We searched the building again, and although we still couldn't find any secret passages, the old ghost made a new discovery, and he found that the stone used to build this building was more special, not ordinary stone, and it seemed to contain a strange aura. And this seems to explain why there are still evil spirits in this building that has been exposed to the scorching sun for thousands of years. Based on this, the old ghost became more and more convinced that this building was part of a great star array!

However, to solve the mystery, we had to wait until all the similar buildings in the area were identified and mapped to the topography before we could have any further clues, so that night we spent the night in the camp set up at the bottom of the mountain.

Because he was worried that the wolves would attack again, or other unforeseen events would happen, Chen Biao deliberately strengthened the sentry, and the original two people and one post became six people and one post, but fortunately, until dawn, the wolves did not appear, and nothing happened.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Long Yi reported to the headquarters what we had encountered last night through the Guò satellite phone, and asked the headquarters to send a helicopter to conduct a large-scale search within a radius of several hundred kilometers, and make sure to find all the stone buildings in this area.

Naturally, we were not idle, and we had to continue to look for Professor Dong and others, after all, this was the main purpose of our trip. Because last night Long Jiansheng said that he saw a big bird flying towards a valley in the southwest direction, and Wen Qingshan and I both thought that the big bird was very likely to be the legendary owl monster, so we decided to go to that valley to find out.

Chen Biao led the special combat team members to put away the tent within 20 minutes, loaded all the materials into the car, and the convoy drove in the direction where Long Jiansheng said the valley was located.

On the way, I was very curious, how did Long Jiansheng know that there was a valley in the southwest direction, because as far as we could see now, except for a few bare barren mountains, almost all of them were endless deserts.

I asked Long Jiansheng for advice, but he didn't answer me, he just stared out the window, and didn't seem to be very willing to deal with me, or the old ghost on the side told me that just a few days ago, they had entered the ravine, and at that time they found a lot of beast remains in the ravine, but other than that, nothing else was found.

The old ghost also said that the valley was very long, and according to his analysis, in ancient times, it should have been a river, but now it has dried up and has become a valley ditch. They had walked about seven or eight miles along the ravine, and when they saw that they had found nothing, they went back, and since they had not reached the end of the ravine, he did not know how long the ravine was.

After listening to the old ghost's story, I became more interested in this ravine, because he said that many beast remains were found in the ravine, which made me feel a little incredible, because since entering Lop Nur, I have not been to other beasts except for the mutated wolf I encountered last night, and I don't know where the beast remains in that ravine came from.

After the convoy traveled in the endless desert for about two hours, several strange-shaped boulders appeared in front of them, each boulder was more than ten meters high, because it has been hit by wind and sand all the year round, and now it has been eroded by the wind and the ground is quite severe.

When the convoy drove to the vicinity of the boulder, the old ghost motioned to the driver to stop, and after getting out of the car, I found that between the boulders, there was a deep ditch, which was about seven or eight meters wide, and there was no end in sight.

The old ghost stretched out his hand and pointed at the deep ditch and said, "This is it!" ”

At this time, the other people in the car also got out of the car, Batur and Ai Shan saw the ravine in front of them, their faces suddenly changed greatly, Long Yi saw this on the side, and hurriedly asked, "Do you two know this place?" ”

Batur nodded, looking a little nervous and said: "This place is called Ghost Gate, and this valley is called Death Valley, it is said that Death Valley is the valley leading to hell, if you strayed into the valley, few people can get out of it alive." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the old ghost smiled: "This is just a rumor, we only went to the valley a few days ago to investigate, not only did we come out alive, but we didn't find anything abnormal. ”

Batur glanced at the old ghost and said, "It's nothing to go into the valley during the day, but after dark, there will be devils." ”

"Devil!? Hum! What Lao Tzu is not afraid of is demons and monsters! The old ghost didn't think so.

I was immediately interested, and asked, "Brother Batur, what devil is there in the valley?" ”

Batur shook his head: "I don't know, the so-called devil may just be an exaggerated metaphor, but this valley of death is indeed extremely dangerous, not only is there the remains of countless animals in it, but if you study carefully, you will find that none of those animals died of natural causes." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Long Yi hurriedly asked.

Batur took a deep breath and said slowly: "As early as more than ten years ago, we once entered the Valley of Death for investigation, and found that it was full of animal bones, which made us feel very surprised, because in the Lop Nur area, although there are wild camels, yellow sheep, desert wolves and other animals, but in general, the number of animals is very scarce, and in such a valley and ravine, so many animal bones were found, it is really difficult to explain with common sense, first, where do so many animal bones come from, Second, why these animals died here, in order to find out, we took some samples of animal bones, brought them back for testing, and found that those bones actually had traces of being bitten, and even left deep tooth marks on some hard bones. ”

After listening to Batur's story, everyone was a little surprised, Wen Qingshan frowned and said, "Could it be that there are wolves in this valley and ravine?" ”

Batur shook his head and said, "No! Although it was a tooth mark, it was not caused by a wolf, and as for what it was, it is still a mystery. ”

Wen Qingshan asked on the side: "Then haven't you entered this ravine again after that?" ”

Batur sighed and said, "Later, we organized another expedition, and a total of six people came, but in the end only one person made it back alive. When he said this, he turned his head to look at Ai Shan beside him, and I noticed that Ai Shan's expression was a little excited, his eyes even flashed with tears, and his lips were trembling slightly.

I hurriedly asked, "This person who came out of it alive is not Brother Aishan?" ”

Batur nodded.

Long Yi immediately asked Aishan, "Brother Aishan, what happened to you inside?" ”

Ai Shan shook his head in pain and said, "I...... I don't know what the hell is going on......"

Aishan's answer surprised everyone, and Batur hurriedly explained: "Aishan was only eighteen years old at the time, and he had just joined the expedition, so Uncle Kurban, who led the team, did not let him follow him into the valley, but let him wait here, and he waited for two whole days at this ghost gate. ”

Long Yi frowned and pondered for a while, then asked Batur, "Then did you investigate later, and what happened to the rest of the expedition?" ”

"An investigation was conducted, but nothing came of it, and even the bodies were not found, so they disappeared."

After listening to Batur's story, the old ghost couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect such a mysterious thing to happen in this ghost place, I really should have looked inside again last time, maybe I can find something." ”

Wen Qingshan smiled and said, "Hehe, it's not too late for us to go in again." ”

"That's different, there are a lot of people this time, and the so-called people are a lot of things! I'd rather just take this kid with me! The old ghost said, turning his head and glancing at Long Jiansheng beside him, this guy still had an expressionless appearance.

Because the terrain in the ravine looked fairly flat and the ravine was relatively wide, after some discussion, we decided to drive in, after all, it was much better to be maneuverable, and the point was not to know how long the ravine was, in case the distance was too far, it would be too exhausting to keep walking on foot.

Everyone sat back in the car, and the convoy moved forward slowly, inevitably missing some important clues, the car drove very slowly, and the speed was about ten kilometers per hour.

After traveling about two or three kilometers inside, there were indeed a lot of beast bones in front of us, most of which had become a pile of white bones, because Batur said that these animal bones had been bitten again, we decided to go down to see, so the convoy stopped advancing, everyone got off the car, Chen Biao led the special combat team members to be on guard, and a few of us gathered around the skeleton of a large animal.

I asked, "What kind of animal is this, and why is the skeleton so big?" ”

Aishan replied, "It's a wild camel." ”

Wen Qingshan stared at the skeleton of the wild camel in front of him for a while, frowned and said, "This wild camel has a broken leg and multiple fractures on its body, which should indeed be caused by an attack." ”

"Boss Nawen, do you think the wolf did it?" I asked.

Wen Qingshan shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, the wolf's canine teeth are very sharp, enough to bite the bones, although this skeleton has many traces of fractures, the bones are not broken." ”

"If it's not a wolf, what would it be?" I wondered, I couldn't believe that in the middle of this desert, there was anything other than a wolf that could attack a huge wild camel to death.

Everyone looked around the skeleton carefully, and soon found that there were many jagged scratches on the skeleton.

Wen Qingshan analyzed: "This should be the tooth marks left by the animals that attacked the wild camels!" ”

I looked at the tooth marks and was puzzled and said, "But what kind of animal would leave such tooth marks?" ”