactly the same. After 2,000 years, the ruins of the exquisite ancient city still exist in the deepest part of the desert.

The scale of this exquisite city is enough to live 50,000 or 60,000 people, and famous cities such as Loulan in those days, in their heyday, were only 10,000 or 20,000 residents and more than 3,000 troops.

The city has largely been ruined, buried in the desert for more than a thousand years, some parts are difficult to distinguish between sand dunes and fortresses, and most of the towers have collapsed and weathered.

There is a huge magnetic field here, it is difficult for planes to fly overhead, and it is located in the heart of the desert, and it is estimated that few people can find it here. I don't know how many explorers and lost people have come to this legendary ancient city before us, and the only thing that is certain is that 99% of them will never return to their homeland.

Professor Chen helped Hao Aiguo's body lying on the ground up, pointed to the Exquisite Ancient City tremblingly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Look at it...... Haven't you always wanted to see this mysterious ancient city...... Open your eyes and see, we've finally found it. ”

My heart is not good, the old man is too sad, is he delirious? hurriedly pulled Professor Chen away from Hao Aiguo: "Professor, Teacher Hao has left, let him rest in peace." It's a pity that he didn't see this miraculously preserved ancient city in the end, and his wish is still up to you to fulfill, so you must cheer up. ”

Shirley Yang and a few students also came to convince them, so I handed over the professor to them, feeling that I could not go away with Hao Aiguo's death, and I was grateful to Shirley Yang, so I said to Shirley Yang: "I will not thank you for saving my life just now, I owe you a life...... But one yard is one yard, we have reached the extreme, according to the previous contract, 20,000 US dollars. ”

As soon as the fat man heard about the money, he hurried over and added: "20,000 yuan for one person, a total of 40,000 US dollars, cash settlement." ”

Shirley glanced at the two of us, bit her lip and said, "Don't worry, there is no shortage of money, and I will give it to you as soon as I go back." ”

I thought to myself that the matter of mentioning money just now was really inappropriate, and at that time my heart was like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, and I said the wrong thing without choosing to speak, so it was better to quickly divert the words, but I didn't know what to say, so I stammered and said to him: "That...... City...... It's not small......"

Shirley Yang stared at my face and said, "After all these years of contact, I see that both of you are very skilled and have extraordinary experiences, and I didn't expect you to know money, it seems that my first impression of you is not wrong." I advise you, there are many precious things in life besides money. ”

I had nothing to say, and the fat man said: "Miss Yang, you live under the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America, and your father is a Wall Street giant, I think you must not have used food stamps for dinner, and you must not have experienced food shortages when you were a child, so you don't understand the environment in which we live, and you are not qualified to comment on our values." And don't educate us one by one, the poor don't live, the poor live just to survive. Anyway, if I tell you rich people, you can't understand these truths. I really can't help it today, if you don't like to hear it, even if I don't say it, we have found the Essence City now, what should we do next, you just ask. ”

The fat man spoke confidently at first, but when he said that he remembered that Shirley Yang was the shopkeeper's worker, he was worried that she would not give her money if she was in a hurry, and the conversation changed to coolie work again.

I said to her, "Teacher Hao's business...... I've done my best, I'm sorry. ”

Shirley Yang nodded at me, ignored the fat man, and took out the kettle to feed Professor Chen and Ye Yixin to drink water. After a few discussions, they decided to bury Hao Aiguo in the desert of the mountain pass, his lifelong pursuit is to study the culture of the Western Regions, and to be buried here, forever accompanying this mysterious ancient city, presumably he must also want us to do so.

We dug a deep pit in the yellow sand, rolled up his body with a blanket, buried it on the spot, and finally I shoveled a sapper down and planted it in front of his grave, which can be regarded as leaving a tombstone for Hao Aiguo.

The remaining eight people stood in silence in front of Hao Aiguo's grave for a long time before leaving.

The deceased is gone, and we still have to save the living, so we must immediately go into the city to find a water source, otherwise the second person buried in the desert is Ye Yixin, who suffers from Yan zhòng's dehydration.

At that moment, everyone packed up their equipment, and prepared to set off for the city, and finally arrived at their destination, hoping that nothing would go wrong, and if anyone had an accident, even if I earned this money, how could I spend it.

Seeing that everyone was almost ready, I asked Shirley Yang if he could go.

When the departure was imminent, Shirley Yang was a little excited, her body trembled slightly, but she couldn't tell whether she was afraid, nervous, or excited, I saw her take out a cross and whisper a prayer, and then calmly said to us, "Let's go." ”

Who knew that at this time, the old man of An Liman suddenly changed his hexagram, shook his head like a rattle, and refused to enter the ruins of the ancient city without saying anything. He said that the death of his companion in the desert was an ominous omen, not to mention that Hao Aiguo was bitten to death by the poisonous snake of the devil's messenger.

We had no choice but to rearrange it and let him set up camp at the pass and take care of the camels and baggage.

I wanted the fat man to stay and keep an eye on him, in case the old man escaped, and left us to dry here...... It doesn't matter if he runs away, without the camels, we will have to drive all the way back on the Eleventh, and it is really difficult to say how far the Eleventh can drive in the desert.

Thinking about it again, An Liman should not run away alone, after all, he has come all the way to the present, not to mention that he has not yet received his salary as a guide, which is not a small amount, enough for him to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

However, because I was too careless, I have suffered many losses, and at this time I must be more careful, so I took An Liman's hand and asked: "Old man, how does Hu Da punish people who lie and betray their promises?" ”

An Liman said: "Well, it will turn his family's money into sand, and even his salt will also become sand, and in the end, he will starve to death, like dying in the black desert, and after death, he will go to the hot sand hell and suffer 1,800 kinds of torture." ”

When I saw that he said solemnly, I put my heart down, and his faith led me to believe that he did not dare to do anything that was too sorry for his conscience.

There were only seven people who entered the ancient city this time, and among them was an unconscious Ye Yixin, who was carried by Chu Jian, and the remaining five people had to carry some equipment and weapons, plus food and water bottles, and the weight on everyone's body was not small.

There is a famous saying in the army: A soldier is not a soldier, and he has forty pounds on his body. That is to say, the officers and soldiers in the army, when marching, have at least forty pounds of equipment on their bodies, and some have to carry heavy infantry weapons such as machine guns, flamethrowers or anti-tank equipment, which is even heavier.

I have been in the field army for ten years, and I don't think it's anything with a lot of equipment on my back, but Professor Chen can't bear it, so I have to travel as lightly as possible.

The distance from the mountain pass to the ancient city was very close, and we arrived at the city gate after a meal's meal, which had long since collapsed, and the ditch in front of the city was filled with yellow sand, and we entered the city through the broken walls, and there was a dead silence in the ruins around us.

The gap between this and what I had imagined was so great that I could not help but be disappointed, the streets and houses in the city were either collapsed or dilapidated, and from a distance I thought it was okay, quite imposing on a scale, and when I went forward, there was nothing but sand and rotten wood and broken stones, and there was no treasure of gold and silver.

Only a few huge wooden pillars and beams that have long been peeled off can still glimpse a little bit of the luxurious atmosphere in the city in the past.

We tried to go into the ruined houses at the city gate, but found that although most of the ruined houses were exposed outside the desert, the yellow sand in the houses was piled up to the roof.

Legend has it that the city was destroyed by the war, and the coalition army attacked the palace, and just as the battle was coming to an end, the Black Sandstorm buried the Elite Kingdom and the inhabitants of the city in the depths of the sand. It was not until the nineteenth century that the movement of the desert brought it back to light.

From the scene to the scene, it basically coincides with the legend, but there are no dried corpses, presumably buried in the sand.

I didn't see it boringly, but Professor Chen and the others seemed to be interested in everything in the ancient city, even a broken wall could be seen for a long time.

I have to remind them that Ye Yixin, this little girl, is still sick, saving people is the most important thing, it seems that the residential areas in this city are filled with yellow sand, and even a well can't be found, let's go to the palace to have a look, there may be a water source there.

Professor Chen patted his head: "Hey, I'm confused, it's important to save Xiao Ye, let's go to the palace quickly." The kingdoms in this desert are all built in the places where the underground rivers are close to the ground, and some underground palaces have rivers passing through. The royal palace is generally located in the middle of the city. ”

As they searched for their way through the ruins to the middle of the ancient city, the fat man said to me, "Old Hu, do you know what I want to eat the most now?" I want to eat cantaloupe and horse ** grapes the most, and a piece of watermelon is fine, alas...... I don't want to talk about it, the more I talk, the more thirsty I get, my throat is smoking, and I have to jump down and take a bath when I find the underground river. ”

I said to the fat man, "This Exquisite Queen lived a very luxurious life, and she must have often enjoyed the chilled watermelons soaked in the cold underground water, but even if the watermelons are preserved to this day, most of them will become watermelon stones, and the grapes may also become raisins." ”

The fat man complained: "This place where birds don't, I really can't imagine that there were people living in the past, don't say 20,000 Meizi next time, the mountains of gold and silver are piled up in front of my eyes, and Lao Tzu will not enter the desert." The most uncomfortable way to die in this world is definitely to die of thirst. ”

As soon as I mentioned death, I remembered Hao Aiguo, who was bitten to death by that strange snake, although he died quickly, but I don't know how painful it was when he died, the appearance of the snake was also strange, there was a black sarcoma on his head, which was full of black water, and he could fly up and hurt people when he cut it into two sections, this kind of snake had never even seen Shirley Yang, I don't know if there was anything in this city.