After everyone woke up, we ate something. I asked the second uncle next to me in a low voice, "Second uncle, what are you going to do next?" ”

The second uncle took a bite of the dry food and said, "Since it's all here, many things must be clarified, I want to see, what is the deepest part of this blood sand?" Is there that fabled fountain of life? ”

I looked at the people in front of me, all of them had their own goals that had not yet been achieved, and although I did not have a strong desire to go in, I could not leave, and I could not leave! Every time I have this feeling of being involuntarily, is it really destined!

The second uncle got up and patted the food scraps on his hands, "Okay, I have to go and see the situation in the Tang family's camp, and sometimes I have to rely on them to guide the way, and the information in their hands is relatively complete." ”

I also quickly stood up, "I'll go with you." ”

The second uncle looked at me, "Okay! ”

The two of us carefully climbed over a few sand dunes and found the place where the Tang family camped yesterday. But when we quietly looked over from the sand dunes, we were surprised to find that the original camping place had already been empty, and only some traces left on the ground let us know that what we saw yesterday was not an illusion.

The second uncle frowned, "Oh no! I didn't expect them to have already set off. Then he muttered to himself, "MD is careless!" Could it be that they have discovered our tracks? ”

I asked the second uncle what to do next?

The second uncle stood up at once and walked down the sand dunes quickly, and I quickly followed. The two of us stood in the place where the Tang family camped yesterday, and I looked around and found that there was nothing of value here except for some traces of charcoal fire and some faint footprints.

The second uncle squatted down and looked carefully at the messy footprints on the ground, touched the charcoal ash on the ground, and then pulled me up, "Quick!" Hurry back! Let's go! ”

We hurried back to our camp and told the others about the situation, and everyone began to gather their equipment in a hurry.

During this period, I also asked Dawuti if we lost the trace of the Tang family's team, could he lead us to find the pre-predicted location, more precisely to find the ancient king city of Shan Huan? After all, we don't have all the information, and Dawut is the only guide who has ever been to the deepest part of the desert, and that is the closest to our destination.

Dawut hesitated for a long time before he said to me, in fact, he has not been to the place we marked on the map, so he does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to find what we are talking about the ancient king city of Shanhuan, whether it can succeed or not depends on the will of heaven, he can only use his experience and memory to try to ensure the safety of our search.

I'm actually a little disappointed, but I can't blame him, it's good to be able to do this. After all, he's just a guide, and he's not a professional fighter, at least for now.

We packed our things and were about to set off but found a problem, we all came through the mysterious ancient well, so the camels and some equipment were left on the other side of the ancient well, but I didn't expect that the second uncle didn't have camels. I wondered, "Second uncle, what about your camel, don't tell me you came in on foot!" ”

The second uncle's face turned red, "Ben, there was originally, but later, it was lost...... Lost! ”

I saw that the expression of the second uncle was a little wrong, so I was even more curious, "Second uncle, you can't kill the camel because you don't have enough to eat, right?" ”

As soon as I finished speaking, Dawut immediately cast a sharp gaze, for them camels are their best friends in the desert, and killing camels is something they will never allow and accept.

The second uncle hurriedly smiled at Dawut awkwardly, and then glared at me fiercely, "Don't talk nonsense, you kid!" I killed the camel myself, unless I didn't want to go out! ”

"So what did you do?" I broke the casserole and asked to the end, and I didn't stop until I reached my goal, "Camels generally don't get lost on their own." ”

The second uncle looked at me helplessly, "You kid deliberately can't get along with me, right?" Well, well, I'll tell you! Saying that, the second uncle beckoned to me, I walked over, and he whispered in my ear: "I'll tell you, don't tell others!" ”

I patted my chest, "Don't worry! ”

The second uncle sighed and said, "When I went into the desert, I was in a hurry and didn't find a suitable camel, only a female camel that had just finished giving birth. Later," the second uncle secretly looked at the other people around him, and then said: "Later, after entering the depths of the desert, I found that I didn't have much water with me, so, so, "Speaking of this, the second uncle was a little stumbling.

I urged, "So what's wrong?" Say it quickly. ”

The second uncle coughed dryly, and said in a low voice: "So I remembered, this female camel that has just finished giving birth, there should be milk, I just want to squeeze some camel milk to drink, and then I climbed under the camel's body and pinched its one, that one," said the second uncle glanced at both sides intentionally or unintentionally, I looked back and saw Kong Xue on the side, she was turning her face to the side, she didn't seem to hear anything, but I could infer from her strange expression and slightly red cheeks that she still heard something.

I couldn't help laughing, and listened to the second uncle continue: "I thought it was like milking a cow, but I didn't expect that this camel milk couldn't be milked at all." Squeezing around, probably because I hurt it, the she-camel suddenly snorted, raised her hind hooves and gave me a kick, and then ran. That kick almost kicked me in the back, and by the time I got up to look for it, the camel was long gone! ”

After the second uncle finished speaking, he didn't forget to tell me again, "Don't tell anyone!" Remember, hey, you kid is smiling! ”

I couldn't hold back any longer, and I fell on the ground and laughed wildly. Shi Tao and Dawuti also laughed unabashedly, and even Kong Xue, who turned his head, couldn't stop trembling his shoulders. Dawut told the second uncle that when the mother camel was giving milk, she would only secrete milk when she smelled the cubs. It's not embarrassing for the second uncle!

Originally, I was going to let the second uncle's camel carry more equipment, so that our speed would be faster. But now that we've come to this point, we can't do anything about it, so we have to streamline our equipment again, take only the necessary supplies, and leave some of our things where they are, and take them back when we have the chance.

At the place where the Tang family camped just now, the second uncle had already roughly judged their whereabouts. Everything was ready, so we followed the direction provided by the second uncle and began to move forward.

We came in from the waterway below Haizi, which means that we should come from the south side of Haizi, and the direction we are going is the north side of Haizi, which should be the deepest part of the desert.

The route we are moving forward now reminds me of the zongzi that I saw last night, and the direction we are taking, including the direction taken by the Tang family, is the same as the direction that those zongzi originally took last night. I suddenly had a bold idea, if we didn't follow the route of the Tang family, but at night, follow those strange zongzi, would we also be able to reach the place we wanted to go.

I originally thought that this journey would be very short, after all, we had already entered the area of blood sand, and it should not be far from the legendary Shan Huan Ancient King City, but I didn't expect that we would walk for more than half a day on this walk. In addition, the people of the Tang family are riding camels, and we are completely walking, so that the gap between us continues to widen, which makes me a little anxious!

And what also puzzled me a little was that we weren't walking in the same direction as before, and after we had been walking north for a while, we started moving west again. What's going on here?

Just when I was confused, I looked at the second uncle, and it seemed that he didn't quite understand it when he looked at his expression. But I noticed that he frowned and sneered at times, and I was a little worried that he would be kicked out by the she-camel's kick!

Just after we continued to move forward for a while, we suddenly found a lot of camels on the top of a sand dune, and the second uncle pointed there and said loudly: "Look, it's the camel of the Tang family!" ”

We stopped quickly, and watched for a while so as not to be discovered, and then cautiously approached the herd, only to find that there was no one around them.

We saw that most of the equipment on the camels had been removed, leaving only a few things that did not matter. It seems that the people of the Tang family have also switched from cycling to walking here, but why is this?

With this curiosity, we lay on the top of the sand dunes and quietly poked our heads down. And at this look, we immediately froze.

In front of us was a huge bowl-shaped basin surrounded by many sand dunes, and we were surprised by the color of the sand in this basin, which was also red, but the color of the sand here was more bright red than the sand outside, as if it had just been soaked in blood, and people couldn't help but feel a chill on their backs.

In fact, this is not the most surprising to us, the most unbelievable thing is that in the middle of this blood-red basin, there are some dilapidated ruins, which look like the ruins of an ancient city, it is obvious that this ancient city is extremely old, the buildings of that year have been eroded by wind and sand, but only in the center of these ruins, there is a small black tower, because of the distance, we can't see what material it is. But this somewhat abrupt little tower, especially between this piece of blood red, always gives people a strange feeling.

Could it be that this is the ruins of the royal city of the legendary Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom?! This is a discovery that has turned archaeological history upside down!

"Look there!" Kong Xue said suddenly.

We followed her gaze, we had just been attracted by the ruins of the ancient city, and after Kong Xue's reminder, we noticed that not far in front of us, there were some people moving in the direction of the ruins, it was the Tang family!

I can't help but wonder that their numbers have changed somewhat, it seems that there are fewer people than I saw that night, and I can't figure out if they have diverted the personnel and divided the troops into two ways, or maybe some of the people have already entered the ruins?