The helicopter arrived before seven o'clock to pick up the body and the injured driver, and then someone would come to deal with the body and the Kamchatka scene, so we didn't have to worry about it. What I should be worried about is how to prevent the people of the Earth Gate Shinto from coming back, and I can't expect the officials to catch them all.

The satellite revolves around the earth in the sky, and I sensed it in the middle of the night for three consecutive days, so it can be inferred that the enemy's satellite only passes above us in the middle of the night, and there is still a way to guard against it.

We continued on the road, everyone except me actually drove, and the lack of two drivers was not a big problem, everyone took turns driving.

"Captain, where is that giant snake?" Amy asked, her attitude towards me had completely changed since the last night's battle, and her eyes were always on me, with infinite admiration and amazement—not only her, but everyone else.

"That's what the spell became." I talked about it, after all, such a big snake is too shocking, and there are two scientists next to it, and it is most appropriate to use spells to prevaricate.

"Wow, that's amazing! Captain, where did you learn your spells and breathe fire? ”

"Spitfire is just a little trick, and the circus people do." I continued to pretend.

"It's definitely different, as soon as your fire burns, the terrifying and cold aura disappears. And if their knife cuts at you, you won't get hurt, it's amazing, can you teach me? ”

"It's not that I don't teach, you can't learn this."

"Captain......

……

Not only did Amy keep asking, but the others were also curious, because the curiosity was so strong that they knew that I didn't want to say it or broke the casserole to ask the end, and asked endlessly. Alas, people are really afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong!

Amy asked, "Captain, why are the Japanese here, and what are they trying to do?" ”

When I talked to Kenta Abe before, they didn't hear what Kenta Abe said, so I had this question.

This question is even more difficult to answer, and I was thinking about what to say, Yu Chengshu said: "I know this, they are here to steal cultural relics!" About 1,600 years ago, Loulan and other ancient countries in the Western Regions disappeared, and since then they have not been discovered by the world until 1900, when the famous Swedish explorer Sven Heding discovered the ruins of Loulan, after which he came to dig up many cultural relics. There are also British-Hungarian Stein, American Henchton, and Japanese Ju Ruichao have come to steal and dig, and plundered a large number of precious cultural relics. Little Japan may have discovered the remains of an ancient country, so they sneaked into the border from a small country such as Kyrgyzstan and came to steal treasures......"

I was stunned for a moment, this statement is very reasonable, maybe the Japanese did not come to me specifically, but their satellite scanned a newly appeared ruins, so they rushed to steal the treasure. Later, they found out that I was nearby from a certain channel and wanted to rob my jade talisman, so they came to the door. In this way, they have a base, not too far from here, and the ruins they are looking for may be nearby, maybe the ruins that the archaeological team found last time.

I hurriedly asked, "Amy, can we scan this area with hygiene to find their foothold?" ”

Amy shook her head: "The development of our aerospace science and technology is relatively late, and most satellites cannot take high-definition photography, and we can't see things that are too small on the ground." And the area is too inhospitable to have a satellite dedicated to scouting the area......"

"Give me the map."

Lu Qingwen took out the map and handed it to me, I opened it and looked at it carefully, originally according to our jihua, we will spend the night in Tuyuan tonight, and we will be able to reach the center of Lop Nur tomorrow. But I changed my mind, because the last archaeological team was not in distress in Lop Nur, but in the desert southwest of Lop Nur. If the Japanese had come for this, they would have arrived before us, so we didn't have to follow the route of the archaeological team again, and we could go directly to the place where they disappeared.

"Changing direction, let's go see the tomb of the sun, and then go directly to the place where the archaeological team disappeared...... Lao Yu, is there any ancient country in that place? ”

Yu Chengshu hurriedly said: "Yes, it is close to the ruins of the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom, and the distance may be less than a hundred miles. ”

"Exquisite Ancient Country?" I hadn't heard Yu Chengshu talk about the story of the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom before, so I wasn't impressed.

"Well, the "Historical Records: Biography of the Western Regions" records that Jingjue City is 8,820 miles away from Chang'an, and there are 480 families, a population of 3,360, and 500 soldiers. During the Western Han Dynasty, Jingjue City was a must-pass place on the Silk Road, and judging from the exquisite silk, Gandhara art and wooden slabs excavated, as well as the well-preserved Haode dwellings and pagodas, they had a highly developed economy and culture, and strict laws. When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzang passed through the west, there was no one there, only the abandoned dead city, and there was no record of the exquisite city after that. In 1991, the Englishman Stein accidentally discovered the ruins of the exquisite ancient city, everything still retains the appearance of 1,600 years ago, with a large number of remnants of houses, pagodas, pottery kilns, smelting ruins, etc. He dug there for more than half a month, took away twelve large boxes of precious cultural relics, and caused a sensation shijie, known as the 'Pompeii of the East'. After that, he came to steal and dig three times, and took away countless cultural relics, these people are simply robbers, bandits, and villains! ”

As an archaeologist, Yu Chengshu is very indignant at foreigners digging up cultural relics, but I am more concerned about how the exquisite ancient city can not be discovered for 1,600 years, and how it perished.

Yu Chengshu said: "Jingjue is the most bizarre and sudden one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, the residents evacuated very quickly, many official documents were neatly placed in the house without opening or taking away, and the residents disappeared as if they had disappeared out of thin air in normal life. Inside the ruins, archaeologists found the remains of a dog with a rope around its neck and the other end of the rope tied to a pillar, and the owner left without even letting go of the dog. ”

Several of us were curious and asked, "What happened then?" ”

"I don't know, some people say it was because of the war and some say it was because of environmental degradation and migration, but there is not enough evidence, so there is no conclusive conclusion. Extinctionists believe that the Niya River is dry and lacks water to make it impossible for people to survive, but archaeologists have found no evidence of a large-scale diversion of the Niya River, and many of the ancient ruins are surrounded by giant trees, and many of the orchards are neatly wooded, and there are traces of silt and ponds nearby, indicating that they were not very arid when they evacuated.

Proponents of war extinction believe that it was during the Wei and Jin dynasties in China, when the Central Plains were in turmoil and there was no time to take care of the Western Regions, and that such a small country could be annexed and wiped out at any time, and judging from some excavated interpretations of the Lu Wen, they were once threatened by a mysterious and powerful tribe, and may have been completely defeated. But no remnants of weapons were found near the ruins, all the ancient corpses unearthed were calm and serene, and all the ruins of houses were intact, which proves that they were not destroyed by war......"

Amy shrunk her head: "It's weird! ”

I originally thought that the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions were all wiped out due to drought and lack of water, but it seems that the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom is a little different, so what caused the inhabitants to disappear without a trace?

I'm secretly glad I didn't drive my teammates away, otherwise where would I have asked for such reliable historical information?

Yu Chengshu continued to talk about the archaeological development related to Jingjue, and we talked about it from time to time, and we all took great interest in this small ancient country.

It didn't take long for us to reach the north bank of the ancient channel of the Peacock River and see the magnificent Sun Tomb.

These cemeteries are completely different from the ones we usually see, due to thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, the tombs are only a small mound or completely flat, but a large number of wooden piles are still visible. Each tomb is surrounded by a circular wooden stake in the middle of a seven-layer circle, and a large number of wooden stakes are used to form a neat ray outside, which is in the shape of the sun's radiating rays, neat, spectacular, and mysterious. There are seven tombs nearby, with a total of more than 10,000 wooden piles, covering an area of nearly 2,000 square meters, which is magnificent.

I couldn't help but gasp, this is definitely a formation to absorb yang energy, wood can make fire, so use wooden stakes instead of stone pillars. But it's a little incredible, because before zombies become drought, they are yin and evil attributes, and they are afraid of yang energy, which will only kill the zombies inside.

Thinking about it again, I thought of a terrible possibility, if the deceased did not become zombies, but someone had disposed of the corpse of the newly deceased with some kind of medicine and evil method, and put it in the tomb to collect yang energy, it would have been possible to directly turn into a drought after thousands of years. There are seven tombs here, and many more, and if they all succeed and dozens of droughts are created, it will be absolutely devastating, more terrible than any atomic bomb!

Xiaoxue and I sensed carefully, and we didn't sense any evil qi or energy fluctuations in the tomb, but we don't know if the original designer didn't succeed, or if it was later broken by a master, in short, it is no different from other mounds now.

Yu Chengshu, Yun Feiyang and others were busy taking pictures and observing, but I had no interest in staying here, and after staying for about an hour, I urged them to continue to move forward and camp at the ruins of the ancient city of Loulan tonight.

Nothing special happened along the way, before dark we arrived at the destination Loulan Ancient City, and saw a very high mound in the distance, Yu Chengshu said that it was a pagoda. Most of the ancient city walls have disappeared, and only some mounds like "Yadan" remain, and the remains of ancient houses are still clearly visible, and the poplar planks and willow branches used to build houses still stand upright in the sand. There is a lot of wood on the ground, and there are a lot of pottery shards scattered in the low-lying areas......

The thousand-year-old wind and sand have washed away the prosperity of the past, but the remaining things are still telling the pride and glory of the past, it is so desolate and tragic, and it still makes people sigh.

There was an aura of mystery that hung over the place, and when I walked into the ruins, I felt an inexplicable sense of unease. This time the restlessness was different from the previous ones, it did not come from heaven or from the earth, but from the depths of my heart, invisible and elusive, but heavy as a stone weighing me down.